European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. November 4, 1985 the stars and stripes pages card Champ asks fax deaf athletes get Reno nov. Up world Champion poker Pla or Billy banter should for tax purposes be consid ered the same As the Wimbledon ten Nis Champ or a pea tournament Winner his attorney has told a Feder Al judge. Michael Kearney argued that Baxter who lives in Las vegas uses skills As docs any professional athlete and should be entitled to the same tax advantages. At Issue is Baxter s tax returns for 1978 through 1981 when he won More than si.2 million playing Pouci. Baxter generally considered the world s Best Low bail poker player is asking for a $156,000 refund plus interest from the internal Revenue service. Economics forcing soviets to talk Weinberger says Boston a the soviet Union under new Leader Mikhail Gorbachev really wants a reduction in weapons to lift a heavy Burden off its weakening Economy. Secre tary of defense Caspar w. Weinberger said saturday night. Why is it really that or. Gorbachev is now talking about real reductions Wein Berger asked in a speech to the International Churchill society an organisation Hon Oring the late British prime minister Winston s. Churchill. They arc Back at the Tabie because they Sec now it is a Way to get what they really want reductions in weapons and reduction in the economic Burden that they carry said Weinberger referring to the communist party general Secretary s arms reduction proposals for the Geneva Summit nov. 19-20 with president Reagan. Their Economy is in terrible condition. This is a nation that can t feed in self. They need this sur cease from this Burden. With genuine reductions thoroughly verifiable we can reduce the Burden that has to be carried because it now is the Only Way we can keep the peace in a Mutual suicide  he said the . Arms buildup under Reagan also has convinced the soviets to negotiate. It is the Only w a that you can get Genu Ine negotiations with the soviets Wein Berger said. They had believed that by being so Strong and so Superior no other nation could pose my kind of a threat to them. Without it we would not have any kind of credible Way to offer any inducements to the  of the Gorbachev proposals. Weinberger said. Some of them May not be All that real when we Analy a the  hut there arc some reductions. They Are putting Forth inter mint. Proposals however flawed however unc sided they  he claimed the soviet proposal would permit modernising soviet weapons while denying the United Stales the right to modernize. Weinberger claimed the times were Simi Lar to the period after the 1953 death of Stalin which he said Churchill saw As a window of Opportunity when internal so Viet problems and the preoccupation of the new leadership with consolidating Power made it possible for the West to extract agreements that advanced our  there might be quite a similarity today he said. Computer opens new world Tor crippled teen Ager Pittsburgh a specially programmed computers helped  Kweller through his bar Mitzvah saturday enabling him to recite from the Bible in hebrew and English and giving the boy crippled since birth with cerebral palsy a voice. I. Have come to life today both in the tradition of my forefathers and in a very special Way. I am now Able to speak with All of you. This Marks the beginning of a new world for me the 13-year-old youth said from a wheelchair at Pittsburgh s Congre gation Beth shalom. Kweller wearing the traditional prayer shawl and Skull Cap used his left hand to Type into two computers on the pulpit Call ing up a portion of the Bible five blessings a psalm a hymn and the speech he wrote for the ceremony. He controlled his own Speed and volume. Because the people around me expect the Best from me i have grown and gained Confidence in myself and i believe that 1 can accomplish anything in this world he Lold the 200 people who attended the two hour Sabbath service at the conservative synagogue. The system s designer John Eulinberg programmed the compute s to speak he brew and chant in the traditional jewish manner which had never before been done. A Standard sized computer was added to the ceremony at the last minute to accommodate the vast amount of material sur prising Kweller and his family. He looked up at me after a bout one minute and signed to me a it s any " his Mother Beverly Morrow said at a reception afterwards. Eulyn Borg head of Michigan state University s artificial language Laboratory a photo let Kweller at bar my Lyvah. Look a it s easy says cerebral palsy victim. Said Kweller had wanted More than a choices. Either they Don t have a bar Milz Token bar Mitzvah. Only recently had vah or they do it in some Way that is not technology made that wish possible he traditional said Eulyn Borg. Said. Kwh Lucr who usually communicates in other boys with cerebral palsy had two sign language chose what sounds like a 13 year old voice from several Liulin Borg programmed. It is a miraculous  said Morrow. It s been an enormous amount of work but a wonderful  the jewish religious ritual and family Celebration Mark a boy s i.1th birthday which Judaism regards As the Benchmark of religious maturity. It is the first Lime a youth is permitted the Honor of reciting from the Bible before the congregation. Kwh Lucr attends regular school for a half Day and a special school for the rest. He will probably enrol full time in regular school in january according to his Mother. Eulyn Borg said Kwh Lucr is of Superior intelligence and is in need of tools to use that  about a year ago we decided that Lee not Only needed something for his bar Milz vah but he needed some communication device for someone with his intelligence and age to use. It had to go beyond commercially available devices he said. Eulyn Borg a computer scientist and Lin Guist who has used a recently perfected computer Chip to Transfer arabic hebrew and chinese to a voice synthesizer said it took about eight months of fairly concentrated work to design Kweller s program. Morrow a Public relations specialist who is divorced from her son s father and Remar ried said she s not sure How Shell pay for the system which is expected to generate Bills As High As si00,000. She noted though that it was Worth the Price and added her son is a Pioneer who knows his work Wilh the computer will help other  it s raised the social conscience she said. It will be used by people All Over the  Illinois villagers vote tuesday on repeal of anti gun measure Oak Park 111. Up a referendum to repeal an ordinance that effectively banned the private Possession of handguns year i. Rill be voted on tuesday by Oak hut. Parks 55,000 residents. The advisory referendum was sought by a citizens group that was formed after the Village Board enacted the anti handgun ordinance last year without a referendum. Approval of the referendum by a slim majority however would not guarantee the Board will act to repeal the 1984 Ordi Nance. Village Board members would feel they d need a substantial mandate to show which Way the Community Felt about it said Village clerk Virginia Cassin. Oak Park one of a handful of Illinois communities that have banned the private Possession of handguns in the past few years adopted the ordinance at the Behest of another citizens group. The seven member Village Board approved the ordinance in april 1984 after the commit tee to control handguns gathered 5,000 Sig natures on its anti handgun petition. The pro handgun group then got 6,000 Sig natures of its own prompting tuesday s vote. Village president Clifford Osborne re fused to say which Way he hoped tuesday s vote would go but he said there is no Evi Dence that the Community s ability to protect itself had been hampered by the anti handgun ordinance. During the last year burglaries and Vio Lent crimes in Oak Park declined he said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 4, 1945 the stars and stripes was not published on this Dale. 30 years ago today. Nov. 4, 1955 israeli and egyptian forces clashed in the Al auja in Ana sized Frontier zone. It was the worst fighting Between them since the end of Palestine War according to news reports from Cairo and Jerusalem. 20 years ago today. Nov. 4, 1965 a pacifist Quaker from Baltimore md., burned himself to death below defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara s office window at the Pentagon in an apparent protest against us. Fighting in Vietnam. 10 years ago today. Nov. 4, 1975 vice president Nelson a. Rockefeller announced in Washington that he would not be president Ford s 1976 running mate. Demilita the 1948