European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. February 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 an electrical device la do to study Mas Mcclo s expulsion from the Garden at  Italy oks taking leaves off Fresco of Adam eve Florence Italy a restorers got the official go ahead from the ministry of culture to remove the leaves placed on he nude Adam and eve in Masaccio s Fresco expulsion from the Garden of Eden newspapers reported tuesday. During the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria Del Carmine Church experts discovered the leaves worn by Adam and eve had been added in the 14th Century almost iwo centuries after the artist was said to have finished he masterpiece in about 1425. The restorers have been waiting for govern ment approval before removing the leaves by brushing water Over the Watercolour paint cover ing the original Fresco. But Ornolla Casazza artistic director of the 2-year-old Chapel restore Tion is not in a hurry. We May take the leaves Oft in March by we Are not sure she said adding that some minor restoration work might be attended to first. Army testing stockpiling germ warfare vaccines by Robert Lee 1iotz Cox news service Chicago the . Army is conducting human trials of iwo new vaccines against potential germ War fare agents and stockpiling enough supplies of other new vaccines to protect everyone in uniform again two additional rare but virulent diseases. The clinical tests Are being conducted among volunteers in the United Stales Argentina and the peo ple s Republic of China army medical researchers said tuesday. The activity reflects a Sharp increase in military spending for research on biological warfare agents research that has raised new concerns about whether the methods developed to foil biological weapons could themselves Lead to new and deadlier weapons. The defense department plans to spend $73.2 Mil lion on biological weapons Resca Reh his year almost five limes As much As when the Reagan administration took office seven years ago. Much of the expenditures focus on creating vaccines against some of the most virulent diseases known. There is an increasing concern Over biological agents As a weapon of terrorists said col. David Hux Soll who oversees much of the . Army biological warfare research. The administration is evaluating the civilian  army medical authorities say they carry out Only Nan classified defensive research. The defense depart ment has More than 100 contracts with University and private biomedical researchers in 21 states. The threat is classified and our response is not said Huxsoll who commands the army medical re search Institute of infectious diseases at fort Detrick md., where much of the research is conducted. The development and stockpiling of biological weapons is prohibited by the 1972 biological weapons convention signed by 103 countries. The convention forbids All but defensive research into protective or peaceful purposes. Critics however Cay it is impossible to distinguish Between defensive and offensive research. Pentagon officials say i treaty is flawed and have accused the soviet Union of serious treaty violations. There Are similarities Between defensive and Offen Sive research. Equally there Are dissimilarities Hux Soll said. As far As determining How you might Chance an organism to make it More virulent that would be overstepping inc Bounds of the treaty. All we Are working with is naturally occurring organisms he said. There Are enough bad ones out there that we don1 need to make new  biological weapons were renounced by the United Stales when they were thought to be worse than use less. Released on a Battlefield they were Loo erratic to be recalled or controlled. Weapons with a life of their own they were deemed equally dangerous to enemies and allies alike. Bui advances in molecular biology have enabled researchers to create lethal organisms or vaccines that protect against them at a fraction of inc Cost and time of older trial and error methods. With new tools in hand to protect their troops from medical attack. Pentagon planners now say that the pre mailing judgment of years ago that biological warfare is not a militarily significant weapon is now quite  Huxsoll said the army now is testing a vaccine for argentinian Hemorrhagic fever among the most lethal a cases known and Chiku Gunya encephalitis a viral infection that has an especially Short incubation period. The two vaccines under development by the army were disclosed tuesday during a symposium on biological warfare conducted by the american association for the advancement of science. The clinical tests in inc United slates Are being con ducted among army medical corpsmen who Volunteer for the tests in return for a three year stabilized tour of duty at the Maryland military facility. The army Alto is storing More than 3 million doses each of vaccines against two highly infectious diseases called venezuelan Equine encephalitis and Tular Ernia found in South and Central America. The average Cost of developing and stockpiling a vaccine is about $40 million each Huxsoll said All four vaccines use weakened strains of the Dis ease causing organisms to Confer immunity. One reason for our interest in live vaccines is thai they induce immunity very quickly Huxsoll said one Bio warfare scenario might be that they gel us once but they won t get us  this september an International agreement was reached in Geneva Switzerland on a serie of Steps do signed to reduce the possibility that military biologists will use genetic engineering techniques to produce new weapons. . Officials say they doubt the treaty provisions Are enough to prevent Clandestine research programs. Everyone was pretty quiet about biological warfare until the late 1970s," said Norton a Zinder a senior analyst at inc Rockefeller University in new York. This is what biotechnology has done for Piowar fare he said. It has revived the  Church court approves using sculpture As altar London of an ecclesiastical court tuesday said a Marble Block sculpted by the late Henry Moore is a suitable Church altar even though a conservative group thinks in looks like a big chunk of cheese. Reporting the findings of an inquiry the Church of England s court of ecclesiastical causes reserved said the controversial modern sculpture could remain in use As the altar in the 17th-Century St. Stephen wat Brook Church one of sir Christopher Wren s architectural masterpieces in Central London. The ruling overturns a decision in february 1986 by the Chancellor of the London diocesan consistory court George Newsom. He raid the 8.5-Ion Flat lopped sculpture which has no legs and sits on a circular base could not be considered a holy table and should be removed from the Church. Under anglican Law an altar must function As a table in remembrance of the last supper. Soviet life satisfied emigres to ., study says Chicago up in a new insight into soviet life a major Survey of re cent emigres found they were Surpri singly Happy with the jobs Homes and standards of living they left behind to live in the United states researchers said. Most people who chose to leave the soviet Union did so to be reunited with families or ethnic and religious communities and Many expressed great reluctance about leaving James Millar an economist at the University of Illinois said tuesday. Emigrants also presented a picture of their Homeland considerably Rosier than most westerners believe describing a nation with Little or no unemployment or crime Good schools and excellent health care. While acknowledging that the government is repressive most said it is not a Day to Day concern. The glimpse into life in the soviet Union is provided by the soviet inter View project which conducted 2,793 interviews with soviet citizens who emigrated to the United Stales be tween 1979 and april 3d, 1982. The emigrants were Between the Ages of 20 and 70 and were primarily from Large or medium sized cities. The research represents the first major attempt to gain insight into so Viet life since the 1940s, when Harvard University interviewed soviet citizens in displaced persons Camps in Western Europe after world War ii. These people represent a living a chive of information about How the soviet system really Worls and How soviet citizens work the system said Millar presenting the first data from the project at the annual meeting of the american association for i head Vandement of science. Millar said he was surprised to find the number of emigrants who were satisfied with their jiving conditions in the soviet Union 66 percent were satisfied with their housing 64 percent with their Job and 59 percent with their Overall Standard of living. More than three flu arters however were dissatisfied with the availability of goods in their Homeland. Of course when we talk about this we have to talk about a relativity Millar said. To say most were fairly satisfied is not to say they were completely satisfied because if they were they would t have  primarily the emigrants cited religious and ethnic reasons for leaving with family reunification a main goal. Politics was mentioned less frequently and Only 27 percent said economics was a Factor in their decision. The in Atli of the matter is that this is not primarily an economic Migra Tion Millar said. The people Are not capitalists at heart among other findings of inc project younger and better educated so Viets were less satisfied with their lives perhaps because they had Access to More information about the West. Women were More satisfied than men even though both groups overwhelmingly agreed that men have in better in the soviet  most soviets said they believed it was easy to stay out of trouble in the soviet Union and they did not worry about the Kab looking Over their shoulders. However they also said one could never be certain no was a Kab agent. The emigrants said unemployment in the soviet Union remained significantly lower than in the United states even when . Rales were Low. Asked what the United Stales could learn from the soviet Union they cited in order control of crime provisions for education and health care and the maintenance of military defense. The most common problems cited by the emigres upon reaching the United slates was learning the language and making friends with americans