European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Shultz says anti terrorism policy successful Palm Beach. Fly. A the Rea Gan administration s policy toward terrorism is firm and successful. Secretary of stale George Shutlz said Friday As he received a leading jewish group s human rights award. We will nol make concessions to terrorists or Compromise our fundamental principles Skull said. Behaviour re warded is behaviour repealed. Terrorism must nol  Shultz who will travel this month la Itic soviet Union and Middle East made hit comments 1p the executive commit tee of the anti do Samalion league of b Nai b Rich. He made no reference to the Iran Contra affair in which critics said tie administration went against its own polio by pursuing an Exchange of arms for hostages. After the speech. Abraham h. Fox Man National director of the adi., said the administration s policy toward terrorism tins been befuddled in acc Cal months the tact thai the secretory found it important to restate our policy is significant he said. In his 30-minute speech. Shultz said he feared several years ago that terrorism would paralyse the United states but he behaviour rewarded is behaviour repeated. Terrorism must not  George Shultz believes the Nalion now has a firm set of convictions about How to Deal with the problem. Above All the american people understand More clearly the risks especially the risks of dealing with hostage situations Shutlz said. He said Israel ims provided a great example in dealing with terrorists. Courage skill and Public support Are the watchwords of the israeli Effort against terrorism Shultz said. When the Story is written of How the democracies beat the terrorists let our names appear  Taxman said he was t disappointed that he speech included no proposals for bringing peace 10 the Middle East. Part of the Success of any c Effort the United Stales will undertake is to spell it out to the parties involved before speaking to the world at  he said. Shultz divided administration policy on combating terrorism into four categories intelligence gathering understand ing terrorists Aims and strategies Security measures to protect americans and o offensive efforts to disrupt terror isl operations. Sli Ultz said intelligence efforts have averted More than 200 terrorist attacks in he past three years. People arc alive and Well today who never even suspected they were in Dan Ger he said. Defensive measures have reduced tar Roris air piracy to its lowest level since the government began keeping records on the subject More than 20 Yean ago Shull isaid. What we know about terrorists and terrorism indicates hat Here Are no in Stant remedies or easy ways out. We face a Long and hard struggle against this modern barbarism Shultz said. Before the speech Shultz accepted a idler from or. Claims Vileshina who immigrated from the soviet Union eight years ago and has since been trying to obtain permission for her husband to join her. Vileshina a neurologist in fort Laud Crdal said her Case is the longest involving divided spouses from the soviet Union. Vileshina said her letter was addressed to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev i beg him to raise again my Case she said Vileshina said Shutlz promised to talk with Gorbachev about the matter. Shultz received the Joseph Prisic for human rights an International award presented by Adl to people who have worked to improve human relations and human rights. Study aimed at treating babies with cataracts a researcher outs a Black Contact Lens in the Eye of � Monkey to stimulate development of the other Eye in study designed to help treat human babies. Atlanta a Emory univer sity researchers have fitted monkeys Wii Contact lenses in a study that they Hope could yield new ways to treat babies bom with cataracts and other vision disabilities. The study at the pc rfcs regional primate research Center involves a pc Dalric ophthalmologist a primate behavioural psychologist ecu Roscin list Sand several dozen monkeys. In the experiments Rhesus monkeys undergo Lens removal surgery to Simu late the operation performed on a new born with cataracts the cloudiness of the Eye Lens that often  adults. Such Cataract surgery is nol new. In most cases when a Lens is removed the patient can be filled with corrective Contact lenses or glasses. But the surgery poses special prob lems in Young children because humans arc bom without fully developed vision systems the eyes and the brain must Leam to work together. If deprived of Normal visual stimulation such As by cataracts special cells needed for vision fail to mature properly. Cataract surgery must be performed in children at a very Caily age. Even so doctors have had poor results in trying to stimulate development. Despite corrective lenses the Best most children have achieved has been 21.1-40 vision. In the Experiment the researchers remove a healthy Lens from one Eye of each Monkey. They fit them with con tact lenses made at the Center s Tab and try various treatments to prompt successful vision development. Hopefully Well be Able to relate these results to the human  or. Ronald Booth the ophthalmologist and behavioural who Heads the two year old study said in an interview Friday. In both monkeys and Man. Patients with one Good Eye and one bad one will rely on the Good Eye. If a child s left to his own devices hell ignore it the damaged Eye said or. Howard Eggers. A Pydi air ophthalmologist from new York s Columbia University who is working with the Yerkes primate researchers. We want to Force usage of the Cataract  to Force use of the weaker Eye a child can be ruled with a Patch Over the Good Eye. Monkeys Don t like to Wear Eye patches so inc Yerkes monkeys arc fitted with a Black Contact Lens Over their Good Eye. Doctors arc unsure Huw Long the patches or Black lenses should be worn to give each Eye the proper visual stimulation Egers said. We Don t know the Best method and we obviously cannot Experiment with  to solve the problem Yerkes re searchers arc using different Lens Rou tines on different monkeys. Some Wear a Black Contact Lens All the Lime some never do and others Wear it for differ ent intervals. Researcher Check the study s remaining 20 monkeys every two hours to make sure they Haven t lost their lenses. After the Lens trials the monkeys Are killed so researchers can examine their brains and the development of their optical nerves Boole said. Cubans seize  Sailboat Crew Miami al1 a  Sailboat with three people aboard was reportedly shot at and was taken into custody by a uban patrol boat coast guard officials said Friday. We Fot word from the stale department that the cubans told them they have released the boat coast guard spokesman Jim Simpson said a passing merchant ship reported to the coast guard late thursday that Shols were fired across the Bow of the 48-foot Sailboat Tranquility near Cayo Gajaba on Cuba s Northern coast Simpson said. The Tranquility told the merchant ship by radio that it was then taken in Tow by the cuban boat Simp son said. The names of the Crew members iwo men Anil a woman have not been released the spokesman said. Meanwhile a Havana radio station reported Friday that another  boat carrying 7,700 pounds of marijuana was seized in cuban Waters and its four crewmen taken into custody. The cuban coast guard captured the boat on feb. 6 near the Las Tunas province in northeastern Cuba reported a radio Robe old broadcast monitored in Miami. The arrested Crew members were identified As t cur Lokian bom Van Lancharic Ramiro and cuban natives Lazoro Perez Garcia in Occie Hernandez Lores and Robeno Igle Iascu Kojas. Radio Rebelde said Perci and Hernandez left the Island illegally in 1979 and that Iglesias left in 1980. All four were arrested and detained and inc marijuana was burned the radio said. The report did not say whether the cuban Nati pcs were . Citizens