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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, October 17, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 17. 1988 the stars  stripes Page 3 soviet spying grows Cia aide says Deputy worried by new Kab chief Washington api the soviet Union has intensified its spying against inc United states despite warmer super Power lies under Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev the no. 2 Man Al inc Cia said saturday. Since Gorbachev s ascension to Power inc hos Lilc intelligence in cat against us has grown said Robert m. Gates the Cia s Deputy director. The number of operations against us has certainly  gales also gave a gloomy assessment of International affairs predicting thai some nations will Sutler economic col lapse because of the aids epidemic  that drug Kingpins could be elected to govern a major country. Gales speaking in a convention of the association of former intelligence offi cers said thai despite improved . Sovil Rel Lions. We have seen an in crease this year of soviet attempts in re Cruit .  the Choice of Vladimir Kryuchkov As chairman of he Kab Likely Wilt mean an intensification of soviet intelligence efforts against the United slats  its allies he said. Kryuchkov. Believed to be a career specialist in foreign intelligence gather ing replaced Viktor Chubrikov this month As chairman of the committee for state Security which is known by its russian abbreviation Kab. That Agency conducts overseas espionage  acts As a Domestic Security service. In a speech to another group Friday gales said Gorbachev s efforts to trans form the soviet Economy have not succeeded. After i rec years of Reform Resnic luring  turmoil there has been Lite pc if any. Slowing in the downward spiral of be soviet Economy he said. Turning to other developments around the world Gates told the former intelligence officers that Al least is developing countries will be Able o build ballistic missiles by 2000  hat 20 countries Are developing chemical weapons. He singled out the drug Trade As an increasing threat. I fear thai tic situation will get much worse before in gets a incr he said. Production Levels arc so High thai de spite record Sei urls during the past two years prices arc falling  purity Levels arc  it is obvious hat even inc most successful efforts of a country or even a group of countries cannot solve the prob Lem he said. He put revenues from inc drug Trade at $300 billion of which $110 billion came from sales in he United Stales. Cocaine production was 400 ions last year four Littles he . Demand  opium production was 2,650 tons. Enough for 240 billion fixes of heroin. In some countries drug gangs have bribed officials  editors  courted Public opinion through Charity he said. It May be Only a matter of time be fore we Are faced with a freely elected Legal Narco govt Mienl in a major coun try he said. He did not identify any nations in which he thought that might happen. Tic said aids acquired immune deficiency syndrome differs from such epidemics As the Black death of the Middle Ages by striking not the old  weak but inc Young  Active the very cadre hat no developing country can afford  some economics or at least heir Industrial structures May collapse  some countries could become virtually ungovernable he said. Again he did not identify any countries but aids has taken a particularly heavy toll on nations in East  Cen ral Africa. Admiring the pyramids in Paris first Day Visi dirs enjoy u look at the biggest of it a Nuvert s pyramids  ils  re Mcclinn Pool. The Pyra mid in the courtyard of the purls Art museum was inaugurated Friday. The Guus paned Pyramid a faction aver 71 feet High Psi deigned by chinese bom american architect i a Pel  contrast sharply with the ornate style ofic louvre. Scholars say Jesus did t compose lord s prayer Atlanta Al Jesus did t compose or use the lord s prayer  May have uttered Only a few of the phrases in contains a group of biblical  linguistic scholars has concluded. They acknowledge the Prospect of a fundamentalist uproar but say that does t bolder them. The prayer shows up in the gospels of Luke  Matthew which say Jesus taught it to his disciples. Bui the 25 participants of the Jesus seminar meeting in Atlanta Over the weekend agreed with a Pennsylvania minister who researched the Issue  said thai Jesus probably did t ask god to deliver us from evil  Al most certainly never said thy King Dom come thy wiil be  a paper presented Friday by the Rev. Mai Taussig of is. Joseph s University in Philadelphia concludes that study of he gospels  Early Chris Tian writings show inc prayer is not in the words of Jesus. The participants voted to agree with Taussig Ihm Jesus probably never said the prayer As a prayer  probably never Laught it As one they concluded shut parts of the prayer May have been said by Jesus  that other pans represented his ideas. Taussig said he cup cts the conclusions to be accepted by biblical schol ars but he added that it might be harder 10 convince most churches. The seminar also concluded thai Jesus Crea cd the Laic of inc Good Samaritan but the group decided that the parable of inc Fisherman who sons Good fish from bad was Crea cd later by someone else. The Jesus seminar is a three year old forum designed to raise Public in Terest in efforts to separate what Jesus actually said from words that May have been put in his Mouth by Early christians. The participants from colleges  universities around the country Gener ally characterize themselves As biblical scholars rather than theologian. The seminar has drawn fire from the Bible Thumpert on the right said or. Robert w. Funk a former theology professor Al Emory univer sity  founder of the Jesus seminar. Of course we Haven t brawn any thing like the last temptation of Christ " he said referring to the controversial movie. But he said he expected an angry reaction this year again from segments of the fundamentalist Community that believe in a liter Al interpretation of the new Testa ment. He said a main goal of the seminar is to allow qualified biblical scholars to relate their work to issues of Public in Crest  to gel it away from inc frauds the to evangelists who Are mostly  the scholars have spent year studying the earliest available versions of inc gospels in greek  Collie. Some know aramaic which scholars say Jesus probably spoke. By studying Early language patterns  what is known of How people live at the Lime of Jesus As Well As later during the Early Christian Era inc scholars believe they can make fairly sound decisions on whal was said  what can be attributed to others. Funk said that the earliest fragment of the gospels Dales from about . 135  that there Are frequent changes in subsequent versions since each was hand copied. Versions began to stabilize by around , 400, he said. There were no big surprises after  Funk said the earliest greek  coptic versions of the gospels of mat thew Mark  Luke arc inconsistent with modern versions  
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