European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 world Bank Fundin a " i in v4 i a a for projects that destroy rain forests san Francisco m in an of. N i _.-. Up an organization of grass roots activists the rain Forest action network ran launched a Campaign this week against the world Bank accusing it of funding dams and other projects that Are helping destroy the Earth s tropical rain forests Ata staggering rate. In particular the network which has grown to 15,000 members in three years wants to Stop a $500 million loan by the Bank for Brazil s Power sector ii project the building of hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rain Forest where 3.6 Mil lion acres of Lush Jungles Are being destroyed annually for Timber and agricultural grazing. Instead we d like to have them loan Brazil $500 million for Energy efficient improvements and conservation the group s founder Randall Hayes told up before leaving for Boulder colo., where he addressed a rain Forest Confer ence on the subject sunday. If the world Bank continues to give Loans to destroy the rain forests we will give up attempting to Reform its policies and launch a major Effort to destroy the world  Hayes accused the world Bank and co creator of sesame Street Dies new York a Joseph Raposo a co creator of the award winning Chil Dren s program sesame Street and a grammy winning composer died Sun Day. He was 51. Raposo died at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville North of new York City from complications of malignant Lym Phoma. He would have turned 52 on wednesday. Raposo won five grammy awards during his career produced several Gold and Platinum records and received an Oscar nomination for music he com posed for the movie the great  Raposo s songs were recorded by Frank Sinatra barbra Streisand and Ray Charles. His compositions include sing it s not easy being Green and Here s to the  he collaborated on the score of the Broadway musical you re a Good Man Charlie  at the time of his death Raposo was musical director of sesame Street and was composing music for the show s 20th anniversary Celebration on Public television. Raposo was co creator of sesame Street with Jim Henson and Jon Stone and wrote its theme song. Other financial institutions of making irresponsible Loans to third world nations for projects that have put them so far in debt that they Are now destroying the rain forests at an alarming rate in order to repay the Loans. This spiralling Cycle has got to be Bro Ken said Hayes who has initiated a letter writing Campaign asking the world Bank to reconsider the Power sector ii loan. One use of the Money Hayes said could be to retrofit the refrigerators in Brazil with efficient motors which he said would be eight times More advantageous from an Energy standpoint than building a dam. Despite growing scientific evidence that destruction of the rain forests con tributes significantly to the global warm ing known As the greenhouse effect they re being burned bulldozed and chopped Down at the alarming rate of 100 acres every minute Hayes said. The real debate is whether we can Reform the world Bank in the time Span needed to save the rain forests said Hayes. If they Don t respond Well launch an International movement to get individual nations to Stop funding the world  b the san Francisco based ran said Hayes provides information and sup port to 77 autonomous support action groups worldwide with More forming All the time. The non profit ran budget he said has gone from $12,000 to $315,000, and each of the grass roots organizations raise their own funds for projects. In Washington Hayes said members of the network have in the past picketed world Bank Headquarters closing the Bank briefly in one civil disobedience action and scaling the building to hang Banner in another incident. Hayes said an action Alert will be issued to members this week to put pres sure on the Secretary of the Treasury to Stop using american tax dollars for the funding of world Bank Loans that build dams in the Amazon. He said approximately 20 percent of the Bank s Money comes from the . Hayes said at the current rate of deforestation All the tropical rain forests with their millions of species and important biological diversity will be wiped out Bathe year 2050. This is less than one person s life Span said Hayes. Effectively we Are the last generation on Earth who can save the rain forests. Otherwise we must live with the  the network has also aligned itself with a coalition of japanese environmental groups in an Effort to Stop the importation of Hardwood mostly teak and mahogany from Borneo where rain Forest destruction is rampant. Only three weeks ago Hayes said police arrested and jailed 117 male members of the pc ans a nomadic rain Forest tribe that resisted logging operations in the Borneo state of Sarawak by standing in front of the Bull dozers. A previous action Alert issued by ran Hayes said helped exert a world wide outcry against the arrests and helped gain the Penang release. The Borneo rain forests Hayes said Are among the oldest and most diverse in the world and provide food Medicine and shelter to the indigenous people who Are being forced to move to shanty towns. Among the successes of the fledgling network Hayes said was an agreement by Burger King to cancel a $35 million contract to buy beef from Central Ameri can countries where rain forests Are being converted into cattle pastures to raise cheap beef for the fast food Indus try in the . Parade of Homes a five arrested in robberies of Tennessee Amish Lawrenceburg Tenn. A to the Relief of Many in this quiet Tennessee town the arrests of five people appear to have ended a series of gunpoint hold  of Amish Farmers As they milked cows drove Bug Gies or made harnesses. Two of these men have confessed and we be recovered some of the Billfold taken in the holdups said Lawrence county sheriff Tom Pyrdum. I feel we begot All the people  this town of 12,000, where Alamo hero Davy Crockett once operated a Gristmill typically is so peaceful that it attracted Amish who left pennsylvanian the Winter of 1944. But that serenity was shattered in january when armed robbers began sticking up the Amish As the milked cows in barns or drove their buggies. The holdups began Jan. 22 when two Amish Farmers were robbed of $85 by three armed men in masks and camouflage outfits who burst into a barn in nearby Ethridge. Five Days later three Amish men were robbed of about $140 in two separate holdups when a Man leaped into their buggies brandished a gun and demanded Cash. On Jan. 30, two men one of them carrying a sawed off Shotgun took $300 from an Amish harness maker As he worked in his shop on a farm North of Ethridge the recent holdups plus the unsolved Jan. 29 Rob Bery and stabbing death of an elderly non Amish Man in Ethridge prompted Pyrdum s investigators to workaround the clock. The break came Pyrdum said when they were Able to link a partial License plate number to the description of a pickup truck used in the harness shop robbery on thursday deputies arrested Michael Mcconnell 24, and his nephews Rodney . Smith 18, and James e. Smith jr., 22, All from Lawrenceburg and charged them with various counts of armed robber each was being held on $250,000 Bond. Two Lawrenceburg juveniles Ages 16 and 17, also were arrested