European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday april b. 19b9 Brazil unveils environmental plan to pro Fec Amazon and nation s image Brasilia Urail a president Jmc Sarney on thursday announced sweeping environmental plan designed to anti Eclythe dwindling Amazon rain Fores and rebut charges that Brazil is destroying the world s largest wilderness. We Are accused of something we can uni am it. Of Deal rating our own Verrilo by Varncy said at a presidential Palace cd Runton to announce the our nature program. Charges of environmental destruction arc cruel and unfair. Full of scientific falsehoods that. Misinform the world. Sarney Lulu a group of politicians. Scion lists and Animas Sadorus from neighbouring South american countries. Our priority is itu1 conservation of our ecological heritage he said. Bui he also added that the 2-million-Square Iii Ile rain Foreia is Brazil s Sovereign. Patrimony.". Worried thai unchecked rain Forest destruction is adding to what scientists say is a global warming trend called inc greenhouse  however Brazil has rebuffed proposals for foreign participation Iii conservation programs. The our nature program will create new Forest reserves and Indian reservations maintain a ban on Limber exports and establish an environmental fund the plan includes 17. Presidential decrees and seven bilk to he sent to con Gress. The measures include renewing the. Suspension of fiscal incan lives for cattle ranching in the am a on seen As the single greatest Factor in rain Forest destruction. According to world Bank figures More than it billion was invested in ranching Between 1975 and986. ". Imposing government control Over the Sale and use of Mercury which is used by Gold miners and is a major source of water pollution in the Region. The government also will recover areas damaged by mining. Creating a special Forest police corps to control fires set by ranchers and farm ers to Clear Jungle land the new corps will Chai Derby the military and satellite photos. Mapping of agro ecological zones to determine which parts of the Ama on can he developed commercially a Jihou hurting the environment. The program will be backed by. The . Food and agriculture organization. Sarney said the goal is to create a permanent and economically viable development program ecologically Ade quate politically balanced and   " i in criticized inc alarmist tone of in International Campaign saying satellite photos showed Only 5 pc Iceni of the am Azon had been destroyed compared with  12 percent. Brazil will Welcome International Aid to finance inc plan but we will nol accept Tutelage he said. Our doors arc open to cooperation from the world but without conditions Sarney said. The president reiterated Brazil s rejection of proposals to Trade pan of its huge ii15 billion debt the world s largest for investment in conservation projects. He called such offers an attempt to convert ecology into  rain forests cover some 1a billion acres of the planet about half the Origi Nal a mount co ingists say. Siim Cimics called inc lungs of the Earth they act As a pollution filter a. Sorting Carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. If Carbon dioxide in t removed from the atmosphere it can trap heat which some scientists say  greenhouse effect. Burning the Radii for ests a common wily to create arable land., also adds Carbon to inc Atmo sphere. Sunk in the Rhine the ship  Vijh past i Bridge of a Hyce sub i rued lit he Rhine Jum South no Kun Vini Wal Germany. Twu barges Luard with Stei l and Iron collided Fidfl on the River so Okinu one h Secl nil inc was injured and the � Crew no in bars of the sunken Adi swum Iii Fly to Short police spokesman said. Reported cases of aids climbed to 746,569 in March who says Geneva up reported global cases of aids Rose by 4,265, or .1 percent in March to a total 146.50. Inc world health organisation said Friday. The figures showed the United slates with 86.656 eases or 59 percent of the total officials m the . Health Agency warned thai the i Rue global total is More than double the reported Tola because Wenru front much of the third world and african coun ones Dale Back us months or Cen one year. The ugandan report fur example daled Back to oct,4l those of France Brazil and  were daled dec .11, Ken a s last report went Back to june 30. An estimated half of the reported aids cases has resulted in death inc officials said. By Region the americas accounted for 101.831 known cases As of March 31, who said., followed by Africa with 31,201, Europe with ,817, Oceania with i160 Australia accounting for 1,2j9 of that number and Asia for 360.hased on the latest figures sent to the Hoine most affected countries after the United Stales were Uganda 5.99s eases. France 5,655brazil 4,946. Tanzania 4,158hall 3.327west Germany 2,9yikrnja 2.7321, Malawi 2,5x6canada 2,449spain 2,165mexico 3,1 is and the United kingdom 2,103 of her countries reporting More than 1.000 to Dale were Cameroon tl.408 Congo 1.250 Zambia 1,296. Hani 0,849 and Australia 1,239. Kast bloc countries reported few eases the so Iet Union with seven Bulgaria three Czechoslovakia 12, cast Germany 11, Hungary is i Oland seven and to mania 10.china reported three cases although that no Ifica lion 10 who dated Back to sept. 30. Artificial respiration saves Kitten caught in  a artificial respiration saved Samintha a 7-Rnonth-old Kitten from drowning i incr she was acc Dently washed with the laundry in a Wash ing machine her owner says Ann Eli cd regard said the whining of her dog. King alerted her Losa Maniha s plight. It was quite a Shock when it happened Ned re. Gaar said. The Kilten had been tumbled and washed for several Nii nulls before she was discovered and then was trapped for another to minutes because of the water tilled machine s Security lock she said. I had Given her up for dead bul then decided to to Mouth to Mouth. She came around pretty quickly but she was certainly dizzy for the rest of the Day Nedergaard  incident occurred several months ago and the Story appeared in thursday s Verden gang newspaper. Many belgians in poll opposed to new missiles Brussels Belgium  a Large majority of people oppose the modernization of nato s Short Range nuclear missiles and believe the Soviel Union does not now rep resent a Mil nary i real a belgian poll show. Out of 1,000 people questioned in inc poll by inc marketing unit co., 72.9 percent oppose new Short Range mis tie company said polls made in other countries showed 78 percent of respondents in Britain opposed improved missiles 68 percent in West Germany and 63 percent in the Netherlands. Aslo the soviet military threat 86.3 percent of inc peo ple polled in Belgium said it did not exist for the Lime being. Other answers showed thai 66.1 percent of inc Bel Gians questioned wished All nuclear weapons would be removed from Europe 59.8 percent believed the soviet Union was ready to make further moves m disarmament and 54.9 percent believed nuclear weapons were not needed any More for Europe s Security. Moscow kindergarten struck by food poisoning. Moscow a an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning Hii a Moscow kindergarten and cases also were reported in other parts of the russian Republic. The soviet news Agency lass said Friday. Tass said 73 children and 14 staff members fell ill with a variety of  caused by a bacteria most often found in fowl. The news Agency said similar eases had been re pored in the Murmansk Region Pskov Karelia and in the autonomous Region of Komi. The salmonellosis incidence Rale has been increasing in All poultry farming countries due to the difficulty of checking every commercially bred Hen for the disease Tass said the news Agency said health officials were confident that the outbreak of the Dibiasc was confined to the repo cd regions and did not present a wide scale health Lilian