European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes Friday february 2,1990 a fifteen years of accumulated dirt is being washed and scraped away from the face of the Benjamin Franklin National memorial in Philadelphia. The renovation carried out by conservator Tamsen Ful Ben gets his face washed Ler coincides with activities celebrating Franklin s legacy and the 200th anniversary of his death on april 17. The last time the 20-foot statue had a Complete cleaning was in 1975. Army looking for families of gis who died in 1942 bomber crash Washington up the remains of 10 . Airmen found in a b-24 bomber that crashed in new Guinea during world War ii have been identified and relatives arc being notified the army said wednesday. However. Defense department officials unable to find relatives of four of the victims appealed to the general Public for information that might be helpful. The crash site was discovered in the Jungles of new Guinea in May 1984 by an aviation company owner and a helicopter firm manager who were working in the area said Shari Lawrence of the . Army personnel come. Forensic experts from the army s Central identification Laboratory in Hawaii conducted three search and Rico very missions the last in 1987. The re Mains were later identified she said. Notification of relatives began in 1989. They had a hard time after 47 years because a of of soldiers weren t married at the time she said. There were Only parents who have since died she said. So they had to g9 Back and find Brothers and Sisters and that takes quite a bit of  the b-24d was part of the 90th Jolly Rogers bomber group 400lh bomber so based at Iron Range Australia Lawrence said. On dec. 20, 1942, the b-24d aircraft left Jackson Field port moresby new Guinea on an armed recon Naissance Mission Over japanese held bases in. The Papua new Guinea area she said. Toward evening the Liberator contacted the Tower and port moresby and requested that the Field lights be turned on. The b-24 never appeared and it was presumed to have crashed into a Mountain in the Owen Stanley  by dec. 20, 1943, the men were presumed  search was officially called off in 1949. Defense department officials said that this Spring there May be a group burial at Arlington National cemetery in Virginia. Stateside moslem prayer Leader found dead at mosque Tucson Ariz. A a moslem prayer Leader was found dead at his mosque Here and police said head been warned of death threats recently an associate of the slain Man  Khalifa 54, died Early wednesday. A shoot ing was reported at the mosque he founded near the University of Arizona authorities said. There is a possibility that motives May include political and religious problems said Tucson police homicide sgt. Charles Armijo who declined to confirm whether Khalifa was shot or to specify the cause of death. The Fri was called in to investigate the death. Khalifa founded a group in 1978 called the right or True moslem said Edip Yuksel an assistant to Khalifa. Yuksel said Khalifa had received death threats be cause of his beliefs that most of the islamic world was a version of the Koran that contained satanic verses. He said police had warned Khalifa of the threats. He said Khalifa had published views which con tended most moslem were idol worshippers of Mohammed who according to islamic belief had the holy Book revealed to him by Allah. Yuksel said Khalifa was prominent in moslem Cir cles worldwide and estimated that he had at least 10,000 followers. Hot pants sting operation culminates in 8 arrests k1ssimmee, Fla. A eight men have been arrested in an undercover Sung operation and charged with dealing in stolen jeans which agents said were destined to be Soldi for inflated prices on the european Market. The buyers expected to receive 200,000 pairs of Sto Len Levi 501 jeans initially with an additional 200.000 pairs monthly Florida department of Law enforce ment agents  501 jeans arc a hot item in the United slates and Worth even More in Europe agent Mike Brick said. Investigators said the pants sell for j30-j35 in the United states but bring $55 or More in  said this week that agents conducted a sting operation after a Kissimmee clothing broker asked an undercover agent where he could get Large quantities of the jeans for resale  defendants could face 5 to 30-year prison terms officials said. New compounds offer Hope of less toxic treatment for aids Washington up a new Type of compound appears to be the most specific and potent Blocker of aids virus reproduction yet discovered and May Lead to less toxic treatments for the disease scientists said wednesday. A belgian research Cam said its test tube screening of 600 different types of chemicals has turned up a compound group that completely halts acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus growth with doses a thousandth of that which kills cells. Drugs currently used to thwart reproduction of the aids virus. At and dd1, require doses just a Quarter to a half of cell killing Levels possibly explaining their often toxic Side effects researchers said. We believe the newly discovered compounds arc the most specific and potent inhibitors of hiv-1 aids virus replication studied so far the research ers said in a study published in the journal nature. National institutes of health scientists who have worked on the development of at did and other drugs to attack the aids virus could not be reached for imme Diate comment wednesday on the european findings. Researchers from Catholic University in Leuvan Belgium and Jansson research foundation an Arm of Janssen pharmaceutical inc., said tests of the new com pounds called t1bo derivatives in six healthy men found no serious Side effects at doses believed capable of blocking reproduction of the aids virus. No Adverse reactions were seen in dogs Given High doses of Tibo compounds either. So far no tests have been conducted in people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. His which causes aids. Researchers Are trying to deter mine exactly which Tibo compound would be most suitable for treating his infected people. Researchers believe Tibo compounds which chemically resemble a group of nervous system depressing drugs called Benzonia Pepines attack the same target As at and did an enzyme vital to his reproduction called reverse transcript ask. Unlike other aids fighting drugs however Tibo compounds appear to Only attack hiv-1. Not hiv-2 a closely related viral Strain also capable of causing aids researchers said. That specificity indicates Tibo compounds May be better targeted to hiv-1 by far the most common cause of aids in the United states than other aids drugs they added. New $90 million jetliner has a weighty problem Long Beach Calif. A Mcdonnell Douglas corp s new jumbo Jet May need to  my ii passenger it began flight tests this month six months behind schedule. It is at least 4,000 pounds Over its target weight of 290,000 pounds Mcdonnell Douglas vice president Louis Harrington said. The extra tonnage could Cut the weight the $90 Mil lion plane is capable of carrying or the distance it can Fly without  said the company is not in violation of any contract specifications with customers for the my 1 is Range or payload. But the company will still try to drop some weight from the stretched and updated ver Sion of its dc-10. Many aircraft have failed in history because they were overweight said Richard Kaplan an aeronautics expert and professor at the University of Southern California. Profit margins for airlines arc rather  survivor of titanic sinking Dies at 92 in Chicago Chicago a a Chicago woman who sur Vived the sinking of the titanic has died of natural causes at age 92, relatives said wednesday. Ann Straube moved from Scranton pa., with her parents to their Homeland of Ireland at an Early age. But As a teen Ager she boarded the titanic with an aunt to come to the United states said Mary Kapolnek one of Straube s  British Streamliner struck an iceberg and went Down on the night of april 14, 1912, with a loss of 1,500 lives including Straube s aunt. Straube was rescued and brought to new York she eventually moved to Chicago where she married and had three  said her Mother would not talk about the sinking and refused to return to Ireland to see her Parent because she was afraid of both the water and flying. She would be scared if we children even went in a Rowboat Kapolnek  is survived by two daughters 11 grandchildren 26 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren