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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 29, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 ailing aids activist to spend her final Days in new York by Dave Walczak staff writer Hanau West Germany a Mischael Boyer has made her decision. Its time to go Home. River delayed that move As Long As she could taking s visiting doctors and lecturing american audiences overseas about the disease that has stalked her the past two years. But aids has proved too Tough a foe she says. A the last doctor told me that people want to die where they feel most comfortable. Its real hard to die to a country where you done to know the  Home for the 30-year-old Mother of a 2-year-old boy is 60 Miles North of Albany . Her parents own a House in the country and that a where Boyer plans to live out the rest of her life beginning june 2. Boyer announced her intentions tuesday night before about 150 people attending an aids education program sponsored by the Hanau chapter of the european Congress of american parents teachers and students. Pat Rehberg gave a slide show before Boyers speech. The Heidelberg Community health nurse detailed the mounting numbers of aids victims including More than 1,800 americans under the age of 25. Other slides showed aids sufferers some with open sores and skin cancer that had blackened their noses. Rehberg also showed the group How to use condoms applying one to her fingers. A i do not encourage kids to have sexual Contact a she said. A but if they Are having sexual Contact i do think its important that we show them How to use a  fighting off tears Boyer followed Rehberg a presentation with a description of her Battle with aids which has ravaged her body with months Long bouts of diarrhoea and headaches that Force her to withdraw to her bedroom for hours at a time. Boyer is accustomed to revealing personal details before audiences such As the group assembled at Hanau High schools auditorium. For More than two years she has spoken to similar groups in Schaffen Burg Berlin Hahn and a half dozen other military communities in Germany. She targeted much of her unrehearsed speech tuesday night at teen agers who numbered More than 30. A a in a rather sit on your bed at Home and talk about condoms than sit on your Hospital bed and talk about aids a she said. A in my five years of marriage my husband used condoms for All but four months. I wanted to get  Boyer who works As a Secretary for the 147th postal det in Heidelberg contracted aids from her husband who also suffers from the disease. A i knew he had a seven year homosexual relationship before we were married a she said. A but he said he wanted to marry me and Start a new  two years ago Boyer vowed she would not take the aids combating drug at because of the Cost. She changed her mind about a year ago. So far it has Cost her More than 31,000 Marks about $ 18,400. A when you know you re going to die you Start grabbing at straws a Boyer said. But the drug is no longer working. A a in a not getting any better a she said. A i Nap now and i never napped before. In a not hungry. You lose a lot of your desires. I done to even think about sex any  Boyer and her husband plan to have Rehberg and her husband adopt their son who is not infected with the aids virus. Boyer plans to continue working until departing when she Hopes to begin collecting disability pays amps Jim Derheim Mischael Boyer holds a bouquet of Flowers that her friends gave her at the Hanau meeting tuesday. Ments. Government workers throughout Europe have donated 72 weeks of leave on her behalf ensuring that Boyer will continue on the government payroll until her disability processing is finished. She said she Hopes to do Volunteer work for elderly people after she moves to upper new York state. Her Only other plans involve her death. A a in a like to sleep one night in peace and not wish for anything a she said. A i just want to be ready when the time comes. I think in a prepared for  kill american missionary in Lebanon Yashaya Moukhar Lebanon apr a 56-year-old american missionary who ran an orphanage and Center for the handicapped in this Southern Lebanon Village was killed by masked gunmen during a prayer service. Villagers had accused William Robinson of trying to establish an israeli settlement in Yashaya Moukhar but acquaintances said he wanted Only to expand his 7-year-old Center and Israel strongly denied the charge. . Officials said Robinson had been repeatedly warned of danger. Three assailants broke into Robinsons House tuesday night fired three shots at him from a 9mm pistol and fled As his wife and four children screamed Security sources said on condition of anonymity. The three assailants then tied up the family and took jewelry and Money before fleeing the Village the sources quoted his wife Barbara As saying. William f. Wolford administrator of the International Christian embassy in Jerusalem said he spoke with Robinsons wife by  three gunmen came into his Home. They were having a prayer service. While they were singing three gunmen broke in and threatened them. They continued to sing. They shot Bill a he said. There was no claim of responsibility. . Embassy officials in Tel Aviv Israel said Robinson had been repeatedly advised of . Government policy barring americans from visiting Lebanon. They gave no Hometown citing restrictions on privacy. Yashaya Moukhar is inside israelis self proclaimed a Security zone in South Lebanon about eight Miles Northeast of israelis Border. The six to 10-mile-deep zone was set up to serve As a Buffer against raids by guerrillas and is policed by the israeli backed South Lebanon army. Wolford said Robinson was a former . Marine i from just outside Chicago who a had a love for the children of Lebanon and went there to  he said Robinson was a missionary who a stayed in Lebanon because there was no other place to take care of these 20 children 111 Robinson he was trying to get permission to adopt so he could bring them out. He was trying to expand the facilities  earlier this month 5,000 residents of Yashaya Moukhar petitioned the government of president Elias Herawi to prevent Robinson from establishing what they called the first israeli settlement on lebanese soil. The petition said Robinson whom it described As a jewish american moved to Settle in the towns school right after israelis 1982 invasion and gradually brought in relatives and israeli acquaintances. Beirut newspapers have said Robinson used trained dogs to keep villagers off his fenced compound arousing their suspicion about his activities. But sources in Lebanon who asked not to be identified said Robinson was engaged in a dispute with shiite moslem Over land which he wanted to expand his orphanage. Robinson first entered Lebanon from Israel in 1978 and worked As a technician at a Christian television station in the Southern lebanese town of Marj Ayoun. In 1983, he founded his a Christian children a Home project in Yashaya Moukhar and was caring for 29 handicapped children when he was shot Security sources said. His wife said in a previous interview with a Beirut newspaper that three orthopaedic technicians a a swede a briton and a spaniard a served with Robinson on voluntary basis. A we Are not an organization and we do not belong to any organization or even a Church a mrs. Robinson told the and Dinar daily. A we Are a family moved by humanitarian  the project includes a Young adults Home a children a Home a swimming Pool a vocational training school a medical Center a physical therapy Center a school a retirement Home and an animal shelter As Well As administration offices and stables. Illness blamed on mass hysteria mysterious Pristina Yugoslavia apr a Tor on an International team sent to investigate a mysterious illness in Kosovo province tuesday blamed mass hysteria to ethnic albanians for the ailment which has led to renewed unrest. Also tuesday news reports said ser Ian authorities administering Kosovo Lre i Elznic albanian police for Al Egedy allowing albanian nationalists to attack members of the slav minority. Ethnic albanians have accused slavs no can Lnu illness by poisoning ethnic albanian students. The .-based Helsinki watch human rights organization appointed an International panel of doctors to assess the situation. A dutch member of the team said the group found no evidence of poisoning or epidemics attributing the mysterious incident to a mass  but the doctor who spoke on condition of anonymity to the associated press said there was a definitely no stage managing of the alleged epidemic. A if you Are a Parent and if your daughter complains of stomach pains and you hear other parents Are Rushing their children to the Hospital you do not hesitate to do the same thing a he said. A yugoslav parliamentary commission said monday that 2,990 ethnic albanians were hospitalized in Kosovo last week complaining of lung and skin problems but it found no evidence of poisoning. Serbian officials accused albanian nationalists of organizing the incident saying that the illness was faked. The serbian police raided nine ethnic albanian Homes arresting six ethnic albanians and seizing four guns 10 Gas masks and ammunition the official Tan Jug news Agency said tuesday. Media reports in Belgrade the Federal and serbian capital said serbian police intend to purge 70 percent of ethnic albanians from police ranks and 100 already have been fired. Kosovo is one of two provinces of Serbia the largest of the six yugoslav republics. The majority ethnic albanians arc pressing for restoration of the autonomy they lost March 28, 1989, when the government approved constitutional changes that gave Serbia almost Complete control Over Kosovo. It. .  
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