European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday August 28, 1990in summer the air has a bite in . Town Williston . Apr children done to play outside in Williston in the summer and they go to school armed. Nearly everyone is enlisted in the Battle against Public enemy no. I a mosquitoes. Williston located at the Confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers is a Mosquito Mecca. The Rivers create an Ideal Breeding ground for hundreds of thousands of the insects. A a they re bad a said 23-Ycar-old Kcal Lee Cox who moved to Williston from Fargo last Spring. A i can to believe it. In be got a million Mosquito bites. A i went into my Back Yard and got swarmed with them a she said revealing dozens of irritated red bites on her arms. A they just swarmed Over me and attacked me like killer  it Isnit a new problem. Explorers Lewis and Clark complained about the bugs during their Brief visits to the Rivers Confluence in 1805 and 1806. A historian called a Mosquito attack in 1947 the worst on record. Some say the mosquitoes enjoy the predominantly norwegian blood of the town s 13,000 residents. Others have proposed getting rid of the bugs by building a Bubble Over the town or setting up huge fans to blow them away. For years several agencies including the vector control District Board Laboured unsuccessfully to put Down the insect uprising. A too Many people were running the same program a said Bill Cole chairman of the vector Board. A things weren to getting  but a new idea emerged from a heated City meeting last summer at which residents were challenged to come up with their own ideas for Mosquito control. Two housewives joined a paediatrician two teachers and the owner of a Day care Center to form the Bug busters a a Volunteer group that studied ways to control the pests while protecting the environment. They enlisted the local High school a woodworking club and the army corps of engineers to make about two dozen min houses along the River each designed to attract bats and sparrows a natural Mosquito predators. A a we re not importing bats or anything like that a said Bug Buster Jackie Stenchjem. A the bats Are already Here. We re just hoping  move out of town and move into the houses along the  before the Bug busters the spraying of newly discovered larvae had to be approved by several agencies taking up to a week. Now the decisions Are in local hands and extermination can Start within 10 minutes. In april voters approved an annual fee of $12 a household to help bolster Mosquito control. Despite a rough week or two this summer generally was better than last. But children still stay indoors mostly and when they go to school they take cans of Bug repellent with their pencils and notebooks. Residents try to make the Best of the Bug situation which they recognize is a War they can t win. A a it a a numbers game we re playing a Cole said. A we just want to get it Down to where its  Singer gets her Way this time Holm Del . Apr Irish pop Singer Sinead o Connor threatened to walk out on a concert if a the Star spangled banners was played beforehand. She won the Battle but lost the War. The National Anthem was not played but the Singer with the skinhead style haircut was banned from any future performances at the Garden state arts Center officials said. Backstage staff relented following the ultimatum Friday out of fear that a last minute cancellation would cause a commotion said Dennis Ingoglia a spokesman for the new Jersey Highway authority which operates the 9,000-seat venue. 0 of Connor whose recordings include a nothing compares 2 a Quot and a Man Dinka a gave no reason for her demand. Ingoglia said. Outraged officials were less circumspect. A no performer who docs not agree to have the National Anthem played will be allowed to per Orin a George Zilocchi acting executive director of the Highway authority said in a statement. In May. O Connor refused to perform on a saturday night live because the guest Host was controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay whose off color humor earlier prompted cast member Nora Dunn to Boycott the show. Sinead o Connor a Solzhenitsyn rejects going Home until his books Ore available to All Washington Iii a Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has rejected a soviet offer to return to his Homeland. He said he still Longs to a live there and die there Quot but cannot return before he is a understood by my  Solzhenitsyn charged with treason and exiled in 1974, said in response to the offer that his books still Are not made available to Quot an Ordinary person Quot in Moscow. A i cannot come before my books a said Solzhenitsyn who has been living in Cavendish,.vt., since 1976. His remarks were in an open letter reply to an invitation sent to him Iasi week by Ivan Ilayev Premier of the russian soviet Federated socialist Republic. Quot having been slandered for decades i must first be understood by my countrymen not Only in the big cities but also in the provinces in every Remote Coiner of our land a said Solzhenitsyn. Ilayev \ invitation published aug. 18 in the Sov Iet press billowed a decree issued aug. 15 by soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev restoring citizenship to Solzhenitsyn n. His wife Natalia and 21 other exiles. Solzhenitsyn saying the circulation of his books still is a being actively impeded Quot m the Sov Iet Union edited treatment of a a i tie i diag archipelago Quot his account of horrors in Stalin s Puson Camps. The Book led to his arrest and deportation to West Germany in february 1974. Quot a Hie gulag archipelago a the Book about our Peoples enormous suffering is being sold Only for foreign currency in hotels and special shops. Is this not a mockery a he asked Ilayev. After publication of a Ilayev a invitation last weekend Natalia Solzhenitsyn was quoted As being a a indignant and calling Gorbachev s decree invalid because the original treason order was issued by the supreme soviet. Before his exile in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was first hailed in the soviet Union As a a new Tolstoy a then reviled As a traitor for writings that depicted the terrors of stalinist prison Camps. In the United states Solzhenitsyn retreated behind the High Ince surrounding his 80-acre Rural estate where he continued to write articles sometimes highly critical of the United Stales for its a a tolerance a of communism. In his letter to Ilayev Solzhenitsyn thanked the russian Premier Tor his a invitation to be your  but he said it is inconceivable Lor me to be a guest in my own Homeland to come and then leave when i will return Home it will be to live and Quot die there. Even during the most hopeless years i believed m my eventual  Solzhenitsyn n also said he has just completed an article Quot a which i have outlined my thoughts As Best As i could ical izing also that 1 am writing from abroad about the current slate of our country and the it entail As Well As necessary measures that need to be  a a Quot one Only has to wonder whether there will be enough paper in the  r. To facilitate an inexpensive and mass publication of this  stateside breakthrough announced by semiconductor group Austin Texas apr the High technology consortium sem tech has announced the development of a super Small circuit for computers that officials said represented an Industry breakthrough. The group of leading . Electronics firms has produced a device that is a a Micron thick or Xhu of 1 Millionth of a meter. The device Means that 2 Xhu times More information can be stuffed onto the same size computer Chip than the previously smallest 0.8-Micron device a half Micron technology is leading Edge and state of the Art a said Peter Mills be Matecha a chief administrative officer. A this is an important morning for the world to know that we have achieved a National and International discovery a said rep. . A Jake Quot pickled Texas who was on hand for the announcement. Sem tech was created to regain . Superiority i the semiconductor Industry. It receives Federal an private funds. In and couples iced Tea helps save woman in fiery car Guilford Conn. Apr a woman whose car crashed and burst into flames was rescued by a Quick thinking couple who used a Jug of iced Tea to douse the flames. A thank god for my wife a iced Tea a said Michael Rodrigue a Sarasota fla., firefighter and paramedic who pulled Natalie a. Corcoran 60, from her burning car. Police said Corcoran was driving North on interstate 95 when her car slammed into a Highway sign flipped Over and skidded along the Road bursting into flames. Rodrigue and his wife Kim a registered nurse pulled Over to help Corcoran grabbing a plastic Jug of iced Tea from their car. Rodrigue finally managed to pull Corcoran away trom the wreckage As fire and Rescue trucks arrived. Corcoran was taken by ambulance to Yale new Haven Hospital where she was reported in stable condition. Ousted tibetan Leader dead at age 47 from aids san Francisco apr Vajra Regent Osel Lendzin who As the first Westerner to Lead an International 4 ibo Tan Buddhist sect was stripped of his duties alter contracting aids has died of the disease at age 4/, Church members said. Tend in born Thomas Rich died at Pacific presbyterian medical Center according to Church members speaking on condition of anonymity. Lendzin in 1976 was designated his spiritual Merin r , is Leader of Var adhate a dharm Datu Buddhist Community based in Boulder Colo. In 1988, lie disclosed he had aids. News reports at the time said the charismatic Leader also acknowledged putting others at risk through his sexual behaviour. The revelation divided the 3,500-Membcr sect. Supporters insisted he remain As Leader critics argued he  Trust and must resign. I he Church s Board of directors wrested leadership rom Lendzin last year after he refused to step Down in went into More than a year of meditation and be fusion a traditional Buddhist practice