European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 26, 1992 Cosby show blinds Whites to racism researchers say the Springfield mass. A the Cosby show desensitized Whites to the nations racial inequalities because it features an affluent Black family according to a study funded by Bill Cosby himself. The findings renewed debate Over whether the 8-ear-old show which will broadcast its final episode urday has set Back race relations. Quot if Black people fail then White people can look at the successful Black people on the Cosby show and say they Only have themselves to blame a said Sut whally a communications professor at the University of Massachusetts. Whally and colleague Justin Lewis have written a 200-Page study on the social effects of the Abc show which has been seen by More viewers than any sitcom in television history. The study is to be _ published in a month. The researchers said Friday that they picked the show which began in 1984, because it was the first Allback program to avoid racial stereotyping Cosby plays a wealthy doctor with a lawyer for a wife. When they began the two professors at the Amherst Campus wrote to Cosby who holds a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts. He re Cosby sponged with a $16,500 Grant. A we thought it was a bit of a Long shot really but we were pleasantly surprised when he sent us a Check a Lewis said. Lewis said the study seemed to confirm the beliefs of White viewers that Blacks enjoy the same opportunities As they do. The professors said nearly Alf the Whites they interviewed said they believe affirmative action is no longer needed. The professors called the attitude that gives lip service to Equality a enlightened  a most White people accepted that America has had a kind of racist past but the present of the Huxtable and their spinoffs really seems to Send a message to White people that Black people can make it if they try Quot Lewis said. Cosby  immediately be reached for comment but David Brokaw a los Angeles publicist who has worked with Cosby for 17 years took Issue with the study a findings. Quot he was really trying to present the lives of people who happen to be Black but its the lives of people a he said. Lewis said Blacks he interviewed almost All liked the show. A they Felt they As Black people had been misrepresented in the Media in the past. They tended to get really negative stereotypes a he said. Quot for them the show was a breath of fresh  he said Cosby a Success broke ground for other shows about Well off Blacks such As fresh Prince of Bel air and the Cosby spinoff a different world. Thwarted abortion foes regroup Amherst . Apr operation Rescue founder Randall Terry worked sunday to reorganize protesters after a week of unsuccessful efforts to halt abortions at women s clinics. Terry spoke during a Day devoid of demonstrations urging protesters to continue their efforts which have been hindered by police and abortion rights activists. He addressed More than 500 people at the evangel Assembly of god Church in suburban Amherst on the sixth Day of the groups Buffalo area Campaign. Across the Street about 100 abortion rights activists chanted Quot Randall Terry go Home a and held signs such As a my body my choices and Quot abort operation  there were about 350 arrests during the week mostly of people trying to Block clinic Gates or doors. Abortion rights proponents have physically removed some protesters. Tetty urged those gathered to put Quot feet to your Faith by joining the clinic protests. A thirty years of prayer without action has gotten 30 million dead babies a he said adding that protesters should not fear being arrested. Operation Rescue leaders say the Buffalo protests will probably end Friday. On the Steps outside the Church Terry and several anti abortion ministers spoke for a few minutes to about 100 abortion opponents who could not get inside. Another 200 people watched his address on closed Cir Cuit television in the Church s basement. The Buffalo protests Are being patterned after similar six week Long demonstrations in Wichita kan., that resulted in 2,600 arrests. Abortion rights activists have organized to prevent protesters from denying women Access to clinics. They Nave outnumbered operation Rescue members by up to three to one. Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry preaches sunday in Amherst ., a suburb of Buffalo. 100 million reportedly live in slavery new York apr As Many As 100 million people May be living in slavery around the world despite nations claims that human bondage no longer exists according to Newsweek Magazine. Four Newsweek correspondents spent the last year interviewing enslaved men women and children in Europe Asia Africa and latin America the Magazine reported in its May 4 Issue. Newsweek described How civil War caused a resumption of slavery in Sudan and How employment contracts and fake marriages mask slavery in Kuwait and saudi Arabia for workers from India the Philippines Pakistan Bangladesh and West Africa. It said that As Many As 10,000 women and children from China a Sichuan province Are abducted and sold each year to be used As prostitutes in the Northern provinces of Thailand. It said mozambican women Are sold As brides in South Africa and girls traded for cows Are put to work in the red Light districts of Calcutta and Bombay in India. The abuses occur even though every . Member has signed the 1948 Universal declaration of human rights. The Magazine said one of the most common forms of slavery occurs when whole families Are forced to work sometimes for generations trying to pay off Loans at wages that do not cover their living expenses Newsweek said some abuses turned up after the persian Gulf War when embassies became crowded with escapees from Kuwait a Force of menial workers.  to give Anderson $250,000 for Captivity from wire reports Nashville Tenn. A journalist and former Middle East hostage Terry Anderson will be Given $250,000 by an organization headed by newspaper Mogul a Neuharth a published report said. The tennessean newspaper said the Rosslyn  Freedom forum plans this week to give Anderson $250,000 a or roughly $100 per Day for the nearly seven years he spent in the hands of kidnappers. Anderson was Beirut Bureau chief and senior Middle East correspondent for the associated press when abducted in March 1985. He was let go by the shiite Muslim faction islamic jihad dec. 4 after 2,454 Days in Captivity. The Freedom forum is headed by  lawyer Dies Miami a Richard e. Gerstein a longtime prosecutor who helped link the watergate burglary to president Nixon a staff and later defended the actor who plays pee wee Herman on a morals charge died sunday after a heart attack. He was 68. Gerstein who had a history of heart trouble suffered the attack at Home and was dead on arrival at the Miami heart Institute nursing supervisor Angela Adams said. For nearly four decades the 6-foot-5-Inch attorney was a Legal and political Power in Dade county Florida a most populous county. He was elected state attorney for the Dade judicial District in 1956. Gerstein was Best known nationally for winning the first conviction in the watergate Case. His office linked Nixon re election funds to Bernard Barker one of four Miami based watergate burglars. Barker was found guilty of Money laundering. A new York times article later noted that Quot it was an investigation conducted by or. Gerstein that uncovered direct links Between the watergate burglars and the Nixon White House. Gerstein went into private practice in 1978. Last year he negotiated an agreement in which comedian Paul Reubens who plays televisions pee wee Herman pleaded no contest to indecent exposure charges and May avoid a criminal  Complete trek Minneapolis a two sunburned adventurers and 15 weary dogs have finished a 3,059-mile dog sled trek the Leader said sunday. A believe it or not we got in a Day earlier than expected so we arrived in town and walked around looking for anybody we recognized a said Lonnie Dupre in an interview from Churchill Manitoba on the West coast of Hudson Bay. It Wasny to Long before Dupre from Buffalo minn., and Malcolm Vance of Shishmaref Alaska found Dupres wife and other Well wishers. Quot everybody came through. We re Chipper. The dogs Are doing very Well a Dupre said. The expedition lost its main corporate sponsors and two members in december after 15 of 36 sled dogs died. Animal rights groups criticized the adventurers for being ill prepared and called on them to quit. But Dupre a Veteran dog Leader and Vance a Denali National Park Ranger continued the trek. 1 he trip retraced the 1923 journey of explorer Knud Rasmussen. The journey began oct. 21 in  jury is still out s1mi Valley Calif a four los Angeles defendants charged with assault in the police beating of a Black Motorist checked in at the courthouse and went Home to wait As the jury continued to deliberate. By the time jurors adjourned sunday they had deliberated for 17 hours Over four Days. Police sgt. Stacey c. Koon 41 officers Theodore j. Base no 39, and Laurence m. Powell 29 and former officer Timothy e. Wind 31, Are charged with brutalizing Rodney g. King after a High Speed Chase on March 3,1991. Jurors spent All Day sunday behind closed doors taking time out for lunch and two Coffee Breaks before retiring for the Day