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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, January 25, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 25, 1953 \ world the stars and stripes Pago 9aids could claim 10 million in decade Paris a the French researcher who discovered inc aids virus predicted that nearly 10 million people infected today could be dead within 10 years or. Luc montage ice head of the Pasteur Institute team that isolated the virus in 1983, called for a global foundation on research and prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In a full Page article published saturday in the daily la Monde montage ice warned that if no cure is found for aids up to 10 million people now infected with his will be dead within a decade. Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus precedes full fledged aids. The High rate of aids transmission Between heterosexuals in Africa India Southeast Asia and South America will eventually spread to Richer countries where sexually transmitted cases in women arc already on the Rise montage ice wrote a a our cause concerns the whole world a montage ice wrote. Quot we have to destroy aids a otherwise aids will destroy  montage ice said the spread of aids leads to other diseases that take advantage of weakened immune systems such As new strains of tuberculosis discovered in the United states and France. The French researcher said that Hope remains of finding a vaccine but not immediately. The main problems with experimental scrums so far arc that they do not last longer than a few months and that the virus quickly mutates to overcome them. Montage ice expressed support for a world found lion on aids treatment and prevention that is to open this week. The foundation based in Europe will use the educational networks of the Paris based . Education scientific and cultural organization montage ice said and will be funded by Public and private funds. Montage ice invited president Clinton who has called for greatly increased spending on aids to support the foundation. It is to be launched wednesday by Enesco Secretary general Federico mayor and French health minister Bernard Bouchner Haiti arrests organizer of Jackson trip port a Prince Haiti a the Rev. Jesse Jackson paid a three hour visit to urge the return of democracy to Haiti and police later arrested a coordinator of the trip who had backed ousted president Jean bar Trand Aristide. It was not immediately Clear if Antoine Izmery was arrested for helping to arrange the civil rights activists visit. However it was Likely the police Force which is a division of the army Knewt f Izmer efforts for the trip. Izmery a wealthy businessman was arrested for driving without a License. And taken to the National Penitentiary according to a family member who spoke on condition of anonymity Izmery backed Aristides 1990 election Campaign and was jailed for nearly a month after Aristides ouster in a september 1991 military coup. Ism cry a brother and business partner Georges was gunned Down May 25. Many people believe Izmery was the intended victim. Jackson met saturday with Haiti s army chief telling him that the. Military must give up its control of Haiti. He had arrived Friday for a two Day visit. Quot my Appeal to the general was to accept reality that Aristide and democracy arc on the Way Back a Jackson said after the talks at the Home of the . Charge d affaires Lesley Alexander. A few hours later police stopped Jackson a entourage on a Beach in Ladoga no 20 Miles Southwest of the capital As he talked with haitians building boats. Police checked the identity papers of Jackson . Embassy personnel and journalists. Such checks arc routine in Haiti even for foreigners Jackson characterized his Mission us private and humanitarian but stressed to the haitian generals that he has influence in Washington. It was not Clear to what degree if any Jackson represented the Clinton administration although he was briefed thursday by Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher. The Rev. Jesse Jackson introduces himself to a haitian woman Quot give me 1 Dollar a on a Beach South of port a Prince. A who responded haitian soldiers examine Jesse Jackson s documents and the papers of . Embassy vehicles saturday during the civil rights Lender s three hour  it clean Diplomat corps reportedly told Johannesburg South Africa apr South african diplomats have been banned from having live in lovers and ordered to Lead Quot morally irreproachable Quot lives a newspaper said sunday the policy contained in a secret memorandum apparently was prompted by an embarrassing sex scandal involving a South african Diplomat in november 1991, the sunday Star said. The Diplomat Lidia Van Cerden was fired after nude pictures of her and an egyptian Diplomat were sent anonymously to the department of foreign affairs. Van Cerden allegedly had an affair with the egyptian while part of the South african Mission to the United nations. The sunday Star said the memorandum was sent to All South african embassies by the department of foreign affairs in Pretoria recently. Quot the department must emphasize that its representatives Are expected to Lead a morally irreproachable life Quot it quoted the document As saying. The department will hot a deviate from this Norm even if it is becoming More and More acceptable. For unmarried people to live together Quot it said. The department of foreign affairs refused comment on the  strike protests bombings Hyderabad Pakistan a shops and offices shut Down in a one Day general strike sunday to protest two bomb blasts that killed at least 28 people. The blasts occurred late saturday within minutes of each other ripping through a residential neighbourhood jolting people from their sleep and damaging a hotel in Hyderabad s old walled Section. At least 100 people were wounded Many of them seriously police said. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but police said they suspected Jean Singh a militant group that is demanding the creation of a separate nation in Southern Singh province. On . 11, a bomb exploded in the nearby Village of Kotris and killed 13  has big stake in tourism plan a of bring garlic Bucharest Romania up a in a bid to revive ailing tourist Industry Romania plans to Cash in on Dracula legend the Story of the Bloodthirsty Ghoul is romanians know nothing about lie grisly image of the bloodsucking Vampire could net Economy a tens of thousands of dollars a said tourist Lister Dan match. Tourism which was badly Musmand in the last years of the communist regime is now seen me of the country s Best ways to boost its Economy. Dracula a character dreamed up by 19th-Century Irish novelist dram Stoker is based on the deeds of the 1 stiffen Lury transylvanian Prince Vlad the impaler a hero of the wars against the turks who publicly impaled his victims. Scores of films have been made celebrating the ghoulish Demon but most Ordinary romanians know nothing about him or his International Fame. And one tourist Guidebook on Romania says the legend s creator never got closer to the country than the British Library in Landon creating his tale entirely from historical accounts of Vlad s antics. Matei said Romania must take advantage of the gruesome legend closely associated with the country. A was a romanian i regret that Dracula is one of the Only images that the outside world has of  he said. A but As minister of tourism a he said �?o1 must profit from this. I can hardly wait for the americans to come hic and spend dollars after quaking at the sight of puddles of   
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