European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 25, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9aids could claim 10 Paris apr the French researcher who discovered the 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. A in a full Page article published saturday in the daily be Monde Montagnie warned that if no cure is found for aids up to 10 million people now infected with his Wilt 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 Are already on the Rise Montagnie wrote. A a our cause concerns the whole world a montage ice wrote. A we have to destroy aids a otherwise aids. Will destroy Montagnie 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 serums so far Are that they do in decade not last longer than a few months and that the virus quickly mutates to overcome them. Montage ice expressed support for a world foundation 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. Montagnie 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 to Uchner. 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 Ber Trand Aristide. A a 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 knew of Izmery a 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 tailed for nearly a month after Aristides ouster in a september 1991 military coup. Izmery 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. A my Appeal to the general was to accept reality that Aristide and democracy Are on the Way Back a Jackson said after the talks at the Home of the . Charge do affaires Lesley Alexander. A few hours later police stopped Jackson s entourage on a Beach in la Ogane 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 Are routine in Haiti even for foreigners. Jackson characterized his Mission As 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 a who responded a give me 1 dollars a on a Beach sooth of port a Prince. Haitian soldiers examine Jesse Jackson s documents and the papers of . Embassy vehicles saturday during the civil rights Leader s three hour visit. Keep it clean corps reportedly told Johannesburg apr South african South Africa diplomats have been banned from having live in lovers and ordered to Lead a morally irreproachable 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 Leer Dan was fired after nude pictures of her and an egyptian Diplomat were sent anonymously to the department of foreign affairs. Van Herden allegedly had an affair with the egyptian White 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. A the department must emphasize that its representatives Are expected to Lead a morally irreproachable life a it quoted the document As saying. The department will not a deviate from this Norm even if it is becoming More and More acceptable. For unmarried people to live together a it said. The department of foreign affairs refused comment on the report. Pakistani 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 jotting pc Klc from their sleep and damaging a Otel in Hyderabad sold 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 Jan. Ii a bomb exploded in the nearby Village of Kotris and killed 13 has big stake in tourism plan a a of bring garlic Bucharest Romania up in a bid to revive its ailing tourist Industry Romania plans to Cash in on the Dracula legend the Story of the Bloodthirsty Ghoul most romanians know nothing about. The grisly image of the bloodsucking Vampire could net the Economy a tens of thousands of dollars a said tourist minister Dan Matei. Tourism which was badly mismanaged in the last years of the communist regime is now seen As one of the country a Best ways to boost its Economy. Dracula a character dreamed up by 19th Century Irish novelist Bram Stoker is based on the deeds of the 15th-Century 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 legends creator never got closer to the country than the British Library in London creating his tale entirely from historical accounts of Vlad a antics Matei said Romania must take advantage of the gruesome legend closely associated with the country. A was a romanian 1 regret that Dracula is one of the Only images that the outside world has of Romania a he said. A but As minister of tourism a he said a i must profit from this. I can hardly wait for the americans to come Here and spend dollars after quaking at the sight of puddles of
