European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tut Day. R . Tvett 8taks and to of to a biosphere ii panel resigns citing Lack of cooperation by Robert Cooken woday a special Independent committee of scientists set up to help oversee a controversial space habitat Experiment in Arizona has resigned frustrated by Lack of co operation members said. The 10 scientists who oversaw the scientific integrity of the two year biosphere ii Experiment resigned feb. 5 during a meeting at the smithsonian institution in Washington said one member who asked not to be identified., they the operators of biosphere ii weren t listen ing to us the member said. The committee chairman Tom Lovejoy assistant Secretary for external affairs at the smithsonian was reached in Mexico City on saturday and confirmed the resignations. He would not elaborate on How the Resig nations would affect the project. Lovejoy said he and Texas oilman de Bass who financed biosphere ii were going to make the announcement of the Resig nations today. Other members of the committee which included Keith Runcorn of Newcastle University in England and Ian prance of the famed Kew gardens could not be reached for comment. Biosphere ii is a huge Glass enclosed Structure cover ing 3.15 acres at the foot of Arizona s Santa Catalina mountains near Oracle. It Cost an estimated $150 Mil lion. The highly touted Experiment which was a testing Model for living in a space station began on sept. 26, 1991, when its Crew entered for a two year stay. Four women and four men locked themselves inside. The Rev. Jesse Jackson clasps the hand of a hunger striking haitian refugee at Guantanamo Bay Cuba on sunday. Jackson to join haitians in fast Guantanamo Bay Cuba a the Rev. Jesse Jackson told haitian hunger strikers sunday that he would begin fasting in the United states while pres Suring president Clinton to lift the ban on his infected immigrants. Jackson made a Daylong visit to the hot Dusty Camp at the . Military base where 267 haitian refugees Many infected with the aids virus Are detained. We will fight with our fast and we will fight with our Hope and Good will defeat evil and right will defeat wrong and soon very soon you will be free Jackson told the 15 hunger strikers who live in a tent of plastic Tarp placed on a soccer Field. The hunger strikers who say they have taken Only water and vitamins for the past 15 Days announced sunday they will now refuse that. We will not drink water the 15 said in a hand written statement Given to Jackson. Now we re at a Point where we see that the Only solution is to put our lives in the hands of  All the haitians detained at the Guantanamo base have proved they qualify for political Asylum. They have been refused entry to the United states because they or relatives with them have aids or the virus that causes aids. More than 40,000 haitian boat people have fled their Caribbean nation since a bloody 1991 coup ousted Jean Bertrand Aristide Haiti s first freely elected pres ident. The United states has shipped most of Hemback claiming they were economic migrants. Refugees claim they arc fleeing army terror. Peace conference for Street gangs planned Kansas City to. A gangs from around the country have expressed interest in taking part in National peace conference for Street gangs an Organ Izer said sunday. Gang leaders from Boston Chicago los Angel Sand Minneapolis met earlier this month in Washington do to pledge peace and to announce the National gathering scheduled for april 30 to May 2 in Kansas  have been meeting with cities gang Lead ers who want to join the Summit Carl Upchurch the Summit s chief organizer said after a weekend planning session in Kansas City. Upchurch is director of he Council for Urban peace and Justice in Granville Ohio. ,. News of the Summit was greeted with scepticism by police said sgt. Hardie Smith coordinator of the Kan Sas City police department s Street gang task Force. The gangs represented at the Washington meeting included the crips bloods different nation Vic lords and disciples of soul. The violence often associated with these gangs were enough to make Kansa City police wary of the conference. But Upchurch said organizers will address any safety concerns at an open forum when the conference opens. During a planning meeting in Kansas City Over the weekend the atmosphere among the gang leaders was Nice cordial polite Upchurch said. The next planning session will focus on police brutal Ity he said. The conference Date c9incides with the first anniversary of the los Angeles riots. The riots were sparked by the acquittals on nearly All accounts of four White cur rent or former police officers in the beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. The april 29 verdicts last year sparked three Days of rioting in los Angeles another cities that left More than 50 people dead and caused about $1 billion in damage. Jury room courtship leads to Valentine s Day wedding fron wire report to Charleston . In the jurors lounge where they met John Johnson and Charlotte Blake guilty of falling in love were sentenced sunday to spend their lives together. The first time i showed up for jury duty she was across a room full of people and 1 spotted her right off Johnson said just before taking his Valentine Day wedding vows. Eventually we got around to  Johnson 59, a technician for a chemical company and Blake 53, a Legal Secretary were called to jury duty five years ago to hear a civil Case in circuit  trial judge Paul Zakaib agreed to open his courtroom sunday to marry them. I thought it was pretty Nice Zakaib said afterwards. They had Nice family Nice friends. There were about 25 people Here. It s one of the nicer things that can happen to a judge when he s i office. It s a lot nicer than handling a criminal  the couple had originally considered a Church wedding. But eventually we thought the jurors lounge would be perfect Blake said. Sex mayor s car auctioned Washington Marion Barry s somewhat famous car a 1991 Chrysler new yorker was sold at auction saturday to an Arlington va., woman who said she had never heard of the former and definitely famous Washington ., mayor. Fanny Yuan an insurance agent bought the car for $14,200 because she liked it. It is very pretty she said. Barry now the  Councilman from Ward 8, put the car up for Sale after it was allegedly stolen Fromin front of the District building last month. The Chrysler a $25,000 gift from friends had Bee presented to Barry in january 1991, when he left the mayor s office. He later served a six month sentence for Possession of cocaine before being elected to the Council last year. When police recovered the car Barry insisted that it be checked for drugs before he picked it up an then decided he never wanted to drive it again. And so the deep Maroon car with darkened windows leather seats and console Telephone was driven onto the auction Block by Gordy Zaritsky owner of Capitol Auto auction. After Yuan bought the car when the Media crowded around she seemed puzzled. No she said she did not know who Marion Barry was. No Shedid not know the car had been stolen. Reagan Library debt paid los Angeles unlike the National debt which continues to soar out of sight the $57 million Ronald Reagan presidential Library has been paid off by a private foundation. The Ronald Reagan presidential foundation made the final $2 million payment on the Hilltop Complex in Simi Valley earlier this month the Losangeles times reported sunday. John Midgley executive director of the foundation said the 153,000-Squarc-foot Library now will focus its efforts on developing a Public policy think tank to carry on the legacy of Reagan Era conservatism. Much of the Money for the museum and research Library came from Reagan s wealthy friends big business and japanese interests. Woman shot child taken Loma Linda Calif. A woman was shot to death outside the Loma Linda University medical enter emergency room sunday by a Man who fled with her child authorities said. The woman who was shot in the emergency room s parking lot was taken inside the Hospital for treatment but died soon afterwards said Lom Alinda spokeswoman Anita Rockwell. She was identified As Ignacia Manriquez 29, of Coachella said san Bernardino county Deputy Coroner Steve Foster. She had arrived at the Hospital seeking treatment for herself and her child who were both suffering from flu symptoms officials said. The gunman who was believed to be the woman husband left with her 4-year-old son said san Bernardino county sheriffs dispatcher Debb Holman