European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 16, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 a time for great reflection Egypt s cd Ephrun Pyramid along with a Camel and its drenching disrupted Normal desert life and kept tour rider Are mirrored in a Large Pool of water near Cairo is s away from cd Ephrun and the two other great Pyra on saturday following unusually heavy Rains. The kids at Giza. Russia to give books hidden after confiscation Moscow a administration officials said sat urday that Russia had agreed at last to return some of the sacred jewish books hidden for decades in the rus Sian state Library. One of the books was handed Over to vice president Al Gore during his visit to Moscow last month As a Ges Ture of Russia s willingness to seek a settlement. The Brooklyn chabad Zubavitch mov e ment a hasidic jewish group says about 12,000 he brew and yiddish books were confiscated by the soviet government after the 1917 revolution. For decades the soviets denied that they had the books claiming they had been lost or destroyed. A senior administration official travelling with presi Dent Clinton on saturday said crates of the books would be returned to the Zubavitch movement which was founded in Russia. Seven books that were supposed to be aboard air Force one when it left Moscow on saturday for Bela rus however were not there. Rabbi Shlomo Cunin of the Zubavitch movement in Russia said the seven books had been held up by tech Nical difficulties and were sent saturday afternoon by the . Embassy to Geneva where they would be Given to Clinton to take Back to the United states. On Friday Zubavitch leaders in Moscow issued a statement saying the russian government had failed to comply with its agreement with Gore to store the books in a separate building of the state Library. Cunin did not know if there were new developments saturday since it was the jewish Sabbath. He said ambassador Thomas r. Pickering and other . Officials have been negotiating with the russians about the Are proud of such a phenomenal amount of Effort being put into something that has no material value Cunin said. This is a lesson in democracy and Justice which i believe is the main lesson of this 1990, a scholar identified roughly 2,000 mildewed volumes in what was then the Lenin Library. The Luba Vitch movement has been battling in the russian courts since then for the books return. The return of the Tanya the movement s main philosophical work to Gore was the first break in that quest. The leather bound Gold embossed Book was printed in Russia at the turn of the Century. Gore was shown a dozen or so of the books during his visit including a 1594 volume printed in Poland a 1659 volume printed in Amsterdam Netherlands and a 1562 text published in constantinople. In a joint statement at the end of the Moscow sum Mit president Boris n. Yeltsin joined with Clinton in vowing to combat anti semitism. . Tolerance toward religion lauded by Gore Richmond a. A vice president Al Gore celebrated National religious Freedom Day on Friday with a tribute to America s history of tolerance and a sole Rev reminder that even today killing in the name of religion goes on All Over the speaking at the Virginia state Capitol Gore Bor rowed the words of Thomas Jefferson As he marvelled that in the United states religion is a matter which lies solely Between Man and his Thomas Jefferson s legacy endures today Gore told a gathering to Mark the second annual-national1 religious Freedom Day. Deep within our hearts whatever our Creed we know that to despise someone else because of a religious difference is not Only bad re Ligion it is the vice president went on to say even As we celebrate our religious Liberty today killing in the name of religion goes on All around the world. At this moment the muslims of Sarajevo Are being shelled by artillery from the supposedly Christian serbs in the mountains above the helpless City. The peaceful inoffensive adherents to the Bahai Faith in Iran Are imprisoned and murdered by the iranian government. Their crime the Bahai believe in the Spiri Tual Unity of Humankind. Saddam Hussein carries on a Campaign of terror against the shiite muslims in his Iraq Gore said. Muslim fundamentalists in Egypt machine gun tourists. Hindus and muslims in the Indian subcontinent Are at each other s throats. Northern Ireland blazes with gunfire Between opposing sides who claim to worship the same Christ even As we Pray for the Suc Cess of the new initiative to bring them peace. Through out history religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and Gore also lamented that in the United states those who cite their religious Faith in trying to shape Public policy Are often ridiculed. How do we preserve the family How do we teach Pur children to live together How do we make our Cit ies Safe again How do we allocate our National re sources to do the greatest Good to the greatest number he asked. These Are urgent social and political questions. They should also be religious issues. A dry secularism devoid of mystery and passion cannot breathe life into the values of our officials fear 100 drowned after 2 ferried collide in India new Delhi India a two passenger ferries collided in thick fog in the Delta Rivers of Eastern India on saturday and police feared 100 people from one capsized boat drowned. The collision occurred near cd Imaguchi about 50 Miles South of Calcutta. The area is near the Mouth of the Ganges River flowing into the Bay of Bengal and River traffic is a primary Mode of travel. One of the ferries was carrying 150 pilgrims from cd Imaguchi press Trust of India reported. It did not say How Many passengers were on Board the other vessel. United news of India quoted the state police chief s. Gossain As saying 21 passengers were rescued and hospitalized. Divers recovered eight bodies from the Confluence of the Muri Ganga and cd Imaguchi Rivers but Rescue operations were hampered by poor visibility. Vitamin b-6blocks his incest tubes scientist says Omaha neb. A a Type of Vitamin b-6 found in the body and used in test tube experiments blocked the aids virus from infecting White blood cells a re searcher said Friday. The Vitamin did not help cells that had already been infected said James Salhany a researcher and Bio chemist at the University of Nebraska medical Center. The test tube experiments have not been extended to humans but the medical Center is pursuing funding for human tests. Salhany said researchers have to find out if enough Vitamin b-6 can be built up in the body with out causing toxic Side effects. The Only Type of Vitamin b-6 that worked in the experiments is called Peri Donal phosphate or pop and is found in the bloodstream. Salhany s research conducted with medical Center aids virologist t Mario Stevenson found that pop bonded to White blood cells forming a Barrier that blocked the human immunodeficiency virus from infecting the cells. The virus causes aids. Large doses of the Vitamin can cause problems with the nervous system such As difficulty in walking and tingling in the feet Salhany said. There were no toxic Side effects on the test tube cells in Salhany s experiments. Stephen Coburn director of biochemistry at the fort Wayne state development Center in fort Wayne ind., and a Vitamin b-6 researcher called the findings significant and interesting. Coburn said he has not con ducted research on Vitamin b-6 in reference to aids. The real key thing is whether it would translate into a live animal Coburn said. Lots of preliminary discoveries look Good under controlled circumstances but when you put them into a live organism they the re sults could be different. Salhany cautioned people against taking Mega doses of Vitamin b-6 found in drug and health food stores which is different than pop because of the Side effects and the fact that the body will Only metabolize it into a certain amount of pop. Although the research results Are promising they Are not a cure Salhany said. I Don t think there will Ever be a cure because we can t cure viruses he said. "b-6 is not an Oral version of the a paper detailing research by Salhany and Stevenson is under review for publication by the journal of biological chemistry
