European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 16,1994 the stars and stripes pages a Whf vex nyx to Jeff. A time for great reflection Egypt s Chepren Pyramid along with a Camel and its rider Are mirrored in a Large Pool of water near Cairo on saturday following unusually heavy Rains. The drenching disrupted Normal desert life and kept tourists away from Chc Phron and the two other great pyramids at Giza. Russia to give books hidden offer conf scan on 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 move 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 of 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 us 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 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 books. We 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 1 believe is the main lesson of this sum a ,. / in 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. Apy vice president a Gore celebrated National religious Freedom Day on Friday with a tribute to America s history of tolerance and a solemn 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 National 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 our 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 Bobbitt supporters in Ecuador threaten to castrate . Men Quito Ecuador up feminists Here have threatened to castrate 100 . Men if Lorena Bobbitt is convicted in the United states of malicious wounding for cutting off her husband s Penis. The threats which started Friday and continued sat urday have been made anonymously to Quito Media outlets by people claiming to be feminist leaders. Bobbitt who was born in Ecuador but later moved to the United states is charged with malicious wounding in the june 2.3 attack on her husband John and is on trial in Manassas a. The 24-year-old manicurist says she endured several years of abuse from her 26-year old husband a former Marine and has claimed Tempo Rary insanity in the incident. The Anonymous callers have not Given details regard ing their threat to castrate the . Men. Vitamin b-6 blocks his in test 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 Hac 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 ests. Salhany said researchers have to find out sough 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 la the expedients is called Peri Donal phosphate or pop and is found in the bloodstream. Salhany s research conducted with medical Center aids virologist 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 arc promising they arc 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
