European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 15, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 13 Apken Hill of the Royal botanic gardens in Sydney Australia on tuesday shows the foliage of a Pine tree thought to be extinct for Iso million years. In land of Mhz Foss a. Sydney Australia a scientists have discovered a real life Juras sic Park a secluded rain Forest where living fossils some More than 100 feet tall Nave been peacefully thriving for150 million years. The Pine Trees found by a Par Ranger on a weekend hike Are from a Plant family previously thought to be the discovery is the equivalent offending a Small Dinosaur still alive on Earth Carrick Chambers director of the Royal botanic gardens said wednesday v the Trees were found in August in nearly inaccessible part of Sollemi National Park about 125 Miles West of Sydney in the Blue mountains. Their exact location is being kept secret to protect them while botanists collect see samples. So far Only 39 Trees have Bee found making the Sollemi Pine one of the world s rarest plants. The big Gest is 130 feet tall with a 10-foot Girth. They Are covered in dense waxy foliage and have a distinctive Nobby bark that makes them look As if they were coated with bubbly Brown  believed such Trees died out 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Era although related ones survived into the cretaceous Era which ended 65 million years ago. This is a Plant family that was widespread including the Northern hemisphere before that great extinction. When we lost the dinosaurs said Barbara Briggs the Royal Gar Den s scientific director. The Trees probably survived be cause they were in a Damp protected Gorge that apparently has been untouched by Forest fires. It really is a living Fossil she Aid. Nicholas Harford spokesman for the new South Wales environment minister said the Sollemi Pines were a new species adding that botanist were studying them to see if they constituted a new Genus or group of re lated species As Well. Weeps at Furi eral of haitian torture victim port a Prince Haiti a the funeral of a school principal tortured by soldiers two months ago prompted stirring cry for Justice from his Friend president Jean Bertrand Aristide. I ask All the haitian people to sue their former oppressors said Aristide who at times wept during the funeral of Marcellus Denis. Help us file charges against those who committed  Denis was brutally beaten in Aristide Hometown of port Salut a week before the president s oct. 15 return from exile. Aristide paid to have the ailing 54-year-old Denis flown 100 Miles to the capital and hospitalized in a private clinic. But Denis died of internal injuries dec. 6. He was Given an official funeral tues Day at the capital s Pink and Cream col ored Cathedral. It was attended by for eign diplomats six top officers of Haiti s now emasculated army and about 250other people including Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of Detroit. Dozens of . Service members stood guard around the Cathedral ringing parts of it with concertina wire and keeping crowds at a distance. Looking at Denis weeping relatives Aristide said it is the entire nation that through me says we must continue our duty to not bring vengeance but to bring Justice to  Aristide ousted by a military coup in 1991, returned to Power following a .-led intervention in september that finally forced army rulers to leave. He since has preached reconciliation and urged Long oppressed haitians not to seek vengeance through mob  he said there also must be Justice for the estimated 3,000 people mostly pro democracy activists killed during three years of army Rule. What i say Here has no sense no value if we can t prevent other people from dying in the same conditions Aris tide said. We must take away the weapons from the people who did these things. That s Why i myself gave the order for the haitian army to have Only 1,500  As he spoke some of the top officers in attendance All sitting in the third Row from the front looked Down at their shoes visibly uneasy about the criticism. Among them was Gen. Bernardin pois son appointed by Aristide As the new army chief. Muslim mainstream Denom rices damage v. A.  a. Done by extern Isis Casablanca Morocco a Muslim leaders have opened a Summit aimed at fostering Solidarity by blaming extremists for tarnishing the image of islam.-. /. A program to help the Muslim led bosnian government an Issue that unites muslims from Asia to Europe was also High on the Agenda of the two Day organization of islamic conference. The 52-member Summit opened tues Day with Host King Hassan ii of Morocco and egyptian president Hosni Mubara blaming Muslim extremists for a perceived backlash against islam by the non Muslim world. The question of islam s image was placed on the Agenda by Morocco and banners denouncing extremism and urging tolerance were Hung around this North african City. No one and no authority is entitled to. Take the path of extremism and resort to aggression Hassan said. He denounced jihad or holy Strug Gles against other muslims saying islam does not tolerate such  Mubarak widened the target to include Muslim nation that have gone astray. Spreading rifts within the  they have sold themselves to the Devil he said of the offenders. Neither Hassan nor Mubarak name groups or nations in their attacks. Egypt is battling a Campaign by armed extremists and Morocco is wary of an islamic insurrection in neighbouring Algeria where More than 11,000 people have been killed in less than three years. Iran Libya and Sudan have All been blamed by the West for encouraging islamic extremists. None of those countries was represented by a head of state at the conference. Kings princes and presidents streamed onto the grounds of the Royal Palace Dur ing a welcoming ceremony that evoked the moroccan kingdom s Majestic traditions.  trumpeters on the Palace roof top joined with brass bands on the Esplanade below to Hail the 27 arriving Heads of state and other delegations. An Honor guard on horseback wearing flowing White Robes and holding sabers aloft surveyed the arrivals. J Hassan called on the Summit to establish a supreme body to decide what is tolerated and forbidden by islam. A code of conduct to Deal with terror ism was expected to be adopted by the Summit which was examining Issue ranging from obstacles in the Middle Eastern peace process to the situation of muslims in Indian occupied Kashmir. 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