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Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress opened hearings on the Supreme Court’s flag-burning decision Thurs day, with one lawmaker foreseeing violence if the deci sion isn’t overturned and another decrying “shameful and crass demagoguery” by those trying to amend the Constitution. “We have to take action, otherwise people will be bur ning flags throughout the country on every holiday oc casion,” Rep. G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery, D-Miss., said. “If we don’t do something, I fear Americans, and es pecially veterans’ groups, are going to stop the dese cration of the flag in their own way and people are going to get hurt,” he said. Montgomery is co-sponsor with House COP Leader Bob Michel of an amendment endorsed by President Bush to overcome last month’s 5-4 decision by the court. The justices said burning the flag was a constitu tionally protected form of political dissent. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, a liberal Democrat from Ohio, took strong issue with those supporting a consti tutional amendment. “No amendment in our history has restricted individ ual freedom,” he said. “This is not the time to break faith with two centuries of tradition.” Metzenbaum said the court ruling had triggered "a crude form of political one-upmanship, a crass compe tition about who loves the flag more ... shameful and crass demagoguery, all with a cold eye toward the next election.” Many politicians have been scrambling to embrace the flag issue since the court’s ruling. Bush quickly called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling, but leading congressional Dem ocrats have been pushing instead for a law that would address the issue without altering the Constitution. The argument played out Thursday at a hearing by the House Constitutional Law Subcommittee, the open ing shot in Congress over what is sure to be an extended debate. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urged the House panel to ap prove legislation like his own bill, which could taw feet almost immediately. A constitutional ament would require approval by the states after Codm acted. But supporters of the proposed constitumj amendment said they doubted anything shortofl would succeed. "We believe there is no quick legislative fix,"S said. Montgomery, D-Miss., chairman of the HouseVjj ans Affairs Committee, said the subcommitteeskj If we don’t do something, I fear Americans, and especially veterans groups, are going to stop the desecrate’ i ni' i( «i's of the flag in their own way and people Rie Senat are going to get hurt.” I AUST make it — Rep. G.V. “Sonny’ swiftly ■ A H< ■tided th ■ccepted ■iea.su re signed in J The 1) "“"""Wieanoi, instead of tini- |j l j a ‘l> to ^urn trie Montgomer, D-Misi approve the amendment with legal nuance which might still of fend thecoun But subcommittee chairman Don Edwards,DCi urged his colleagues to be cautious. ^ “The flag is sturdy, flying proudly through 1 fierce battle of every war and through times 1,1 upheaval,” he said. “The Constitution, however,is[Jp ' ! ile and can be amended by the votes of legist:® 11 * " The r onse to caught up in the emotional whirlwinds of themome Edwards told reporters after the hearing that hi lieved more lawmakers were becoming leery ofacu tutional amendment. Opponents of an amenifc hope that by swiftly passing legislation on flag bum perhaps by the August recess, they can furthercod fervor for an amendment. Pallas tlnl Former top HUD official offers testimony to avoid prosecution WASHINGTON (AP) — A for mer top HUD official is seeking im munity from prosecution in ex change for testimony implicating former Housing and Urban Devel opment Secretary Samuel Pierce in the scandal over influence peddling at the housing agency, sources said Thursday. These sources, who asked not to be identified by name, said Deborah Gore Dean has informed congressio nal investigators she can testify that Pierce personally ordered funding for specific projects under the Sec tion 8 Moderate Rehabilitation pro gram. The program was briefly sus pended after HUD auditors criticized the selection process and said a number of prominent Repub licans had been able to steer millions of dollars to their clients. The sources said Dean was de manding immunity from prosecu tion in exchange for answering ques tions from the House subcommittee investigating abuses at HUD during Pierce’s eight-year tenure as secre tary. Dean earlier refused to testify, cit ing her 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Dean spent three years as Pierce’s executive assistant, and has been de scribed by former colleagues as wielding great influence at the agency. that Pierce intervened on bdia several associates, including a mer law partner. Subcommittee members haven Pierce, who has moved backlog hattan to resume his law and ness dealings, they want toques# him again. cedi at Hon. I The S Woice vote bill to ci Medic,i rr ■o-called ■erly. I The t K’.hairmai 1 Slate Bo; pendorsed *l>f’ the so bnsume One pr who appli fO days, r aolicy an und. u HUD officials more thandoulil their estimate of the losses in ( program suspended becauseofsc dais plaguing the agency. IS Pierce told the subcommittee last month he had no direct role in fund ing decisions in the Section 8 or any other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported The Senate Banking Commit! also voted to launch its own inn gation into HUD operations the Reagan administration, join: two House panels already scrutii ing allegations of mismanagemfl fraud and influence-peddlingat multibillion-dollar agency. el Fake proteins may halt AIDS virus BOSTON (AP) — Fake proteins can jam the delicate machinery used by the AIDS virus to reproduce in side the body and could provide a new treatment and someday per haps even the basis of a cure for AIDS, scientists report. Despite the tantalizing results, re searchers caution that the new ap proach, undertaken in the test tube only, could be years or even decades away from practical use. In the work, described in two pa pers in Friday’s issue of the journal Cell, scientists tinkered with two AIDS virus genes, known in genetics shorthand as tat and rev. Both pro duce proteins that are essential for the virus to churn out copies of itself inside the body. The scientists found that by slightly scrambling the genes, they can make them produce proteins that don’t work. But because the proteins look like the real thing, the AIDS virus is fooled into using them instead of its own natural proteins. As a result, virus replication is shut down. This suggests two possible ways to combat AIDS. One is to flood the bloodstream with fake viral proteins that will overwhelm the genuine product and short-circuit viral repli cation. The other, probably more difficult, approach is to implant the viral genes that make these bogus proteins into victims’ bodies so they will produce their own anti-viral am munition. Dr. Maurice Green of St. Louis University experimented with the tat gene, while Dr. Bryan R. Cullen of the Howard Hughes Institute at Duke University worked with the rev gene. Green said that unlike most pro teins, the fake tat product can be taken in by cells. There it will “jam up the virus control mechanism for viral replication.” “We are testing it out against the most virulent strains of AIDS virus, and we are very encouraged,” Green said. “It’s a major step forward, as far as I’m concerned, in possible AIDS therapy.” Dr. William Haseltine of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a co-discoverer of both genes, was cau tious about the practical importance of the research. It s an interesting concept, but it’s a long way from making a useful drug,” he said. The AIDS virus kills by slipping inside blood cells called T cells, sub verting them to make new copies of the virus and then killing the cells. People eventually die largely be cause of the destruction of these blood cells, which are essential for fighting routine infections. Green and Cullen’s work suggests that fake proteins could be used to stop this lethal progression in people wiio carry die /viDs virus in some their blood cells. First, scientists would create m tant versions of the virus’ revorl genes that would be programmed make defective proteins. Thentli would remove a small amount sue from the patient’s bone marro 1 LEIDE1 President tliplomatii rope, dec! resolve an the Soviet lew work East and \ The So\ eclion, cc Bush in a historic cit mbarked New Worh This tissue, which makes new bit* he weekei cells, would be implanted with the' ral genes. Finally, the restofthep tient’s bone marrow would be t Tuesday a stroyed and replaced with genetically altered marrow cells France (Continued from page 1) Bush dc enturies’ < ng to Ait he seven r Ehe presid ion trek ac 30,000 outdoor popular balls around the country to celebrate Bas tille Day on Friday. Surrounding streets were packed with people of all ages, enjoying the balmy summer night. The air was filled with the smell of grilling sau sages and the sounds of exploding firecrackers and accordion music pouring from a giant white tent op posite the pertormersjoining m. The visiting leaders earlierjoini Mitterrand in an outdoor cerentf at the Trocadero honoring the D ( laration of the Rights of Man the Citizen proclaimed in 1789. posite the new Opera. “I usually prefer smaller parties, but I wanted to come be part of the most popular of French cele brations,” said Gilles Driate, from a southeastern suburb. He then grabbed the hand of a surprised and delighted lady with gray hair, and they danced away. Meanwhile, Mitterrand and his guests had a late dinner at the Musee d’Orsay, the spectacular museum of 19th century art converted from a train station. At the Opera Bastille, the political leaders were joined by a star- studded crowd including actress Ca therine Deneuve, tennis player Yan nick Noah, and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel. A rousing orchestral rendition of the Marseillaise, the French national anthem, opened the show. The 75- minute program ended with an even more stirring version, with all the Mitterrand was flanked by M during the brief celebration, a te pie but dramatic reading of the' articles of declaration adopted ! the French National Assembly (l Aug. 26, 1789. Punctuating the reading was group of 48 children singing “B Song of Joy,” a hymn composed f ( the occasion. The choir membf! who have been rehearsing since 1, were from the United States, h land, Finland, the Soviet Uni# ! West Germany, France, Jap# 1 Rwanda, Togo, Australia, Cana<k Mexico, Hungary, Lebanon andte Philippines. At the new opera house, Dot# ngo, Hendricks and Teresa M ganZa sang selections from Frei» operas such as Charles-Franci Gounod’s “Faust” and Camille Sail Saen’s “Samson and Delila.” France’s Georges Pretre co ducted the orchestra and chorus .the Orchestre de Paris in a work tied “La Nuit d’avant le Jour," “The Night Before the Day.” fl staging and the stark, elegant de* were the work of American Bob W son, the darling of French aval* garde theater. )ean C. C<