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The Conclusion to the
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The State of Feminism and Women's
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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, April 18,1990
Europeans criticize Bush at conference
President defends stance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush called for more research
“to sort out the science” of global
warming Tuesday, but ran into a
storm of criticism at an international
White House conference from Euro
peans who argued for action.
“Gaps in knowledge must not be
used as an excuse for worldwide in
action,” declared Klaus Topfer, the
West German environmental min-
ble gradual warming of the Earth.
“Environmental policies that ig
nore the economic factors — the hu
man factors — are destined to fail,”
he said, maintaining anew that some
fit
ister.
Bush said he hoped the confer
ence, attended by delegates from 19
nations, would prod international
research and inject economic issues
into the debate over the “green
house” effect.
The president called for resolving
some of the scientific uncertainties
and economic implications before
making a commitment to specific
pollution controls to deal with possi-
Environmental policies
that ignore the economic
factors — the human
factors — are destined to
fail.”
— President Bush
scientists are in wide disagreement
over the impact of manmade pollut
ants on the temperature of the
globe.
Many of the European partici
pants, especially the West Germans
and the Dutch, said the conference
agenda was narrowly arranged to
prevent open discussions of policy
aimed at dealing with global warm
ing.
Topfer suggested the German
delegation would pursue such dis
cussions, adding, “The gravity of the
situation requires immediate, deter
mined action.”
Similar views were expressed by
members of other delegations, in
cluding Dutch and French officials.
Discussions about further re
search and economic considerations
should “not distract us from taking
action on carbon dioxide stabiliza
tion now,” Hans Alders, the Dutch
environmental minister, told the
conference during a closed working
session.
Abernathy
dies waiting
for lung scan
Court upholds decision to evict
Jewish settlers in Arab quarter
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Jerusalem District Court
panel on Tuesday upheld an order to evict 150 Jewish
settlers from the Arab Christian quarter of the Old City,
fueling anti-Israeli protests.
The settlers immediately appealed the decision.
Several dozen Palestinian women and masked youths
demonstrated inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
venerated as the site of Christ’s burial and regarded by
many as Christianity’s holiest shrine.
Visiting pilgrims and tourists stared as 40 to 50 pro
testers waved Palestinian flags and chanted “PLO!
PLO!” and “Israel no! Palestine yes!” inside the dark
church.
The judges ruled that a stay of the eviction notice
d Frid
granted Friday by a single District Court judge was im
properly obtained. “We invalidate it,” the judges wrote.
They took the unusual step of assessing court costs of
$5,000 to the settlers’ lawyers, apparently for attempt
ing to thwart the Israeli legal system.
Judge Vardimus Zailer presided over the three-
judge panel, which also included Judge Shalom Bren
ner, who on Friday stayed the eviction order.
The ruling said the settlers’ lawyers, in asking Bren
ner for a stay, had failed to mention that another judge
turned down a separate request for a stay hours earlier.
It was the first time Arabs had staged a protest inside
the church since the Palestinian uprising against Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began 28
months ago.
A week ago, the ultra-Orthodox Jews moved into a
72-room complex near the church under heavy police
guard, saying they wanted to establish a Jewish pres
ence in the Christian quarter for the first time since
1936.
The Greek Orthodox Church, which owns the prop
erty, said a tenant in the four 100-year-old buildings il
legally worked out a lease with the Jews. The church
sued to have the Jewish settlers removed.
A three-judge panel of the District Court conferred
nearly four hours behind closed doors Tuesday before
issuing a ruling that accused the settlers’ lawyers of “an
improper use of procedures, to say the least.”
Avraham Sochozolsky, a lawyer for the Greek Ortho
dox Church, said he would immediately ask police to
carry out the eviction order.
“The judges have canceled the stay,” Sochozolsky
said. “They (the settlers) must be evicted.”
Police spokesman Uzi Sandori said police were study
ing the court decision to decide how to proceed.
Yacov Levine, a spokesman for the settlers group,
said their lawyers sought a new District Court hearing
late Tuesday, saying “our petition is to leave the people
where they are with the argument that the place was
rented legally.”
He said his group would take the case to the Su
preme Court, if necessary, to block the eviction order.
The settlers’ move into the complex has raised ten
sions in the old, walled city, which is divided into ethnic
quarters that are home to about 50,000 Moslems, 7,000
Christians and 4,000 Jews.
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ATLANTA (AP) - The R«
Ralph David Abernathy, whom
ated the civil rights movemm
with Dr. Martin Luther King]
hut decades later enraged
slain leader’s supporters by w.
ing about his alleged infidelity
died Tuesday.
Abernathy, who had cradles
the fallen King’s bloodied 1
after he was struck down by a
let in 1968, was 64.
Abernathy’s heart stoppi
while he was being prepared fotj
lung scan at Crawford Long Her
pital, hospital spokeswoman fi
sha BuHand said.
“What they were trying to
was detect if there was a bk
clot in the lungs ... hut they never
got to se»e,” Borland said
Abernathy was taken toanop
eiating room, but he was
nounced dead thereat 12:1(]
(11:10 a.m CDT) before doctors; A/Ti
could begin emergency life sup (it 1V11
port surgery, she said.
Burland quoted Dr. Kennedi
St hriclt, a nuclear medicine spe
cialist who was present for the
scheduled lung scan, assayingthe
test never began and could not
have contributed to Abernathy
death.
Abernathy had been in the
hospital since last month
treatment of a sodium deficiency
He had suf fered strokes in
and 1986.
Abernathy spent his last
months under hitter criticisiri
from his i ol leagues for passages
in his 1989 autobiography, "And
The Walls Came Tumbling
Down. He wrote that King had
sjx-ni time with two women and
had a violent argument with one
in the 24 hours before his 19$
assassination.
But the Rev. Joseph Lowery,
who succeeded Abernathy
president of the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Council, de-
scribed Abernathy onTuesdayas
"a faithful servant of the causeof
liberty and justice.”
“I extend my love and support
to his f amily,” he said.
King’s son. Fulton Count;
Commissioner Martin Luther
King HI, called Abernathy's
death “a very tragic losstoourna-
tion.”
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Scientists: Gene
may be linked
to alcoholism
CHICAGO (AP) — Research
ers say they have pinpointed for
the first time a gene that may
make people prone to alcoholism,
adding weight to the argument
that alcoholism is a disease and
not a moral weakness.
Government scientists called
the finding “provocative and
promising,” even if it requires
more study, but a leading investi
gator in the field declared it was
impossible to say an “alcohol
gene” had been identified.
Writing in Wednesday’s Jour
nal of the American Medical As
sociation, the researchers said
they found a particular gene on a
chromosome previously linked
with alcoholism to be far more
common in alcoholics than in
non-alcoholics they studied.
If verified, the finding would
represent the first specific identi
fication of a genetic root for alco
holism.
Alcoholism afflicts an esti
mated 18 million Americans and
tends to run in families.
Experts split over allocation
of funds given to AIDS studies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Experts are almost evenly
divided about whether the federal government is taking
too much money away from cancer, heart disease and
other medical studies to support AIDS research,
according to a survey by the Office of Technology As
sessment.
The OTA survey, released Tuesday, said most of the
experts also believe AIDS research “has made many im-
E ortant contributions to advances in the biomedical and
ehavioral sciences” and that virtually every medical
speciality has benefited, to some degree, from money
spent on AIDS studies.
Federal spending for treatment and prevention of
acquired immune deficiency syndrome totals about $2.9
billion for the fiscal year that ends this October. Re
search into the human immunodeficiency virus, which
causes AIDS, is about $1.16 billion.
“Critics of rising expenditures on HIV disease point
out that HIV funding has exceeded funding for heart
disease and rivals funding for cancer, despite the much
greater number of deaths from these latter diseases,”
the OTA report said. It said about 10 percent of the to
tal National Institutes of Health 1990 budget goes to
HIV funding.
To determine how the federal AIDS spending is af
fecting other biomedical fields, the OTA sent question
naires to 400 scientists and received completed replies
from 148.
The findings showed many areas of biomedical sci
ence have benefited from the AIDS research, but the
experts showed opinion divided on how best to spend
the federal funds.
The study said 48 percent of those who responded
“agreed or strongly agreed that too much researdi
funding has been diverted” to AIDS research from
other fields. Forty-four percent “disagreed or strongly
disagreed with this statement.”
There were 87 scientists with some professional acti\
ity related to AIDS in the survey, and 51.7 percent ot
Critics of rising expenditures on HIV
disease point out that HIV funding has
exceeded funding for heart disease and
rivals funding for cancer, despite the
much greater number of deaths from
these latter diseases.”
Office of Technology Assessment
those believed the level of AIDS spending was “aboffl
right.” A third called it too low, and 10.3 percentsatvii
as too high.
In the OTA survey, more than half the expert 1
agreed that each of nine basic biological sciences en
joyed at least some spin-off benefit from the AIDS re
search.
MATHEMATICS CONTEST
Annual FRESHMAN and SOPHOMORE Mathematics Contest
THURSDAY, APRIL 19,1990 • 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m.
Freshman Contest - Room 216 Milner Hall
Sophomore Contest - Room 304 Milner Hall
No Calculators! All test material will be provided.
First Place Winner - $ 100
Second Place Winner - $60 Third Place Winner - $40
Prerequisite for Freshman contest is knowledge of calculus through Math
151 or equivalent, for the Sophomore contest knowledge of calculus
through Math 251 or equivalent.
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