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■ r 9.199c The Battalion 990 WORLD AND NATION- 1 1 Friday, November 9, 1990 Rabbi’s death reveals ambivalence Director resigns, says Barry hurt drug-policy Hll£! r mation. lunity dinner ^rmation. 3R0UP: will sst Campus. 3 p.m.,mp- Center. Call n. at Duncan Rudder. Call day at 8 p.m. or. Call 693- ie Flying To- Aggieland at / p.m. in 402 the Triangle Rudder. Call 3 Academic. JERUSALEM (AP) — The assassination of labbi Meir Kahane has brought out the ambiva- ence many Israelis feel toward the man who jave political shape to anti-Arab racism. It was best reflected by the Knesset, Israel’s ’arliament, which banished Kahane for his ex- remist views, but honored his memory with a ustomary minute of silence. Kahane, 58, was shot in the neck Monday fol- owing a speech in New York. El Sayyid A. No air, 34, was captured after a shootout with a U.S. ’ostal Service police officer. He was arraigned on nurder charges at his hospital bed Wednesday. Part of the mixed response to Kahane stems rom the tradition of not speaking ill of the dead. Thus Kahane’s eulogists, most of whom shunned ind despised his politics, are choosing to dwell on ess controversial qualities, such as his charity vork, his Jewish Defense League’s efforts to pro- ;ect American Jews and his campaigns on behalf f Soviet Jewry. But few can ignore his blatant anti-Arab Teachings and their strong overtones of vio- ence. Hanan Porat, a right-wing religious legislator, ibserved during a Knesset discussion of Ka- lane’s murder that it was customary to refer to he dead as holy. “All the same, I confess that it is not easy for ne to talk about Rabbi Meir Kahane, blessed be ms memory, as holy,” Porat said. Kahane was a provocative figure from the day ie immigrated to Israel in 1971. Most Israelis blanched at his calls for the ex pulsion of Arabs under Israeli rule. His harsh interpretations of Jewish law went as far as to seek legislation banning sex between Jews and Arabs. His eye-for-an-eye doctrine of "I confess that it is not easy for me to talk about Rabbi Meir Kahane, blessed be his memory, as holy.” — Hanan Porat, right-wing religious legislator vengeance — often against randomly chosen Arab targets — was unpalatable to most. His American accent marked him as an out sider. He was “a foreign implantation,” Geula Co hen, a right-wing legislator who knew him, said. “He didn’t acclimatize. He didn’t have roots in the political Zionist sense. He didn’t fit in.” The Israeli media tried to ignore him except when his small band of followers attacked and sometimes killed Palestinians. Most Israelis felt his aggressive Jewish Defense League tactics had no place in a country with an effective army and police force. His first two runs for Parliament were abject failures. He finally was elected in 1984, but whenever he rose to speak most members would leave the chamber in protest, and they prevented his re- election in 1988 by outlawing racist candidates. But two Cabinet ministers went to his funeral, along with the chief Sephardic rabbi, Mordechai Eliahu. Eliahu appealed to the mourners to leave the vengeance to God. Yet hundreds of Kahane dis ciples rampaged through Jerusalem attacking Arabs, journalists and “leftists.” Columnist Yosef Goell wrote in the Jerusalem Post that when he heard an Israel radio an nouncer refer to “Kahane, of blessed memory,” a common Hebrew appellation for the dead, “I choked on my morning coffee.” He said the Knesset members who honored Kahane’s memory, “were chipping away at the red lines which are so essential in isolating the main body of the people from the psychotic mar- gins.” The mixed reactions to Kahane may be ex plained by the fact Kahane articulated the gut fears of many Israelis, especially amid Arab-Jew- ish clashes following the killing of 20 Palestinians last month on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. While most Israelis might balk at expelling the Arabs, they certainly worry about how to escape being submerged by the faster Arab birthrate. WASHINGTON (AP) — William J. Bennett bade farewell as drug-pol icy director with characteristic blus ter Thursday, boasting Americans have turned against drugs and dis missing a congressional critic as a “gasbag.” He allowed that his efforts to rid the nation’s capital of drugs didn’t work, but said it did not help that Mayor Marion Barry, who has been convicted of cocaine possession, was “part of the problem.” Bennett, at a White House send- off with President Bush, denied re ports that he had run out of gas or feared for his family’s safety as the first director of drug policy. “I’m not the stampeded-out-of- town type,” said Bennett, who will actually relinquish his post at the end of the month. Bush said he has not yet settled on a successor. The president showered Bennett with praise, saying he had done “an outstanding job for his country” and “his hard work has paid off.” “We’re on the road to victory,” said Bush, who promised to stay “on the front lines until this scourge is stopped.” The brash Bennett, 47, predicted that the Bush goal of cutting drug usage in half within 10 years now can be met in five years if states do their part. “Your taking this issue on, your saying in that inaugural address that ‘this scourge will stop,’ coincided with the great American change of minds about drugs,” Bennett said to Bush at a news conference. “This country is beginning to break its interest and habit on drugs,” he said. The Brooklyn-born Bennett took umbrage with a parting shot fired at him earlier by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Se lect Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. Rangel called Bennett’s 19-month tenure “a colossal failure,” saying he used the job as “a bull pulpit (sic), running around the country preach ing that families should stay to gether, that we shouldn’t use drugs.” “I never thought I would miss Nancy Reagan,” said Rangel. Rejoined Bennett: “Mr. Rangel is a gas bag. He has nothing to do with drug policy.” Bush promises to veto attempts to raise income taxes WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, reviving the no-new-tax pledge he aban doned in a budget deal, said Thursday the snly way Democrats will be able to raise in- ome tax rates will be “over my dead veto.” “It ain’t going to happen. I’ll guarantee ou,” Bush told reporters at a news confer- nce after saying tie expects congressional democrats to come up with new tax propo- als. But he hedged his pledge somewhat when asked flatly if he would reject new taxes. “Can I make the promise I won’t support hem? Absolutely,” Bush said. “But ... some- imes you run into some realities. But I’m girding up my loins to go into battle to beat back the tax attempts that I think are com- ing.” He said Democrats had an “insatiable de sire” to raise taxes and accused them of trying to “stick me with being anti-civil rights” for vetoing a landmark bill banning job discrimi nation. “I didn’t do as well as I’d like,” the presi dent said, reflecting on Tuesday’s GOP losses. Bush said the clear message from Election Day was that “people feel they’re taxed too much.” Bush, in one of his gloomiest assessments, said he was very concerned that the economy was faltering. He said he would consult with economists in and out of the government on ways to soften the blow and stimulate growth. “We’re in some tough times right now,” the president said. Michael Boskin, Bush’s chief economic ad viser, told a business group Thursday that he wouldn’t rule out a possible negative quarter of economic growth either in the final three months of this year or early next year. “The economy at best is in a lull, but we do expect that lull to be relatively brief and rela tively minor,” Boskin said. Republicans were heavily outnumbered in Congress, and their losses Tuesday will make it harder for Bush to win veto battles and push a legislative agenda. But Bush said the results won’t “tie my hands at all” in dealing with lawmakers, sig naling that he would be less conciliatory in the next two years. “When you extend the hand (of cooper ation), somebody else has to reach out and shake it,” Bush said. He said he would appeal for Democratic support for his policies, but warned: “I’m going to use the veto so as to stop a lot of bad things from happening to this country. ... I am more determined than ever to use it.” Doubts cast on effectiveness of African AIDS drug itices with Fr, or raore infer- 0 p.m. in 510 y Lobby. Call ice” featuring ;er Terry Ma- ng. For more Teed McOofl- 'e publish the Vhat’s Up is a s are run on a j. If you haw NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A low est drug that Kenya trumpeted as a eakthrough AIDS treatment has :come mired in problems, delaying its availability and casting doubt on promising initial findings. Patients and doctors who have sed the drug, known as Kemron, ay it does seem to alleviate symp- oms. The optimistic reports await con- irmation in clinical trials under way n several countries. Doubtful claims of proprietorship by Kenyan re- earchers, and suggestions that they may have overstated their findings, have cast doubt on the reports. There also are accusations that one Kenyan doctor has sold test sam ples of Kemron, including worthless placebos, for exorbitant prices. “Somebody’s been corrupted if they’re selling placebos to dying AIDS patients,” said Joseph Cum mins, an American veterinarian who supplied the interferon that com prises the treatment. Interferons, which long have been studied for antiviral properties, oc cur naturally in the body and help shield the immune system. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of interferons in treating Kaposi’s sarcoma, a cancer common among people with AIDS. Cummins devised a method of ad ministering low doses of interferon that is being used by doctors at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, which is known as Kemri. The drug generally has not been tested in pill form because of the be lief it would be destroyed by stomach acid. In Cummins’ use, a tablet con taining the drug is dissolved on the tongue, allowing small doses to be absorbed through the mouth. Kenyan researchers who used Cummins’ method announced star tling findings in February. They said that after two to four weeks of treat ment with Kemron, AIDS symptoms “Somebody’s been corrupted if they’re selling placebos to dying AIDS patients.’’ — Joseph Cummins, American veterinarian were alleviated in most of 101 pa tients tested. They claimed the virus that causes AIDS could no longer be detected in the blood of about 10 percent of the patients. The re searchers reported no negative side effects. No other scientists have dupli cated Kenya’s findings, which re sulted from uncontrolled trials. But the World Health Organiza tion, largely due to the Kenyan re sults, has recommended worldwide trials while cautioning that patients sometimes respond well to new treatments simply because of the greater attention they receive. Shuttle’s flight not delayed by accident CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A protective blanket over part of an astronomical obser vatory aboard the space shuttle Columbia was torn when a worker accidentally knocked a metal pan into it, NASA said Thursclay. The mishap was not expected to affect Columbia’s astronomy mission, targeted for early De cember, said NASA spokeswo man Pat Phillips. The accident occurred Wednesday as the worker was moving a platform that provides access to Columbia’s cargo bay, she said. The aluminum pan, located beneath the platform to catch de bris, nicked the blanket and left a hole about one-fourth of an inch long and one-eighth of an inch wide, Phillips said. The blanket covers the Astro observatory’s star tracker, used by the three ultraviolet telescopes that constitute the observatory to locate and lock onto stars. The worker responsible for the accident is employed by Lock heed Space Operations Co., NA SA’s prime contractor for shuttle processing. 91 Memorial Student Center Black Awareness Committee presents: "From Disgrace to 'A.mazing drirce" a motivational presentation featuring: Joe Clark % ii I am only one, but I am one. I can t do all things, but I can do something. That which I can do, I ought to do, and that which I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do.*' Date: Time: Place: Admission: Mon., Nov. 12, 1990 7:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre Free Everyone is welcome! Paid Advertiaeinent Memory course helps students boost grades By Anthony Rao Former University of Houston football coach Jack Pardee said it best: “This was so helpful to several of my players, I am now making the whole football team take the cour se.” Pardee read about a memory seminar held by noted memory ex pert Alvin Jackson and sent three players who needed to pass some important tests in order to stay in school. Uncertain that anyone can be taught photographic memory, Pardee sent athletic department academic advisor Dr. James Berlow as an observer. In one three hour session Mr. Jackson took three college fresh man, whose college entrance exam grades were so poor they are not al lowed to practice football, and trans- fromed them into students who can studying and recall tasks as well as the brightest students on campus. Since Dr. Berlow took in the class, he admits his recall and mem ory increased sixfold. He wishes Jackson’s course was available when he studied for his doctorate. To test the athletes’ increased memory, Jackson asked the trio to memorize this number 9185952963092112 well enough to recall it in 13 weeks. It took them an average of 2 minutes. This reporter attended the seminar and witnessed them master French, PortuPortu- guese, anatomy, names and faces. What impressed this writer the most is how memory techniques are used in reading and listening. Jack- son used a third year economic text book and I watched as freshmen read and recalled a whole chapter on “Macroeconomic Effects on a Fully Employed Economy”, after read ing it once. “Contrary to popular belief peo ple are not born with photographic mermories, it can be taught, I have taught thousands. I have taught it to those wanting to use it to in crease their G.P.A. to those with perfect G.P.A.s who wish to cut down on study time while main taining high grades,” Jackson said. “Our present educational sys tem gives high grades to those who can memorize. If you remember more of what you hear in lectures and remember all of what you read, you will get higher grades,” Jackson added. “I know many techniques and teach my students the one that fits them best. Right now all students use “Rota” memorization system taught in school. Under “Rota”, you have to go over and over what you want to learn. As far as I am concerned, “Rota” is the worst. 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