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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
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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.
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'A.mazing drirce"
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