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“Tuesday IN THE NEWS Top stones front state, nation and world Woman: Gay provoked Wilmington bar brawl WILMINGTON A Marine started a fight at a gay bar after a man who said he was proud to be gay made sexual over tures to three Marines, a woman said Monday. Amanda Lopez was the first witness to testify in the trial of three Marines accused of beating Crae Pridgen out side a gay bar on Jan. 30. Lopez said she was with the Marines that night. They talked about gays in the military during dinner, and “they didn't feel it was right,” she said. But they weren’t looking for trouble with gays, said Lopez, a law enforce ment specialist at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Charged with three counts each of simple assault and one count each of assault on a woman are Lance Cpls. Colin C. Hunt, 20; Patric G. Cordone, 23; and Walter G. Watkins, 26. Russians say Ukraine kept nuclear weapons MOSCOW Russia accused Ukraine on Monday of breaking promises to surrender nuclear weapons left from the Soviet collapse, saying this failure greatly could increase dangers in the region. Russia’s harshest attack yet on Ukraine’s arms policy came as talks between the nuclear-armed neighbors appeared to have broken down. It came a day after President Clinton ended a U.S.-Russian summit by endorsing Russia’s bid to be sole heir of the Soviet nuclear arsenal.. Ukraine’s government did not re spond directly. But its deputy foreign minister, Boris Tarasiuk, told The As sociated Press: “Ukraine is not using the issue of nuclear weapons for politi cal games.;.. Ukraine cannot agree that weapons on our territory belong to the jurisdiction of another state.” AI\IC supporters killed m Johannesburg raid JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Ten black ANC supporters were killed early Monday when masked assailants blasted the home they were sleeping in with bullets and a hand grenade. It was the country’s third massacre since Friday, the day after black and white political parties met in Johannesburg to resume talks and seek a negotiated end to apartheid. President F.W. de Klerk and ANC leader Nelson Mandela met in Cape Town for discussions on the escalating violence and the political talks. The African National Congress, the country’s leading black group, accused police of complicity. Police spokesman Maj. Jan Botha rejected the ANC charge and said po lice were doing their “utmost to solve the murders;” Pakistani soldiers haR border demonstration SEHRI, Pakistan—Giant rolls of barbed wire and thousands of armed soldiers blocked angry demonstrators Monday from marching across Pakistan’s dis puted border into India. The 500 protesters had planned to show their support for militants fight ing for independence in Jammu-Kash mir, India’s only predominantly Mus lim state. In India, foot soldiers backed by ar tillery units took up positions to prevent the Pakistanis from entering the coun try. The protesters were stopped at Sehri, about two miles from the border. A Pakistani army spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said thou sands of paramilitary troops were de ployed at the border. —The Associated Press GoTo Graduate School For A Day “Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero and His Audience.” “Photographs from a Guatemalan Brothel” “Wandering Cogitations: Swift, Hooker, and the Mobility of Print.” GPSF invites members of the University community to the 1993 Graduate Reasearch and Creative Arts Forum lUesday April 6th 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. Wilson Library Assembly Room Call 962-5675 for information. Sponsored by the Graduate & Professional Student Federation Preparations for Passover occupy Jews worldwide^ By Bonnie Rochman Special to the DTH JERUSALEM Jews in Israel and around the world prepared Monday for the weeklong Passover holiday, purg ing their houses and shops of any traces of bread and getting ready for the tradi tional Seder feast that commemorates the biblical exodus from Egypt. In Jerusalem’s downtown open-air market, throngs of shoppers descended on food stalls where merchants had replaced the usual cakes, biscuits and rolls with more modest unleavened prod ucts. Bearded rabbis encouraged passers-by to sell their bread symboli cally to non-Jews before the onset of the holiday. UNC researcher develops drug to slow AIDS-related disease By Adam Bianchi Staff Writer A UNC researcher has created a com pound that might help slow the disease that kills most AIDS patients, but he maintains that the compound is only a small step toward finding an effective cure for the disease itself. “It is an important discovery and an interesting discovery. Whether it will be widely used is far down the road. There is still a long way to go,” said Dr. Richard Tidwell, a researcher in UNC’s pathology department. Tidwell said he had been in the pro cess of creating the 8188 compound, which halts the spread of pneumonia, for about four years. “We were working on another com pound which did not make it through the clinical testing,” he said. “It’s pos sible that this one won’t either.” 8188 could stunt the growth of the organism that causes death in about 80 percent of AIDS patients, Tidwell said. “The compound halts the growth of the microorganism pneumocystis carinii in the laboratory,” he said. “This micro organism is the cause of death in the majority of AIDS patients.” Tidwell said 8188 would be an im Jobs bill deadlock has Senate GOP crowing The Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate Demo crats and Republicans hunted for a way to end their standoff over President Clinton’s jobs bill on Monday as GOP lawmakers crowed that the episode showed that the White House wouldn’t be able to ignore them on future issues. Behind the scenes, the two sides searched for a compromise over the $16.3 billion package, a central part of Clinton’s prescription for economic re covery. Republicans want to trim the measure and pay for it by cutting other programs. On the Senate floor, Democrats failed for the third time to find enough votes to halt a GOP filibuster that has stalled the bill for more than a week. This time, the vote to halt the delays was 49-29 ll votes short of the 60 needed to clear the way for a vote on final passage. On his way to an Opening Day base ball game in Baltimore, Clinton jabbed at Republicans for the stalemate. “In a time when no new jobs are being created... it means that for politi cal purposes, they are willing to deny jobs to places like Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Cleveland and Seattle,” he told re porters. “It’s just real sad.” White House budget director Leon Panetta was dispatched to the Capitol and said of the measure, “We don’t want it to die here. That would be the worst strategy of all for the American people.” But as the Senate debated the mea sure on what was supposed to have been the third day of a two-week Easter re “Last day for pita Passover is coming,” shouted one vendor hawking Middle Eastern pita bread to those not observing the dietary restrictions of the holiday. In contrast to the religious festivities and merry-making, Israeli authorities were enforcing a weeklong closure of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The restriction, implemented in response to a rash of Palestinian violence against Israelis, prohibits more than 130,000 Palestinians from commuting to work in Israel. The closure was expected to last throughout Passover. Meanwhile, the Israeli organization Victims of Arab Terror held a symbolic Seder Sunday near Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Jerusalem residence. provement over pentamidine, the treat ment being used now. “This compound has shown less toxic side effects in laboratory research than ... the current treatment,” he said. “Pentamidine helps to control the mi croorganism, but it can also kill the patient. We are searching for a cure that won’t end up killing the patient in the process.” He also said he thought there was a strong possibility that 8188 would not move to the clinical-testing stage be cause finding pharmaceutical compa nies to sponsor the drug during the testing processes was difficult. “This is a major investment for the pharmaceutical industry,” he said. “They have to weigh the need for the compound and the economic impact on the company. Finding a company to manufacture the compound is very dif ficult.” Expense is the main factor working against the compound’s prospects of being sponsored by a pharmaceutical company, Tidwell said. “It can cost from $lO million to S2OO million to take the treatment from pre clinical testing through clinical-testing phase one, phase two and phase three,” he said. cess, Republicans showed no signs of folding. All present voted to keep their delaying tactics going, once again gain ing die vote of conservative Sen. Rich ard Shelby, D-Ala. “We’re prepared to discuss working out some compromise if that’s the word,” said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. “First we’re going to cut it, and then we’re going to pay for it.” Several Republicans said their suc cess in blocking the bill was transmit ting an important message to Clinton about upcoming fights over health care, trade and other big issues. “The longer we drag this out, the more it’s becoming apparent that Re publicans will have to be dealt with on everything,” said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. “Health care is an extremely signifi cant issue that’s going to need Republi can support,” said Sen. John Chafee, R- R.I. “And you’re not going to get Re publican support unless you talk with them.” Dole offered Monday to quickly ap Start Your Marketing Career on Campus Large, Southern Califor nia-basedadvatisingagency needs on-campus Market ing Representative. 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In Israel, the Seder meal is held only “If a company picks it up, my opti mism will grow. There are companies who are starting negotiations with the University. Since everything is at such at early stage, I’d rather not say which companies.” Derrick Hodl, treatment issues direc tor for the New York-based AIDS Ac tion Council, said obtaining funds for the testing of new drugs was becoming a national problem, since more and more potential AIDS treatments were being manufactured each year. “Basic science, that is, understand ing of the nature of the disease, has come atremendous way,” he said. “From here on, much is dependent on funding. Many vaccines are in development, but they’re in preliminary stages. We have no animal models of the AIDS virus suitable for testing.” Tidwell said that if a company de cided to test 8188, it would be three to five years before the compound could be marketed as a clinically approved treatment. “Once it reaches phase two prob ably in a year to 18 months clinics can use it on humans,” he said. “If a compound could be found that cures or eliminates this microorganism, it would vastly increase the life expectancy and prove the $4 billion in the bill for ben efits for long-term jobless Americans and to debate the rest of the measure later. But Democrats scoffed at the pro posal. “That’s an offer for nothing else” getting approved, Howard Paster, Clinton’s chief Capitol Hill lobbyist, told reporters. With pressures building daily, some of the debate on the Senate fkjor be came unusually personal. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who chairs the Senate Appropriations Com mittee subcommittee that oversees trans portation spending, revealed that be fore the fight over the bill had become so bitter, he had requests from Dole and Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., to include projects for their states in the measure. “When the trough is full of swill, the hogs knock each other over getting to it,” he said. Chafee said that Democrats, too, had sought such projects and that Lautenberg’s language was “very rough.” The Daily Tar Heel/Tuesday, April 6, 1993/! the first night of the seven-day holiday, while outside the country Jews celebrate for two nights of the eight-day celebra tion. The difference stems from confu sion in ancient times about exactly when the holiday began. To be sure, Diaspora Jews celebrate two complete Seders. The festival begins at sundown Mon day with the Seder, during which time family members and guests gather to read the story and prayers that recount the Jews’ enslavement in Egypt and the miracles that the Bible tells led to their arrival 40 years later in the Holy Land. For seven days, Jews are forbidden to eat bread or other leavened products and instead consume matzah, a flat crisp unleavened bread recalling the Jews’ rapid flight from Egypt thousands of life quality of AIDS patients.” Hodl said he was unsure how the new treatment would help AIDS patients because there still was much research to be done on the compound. “We’ve made some strides in HIV research,” Hodl said. “But most of that success has been alleviating the dis eases that strike after the virus is active in the body. These are the 'opportunis tic diseases.’ Advancement against the virus itself has been slim.” Dr. Wayne Bobbett, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Human Re sources, said he believed researchers were doing “the very best that they can” in the search for an effective treatment for the AIDS virus. “But we still have only a limited knowledge,” Bobbett said. “Unfortu nately we, the general public, expect instant results, which is impossible. Researchers say that a vaccine could be many years away. Hopefully there will be a breakthrough. The Federal Drug Administration has bent over backward to put these possible cures on the fast track.” Bobbett added that a large amount of effort had been put into AIDS research in the United States. “A lot of money is being spent, and a lot more needs to be put into research,” he said. “Government agencies, univer sities, the Center for Disease Research and the National Institutes for Health Dr. Gropper with the CONTACT UENS PROMOTION vQJ I sggp° Dr. Thomas A. 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