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4 Friday, September 10,1993 White House to Resume Negotiations With PLO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Clinton ad ministration will resume U.S. dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization to pave the way for a White House ceremony on Monday to sign the Israeli-PLO agree ment, a congressional aide says. The administration informed congres sional leaders of its intent to renew talks with the PLO, suspended in 1990 after a terrorist attack on an Israeli beach by a PLO faction, the aide said Thursday. Resuming the U.S.-PLO talks would permit Secretary of State Warren Christo pher to deal with the PLO official sent here for the signing ceremony. Nabil Shaath, who is Chairman Yasser Arafat’s chief political adviser, said the PLO signatory would be either foreign policy adviser Farouk Kaddoumi or Mahmoud Abbas. On a trip to Cleveland, the president called Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from Air Force One and told him: “I am extremely happy that this finally hap Lawsuit Requires KKK to Forfeit Office Equipment to N.C. NAACP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. Lawyers who forced the Ku Klux Klan to give up a headquarters building have now set Mon day as the date for the Invisible Empire to turn over its office equipment to the NAACP in North Carolina. An announcement Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center said the transfer of Klan assets —a computer, printer, three typewriters, desks, chairs, cabinets, tables, air conditioners and other office supplies—would take place Sept. 13 at Martin Luther King Gardens in Ra leigh. Morris Dees, founder and chief trial counsel for the Montgomery-based center, said the transfer would take place as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed after Klan Tte fEMVANE Enjoy patio dining at A Southern Season’s comfortable cafe Monday-Saturday ’til midnight : tmn li 16 pm mJ ) COLLEGE STUDENTS... Q j NO HEALTH INSURANCE? You may not know that one quarter of American college students in this country have no health insurance. That spells serious problems if you experience even one major illness or accident. Serious enough to jeopardize your ability to continue your college education. If you are without health insurance or are in between coverages, Acordia Collegiate Benefits can help. Call Acordia Collegiate Benefits for immediate low cost protection against medical expenses. There is no need to jeopardize your future or your education. Get your no F\ obligation quote today. i \ Call 1-800-257-6821 Acordia Collegiate ® Registered mark of Acordia, Inc. ucuciiis Underwritten by: TIME Insurance Company pened.” Clinton also told Rabin, “Whatever we can do to minimize the risks, count me in.” Clinton also called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to thank him for his work on behalf of the peace process. The guest list for the ceremony is apt to be broad, possibly including former Presi dent Jimmy Carter, who helped put to getherthe 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, and former Secretary of State James A. Baker 111, who launched Mideast peace talks 22 months ago. Kaddoumi did not support the accord with Israel when it was cleared by the Fatah faction of the PLO last weekend. Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, heads the political department and was a central figure in the secret negotiations with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres that pro duced the agreement. Chief Israeli negotiator Eytan Ben-Tsur said Peres probably would sign for Israel. He also said he hoped the agreement would violence in Georgia. “Now the Klan’s typewriters and com puters can be used to further brotherhood and race relations,” said Dees. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of march ers who were attacked by members of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, during a demonstration in Forsyth County, Ga., in January 1987. The settlement of the lawsuit was reached in May. Angie Lowry, a spokes woman for the center, said Thursday an inventory of office equipment owned by the Invisible Empire in Gulf, N.C., had been undertaken since the settlement and that a date for the transfer of assets was recently reached. Billy McKinney of Atlanta, a leader of the 1987 march and one of the protesters suing the Invisible Empire, said the assets would go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in North Carolina because that was the state where the Invisible Empire had its head quarters. Different I folks For Different Folks. Our Sunrise Special features 2 eggs, COOKED TO ORDER: COFFEE; TOMATOES; TOAST or biscuit; plus a SIDE ORDER OF HAM. BACON OR SAUSAGE. ALL FOR $1.99. 310 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, 933-3767 STATE & NATIONAL prompt progress on other Arab-Israeli ne gotiating fronts “until we achieve the cov eted desire of comprehensive peace in the Middle East.” The agreement will give the Palestin ians limited self-rule in Gaza and Jericho, and ultimately, throughout the West Bank. But Hanan Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian delegation that has negoti ated with Israel over the past 22 months, said the challenge was “to create a Pales tinian state that is based on humanity and civility and democratic principles and that will enable the Palestinians for the first time in our history to take our positions among the nations of the world.” She called the agreement on self-gov ernment “far from ideal” and warned that many details remained to be worked out in future discussions between the sides. Clinton, who kept to the sidelines until the agreement was made final, declared it a “huge development” and said a parallel accord for Israel and the PLO to recognize Christian Political Views May Woo Democrats, Survey Says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition is trumpeting poll re sults that it says show conservative posi tions on issues ranging from abortion to crime that could be used to lure blacks and Hispanics from the Democratic Party. Asa first test of anew outreach effort, the Christian Coalition said Thursday it would spend at least $ 100,000 on radio ads and literature to lobby blacks and Hispan ics in California to support a “school choice” voucher initiative. Beyond that, Robertson lieutenant Ralph Reed said the survey results would serve as the guide for an aggressive 1994 effort to target black and Hispanic voters through their churches. The Christian Coa lition is trying to diversify its predomi nantly white, evangelical Protestant mem bership. “The Democratic Party and the civil rights establishment are out of step with minorities on virtually every issue," Reed said. each other was “a very brave and coura geous thing.” Clinton said that if the PLO statement met U.S.conditions, including the require ment that the PLO renounce terrorism, “then we will resume our dialogue with them and go on from there.” He did not say if that meant the United States would give formal recognition to the PLO. “Let’s just savor the fact that they have made this agreement,” Clinton said. “I am very, very hopeful about the fu ture,” Clinton said. However, he also cautioned that “there are a lot of things that still have to happen” to continue the peace process. Asked if the United States would be willing to provide economic assistance to help develop the occupied territories, Clinton said, “I believe we’ll do our part.” At the State Department, meanwhile, talks between Syria and Israel failed to produce a comparable breakthrough. Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Catherine Moore disputed his contentions. “The Democratic Party has a long history of addressing the needs and concerns of a broad coalition ofAmeri cans,” she said. “That the support of this broad coali tion exists demonstrates that they believe their concerns are addressed in the Demo cratic Party agenda.” To support his view, Reed released a national survey by the GOP polling firm Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates that compared the views of 500 whites, 500 Hispanics and 500 blacks on issues ranging from abortion to school prayer to capital punishment. It found shared conservative views, he said. For example, more than 80 percent in each group supported voluntary prayer in schools. Nearly 60 percent of blacks, His panics and whites also said they opposed taxpayer funding of elective abortions as part of any national health care reform. Significant majorities of blacks, His panics and whites also approved denying parole to repeat violent offenders and sub jecting convicted murderers to the death penalty, the survey found. And roughly two-thirds in each demographic group op posed the teaching of homosexuality to school-age children as an acceptable lifestyle. Reed said blacks and Hispanics also were more open than whites to the concept of church-based political activism, the core of the Christian Coalition’s success in or ganizing white evangelicals. 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The cause is unknown. The disease afflicts 4 million Ameri cans, most of them elderly, and kills more than 100,000 people each year. Warner-Lambert Cos. of Morris Plains, N. J., will sell tacrine under the brand name Cognex. “It’s a ray of light. It’s the beginning,” said Alzheimer’s Association Chairman Stuart Roth, whose mother died of the disease. “Yesterday we had nothing.” Roth said the drug could help to give some Alzheimer’s patients the attention span to watch a television show for a few hours and give their care-givers a break. It may help them “take walks around their neighborhood without fear ofbecom ing lost,” said Paul Solomon, a neuropsychologist at Williams College and co-director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, who helped conduct the trials. KOREN FROM PAGE 3 Julie Zupan, program director, agreed with Schonfeld. “He’s someone who makes you feel comfortable immediately, and who you can talk freely with. That’s something very important.” One of the things Koren is trying to accomplish is the erasure of stereotypes about Jews. “There exists a whole spectrum of Jews; you can’t classify Jews into one category,” Koren said. “They can be baseball players, musicians, teachers, or whatever.” Koren is no stereotype. He loves baseball. He still fondly tells a childhood story of a minor-league player for the Miami Royals who threw him a Kansas City T-shirt when Koren said sim ply that “he had a pretty good arm.” “I lost the T-shirt, but I kept the memory,” Koren said. “It was kind of like the Mean Joe Green Coke commercial.” He also loves music and playing the guitar and still can play a Dylan tune. He enjoys working on his computer, and of course, studying his Jewish heritage. But Koren was not always interested in leamingabout Jewish tradition. Koren said he took being Jewish for granted because he grew up under a heavy Jewish influence in a Jewish community in Miami. Not until after high school did Koren decide to leam more about the Jewish tradition that composed much of his iden tity . He compares his experience with base ball to his pursuit of his Jewish identity. “I had to work hard to make the base ball team when I was younger,” Koren said. “Baseball was something I worked a lot at. As far as being Jewish at that age, I didn’t have to struggle as much.” That changed after high school. 50 Copies Open Til Midnite v-R 7 Days A Week c.o. COPIES 169 E. Franklin St. • Near the Post Office . 967-6633 , GJl|p My Sar Uppl A FDA advisory committee recom mended approval of tacrine last March although some of the experts said its ben efits were slight. One FDA expert who supervised the testing said then that tacrine might help 12 percent or fewer of the patients taking it. But the clinical trials also demonstrated improved cognitive abilities in some pa tients on tacrine, and physicians who inter viewed them saw improvements in their ability to function. Tacrine can cause mild liver toxicity, but the FDA said it often was possible for patients to switch to a lower dose. The agency recommended that doctors perform frequent blood tests to establish the best dose. Other side effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and rash. Warner-Lambert last month signed a consent decree with the FDA temporarily halting production of many of its drugs while it tightened its manufacturing stan dards and safeguards. Peter Wolf, a spokesman for Warner- Lambert in Morris Plains, N.J., said the company would charge $3.05 a day for the drug at wholesale! regardless of dosage. That would make the retail price from $1,147 to $1,280 for a year’s supply. Pa tients also would face additional costs for the blood tests and physician monitoring. Pharmaceutical analyst Hemant Shah of HKS & Cos. in Warren, N.J., predicted first-year revenues of SIOO million, but said Cognex could “bomb” if the side ef fects proved too serious. Koren, on the advice from a friend, went to Israel after graduation on a sum mer study program, a program that changed his life. “Studying there made all of what I learned in the books come alive,” Koren said. “It was like trying to make the base ball team. I knew I wanted to commit myself to get a strong Jewish education, by studying Hebrew and taking an active role in a Jewish community. It was something I would have to work for.” Koren went on to study at Tufts Univer sity and majored in international relations. He became heavily active in Hillel and served as president his junior year. He spent a great deal of time as a student activist, working for the improvement of relations between the black and Jewish communities at the university and march ing on Washington in protest of Jewish oppression in Russia and other countries. After graduation, Koren continued his studies at the rabbinical school Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. He studied there for four years and concentrated in language and textual studies, marrying Michal Koren in 1991. |le also spent a year studying abroad in Israel as part of his rabbinical studies. Koren now spends his days in Chapel Hill and says he is glad to be a part of die Jewish community at Hillel. One of Koren’s goals is to be accessible to UNC students. ‘Tmnotonastage,”Korensaid. “There are many rabbis and leaders who are. That’s what’s great about working on a college campus. I’m allowed to be a lot freer in what I do.” Koren also would like to help students not only recognize their Jewish identity but also foster and strengthen it. “We all come from different backgrounds,” Koren said. “We all have a lot to leam from each other. That’s the beautiful part.” Koren said he was ready to try to meet students’ needs, to meet them for who they are. 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