The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 4

A4 THE HOME NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1994 WORLD NATION Israel tries to bolster Arafat's staMin "Both sides understand that 'if there isn't a much more determined fight against terror, terror will be the greatest danger, to continuing the talks," said Yossi Sarid, Israel's environment minister and a negotiator at the meeting. Israel also agreed to transfer, authority over health, tourism, Welfare and taxation to the Palestinians in the West Bank by month's end, Rabin said. The transfer had been agreed upon in the summer but never" implemented for lack of money. Rabin and Arafat said they had won assurances that donor countries would come up with the necessary funds. Tbe Associated Press EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip Yitzhak Rabin, attempting to bolster Yasser Arafat against a widening circle of Palestinian critics, pledged yesterday to ease the closure of the Gaza Strip and to work faster to expand Palestinian autonomy.

The promises came at a time when Arafat is losing ground to Islamic militants opposed to reconciliation with Israel. Arafat passed two groups of protesters disgruntled truckers hurt by the sealing of Gaza and mothers of prisoners held by Israel as the PLO leader drove not ready to take control of additional territory because they haven't restrained Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho since those areas became autonomous six months ago. Arafat has balked at Israeli pressures to crack down on the militants, saying he didn't want to unleash a civil war among Palestinians. Israel Television, however, said Arafat promised Rabin to take stricter measures against the fundamentalist groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv bus bombing that killed 22 victims. No details were given.

meeting with Arafat appeared to be his agreement to simultaneous negotiations on the elections and troop redeployment in the West Bank, where 120,000 Jewish settlers live among 1 million Palestinians. "The discussions will be comprehensive, all the issues that need to be solved to move to the next stage," Rabin said. Under the autonomy accord, Israeli troops are to leave Palestinian population centers on the eve of elections for a self-rule council, and Palestinian police will take over. Israeli army commanders have said Palestinian security forces are Stage Two of autonomy an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank and Palestinian elections. Hinting at Palestinian dissatisfaction, Arafat said: "We hope that in this atmosphere and attitude, we will follow up to implement accurately and honestly what was agreed upon." Despite the upbeat words, there appeared to be little warmth between the two leaders after the 90-minute meeting, their seventh since Israel and the PLO pledged to make peace 14 months ago.

They rarely looked at one another as they addressed reporters, and they stood behind separate lecterns. Rabin's key concession in the from his Gaza City headquarters to meet Rabin at the Erez Crossing between Israel and Gaza. Hundreds of policemen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles lined the eight-mile route to protect him. Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, tried to assure Arafat that he hadn't lost interest in making peace with the Palestinians, promising the Israelis would negotiate "in the most forthcoming spirit." The Palestinians have felt shunted aside since Jordan and Israel signed their Oct. 26 peace accord.

The Palestine Liberation Organization also has accused Rabin of stalling on implementing PROTEIN IDENTIFIED Rwandan genocide tribunal OK'd AIDS activator found; vaccine could follow- The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS The Security Council voted yesterday to set up an international tribunal for genocide in Rwanda, despite objections from the new Rwandan government that the court won't be able to sentence perpetrators to death. In Geneva, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he would propose sending troops to restore order in refugee camps on the Zaire border and try to persuade the more than 1 million Rwandans living there to return home. The Rwandan government voted against the tribunal because the resolution set life imprisonment as the maximum sentence, reflecting the Security Council's discomfort with capital punishment. "For the past three decades the United Nations has been trying to eliminate the death penalty," said New Zealand's ambassador Colin Keating.

"It would be entirely unacceptable and a dreadful step backward to introduce it here." But the resolution went some way to meeting other demands of the Rwandan government, including holding trials in Rwanda "where feasible and appropriate." U.N. officials said the Rwandan government indicated it would cooperate with the tribunal. If it did not, they said, it would be difficult to get convictions of those responsible for organizing and carrying out the ethnic and political slaughter that left about half a mil- new Tutsi-led government. A further 800,000 refugees are in other countries. Private aid agencies, which carry out the most of the work, have threatened to pull out of the camps in Zaire.

These are now effectively under the control of extremist Hutu militiamen and soldiers suspected of committing the worst massacres in Rwanda. Killings are routine, and aid reportedly is diverted to nourish and equip an army in exile. A U.N. report last month cited 55 Hutus as being "chiefly responsible" for the Rwandan genocide and said they were all in the Zaire camps. U.N.

special envoy Shahryar Khan said it would take about 4,800 U.N. troops just to escort former soldiers and militiamen to a camp in central Zaire away from the civilian refugees. He said this would cost up to $700,000 a month and indicated that donor governments would be unlikely to foot the bill. lion dead in the central African nation. The resolution passed by the 1 5-member Security Council will open the way for an international court similar to the tribunal for war criminals from former Yugoslavia, which opened in The Hague, Netherlands, yesterday.

Boutros-Ghali told reporters in Geneva yesterday that he would submit several options for patrolling the Zairian camps to the U.N. Security Council, including dispatching a police force or rapid deployment troops to protect food distribution and stop diversion of food to the black market to buy weapons. "It will take time before we will be able to obtain the necessary forces to maintain the security in the camps," he warned. About 1.2 million people are in the Zairian camps, which sprang up early summer when Hutu soldiers and civilians fled over the border in fear of reprisals from the The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Scientists say they have discovered a protein that may activate the AIDS virus in the body and cause it to develop into AIDS. The discovery by University of Pennsylvania scientists could lead to treatments that might enable infected people to put the human immunodeficiency virus on hold indefinitely.

They still would carry the virus but might not contract the fatal disease itself. HIV-infected people can be healthy and live for years before the virus attacks the body's immune system. A protein isolated from a gene in HIV carriers appears to tell infected cells when to start reproducing the virus, the researchers said in an article published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We understand a new pathway the virus uses," study chief David Weiner, an assistant professor of pathology and medicine at Penn, said in a telephone interview. "We now have an opportunity to design drugs to inhibit it." The study centered on one of nine known HIV genes, "vpr.

FALL SPECIAL! The gene produces a protein, known by the capitalized abbreviation "Vpr," that appears to be necessary before infected cells' can produce new, infected viral particles that in turn infect other cells, Weiner said. Scientists need to know how the virus multiplies before they, can design drugs to inhibit it, Weiner said. Weiner's research team found in laboratory tests that the stage1 of infected people's disease corresponds with the level of "Vpr" protein in their blood. 1 People in the early stages of infection had low levels of the protein; those with fully developed AIDS had high levels. When scientists exposed cells to the protein in the laboratory, they could turn latent infection to active infection.

Weiner's team also found that it could block the production oif new virus by exposing the cells to "Vpr" antibodies. He said he is trying to develop a vaccine that would create "Vpr? antibodies. The research is being conducted on small animals. Aigner" STORES VETERANS DAY SALE Nov. 9th through Sunv Nov.

13th SELECT FALL SHOES $29" $39" SELECT FALL HANDBAGS SELECT SMALL LEATHER ACCESSORIES 25off 1 NEW W0 HID OF HEALTH 1 WCUNEtl. CO-ED, 7 DAYS 14 RACQUETBALl COURTS CAUDtOVASCUlAR AREA LARGE LOCKER ROOMS MOOOTC HEATED POOL PERSONAL TRAINING 2-ON-2 BASKETBALL 2 AEROBIC ROOMS FREE BABYSITTING OTCCUlt IRAINIIMS 2 WEIGHT ROOMS NDOOR I PACK S1EAM ROOMS WHmiPOOlS WALLVBAU. MASSAGE PROSHOP SALINAS AND MUCH MUCH M0KI Post Edison, N.J. 08817 Etienne OUTLET 4 Ija-" imiariiismmiiiiimiiiiimuH 908-287-4444 EDISON, NJ FLEMINGTON, NJ CENTRAL VALLEY, NY 47 Brunswick Ave. Liberty Village Factory Outlets Woodbury Common (Off Talmadge Road) 37 Liberty Village Route 32, Suite C-10 (908)248-1945 (908)788-4817 (914)928-9070 On U.S.

Highway 1 at 511 Old Quality Fashion at significant Savings, every item. Everyday; iff kVi muj 'I Ill 11111 IflR'V 1 W1 jaSSSlVtofore' fiWT1 CATTTW3 Clinton beefs up air cove. 4 vr ft ,111111 Mi i I ,1 MM For home delivery call 1-800-777-3455. 1.