NEWS Chiropractic Health Hints WITH DR. STANLEY LEVINE, D.C. WHAT A CHIROPRACTOR CAN DO FOR ATHLETES' INJURIES Football, basketball, hockey and other sports whose very nature results in bodily contact between the players are the most frequent offenders. Broken limbs and serious cuts can take a player out of the game and require im- mediate treatment. But what of the less obvious injuries, those which may start as a minor ache or sprain and may not appear for hours, days or even weeks after the initial cause? Many athletic injuries are not even the result of bodily contact, and the sufferer cannot recall any extraordinary activity which might have caused DR. LEVINE his condition. Golfers or tennis players may dislocate a shoulder during a swing or serve. The baseball out- fielder can develop a cervical subluxation (disloation of the vertebrae) while craning his neck to follow a high fly ball. A skater might hit a hole in the ice and fall, resulting in whiplash. Since the normal functioning of a healthy body is dependent on the flow of nerve energy to all parts of the body, it is important that such subluxations be corrected. If a vertebra is dislocated, it will pinch the nerve between it and the succeeding vertebra and reduce the flow of vernous energy to one or more vital organ or muscle structures. Head and neck pains, nausea, or numbness may result. As a trained specialist in the spine, nerves, and muscles, the Doctor of Chiropractic is especial- ly qualified to deal with injuries involving dislocated bones or torn muscles. He works to correct the cause of the impairment, not just alleviate the symptoms through pain-killing drugs. It is the "amateur" who is most susceptible to athletic injuries. While the professional has learned to protect his body whenever possible, such protection has not become a "second nature" to the amateur. 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Susan Schleger, Dr. Hans Fisher and Liane Reif- Lehrer held a small rally at the Isaiah Wall opposite the United Nations to warn that American failure to support Israel could leave Soviet Jews to a similar fate they themselves suffered in 1939. "We were not wanted. We were abandoned by the world," said Schleger, a 68- y e ar- old survivor now residing in New York. "We must now try our utmost to get the Soviet Jews out. It's not fair to ask the Russians to let the Jews out and then not to do anything about it." The gray and threatening sky did not diminish the symbolic impact of the set- ting. The survivors stood be- neath a prayer shawl res- cued from the Holocaust with the prophet Isaiah's famous words etched into the wall in the background: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." On what is now called "the Voyage of the Damned," the St. Louis embarked from Hamburg in May 1939, with a human cargo of 1,128 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. Bound originally for Cuba, the ill-fated ship was denied entry into any port on this side of the Atlantic, in- cluding a U.S. port in Miami. With no place to land, the ship was forced back to Europe, where the passen- gers were received according to an international agree- ment signed by England, Holland, _Belgium and France. small child at the time of the voyage. She is now writing a book about her and other St. Louis survivors' stories. "It's hard to compare" the flight from Nazi Germany and the Soviet exodus now taking place, she said. "But I feel that where people are being hassled or persecuted, Jews or otherwise, they need to be given a haven." "As open and violent anti- Semitism begins to reappear in parts of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," said Fisher, a professor at Rutgers University, "Israel becomes the only haven for hundreds of thousands of Jews." The three urged Jews and non-Jews alike to participate in the Salute to Israel pa- rade to take place in New York on May 13. According to Rabbi Joseph Sternstein, chairman of the American Zionist Youth Foundation, which is spon- soring the parade, AZYF thought that the St. Louis survivors would be a strong reminder to American Jews of what could happen to Soviet Jewry if they fail to support Israel and Israeli resettlement of Soviet Jews. "This is a stark symbol of the historic contrast of the world in which we live to- day, in which the State of Israel exists as a national homeland for Jews, and 1939, when it didn't," he said. "That Israel is now under political pressures from all sides, not excluding our na- tional administration, in- dicates the importance of this public demonstration of Jews as reflective of their support for the State of Israel," he said. After most of Europe, with the exception of England, was overrun by the Nazis, few of those refugees surviv- ed the war years. The 75 who did survive met last year in Miami for their 50th reunion. Only then did some of them decide to become vocal on behalf of the Soviet Jews now fleeing rising popular anti-Semitism in their homeland. "I spent a lot of my life try- ing to forget about all this," said Reif-Lehrer, a scientist from Boston, who was a Tel Aviv (JTA) . Defense and foreign ministry offi- cials have disclaimed any knowledge of how Israel- made weapons came to be found on the estate of a Col- ombian drug trafficker shot to death by police there last December. Israel Denies Link To Arms Colombian police found 213 Israeli rifles and more than $3 million in cash when they confiscated the farm owned by the late drug lord, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, military leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel.