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The Lexus Customer Satisfaction Sales Event.
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1995 Lexus ES300
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A Link Is Provided
To AIDS Immunity
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The '95 Lexus ES300 with over 20 refinements, including driver's and front pas-
senger's air bags, leather, SRS, aluminum alloy wheels, 3.0 liter V6 engine. Power
Sunroof, windows, locks, and seats. AM/FM Stereo Cassette Premium Sound
System.
1995 Lexus SC300
With in-line 6 cylinder 225 HP engine, 210 lb.-ft of raw torque, driver's and
passenger's airbags SRS, traction control, leather seats, heated moonroof,
CD player.
1995 Lexus LS400
The '95 Lexus LS400 with Leather, memory seats, trac. control, sunroof,
AM/FM Stereo CD player with Premium Sound, dual air bags, Power seats,
windows, locks and cruise, remote entry and much more!
EXECUTIVE CARS
1995 LS400
Power Moonroof, 12 Disc CD
changer, Dual Airbags, Leather,
Full Power, ABS Brakes. Stk.
#95086
Was $56,553
Now
'48,890
1995 ES300
AM/FM 6 Disc CD Changer,
Dual Airbags, ABS Brakes,
Power Moonroof, Leather,
Chrome Wheels, Full Power.
St k#95074
Was $36,903
1995 SC400
Now
'31,417
Power Moonroof, Dual Air
Bags, ABS Brakes, Nakamichi
Sound, CD Player, Leather,
Much More!
Was $54,313
Now
'47,898
* Closed end lease for 36 months, $450 acq. fee plus $500 ref. sec. dep. tax & title. $1500 cap reduction on ES300 and $999 cap
reduction on SC300 & LS400 due at inception. Mileage 150 per mile over 36,000 allowed. Purchase option at lease end: On ES300
$20,002; SC300 $28,911.64; LS400 $33,931.80. Pymt x term equals total commitment.
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San Francisco (JTA) — The im-
migration of 25,000 Ethiopians
to Israel three years ago provid-
ed more than a boost to the Jew-
ish population. It set the stage for
Israeli doctors to say a "natural
immunity" to AIDS exists.
In analyzing the cases of
Ethiopians who immigrated to Is-
rael, Dr. Zvi Bentwich found that
50 percent had been exposed to
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS,
but tested negative for AIDS. It
appears that their bodies devel-
oped an immunity to the disease.
"What this means is that we
know how to improve the course
of the disease and that the
prospect of a vaccine is positive,"
Dr. Bentwich said.
When Ethiopians first began
arriving in Israel, 90 percent of
them were infected with some
sort of virus, with 2 percent test-
ing positive for AIDS. Dr. Ben-
twich tracked the health and
treatment of all viral carriers
from their first day in Israel.
Besides finding that half the
Ethiopian Jews were exposed to
the virus but did not develop it,
he noticed that the disease be-
haved differently in Israel than
in Africa. This suggests that en-
vironmental factors may affect
the course of the illness.
In Africa, Ethiopians infected
with HIV died two to three times
more quickly than those infected
in the West.
In addition, the heightened
prevalence of various infections
in Africa yielded increased expo-
sure to sickness and a greater
likelihood of falling prey to the
AIDS virus.
However, the Ethiopians' im-
mune systems responded by kick-
ing into high gear or increased
activity, Dr. Bentwich said.
Three years later, with the
help of medicine and a new envi-
ronment free of African diseases,
most non-AIDS viruses have
been eradicated from the
Ethiopian Israeli population.
Their immune systems returned
to normal and the progression of
AIDS in those already infected
slowed down.
"What this suggests is that a
change of environment affects the
immune system and determines
how the disease behaves," Dr.
Bentwich said. In people with
AIDS, "the infection increases the
susceptibility to other diseases,
which aggravate the AIDS virus"
and shortens the time between
infection and death.
To date, about 1,600 Israelis
officially have tested positive for
AIDS. Dr. Bentwich estimates
that the number is closer to 3,000.
About 400 of those infected are
Ethiopian immigrants, roughly
about the same number as three
years ago.
These numbers, Dr. Bentwich
said, affirm his suspicions that
HIV was not lying dormant in the
Ethiopians exposed to, but test-
ing negative for, the AIDS virus.
And it suggests, "the develop-
ment of a natural immunity," he
added.
However, many doctors and
professors are skeptical about the
prospect of a natural immunity
for AIDS.
Although Dr. Bentwich said it
is too early to discuss the possi-
bility of a cure for AIDS, he said
the findings in Israel point to "one
day developing a vaccine."
Israel To Close
Orient House
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel has de-
cided to adopt measures to bring
to an end what it describes as il-
legal Palestine Liberation Orga-
nization activities in Jerusalem.
The measures will include clos-
ing down Orient House, the de
facto Palestinian headquarters
in eastern Jerusalem.
The decision was made at a
meeting of members of the Min-
isterial Committee on Jerusalem
— which includes Police Minis-
ter Moshe Shahal and Justice
Minister David Libai — who con-
ferred with security and legal ad-
visers and with Jerusalem Mayor
Ehud Olmert. The group agreed
to meet again to plan a line of ac-
tion.
Mr. Shahal said he plans to is-
sue warrants in the near future
to close down Palestinian insti-
tutions operating in eastern
Jerusalem that are suspected of
having illegal ties with the Pales-
tinian Authority.
The Israeli daily Ha'aretz re-
ported that intelligence sources
had recommended removing
from Jerusalem the Waqf Islam-
ic Trust, which administers the
Temple Mount complex in
Jerusalem and other Islamic holy
sites.
The paper reported that the
measures were aimed at pre-
venting the establishment of a
shadow Palestinian municipali-
ty in eastern Jerusalem.
The report said that in recent
months, the Palestinian Author-
ity has had a deepening influence
in eastern Jerusalem.
One example given in the re-
port was the sphere of education,
where the Education Department
of the Palestinian self-rule gov-
ernment was controlling the cur-
riculum of 50 percent of the
students in private schools in
eastern Jerusalem, a role previ-
ously held by Jordan.