10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 28,_1995 Israeli group plots to give PLO controlI 1 3 Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - In an effort to break the stalemate in Israeli-Pales- tinian negotiations on the future of the West Bank, a leftist Israeli group yesterday proposed the dismantling of 27 Jewish settlements in a move to give the PLO control of two-thirds of the territory and more than 90 percent of the Arab population. Meeting with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Peace Now move- ment urged Israel to remove the small, scattered settlements, which have a population of only 7,000, as a way to begin Israel's military pullback in the region and launch Palestinian national elections. Tzali Reshef, a Peace Now leader, argued that this would restore mo- mentum to Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, bolstering the position of Pal- estine Liberation Organization Chair- man Yasser Arafat, thus enabling him to take tougher action against radical Islamic opponents of the agreement on Palestinian self-government. "If Israel doesn't take some steps to assure the Palestinians that it is giving them back land, it will be very difficult for Arafat to deal with the serious opposition to the peace pro- cess and for us all to move forward to the next stage," Reshef said.. "We think this serves Israel's interest. It's a way to clarify we really mean busi- ness, and as such it will change the whole atmosphere. Arafat has lost much of the support he had because Palestinians feel Israel will not carry out the agreement it made." The Peace Now plan - the latest, most concrete proposal for implement- ing the Israeli-Palestinian agreement on self-government on the West Bank - was intended, Reshef said, to "show there is a policy that a courageous gov- ernment could adopt to restoremomen- tum to the peace process." But Rabin told the group that Is- raeli security is his primary concern and that he must be convinced that Arafat is doing all within his power before Israel proceeds with Palestin- ian autonomy, according to a govern- ment spokesman. I AP PHOTO Clinton in Germany An effigy of President Clinton yesterday in Germany, dressed as cartoon character Fred Flintstone, drags a caged vulture down a Cologne street - intended to symbolize the U.S. economic situation. New vaccine may help prevent TB Practices offer keys to aid welfare reform Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - The keys to welfare reform, in the view ofconser- vative policy analysts, are to give more authority to local governments, end the programs' entitlement status, expand the role of private charities, reconsider orphanages as a way to save children from the ravages of poverty, and restrict benefits in order to encourage self-sufficiency. "Our three principles - work, personal responsibility and state con- trol - are the keys to unlocking the welfare prison that has kept our fel- low citizens trapped;" said Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), chairman of the House subcommittee overseeing welfare reform. Could such an approach work? Clues to the answer may lie in the nation's past. Today's conservative prescription for welfare reform is in some ways similar to what once ex- isted in the United States. Until the coming the New Deal in the 1930s and the Great Society in the 1960s, there was no federally administered national welfare system. Instead, towns and counties doled out assistance to families that had come upon hard times and operated "poor farms," "county homes" and other such institutions for those with no place else to turn. Churches and fraternal organizations funded orphan- ages. And, especially in rural areas, individual families often took in poor relatives or provided sustenance in exchange for labor. The system had its advantages: It provided a measure of protection against outright suffering. And the rampant drug addiction, violence, fa- therless families and other nightmares that plague today's welfare culture were relatively rare. At the same time, the quality of many local institutions was considered scandalous. Disease and exploitation were commonplace, families were sometimes torn apart. Local resources were periodically overwhelmed by waves of immigration and such calami- ties as drought and recession. Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - Researchers have developed a prototype vaccine that prevents tuberculosis in animals and that they say has great promise for use in humans. The development comes at a time when the United States and other coun- tries are increasingly facing the emer- gence of TB strains that are resistant to the drugs now used to control its spread. There have already been 12 outbreaks of multiple-drug-resistant TB in the United States, according to John D. Foulds, tuberculosis and lep- rosy program officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The bottom line is that we need a vaccine to help us in the fight against emerging drug resistance," Foulds said. The University of California, Los Angeles, team - which devel- oped the new vaccine - "is doing really sentinel work on this." The new vaccine contains no live bacteria and thus has many advan- tages over the existing vaccine, called BCG. BCG is not routinely used in the United States because it repre- sents a major health risk for AIDS patients and others with a compro- mised immune system and interferes with public health programs for track- ing tuberculosis infections. Dr. Marcus A. Horowitz and his colleagues at the UCLA School of Medicine report today in the Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have developed a vaccine based on purified proteins from BCG that is at least as effective as the existing vaccine in preventing tuberculosis in guinea pigs, but that should have none of those risks. Although further animal testing will be required, Horowitz said he hopes to begin human trials of the vaccine in as little as two years. Horowitz's report is "a very impor- tant development," according to bio- chemist Thomas Shinnick of the U.S. Centers forDisease Control and Preven- tion in Atlanta, because it is the first demonstration that a vaccine containing no bacteria can actually be effective. Tuberculosis commonly destroys tissues in the lungs, but affects other organs as well, including the liver, kidney, lymph nodes and brain. It is the world's leading killer of adults, with 28,000 new cases detected an- nually in the United States and 8 million worldwide. Three million people die of it every year when their organs fail. The disease spreads rapidly because it is carried by air- borne bacteria. As recently as the early 1980s, public health authorities thought that tuberculosis had been eradicated in the United States. But in 1986, the number of new cases of TB rose in this country for the first time since 1953. UNIVERSITY HOUSINGL 0 If You're About 20 Years Old And Jewish IN ISRAEL... You're in the Army. 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