University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1983
NATION AND WORLD
Page 9
Siberian Christians find U.S. life to their liking
By United Press International
DALLAS—Life in the United States has become a blessing reality, say two Siberian Christians who made the basement of the U.S. embassy in Moscow their sanctuary from Soviet authorities for five years.
"For the first two months, it seemed like a dream, but now I understand it will be my future life," said Timothy Burcham. "You're not going to family's search for religious freedom."
He and his 61-year-old mother, who followed her son to Dallas in September with six family members, were two of the "Siberian Seven" who in June 1978 rushed past Soviet guards posted outside the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
Five members of the Vashchenko family composed the remainder of the rule.
LIKE MANY UNREGISTERED Christians in the Soviet Union, Chrymakhua said in broken English, "how can you go to the church for their faith. Their decision to seek
sanctuary in the embassy culminated an effort to emigrate that began in 1962.
When Chymkalov first entered the embassy he was the youngest of the group, a 16-year-old boy who had known little besides secret religion and Marxist schooling in Chernogorsk, a Siberian coal mining city.
CHMYKHALOV WORKS FOUR hours a day at the institute, takes five Bible classes and helps his wife master the English language and U.S. culture.
Today, two months after he and his wife, Tatyna, arrived in Dallas, he acts as his family's laison with Texas and the Christ for the Nations Institute which sponsored the family's move to the United States.
The CFN is a 35-year-old ministry which supplies Christians in less-developed countries with materials for practical theology to 1,500 students.
Among Mrs. Chymykhalo's recent discoveries is the spatula, which she was given when a neighbor saw her using a spoon to turn an egg in a frying pan.
Herpes vaccine for rats might work for humans
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Scientists reported yesterday that they had produced an experimental herpes vaccine for animals using DNA engineering, and said the treatment eventually might be used to prevent HIV against the sexually transmitted disease.
A recombinant DNA technique was used to transform smallpox vaccine into an anti-herpes agent that tested successfully on mice and rabbits infected with the ailment, said investigators from the New York State Health Department's Center for Laboratories and Research.
Enzo Paoletti, a senior research scientist at the laboratory, said much more extensive animal testing would be needed, but chances were good that the technique could be used to develop a human herpes vaccine.
"There's a reasonable hope that it would be developed in a matter of years."
development would probably take years, not months.
GENTIL HERPES, AN incurable infection afflicting at least nine million Americans, is the only one of the three diseases for which no vaccine exists. The sexually transmitted virus causes painful blisters or inflammation of the genitals shortly after infection and during subsequent flare-ups.
Paoletti and his colleague, Dennis Panicali, said the technique also produced vaccines against hepatitis B and influenza in the laboratory animals, raising hope it could be used to develop safe vaccines against many viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases in humans.
"Much work needs to be done, but this appears to be a promising direction against infectious diseases," said state Health Commissioner David Axlrod.
The scientists made the vaccine from smallpox vaccine, a preparation of a form of live smallpox virus which is much more dangerous, but nevertheless confers immunity.
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Soviets threaten to counter U.S. missiles
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks on intercontinental weapons met for two hours and 55 minutes at the U.S. Army headquarters in Washington, D.C., three negotiations began July 1893.
GENEVA, Switzerland — American and Soviet negotiators resumed talks yesterday to limit nuclear weapons under a Soviet warning that basing NATO missiles in Europe would be more likely to threat the "United States itself."
By United Press International
Negotiators at the Intermediate Nuclear Forces talks to limit medium-range missiles, met at Soviet delegation offices for an hour and 55 minutes in their 9th session since the talks began in November 1981.
Separate delegations to the parallel
THERE WAS NO indication of any easing of the deadlock in both sets of talks. The two sides, as usual, ended the sessions giving only the length of the meetings and the date of the next / tomorrow.
The INF negotiations have taken the foreground as the December date approaches for beginning deployment of NATO's planned 572 cruise and Pershing-2 medium-range missiles in Western Europe.
Moscow has repeatedly threatened in the past two weeks to break off both sets of negotiations if NATO goes ahead and to deploy new missiles aimed at western Europe and the United States in return.
THE WARNING CAME from the commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact, who said the Soviet bloc would deploy "extra nuclear means" against NATO to counter the new missiles.
"We will also take appropriate retaliatory steps with regard to the territory of the United States itself," said Marshal Viktor Kulikov, in an
interview in Poland's Communist Party daily Trvubana Ludi.
Kulikov did not mention Soviet deployment of triple-troop SS-20 missiles that prompted NATO to normalize its medium-range rocket force.
House committee OKs limits on abortion
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — A House committee yesterday approved a bill that would ban the use of federal health insurance benefits for abortions and would halt nearly $1 million in government funding and office expenses of former presidents.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the $11.9 billion Treasury.Post Office appropriations 1894 voice vote and sent it to the full House.
The measure also would place the first restriction on President Reagan's recently enacted Caribbean Basin Initiative program by prohibiting the duty-free entry of agricultural products from Caribbean countries.
The most controversial provision in the bill would prohibit federal employees from using their federal health insurance benefits to pay for abortions unless the life of the mother would be carried by carrying the fetus to full term.
funds cannot be used for abortions in the case of welfare recipients.
The restrictive abortion language for federal employees was added by the House last year to a continuing appropriations resolution, but Senate language required the provision removed before the entire measure was enacted by Congress.
NO SUCH RESTRICTION on federal employee now exists, although federal
The House also added the language, on a 226-182 vote, to the first Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill it considered for 1984. But after attaching the amendment, the House passed the entire bill June 8 by a vote of 259-149.
The Senate Appropriation Committee's Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill — approved July 19 — does not contain the abortion language.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE'S bill also eliminates $911,000 to pay for the staff and office expenses of former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and the wife of former President Lyndon Johnson. The bill would provide only pensions and Secret Service protection for them.
The agricultural restriction on Caribbean aid touched off the only real d'ate during the committee's drafting session.
Rep. Jack Edwards, R-Ala., offered an amendment to lift the restriction, saying the House should leave the amendment up to the Senate alone. But the amendment failed 18-17
"It's foreign aid with a free enterprise touch to it," Edwards argued. "I think it would be unfortunate if we start playing games with it. It's too early to do this."
But Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., complained that the imports would put American farmers out of work and that the Caribbean nations used herbicides and pesticides on their produce that were outlawed in the United States.
"We're going to be eating that food," Rogers said.
THE BILL ALSO restores the 1,775 U.S. Customs jobs that the administration had proposed to eliminate in 1984, restores the amount of funds for IRS to $2 million, to the 1983 level, and prohibits ingredient labeling on alcoholic beverages.
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The legislation is about $300 million more than Reagan's budget request for fiscal 1984 — the same as the Senate committee's bill.
The largest single increase over Reagan's request is a proposed $879 million for postal subsidies for newspapers and journals.
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