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>JN April 28, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 77
Terrorist Leader Opts for Retirement
By IsraelWire
The 75-year-old terrorist leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, announced he will be retiring from the helm of the PFLP which he founded and directed for 33 years. Habash's successor will most likely be Abu Ali Mustafa, a resident of the PLO Authority autonomous areas.
Hate Music is on the Rise
By Michael Leland (VOA-Chicago)
Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music "the universal language of mankind," but in the United States, human rights organizations say music is increasingly being used by white supremacists to spread the language of hate. The number of so-called "white power" bands has increased from a handful in the 1980s to more than 100 today. They provide what some call the soundtrack to the white revolution.
The British band "Skrewdriver" is considered to be one of the most influential bands of the white power movement. Its popularity has spawned the birth of groups in the United States, with names like "Plunder and Pillage," "Bound for Glory," and " Blue-Eyed Devils."
Eric Ward of the Seattle-based (Washington state) organization, Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity, says the music is becoming more accepted among young people in the United States. "It has an incredible impact, because it is the leading edge of what people are looking at in the sense of hipness and coolness and setting the cultural trends." Ward says many young people are attracted to the rebellious message of white power music.
In a documentary on hate music by Canadian journalist Martin Theriault, white power music producer George Birdi calls the music a far better way to spread his message than leaving pamphlets on car windshields. "If you hear the slogan 'white people awake, save our great race,' twice per chorus, eight times in total through an entire song. If they play that tape only five times a week, listening to that one song, they are listening to 'white people awake, save our great race,' 40 times in that one week. That means 160 times in one month."
It is not illegal to sell this kind of music in the United States. It is available through the mail, over the Internet and in some independent music stores.
Migraines Are Not Just in the Head
By IsraelWire
Migraines, which affect 10-20 percent of the population of the Western world, primarily women (75 percent), do not just hit the nerves in one's head as was thought until now.
According to researchers in the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, the
nerves in one's entire body may be hit by a migraine attack,
explaining the changes in feeling, aches and pains and other
symptoms associated with the headaches.
A recent study conducted by Harvard University by Dr. Rami Burstein, deputy director of anesthesiology at Beth Israel Medical Center and David Yurnitzky, director of neurology at Rambam, indicates the migraine phenomenon has a much greater impact on the human body than was believed in the past.
The study indicated that migraine sufferers did exhibit a sensitivity to touch during an episode, many times causing them pain. Some migraine sufferers explained they were unable to shave or tolerate eyeglasses or earrings touching them during an attack. Some sufferers were unable to tolerate the pressure of socks on their legs during an attack.
The researchers explain the study has opened a new door in the approach to be taken in treating migraines, explaining that therapy must deal with one's entire body, not just the head. New drugs available to sufferers today have reportedly relieved the pain associated with a migraine in 30-40 percent of patients.
Burstein, a former kibbutz resident who is now a senior staff member in Beth Israel at Harvard, and Rambam's Dr. David Yurnitzky, who spent his sabbatical at Harvard, report the entire study will be published next month. The study is also continuing in cooperation with officials in the Technion University, studying the pains that occur in the body of a migraine sufferer not during a migraine attack.
"Bionic Man" Hears Again
By IsraelWire
An innovative operation of the inner ear, by international standards, has resulted in Israel in restoring hearing to deaf people as well as children born deaf.
The revolutionary technique involves implanting the shell-shaped Cochlea in a manner bypassing the sound-relaying factor in the inner ear and connecting it by an electrode directly to the brain. The system was invented by Prof. Yona Kronenberg at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and will be displayed for the first time at an all-European scientific congress in Berlin and later in Antwerp with an emphasis on using it for children.
Kronenberg said the electrodes are introduced into the inner ear and connected to the auditory nerve which, in deaf patients, may not be deteriorated but essential disconnected.
Characterizing the new method developed in Israel is that the operation is performed will full anesthesia and takes little time, less than an hour, in place of more than three hours for existing techniques and has no complications.
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