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Show Page D10 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, February 11, 1993 oaitian refugees continue hunger strike at U.S. base By RON KAMPEAS Associated Press Writer For the majority, the hunger strike serves more as a symbol of disobedience, refusing to cooperate with their military keepers. They refuse to sleep in their barracks-like tents, instead gathering at the church or on the soccer field where they shelter themselves from a baking hot sun under bleachers or makeshift tents. The camp was described by Lucas Guttentag, attorney for the Haitians' American Civil Liberties Union, as "the world's first HIV prison camp." The base commander. Marine Col. Larry Zinser, said he was frustrated by the failure of his efforts to remove Haitians with AIDS from the camp. He said the camp's clinic can't treat serious infections that may arise. "My heart says they ought to be in the United States," he said. Military and civilian doctors agree. On Tuesday, three fasters collapsed and were carried into the small clinic. Hill said he's worried because the combination of a hunger strike and the AIDS virus could President Jean Bertrand Aristidc, Haiti's first freely elected leader, was ousted in a bloody 1991 coup. GUANTANAMO BAY NA- The United States has shipped VAL BASE, Cuba Haitian refumost back, saying they're escaping gees on a hunger strike at the U.S. poverty, not oppression. Refugees military base here vowed Wednesclaim they're fleeing army terror. day to maintain their fast despite Thousands were processed at President Clinton's pledge to drop Guantanamo before the U.S. Coast imthe exclusion of Guard began immediately repamigrants. triating Haitian boat people interMany of the 267 men, women cepted at sea. Hundreds were aland children confined in the hot, lowed to pursue their asylum dusty barracks-lik- e camp surclaims in the United States, but rounded by concertina wire have those still here were refused entry been held for more than a year. because of their AIDS status. They have proven they are legitThe camp declared a hunger imate political refugees with the strike two weeks ago and a hard right to request asylum in the Unitcore of about 20 fasters seem w ill ed States. But the U.S. Immigraing to die, according to medical tion and Naturalization Service and psychiatric officials tending to icfuses to allow refugees infected the camp. with HIV, the AIDS virus, to enter e The strikers have rethe country. All but about 50 fused all food and drank only water spouses and children have tested for the first seven days, according positive for HIV. to Dr. Georges Casimir. a The Clinton administration said psychiatrist who is visitT uesday the exclusion soon will be ing the camp for an international Ii;ted, but the refugees won't bedoctors group. lieve it until it happens. They agreed to take other lluids "I can't live in this hell any only after they were urged to do so more," said Jean Benedic, 36. "If by their lawyers and doctors. Most of the remaining Haitians they want 10 or 15 of us to die for the rest of them to live, then 10 or have refused some or all of their 15ofuswilldie." meals, said Dr. Hal Hill, the infecMore than 40,000 Haitians have tious disease specialist who attends fled their Caribbean nation since the camp. By RICHARD COLE Associated Press Writer - HIV-infect- With one JERUSALEM candidate accused of womanizing and another of paying bribes, the election campaign for Israel's chief rabbis is under way, and it isn't pretty. The fight for the posts of Israel's two chief rabbis has become so rough that some Israelis are saying the election should be put off. Others believe it has raised questions about the very existence of the Chief Rabbinate. "If you want another example of the decline of the moral climate of Israeli society, this is it," lamented Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lahat. "We are shocked and disgusted at the depths to which the 'election campaign' for the Chief Rabbinate has sunk,' said a statement in Wednesday newspapers signed by 29 leading rabbis. The election is not the only event that has been showing Israeli rabbis in a poor light. AIDS-relate- d hard-cor- Haitian-America- Mud flies in election campaign for top rabbi posts in Israel n be deadly. Officials are prepared to force-fee- d the hunger strikers if their lives appear threatened. But until then, the military won't interfere. CELEBRATE COME 50 Plus have recordings Tape emerged of sermons in which Ovadiah Yosef, a revered sage and former chief rabbi, is heard cursing his opponents and urging OUR day, assembling 150 religious and secular public figures to choose the chief Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis to officiate for Israel's European- - and Middle Jewish commun- disciples to rejoice on the day Education Minister Shulamit Aloni dies. Mrs. Aloni is a crusader for secular rights. The secular population is still chuckling at the exploits of Cha-ba- a New York-base- East-descend- d, ities. ortho- d During the race for the Ashkenazi post, the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'ir quoted unidentified women as claiming that contender Israel Lau, the popular chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, tried to seduce them when they turned to him for assistance. Lau's camp claims the allegations were fabricated to force him from the race. Lau's followers accuse his rival, Rabbi v Cohen, of planting listening devices in the Tel Aviv Rabbinate where Lau officiates. A candidate for Sephardi chief has rabbi, Eliahu Bakshi-Dorofaced the resurrection of unprov-e- n allegations that he paid bribes in the 1980s to win the post of chief rabbi in the northern city of dox Jewish community which had plastered the country with billboards heralding the imminent arrival of their leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneer-soas the Messiah. Came the promised day and nothing happened. the Yosef tapes and the Chabad extravaganza have dominated the Israeli airwaves in recent weeks. While treated on the surface with mild humor, they have cumulative effect of widening the gulf between the secular majority and the religious communities. Secular Israel resent the rising power ot the religious. 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