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Show 4 - IKE Missing children are found Page DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, A12 safe in Sunday, April 2, 1993 Washington state van." curbs and clean the yard. White said the children, who were in the van reading ai the time, seemed content, clean and polite. He asked the man, whom he described as as "excellent' worker, whether tine children were in school "He said he was home schooling them," White said, "it kkda made sense." But as time went by, the story made less sense to the neighbor who had helped them "He told me so many different stories,"' she said. "'It's hard to know what's true. I had a gut feeling the kids were not his." aclegally They weren't in to Willils, Calif., cording police a community of about 5, 000 people 125 miles north of San Francisco. A spokeswoman for the department said the children had lived 'with their father since 1991, but their mother was awarded custody last year. The father was ordered to appear in court in December but didn't show up. The warrant went out in late January. When Redmond police answered a call from residents of the Eagle Rim apartments, they found the children inside the van eating noodles. A detective said the van smelled of urine but the children seemed healthy. The father wasn't there. Police found him a short time later, applying for work at a nearby apartment building The apartment manager, Kip White, said he wasn't aware the three were sleeping in the parking lot because the van wasn't parked there during the day. He said he hired the man for a day more than a week ago to paint He was being held in the King County Jail awaiting extradition to California. The children were turned over to Child Protective Services and will be placed in foster care until someone from California can retrieve them By SUSAN STONES Seattle Times - It took REDMOND. Wash. only a minute to tow away the children's home, its interior still piled with sleeping bags and pillows, a plastic toy truck, a bag of baking potatoes and shabby clothing. The dilapidated van was towed from the parking lot of a Redmond vJr kWf-- P man two met the weeks ago, the three had been living in the van for weeks. The neighbor, who declined to give her name, said she met him while he was doing maintenance work for the manager of her apartment complex. She invited him and his children into her apartment, served them dinner, let them shower and allowed them to spend the night several times. VI tried to do what I could," said the woman, who lives in the felt inguilty my family was sleeping side and they were sleeping in the . Dsve Landsel from Port Jefferson, N.Y., right, and Uduak Joseph Idiong of Nigeria, both members of the Hutterian Brother-- By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer Associated Press Writer On BJRNBACH. Germany the surface, it seems a quintessential tale of German intolerance: a Christian community, forced to flee Nazism in 1937, returns 50 years later, only to be driven out again by antagonistic - WASHINGTON Once again, lie giant panda may be welcome sa American shores f iThe Interior Department is pro ban on sing to lift its importation of giant pandas, furry, cuddly, black and white Jtures from China who are iht after by zoo keepers from . ar to coast. final end to the ban may be fionths away because the shift in vvernment policy must be subprojected to a formal cedure, including asking for comments from the public, Dej But sources at the Interior environwithin the and partment mental community said a proposal fo resume importation of the animals would be announced today at the National Zoo by Assistant fajt rule-maki- George Frampton. these walking teddy bears. But environmentalists say the ban was imposed to help the panda survive. Two years ago the U .S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered that no pandas be brought into the United States because too many zoos were requesting them and conservationists feared the limited panda population in China would be further threatened. The panda became so popular in the 1980s among zoo keepers that at one time more than 30 zoos and other organizations in the United States reportedly were negotiating with the Chinese to get breeding pairs. Entry permits have been issued rarely. The San Diego Zoo is scheduled to receive two giant pandas this spring, but that delivery stems from a permit that was in the pipeline when the moratorium was declared in June 1993. he famous zoo is the home of the only giant panda in captivity in a the United States. Hsing-Hsingift from the People's Republic of China during the Nixon administration, is the most popular attraction at the zoo. His mate. Ling-Lindied in December 1992. The hapless romance between creatures these two teddy bear-lik- e Millions headlines. world captured of visitors came to gape at the nation's first and only giant panda couple, even though on a typical day the languid pair could be found fast asleep. To most people, it's probably a The giant pandas, whose natural habitat are the bamboo forests of mountain slopes of western and southwestern China, are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and international treaty. Only an estimated 1 ,000 such pandas live in the wild in China. The country also has about 90 pandas in would want to keep the rotund mammals out of the country, especially since people clamor to see their own for the last few years, but there's been a history of g, g, surprise that the government captivity. Outside China, only 12 are in captivity, according to the World Wildlife Fund, which filed a lawsuit that led to the U.S. import ban. "Pandas are critically endangered," said the WWF's Ginette Hemley. "They've been holding a hilltop community, the brotherhood has decided to leave hood in Eirnbach, Germany, work in the group's workshop in this 1995 photo. Slocked by local opponents from building They were like nothing the tiny village in the Westerwald forest had ever seen. Two-third- s of the By ARTHUR ALLEN . may be Sifted in U.S. f ! 100-membe- rr bach after moving there seven years Bim- ago- - German opponents chase off brotherhood - two-ye- r I? . with them in the van. According to a neighbor who l 1 -- ex-wi- fe "I - . apartment complex Wednesday several hours after police arrested the father of the two youngsters, a girl and a boy. on a felony warrant from California alleging unlawful detention or concealment of children . Police said the man had abducted his children from California, where his had obtained legal custody, and had been living Eagle Rim apartments. I I Hutterites were foreigners mostly Britons and Americans. But after much guilty self-reflecti- and determination to make friends, most of the village embraced the brotherhood. In elections last June for die neighbors. village council, the main political Blocked from building a hillparties joined forces behind Maytop community by opponents or Manfred Walterschen and dewho used words like 'too many "Citifeated an foreigners" to dissuade them, the zens' Initiative" 82 percent to 18 Hutterian Brotherhood has decidpercent. ed to leave Birnbach after moving Other than a handful of diehere seven years ago, hard opponents who have skill"If they aren't right-win- g fully pulled bureaucratic strings extremists, they are acting likef to prevent the sect from building them," Joerg Barth said of the J a communal dining room, kinderopponents of his garten and workshop, there is community, "The same spirit is nothing keeping them from stayat work as in 1937." ing. But the story behind the story But the Hutterites, who dediis a bit more complex. cate their lives to the principle The 500 villagers of Birnbach that men and women can live towere at first skeptical about the gether in peace following Hutterites, members of a small Christ's teachings, are very senProtestant sect, pacifist and poor, sitive to their surroundings. who in 1988 bought a mansion In January, on the eve of previously used as a Catholic breaking ground for the home for wayward boys. building projects. Barm anThe Hutterite men wore susnounced the Hutterites would penders and long beards. The move away, although he didn't women wore headscarves, their say when. legs covered behind long skirts. Explaining the decision to a anti-Hutteri- te 100-memb- er iong-de-iaye- d reporter, he pointed to a passage in Matthew from his battered New Testament: "And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your work, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town." "In 6V2 years, we haven't exchanged a sentence with our opponents. When they pass us on the road, they look right through us as if we were air," said Barm, 66. "We feel it's better to go where we are wanted, rather than continuing to run our heads up against hard rock." Direct confrontation over disagreements is a principle of Hutterite life, but Earth's opponents, led by a retired building engineer named Gerhard Schwalm, have refused from the start to talk with the community. The opponents won't talk to reporters, either. But Schwalm, who lives down the lane, pubg lished a statement in the his newspaper saying group had every right to block the construction, which he contended would have been too noisy. The 35,000 Hutterites scattered around the world mostly in Canada, the United States and live in 350 small, England Rhein-Zeitun- largely nt The Hutterites do not proselyt- -' ize, and welcome discussion with'i neighbors of other faiths. They largely stay out of politics, but sometimes protest against war or . abortion. The Birnbach commu-- ; nity earns much of the cash it J needs producing wooden toys and equipment for the handicapped. The sect was created by Jakob" Hutter. an Austrian, in I533; thousands joined a new brotherVf hood founded in Germany iw. 1920. Heeing Nazism, many of ins nuuenies speni me war years ijartft, a German who had lived in a U.S. Hutterian community for 25 years, led the group's re- turn to Germany, He immediately submitted building plans, but Schwalm, blocked his every move. For six winters, the community has gath-- , ered tor its communal meals in a large, drafty tent. "I don't think we could take another winter of this," said Ken Comer. 32, of Abbeville, Ala. "We could spend a lot of mon- - 2 ey and rub shoulders with people , in Bonn to force our way through, but that is not our wit- ness," Comer said. "We are called to live a very simple life of ' " community and brotherhood." 4 Bus to remove curtain separating Jewish men, women - A MONSEY. N.Y. (AP) commuter bus catering to religious Jews agreed to remove a cujtain separating passengers by gender after a woman refused to give up her seat so men could pray. The Monsey Trails bus company had hung the curtain in the bus aisle so the men would not be in sight of the women during prayer. Sima Rabinovicz, who is Jewish but not Orthodox, chafed at the religious dictate. After months of meetings between her lawyers and the bus company, a settlement was reached Monday. The curtain will be removed and there will no longer be segregated seating. Rabinovicz complained after an incident in December 1993 when a group of men praying was so large they wanted to use part of the women's side. They asked her to centuries-ol- d move and she refused. 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