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lVTpTAZQ Dicrpct Associated Press 1 W ff U M-J Edited by Eric Pfanner Emergency measure fails; Defeat of Yeltsin is hailed GROZNY, U.S.S.R. — Separa tists in the southern Chechen-Ingush region fired automatic weapons to celebrate the Russian legislature’s refusal Monday to approve Boris Yeltsin’s state of emergency in their Muslim enclave. Gen. Dzhokar Dudayev, formerly a bomber pilot in the Soviet air force and now president of the Chechen Ingush region, had threatened terror ist attacks on Moscow’s nuclear power stations and subways if the decree was not repealed. The 177-4 vote Monday against Yeltsin by the usually pliant Russian lawmakers was the first major show of no confidence in Yeltsin since his election in June as president of the Russian Federation. The legislature’s rebuff was likely to damage Yeltsin’s authority, which was greatly enhanced by his success ful opposition to hard-liners who tried to oust Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in August. The vote was not binding, but may force Yeltsin to withdraw his decree. Yeltsin did not attend the debate and had no immediate comment on the resolution, which also called for negotiations toward a political solu tion. Dudayev said he was asked to take part in talks and was prepared to do so. Two Yeltsin allies, Russian parlia I Trnnrvc rotroat AP ment speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov and Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, the author of the decree, reversed their earlier defense of the crack down. They backed the lawmakers’ move for negotiations, signaling that Yeltsin had decided against confron tation. New crackdown in China ordered, document says HONG KONG — China’s Com munist Party has ordered intelligence agents and police to start a nation wide crackdown on “illegal” religious activities, according to a Central Committee document obtained by The Associated Press. The 12-pagc directive, titled a “Circular on Further Tackling Cer tain Problems of Religious Work,” was issued Feb. 5 following a nation wide gathering of religious officials in Beijing. It takes months for such directives to be passed down the many levels to local enforcement, and businessmen and religious leaders have reported signs of a new crackdown in recent weeks. The crackdown comes as U.S. Secretary of State James Baker read ies for a trip to China this week for talks, which will reportedly include human rights. In firm language, the document orders “public security departments at all levels” to “resolutely attack those counterrevolutionaries and other criminal elements who make use of religion to carry out destructive ac tivities.” The document defines illegal ac tivities as the establishment of reli gious organizations outside of state control and the use of religion to foment separatism. Three quarters of the 8*10 million adults with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have been infected through heterosexual transmission. .' - ' j UNITED STATES In 1985, only some 250 AIDS cases due to heterosexual transmission were reported. In 1990, the annual number of cases had risen to 3,100, a 12-fold increase. It is estimated that as many as 100,000 adults may already have been infected heterosexualty. \j , - -4* f1-if LATIN AMERICA Some 10,000 children are estimated to have been born infected with HIV. Central America has seen a 40-fold Increase in reported AIDS cases during the last four years. r * iff*:. *•, "**• SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA Heterosexual intercourse is the predominant mode of spread. Roughly 3 million men and 3 million women thought to be infected. An estimated 900,000 infants have been born Infected with HIV. WESTERN EUROPE Between 1985 and 1990, there was a nine-fold increase in the number of AIDS cases due to heterosexual transmission, from 149 to 1,309. These AIDS cases provide only a hint of the total number of infections. • s ; ASIA Pandemic is growing more rapidly than anywhere else. Predominantly transmitted heterosexuaily- India has reported that as many as one million persons may be infected with HIV. Worldwide, most AIDS cases from heterosexual sex GENEVA — Heterosexual sex has caused the infection of 75 percent of people with the AIDS virus world wide, and the infection is now rising in Western countries, the World Health Organization said Monday. The majority of the hctcrosexually infected people arc in the developing world, particularly in Africa,and they still remain only a small percentage of cases in North America and Eu rope, the Geneva-based agency said in an extensive report. The U.N. group says up to 5,000 people arc infected each day around the world, and officials fear an in crease in pregnant women infecting their babies. Concern about heterosexual trans mission of the AIDS virus was height ened after basketball star Magic Johnson announced Thursday that he had the human immunodeficiency virus and said he had no homosexual af fairs. In the United States, 3 percent of men and 34 percent of woman who contracted the virus did so from a person of the opposite sex, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. “It is not easy to change sexual behavior, but hopefully with more people like Magic Johnson coming out and talking about their illness everyone will realize they arc at risk and lake more care,”said Dr. Michael Merson, head of the U.N. health agency’s AIDS program. Merson said tests of possible AIDS vaccines arc planned for Thailand, Uganda, Rwanda and Brazil — na tions with some of the highest AIDS rates. The tests — which will involve several thousand volunteers — mark a departure from previous approaches favoring early testing on animals. About a dozen potential vaccines to slow or halt the onset on AIDS are being tested in the United States and Europe, and several more may be available I AP Unemployment battle separating Democrats \17 AniHtO'rAll • tt nomnvj i - 1 I1U lUllg UillUC DC tween Presidcni Bush and Congress over ex tending unemployment benefits is driving rifts between Democrats who want to strike a quick compromise and others who want to score additional political points. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, has been pressing a plan to pay for the benefits by cutting the foreign aid budget. But critics say the idea seems deliberately designed to be unacceptable to Bush and to sharpen an emerging Democratic election theme that, as Mitchell puts it, “It is time for Ameri cans to help their own.” Mitchell denies any campaign motivation. But “I think it’s a sham,” said Rep. Thomas Downey, D-N.Y., echoing complaints of some otncr ucmocrats, as well as labor advocacy groups. “Ii continues to politicize something that should never be political. We need to get the benefits to these people.” “The biggest flaw of all with this is it is not an agreed-upon compromise,” said Carl Case bolt, a lobbyist for the National Council of Churches. “People arc without benefits... and that makes it more difficult for families, and there are more suicides, more breakdowns, and the religious community sees this very closely. But it’s become a political football.” Throughout the four-month fight between Bush and Congress over helping the unem ployed, Democrats repeatedly have contrasted Bush’s opposition to the new benefits with his eagerness to help troubled countries overseas. “Cruelly using the plightof the unemployed, and the unpopularity of foreign aid, as a double barreled political gun at George Bush’s head,” was how Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas described Mitchell’s plan last week. Mitchell’s latest proposal would reduce the projected growth of foreign aid by $3.6 billion over the next four years, and offer that to Bush as one option for financing the extra benefits. The goal is to get up to 20 extra weeks of benefits to about 1.6 million Americans who have used up the regular 26 weeks of coverage. The majority leader says his plan is no motivated by the 1992 elections. Instead, h( says that following Bush’s rejection of twt prior Democratic bills aimed at helping manj of the recession’s hardcst-hii victims, he hopes that the president will sign the bill. “This is not a political effort to box anybody in,” he said last week when he unveiled his plan. “This is an effort to get benefits to those who need them.” Bush and congressional Republicans say the proposal would hurt the foreign aid pro gram and violate last year’s budget agreement, which forbids transferring such spending to other programs. Congressional passage of the measure would probably assure three things: a veto, a further delay in getting the benefits out, and Demo • crals continuing to trumpet the theme that Bush would rather help foreigners than Americans. Medical care shown to stop development of heart disease ANAHEIM, Calif. — For the first lime, a medical treatment has been shown to stop the development of congestive heart failure, a discovery that could benefit 1 million Ameri cans, according to a major study re leased Monday. Researchers found that a variety of drugs called ACE inhibitors can pre vent — at least temporarily — the start of heart failure symptoms in people with damaged hearts. Last August, the same team dis closed that the treatment can signifi cantly improve the survival of people - • -* »• . who already suffer from heart failure, a major killer that afflicts about 2 million Americans. Now, the latest results show that the same medicine can forestall the development of heart failure in the estimated 1 million people who are at high risk of the disease because of injury to their left ventricles, the heart’s main pumping chamber. Such dam age commonly results from heart at tacks, chronic high blood pressure and heart inflammation, among other causes. “The key issue is: Can we prevent people from gelling heart failure? We found an approximately 37 percent reduction in the development of heart failure” among those who took ACE inhibitors, said Dr. Salim Yusuf of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. “This is good news,” said Dr. Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “When doctors have patients with heart dis ease who have a high chance of going into heart failure, they should give high consideration to using ACE inhibitors before overt failure occurs.” Net?raskan Editor Janai Pedersen Night News Editors Chris Hoplensperger Uan,.in„[;.t i, 17$® Cindy Kimbrough Managing Editor Diane Brayton AlanPhelDS Assoc News F ditors Stacey McKenzie Dionne Searcey Opinion Pace Editor **" „ Art Director Srta"n Ihel.lto ^ i w ! 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