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Agency reports AIDS spreading rapidly
GENEVA — More than 1 million
people contracted the virus that causes
AIDS in recent months, 90 percent of
them through heterosexual intercourse,
the World Health Organization said
Wednesday.
In a chilling assessment of the
spread of the AIDS epidemic, the
U.N. health agency predicted the
disease will soon become the main
cause of premature death in many
Western cities and will leave up to 10
million African children orphaned by
the end of the decade.
A WHO report on the “Current
and Future Dimensions of the HIV
AIDS Pandemic” said by early Janu
ary, 10-12 million people had caught
the human immunodeficiency virus.
This was 1 million higher than the
previous assessment in April. The
new figure included 1 million chil
dren.
It can take 10 years or longer for a
person infected with HIV to develop
AIDS symptoms. Most people diag
nosed with AIDS die within a few
years.
It said an estimated 2 million cases
of AIDS had occurred since the dis
ease became known in the early 1980s
— 500,000 more than reported by the
U.N. agency in April.
The agency predicted that by the
end of the year, an estimated 1 mil
lion new HIV infections will have
occurred in the United Stales alone.
The report reiterated projections
that by the year 2000,30 to40 million
people will have contracted HIV. “In
other words, WHO estimates that
infections will at best triple and at
worst quadruple in just eight years
time,” it said.
Michael Mcrson, head of WHO’s
AIDS division, said an aggressive
prevention campaign would save
millions of lives. In particular WHO
wants to drive home the message that
condoms must be used in all casual
sexual relationships.
Underlining its fears that hetero
sexual adults are at growing risk of
AIDS, WHO said 90 percent of all
new adult HIV infections since April
were the result of heterosexual inter
course.
Estimated distribution of adults infected with HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS, by world region, cumulative to January 1992.
i Total: over 10 million ] -—-—i
‘....'_ Eastern Europe and
North America Western Europe former Soviet Union
Australasia
Includes Australia,
Source: World Health OrganizationNew Zealand
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Many members leaving Congress
WASHINGTON — The largest turnover
since World War II is expected in Congress
next year, a change brought on by factors
ranging from an aging crop of lawmakers to
revised ethics rules.
With the current session of Congress
barely two weeks old, 29 incumbent law
makers have announced they will not be
back in 1993.
“It should be a refreshing breeze for the
institution,” said Rep. Dennis Eckart, a 41
ycar-old Ohio Democrat elected in 1980
and departing after the November election.
Reasons why lawmakers are leaving
include rcdislricting, public opinion, new
ethics rules and retirement.
Over the past four decades, average turn
over in the House every two years has been
about 62, ranging from a low of 36 in 1969
to a peak of 86 in 1975. Retirements alone
have accounted for anywhere from 21 seats
in 195610 49 in 1978.
The big turnover comes at a time when
critics say Congress has become a lifetime
sinecure and that limiting the number of
terms lawmakers may serve is the only way
to oust incumbents.
“It’s very clear there is a loss of stature at
home, to say you ’re a member of Congress,”
Eckart said.
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Jurors in Gotti trial have identities
hidden to guard against tampering
new tukis. —jonn uoui mastea ms way
to the lop of the nation’s most powerful Mafia
family and used violence to maintain control, a
prosecutor said in opening statements Wednes
day.
“The boss is all-power
ful, who has the power of
life and death over his
membership,” U.S. Attor
ney Andrew J. Maloney told
jurors hearing Gotti’s mur
der and racketeering trial.
Maloney said Gotti orchestrated the 1985
murder of his predecessor, former Gambino
boss Paul Castellano, to seize control of the or
ganization. Prompted by a Gambino family
dispute over drug dealing, Gotti and several
other mobsters got together and “decided to
take out the boss,” he said.
It is the first case Maloney has tried person
ally in six years as U.S. attorney, underscoring
the importance of the case to the government.
Defense arguments were postponed until
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was hospitalized with a suspected heart attack.
Jury selection for the trial of the nation’s
premier Mafia suspect was completed earlier
in the day. Prosecutors estimate the trial will
last up to three months.
During that lime, jurors will be locked away
from family, friends and jobs and living in an
undisclosed hotel. Courtroom artists will be
forbidden to sketch their faces. Their names I
and addresses will be hidden in a safe in the
federal court clerk’s office and each juror will
be referred to only by number.
U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser said the
extraordinary secrecy about the jurors was
imposed in response to government allegations
of jury tampering in previous Gotti trials.
Gotti is on trial for the fourth time since
1986.
If convicted, Gotti and his co-defendant,
reputed underboss Frank “Frankie Locs” Lo
cascio, could be sentenced to life in prison.
NCAA
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bel, UNL vice chancellor of business and fi
nance.
In ihc letter, Spanicr said the implementa
tion of LB69 would place UNL in violation of
current NCAA rules unless the athletic pro
gram were modified.
Spanicr said the university was faced with
three options. It could:
• implement LB69 under the full scholar
ship program and suffer the sanctions of the
NCAA.
• implement LB69 but alter scholarship
and/or walk-on programs to avoid violation of
NCAA rules.
• delay implementation for at least one year
so the university could put the the issue before
the NCAA.
In the letter, Spanicr said delaying the im
plementation of the bill, the third option, was
the best compromise and would give the uni
versity a chance to work on an alternative plan.
However, Chambers said the threat of sanc
tion was not as great as the university claimed.
“UNL is the golden goose that lays the
I
golden egg for the NCAA,” Chambers said.
“They’re not going to mess with Nebraska in
these kinds of situations.”
He also said the university had not offered
proof that implementing LB69 would be in
violation of NCAA laws.
Chambers said the university only talked to
Big Eight schools about the bill when there
were 105 Division 1A schools they could have
contacted.
“I don’t believe (the university officials’)
intentions are sincere,” he said.
Three university officials, who spoke in
support of LB963, told the committee that
challenging the NCAA would be a mistake.
James O’Hanlon, the NCAA representative
at UNL, said representatives of the university
had discussed LB69 and the response had been
lukewarm.
Beutler said that if LB963 wasn’t passed
this year, and the new law was implemented,
the university and other institutions in Ne
braska would suffer sanctions.
“The NCAA isn’t responsible solely to the
University of Nebraska,” he said. “I believe it ’s
going to lake more than one state to change
their rules.”
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