By The
Associated Press
Edited by Deb McAdams
News Digest
Friday, September 9, 1994 Page 2
AIDS hits minorities
ATLANTA — Minorities are be
ing hit increasingly harder by AIDS,
accounting for more than halfof all new
cases in the United States in 1993.
Of the 106,949 AIDS cases reported
last year in the United States, Puerto
Rico. Guam and the Virgin Islands,
58.538 - or 55 percent - were among
minorities, the Centers for Disease Con
trol and Prevention reported Thursday.
In 1992, minority cases accounted
for 52 percent of new cases, up from 51
percent the year before.
As the epidemic develops, its pace
has slowed among homosexual white
men while quickening among minori
ties, particularly among blacks.
The AIDS rate lastyearamongwhitcs
was 30 cases per 100,000 people. The
rate was more than five times higher
among blacks (162 cases per 100,000
people) and three times higher among
Hispanics(90). Among American Indi
ans and Eskimos, it was24 per 100,000,
and among Asians and Islanders, 12 per
100,000.
Black women, with an AIDS rate of
73 per 100,000, were about 15 times
more likely than white women to get the
disease. Black males, with a rate of 266
per 100,000, were nearly five limes
more likely than while males to get
AIDS.
Geography also makes a difference
in how the virus spreads, said Dr. Teresa
Diaz of the CDC’s National Center for
Infectious Diseases.
AIDS and race
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“Although wc aggregate minorities
together, there are large geographic
differences among minority groups,”
she said. “For black and Hispanic men
in the Northeast, it’s spread by intrave
nous drug use.” while homosexual con
tact is the greater risk elsewhere for
those men.
The Northeast has the highest rates
of AIDS infection for both blacks and
Hispanics, while the South and Mid
west are generally lower.
In some states, vast differences be
tween minorities exist. In Florida, the
rate for blacks is almost three times
greater than for Hispanics.
Jordan to play again
CHICAGO — Michael Jordan,
who as an NBA player displayed an
uncanny abil ity to change h is shots in
midair, has changed his mind. He’s
going to play one last game in Chica
go Stadium.
Last week Jordan said he wouldn’t
compete in acharity basketball game
hosted by his former Chicago Bulls
teammate Scottie Pippen. But Thurs
day, Pippen announced Jordan would
join other NBA stars in Friday night’s
exhibition.
“It’s going to be a great reunion,
a great opportunity for as to go out
and have some fun,” said Pippen,
who teamed with Jordan to lead the
Bulls to three straight NBA titles.
Jordan jast completed his first
season of minor league baseball with
the Doublc-A Birmingham Barons
afterrctiring from the Bulls 11 months
ago. He will be making his first
public basketball appearance since
June 1993 when Chicago beat the
Phoenix Suns in Game 6 for the
Bulls’ third straight title.
“Michael is a great athlete, and
I’m sure he’s not going to come out
there and embarrass himself,” said
Pippen, who put together the charity
game along with the PUSH Excel
Foundation.
“This gives me an opportunity to
play against him for the first time in
my career,” Pippen added.
Jordan and Pippen will be on
different sides.
The stadium has been replaced by
the United Center across the street
and the exhibition game will be one
final sendoff for the “Madhouse on
Madison” that opened in 1929.
The announcement that Jordan
would play made Friday’s game one
of the hottest tickets in Chicago.
“It will be extra special, not just
for me but for the fans, for the players
who came out to watch the game.
There are so many great memories in
the stadium, and we’re going to have
one last hurrah,” Pippen said.
NBA players B.J. Armstrong,
Horace Grant, Toni Kukoc, Charles
Oakley and John Starks also arc
scheduled to play.
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Witness names private eye
LOS ANGELES—A man jailed
for refusing to testify before a grand
jury in the O.J. Simpson case told
authorities a private eye witnessed
the slayings of Simpson’s ex-wife
and her friend, the investigator said
Thursday. He denied he was there.
Anthony Pcllicano, who has rep
resented such celebrities as Michael
Jackson and Roseanne. said he wasn’t
shadowing Nicole Brown Simpson
and wasn't outside her condo the
night she and Ronald Goldman were
slashed to death.
“This is untrue,” Pcllicano told
The Associated Press, adding he has
now been subpoenaed to testify be
fore the grand jury investigating Al
Cowlings’ role in Simpson’s flight
from police June 17.
Pcllicano was fingered by John
Dunton, a convicted forger who was
jailed for contempt Wednesday after
he refused to testify before the grand
jury.
Dunton told police he saw the
sleuth in acaroutside Ms. Simpson’s
Brentwood home on June 12, the
night of the murders, Pellicano said.
Dunton’s lawyer, Robert Rentzer,
was unavailable for comment Thurs
day.
According to Pellicano, Dunton
gave police several scenarios about
what he saw the night of the slayings.
“I don’t thinkpolicebclievc him.’’
he said. “I think he made the whole
thing up to police and when he was
called before a grand jury and was
put under oath his attorney told him
to shut up.”
Simpson, 47, has been charged
with two counts of murder and is
scheduled to go on trial Sent. 26.
Earlier this year, Pellicano testi
fied before a Santa Barbara County
grand jury investigating child moles
lalion allegations against Michael
Jackson.
Pcllicano said his name would be
surfacing again in the Simpson case:
He’s working for police Detective
Mark Fuhrman, who found a bloody
glove, a key piece of evidence in the
murder case,atSimpson’scstatc. He
has been portrayed by the defense as
a racist, rogue cop.
Cowlings’ friend, pom actress
Jennifer Peace, 23, met with prose
cutors Thursday.
Her attorney, Elliot Abclson, said
they asked her to talk with them after
she testified before the grand jury last
week.
Abclson confirmed investigators
executed a search warrant at her
home and seized audio tapes and
phone records. Hedidn’tknow wheth
er any of the tapes were conversa
tions between Ms. Peace and Cowl
ings or Simpson.
Deathtoll 131 inUSAirplanecrash
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (AP)—A USAir
jetliner nose-dived into a ravine while
trying to 1 and near Pittsburgh on Thurs
day, killing all 131 people on board in
the deadliest U.S. crash in seven years.
Flight 427 originated in Chicago
and was to stop in Pittsburgh before
continuing to West Palm Beach, Fla.
“I looked up and there it was,” said
Tom Michel, who was at a gas station
near the crash site. “It was just coming
straight down. I was screaming for ev
erybody to run. It looked like it was
under full power and he just went straight
in.”
Air traffic controllers said they lost
contact with the plane when it was about
seven miles from the airport, said Pat
Boyle, a spokesman for the Allegheny
County Department of Aviation. There
were no indications of any problems on
the flight and a report of an explosion
before the crash could not be confirmed.
Michel said there was a big boom
and the sky lit up. There was black
smoke everywhere and that was it.”
Witnesses reported a gruesome car
nage in a clearing on a heavily-wooded
ravine.
“All we saw was body parts hanging
from the trees,” said Denise Godich, a
nurse who was one of the first at the
scene. “There were people everywhere.
You could just see parts of them.”
Another eyewitness said pieces of
plane and baggage were scattered
throughout the area.
“We have done a fairly extensive
search of the area and there are no
survivors,” said Jim Eichcnlaub, man
agcrofHopcwcllTownshipandcoordi
natorofcmcrgencyscrviccsat the scene.
The plane ’sblack box, which records
flight data, was recovered, he said.
Emergency crews put out the fire
and the search was called off about two
“We have done a fairly
extensive search of the
area and there are no
sunhvors. ”
■
JIM EICHENLAUB
Emergency Coordinator
hours after the crash. The area was
sealed ofT for the night, but olT-road
vehicles were spotted heading to the
crash site.
The plane went down shortly after 7
p.m. in a field about seven miles from
the airport, which is 20 miles northwest
Of Pittsburgh. _
Marine’s remains found
HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. search
teams apparently have made a signifi
cant breakthrough in accounting for
Americans missing in action from the
V ietnam War,a U .S. ofllc ial said Thurs
day.
American search teams recovered
remains believed to belong to a U.S.
Marine who died in captivity in Quang
Ngai Province, once part of South Viet
nam, 325 miles northeast of Ho Chi
Minh City, formerly Saigon.
The discovery was seen as a break
through by U.S. officials in Hanoi, who
arc investigating K4 eases of Americans
missing in action from the war.
“I’m excited by it. I’m hopeful ” said
Army Lt. Col. Melvin E. Richmond Jr.,
head of the U.S. MLA OfTicc in Hanoi.
“It’s an important step.”
The United Stales handed over the
84 “special remaias eases” to the Viet
namese a year ago, but not one had been
solved up to now.
The Vietnamese photographed the
dead American servicemen or the sites
where POWs died in captivity and their
remaias were buried.
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