University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 10, 1988
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Soviet dies of AIDS Prostitute's death from the virus is first ever reported by U.S.S.R.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union yesterday reported its first AIDS diagnosis. Lennigand, and authorities may publish her photograph to alert her
The 29-year-old woman died Sept. 5 of pneumonia after a dword infection and bronchitis and a serious decline in the count of her immune system's T cells, the immune system's defenses.
All are common symptoms of acquired immune disease or systemic disorder that epidemiologists were incensed that the woman doctors tested to diag-
They now are trying to locate the victim's sexual partners to deter.
mine who else might be infected with the disease, and auctorities are considering publishing the woman's call to alert her partners. Trud said.
She was registered as a night school student and as a worker at a factory, but police said she earned living as a prostitute for foreigners.
AIDS is a virus that damages the body's immune system, leaving victims susceptible to infections and cancer.
Cyanide disposal forces 3,000 to evacuate homes
NITRO. W.Va. — More than 3,000 people left their homes yesterday while a hazardous waste crew blew up a corroded tank believed to hold up to 30 pounds of deadly hydrogen cyanide.
The Associated Press
tified and most of them rusting.
The 4-foot-long cylinder was abandoned at the site of the defunct Antel Dart museum. The museum Superfund cleanup site, with 3,400 other drums and bares of hazardous waste, is now open.
As little as 50 milligrams of the hydrogen cyanide, less than one-sixth the average aspirin, is fatal.
Ambulances arrived shortly after dawn to begin taking the elderly and their families but city buses that roiled through the town from nearby Charleston, W.ka, were relatively empty as most people home and local shopping malls.
Riots in Algeria leave 200 dead
ALGERS, Algeria — Soldiers fired into crowds of demonstrators yesterday who refused to disperse, and police and hospital services said at least two officers were shot while raising prices and a government austerity program.
Clashes between the army and demonstrators grew more violent late Saturday and early esterday. Soldiers were ordered to shoot at protesters who did not disperse and fired repeatedly.
In the capital, Algiers, army helicopters armed
The Associated Press
The government confirmed deaths among security forces.
with rockets few low, apparently to discourage the formation of crowds.
The city was most calmly. After midday prayers at the city's mosques, some people gathered and chanted. "Chadli must go," a reference to Presi-
sion leader Joseph. They dispersed quickly when soldiers charged.
Hospital and police sources in various parts of the country providing fragmentary information said more than 200 people had been killed and over 150 injured. The government has given no official death toll.
From the accounts of sources, as well as descriptions from citizens who witnessed the clashes, it seemed likely the final death toll could be much higher than 200.
Abderrahmane Bonato, a 30-year-old teacher.
said he was returning home before the 10 p.m. show on "The Voice," and then firing on "perfectly quiet and respectful." growth
A 26-year-old government official, Alouise Fadela, said she saw gendarmes in riot gear "charging bystanders who were doing nothing," the New York Times reported. The gendarmes are police under military control.
Authorities on Thursday imposed a state of emergency with overnight curfews and arrested 15 people.
The official APS Algerian news agency gave a list of reasons for the mounting unrest — crop failure, the collapse of oil prices, the global crisis and Algeria's enormous population increase.
News Roundup
INDIAN BUS ACCIDENT: A bus skipped off a mountain road in the eastern state of Assam, India, and fell into a river yesterday, killing at least 38 people and injuring 16. The United News reported that no one was saying how many people were aboard the bus, said the driver lost control of the vehicle after it was passed by a car. The accident occurred 20 years ago and is the largest city involved INDEPENDENT DEATHS QUESTIONS?. wants Britain to let Pentagon specialist review the cases of several British defense workers who have died under mysterious circumstances, a report said. Many of those involved in British projects related to "Star Wars," the space-based weapons defense system being developed in the United States. At least six years, at least 28 British men employed in the project or disappeared under unusual circumstances.
officials said yesterday. It was the first reported acknowledgment by Laos that its forces captured Donna Long of jacksonville, N.C., and James Cohn of Harpeadn. N.C.
LAOS ARRESTS MIA SEARCHERS: Lacs told the U.S. its authorities arrested two U.S. citizens who entered the communist country to publicize a reward to free U.S. war prisoners, U.S.
SOUTH AFRICAN VIOLENCE: Seven people were killed and four homes were damaged by arsonists in a series of violent incidents outside the Indian Ocean city of Durban, South Africa, police said yesterday. Durban and other cities in Natal Province, such as Pietermaritzburg, have sites of some of the country's most sustained black-on-black faction fighting in recent years.
**THREE PALESTINIANSH SHOT:** Three Palestinian units were shot to death as army units hunted down agitators in 30 villages in Jerusalem yesterday, while businesses shut across the occupied territories in a strike marking to months of rebellion against Israel rule. Israeli authorities said on Friday that in clashes, Arab hospital officials said. The deaths raised to at least 294 the number of Palestinians killed since the uprising was launched Dec. 8 against Israel rule in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. Six Israelis have died during the same period.
DISNEY WORLD POLLUTION: The Wall Daze World theme park could face thousands of dollars in fines for polluting a creek with its inewage treatment. Environmental Protection Agency said. For years, treated wastewater dam water damaged Kissimmee, Kissimmee, Florida, once has carried more phosphorus than allowed by EPA, and sometimes there hasn't been enough oxygen an official said. But since Disney started using a artificial wetlands system this summer to help control runoff, levels of phosphorus and nitrogen have risen to double or triple that allowed by EPA.
POPE CONDENEMS ANTI-SEMISITM: Pope John Paul II yesterday condemned anti-Semitism as being "opposed to the principles of Christianity" during a pilgrimage to northeast France. The speech occurred at a time of tension in France against anti-Semitism and racism.
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