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Fridav. November 11, 1994
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AIDS policy director says teens should postpone sex
The Associated Press
Fleming, elevated to the post on a permanent basis yesterday, also expressed alarm that young people are increasingly tuning out the prevention message.
WASHINGTON — Patricia S. Fleming, tapped by President Clinton to lead his AIDS policy office, says her advice to teen-agers is to delay having sex as long as possible to protect themselves from the deadly virus.
Clinton, whose first AIDS policy director was widely criticized as ineffective, pledged that Fleming would have direct access to the president and the Cabinet.
He asked her to prepare a detailed report on the rapid increase in AIDS among adolescents.
Clinton noted that a quarter-million Americans have died from AIDS. One million have been infected with the HIV virus; more than 400,000 have developed the disease, with 40,000 new infections each year.
Fleming said half of all HIV infections occurred before age 25, and one in four who become infected contract the virus before their 20th birthday.
"The trends are particularly troublesome among women, people of color and adolescents," Fleming said at the White House ceremony. "While the rate of increase among gay men has lessened, AIDS still tears at the core of that population, particularly young gay men."
Fleming spent the past two decades as a topide to Democrats on Capitol Hill and in health and education posts in the Carter and Clinton administrations.
As an aide to the late Rep, Ted Weiss, D-N.Y., on a house oversight subcommittee, she recalled spending the first 12 years of the AIDS epidemic "banging on the doors of a bureaucracy that too often turned a deaf ear to the cries of the American people."
Until recently, she was Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala's special assistant, helping coordinate that agency's prime role in the AIDS fight.
Fleming said she accepted the national AIDS policy director job permanently after initial reluctance because "realized it was not impossible."
"I have power. I have authority. I have access. I can make things happen," Fleming said in an interview before the ceremony.
Shooter earlier denied access to gun
The Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The ex-victim accused of shooting at the White House was stopped from buying a pistol a month earlier when a gun dealer ran a background check on him.
No such on-the-spot check was required when he bought the rifle that he allegedly used at the White House.
"The law did what it was intended to do in terms of preventing Francisco Duran from purchasing a handgun on Sept. 30," said Jim Borowski, head of the state bureau of investigation's crime information center.
The bureau runs checks on prospective handgun buyers in compliance with the Brady handgun control law Congress passed in February.
The owner of High Country Wholesale Firearms, James Wear, said yesterday that Duran tried to buy the pistol on Sept. 30, about two weeks after buying the semiautomatic rifle seized in the Oct. 29 incident at the White House.
On his handgun application, as on his earlier application to buy a rifle, Duran did not mention his felony assault conviction. Wear said.
Felons are barred from possessing of firearms. While federal law does require rifle buyers to fill out a questionnaire, there is no waiting period for a background check before the purchase is completed. The Brady Law includes a five-day waiting period so authorities can check handgun buyers' backgrounds.
The Associated Press
UNION, S.C. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the sheriff who looked into the disappearance of two white boys whose mother said they had been taken by a African-American carjacker but deplored the racial climate he said her claim had revealed.
Jesse Jackson praises S.C. sheriff
Susan Smith has been charged with murder in the drownings of her two sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex. Nine days after she claimed they had been abducted by a African-American carjacker, police said she told them the location of the bodies.
"The sick woman was innocent until proven guilty. The African-American man was guilty until proven innocent," Jackson said. "She exploited a climate of racial hostility and fear that is much bigger than Union."
Jackson, who laid a wreath beside the lake where the boys died Oct. 25, acknowledged that investigators had no choice but to question African Americans because Mrs. Smith sounded believable.
He said he had found no evidence of brutality or violence against the African-American men who were questioned. When Mrs. Smith was arrested, Jackson called on the Justice Department to look into the way the criminal investigation was handled.
"I think the sheriff handled himself, under these circumstances, in a commendable way." Jackson said.
Mrs. Smith, who is in prison without bond awaiting trial, was taken off suicide watch yesterday and placed in a regular cell, the Corrections Department said.
Union County Sheriff Howard Wells said he had tried to be careful during the investigation because an African-American had been named as a suspect.
"You take what's given to you, and you follow it until something tells you differently."
"I said' alleged abductor. I said' suspect" at every opportunity. I would not label, I did not use a definitive term, purposely." he said.
$2.7 billion more to raise military morale
WASHINGTON — Aiming to boost morale for troops sent increasingly on risk missions abroad, the Pentagon's top leaders said yesterday they'll pump $2.7 billion more into military housing, cost-of-living allowances and programs such as child care.
The Associated Press
"No weapon system is better than the people who operate and maintain it. It is crucial that we put people first in our priorities," Defense Secretary William Perry said at a Pentagon briefing.
Perry said he had not devised the plan with the expectation that additional funds would come from the new Republican majority in
Congress. He said the money would come from cuts in long-term programs to modernize certain weapons, but he declined to specify which ones.
The Pentagon is considering amending or canceling several major weapons programs, including a new submarine for the Navy, the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft, the Army's Comanche helicopter and the Air Force's F-22 futuristic jet fighter. Perry said he had intended to announce those decisions sometime next month.
years to improve conditions for the force of 1.6 million men and women. Some spending will begin within months, particularly to upgrade dilapidated housing that otherwise would have been closed for lack of maintenance money, he said.
Ferry, joined at the briefing by head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Shalikashvili, said the Pentagon was recommending that $450 million be spent each year over the next six
That amounts to about a 5 percent increase in spending over what has been designated for "quality of life" programs in the Pentagon's annual budget, which totaled $244 billion this year.
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Perry said he had been told about increased rates of spouse and child abuse among military families during a recent visit to Europe. He said some Air Force units are being deployed away from home at a rate four times higher than in 1989.
Space shuttle Atlantis, balloons studying Earth's ozone
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean launched ozone-mapping balloons and rockets yesterday as space shuttle Atlantis and its accompanying satellite soared overhead making their own survey.
the orbiting spacecraft is correct.
Researchers need the extra insight into Earth's ozone layer to make sure the information they're getting from
The launches will continue until the six shuttle astronauts retrieve the
NASA has launched 18 weather balloons and 20 small rockets from Wallops Island, Va., for the experiment. The German weather service has sent up 15 ozone-measuring balloons from an observatory in Bavaria. And Russian scientists have sent up at least two rockets with atmospheric monitors.
German satellite tomorrow for the trip home on Monday. The crew released the satellite Nov. 4.
Each launch is choreographed so that the balloon and rocket instruments measure the same components of the ozone layer as the infrared telescopes on the satellite.
The satellite trailed Atlantis by up to 45 miles yesterday at an altitude of 185 miles. The balloons rose more than 20 miles high before bursting.
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