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Broad definition boosts number of new AIDS cases
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The number of new AIDS cases unexpectedly more than doubled last year under a broader definition of the disease and boosted by a sharp increase in the number of infections among heterosexuals.
The national Centers for Disease Control had projected 1993 AIDS cases would jump 75 percent in the first year of the new definition. It actually increased by 111 percent, the agency reported yesterday.
Last year, the CDC expanded its definition to include those infected with HIV who also have a severely suppressed immune system, tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia or invasive cervical cancer.
Violence erupts in West Bank after curfew is lifted briefly
Most of the AIDS cases under the new definition were reported in the first three months of the year. The surge had dropped off by the end of 1993, and the CDC expects the number in 1994 cases to drop below last year's figure.
The largest increases reported were among teens and young adults, mostly from heterosexual transmission.
The groups most affected by the expanded definition were women, blacks, heterosexual intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs.
The Associated Press
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank — Hundreds of Palestinians stoned a Jewish enclave in the heart of this Arab city yesterday, clashing with soldiers when a two-week curfew imposed after the mosque massacre was lifted briefly.
Soldiers protecting the Beit Hadassah compound fired tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians who hurled stones with slingshots. Protesters, some shouting "settlers out!" set tires alight and rolled them at army positions.
Riots also erupted near the Tomb of the Patriarch, the site of the Feb. 25 massacre in which a Jewish settler shot to death 30 Muslim worshipers.
Also yesterday, Israeli troops shot and killed an 18-year-old Palestinian, Moussa Dawas, during a clash in the Deir el Balah refugee camp in the occupied Gaza Strip, Arab reporters said.
Sixteen Palestinianians were wounded, one seriously, in yesterday's clashes, and two dozen were treated for tear gas inhalation, hospital officials said.
Beit Hadassah in Hebron is one of a half-dozen settlements the Palestine Liberation Organization has demanded be evacuated. The PLO hopes the evacuations would reduce tensions and clear the way for the resumption of the Israel-PLO peace talks that were suspended after the massacre.
Pakistanian sources said today that PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were expected to meet in Washington within two weeks to try get the talks back on track.
Yesterday's unrest began after, the army lifted the curfew in Hebron for two hours to allow Palestinians to shop for this weekend's Id Al-Firat holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting.
Noam Arnon, a spokesman for the 450 settlers in Hebron, said Palestinians used mosque loud-speakers overnight to threaten the settlers in Hebrew.
"Your day will come, and we will destroy all of you," he quoted them as saving.
Danny Hizmi, a Beit Hadassah resident, said the army had asked settlers to stay indoors while the curfew was lifted but several defied the request to show they could not be cowed.
Citizens riot in African homeland
Government officials apparently flee city The Associated Press
MMABATHO, South Africa — Thousands of people went on a looting spree in the capital of the Bophuthatswana black homeland yesterday to celebrate the apparent collapse of a government that opposed taking part in South Africa's all-race elections.
Many police and soldiers joined in the celebratory crowds, but there were reports that forces loyal to the homeland's president had opened fire on crowds, leaving an unknown number of casualties.
The whereabouts of Presidem Lucas Mangao and other homeland
leaders were unknown, but Johannesburg's Radio 702 said presidential palace guards claimed Mango had fled.
Mangope is an adamant foe of the African National Congress and had refused to let Bophuthatswana participate in the April 26-28 election, which the ANC is expected to win.
His ouster would be a substantial victory for the ANC but also would create new uncertainties.
Pro-apartheid white groups that were aligned with Mangope announced a halt to negotiations with the ANC and government to protest the situation in Bophuthatswana. The talks have been aimed at persuading the groups to take part in the election and avert threats of civil war.
Mafikeng, bordering Mmabatho, or parked on the South African side of the border about six miles outside the city.
Last night, several pickup trucks and cars filled with armed white extremists were seen patrolling in
Bophutthawana is one of four nominally independent black homelands that were created by the white-led government in an effort to keep blacks and whites separate.
The constitution that is to take effect after the election calls for the reintegration of the homelands into South Africa. Mangope had vowed to keep the homeland independent.
The ANC has for years accused Mangope of brutally suppressing ANC members and other opponents. Despite the strikes, Mangope has said most of Bophuthatswana's people support his view that the ANC is a communist organization and that Bophuthatswana is better off on its own.
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