NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 13, 1992
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Somali townspeople thwart bandits ambush of aid convoy
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Bandits ambushed a relief convey in Somalia, but guards and a security force organized by townpeople who were angered while fought back and most of the U.S. grain, an official said yesterday.
At least four people were killed in the ambush Wednesday, said Rick Grant, representative for CARE International in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
All but one of the escaping trucks turned back and did not make it to Baidua, one of the southern Somali towns hit hardest by famine.
"It's absolutely heartbreaking.' Grant said.
Efforts to aid the victims of drought and civil war in Somalia have been repeatedly thwarted by marauding
gunmen. Tons of food fill warehouses in Mogadishu while thousands starve in rural areas because it is not safe for aid workers to make deliveries.
"We simply can't get the food out," Grant said.
by a U.N. estimate, at least 300,000 people have died in Somalia's famine, one of the worst on record. Two million are said to be in danger of starvation.
Speaking by satellite telephone, Grant said it appeared four of the Somalis hired by CARE as guards and drivers for the 34-truck convoy were killed and five wounded. He said there were unconfirmed reports from Baidao that put the death toll on both sides between 15 and 40.
It was not known where the bandits came from, but aid workers told reporters earlier this week that about
200 members of the militia loyal to one of Somalia's chief warlords, Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, recently entered the area.
Grant said one truck managed to get through to Baidao, 27 returned the 125 miles to Mogadishu overnight and six were unaccounted for and presumed lost. Each truck carried about 11 tons of unmilled wheat donated to the United Nations as part of the international effort to alleviate Somalia's suffering.
CARE, a private organization, supervises the distribution of U.N. energy.
Grant said overland shipments to Baidao would continue but security would be re-examined before another was sent.
much of the aid needed by Baidoa arrives by plane.
"Obviously, we're not going to send one to tomorrow," he said. He noted that
As many as 300 people die each day in Baidao, where the population has been swollen to 80,000 because of refugees from villages in the area.
Grant said he did not know precisely how many guards were in the convoy but said it was normal procedure to truck to carry two guards and driver.
The convo was attacked when it stopped outside Baidao to allow the guards to be replaced by a local security force that was set up by townpeople to fight looters, Grant said. He said the Baidao residents and guards fought together against the bandits.
Grant said it was almost impossible o predict where violence would affect aid efforts.
Gay navy officer reclaims his job
The Associated Press
MOFFETT NAVAL AIR STATION, Calif. — Keith Heinhold, who was kicked out of the Navy after revealing he was gay, reclaimed his job as a sonar instructor yesterday under court order.
"This is the day I've looked forward to," Meinhold said as he walked onto the military base with his uniform in a paper bag.
"I'll be proud and honored to wear the uniform of my country again," he said.
The 30-year-old petty officer's restatement wasn't the first time the military had been forced to take back an openly gay soldier. However, after a judge renewed a reinstagram order this week for Meinhold, President-elect Bill Clinton announced plans to end the military's half-century ban on homosexuals.
"Part of the reason this case is so important is because of the attention it has generated and because of the political climate in which it has
arisen," said Benjamin Schatz, a lawyer for the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, a San Francisco-based gay-rights group.
Meinhold was honorably discharged in August after saying he was gay on national television. He said yesterday that many of his former superiors and co-workers at Moffett knew for several years that he was homosexual.
Dozens of reporters surrounded Meinhold as he entered Moffett, 40 miles south of San Francisco.
"I have had wonderful support from people from all walks of life. This has been very empowering," said Moffett, from Palo Alto, Calif.
Moffett representative John Shackleton said Meinhold's duties with Patrol Squadron 31 would be the same as before he was discharged.
The Pentagon said homosexuality undermined discipline and morale. The ban has led to dismissal of an average 1,500 military personnel a year.
AIDS risk not prompting safe sex, U.S. survey says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. citizens are not practicing safe sex, leaving millions at risk of infection by the AIDS virus, according to authors of the largest national sex survey in more than 40 years.
The survey results, to be published today in Science magazine, indicate that heterosexual U.S. citizens are not taking the risk of AIDS seriously and that the vast majority of people with multiple partners are engaging in sexual intercourse without condoms.
AIDS has been most prevalent in the United States among homosexuals and intravenous drug users. But Joseph Catania, a University of California-San Francisco researcher and an author of the study, said it was a matter of time before AIDS would spread widely into the heterosexual community.
For the survey, more than 10,000 U.S. citizens were questioned by telephone about their sexual prac
tices. Respondents were selected by a random digit dialing system and represented people between the ages of 18 and 75, married and single, living in major cities and in rural areas.
"This is the first of a kind," Catania said, because it concentrated on behavior related to the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS. He said it was the first large-scale survey on human sexuality in the U.S., since the Kinsey report in 1948.
Among the findings:
Seven percent of respondents said they had had multiple sex partners in the previous year.
Among heterosexual adults with two or more sex partners in the last five years, 31 percent were at some level of risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS. In some metropolitan areas, where the prevalence of AIDS is higher, the risk figure soared to 41 percent for this group.
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