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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 25, 1991
Study supports AIDS theory
Heterosexual women are more vulnerable to infection than men
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Heterosexual men infected with the virus that causes AIDS are at least 17 times more likely to give the infection to women during sex than vice versa, according to a study that supports previous findings.
Investigators in the study that was to be published today tested the sex partners of 72 infected women and 307 infected men to determine the rates of HIV transmission between the heterosexual couples.
The researchers said they found that just one man had been infected by the woman, and even that case was inconclusive because both partners said they had had many unprotected sex encounters with other partners
Sixty-one, or 20 percent, of the women had been infected by the man, according to the study. The study expands on a preliminary report last year suggesting men were 14 times more likely to give the virus to women than vice versa.
before their relationship.
The imbalance in transmission rates appears to result from a combination of factors, including physical between men and women, Padian said.
An editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said the findings emphasized how slow the United States has been to acknowledge the rise in heterosexual AIDS and to do
Scientists believe the proportion of heterosexually transmitted AIDS cases will double in the next decade, from about 7percentnow, said authors of the editorial, James Allen and Valarie Sielow of the National AIDS Program Office at the Department of Health and Human Services.
more to prevent its spread.
Mary Guinan, special assistant in the office of the deputy director of HIV at the federal Centers for Disease Control, said the study bolsters previous findings that "women are more susceptible in a heterosexual relationship than men."
A total of 183,696 U.S. cases of AIDS in adults and adolescents had been recorded by the CDC as of July 31, including 102,797 cases attributed to heterosexual transmission, 4,070 of them men and 6,209 among women.
Senate leans toward plan to extend jobless benefits
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate took a step yesterday toward approving a Democratic bill extending jobsbenefts for 20 weeks as Republicans, but too many of them are concerned about the recession and closed adding up to 10 weeks of benefits.
GOP lawmakers pressed for the less-generous alternative, endorsed by President Bush, while offering a separate plan to cut the capital gains tax rate and take other steps to prod the sleepy economy.
But Democrats said the Republican plans were inadequate. As they have done since Bush killed a similar measure last month, they accused Bush of obstructing efforts to keep citizens who monthly deplete the regular 26 weeks of jobless payments.
*President Bush will veto this proposal, "Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas said about the Democratic And the vetoe is going to be sustained.
"How many more Americans must lose their benefits before this administration acts?" asked Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
"And then we ask ourselves, well, what else we done for the unemployed? Zero."
Bush has argued that the Democrat
ic measure was not needed because the relatively mild recession was ending. He has also said that the $5.8 billion legislation would push the federal budget even further into the red.
Knowing they were outnumbered and likely to lose, Republicans pressed their own proposals anyway, hoping to demonstrate that they were ready to fight the recession in a way they considered more responsible than the Democrats.
The Democratic bill would provide 20,13, seven or four weeks of additional benefits, depending on a state's unemployment rate. It would cover people who have exhausted the basic 26 weeks of benefits since April 1.
The smaller, $2.5 billion GOP alternative, sponsored by Dole, is similar to a Republican plan the Senate rejected Aug. 2.
It would provide at least six weeks of additional benefits and as many as 10 weeks. But rather than driving up the federal deficit, the measure was designed to pay for itself from money raised by auctioning off new radio frequencies and by increasing efforts to recoup bad government loans.
Democrats said the proposal would not do enough for the unemployed.
Senate bill cuts troop levels but keeps four B-2s
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate backers of President Bush's 1992 defense budget are citing the "hollow Army" of the late 1970s, Adolf Hitler and even the burning of the Capitol by British troops in 1814 to warn against deep spending cuts.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, presented on Monday the main features of a $270.4 billion Pentagon spending bill for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.
The bill, which was approved Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Committee, cuts troops level by 106,000 but gives Bush most of what he requested in strategic weapons programs, including $3.2 billion to buy four B-2 bombers.
Inouye, chairman of the Appropriations defense subcommittee that crafted the bill, said the U.S. public should not think that the end of the Cold War means the United States can afford to drastically cut military spending.
WESCOE TERRACE
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