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Friday, March 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
... If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador...
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African children haunted by rapid spread of AIDS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Rapid population growth and the explosion of AIDS cast a bleak shadow over the health of Black African children, a government report said yesterday.
As many as 10 million sub-Saharan children under age 10 are expected to see one, or both of their parents die during this decade, and infant death rates may rise by 50 percent in some countries, the report said.
the Agency for International Development.
Malnutrition is the most important factor in early African childhood deaths. Some 30 percent of children between 12 months and 23 months old suffer from malnutrition, said the report by Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan and Ronald Roskens, administrator of
Sullivan and Roskens, in the request of President Bush, led a U.S. delegation on a trip to seven African countries in January. They visited the Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Their report recommends continued emphasis on U.S. aid to spur broad-based economic growth in the country and health programs can be sustained.
"Health assistance is a key adjunct to broader assistance programs. Healthy people produce healthy, stable and productive nations," the report said. "Programs to improve the health of African people should, therefore, be undertaken simula-
neously with broader assistance initiatives."
This year, the United States is devoting $800 million to the Development Fund for Africa, which represents the bulk of U.S. development aid to Africa.
The report said U.S. aid for health strategies also could be used more effectively, such as by focusing on sustaining primary health care systems, increasing immunization coverage, fighting malaria and training Africans in health management.
Also needed are additional interventions to encourage behavior changes, encourage marketing of condoms, and support research on other ways to stop the spread of AIDS, the report said.
Government debt up $26.1 billion
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government sank $2.1 billion more in debt in February, but the month's red ink was 29.9 percent less than during the same period of fiscal 1990, the Treasury Department said yesterday.
The additional debt in February followed a $1.76 billion surplus in January and boosted the deficit to $1.38 billion for the first five months of the fiscal year.
The Bush administration projects this year's gap will reach a record high.
The total so far this year is 13.4 percent more than at the same point
last year and above the previous record of $221.1 billion set in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1986.
Revenues in February included $8.9 billion in allied contributions to offset U.S. expenses in the Persian Gulf War, the report said. Those contributions total $14.2 billion during the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The United States' major allies have pledged $4.5 billion to help the United States pay for the war. The Senate Appropriations Committee said Wednesday the allies had delivered $25.6 billion so far.
Although the Treasury statement does not break down spending for specific purposes, overall defense
spending was up 6.3 percent, to $124.1 billion, during the first five months of fiscal 1991 compared with the same period last year.
Spending in February totaled $93.7 billion, 6.6 percent less than in the same month last year. Outlays so far this fiscal year reached $147.8 billion, 7.7 percent more than was spent during the first five months last year
Mandela's defense accuses police officer of forcing testimony
Receipts in February totaled $67.7 billion, 3.7 percent above those of the previous February. For the year so far, revenues were $417.8 billion, up 6.2 percent from the same period of fiscal 1990.
The Associated Press
Defense attorney Hendrik Kruger spent a second day trying to show that co-defendant John Morgan implicated Mandela against his will.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A police officer testing in Winnie Mandela's kidnap and assault trial denied yesterday that he coerced a co-defendant to provide evidence against Mandela.
Wednesday, Krüger accused police of assaulting Morgan and forcing him to sign a fabricated statement. The allegations yesterday while cross-examining police LI, Andries de Klerk, who arrested Morgan shortly after the alleged kidnap and assault of four young men in December 1988.
De Kierk testified that Morgan cooperated with police after his arrest and told authorities he caused an assault at Mandela's house.
He said Morgan also pointed out the houses of various people wanted for questioning in the case.
Kruger said that Morgan did not point out the houses to the police and signed the statement unwillingly. He also interrogated on the day of his arrest.
he also accused de Klerk of attempting to get Morgan to implicate Mandela.
De Klerk denied the charge and said Morgan merely was asked what he knew of the circumstances of the case.
Mandela and three co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to four counts each of kidnap and assault. They are accused of abducting four young men from a home in Sweto in December 1988 and beating them in Mandela's home.
Cholera cases in Peru jump 70 percent, hit 535
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru – In just one week the death toll from Peru's cholera epidemic has jumped more than 70 percent to 335, in a crisis compounded by a health workers' strike and a wave of dwindling medical supplies.
A Health Ministry spokeswoman blamed the sudden increase in part on a campaign waged by President Alberto Fujimori to urge people to eat ceviche, a popular raw fish dish, and warns not to eat uncooked seafood.
Health experts have said shorehugging fish, which feed near pipelines pouring untreated sewage into the sea, might be contaminated. The warnings caused a drastic falloff in sales of fish and angered the fishing industry.
The Health Ministry on Thursday reported 88,748 cholera cases since late January, with 25,804 people hospitalized. The mortality rate was 1.9 percent and the epidemic began, registered 1.3 percent over the past week.
Ministry figures released March 14
had put the number of cholera-related deaths at 308 and said 71,188 people had contracted the disease
Conditions for those afflicted with the disease were precarious in financially strapped Peru. The cholera epidemic began in late January and is first in the Western Hemisphere since early this century.
Cholera patients in Lima government hospitals were without treatment because of a week-old pay strike by health workers. And the Health Ministry spokeswoman said that 60 percent of the women were running out of antibiotics and dextrose solutions, used for dehydration, a symptom of cholera.
She said a 20-ton donation of medicine from Argentina that arrived Tuesday would keep the hospitals going for a few days, but the government was hoping for medications from the United States.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said Washington was considering a
In late February, the U.S. government sent 35 tons of medicine and equipment including dextrose solu-
intravenous tubes and serum bottles. Several dozen nations have sent medicines since the epidemic began.
Former Health Minister Carlos Vidal resigned March 15 over differences with Fujimori on how to handle the cholera epidemic.
Both the president and his fisheries minister have repeatedly eaten ceviche before television cameras. They were in ninety recommendations.
The Health Ministry spokeswoman said powerful fishing companies had pressured Vidal to resign after his failure in uncooked fish caused sales to plumage.
Exporters say sales are likely to fall by 10 percent this year. Sales of fishmell as well as trozen and canniform food bring in $900 million a year.
But the new health minister, Victor Yamamoto, is also suggesting the population not eat raw fish, the spokeswoman said.
She claimed Fisheries Minister Felix Canal had been hospitalized for four days after developing cholera
symptoms and attributed his illness to eating ceviche in an unhygienic market in a slum area.
A Fisheries Ministry spokesman, however, denied reports the minister had been ill, calling the accounts "gossip from the newspapers."
Jenny Vasquez, of the Pan American Health Organization, attributed the sudden rise in the death toll to the spread of cholera in rural areas.
News reports say the epidemic is out of control not only for lack of medicine but also because of poor roads, which make little for drivers to reach rural areas and for residents to reach a hospital in time.
A cholera patient can die within five hours if not treated.
The epidemic, which is part of a pandemic that began in 1961 in Southeast Asia, first hit Peru's northern coast and has spread the full length of Peru's 1,400 mile coastline, as well as into Ecuador and Colombia.
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