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University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 25, 1991
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U.S. AIDS deaths top 100,000
The death toll from AIDS in the United States has topped 100,000 and is escalating, federal health officials said yesterday.
DC researchers project as many as 215,000 more U.S. citizens will die of AIDS in the next
Out of 161,073 AIDS cases reported in country since June, 1981, 100,177 people had died as of the end of December, the Centers for Disease Control said, citing new statistics.
"The epidemic is here," said Ruth Berkelman, chief of the CDC's AIDS Surveillance Branch. "We see from these numbers alone that we have a very debilitable heavy toll, and there no letup in sight."
Last year, 31,196 Americans died of AIDS. Over the past two years, 55,460 have died — a higher number than those who died in the first eight years after the disease was discovered.
Federal health officials estimate that 1 million
people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates there are more than 300,000 AIDS cases so far, and about 10 million people are infected with the virus.
Prague, Czechoslovakia Fourteen Soviet refugees killed
"Some 50 armed people attempted to cross the border." Deputy Peter Kulan said. "The attempt was halted when they were still on Soviet territory and allegedly cost the lives of 14
Fourteen armed Soviets were killed trying to cross the border into Czechoslovakia, a parliamentary deputy was quoted as saying yesterday.
Marcin Fendrych, the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry representative, said he had no official information on the shootings.
Kulan gave no details on when or how the deaths occurred. He spoke after returning from work early in the morning.
Czechoslovak, Polish and Hungarian officials
Czechoslovak, Polish and Hungarian officials — and to a lesser degree, officials in Western Europe — are worried about a flood of immigration into the country, economy and political turmoil in the Soviet Union.
Royal Navv women join pilots
London
women are to be trained for the first time to
train a joint arm's armed forces
minister, announced yesterday.
The women pilots will initially fly helicopters and later will pilot Sea Harrier jet fighters, Archie Hamilton in letter to Parliament's House of Commons.
"We intend to widen the employment of women as air crew to enable them to undertake aviation roles in the Royal Navy." Hamilton wrote.
The Royal Air Force has already started training women pilots.
Hamilton said women in the Royal Navy, known as Wrens, would initially serve as pilots or crew members on Sea King and Lynx anti-submarine helicopters.
From The Associated Press
Baltic turmoil lingers
Resolution condemning military violence fails
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. - Lithuanian officials said yesterday that Soviet troops accompanying a column of armored cars opened fire on two vehicles outside of Vilnius, wounding one person and later arresting another.
The Associated Press
In Moscow, reformers in the legislature of the Russian republic failed to win approval of a resolution condemning military attacks in the Baltic republics.
Cecaslav Stankavicius, a deputy to Lithuanian President Vytautas Landersberg, told a news conference that the Soviet soldiers apparently were annoyed by a police car and a government vehicle following their armored cars on the main road from Vilnius to the republic's second city, Kaunas.
Stankovic said one person was wounded in yesterday's incident, but officials did not yet know how seriously. Another person was arrested by the soldiers, he said. No other details were available.
Earlier in the day, Landsbergis had accused Soviet troops of kidnapping two draft-age students, and then condemned the military occupation of two buildings on Wednesday.
Lithuanian officials said they contacted Georgy Tarasevich, the personal representative of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, about the shooting yesterday.
"These events can only be labelled as the continued license of the Soviet Armies Forces (to operate) despite . . . promises that this would be discontinued," Landsbergis told Lithuania's parliament. Gorbachev said Tuesday that there would be more military assaults against separatists in Baltic countries.
Reformers also were given a setback yesterday by the failure of Russian federation lawmakers to pass a resolution condemning violence in the Baltics.
Soviet foreign minister will talk to Baker, Bush The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertynkh will meet tomorrow with Secretary of State James A. Baker III as the Bush administration nears a decision on whether to postpone next month's summit meeting in Moscow, officials said yesterday.
The new foreign minister, formerly Moscow's ambassador to the United States, is also expected to meet with President Bush on Monday during a session at the White House with Brent Scrowcich, the President's national security adviser.
The talks are certain to concentrate on the Soviet crackdowns in Lithuania and Latvia in addition to arms-control issues and the war in the Persian Gulf.
A new treaty designed to make sharp reductions in long-range nuclear missiles is supposed to be ready for signing at the Feb. 11-13 summit, but negotiators meeting at the State Department have not yet resolved a number of technical problems, including steps to verify compliance with the cutbacks. The treaty would reduce U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear missiles, bombers and submarines by 30 percent.
Officials said a decision on whether Bush would attend the summit meeting with Gorba-
Chief Soviet negotiator Alexei Obukhov said Monday that the treaty would be wrapped up in time for the summit. But U.S. officials were less optimistic.
They stressed that Soviet actions in the Baltics were the key to whether the summit would be shelved.
Utah House sends amended abortion bill back to Senate
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House yesterday approved an amended version of the anti-abortion bill that raced through the legislative process this week. stripping it of its most restrictive elements.
The House voted 41-31 in favor of the amended measure, sending it to the Senate. State senators had passed the tougher version Wednesday on a vote of 23-5.
Barring significant changes, Gov. Norm Bangerter said he would sign either version of the measure, his press secretary, Francine Giani, said.
The House left open the possibility that a pregnant woman with an abortion may be given a decision to have an abortion.
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The House deleted those restrictions and retained the bill's fallback option, which would permit abortion to prevent "grave damage to the health of a child." The House also tried to prevent the birth of a child with "grave defects."
Anti-abortion organizations such as Right to Life, which had backed the bill, said yesterday that they were not opposed.
The tougher bill, which critics said would not stand a chance in federal court, would have banned abortions except in cases of rape and/or incest, if a woman's life was in jeopardy or if a doctor concluded the child would be born with physical or mental defects "incompatible with
The American Civil Liberties Union said it would challenge the law, and abortion rights activists warned that they would boycott the state's tourist resorts to derail Uta's bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics.
The abortion-rights activists said the bill not only would fail to pass constitutional muster, but also would not be approved.
"Companies will not come to a hotbed of political turmoil as long as Utah denies women the right to control their bodies," said Rebecca Elliott, executive director for the chapter of the National Organization for Women.
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