University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 9, 1990
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18-year-old AIDS victim dies
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Ryan White, who won a long court battle to attend public school and overcame prejudice against himself and other AIDS victims, lost his struggle of more than five years with the deadly disease yesterday. He was 18.
White died shortly after 6 a.m. at Riley Hospital for Children, where he had been hospitalized since March 29 with an AIDS-related respiratory infection.
White's mother, Jeanne, and sister, Andrea, 16, had kept a bedside vigil, joined at times by celebrities such as singer Elton John and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Martin B. Kleiman, White's physician throughout his illness, said death came after a slow deterioration that had begun Saturday.
"At the end, his family and a few of the others who loved him were close at his side," Kleiman said. "He never regained consciousness, and I am confident that he suffered no pain at the end."
John, who stayed at the hospital with the Whites nearly a week, dedicated the song "Candle in the Wind" to White during the Farm Aid IV concert Saturday night at the Hoosier Dome, about a mile from
White was 13 when he was diagnosed with AIDS in December 1964. He had contracted the disease through a transmission of HIV.
"Ryan's death reaffirms that we as a people must pledge to continue the fight, his fight, against this insidious force."
President Bush, who last week planted a tree in White's honor in downtown Indianapolis, said he and his wife, Barbara, were deeply saddened by White's death.
In 1985, White was barred from Western Middle School near Kokomo after school officials and parents rejected health authorities' reassurances that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact.
Poindexter convicted of 5 charges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser John Poindexter was convicted Saturday of conspiracy to conspire in the Iran-contra scandal.
A federal court jury found Poindexter guilty of all five felony charges against him in prison and $1.26 million in fines when he is sentenced June 11.
Poindexter's lawyers said they would appeal the decision.
Poindexter was convicted of conspiring with Oliver North, businessman Richard Secord and others to buy the land about ant-contrata from Congress.
In reaching the verdict, jurors
rejected former President Ronald Reagan's claim in videoed testimony that no crimes were committed in his administration's secret arms sales to Iran and diversion of profits to help the Nicaraguan contra rebel*
"I President Reagan was wrong and incorrect," said prosecutor Dan Webb, noting the earlier conviction of Duxferster's former aide Oliver Nopal.
Poindrexter, S3, appeared confident as he walked into the courtroom shortly after noon on the sixth day of jury deliberations. He stood facing the jurors as the 25-year-old foreman, Wayne Mitchell, rose to his feet to read the verdicts.
read each of the five criminal charges.
There was silence in the courtroom as the first verdict was returned and then a murmur as Mitchell continued to verbithe verdicts on each of the five counts.
The jury foreman said in an interview later in his home that he thought Poindexter was very dedicated but guilty as charged.
"Guilty." Mitchell said as the clerk
Webb said the prosecution team would meet in the next two weeks to make a sentencing recommendation District Court Judge Harold Greene.
Poindexter is the third top Reagan administration figure convicted in the scandal.
Firefighters find 150 bodies in burning ferry
LYSEKIL, Sweden - Exhausted braves braved metal-melting heat and poisonous smoke yesterday and began removing bodies of about 180 victims from the Scandinavian attack, which burned for a second day.
The fire began early Saturday while the ship was in the North Sea on an overnight trip from Norway to Demark.
In search of victims, firefighters in masks and breathing equipment fought through one corridor "until their gear started to burn," said fire consultant Ole Wemstrom. Most victims were asphyxated, but some were charred beyond recognition.
The Associated Press
The fire spread yesterday from the gutted middle section to the bridge a few hours after the ship was towed into port.
Officials of VR-DAN Line, the company that owns the ship, said anison caused the blaze, citing two fires that broke out on two different decks. District Police Chief Roar Onso refused to speculate on how the two fires fitted with claims that the fire was deliberately set.
Ferry captain Hugo Larsen told police of 395 passengers and 98 crewmen. Onsa said 148 people had died if that figure was correct.
Passengers said the crew wasn't prepared for emergencies and spoke of chaos as the fire spread through the ship.
Nation/World briefs
GUMMEN, POLICE CLASH: Gunmen loyal to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's party clashed with opposition supporters during a two-day shooting spree that left 17 people dead and 55 wounded in Karachi, Pakistan, authorities said Saturday.
Police moved in early in the day and arrested 30 people, half from Bhutto's party, half from militant Kashmiri's Indian immigrant movement.
The assailants began racing through city's central district after sunset Friday, firing at bystanders, police said.
Police said gunmen killed three people late Saturday afternoon and wounded 10 more, bringing the death toll to 17 and the wounded to 55.
REBELS STORM TOWNS: Leftf
rebels stormed into two southern
towns Saturday in Colombia, robbing
banks, looting stores and fighting
battles with government forces that
left 19 people dead, authorities said.
Police said 13 rebels and six police officers were killed during the attack.
Rebels in both towns were surprised by army troops in several helicopter gunships, Ramirez said in a live radio interview.
Five of the officers were shot and killed when members of the National Liberation Army and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attacked a police station in the town of Sibundoy, 322 miles south of Bogota, said police spokesman Col. Guillermo Ramirez.
FIRE WAS A HOAX: U.S. authorit
now think a fire at a化工 chemical
plant was a hoax since satellite photographs show that burn marks were painted on the building, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
By the end of last month, U.S. officials were saying that the damage at the plant was not as extensive as previously estimated. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said then that the possibility of a fake fire could not be ruled out.
"It clearly was an attempt at deception," an unidentified senior intelligence official said. "It's not particularly well done."
The United States has accused Libya of producing poison gas at the plant. The Libyans, who have said that the plant produced medicine, have said it was committed by other countries of being responsible for setting it on fire in early March.
PROPOSED BAN REFUSED: The United States secretly proposed a ban on some land-based missiles with multiple nuclear warheads last month, but the Soviet Union said the plan was too limited, according to a published report.
Gorbachev's reply was in a letter delivered to President Bush Friday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, the paper said, quoting administration officials the paper did not name.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev responded to the proposal last week, complaining that it excluded submarine-based ballistic missiles.
The White House refused to confirm the offer or refusal, the Times said.
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