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CHICAGO (AP) — AIDS has be
come the leading killer of young Af
rican-American women in New York
state and New Jersey, and probably
will be the fifth leading cause of
death among all U.S. women of
childbearing age by next year, scien
tists say.
Because women who have the vi
rus are the major source of infection
for infants, the trends portend disas
trous consequences for thousands of
children, say researchers at the fed
eral Centers for Disease Control.
“As the number of pediatric cases
increases the medical and social costs
will be staggering,” the researchers
said in today’s Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association.
In monetary terms alone, babies
infected with the AIDS virus cost the
taxpayer-funded Medicaid system
$18,000 to $42,000 a year, they
noted.
Among women ages 15 to 44,
deaths from AIDS soared from 18 in
1980 to 1,430 in 1988, the most re
cent year for which statistics are
available, the researchers said.
The death rate quadrupled be
tween 1985 and 1988, when AIDS
deaths represented 3 percent of all
mortality for women in that age
group, the researchers said.
Among black women ages 15 to
44, AIDS was the leading cause of
death in New York and New Jersey,
said lead author Susan Y. Chu, a
CDC epidemiologist. The disease
killed 40.7 per 100,000 in New Jer
sey and 29.5 per 100,000 in New
York in 1987, the most recent year
for which regional statistics are avail
able, the researchers said.
“That to me is remarkable, be
cause it exceeds the rates of heart
disease and cancer, as well as acci
dents,” she said in a telephone inter
view from Atlanta.
Three-quarters of women with
AIDS-virus infections get them from
using intravenous drugs or having
sex with intravenous drug users,
Chu said. Since it typically takes 10
years after infection for AIDS to de
velop, current statistics represent in
fections from years ago, she said.
In 1989, there were 2,825 new
cases of AIDS among women of re
productive age, the researchers said.
Dr. Howard Minkoff, professor of
obstetrics and gynecology at the
State University of New York Health
Science Center at Brooklyn, called
the findings “overwhelming, worri
some and troubling.”
Even more troubling, he said in a
telephone interview Tuesday, is the
attitude of white, middle-class
Americans whose reaction to sm
reports is, “It’s still not us.”
“The pocketbook issues are
ready there for all of us,” said i
koff, who works with pregr
women infected with the AIDS vinj
and says 2,000 such women willbet
infected babies in the United Statt
this year. “The human concen.
should assume a higher prioritythi
the financial.”
T he report in Wednesday’sJAM
elaborates on findings Chu releast;
in November indicating AIDS hj
become the eighth leading cause C - ,<
death among U.S. reproductive-a? ^ '
women, ahead of diabetes, influent
and pneumonia.
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“What happened to men
AIDS in 1984 and 1985 is happe:
ing to women now,” Chu said at tin
time. “And it’s getting worse.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top NASA official
on Tuesday denied an assertion by Sen. Albert
Gore Jr. that critical plumbing connections were
installed on two space shuttles even though the
parts had failed a leakage test.
Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, said two umbili-
cals, which carry supercold hydrogen rocket fuel
onto the spacecraft, were among seven plumbing
fixtures that failed initial tests but were tested a
second time, using a different method, and
passed.
Gore said the umbilicals had leaked when
tested with liquid nitrogen and connected to a
simulated spacecraft part.
NASA spaceflight director William Lenoir said
that the umbilicals had not failed and that the
second round of tests was normal.
Meanwhile, at a NASA news conference, Hub
ble Space Telescope experts said they had moved
closer to determining which of two mirrors on
the spacecraft had been cut to the wrong pre
beginning to point to-
and not the secondary
scription.
“All of the evidence is
ward the primary mirror
mirror,” Ed Weiler, chief project scientist for the
Hubble, said.
The telescope has two mirrors, a 94-inch pri
mary and a 12-inch secondary, that are suspects
in the focusing flaw that has handicapped Hub
ble. Experts are working to determine which mir
ror was ground wrong in order to correct optics
on replacement instruments that will be installed
in the future.
Weiler said that pictures taken with a faint ob
ject camera showed that the misfocused light has
no coma, or smearlike streak. This suggests, he
said, that the focus flaw is in the primary mirror,
the large reflector that first captures light in the
telescope.
If the primary mirror is at fault, Weiler said, it
will be easier to correct than if the problem was in
the secondary mirror. The secondary mirror re
flects light from the primary mirror intothetelt
scope’s instruments.
At the Senate hearing, Lenoir said that tlx
space shuttle umbilicals were first tested agaire
what is called a slave unit, a test machine thatsk
ulates where the umbilicals attach to the spatt
shuttle orbiter.
“The slave unit is not flight hardware, there
fore it is more likely to be the source of a leal
than is the flight hardware,” Lenoir said.
He denied that the test was redesigned in or abou
der to assure that the umbilicals would pass;
leakage test.
When leaks were detected in the first test, Le
noir said, the slave unit was removed andablani
plate was substituted. This was done, he said,bt
cause it was assumed the leak was from theslavt
unit and not from the umbilical. In tests mini
the blank plate, the NASA official said, the uni:
passed.
Human rights group
reports violence, abuse
C-SPAN
LONDON (AP) — Using torture,
murder and mass arrests, govern
ments trampled the human rights of
tens of thousands of people in 1989
to suppress conflicts stemming from
ethnic or nationalist tensions, Am
nesty International said.
Despite democratic revolutions in
Eastern Europe, reform in South
Africa and signs of change in other
African countries. Amnesty’s annual
world survey of human rights
painted a grim picture.
Cases cited in the human rights
group’s 138-country report ranged
from children tortured in Iraq to a
Spaniard sentenced for burning the
flag; from alleged racial bias in U.S.
capital punishment to the jailing of
Malawi’s only neurosurgeon for crit
icizing the president; from death
squads in El Salvador to draft refus
ers in Western Europe.
The theme of this year’s report
was “the suppression of ethnic and
nationalist groups,” which Amnesty
said has often “served to entrench
bitter conflicts, dimmed prospects
for dialogue and added to the toll of
suffering and death.”
The survey saw this pattern in
countries including Somalia, Ethio
pia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, India,
Burma, Indonesia, the Soviet Union,
Yugoslavia, Tibet, Chad, Maurita
nia, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Bul
garia, Guatemala and Brazil.
“Around the world, particularly
where the tensions erupted into vio
lence, tens of thousands of people
became victims of security opera
tions resulting in ‘disappearances’
and extrajudicial executions,” the re
port said.
It continued, “The conflicts
ranged from local disputes over the
cultural rights of distinctive ethnic
groups through to full-scale con
frontation over demands for auton-
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lyze how the speaker portrays his or
ganization.
Another topic to be discussed is
what kind of video clips are best for
large and small classes, he said.
“That’s why I’m going to the semi
nar, to find out how to do this effec
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omy or secession.
The demands were often non-vio
lent, but in many instances, violent
attacks or armed insurgency were
dominant features, the report said.
George rvupp, Houston Mayor
Kathryn Whitmire and their
spouses.
During a pre-dinner toast, Bush
spoke about all the changes in the
world since the Summit Seven gath
ered in Paris last year.
“We have witnessed another revo
lution ... and thrilled at the new
breeze that’s swept the globe from
Central Europe to Central America,
fanning the sparks of freedom and
lighting the torch of democratic fer
vor in unexpected corners of the
world,” the President said.
Final sessions of the economic
summit are this morning with mud
of the talk predicted to centei
around environmental issues,
is expected to try to avoid any
nite decisions on reducing pollutant!
and preserving tropical rain fores!:
in South America, even thougfi
many expect Europe’s leaders
lobby diligently.
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day at 1 p.m. by delivering the fina
communique — traditionally, a p
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