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Alabama frontman, Randy Owen, lays out a riff at a concert in Dallas on Saturday. The band is tour
ing in support of their soon to be released album.
Experts fear potential rise in AIDS
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — Roughly 5 million Amer
icans have sex and drug habits that put them at a high risk
of catching AIDS, according to new U.S. figures, and experts
fear an upsurge of the disease after a decade ofetability.
While AIDS infections in the United States have fallen
dramatically since their peak in the 1980s, public health of
ficials worry that complacency about the disease has caused
backsliding — especially among young gay men — that
could bring AIDS roaring back.
- "I'm scared by the trends we are starting to see," said Dr.
Helene Gayle, AIDS chief at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Gayle presented the latest data Saturday at a briefing
hosted by the American Medical Association on the eve of
the 13th International Conference on AIDS.
Currently, about 40,000 Americans contract HIV each
year, down from the 100,000 new infections annually dur
ing the mid-'80s. The improvement is attributed largely to
safer sex habits and avoiding dirty needles.
In an attempt to see how many Americans still act reck
lessly- the CDC analyzed findings from several large-scale
surveys. Their conclusion: Between 2 percent and 4 percent
of the adult population — 4 million to 5 million people —
still put themselves at high risk. This includes having six or
more sexual partners annually, having sex with someone
known to be infected with HIV, engaging in prostitution for
drugs or money, having male homosexual contact, using
crack cocaine or injecting drugs.
Gayle said the study did not attempt to learn whether
this level of risky behavior is increasing or decreasing, al
though there seems to be evidence on both sides. For in
stance, condom use has increased substantially since the
1980s, although only about 40 percent of unmarried people
and 23 percent of drug users report using them.
Over the last decade, infection rates among gay men
have remained stable at between 1 percent and 4 percent.
However, said Gayle, "We.have seen troubling signs over
the past year that we fear could signal a resurgence of the
epidemic among gay men."
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Hanging ruled suicide raises questions of lynchti.
KOKOMO, Miss. (AP) —The Rev.
Jesse Jackson led about 1,000 demon
strators Saturday in a march to the
tree where a black teen-ager died last
month in a hanging that medical ex
aminers ruled a suicide.
The protesters, many carrying
signs questioning whether 17-year-
old Raynard Johnson was lynched,
gathered outside his home in Kokomo
where he was found hanging from a
pecan tree June 16.
Two autopsies determined that the
teen hung himself with a belt, but
Johnson's family and Jackson believe
he may have been killed for associat
ing with white women in the com
munity.
"We will not rest until those who
committed this murder are brought to
justice," Jackson said Saturday. "We
reject the suicide theory."
Dozens of law enforcement offi
cers lined the streets of the four-mile
march route from the high school
Johnson had attended to his home,
but other than heat-related illnesses
there were no problems.
Some residents of the community
of 1,000 about 90 miles south of Jack-
son, Miss., have questioned whether
the case is being overblown. A new re
port released Friday by the state
"We will not rest
until those who
committed this
murder are
brought to
justice.
— Rev. jesse jackson
courage people to come forward
information, and he has askedi
Ronnie Musgrove and the U.S.)i
Department to launch an inve$ti|
"I can't imagine what it won:: 1
like to be a black person living
constant fear of being lynch'd,'
Dan Lutz, 22, a TulaneUniversity
dent who drove to the rally from
Orleans with about 2i
"We're going to rally hereforjns!
against the systematic
against black people."
Some neighbors have saidjol
was a happy teen who w
have committed suicide.
"There's a lot of prejudice and}!
tred in Kokomo," said residenti
pathologist reinforced earlier deter
minations that the death was suicide.
"They're trying to stir up trou
ble," said Terry Powell of nearby
Morgantown.
But many of the protesters question
whether Mississippi authorities have
done a thorough job. Jackson has set up
a $10,000 reward and hot Hive to en-
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Mamie Mobley, whose 14-ve;:::^ived Bryan-Colh
son Emmett Till was killed in Mb
sippi in 1955, supposedly
whistling at a white woman, ll
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during the demonstration andol
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New domain names considere
NEW YORK (AP) —
Dot-movie. Dot-protest.
Even dot-sex?
The organization that
coordinates the Internet's
address books meets this
week in Yokohama, Japan,
to consider adding domain
names such as these to the
familiar .com, .net and .org.
If the Internet Corpora
tion for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN)
succeeds, the Net will stay
easy to navigate. Other
wise, like a telephone sys
tem ringing only some
phones, some sites may be
out of reach. Or as simple
addresses run out, users
may flounder online.
So just as the growing
phone system constantly
needs more area codes, the
Internet needs more do
main names. Adding them
is as effortless as changing
a few lines of programming
code, but agreeing to do so
is tough.
"There really are people
with different interests,"
said Esther Dyson,
ICANN's chairwoman.
"We need to reconcile this
in a way so that even if you
"Every time
you work on
something
revolution
ary, it's not
easy to do."
Richard Forman
Chief executive,
Register.com
lose something, you feel the
process is fair."
The hurdle is the latest
for ICANN, chosen by the
U.S. government in 1998 to
take over Internet-naming
duties. Growing pains
come as no surprise: It is a
coalition of non-govern
ment volunteers trying to
assume government func
tions, without any power to
enforce policies.
"There's very little in
the way of a road map,"
says Don Simon, general
counsel for Common
Cause in Washington.
Disputes are inevitable,
acknowledges Richard For
man, chief executive of
Register.com, a New York
company that registers In
ternet addresses.
"There was a lot of acri
mony among the states ne
gotiating and signing the
Declaration of Indepen
dence," he says. "Every
time you work on some
thing revolutionary, it's not
easy to do."
Last month, several
countries complained of tax
ation without representation
when ICANN tried to collect
nearly $1.5 million for do
main suffixes specific to
countries, such as ".uk" for
United Kingdom. The mon
ey makes up almost one-
third of ICANN's budget.
entral Baptist, sak
Then Aftemiccij
which brokers existing
main names in the Unit
States, sued ICANN ot
permission to registenv
ones. In a settlement*.,
nounced Friday, ICA'
agreed to the request, r
conditions.
Larger issues are r
tentious as well, W
ICANN proposed acok
to appoint its board,
groups complained
process was undenwe
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names, complain %
ICANN favors business
over individuals. Large®,
porations with vain® 1
trademarks have resists
new names because oft)!
bersquatters—indivW
who grab domain
for up to $35 apiecek
sale at thousands,event
lions of dollars.
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News in Brief
Mob bums 8 men to death
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A crowd of 200 villagers
burned to death eight men they accused of running
guns and drugs in western Guatemala’s mostly-ln-
dian highlands, police reported Sunday.
In what authorities described as a carefully planned
attack late Saturday, roads were blocked to trap the
men, and the crowd pulled them from their trucks,
doused them with gasoline and set them on fire.
“This was a well-planned attack by a few [
that grew into a huge crime,” said De
Sanchez, a spokesperson for Guatemala’s ni
police force. “The excitement attracted so manype
pie to join.
Five of the victims were members of a family®
operated trucks that carried people and supplit
through the region, Sanchez said.
The victims were all men, including a 60-yeaN
and his four sons ages 26, 23,18 and 17.
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