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Monday, December 2,1996
World urges safe sex,
activism on AIDS day
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In Rome, taxi drivers distributed AIDS
leaflets. Across Thailand, gas stations
offered free condoms. In South Africa,
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu went on
TV to urge people to practice safe sex.
World AIDS Day was marked with
renewed vigor around the world Sunday
after a U.N. agency reported an acceler
ating death toll.
Nearly a quarter of the 6.4 million
AIDS deaths to date have occured in the
past year.
In 1996, 3.1 million people were in
fected with HTV, the virus that causes
AIDS, bringing the total number of people
with HIV or AIDS to 22.6 million,
UNAIDS said.
In Asia, the site of an AIDS explosion,
the war on the disease got graphic. Activ
ists posted photos of an emaciated AIDS
victim in Beijing’s central Zhongshan
Park near the ancient imperial palace,
along with posters that read, “The risks
of careless sex and lifestyle hygiene.”
Health officials have warned that more
than 1 million Chinese lO times the
estimated present number could be
infected with HTV by 2000 if preventive
measures are not taken.
In Thailand, which has an active sex
industry, 420 gas stations distributed 3
million condoms to customers with the
warning, “Be careful of AIDS when feel
ing naughty.”
The health ministry and state-owned
Petroleum Authority of Thailand spon
sored the program. An estimated 800,000
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of Thailand’s 60 million people have the
HTV virus, and 50,000 more have died of
AIDS.
In the Philippine capital of Manila,
about 250 government officials, activists
and at least four HIV patients joined in
the 11-mile “First National AIDS Walk.”
In Taipei, an AIDS awareness group
displayed memorial quilt patches to honor
victims of the disease.
Photo exhibitions carried the message
in India, which volunteer organizations
say has Asia’s worst AIDS epidemic,
with an estimated 1 million or more HTV
cases.
Charity organizations sponsored
marches in Bombay.
More than 400 people gathered in
Tokyo for the lighting of a 20-foot tree
bearing 12,000 red ribbons, symbols of
the fight against AIDS.
Europe warned against complacency.
In central Paris, several hundred AIDS
activists marched with signs reading,
“AIDS: The Epidemic Isn’t Over” and
“Zero Equals the Number of AIDS Sur
vivors.”
In Rome, two taxi companies distrib
uted AIDS information leaflets to pas
sengers and included similar messages
on their telephone answering services.
Some players in Italy’s top soccer
league wore red bows on their uniforms.
Dozens of candles were lit at Madrid’s
Puerta de Alcala monument in memory
of the estimated 5,000 AIDS victims to
have died in the Spanish capital since
1981.
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Tornado claims 3 lives,
100 oak trees in Louisiana
SIMSBORO, La.— More than 100
old oak trees were strewn amid the wreck
age of homes Sunday along the path of a
tornado that ripped through town. Three
people were killed.
The storm Saturday night destroyed
six homes and damaged 49 while over
turning trucks on a nearby highway and
blowing a wall off a factory.
Tornadoes also skipped across parts
of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida
panhandle, causing scattered damage and
injuries.
Emergency teams and volunteers
helped this northern Louisiana commu
nity about 45 miles east of Shreveport
clean up Sunday. Power was restored to
most homes by morning.
PROFESSOR
FROM PAGE 3
more from a diverse faculty.
“One of the goals of the college is to
have faculty representative from what
ever set of categories you wish to choose
from,” Birdsall said. Before hiring any
professor, a department must document
attempts to recruit women and minori
ties with the Equal Opportunity Office.
Opponents of affirmative action, such
as history Professor Roger W. Lotchin,
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“I’m just glad we didn’t die,” 8-year
old Sara Solomon said. She and her 10-
year-old sister, Kasey, sat on the hallway
floor of their home when the storm hit.
“A tree fell on our house. We started
crying because we were so scared,” Sara
said.
Some of the fallen oak trees had been
standing for generations. One that was 5
feet in diameter crushed the cab of a
parked pickup truck, killing two men
who were inside installing a radio. A
man sitting between them survived with
only minor injuries.
Swiss narrowly defeat
anti-immigration measure
BERN, Switzerland By a single
digit margin, the Swiss voted down a
proposal Sunday to add tough anti-im
migration measures to the country’s con
stitution.
The vote was 54 percent to 46 percent
against the referendum, which would
have disqualified all illegal immigrants
from refugee status and given the go vem
ment control over any wages earned by
asylum-seekers.
Already under international criticism
about allegations that Switzerland is con
cealing the assets of Nazi Holocaust vic
tims, the government welcomed the re
jection of the proposals on refugees.
object to programs that give preferences
to people simply because of their race or
sex. Theybelievejobs should be based on
merit, not group identification.
“Affirmative action was set up to help
the disadvantaged, and this does not help
the disadvantaged,” he said of his
department’s hiring decision.
Lotchin said recent polls and
California’s passage of Proposition 209,
which eliminated preferences in state
contracts and university admissions,
showed the American public’s rejection
For a country that prides itself on its
humanitarian traditions, the addition of
an anti-immigration clause to the consti
tution would have been an embarrass
ment to many.
But the narrow result reflected a belief
widespread among Swiss citizens that
foreigners are squeezing them out of in
creasingly scarce jobs and are to blame
for drug dealing and other crimes.
The Swiss People’s Party drew up the
initiative in 1991, when Switzerland had
a record 42,000 asylum-seekers.
Teen drugs still problem
in Wake County schools
RALEIGH One year after police
arrested 75 Wake County students fol
lowing a three-month investigation, offi
cials and teenagers say the problem of
drugs in schools has hardly gone away.
Undercover agents posed as students
inthecounty’s 12 high schools and bought
drugs as part of a probe called Operation
Checkup. Footage of the arrests wound
up on the television network news shows.
Raleigh-area police leaders and other
officials said Operation Checkup did not
rid the schools of drugs, and another drug
bust is expected soon. In this calendar
year alone, 36 students in Raleigh were
arrested for possession.
“There are goingtobe drugs in school,”
of affirmative action.
“This is a policy that most of the
American electorate is becoming disillu
sioned with,” he said. “The University
needs to discuss why it’s moving in one
direction while the rest of the country is
moving in another.”
Richard A. Soloway, chairman of the
history department, said the decision fit
into the larger picture of how UNC hired
faculty
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should be debated and discussed.”
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Wake County students say drugs stiff*
are easy to get at school.
“Everybody who did drugs before is
still doing drugs now,” said Brian Allison,
17, a senior at Broughton High School in jj-
Raleigh. “The point was to get drugs out*
of school. That’s not going to happen.”
International monitors
watch Rosnian elections
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina-r-
Bosnian Serbs have agreed to let interna
tional monitors supervise municipal elec : •
tions in their half of Bosnia, an official"
said Sunday .
The vote is now planned for late June.,,
Elections for local offices were ini-,
tially to be held Sept. 14, alongside na- .
tional and regional elections.
But the Organization for Security an 4
Cooperation in Europe, a trans-Atlantic"
group supervising the vote, postponed,
them until late November and then again
until June because of irregularities and
security concerns. , (I .
Some parties, particularly Serbs, were
accused of packing voter registration lists
in towns they wanted to control—eyep'
if they were a minority there before war;,
broke out in 1992.
FROM WIRE REPORTS
WIGGINS
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he didn’t think the council had discussed,
enough significant issues since Wiggins' j,
appointment to evaluate her participa
tion. “Ms. Wiggins has shown that she’
has the intelligence to be a meaningful
member of the Town Council,” he said, j
Council member Joyce Brown said,,
Wiggins’ diligence had impressed her.
“She seems to have been learning a lot in A
a short period of time.”