European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes Friday june 5, 1992 dynamic spread of aids predicted in global review by the Washington Post Washington a the aids virus is spreading so rapidly throughout the developing world that Between 38 million and 120 million people will be infected by the end of this decade a report said wednesday. The report the first comprehensive global review of the epidemic called the course of his a dynamic volatile and it identified 57 countries As a High risk for spread of the virus including some thus far spared the full Force of the epidemic. These include Indonesia Egypt Pakistan Bangladesh and Nigeria. Another 39 countries were said to be at a a substantial risk of a major his epidemic. A during the next decade his will Likely reach most communities around the world. Geographic boundaries cannot protect against his a said Jonathan Mann director of the International aids Center at Harvard the report University and one of the reports authors. The study was prepared by a team of 40 sex listed this year As an 800-Page Book called aids in the experts and will be pub world 1992. Predictions of the scope of the epidemic and where it is going were based on a Survey of 30 epidemiologists from around the world. The team estimates that 2.6 million people around the world have already got aids and at least 13 million Are infected with his the aids virus. The who a latest figures estimate 1.5 million aids cases obstetrician or. I. Ray King wants seven stored Frozen embryos donated or removed from his clinic. Here Are the key tint nos made by Harvard University researchers q 2.6 million people around the world have aids and at least 13 million Are infected with the ads virus. Q by 2000, 38 million to 120 million adults and More than 10 million children will be infected. And 9 million to 11 million infections. In the last five years the Harvard report said the cumulative number of africans infected with his has tripled to about 7.5 million and the virus continues to spread unabated in the Caribbean and Central and South America. However it said the most troubling rates of growth appeared to be in Asia. The report was highly critical of support by Western nations to fighting aids in the developing world. For example it said that last year the West gave $50 million to the world health organization for aids work 40 percent less than was Given in 1990.doctor favors plan to save 7 embryos Knoxville Tenn. A the Fertility doctor keeping seven Frozen embryos involved in a precedent setting custody Battle said wednesday that he wont destroy them without a court order. A the purpose of forming pre embryos is to achieve pregnancy a or. 1. Ray King said at a news conference. A that is still my Strong recommendation. Unless there is a court order i personally do not plan on destroying these Tennessee a supreme court ruled monday that a woman make her sex husband a father against his will. The five member court ruled unanimously that Mary sue Davis Stowe 31, cannot implant or donate the test tube embryos she and Junior Lewis Davis 33, conceived three years ago before their divorce. Davis said he no longer wanted children and the court ruled that his privacy rights under the . And state constitutions outweighed mrs. Stowe s wish to give the embryos to an Anonymous couple. It was left unclear what might happen to the 4 to 8-Ccll embryos Frozen in liquid nitrogen. King said he would prefer donating them to another couple. If Davis and Stowe refuse he will sue to Force them to store the embryos elsewhere he said. Mrs. Stowe a attorney Kurt erlenbach said a we Are going to do what we need to do to keep them from being a if that is to move them to a clinic so that we will store them essentially indefinitely that a what we will do a he said. Erlenbach said the storage Cost of $200 to $300 a year is not an Issue. Blacks twice As Likely to die in infancy by the Washington Post Black infants born to College educated parents Are almost twice As Likely to die before their first birthday As White infants researchers say. The findings published thursday in the new England journal of Medicine suggest that race remains a powerful predictor of infant mortality even in relatively privileged families. But the precise effect of race on health remains unclear. A trying to explain it in terms of what we know about the parents and what we know about the causes of premature delivery is hard Quot said Kenneth c. Schoendorf a physician at the centers for disease control and the Lead author of the study which relied on information gleaned from birth certificates. Despite their similar Levels of education Black and White couples May have significantly different average incomes rates of chronic illness Quality of medical care or social stresses. Quot the Power of race to affect health is not going to be accounted for in any of these studies that use vital statistics As their sources its not surprising that effects Are seen even in this social group a said Paul h. Wise a paediatrician at the Harvard medical school. There were 10.2 deaths per 1,000 live births among Blacks compared to 5.4 per 1,000 live births among Whites. For Blacks the Overall infant mortality was 18.2, and for Whites 9.3, in 1985. In both races older women As Well As those with inadequate prenatal care or Many other children had babies at higher risk of dying. Even when controlling for those risk factors however Black infants had 82 percent higher risk of dying by age 1. In the report Schoendorf and his colleagues at the cd studied births that occurred Between 1983 and 1985 to parents who each completed at least 16 years of schooling. Infants born in California Texas and the state of Washington were excluded because those states did not record parents education on birth certificates. stays execution of Texas child killer from wire reports Huntsville Texas a the . Supreme court wednesday stayed the scheduled execution of a convicted child killer just hours before he was to be put to death. Kenneth Granviel 41, who confessed to a total of seven slayings was to be executed by injection shortly after Midnight wednesday for the oct. 7, 1974, stabbing death of Natasha Mcclendon 2, in fort Worth. The toddler was killed during the course of the rape of her Mother and aunt in a crime spree that left five dead. The supreme court said it wanted to study the Case. The execution would have been the ninth in Texas this at plutonium site Golden Colo. A an estimated 2,100 Gallons of plutonium contaminated liquid leaked into a basement at the Rocky Flats weapons Plant Over the weekend officials said. No one was contaminated and the spill was believed to have been confined to the basement officials said. They said the leak was traced to a faulty pipe fitting on a liquid waste guilty in killings Brownsville Texas a a woman was convicted of capital murder wednesday for her part in the slayings of two men she claimed raped Ner on South padre Island. The Cameron county jury returned the guilty verdict against Brenda Bowling Colella 21, who maintained the two victims and a third Man raped her before the sept. 13,1991, shooting. The bodies of the two oilfield workers David Ray Taylor 31, and Michael Lavespere 32, were discovered in a pickup truck found partially submerged in the Laguna Madre just North of the town of South padre Island. A third alleged rapist Taylor a brother Rickey was asleep in the dunes nearby and was unharmed. Colella a husband Paul Colella the other co defendant is accused of shooting the two men after he was informed of the alleged rape. Paul Colella is scheduled to be tried later. Assistant Cameron county District attorney Migdalia Lopez argued that Brenda Colella made up the rape Story to avoid being beaten by her husband after she was seen with the victims. Sentencing was set for july 9.ex-submariner Dies Bethesda my. A rear adm. Raymond f. Dubois who served on the Flasher the amen can submarine that Sank More enemy tonnage than any other during world War ii died thursday of a cerebral Haemorrhage. He was 76. He was an executive officer on the shot kills Driver Muskegon Mich. A a teen Ager with no arms below his elbows was charged wednesday with manslaughter in the death of a United parcel service Driver struck by an errant shot fired from a specially rigged Rifle. Stephen Harry deny 34, was making his rounds in Rural Eggleston township tuesday and passed the 16-year-old�?Ts Home where the youth was practising with a .22-caliber Rifle outfitted so the trigger could be pulled by an upper Arm muscle contraction Muskegon county prosecutor Tony Tague said. A Bullet ricocheted off a pile of bricks and pierced the Windshield of the truck striking the Driver in the head and killing him instantly. The truck veered across the front Yard of a neighbouring House and demolished its front Leopard gives birth Washington a the first two endangered clouded Leopard cubs conceived by artificial insemination Nave been bom at the Nashville zoo scientists announced wednesday. Scientists from the smithsonian institution a a National zoological Park and the Nashville zoo deposited sperm from a male Leopard into a female leopards uterus using a flexible fiber optic Telescope. The two cubs were faring Well As of wednesday
