Writer Helps Soweto Strip the Shame From AIDS
Date: 24 October 1999
By Rachel L. Swarns
Rachel Swarns
Lucky Mazibuko is first black person in South Africa to be hired by major newspaper to shatter culture of shame and silence surrounding HIV; his weekly column in The Sowetan, South Africa's biggest daily newspaper, strives to show that black man can live with virus and still hold his head high; in Soweto, where he lives, at least one of every four people carries virus that causes AIDS; people still call it white man's disease, gay man's disease, foreigner's disease; even discussing sickness is so shameful that advocate for people with AIDS in another township was killed by her neighbors in December for disclosing that she was HIV positive; Mazibuko has begun to open discussion of AIDS with his column, Just Call Me Lucky; he encourages his audience to use condoms; he chronicles dying man's struggle to deal with deadly illness that has invaded his body and community; photos; map (M)
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Airbus May Build 28 Planes for China
Date: 25 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pres Jacques Chirac of France meets with Pres Jiang Zemin of China and then announces that China will order 28 planes from Airbus Industrie worth $1.8 billion; purchase comes year after China put freeze on new aircraft orders amid overcapacity in slowing economy; sale to Airbus loosens Boeing's strangehold on Chinese market (S)
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What's So Bad About Hate
Date: 24 October 1999
John W Slattery letter sees hate-crime legislation as knee-jerk response from politicians to world depicted by news media (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 24 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-17 U.S. Curtails Visas For Russian Visitors The United States Embassy in Moscow has sharply cut back the number of visas issued to Russian visitors, particularly students and scholars. 1 Russia continued its attacks in Chechnya and said that it intended to increase its force in the province by 40,000 to 100,000. 10
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Date: 25 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Party of Peron Loses Its Hold on Argentina Mayor Fernando de la Rua of Buenos Aires, left, a centrist who campaigned pledging to clean up Government graft and breathe oxygen into a sluggish economy, appeared to win a landslide victory in presidential elections, ending a decade of rule under Carlos Saul Menem. Mr. de la Rua claimed victory in an appearance in Buenos Aires. A1 A Critic of Chechnya War As Russian forces continued their assault in Chechnya and refugees continued to flood into neighboring Ingushetia, the leader of that region, a former Soviet commander, spoke out against Russia's tactics. The military campaign, he said, is cutting off chances for a political region that has spent the last eight years slipping from war to unruly peace and now to war again. A10
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Media Talk; Time Plans to Break Its News-Only Shell
Date: 25 October 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Time magazine will publish serialized novel by Caleb Carr in five special issues whose theme is the future; Time has published excerpts from fiction before, but never published entire novel in serial form; photo (M)
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Supermarket Workers Resuming Contract Talks
Date: 25 October 1999
Contract negotiations for union representing 5,000 supermarket workers at five chains on Long Island and in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island are to continue (S)
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Jury Adjourns in Trial Of Garage Developer
Date: 24 October 1999
Jury Adjourns in Trial of Garage Developer*
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Man Is Stabbed to Death In Street Fight in Chelsea
Date: 25 October 1999
Alexander Quiles is stabbed to death during street fight in Chelsea section of Manhattan (S)
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Deliberations Suspended As Two Jurors Fall Ill
Date: 25 October 1999
Deliberations in trial of Abe Hirschfeld, real estate developer accused of hiring hit man in failed plot to kill his former business partner, are suspended after two jurors fall ill (S)
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