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Show zgr World Wednesday, September 26. 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah s Briefs WHO: AIDS will kill millions - GENEVA (AP) By the year 2000 at least 10 million children will likely be infected with the AIDS virus, while another 10 million will be orphaned by the immune-strippin- g disease, the World Health Organization says. Most victims will be in the Third World, where AIDS will become a major child killer, Dr. Michael Merson, a WHO official, said Tuesday. That would reverse progress made in improving health through vaccinations and other child care programs. WHO forecast that HIV, the Hu of children jp-- V i . - 4 n y rVJ n i 1 " Iraq has 430,000 x man Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS, will spread to 25 to 30 million people by the year 2000. Previous projections of 15 to 20 million did not take children into account, a WHO statement said. The U.N. agency estimates that 8 million to 10 million people, including 3 million women of childbear-in- g age, may already be infected with the virus. Merson told a news conference that WHO only recently started compiling statistics on childhood cases because of the upsurge in infection among women, and hence their offspring, was still relatively new. "4..... i ' , 1 7 J! Kuwait, U.S. says - . K5 - Drug Enforcement Administration agents in recent years. Poor communications from the remote region prevented the news from reaching official circles until Tuesday. "The traffickers reacted in a violent way because they are beginning to feel the affects of the U.S. and Bolivian anti-dru- g operations," Gelbard said. Police and agents were on a routine patrol in the Chapare region when at least 20 heavily armed traffickers fired on them, the ambassador told The Associated Press. ne-producing anti-narcoti- cs Police returned the fire and killed at least one of the machine traffickers, U.S. Ambassador Robert Gelbard said Tuesday. The agent was shot in the arm and leg but not seriously hurt. Job quota riots rise - StuNEW DELHI, India (AP) dent riots against new government job quotas for lower caste groups today spread across northern India, leaving at least five people dead. Prime Minister V.P. Singh offered to meet students, hoping to end the unrest, but authorities also tightened security in New Delhi, mobilized troops and imposed curfews in four other cities. In a continuing wave of protest suicides, a student doused himself with gasoline near New Delhi's his body before he was taken to hospital. The students, mostly upper caste, - rocket-propelle- Rival d p, Thunderous shell blasts jolted iousands of residents from bed in Beirut's Christian sector. They scurried into basements and in Bel-gra- no under- ground bomb bunkers in the emand battled districts of Sin El-F- il week, the Pentagon said Tuesday. 0 The United States has about troops in the Persian Gulf region. Separately, a senior Pentagon official disclosed that Soviet military advisers in Iraq are performing maintenance on Iraqi aircraft behind the front lines. The official, speaking on condition he not be identified, said U.S. intelligence analysts believe that between 500 and 1,000 Soviet advisers remain in Iraq and that an undetermined number are helping maintain Iraq's warplanes. "We're not very sure about exactly what they're doing" in Iraq beyond working on aircraft and spokesman, said Iraq has shifted mechanized forces back from Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia into "tactical reserve positions.'' They are being replaced on the front line with infantry units, he said. The result has been a large increase in the total number of troops in the area. "Our analysts think that what they're gaining is flexibility" for the mechanized units, Williams said. The spokesman said the reported increases in Iraqi troops and tank deployments are partly due to the Pentagon including a larger geographic area in its count. Williams said he could not estimate how much of the increase was due to this factor. Pete Williams, the Pentagon ade against Iraq. Veterans of the Falklands War and mothers of sons killed in that war protested Argentine President Carlos Menem's decision to send warhips to the gulf. China praises itself for diplomatic rebound - northern India cease - fire grenades today in one of the most serious breaches of their cease-fir- e in four months. Police said a woman was killed and another wounded in the flare-uwhich occurred at daybreak between rebel Gen. Michel Aoun's troops and Christian warlord Samir Geagea's Lebanese Forces militia. ' stand at as their, navy destroyer Almirante Brown leaves Puerto Naval Base bound for the Persian Gulf to join the United Nations' naval block Argentine seamen attention Tuesday BEIJING (AP) China today applauded its diplomatic rebound from last year's status as an object of world scorn to this year's as respected participant in U.N. deliberations on the Persian Gulf. "This year our nation's foreign relations have made gratifying e progress," declared a front-pag- People's Daily editorial. The newspaper's editorials are written by the top Communist Party leadership and amount to policy state ments. China "is winning more and more friends worldwide and a good international prestige," the editorial said. It maintained that this vindicated China's domestic policies, including its violent crushing movement of a massive student-le- d for democracy in June 1989. That incident, in which hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed, caused the industrialized democracies to freeze high-levexchanges el with China and curb soft loans. But the sanctions have recently shown signs of crumbling, due to China's release of hundreds of political prisoners and its cooperation in approving U.N. Security Council resolutions punishing Iraq. "Since last year, international forces completely hostile to China raised an anti-Chitide and brazenly interfered in China's internal The People's Daily said China's foreign policy gains were a "vivid reflection of our country's indeand peaceful pendent, foreign policy." "China did not knuckle under to foreign pressure and continued to carry out the basic line set by our party of building socialism with Chinese characteristics." established sanctions against our country and plotted to affairs, isolate China. Official: U.S. will cut troops but not leave Europe -- Sweden (AP) The United States expects to reduce its 300,000 troops in Europe by at least a third over the next five but does not plan a total years pullout, the American ambassador to NATO said today. "There are very important opportunities for reducing our forces and for restructuring them" in the changing Europe, William H. Taft IV told journalists at the end of a brief visit to neutral Sweden. "We expect to see, within the next five years, a reduction of at STOCKHOLM, nt BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Christian forces battled with mor- tars, tanks and Gulf- bound believe they will lose coveted civil service positions to less qualified Indians of lower castes, for whom the Singh government has established an affirmative action program reserving nearly half the jobs for them. Three people were killed and 25 wounded by police gunfire near Meerut, 55 miles west of New Delhi, police told United News of India. Two more people were killed in clashes with police in Jammu, 240 miles north of the capital. Residents and housewives in New Delhi joined students in the streets of middle-clas- s neighborhoods in confronting police and shouting slogans. police headquarters and lit a match, inflicting burns over half Rival forces break AP Laserphuto coca-produci- The ambush Monday was the most serious confrontation between traffickers and Bolivian police and official said. He added that withdrawal of the Soviet advisers would not have much effect on Iraq's military capabilities. performing unspecified training roles for the Iraqi military, the 165,-00- U.S. cocai- WASHINGTON (AP) Baghdad has boosted its troop strength in Kuwait and southern Iraq by more than 50 percent over the past two weeks to a total of about 430,000 men, the Pentagon says. In the past week President Sad- dam Hussein has added 70,000 troops to the area, following an increase of 95,000 the previous U.S. drug agent wounded in ambush LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) A U.S. drug agent patrolling a major region with Bolivian police and other American agents was wounded by drug traffickers in an ambush, the U.S. ambassador reported. troops in or near ieT. V. in Beirut Nabaa, police said. The fighting tapered into sporadic sniping at midmorning. Police said traffic between the Moslem and Christian sectors of the capital was not affected by the hostilities. Each side blamed the other for the violation of the May 17 ceasefire, which halted 15 weeks of savage fighting between Aoun's troops and Geagea's 6,000 militiamen for mastery of the Christian enclave north and northeast of Beirut. least a third (of U.S. troops in Europe), from 300,000 to 200,000," Taft said. "If things go well, we could see further reductions." He also said that other countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are considering a U.S. request to send ground troops to join American, British, French and Turkish soldiers facing Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf region. He did not name the countries considering the request. Other NATO countries are West Germany, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Den- mark, Norway, Canada, Iceland, He said West Germany sent ships to the Mediterranean. "We're happy with the positive responses. ... We would like to see the European allies do more," Taft said. Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Secretary of State James A. Baker m has said soldiers and airplanes from other nations would be welcome, even if the numbers were only symbolic, in the effort to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Taft said all NATO countries have contributed military vessels to the international armada enforcing an embargo on trade with Iraq, except Iceland and Luxembourg, "which don't have any." International cooperation on the Persian Gulf crisis is important because, Taft said, "We're setting War) order up the new (post-Col- d of things, and the world needs to make it very clear that invading a country and taking it over won't be accepted." 15,-0- By police count, at least 1,045 people were killed and 2,798 wounded in the power struggle. mi aaaa 1 air R O K E R S flD I 7 S7 V GREAT VET. TERMS 90 Says no interest no PAYMENT! 90 DAYS NO ,' HZ its cted hard" SOEFTUBEDPIUSH . HIGH mZeftron sun6 it tfl ngwon ScotchgarcL AJNUELEASS MHBEBS rnoose 'ram oreat ir by BASF FIBERS TODAY! nntTT? IsURTlRG Now Open: University Cottonwood Professional Eye Examination Mall Available Mall 272-626- 224-13- 1 170 - B 6H 95 MEEY CARPET OFF Vinyl Per Load Yd. Sowirou, 5788 1 '30 Fe PRICED TO MOVE! I CHOOSE FROM OREM'S BIGGEST SELECTION OF: Stain Resistant Carpet FREE VOTES Blues- Tr" No Wax Vinyl Hardwood Fioors Ceramic Tile Commercial Carpet SOUTH STATE ST.. 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