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Show 20 Textbook Buykack MIGRANT April 25 - May 4 8 am-5 pm 10 am-2 pm Old Main 9am-4pm Business Building Thur, April 28-Wed, May 4 Closed Saturday 9:30 am-5 pm Lundstrom Student Living Center Thur, April 28-Wed, May 4 Closed Saturday AIDS California system. "The concern is whether with that much risk behavior, the HIV epidemic is on the threshold of a rapid increase " he said. To keep that from happening, UARP is working with state agencies, clinics and even the Mexican government to test and educate migrants. In northern San Diego County, Vera's teamfromthe Vista Community Clinic scribbles medical histories, takes blood samples and answers questions from workers. An encouraging 75 percent of those tested for HIV eventually get their results and education about the disease, she said. Among them is Jose Hernandez, 35, a native of Oaxaca who has lived six years in a makeshift plastic room near thefieldswhere he picks strawberries and avocados. "It's scary, but I go now," he said. Researchers said migrants who spend long stretches of time away from their families can be exposed to HIV through sex with other workers and prostitutes. "A person has needs," Hernandez said. "You are here, very alone." Many migrants forego con- TSC Hallway Thur, April 28-Wed, May 4 Closed Saturday 10 am-4 pm Get it at you?' UtohStote UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE AP Photo/Lenny Ignetzi MIGRANT WORKER ARMANDO LUNES GOMEZ, right, responds to a question from a Universitywide Aids Research Program researcher (not seen in photo) as fellow worker Sebastian Sanchez Hernandez looks on, Tuesday, at a day labor center in Fallbrook, Calif. doms and sometimes share needles to inject vitamins to stave off illness and exhaustion, Lemp said. Hernandez knows condoms are important but admits he doesn't always use them. The number of migrant workers with HIV in California is difficult to calculate because the population is so mobile. 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Court convicts Argentine of'dirty war' atrocities Hi l i t if ii Clarksburg WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,2005 From page 2 locations Mon, April 25-Wed, May 4 Saturday, April 30 STATESMAN"'\VORLD & NATION <fc Oh'ne C%r/ 7J3-4S7O allegedly committed by Spanish court ties military regimes in Argentina and Chile. He admitted to participating in two "death sentences man flights" in which 30 people were thrown to their deaths to 640 years into the Atlantic. He said he knew of other atrocities when he was based at the Buenos in prison Aires Navy School of Mechanics, one of the regime's most notorious torAssociated Press ture centers. MADRID, Spain — A National Court Judge Spanish court convicted a Baltasar Garzon, who was former Argentine naval offiinvestigating the alleged cer of crimes against humani- crimes, subsequently jailed ty Tbesday and sentenced and indicted Scilingo. him to 640 years in prison for During the trial, which throwing 30 naked, drugged included testimonyfromtorprisoners from planes during ture survivors, Scilingo insisthis country's "dirty war" more ed he fabricated the taped than two decades ago. testimony to trigger an inquiry into the dirty war. His Argentines who lost loved ones in the campaign against court-appointed lawyer, Fernando Martinez Morata, dissent — some wore clothes said Scilingo was a scapegoat bearing stickers with photos for broader crimes in of victims — hugged each Argentina. other and cried with relief after the landmark ruling was Scilingo had been accused read out against 58-year-old of genocide, torture and terAdolfo Scilingo. rorism. But on l\iesday, the The verdict closes Spain's verdict said his offenses were first trial under a law that better described as "crimes says crimes against humanity against humanity" and sencan be tried in the country tenced him to 21 years in even if they are alleged to prison for each of the 30 peohave been committed elseple thrown from planes. He where — part of a growing also receivedfiveyears for body of international legislatorture andfivefor illegal tion that also has been detention. applied for Rwanda and the Under Spanish law, the former Yugoslavia. maximum a person can serve "With Scilingos conviction in prison is 30 years for most we've sent a worldwide mescrimes, or 40 years for terrorsage to all dictatorships and ism. Spain has no death people who have committed penalty or life imprisonment, genocide telling them that and sentences of hundreds or they are not safe wherever even thousands of years are they are " said Juan Diego not uncommon. Prosecutors Botto, whose father was had sought a jail term of killed in an Argentine "death 9,138 years for Scilingo. flight." Enrique Borcel, 60, an The three-judge panel said Argentine who said he was in its 200-page ruling that kidnapped and tortured durScilingo was guilty of taking ing the military regime, said active part in the Argentine the number of years in the juntas drive to crush leftist sentence did not matter. dissent during the 1976-83 "What is important is that military dictatorship, noting Scilingo was tried and conthat he was on two of the exe- victed," said Borcel, who now cution flights. lives in Spain. "The evidence Scilingo did not react to the against him was enough. His verdict, but took notes as the allegations and lies were not" sentence was read. His lawyer The judges said they said he would appeal. believed Scilingo's earlier Scilingo came to Spain vol- confessions were sincere and untarily in 1997 to testify that he was tormented by before a judge probing atroci- guilt. BY MAR ROMAN 45 NORTH MAIN /V KOSS I KOM I I II IAN KNAt I I , Nl XI IO II II IM KMON IT V Ot K 30%on IOKUSLIsiUDINis |