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AIDS crisis hits hard
in South Africa
1 JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — AIDS has rapidly
crept up on South Africa and pos
es a tragedy worse than apartheid,
the United Nation’s top AIDS offi
cial said Monday.
"We are faced with an unprece
dented crisis,” said Dr. Peter Piot,
head of the U.N. AIDS program.
He said the scourge is worse than
South Africa’s former system of
white minority rule or natural
tragedies like drought.
"None of them will claim so
many victims,” he said.
About two-thirds of the 33 mil
lion people worldwide who are
infected with the HIV virus that
causes AIDS live south of the Sa
hara. An estimated two million
people will die of the disease in
sub-Saharan Africa this year, four
times the total for the rest of the
world.
Apartheid, which ended in
1994, helped isolate South Africa
and made it a latecomer to the
AIDS epidemic. But it is fast catch
ing up with its neighbors. An esti
mated 3.2 million South Africans
are HIV positive, or about 12 to 14
percent of adults.
More than 1 million South
Africans will have died of AIDS by
2001, bringing the life expectancy
down from 68 years to 48 within
the first decade of the new millen
nium, the U.N. Development Pro
gram said.
Mother pleads guilty to
strangling her children
2 ST. PAUL, Minn. — A sobbing
mother pleaded guilty Monday
to murdering her six children,
ages 5 to 11, in what her attorney
said was a fit of suicidal distress.
“I strangled their necks,” said
Khoua Her, a Laotian-born Hmong
woman who spoke through an in
terpreter as Ramsey County prose
cutor Chris Wilton asked her to
describe the Sept. 3 killings.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty
to second-degree murder, agree
ing to a 50-year sentence that
would make her eligible for parole
in a little more than 33 years.
"This was her only opportunity
to cut a deal where she may get out
someday,” said defense attorney
Bruce Wenger. “She’s doing way,
way, way too much time, hut the
risks were too great should we go
to a jury and lose.”
Her stared at the floor and cried
through much of the hearing as the
prosecutor sought details about
the deaths of her three sons and
three daughters. Each of the six
times she was asked whether she
intended to kill her victim, she
replied: “Yes.”
She said the children were out
side playing on the evening of the
murders. She called them in one
by one and tied a piece of black
cloth around their necks.
Under questioning from
Wenger, Her said she was suicidal
the day of the killings and mur
dered the children because she
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was worried about what would
happen to her children after she
died.
"If I died, then nobody would
love my children,” she said.
Death row inmate
evades authorities
3 HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Inves
tigators found a hacksaw blade
they believe was used by convict
ed killer Martin Gurule to begin
his escape from death row, prison
officials said Monday.
Gurule remained free for a
fourth day despite the efforts of
500 prison guards and 70 tracking
dogs who crisscrossed heavily
wooded and swampy areas
around the state’s death row.
"We’re going to go on the as
sumption he’s still here until we
find evidence he’s not,” said Sgt.
Tommy Freeman, who manages
the dog teams at the prison.
Gurule and six other con
demned killers likely used the
hacksaw blade to cut through a
recreation yard fence at Ellis Unit
about 85 miles northeast of Hous
ton. They made it onto the roof,
but six of the inmates were caught
after guards starting firing.
Gurule, 29, went on to scale two
fences topped with razor wire and
dashed across a grassy area to dis
appear into heavy fog. He’s the
first inmate in 64 years to escape
from the state’s death row.
—The Associated Press
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