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...desire for a smooth transition also seemed to be a factor in choosing the new Director of Central Intelligence: Robert Gates, a 20-year CIA veteran and Casey protege who has been running the agency since Casey was hospitalized. Gates, who at 43 is the youngest Director ever named, is expected to help restore the CIA's public image and repair its damaged relations with Congress. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "They wanted...
While Iran threatens to remain a blot on Casey's record, many in Washington agree that the former Director revived an agency demoralized by budget cuts and scandal. His clout with the President helped to triple the CIA budget and elevate the Director of Central Intelligence to Cabinet rank. As Director, Casey also achieved greater cooperation than ever before among the nation's eleven intelligence organizations...
...staggering statistics, frightening findings and apocalyptic statements, uncertainties abound. Few experts expect the situation in the U.S. ever to reach the catastrophic proportions evident in Central Africa. While the African epidemic is spreading throughout the general population, in the U.S., it is concentrated among high-risk groups: homosexual and bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers. The proportion of heterosexual cases, however, is increasing at a worrisome rate. For the present the heterosexuals facing the greatest threat are those most likely to consort with infected drug addicts: mainly the inner-city poor, who tend to be black or Hispanic. "Two- thirds...
Josephine's tragedy is the tragedy of central Africa. AIDS has swept across the midsection of the continent like an ancient curse, and will soon have extended its reach through most of western and southern Africa. In Uganda the number of AIDS victims is doubling every four to six months. Says Dr. Samuel Okware, the Ministry of Health official in charge of Uganda's AIDS prevention program: "In the year 2000, one in every two sexually active adults will be infected." The Geneva-based World Health Organization estimates that 2 million to 5 million Africans are now carriers...
...first cases of AIDS arose among African prostitutes in the late 1970s, at about the same time it first appeared among Americans and Haitians. The disease has now spread to some 30 African countries, mostly in the so-called AIDS belt -- the string of central and east African countries that include Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zambia. Medical researchers caution that most AIDS studies done so far in Africa are spotty and preliminary. But none doubt that AIDS is both widespread and running out of control...