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The government ban on mass funerals for the victims of violence in the 36 districts where the emergency laws are in effect was a sharp blow to blacks, who have been barred from holding political meetings of any kind. The funerals have been drawing as many as 50,000 mourners...
Bukhris, 32, had been shot and killed in the West Bank town of Nablus, where he operated a food kiosk, by the Syria-based Abu Mousa branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The group is hostile to Yasser Arafat's main-line P.L.O. Only two days before the shooting, Bukhris...
Even in death the AIDS victim is shunned. In St. Louis and New York, undertakers have refused to embalm the remains of patients. In Los Angeles, a funeral parlor was asked to handle the body of three-year-old Sammy Kushnick, who had died from AIDS contracted through a blood...
In Los Angeles, Carol Archer, 40, was assigned by the Shanti Foundation, another AIDS support group, to attend to the needs of a dying 31-year-old patient. He was alone; family and friends had withdrawn from him as lesions spread over most of his body. When Archer helped him...
Constitutional reform, if indeed it is on the way, would be coming none too soon. After almost a month of emergency rule in 36 magisterial districts, the country is in greater upheaval than it has been for at least a quarter-century. The number of people arrested without charges, most...