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...price offered to African countries for anti-AIDS "cocktails" to a fraction of what's charged in industrialized countries. One Bristol-Myers AIDS drug, Zerit, now costs just $54 a year in Africa; in the U.S., patients pay $3,589. This month, six other firms assured U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan they too would continue lowering prices. But at a conference in Norway last week with officials from the World Health Organization and World Trade Organization, some industry leaders resisted calls for further discounts. Said Bill Fullagar, the president of the U.K.'s pharmaceutical trade association: "The industry...
...human rights groups say he is the first American citizen indicted under the law. If convicted, he could face expulsion, a long prison term or even the death penalty. RESIGNATION RESCINDED. By MARY ROBINSON, 56, human rights chief of the United Nations, bowing to pressure from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan; in Nairobi, Kenya. Robinson, an outspoken former President of Ireland, said she would stay an extra 12 months despite a lack of funds that prompted her to step down...
...KOFI ANNAN No Kofi break at U.N.: Sec'y-Gen. re-ups for second term with virtually unanimous support...
...Taliban official reported to United Nations Secretary General Kofi A. Annan on Monday that the demolition of the two great standing Buddhas of Bamiyan was complete, dashing hopes that the last minute intervention could save the statues. Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar's edict that ordered all images and statues deemed "offensive to Islam" be destroyed was finally carried out. But the destruction did not go unnoticed. Government and religious leaders from around the world, as well as scholars and international aid organizations, rightfully denounced the mullah's decision as a coldly calculated maneuver designed to eliminate Buddhism and other...
...worse. Germany, for instance, has slashed monthly pocket money to $40 and requires would-be refugees to stay in detention centers for their first three months. At a time of upheaval throughout the developing world, Europe's parsimony has done nothing for its reputation. Last month U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan criticized European leaders as anti-immigrant, and the U.N.'s new High Commissioner for Refugees, former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, says Europe has a substantial capacity to receive higher numbers ... but there is a lack of generosity...