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...years have taken their toll on those who kept the secrets. When police began re-examining the case less than two years ago, they questioned a gang member who left a taped confession implicating fellow members before killing himself. Three other members suspected in the shooting have committed suicide. Two more died in accidents. July 1969 produced a case that will not be easy to close. But it can no longer take refuge in silence...
...PAKISTAN Refugees Suffer The plight of 80,000 Afghan refugees living in the squalid Jalozai camp near Peshawar worsened as a heatwave took its toll of the very young. At least 11 children have died from heatstroke, diarrhea and dehydration. Most of the Jalozai refugees are sheltered from sweltering temperatures by little more than plastic sheeting and have inadequate access to water. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have fled their homes in past months to escape a severe drought and the ongoing civil...
...inquiry into the continent's worst-ever soccer disaster. Witnesses said people were crushed to death while fleeing tear gas fired by police to control rioting near the end of the match. Hometown team Hearts of Oak had just taken the lead against archrival Asante Kotoko. The death toll from the other recent stadium disasters in Africa...
...then, for reasons that ultimately come down to the world's lack of resolve, the program fell apart. Funding disappeared, and plans were scaled back. Ten years later, 25 million Africans are infected; 18 million have died; and 13 million orphans struggle to cope without their parents. The toll is set to exceed that of the Black Death. One of the only success stories on the continent is that of Uganda, where those trained to work on the pilot program stayed on and, with support from Uganda's president and international donors, cut the rate of new infections by more...
Lawsuits against the more extreme groups have also taken their toll. Last October, in a case brought by the SPLC, the Aryan Nations white-supremacist group in northern Idaho lost its 20-acre compound near Coeur d'Alene. The Aryans are planning a parade with armed guards through the town this July, but police expect antimilitia protesters to outnumber marchers...