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Despite all the progress, the AIDS virus still takes a terrible physical and emotional toll. Each day at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center, women infected with the AIDS virus ask if they can still have children. Patients are told that chances are greater than 1 in 4 that their child would be born with the virus. The prognosis for these children is bleak, especially since they may be orphaned...
...nighttime Siberian skies that was visible to observers more than 60 miles away. The bodies of 137 of the 1,200 passengers aboard the trains were recovered, 53 more died en route to the hospital and an unknown number were completely incinerated in the blast, making a precise toll impossible. More than 700 passengers and crew, many of them horribly burned, required hospitalization. The victims included many children on their way to summer camps on the Black Sea. On Saturday a train traveling from that resort area crashed into a bus, killing 31 people and injuring at least 14 others...
...democracy had become a horrible nightmare. Hospitals reported receiving scores of dead and hundreds or even thousands of wounded. One anguished doctor reported at least 500 dead. When the government radio announced that 1,000 had died, the station's personnel were quickly removed, and no further death toll was broadcast. Reports circulated that many bodies were being trucked away to be cremated, so the real count may never be known...
...certainly wasn't last week. On Saturday we were ready to go to press in the U.S. and Canada with a cover story on the frightening tide of violence among American youths when we heard news of the massacre in Beijing. Shortly before midnight, with the death toll rising into the hundreds, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss made the decision to change the cover. Then, as if things were not complicated enough, he heard that Ayatullah Khomeini had died in Iran. That story too is in this issue, even though it occurred only hours before the presses were set to roll...
Meanwhile, the daily death toll from drug-related violence in the nation's major cities is reaching numbing proportions. The number of drug-related murders in the nation's capital has averaged well over one a day so far this year. The figures in New York City, Los Angeles and Detroit reveal that these cities are not far behind. Thousands of babies are now being born with severe brain damage because their mothers are addicted to crack...