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DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland...
SWITZERLAND A Global Epidemic AIDS is spreading faster in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world, according to a report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva. The virus continues to plague Africa, where it has killed more than 2 million people this year. Cambodia, Thailand and Uganda won praise for their prevention campaigns. But unaids executive director Peter Piot said that the crisis "will get worse before it gets better" and warned of complacency in the West. The report came out in advance of World AIDS Day, which...
...became a test case for the fate of other Taliban and foreign fighters: Were they to be killed, taken prisoner or allowed to go home? After a first cease-fire fell through and thousands of Taliban supporters faced slaughter, the Red Cross called for all parties to observe the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Tensions emerged within the Northern Alliance, as diplomats scurried to arrange multiparty talks in Bonn aimed at securing enough political stability to begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with the Taliban , while the U.S. intensified the hunt for Osama...
...compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families; in Washington, D.C. Feinberg oversaw similar restitution for Agent Orange victims after the Vietnam War. APPOINTED. ROGER MILLA, 48, a Cameroon soccer legend, as the U.N.'s first African ambassador to spearhead its aids program; in Geneva. Milla, named the African player of the century by British magazine Africa Soccer, will travel around the continent next year to educate the public about the epidemic. ARRESTED. HUTOMO MANDALA PUTRA, 39, better known as Tommy Suharto; in Jakarta. The youngest son of Indonesia's ex-President, Tommy had been...
...putting their captors in mortal danger. But the U.N.'s Robinson and the Red Cross want to examine whether the military response to the revolt was "proportionate" to the threat it represented. Such concerns may ring a little in a country whose wars have never been fought according to Geneva Convention rules. They may not be paid much heed in the U.S., either, where the major media focus has been on "Mike" Spann as a heroic first American combat casualty in the war against the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocity. But the British media and important sections of London...