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that the agency’s employment
policies will not be an issue.

AIDS treatment

CHICAGO — There’s been
another possible advance in
AIDS treatment.

Government researchers say
adding a cancer-fighting sub-
stance appears to boost the
effectiveness of AIDS drug
cocktails. ,

The researchers hope inter-
leukin 2 will translate into bet-
ter survival rates for AIDS
patients. The treatment is still
experimental.

The findings appear in the
Journal of the American
Medical Association.

Though potent combina-
tions ofAIDS drugs in the past
decade have made AIDS more
manageable by subduing the
virus, they are not a cure.
Worried about drug-resistant
virus strains, researchers tried
adding interleukin-2 to the
mix.

Interleukin 2 is a protein
that regulates the body’s
immune response. The study
involved 78 patients on various
combinations ofantiviral AIDS

drugs. About half also got‘

twice-daily injections of inter-
leukin-2 periodically during
the two-year study, which
ended in l998.The AIDS virus
was suppressed in almost twice
as many of the interleukin
patients, 67 percent versus 36
percent.

WV murder

GRANT TOWN, W.Va. -
There’s been another ugly mur-
der of a gay man.

Two teen-agers beat the man
to death, then drove over the
body several times to make it
look like a hit-and—run, police
say.

Gay rights groups. demand-
ed to know whether the victim
was killed because of his
homosexuality and the FBI is
investigating. '

Police said two 17-year-old
boys confessed to killing
Arthur “J.R.” Warren Jr., 26.

  
 

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Authorities have refused to
specify a motive, but Sheriff
Ron Watkins said, “All of them
were longtime acquaintances. l
think it was something done in
a moment ofanger. We have no
indication that it was a hate
crime.”

The two. teen-agers, whose
identities were withheld
because of their age, were
charged with first-degree mur-
der.

Warren’s mother, Brenda,

Warren, said her slightly built
son had been constantly
harassed about being different
in the small, rural town of
about 700. “He would just
accept it and not hold a
grudge,” she said.

NY hate crimes

PURCHASE, N.Y. — After
a decade of trying, New York
state now has a hate-crimes
law.

Gov. George Pataki signed
New York state’s new hate-
crimes law at the headquarters
of the Westchester Holocaust

Commission at Manhattanville
College. It came 10 years after
a version first passed the
Assembly.

“Sometimes, justice takes a
little longer than we would
have liked,” the governor said.

Senate Republicans had
blocked the bill in the past,
arguing that singling out some
crimes for higher penalties was
unfair to victims of non—bias
crimes.

However, pressure grew
over the years and, when
Majority Leader Joseph Bruno
allowed it to come to the floor
last month, it passed easily and
with considerable Republican
support.

“The people of New York
are saying at last that all of
us——black and white, gay and
straight, Christian, Jew and
Muslim—we will fight this
battle together,” said Matt
Foreman, executive director of
the Empire State Pride Agenda.
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