Tensions mount in Zimbabwe, as troops fired teargas today against student rioters.
Guinea is seeing unrest and conflict potential spread from neighbors Sierra Leone and Liberia. News from Chicago AIDS conference also finds that genetic evolution in the AIDS virus has led to strains resistant to multi-drug therapy and likely to spread as increasing proportion of HIV infections. Rene Lemarchand argued that reconciliation and justice first require truth which means overcoming genocide denial. Allies' intelligence staff had knowledge of mass exterminations, indicating a growing Nazi pattern of ethnic cleansing, as early as 1941, though little of this information was used or circulated. New information is also reviewed on the roles of specific Nazi officials and institutions, and plans to construct gas chambers demonstrate the early Nazi intent to deport Jews from the eastern front for extermination.