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- Feb. 28, 1994: Died:Randy Shilts
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 28, 1994 Ministry of Rage:Louis Farrakhan
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. RANDY SHILTS, 42, journalist and author of a ground-breaking
- book about the AIDS epidemic; of AIDS; in Guerneville, California.
- Shilts, one of the country's first openly gay reporters, joined
- the San Francisco Chronicle in 1981. Soon after, word spread
- of mysterious outbreaks of rare types of skin cancer and pneumonia
- among gay men. At the time, Shilts was one of the few journalists
- who took the disease--AIDS--seriously. He recounted his
- investigation in the 1987 best seller And the Band Played On,
- a blistering attack on the failure of governments and the medical
- establishment to recognize the epidemic.
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