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Reports on the increase of people, mostly homeless men and cabdrivers, urinating in public in New York. Increase blamed on lack of public facilities, laziness, and an increase in homelessness. Enforcement by Department of Sanitation and Transit Authority; Vandalized facilities.

Presents a special report on treating AIDS, focusing on Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York City's largest municipal hospital. Procedures for helping patients and workers; Fear among resident doctors that AIDS will monopolize theirtraining; Stress; Depression; Patients' attitudes.

Presents an occasional look at the races for New York's new City Council. Focuses on the neighborhood politics in Jackson Heights, Corona, Elmhurst and East Elmhurst, where Hispanic leaders have begun courting people who cannot vote in this election because they are not American citizens. Many of the leaders have written off a Hispanic victory in this year's primary, but they hope to get recent immigrants to become US citizens and are setting their sights on 1993.

Reports that New York State will more than double, and in some cases triple, the Medicaid fees paid to private doctors for AIDS-related services to encourage more of them to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus. This program of Medicaid reimbursement to primary care and specialty doctors was developed by the New York Health Department's AIDS Institute and the State Social Services Department. Referrals to experts; New rates needed.

Discusses how homelessness in New York City can severely hamper efforts to fight the effects of AIDS. Surviving with AIDS hinges not only on getting medical care but on avoiding exposure to diseases like tuberculosis, which are rampant on the streets and in shelters.

Discusses the criticism of Brooklyn's proposed Ujamaa Institute, a public high school that would address problems that disproportionately affect black and Hispanic boys and young men. Racial segregation; New York Civil Liberties Union's view; How students feel about it.

Tells about the painting of St. Irene in the St. Irene Chrysovalantou Greek Orthodox Church in Astoria, Queens. After a service for peace in the Persian Gulf, the saint is said to have started to weep.

Says that while Puerto Ricans have traveled to New York for economic reasons for decades, those who are HIV-positive have been coming more recently to fight a killer disease and, when faced with defeat, return home to die. Now, responding to the strains such flow has created for AIDS services and families, officials in New York and Puerto Rico will for the first time try to measure the size of this migrant group and its needs. What is being planned.

Reports that the Dinkins Administration will permit drug addicts in New York City to receive clean hypodermic needles under an ambitious research effort designed to measure whether such an approach will slow the spread of AIDS. This will be the first program done in a large inner-city area with one of the highest rates of infection among drug users.

States that New York City officials said that the Census Bureau may have missed 200,000 housing units in its count of the city for the 1990 census. How the city is making its own count.

Explains the reason why preliminary Census Bureau figures show that New York City shrank during the 1980s. Several census workers readily conceded that they missed many people in poor and wealthy neighborhoods alike. Nervous householders; Obstinate doormen; Misinformation from neighbors and managing agents.

Reveals preliminary 1990 census figures which show New York City with a population of 7,033,179, significantly smaller than the Census Bureau estimated in 1988. Debate over accuracy of the 1990 count; Effect on Congressional seats for the State;Effect on federal aid.

Says that the bodies of the 48 people who died in the fire at the Happy Land Social Club are being shipped back to Honduras. Emotions ran high as the coffins were unloaded from the plane.

Reports that visits to New York were down in 1989, but the real concern is that 1989 was the start of a long downward slide. Businesses shying away from high hotel prices for conventions; Tourists trying different, less familiar parts of the country.