Nation briefs

Thousands mourn family killed in Kenya crash

ATLANTA -- Thousands of mourners poured into a memorial service Saturday for 12 family members killed in a Kenyan plane crash last week.

Dr. George Brumley, a philanthropist and former head of pediatrics at Emory University, was killed -- along with his wife, three children and their spouses and four grandchildren -- when their plane crashed into Mount Kenya on July 19. Two South African pilots also died in the crash.

"It was very heart-wrenching ... but I think this helped all of us," said Dr. Laraine Kendall, a retired Emory pediatrician who worked with Brumley.

The memorial service, held at a Presbyterian church in one of Atlanta's wealthiest neighborhoods, was closed to the press. A family spokesman said the remains have been recovered but are still being identified.

Brumley, 68, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro two years ago, had planned the trip as a way to share Africa's wonders with his family, friends have said.

Miners, rescuers recall coal mine accident

SOMERSET, Pa. -- The Quecreek Mine is "hallowed ground," former Gov. Mark Schweiker said Saturday as he returned to the spot where nine coal miners were brought to the surface after being trapped underground for three days.

"We had the finest minds in the world here, with their ingenuity and their equipment" laboring to find the miners "with no guarantees," said Schweiker, who became the public face of the 77-hour rescue last July.

Today is the first anniversary of the day that rescuers finally drilled a hole into the mine, which had been flooded by water from an abandoned, adjacent mine. Through that narrow shaft, the miners were pulled to the surface the next morning one at a time in a small rescue capsule.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has declared Monday as National Coal Mine Safety Awareness Day. It starts a two-week program of mine safety education for miners across the country.

CDC's HIV prevention plan faces criticism

SAN FRANCISCO -- Workshops on safe sex in San Francisco's Mission District. HIV-prevention skits developed by teenagers in Chicago. A ministry that counsels black women in Baltimore, where syphilis rates are shockingly high.

All are among the programs that could lose funding under the new HIV prevention strategy from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls for increased attention to people who already carry the virus that causes AIDS.

CDC officials say they intend to pay for the new initiative by diverting $42 million that now goes to nonprofit groups like those in San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore, whose work with uninfected people has been the norm for keeping the virus from spreading.

The plan, unveiled in April, faces mounting criticism from advocates and some federal lawmakers, who say it will shortchange proven prevention methods and represents a dangerous shift in the government's effort to combat HIV. They'll be pressing for more answers at the CDC's National AIDS Prevention Conference, which starts today in Atlanta.

Hillary Clinton's book will likely cover advance

NEW YORK -- The publisher of Sen. Hillary Clinton's memoir said the book's brisk sales would likely cover the former first lady's $8 million advance.

Carolyn Reidy, the president of adult books at Simon and Schuster, said reports from bookstores indicate that the book has sold at least 1.2 million copies, close to the 1.35 million copies that would cover the advance with hardcover sales alone, The New York Times reported Saturday.

"Living History" was released on June 9. The publisher ordered 1 million copies for the first printing, an extraordinarily high number for a nonfiction book.

Reidy said Clinton could likely expect royalties from foreign sales and paperback sales in the United States.

-- From wire reports