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22 Inmate, family seek AIDS awareness "My sister was a straight-A student with high honors," said Tracy. "I skipped school and got into trouble. My parents didn't know how to deal with me. Compared to Debbie, I was wild. "I didn't get along wixh my mother.

She always said no, my father always said yes. She'd hand down disciplinary treatment, and I resented that. We're so much alike, both very stubborn. There was no communication." "We'd rarely tell each other we loved each other," Tracy said. "I thought she hated me.

We couldn't express how we felt unless it was negative. We had no problem yelling at each other. I started running away because I couldn't abide the rules of the house." You have to take what they give you." Tracy, who has been off drugs since February when she reentered Framingham state prison, said that with AIDS "I have good days and bad days. The medical staff can handle the everyday seizure or the common cold, but nothing serious. They don't have enough nurses." Tracy wants access to the drug AZT, which prolongs lives, but she cannot get it until her T-cell count is at or below 500.

Right now, the count is 20 points too high, she said. In Massachusetts' 21 state prisons, 12 inmates have AIDS and 250 more have the HIV virus, according to Tim Gagnon, AIDS coordinator for the state Department of But because nearly half of the AIDS is not restricted to any segment of the population. And, with a daughter in prison with the disease, Tracy's parents worry about her treatment and that of other inmates in state institutions. "When I see what it's taking out of us to get her proper care," said her father, "we wonder what happens with everybody else who has no one to go to bat for them." When the Framingham prison physician told her she tested positive, "I was mad," said Tracy. "I was mad at him.

All he said was, 'You're He offered no explanation as to what that meant. It's hard having AIDS anyway, but it's harder here because you don't have the options you ivould on the outside. You can't really get good treatment here. inmate population of 8,000 has a history of substance abuse, a correction employee said privately, "the numbers must be higher." When Tracy was 14, her parents gave custody of her to the state Department of Social Services because she was a truant. She ran from every foster home and, at 15, was remanded to the Department of Youth Ser-vices, which operates lockup facilities.

"When I was a kid, I felt I couldn't live at home because it was so bad," she said. "It wasn't I wanted to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. I moved out for good at 17, met a guy and snorted coke. Another guy gave me a bag of heroin. I tried it and I never stopped." At 16, she was a high school dropout.

ARMY Continued from Page 17 exposed to AIDS was through a blood transfusion. Other i than that, I hit all the bases." Tracy comes from an upper-mid- die-class Shrewsbury family of four. mother, as founder of Orrian Enterprises, is an AIDS education consultant She also is an occupation-; a health nurse at the Waters Division of Millipore Corp. in Milford. Her- father is a manager at Digital Equipment Corp.

She has a sister, Detiqrah, who is 18 months older and in the health care field in Spreading awareness of AIDS This family agreed to be inter-! viewed to drive home the point that IProsecutor says Luna seeks leverage for himself in Griffiths case 6 forces hunt for robber-rapist DRAPES Continued from Page 17 "It does show us a similar pattern as to the suspect in Norwood and the others," said Boston police spokesman Scott Gillis. Bishop and spokesmen from the other departments said descriptions by several victims are similar. A composite of descriptions indicates that the attacker is a white man, between 5 feet 7 and 6 feet tall, heavy set (weighing 200 pounds or more), in his mid-30s, with either reddish brown or black hair. The attacker always acted alone and almost always carried a revolver. He struck stores in heavily traveled areas.

In several cases he ordered store employees into a back room or tied them up. In at least three cases, the suspect referred to a friend or accomplice outside who would hurt the victims further if they left the store too soon after the crime. "He fits the bill," said Bishop. In four of the crimes women were sexually assaulted or raped. According to investigators, the first known attack was at a small downtown Boston store around 4 p.m.

Dec. 16. Gillis said a robber -armed with a gun sexually assaulted a female employee of the store. In another attack, on Christmas Eve at 4 p.m., a woman in her 20s was sexually assaulted at a store in The Burlington Coat Mall on Granite Street in Braintree by a gun-wielding robber who said a friend was waiting for him outside, according to Braintree Detective Sgt. Paul Fra-zier.

On Dec. 27 at 10:15 a.m., a man carrying a revolver raped two women employees of the Hit or Miss Store on Route 9 in Framingham before escaping with money from the cash register and the safe, Framingham Police Sgt. Steven Worio said. The detective said the man locked one of the women in a closet while he raped the other. Then he raped the second woman while the first was locked in the closet.

Last Friday, Norwood police said a female employee at the Cellular One store on Route 1 in the Galleria on the Green was raped around 1 p.m. by a robber, who had ordered her at gunpoint into a back room. an informant, whom Luna had cited in an affidavit used to obtain the no-knock warrant prompted a judge to dismiss the charges against Lewin last year. The informant was cited as providing a physical description of a drug dealer in the apartment that does not fit Lewin. The Supreme Judicial Court later reinstated the charges.

Lewin's lawyers are arguing that LUNA Continued from Page 17 'i will begin another i hearing today on a defense motion challenging the validity of a search jf-thethird-floor apartment in where earlier an unseen CTtiman had fatally shot Griffiths Ijhreugh the door as Griffiths and tuna-'attempted to execute a warrant i't Jhe failure by police to produce the charges should be dismissed again because misconduct was not limited to the police drug control squad and the drug investigation as the SJC believed, but also reached to Brendan Bradley and Assistant District Attorney Francis O'Meara 3rd and their prosecution of the murder case. Luna testified during the evidentiary hearing that Bradley had sug- withhold the informant explained the "extraordinary lack of curiosity" by the homicide sergeant and prosecutor about the informant "The reason there was no curiosity is because they knew, they knew what the situation was, probably right away," said Stern. Stern said testimony showed that Bradley and O'Meara had presumed for a year after the shooting that there was an informant who had seen the drug dealer and "had exculpatory information that could destroy the commonwealth's case." The prosecution has since claimed there is no such informant. Stern added that O'Meara and Bradley gave conflicting testimony about Luna's reaction when they each told him he would have to produce the informant O'Meara testified that Luna steadfastly refused to produce the informant, while Bradley said Luna agreed to but never turned over the informant. gested to him shortly after Griffiths was killed to falsely claim the informant was dead.

O'Meara the next day reinforced the suggestion, Luna i Bradley and O'Meara have denied the charges. O'Meara said it was Luna who hinted at filing the false report and he admonished the detective for making the suggestion. Mundy said the judge's decision will boil down to the credibility of the witnesses. Mundy said Luna has reason to try to retaliate against O'Meara by making false allegations because O'Meara "had gone behind" his back last year to find the informant and when he did, it "spelled doom for Luna," who up to that point had not admitted he had lied about the informant and that the search warrant affidavit contained false information. Stern said, however, that Luna's testimony about the alleged plot to DAYS OMLYBS BOYD DISTRIBUTOR WAREHOUSE FLOOR SAMPLE and 1 0 i TO 75 BELOW WHOLESALE CRATCH Econonrvwfiib.

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