Hut by Hut, AIDS Steals Life in a Southern Africa Town
Article A Hollowed Generation describes how AIDS is steadily boring through heart of one small town in Africa, stealing life and breeding desperation as it is doing across continent; Lavumisa, Swaziland, has lost parents, teachers and health workers who leave behind destitute orphans with few healthy kin to care for them; tiny town of 2,000 is template for demographic plunge in every corner of southern Africa as AIDS reduces life expectancy to levels of 1800's; average child born today will not live to 40; photos; map; charts; terrible ripples that unrestrained epidemic sends through small village described; schools collapse, crime rises, medical clinics are jammed and family assets are sold to fend off hunger because adults are dead, and their deaths have robbed survivors of their own aspirations (L)