Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly this fear of an open-ended commitment that for weeks kept Bush from organizing any effective relief effort. As late as Saturday, April 13 -- only three days before he finally ordered Operation Haven -- the President declared in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama: "I do not want one single soldier or airman shoved into a civil war in Iraq that's been going on for ages." But while Bush was still in Alabama, where he had gone to fish for largemouth bass, Secretary of State James Baker phoned to report growing pressure from Congress and allies...
...while the U.S. Army will buy just enough Patriot missiles to replace those it used during the conflict, it has no plans to buy more in the future, said David G. Harris, public affairs officer at the U.S. Army missile command in Red Stone, Alabama...
...groups of scientists from UCLA and the University of Alabama believe they have found the beginning of an answer. In independent studies published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers demonstrated for the first time that the body launches a massive and effective counterattack on the virus soon after the infection begins. If doctors can figure out how to reproduce that early, powerful immune response, they might be able to develop better medical treatments that would postpone -- or prevent -- the later, debilitating stages of the disease...
...mononucleosis. Researchers realized the tip-off would come when they tested the patients and found HIV instead of influenza viruses or other disease-causing agents. By hanging out in hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, the researchers identified seven young homosexual men -- three in Alabama, four in California -- suffering from a primary HIV infection...
...bloodstream dropped precipitously. In the majority of cases, the researchers could detect little or no virus two to three weeks later. "In other words, the normal immune system can shut down the AIDS virus," says Dr. Stephen Clark, who organized the study at the University of Alabama. Now researchers must figure out exactly how the body puts together this early effective defense -- and how the virus manages, years later, to circumvent...