Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first effective anti-AIDS vaccine could come into use by 1990 at the earliest, WHO officials believe. The $1.5 billion a year that the Geneva-based United Nations agency will need by then to fight the disease will be three times the organization's current annual budget. Put another way, the cost of the battle will be five times as great as the amount WHO spent between 1967 and 1977 in its successful campaign to eradicate smallpox...
...wake of the latest punitive measures against South Africa, State President P.W. Botha charged that his government's efforts to reform apartheid were being ignored by other countries. In a ceremony that opened a medical center in Cape Province, Botha called sanctions "anti-South African legislation." He added that "the U.S. has already declared an economic war against us for the most absurd and sanctimonious reasons. In doing so, they have yet again taken up the sword against us on behalf of the Soviet Union and its goals in this region. I find it revolting." As others find apartheid, which...
...days backers of the ousted Defense Minister had seethed after Philippine leftists took to the streets in a massive demonstration of pro-Aquino, anti- Enrile sentiment to mark Olalia's funeral. On Thursday a huge but orderly procession for the slain labor leader wound for miles through the streets of Manila. Waving red flags and placards, a crowd of more than 100,000 followed a flower-bedecked truck bearing the coffins of Olalia and his driver. J.V. Bautista, a leader of the leftist Bayan political coalition, hinted that Marcos backers might have been responsible for Olalia's death...
...action followed a rally speech by 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman in which the anti-war protester strongly criticized alleged CIA involvement in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Vietnam. Hoffman was also arrested...
...months now, we have had under way a secret diplomatic initiative to Iran." Purpose: "to open a dialogue" with a strategically vital nation, some of whose leaders seemed willing to moderate its bitter anti-Americanism...