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...isoprinosine. According to Newport President Alvin Glasky, the drug "speeds up the body's natural curing process" by boosting the immune system. But so far, experts at NIH reject it as being of no proven benefit. Last week scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio announced that a new experimental drug for herpes, BIOLF-62, looked promising and might be tested later this year on humans...
DIED. Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, 71, moderately leftist, U.S.-backed President of the Dominican Republic since 1978, who improved health services, schools and rural conditions and who pushed the military out of politics; by his own hand (a pistol shot to the head, officially called an accident but rumored to have been suicide prompted by despondency over a threatened investigation of government corruption); in Santo Domingo. Elected despite an army attempt to block the counting of ballots, Guzmán planned to give up his office next month, after becoming the first elected President...
Most civilian leaders remained skeptical of the army's intentions. Declared Antonio Troccoli of the centrist Radical Party: "We will not judge names but will wait until concrete steps and policies are set down." Bignone's openness may clash with the tough views of Lieut. General Cristino Nicolaides, 57, who as army Commander in Chief acts as the true fount of authority. "It's difficult to make sense of a situation in which you have a hard-liner swearing in a moderate," reflects a diplomat in Buenos Aires...
...remoteness, nearly all manufactured goods are being shipped to the building sites already partially assembled. In the process, the city is becoming a genuinely modular community, a gigantic expanse of clip-together factories and buildings. The 205-bed Al Huwaylat Hospital, provided by the H.B. Zachry Co. of San Antonio, is arriving at the site virtually in kit form and being assembled room by room, each module having been delivered complete, down to the toilet-paper holders in the bathrooms. Even the hospital's prayer room, which has mosque carpets and lighting directed toward Mecca, was built in Alabama...
...Fortunato Galtieri, the army general who was forced to resign after his troops surrendered to the British two weeks ago. Following five days of bickering, army Major General Cristino Nicolaides, the junta's newest member, ignored navy and air force objections and endorsed retired Major General Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone, 54, as the country's seventh military President in six years. Said Bignone, who was scheduled to be sworn in this week: "I am absolutely certain that with a great deal of humility, we will be able to get the country through these difficult times...