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...determine the future progress of the epidemic, the CDC has launched an intensive investigation into the 6% of the victims (69 men, women and children) who do not appear to fit into any of the at-risk categories. About a third of these people "will remain unknown," says Curran; they died before CDC investigators could question them. But five are women whose husbands or lovers are drug addicts, suggesting that AIDS may be transmitted through heterosexual relations. Should that prove to be true, female partners of bisexual men are also at risk. Indeed, says Curran, one such woman...
...Congress began to ban nonrecourse financing of investments in movies, farming, cattle raising, equipment leasing, and oil and gas drilling. In these deals people now may deduct as losses only the amount that they had personally put up or had at risk. The 1978 tax law extends that at-risk rule to investments in coal mining, master recordings, toy molds, lithograph stones and a host of other rapidly depreciable properties, many of which shelter promoters had dreamed up since the '76 crackdown. In addition the IRS has been taking a much harder look at so-called partnerships lately...
...statement released Wednesday, Herbst said "We feel the logical next step is to have the FDA undertake a national surveillance program of all young women in the at-risk population--those women whose mothers were given the drug...