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...Boston, a 46-year-old medical technician lay dying of acquired immune deficiency syndrome last week. Before he became too ill to speak, he insisted that he did not belong to any of the four high-risk AIDS categories: homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Instead, he blamed his illness on accidentally pricking himself with a needle while taking blood samples at the laboratory where he worked...
According to officials at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, there have been 232 cases of AIDS in American healthcare workers; of these, 23 did not belong to one of the four risk groups. None of these cases, however, has been directly connected to occupational exposure, insists Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC task force on AIDS. Even the Boston case is subject to question. So far, investigators have been unable to find out if the laboratory worker had actually handled AlDS-con-taminated blood. "Whether he got AIDS from the needle stick is unclear and is likely...
FREEZES. Beneficiaries of virtually all Government programs except Social Security that are indexed to the inflation rate would lose their 1986 cost of living adjustment (COLA). Those who would be affected include 2.6 million federal retirees and their dependents, who belong to the Government's military and civil service pension plans. Likewise, the 21.5 million recipients of food stamps, as well as smaller benefit programs like aid to black-lung sufferers, would lose their protection against inflation for a year. The saving generated by this one-year "pause" in COLA growth compounded through 1988 would total $13.2 billion...
...NATO has 16 members, but France does not belong to the organization's military wing. Iceland, which has no armed forces, has no Defense Minister. As usual, however, it was represented at the ministerial meeting by an ambassador...
...millions of Americans this December will feel uncomfortable at the sight of Christmas creches erected on public land at public expense. The nicest Christmas present the Supreme Court could give us this year would be a return of the creches to where they belong: on private property, paid for with private funds...