Word: beny
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cold as Marble. When the fever began its rampages three years ago in Bolivia's northeastern province of Beni, the dirt-poor villagers around San Joaquin called it "the black typhus." But this was a far deadlier disease. It struck almost one-third of the population, and killed about one-third of its victims. Men and women of all ages were stricken. First came fever, chills and headache. Then, in many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes...
...accept a single political gain on the part of the Moslems frustrated every French government effort at amelioration. Perfectly reasonable laws for Moslem "partnership" that might have prevented the war went on the books in Paris, but were never applied in Algeria. A few tame Moslems, known as beni-oui-ouis (yes-men), were allowed to participate in the government, but elections were so frankly rigged that even in France itself, "les elections algeriennes" was a phrase to describe stuffing the ballot box. An old Berber once complained to Ethnologist Germaine Tillion: "You've led us to the middle...
...Unknown Animal. By current Congolese standards one of the bright spots in the nation's health picture is Beni -a village at the northeast tip of remote Kivu province. Beni's modern. Belgian-built hospital is staffed by two physicians on loan from the Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps...
...situation at the moment is serious enough," says Beni's Dr. Joseph Barnes, "but it is rosy compared with what might happen three months from now." Beni Hospital has only a two-month supply of antibiotics, and unless more drugs arrive soon, Dr. Barnes predicts a skyrocketing rate of meningitis, pneumonia and leprosy-plus an outbreak of sleeping sickness. Worse yet, most of the U.N. doctors are scheduled to leave in De cember. Says Dr. Barnes: "What we need here is an almost unknown animal: a specialist in tropical diseases, surgery and obstetrics, with good French and Swahili...