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Some press reports suggest that Soviet authorities are using the disease as a means of dissuading citizens from having contact with foreigners. If so, the strategy is probably working. On one occasion, people in the Siberian town of Bilibino objected to the use of a bathhouse by a group of Western journalists. & African students in Moscow, already feeling somewhat lonely, report that the AIDS scare has made life even more isolated. "I used to hear people say 'Monkey' behind my back," says a Senegalese student. "Now I hear them say 'SPID,' " the Russian acronym for AIDS...
...August is the best time of year," said Oleg Kievsky, 50, an engineer at the Bilibino nuclear power station, the most northerly power reactor in the world. "The frosts of August kill the mosquitoes, but the weather is still beautiful. Everybody goes out camping, and we spend our days picking berries or mushrooms for the winter...
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