Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as the FDA was easing its rules, AIDS sufferers were still searching for a cure on the black market for unapproved drugs. It was revealed last week that an underground network of doctors in four cities has been conducting a clandestine trial of a drug known as Compound Q. In test tubes, it can destroy cells infected with the AIDS virus, but it has not yet been proved to be safe and effective in humans. In the unofficial trial, 42 patients have received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug...
...authors, both of whom are gay, acknowledge that homosexuals' lives have improved since then, but they say the victories are limited because America's fundamental attitudes have not changed. "The gay movement hasn't got nearly so far as the black civil rights movement," declared Madsen in an interview. "Yes, our life-style is now 'public' -- in highly restricted urban areas -- but coast to coast, hatred and contempt for gays aren't far from where they were 25 years...
...uncle signed him. Another uncle, who worked in the Reds' clubhouse, had outfitted Rose for several sweet years of sideline catches. But when Rose came back at 22 to dislodge second baseman Don Blasingame, he was shunned by Blasingame's buddies. Familiar with cold shoulders, the black players took him in. Frank Robinson remembers, "Nobody had to show Pete how to hit, but they wouldn't even show him how to be a major leaguer...
...career, Arthur Hartman, who was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow at the time of the suspected penetration, left the Foreign Service under a cloud. Hundreds of Marines who / had served as embassy guards in East bloc countries were grilled by agents of the Naval Investigative Service; dozens confessed to fraternizing, black- marketeering or other security violations...
RELIGION: A fiery black priest defies his church...