Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must wait for more time to pass to be certain." Barin and Essex are hopeful that the new virus could serve as a natural vaccine, protecting those it infects against the more harmful AIDS virus, much as people infected with cowpox virus are protected against smallpox. Studies of old blood samples indicate that the virus has been present in Senegal for at least ten years. Significantly, no cases of AIDS have been reported in the country, though the disease is rampant in central Africa...
...conference in Lisbon, Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to the human AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there was nothing peculiar about their illness," says Dr. Francois Clavel of the Pasteur team. The new virus, however, is sufficiently...
From the burning of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in 1979 to his outspoken support for the murderous attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports last December, Muammar Gaddafi has left a trail of blood and destruction during the past decade. Acting Ambassador-at-Large Robert Oakley told Congress in February that while Syria and Iran "remain very much involved" in fomenting international terrorism, "over the past six months Libya has become by far the most active, especially against American and European travelers. If it cannot be stopped, others can be expected to follow...
Republican leaders were delighted. "I think Ortega gave us a boost," chuckled Dole. During the debate that preceded the vote, Republicans pointed to the incursion to punctuate their concerns that the Sandinistas were bent on a bold expansionist course. "Blood is still flowing as we talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that...
...cells pursue American terrorist embassies and interests wherever they may be!" Gaddafi, seemingly pumped up by the battle, was still on a high Friday, when he appeared on the balcony of his well-protected bunker in Tripoli. "We will impose our sovereignty on the Gulf of Sidra with our blood!" he proclaimed, declaring that he had vanquished the Sixth Fleet...