Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portuguese cabin steward, learned of the slaying after one of the terrorists entered the ship's main lounge and motioned to him and Ferruccio Alberti, the cruise hairdresser. The two men were led to the upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable to," Da Silva recalled last week...
...positive result of the increased, if distorted, public awareness of the malady: it has galvanized many foreign governments into action, and they are for the first time distributing information on the dangers of the disease. Moreover, most Western countries have in recent months instituted mandatory testing of donated blood, one of the sources of the AIDS infection...
Where the AIDS threat is acknowledged, governments have begun to take action. Thailand has proposed barring from the country foreigners who have the disease or are revealed by blood tests to be carrying the virus' antibodies. And Bangladesh, where no cases have yet been reported, is contemplating requiring foreigners entering the country to show evidence of a recent blood test for AIDS. Now that many Western countries have instituted mandatory testing of all donated blood, or have made plans to do so, whole categories of potential AIDS victims could be eliminated: hemophiliacs and others who receive blood transfusions...
Despite these clinical assessments, the Dorns command affection and sympathy. Where some might find pretensions and cool blood, Brookner sees form and responsibilities: Sofka the young widow forfeiting romance to direct her family's fortunes, "like a general on the evening of a great campaign," Alfred shelving his cherished books for the life of an industrialist ("His character . . . will be a burden to him rather than an asset. But that is the way with good characters...
...cooperate. The A.N.C., for its part, has insisted that its guerrillas, not Moloise, committed the murder. Moloise was, however, a firm supporter of the A.N.C. and the violent overthrow of apartheid. As he once wrote: "A storm of oppression will be followed by the rain of my blood/ I am proud to give my life, my solitary life...