Word: bolognesi
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Hopes for an experimental vaccine sagged when Duke University's Dr. Dani Bolognesi and NCI's Dr. Robert Gallo, a co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, reported that tests on chimpanzees had failed. Chimps, one of man's closest relatives, are considered critical to vaccine research. The idea of a vaccine is to trick the body into producing specific antibodies that can attack the invading virus. The research team had vaccinated six chimps with proteins from the outer shell of the AIDS virus, then injected them with live virus to test the vaccine's effectiveness. But within three weeks...
...after the quake, President Velasco sailed into Chimbote aboard the navy cruiser Coronel Bolognesi to survey the destruction. Velasco, an army general who seized power in 1968, and had just begun to check inflation and whittle down the budget deficit when the disaster struck, ordered $16 million set aside for relief and reconstruction. A dozen other countries rushed aid-including the U.S., which sent the helicopter carrier Guam, despite Washington's displeasure with Velasco for his seizure of a U.S.-owned oil company. It will take vast sums to repair the effects of a catastrophe that has left...
...barely two weeks old when he attempted his first major stroke of psychological warfare. There would be a huge pre-Lenten carnival for children, he announced, and it would be held in Margherita Gardens, the city park used so often for Communist rallies that Bolognesi call it "Red Gardens...
...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...
Appropriate steps were: to order out the air force; send the Peruvian cruiser Coroncl Bolognesi with 400 troops, the depot ship Lima to bottle up rebels in Mollendo; demand pledges of loyalty from the remaining military commanders...