Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not really turn to summer until the Fourth of July. And in fact not all of the omens for the holiday were grim. San Diego was shaken by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded there (4.6 on the Richter scale), but only some vases and plumbing were broken. Neither the new lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano nor the tornadoes that swirled through eastern Iowa and northern Illinois killed anyone. Not good news, but not disasters either: if those were acts of God, at least he pulled his punches. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Steven Holmes/Hoover...
...tapes catch little of the celebrated Kennedy wit, although the tenseness of the long night in which he and top advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units...
...AIDS. It began in early 1981, when Dr. Michael Gottlieb of U.C.L.A. told Los Angeles health officials that he had five patients, all of them active homosexuals, who were suffering from an unusual and deadly form of pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii. More alarming still, their immune systems seemed to have broken down. Gottlieb and an EIS agent based in Los Angeles reported the grim news in CDC's weekly publication. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien of New York University noted that several of his homosexual patients had the same weakened immune systems and were suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma...
...Washington, U.S. officials said that they were "disappointed" by the Chinese move, but they noted that the Government lacked the legal authority to force a U.S. carrier to cease operating a route unless it has broken U.S. law. For now, Pan Am plans to continue flights to both Peking and Taipei. The airline, however, may not be so unhappy if it is eventually barred from China; insiders say that Pan Am has in fact been losing money on its China service. By contrast, the Taiwan route is reckoned to be highly profitable...
...least four herpes vaccines are under development. Last week ground was broken for a new facility at Porton Down in England that will produce a newly developed vaccine for large-scale, controlled testing. The vaccine, created by a team at the University of Birmingham under Scottish Virologist Gordon Skinner, has already passed preliminary trials with impressive results. It was tested over a period ranging from four months to three years on 300 people who were frequently exposed to herpes because their sexual partners had the disease; only two developed the infection...