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In the land of apartheid, Perkins and his wife Lucy, who is Chinese-born, have had few problems with whites. The country has become accustomed to visiting blacks. American blacks have already served as diplomats and foreign correspondents in South Africa for many years, and the current U.S. consul general...
The most encouraging difference between AIDS and epidemics of the past is the pace at which medicine is coming to grips with the crisis. "We're talking about a disease that was recognized from a practical point of view only in 1981," says Dr. Samuel Broder, who oversees the development...
The proposed bill will set up an "apartheid list" of companies that are doing a large amount of business with South Africa, such as IBM, the Burroughs Corp., Control Data Corp., and Texaco, said Robert D. Slate '83, a legislative aide to Graham.
The Burroughs Corp. and Control Data Corp., twoof the companies on the "apartheid list," declinedto comment on the potential effects of the bill.
Indeed, an ethical concern prompted researchers last year to cut short clinical experiments on PCP patients. In six months only one of 145 AIDS patients given AZT died; many of the others grew stronger and regained some sense of well-being. (Since then, eight more have died.) In a like...