Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel was never built, and Congress and the Korean government are investigating another possibility: that the funds amounted to a payoff to Park, who had important political connections in Seoul. Northrop allegedly paid Park, who died of liver cancer in 1985, to arrange for the Korean government to buy the company's proposed F-20 fighter plane. Had Park succeeded, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, he stood to receive $55 million from Northrop. Congress is looking into whether there was a violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars payoffs to foreign officials...
...into Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to face his latest -- and most daunting -- challenge. Before leaving El Salvador, he had announced, "I have a bleeding ulcer in the stomach of a malignant character." Medical tests conducted at Walter Reed found that Duarte, 62, is suffering from stomach cancer that appears to have spread to his liver. "I'm going to fight," Duarte vowed. "God willing, I'll come out all right...
Arab prisoners are held for months without charges or trial for joining the revolt against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. They endure searing days and chilly nights under harsh conditions. -- Stomach cancer sidelines El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as his country drifts further into crisis. -- Apartheid squabbles on the seashore in South Africa...
Researchers in the Biological Labs and the Medical School wear protective clothing daily to safeguard themselves from radiation. Clerical workers use computers for several hours each day, risking cancer and infertility caused by VDT terminals. Many employees in Widener library have to spend time shelving books in the stacks, where there is virtually no ventilation. In addition, asbestos, which can cause cancer if inhaled, has been found in virtually every Harvard building...
...reason to keep going. He flits from issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...