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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before making his appearance at The Game, Massachusetts' senior senator stopped off at the family compound in Hyannis Port for a memorial ceremony...
...compound the problem, no one knows for sure how the virus circumnavigates the globe in just a few months, although travelers and migrating birds probably help it along. And perhaps because of commercial jets, flu has been spreading more rapidly in recent years, giving health officials even less time to prepare new vaccines. For all these reasons, says University of Pittsburgh Epidemiologist Frederick Ruben, "the only thing that's predictable about influenza is that it's unpredictable...
...from a highly toxic chemical compound that insulates many large capacitators and transformers used by electric utilities...
Jacobsen, 55, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was turned over to U.S. officials on a street in Moslem west Beirut. A U.S. Embassy official, who insisted on anonymity, said Jacobsen was in good health and was at the embassy compound in Christian east Beirut...
...together last week in Peking, it was a little like a school reunion. There were bear hugs, "fraternal kisses" and reminiscences of the good old days. "I haven't seen you in 33 years," said Hu as he embraced the East German party chief in Peking's Zhongnanhai compound. Ho- necker presented Hu with a photograph taken during their last meeting at a Communist youth congress in Rumania 33 years...