Word: contact
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...Krim, a research biologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, and health authorities are concerned about the possible role of prostitutes in spreading the epidemic. Curran thinks it may prove significant that "about 15% of the men whose cases remain unexplained have a history of sexual contact with prostitutes." The U.S. Army is also concerned about this risk, according to Dr. Robert Redfield of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Soldiers, he says, "are largely in the 18-to-30 age group, a time of being most sexually active...
...months of battling AIDS-related illness, Ryan White, the Kokomo school boy with hemophilia, was eager to get back to Western Middle School and his friends this fall. Unfortunately, school officials do not want the seventh-grader in class. Though doctors believe that AIDS is not communicated through casual contact, School Superintendent J.O. Smith fears that Ryan poses too much of a risk to other students. He points to warnings from the Indiana board of health about the risks of exposure to AIDS-infected saliva and body fluids. "What are you going to do about someone chewing pencils or sneezing...
...focus of fear. Firemen around the country have refused to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to AIDS patients and often to gay men in general. In New York City and Los Angeles County, fire departments are providing special mouthpieces and other equipment to permit rescue without oral contact. New York State's department of corrections is providing bite-proof, scratch-proof suits to officers guarding infected inmates...
Although the Federal Government has put $200 million into AIDS research in the past four years, it has been criticized in many quarters for moving much too slowly. "When President Reagan called Rock Hudson in Paris, it was the first contact he has made with AIDS," says Larry Kramer, a novelist and playwright whose latest dramatic work, The Normal Heart, depicts the politics of AIDS. Sloan-Kettering's Krim charges that Washington has treated AIDS like a "ghetto disease. They didn't think the public would be too concerned or caring...
Arthur, however, had described his espionage activities to the FBI after his arrest, waiving his right to have a lawyer present. As related in court, he said John had begun his contacts with the KGB in a simple way: "He drove to Washington and parked down from the Russian embassy for a couple of nights." Soviet agents noticed him and made contact. Arthur said that early in 1980, after the brothers' electronic repair shop went broke, John told him how he could make a lot of money. At the time, Arthur was feeling very depressed. "We were sitting outside...