Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long after young homosexual men started dying by the thousands in the early 1980s. Dire warnings of an AIDS apocalypse came not only from headline writers but also, uncharacteristically, from scientists and health specialists. Declared one: "We have not seen anything of this magnitude that we can't control except nuclear bombs." In 1987 Otis Bowen, then Secretary of Health and Human Services, said AIDS would make black death -- the bubonic plague that wiped out as much as a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages -- "pale by comparison." In a frightening, controversial book, sex researchers William Masters...
...disturbing implication is that AIDS is becoming a disease of the disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...
...spread of AIDS. Explains Dr. Stanley Weiss of the department of preventive medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark: "If you talk to people in middle-class America, AIDS seems a significant threat because a lot of their other problems are under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People do not pay much attention to guidelines about safe sex, Weiss points...
...distinctive, daffy humor and a rhythmic sense that is honed until it gleams. -- A fight for control of Paris' new opera reaches fortissimo...
...recrimination over West Germany's role in building Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Members shouted angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials, and the federal government has made an ugly contribution...