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...disease is now known. During that period, AIDS has struck 547 people in the U.S. and at least 21 abroad, killing 232, more than toxic shock syndrome and the Philadelphia outbreak of Legionnaire's disease combined. "This is a very, very dramatic illness," says Dr. James Curran, head of the 120-member CDC task force on AIDS. "I think we can say quite assuredly that it is new." What makes AIDS especially alarming, says Curran, is that its incidence is rising, from one case a day in the first six months, to two or three cases...
...search for a common thread among these widely diverse groups has confounded researchers from coast to coast. When AIDS was confined to the gay community, says Curran, "our efforts were concentrated on trying to dissect out life-style differences." Various sexual practices and the use of amyl nitrite "poppers," inhalants widely used by homosexuals to enhance orgasm, were among the subjects investigated. The life-style theory does not, however, explain the emergence of AIDS in nongay populations. Most researchers now believe that an infectious agent is involved in AIDS. This agent is probably transmissible in a variety of ways, through...
DIED. James Curran Davis, 86, eight-time Georgia Congressman (1947-1963) and rabid segregationist who once proclaimed, "The white people of the South are not going to school with blacks, eat with them or live with them"; in Atlanta...
...Danann, Eamonn Curran, Dolores Keane and John Faulkner--Irish music; Sanders Theater...
DIED. Joseph Curran, 75, booming-voiced founder and longtime president of the National Maritime Union of America; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. Curran took to the sea at 16, got fired for leading his first strike in 1936 and founded the seamen's union the next year. A rough-and-tumble organizer, he ruled the union from 1937 to 1973, building membership to 100,000 after World War II. Fewer than 20,000 active seamen are members today...