Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules, AIDS sufferers were still searching for a cure on the black market for unapproved drugs. It was revealed last week that an underground network of doctors in four cities has been conducting a clandestine trial of a drug known as Compound Q. In test tubes, it can destroy cells infected with the AIDS virus, but it has not yet been proved to be safe and effective in humans. In the unofficial trial, 42 patients have received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug is Robert Pitman, 48, of San Francisco...
...would rather not destroy my social life for the sake of your entertainment. Instead, I am going to try to limit my stories to my inanimate friends at Harvard. Like toilet bowls, liquor stores and the man from Kirkland House I went out with for the first three months of school...
...hand, were outraged that they had risked their lives to protect a flag so that others might have the right to burn it. Said Don Bracken, the adjutant quartermaster of the Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter in Seattle: "The flag is a symbol of the U.S., and when you destroy that flag, you destroy the principles of our country." Conservative activists such as Patrick McGuigan of the Free Congress Foundation saw the ruling as yet another attack on traditional values. "The Supreme Court has told us schoolchildren may wear printed obscenities on their shirts but may not pray...
...extremists prefer an aggressive offense and conduct paramilitary patrols to protect and punish. Waldman describes their crude tactics: "After an Arab attack, we send out an alert, jump into our cars and head for the area. Then we destroy and burn." Already these vigilantes have killed at least 15 Palestinians, while one Jewish settler has been murdered by Arabs. Waldman, who took a sniper's course in the U.S. Army, won't comment on whether he is responsible for any of the deaths, but confides, "Arabs have good reason to fear...
...reflected Khomeini's temperament at that time. Abolhassan Banisadr, whom Khomeini ousted as President in 1981, notes that in the final weeks of Khomeini's exile the Ayatullah "would not even kill a fly." Yet after Khomeini became Iran's ruler, he exhorted his countrymen to kill, burn and destroy...