Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wise writes that "what people seem to have forgotten, though, is that AIDS victims are going to die, period." What Mr. Wise seems to have forgotten, or perhaps he never knew, is that not all who test positive for the HLTV-III virus will develop AIDS. Does he suggest that millions of Americans be in terned for 50 or 60 years? Perhaps all those people can be sent to Madagascar or Martha's Vineyard...
...have right now is to identify AIDS carriers and take steps to isolate them. Proposals of this kind go against the grain of what society deems decent, and so provoke a good deal of hubbub. What people seem to have forgotten, though, is that AIDS victims are going to die, period. While an AIDS carrier may not be suffering from syptoms himself, he may be endangering his neighbors...
Such legislation will not be passed tomorrow. No society is eager to adopt measures which chafe against its most basic conceptions of jecency. But like our forefathers, we have no other options. When and if it becomes common to see friends die, when the fear our ancestors felt returns, our attitude will change...
...imagery and in the perfect pace of his editing, is something one dared not hope to find in this movie. It is Dinesen's remarkable rhythm. She never held a note too long. Africa had sung too many songs to her in a voice she knew was beginning to die. She had to get down on paper as many of them as she could, and do it without losing the haunting beat that had carried these sounds...
...protesters burned effigies of Warren M. Anderson, the firm's chairman, and demanded a trial. Others spent the day at Bhopal's hospitals, where some 60,000 victims are still receiving treatment. Said Nassur Khan, 36, who suffers breathing difficulties and severe stomach pains: "I wish I could die...