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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousands of people who have AIDS." Robert Windom, of the Department of Health and Human Services, chose his words carefully as he faced the press in Washington last ! week, determined not to raise any false hopes. Despite Windom's caution, the dramatic news he reported was bound to be en couraging to AIDS victims around the world: early results of clinical tests with an experimental drug called azidothymidine (AZT) had shown that it slowed the attack of the AIDS virus and seemed to prolong the lives of many of its victims...
...criminals create the shadow planet, or does the shadow planet create them? Whatever. The planet thrives, where even Ozzie and Harriet's little boy, grown middle-aged and off camera, is said to have floated high on cocaine en route to dying. It is as if the American mind itself were divided between clarity and dreams, freedom and addiction...
Inside Building 80, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's shabby concrete-and- tin inspection station on the outskirts of New York's John F. Kennedy + International Airport, a crate of bonsai trees en route from the Republic of China to Memphis has been pried open. In a nearby room rests a long cardboard box containing cut flowers from the Netherlands. Thousands of similar parcels pass through J.F.K. daily. On some holidays -- Mother's Day, for example -- one chartered plane may discharge 15,000 cartons of blooms and foliage. But the shipments sometimes hold more than flowers. They...
...medical evacuation plane was en route to West Germany after picking up 17 injured in Karachi, including six Americans, six Britons, three West Germans, an Italian and an Austrian, U.S. diplomats at the airport said. The wounded will be treated at U.S. military hospitals in West Germany...
Lauren (pronounced Laur-en) has tailored a thriving conglomerate as well. Rarely if ever has a clothing designer established a product range so wide, a retailing network so extensive, a marketing image so well defined. That company, Polo/Ralph Lauren, expects total retail sales to hit $1.3 billion this year, a fourfold jump since 1981. If Lauren's company were publicly held, its retail revenues would place it 257th in this year's FORTUNE 500 listings. The designer's personal wealth is estimated to be $300 million, plus whatever he keeps after taxes this year on his projected 1986 profits...