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Earlier in the history of the disease, hemophiliacs and other frequent users of the blood pool were particularly vulnerable because donors were not screened for HIV. But in 1985 the Red Cross developed a simple antibody test that virtually stopped contaminated blood from entering the pool. There is no risk in donating blood when equipment is sterile and needles are not re-used...
Dukakis has one other card left to play. In the final fortnight, he is counting on that frequent, and sometimes effective, tactic of a losing candidate: the TV blitz. The campaign has already thrown out his old spots and begun running new ones that feature Dukakis talking quietly and directly to the American people about his views. That too will be the approach of a series of five-minute spots that began airing over the weekend. Dukakis even plans to get his message out in one or more 30-minute addresses, although that ploy will probably send viewers scrambling...
...prominent portion of the video recounts the delegation's frequent problems with the El Salvadoran government and army...
...enjoyed a luxury in West European democracies: a secret ballot. Free to vote as they pleased, ignoring party discipline and constituents, parliamentarians often defeated their own governments on key legislation. The franchi tiratori, or snipers, were a primary cause of instability in Italian politics -- and largely responsible for the frequent changes of government. Last week the six-month-old coalition of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita said, "Enough...
...decades, such incidents have been alarmingly frequent at the aging facility, which manufactures materials for nuclear bombs. Moreover, officials at the Department of Energy, which oversees the plant, conceded last week that dozens of such near accidents and nuclear mishaps have gone largely unreported for more than 30 years. Admitted DOE safety chief Richard Starostecki: "If this had been a civilian plant, it would have been shut down...