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Marius is correct that there is a problem, and the University as a whole may be largely responsible. But to absolve the Expos program entirely may just let the germ of the problem fester...
Though the Soviets have not recently repeated their claim that AIDS is a strain of germ warfare concocted by the CIA, they do maintain that the disease is essentially a Western problem because of the allegedly low incidence of both homosexuality and intravenous-drug use in the Soviet Union. According to the TASS news agency, 1 million tests have been conducted among blood donors and people in high-risk categories. Out of this number, the agency said, there have been 102 positive tests, 80 of which were obtained from foreigners...
...adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...
...extinction, especially by something as idiotic as a dagger handle!" The situation of the rhino is bleak. In 1970 there were 20,000 of them in Kenya. Now there are considerably fewer than 500. It strikes a visitor that Merz's rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about $65,000 each now, to be sold for use as medicines in the Orient or as dagger handles in North Yemen, Anna Merz has about $1 million stomping around inside...
...book charging that the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 religious cultists took their lives by drinking cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid, was the work of the CIA. TASS also resurrected totally fantastic and absurd allegations that the AIDS virus was created by U.S. scientists in a Maryland germ-warfare laboratory...