Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within a year he marries, not knowing that Kim has escaped to Bangkok -- and borne him a son. Then a veterans' group puts him in contact with his Vietnamese family. Chris comes to Thailand, meaning to meet his responsibilities, instead completing Kim's psychic destruction. Her last desperate act is to ensure her son's future at the cost of her own. The primacy of love over money, the tale implies, is evident only to those who can be sure of both...
...last week that it will cut the wholesale price of AZT 20%, to $1.20 a pill. One reason the company is able to do so is that the potential market for the drug has grown substantially in recent weeks with the discovery that AZT can help a far larger group. A Government study released in August concluded that the drug, besides helping people who have AIDS, can also postpone the appearance of the disease in people who are infected by the AIDS virus but are not yet ill. Since no other antiviral drug has been approved to fight AIDS...
...manufacturing AZT, in part because of the colossal expense of producing a drug that would be helpful only to a relatively small group of people. Scientists believed at the time that AZT would be effective only for those suffering from full-blown AIDS, and they were confident that more effective AIDS drugs would soon supplant AZT. As a result, the Government invoked the Orphan Drug Act, a law passed in 1983 to give pharmaceuticals makers financial incentives to develop treatments for rare diseases. The law allowed the Government to give Burroughs Wellcome an exclusive seven-year license, to commence when...
...desperate search for other AIDS treatments has not flagged. Last week a group of San Francisco AIDS activists announced the results of their highly controversial underground test of Compound Q, a chemical derived from a cucumber-like Chinese plant. Although many of the 34 patients tested with the drug seemed to show marked improvement, three have died. The deaths have not been directly attributed to Compound Q, but the uncertain results proved once again how important AZT has become to AIDS patients as a life-giving drug and a symbol of hope...
...Paris, UTA chairman Rene Lapautre said a terrorist bomb "was the most probable" explanation for the crash. Hours later the Muslim terrorist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Two weeks ago, the Lebanese and French press reported that pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon have threatened action against France for reneging on an alleged 1988 deal to trade a jailed Arab terrorist for the release of three French hostages held in Lebanon. The French government denies making any deal to free the hostages beyond agreeing to restore diplomatic relations with Iran. At week's end an unknown group calling...