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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designated HTLV-III/LAV, has been detected in four bodily fluids: semen, blood, saliva and tears. But it has been found in saliva and tears only in small amounts, and not a single case of transmission by those fluids has been documented. Doctors cannot prove that this will never happen, but nearly all known cases involve contact with the semen or blood of an AIDS victim. Quite direct contact too: the virus can live only a very short time outside the human body. It does not linger on doorknobs, clothing, food, dishes, glasses, utensils or toilet seats...
...incinerated after being handled with gloves and double-bagged. Later tests showed he did not have the disease. In prisons where sodomy and drug use are commonplace, some inmates are fatalistic. Says Nadim Khoury, chief of health services for the California department of corrections: "They say, 'What more can happen to us? I'm sentenced for life.' " Many AIDS victims have nowhere to go: they have been turned out of their homes by fearful roommates or families, and their money has been exhausted by heavy medical bills. The problem is especially poignant in the case of orphans and abandoned children...
...requested anonymity, whiles away his hours playing contract bridge at the M.A. Lightman Bridge Club. When other club members learned that he had AIDS, they began to avoid him. The management forced him to wear rubber surgical gloves. "I don't like this reaction because I happen to be the brunt of it," he says, "but I do understand it. A lot of people in the club are older, and they simply don't know how to take it. Their doctors have not helped by telling them not to get close to me." His presence "has been a nuisance," sighs...
...Zone rather than take a chance on Spielberg's anthology of original stories, is convinced that Amazing Stories is actually his network's secret weapon. Shephard predicts "a high initial tune-in sample" of the NBC show, followed by a return to tele firma. And if that does not happen, all CBS has to do is contrive to let a Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. broadcast run overtime, thus pushing 60 Minutes back by ten or 15 minutes, and 60 Minutes loyalists will miss the first half of an Amazing story. That is precisely the tactic CBS used to shoot down...
...What are the external conditions that we need to be able to fulfill those domestic plans? I leave the answer to that question with you." The answer he clearly meant to be given was relaxation of tension and slowing of the arms race, if only Washington would let that happen. But throughout the interview, he made clear that he, like his predecessors, wanted detente on Soviet terms...