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...police of Bolivia's antidrug unit are known) on four raids. In the first one, 30 of the troops jumped out of two choppers near a 15-tent drug complex just as a Cessna aircraft was landing nearby. The pilot fled into the jungle, but his 17-year-old helper was seized. The raiders destroyed a log-frame laboratory where coca leaves were converted into coca paste...
When HTLV-III invades the body it infects certain white blood cells and, possibly, other cells vital to the body's defense and maintenance. The primary target known to scientists is the T-helper lymphocyte, called "the general" of white blood cells because it helps orchestrate the body's defense. The AIDS virus entwines itself in the fundamental genetic material at the cell's nucleus, where it uses the cell's own mechanisms to reproduce many-fold. The viruses then destroy that cell and escape to invade others...
Both Groopman and Hirsch have found in laboratory tests that HTLV-III attacks not only the T-helper lymphocytes, but also another type of white blood cell, called a macrophage, that has been linked to cells in the brain. The macrophage or disease-fighting white blood cell is not killed by the virus, Groopman says, but instead is used as a breeding ground...
...most exciting feature of the new virus is that it appears to be harmless. In the lab, says Essex, it behaves much like the AIDS virus, infecting the same immunological cells (helper T cells) but without the "dramatic killing action" of its lethal cousin. None of more than 50 people infected with the virus have developed any symptoms of AIDS. Thirty have been followed for more than a year and have remained healthy, but, says one of Essex's collaborators, Francis Barin of the virology laboratory of Bretonneau Hospital in Tours, "we must wait for more time to pass...
...President's defense budget crusade. Indeed, a draft by Commission Member James Woolsey, who was Navy Under Secretary during the Carter Administration, vividly depicted Pentagon shortcomings. One passage, for instance, compared stewardship of the Pentagon to the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the master magician's young helper who learned how to start the magic but not how to stop it. But at the insistence of Reagan loyalists on the commission, the language was "dulled up" to sound more like a typical presidential commission's findings. Meanwhile, Reagan's speechwriters pre-emptively embraced the commission's findings with some...