Word: ils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advances in treatment for the dread disease. Yet two articles published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, while containing caveats, seemed reason for guarded optimism. Both dealt with a controversial treatment known as adoptive immunotherapy, which involves the use of a naturally produced substance, interleukin-2 (IL- 2), to bolster a patient's immune system. Both reported striking improvements in some patients with advanced cases of cancer...
...public that under no circumstances would we trade American missiles for the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Yet, he sent his brother Robert to the then Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin to offer just such a trade. Kennedy offered to remove our Jupiter missiles from Turkey if the Soviets would take their IL-28s out of Cuba. The deal was concluded, and a year later the Jupiter missiles were removed as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. In his later memoirs, Robert Kennedy wrote that the missiles in Turkey had become "hostages of the Soviet Union." Meanwhile, President Kennedy was unabashedly lying...
...centered on the question of Kim's succession. In particular, Defense Minister O has been conspicuous lately by his lack of public appearances. Some observers have wondered if the 76-year-old defense minister was having trouble adjusting to the increased day-to-day powers of First Son Jong Il, 45, and the younger cadres around him. Says the Heritage Foundation's Plunk: "O had been the major exception to the new generation of officials...
...controversial new film about the incident, Il Caso Moro (The Moro Case), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara and starring popular Actor Gian Maria Volonte, has reopened old wounds. The movie portrays the Red Brigades as well- spoken, well-groomed youths. It asks whether the Christian Democrats did all they could to free Moro and answers with a resounding...
Christian Democratic leaders have attacked Il Caso Moro as a "gross distortion." Nonetheless, Italian moviegoers are flocking to the film...