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...Essex's group has identified the protein products most closely linked to the lethal effects of the retrovirus, and the viral antigen--glycoprotein 120--the likely target for preventive vaccines against AIDS," the Foundation's citation read...
...hijacking of Flight 73 was by no means the most protracted or lethal of the terrorist attacks that have plagued the world's airlines for more than 15 years. Over the long term, it will probably be less vividly remembered than last year's hijacking of TWA Flight 847 to Beirut, which lasted 17 days, even though that episode resulted in the death of only one passenger, vs. at least 17 on the Pan Am jet at Karachi. But the latest hijacking was particularly dispiriting, coming as it did after months of relative calm. Gradually, many government and airline officials...
...commemorate fabled teachers, such as the Mr. Chips-like "Copey." They do not recall how before American entry into World War I, Charles Copeland, who lived his adult life in an undergraduate dormitory and never traveled in Europe, unremittingly goaded his comely, impressionable students into volunteering for often lethal service in rickety biplanes and ambulances in France...
...very flaw that enhances the credibility of Red Storm Rising. World War III, by most postulates, is not likely to involve a grand Tolstoyan sweep of personal valor. Arsenals and tactics might indeed be set in motion by the frailties of flesh-and-blood players, but once launched the lethal machines would take on a life of their own--almost like characters in a novel. That possibility, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth...
...authorizing the use of lethal force against the prisoners, Garcia underscored his determination to defeat the Shining Path. The radical group had timed the insurrections to humiliate the President while prominent world figures were in Lima for a congress of the Socialist International, an organization of socialist and social-democratic parties. The gathering was held in Peru to recognize efforts by Garcia's center-left government to stabilize the country's economy, which has been crippled by the falling prices of oil, copper and other major exports...