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...Lisbon, the Portuguese news agency ANOP quoted official sources and aviation experts it did not identify as saying the crash was caused by human error. It did not elaborate...
Shortly before Essex revealed his discovery, a group of French and Portuguese researchers announced a related finding. At a conference in Lisbon, Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to the human AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there...
...second and final round of balloting for the presidency. The final tally: 51% of the vote for Soares compared with almost 49% for right-wing Candidate Diogo Freitas do Amaral, who had scored 46% in the first round and had seemed in a good position to win. In Lisbon, thousands of supporters gathered outside Soares' campaign headquarters to celebrate his dramatic comeback. Visibly moved, the President-elect told them, "For the first time in 60 years, Portugal has a civilian President of the Republic...
Manuel Martins Simtoes had been a truck driver in Lisbon, but when he got to Newark in 1974, he worked on a construction gang during the week and waited on tables weekends. Eventually, he saved enough money to buy a restaurant. "The building was really broken down and dirty," Simoes says, "but my wife and I rebuilt the whole thing and put in a private dining room and a barbecue in the back." After seven years, he sold the place for a $185,000 profit and returned to Lisbon to set himself and his brother up in business and live...
Ultimately Reagan's visit will be judged by whether it strengthened the alliance and struck the right note on dealing with Moscow. Said Reagan in Lisbon: "We set forth a sensible framework for improved Soviet relations based on strength, realism, peaceful competition and negotiations." He said he was ready for a summit whenever Gorbachev was. "So the ball is in their court, first to decide whether he's coming here, and then, second, as to time and place for such a meeting, if he's willing." No one could tell whether Gorbachev planned to keep the ball in play...