Word: luc
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...professionals have meticulously tested every pint of blood in the nation's reserves for the AIDS virus. The hugely successful effort, which costs more than $50 million annually, has rendered negligible a once ominous threat to recipients of blood transfusions. But the convention proceedings got a jolt when Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute informed the assembly that an AIDS virus called LAV-II, whose presence in two West Africans was announced last spring, has now been found in Western Europe. According to Montagnier, LAV-II does not necessarily show up in screening procedures for the original AIDS virus...
...first synthesized in 1964 by Jerome Horwitz of the Michigan Cancer Foundation as a possible anticancer drug. But it proved ineffective against tumors and was largely forgotten until 1984, after Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris independently isolated the AIDS virus...
...same ceremony, awards will go to National Institutes of Health physician Robert C. Gallo, chief of the tumor cell biology laboratory, and Luc Montagnier, professor of viral oncology at France's Pasteur Institute. The scientists are credited with isolating the AIDS virus...
...island's television and radio stations carried live broadcasts of the trial of Luc Desyr, 62, chief of secret police for Baby Doc and before him for his father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who died in 1971. The trial, on charges that included illegal arrest, torture and murder, provided most Haitians with their first live view of Desyr. During the Duvalier years, he was a shadowy figure whose picture never appeared in newspapers. A short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black...
...council is also acting to bring several Duvalier henchmen to justice. They include Suspected Murderer Frank Roumain, a former mayor of Port-au- Prince, and Luc Desyr, who served as chief of the Duvaliers' secret police. Desyr is believed to have tortured a former leader of the Haitian legislature...