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...Trappey's jalapeno navy beans (flavored with slab bacon), a can of New Orleans French Market chicory coffee, a bag of garlic cloves suspended from the ceiling, a cold box full of sandwich meats, boudin and cheeses, a teakettle and a coffeepot, four fire extinguishers, three boxes of Raid mosquito coils, a can of Hot Shot fly and mosquito killer, kitchen matches, a Rayovac Workhorse flashlight, salt, a toolbox, two spinning rods, a case of Budweiser -- and Richard Cretini, the captain, who likes to be prepared...
...Glade, Fla., Dr. Mark Whiteside hailed the French finding as confirmation that insects could transmit AIDS and may be that area's chief cause of infection. Belle Glade (pop. 19,000) has a higher percentage of AIDS victims than Manhattan. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control has studied mosquito- ridden Belle Glade and attributes the AIDS rate to sexual activity or drug use. But, claims Whiteside, director of the area's Tropical Disease Clinic, many victims "are older individuals who are way past their sexually active years." He acknowledges that drug abuse plays a role in Belle Glade...
...published ten novels, four novellas, three short-story collections and five travel books, including The Great Railway Bazaar. He has paid his dues as an essayist and reviewer; his varied fiction has harmonized into a respected oeuvre; and he has had a glamorous payday: his 1982 novel The Mosquito Coast is, as they say, soon to be a major motion picture...
Halfway around the world from Turkey, other nautical archaeologists were at work last April off Vanikoro, a 300-sq.-mi. island in the southwestern Pacific's Solomon chain. The setting was pure Indiana Jones: mosquito-infested jungles; rivers teeming with crocodiles; heavy, brooding clouds hovering over an inhospitable landscape...
...once again, Philippine President Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, fresh from swatting down a mosquito revolution of Marcos supporters in Manila three weeks ago, was confronted with another potentially dangerous crisis. The motives behind last week's snatchings were muddled in the curious combination of banditry and political activism that has turned kidnaping into a minor industry in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...