Word: mosquitoe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feel a mosquito biting at your leg? Be careful: it might be America's new pest, the Asian tiger. First discovered in the U.S. nine months ago in Houston, the mosquito can transmit dangerous viral infections, including dengue fever and the La Crosse virus. The tiger has since been found in three states besides Texas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...
...heat, humidity and insects were all too familiar to Harrison Ford, 43, though his latest foray into the jungle is a far swat from the whip-cracking $ heroics of Indiana Jones. Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities...
...massive influx" of weapons. Though Congress approved $27 million in "humanitarian aid" to the contras last year, "we have to do more," Reagan told a delegation of congressional leaders at the White House last week. "You can't fight attack helicopters piloted by Cubans with Band-Aids and mosquito nets." Administration officials warn that the contras are getting bogged down and that without a quick transfusion of money and weapons, may not be around "to fight another...
Renewing his campaign to secure military financing for the rebels, the president on Tuesday called for the lifting of restrictions on such assistance. Moreover, Reagan said, he had in mind more than "Band-Aids and mosquito nets...