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...Brazilian officials said the plane dropped off the radar between the islands of Fernando de Noronha and Ilha do Sal, one of the Cape Verde Islands. Five planes, two helicopters and three boats are involved in the initial search for it, and the French have sent up a military plane from Dakar, Senegal. Brazilian officials cautioned that the search area could be three times the size of Europe...
...miles away as home. That sense of a place apart is reinforced by geography and architecture. You cross the sea or an estuary to reach downtown. And once there, you find a tropical British city of Victorian railway stations, Art Deco apartment blocks and Edwardian offices. Christabelle Noronha, a p.r. executive who has lived in the city all her life, says the sense of being in a foreign land gives Bombay an uninhibited air. "If everyone is a stranger, then everyone is free," she says...
Researchers later learned that the level of gamma interferon present in the cerebrospinal fluid of MS patients skyrocketed just before and during acute attacks. Attention therefore shifted to a cousin molecule, beta interferon, which appears to play the role of inhibiting gamma. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Avertano Noronha and his colleagues demonstrated that beta interferon markedly decreased the activity of white blood cells obtained from multiple sclerosis patients. Beta interferon, they found, not only restrained the proliferation of these cells, it also shut down their production of myelin-destroying compounds...
...taken off for the Angolan border. But most of Tshombe's 2.000 bedraggled men paid heed to his plea to "cooperate with the U.N. and our Congolese brothers," dutifully stacked their arms at a nearby depot. At his yellow villa on the edge of Kolwezi, Tshombe greeted Noronha with a grin. "Nobody shot at you, I see," he cracked. Replied Noronha, throwing an arm around Tshombe's shoulders, "I have come to thank you for keeping your word...
...Noronha was not the only one who was relieved that Tshombe was sticking to his promise to reintegrate Katanga with the rest of the Congo. At U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Secretary-General U Thant could now turn to a problem that might turn out to be even tougher than ending Tshombe's secession. It was to establish the Congolese Central Government's authority over all the Congo and end the anarchy that still reigns in much of the nation...