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...gene may also prove useful in diagnosing the stages of AIDS--a disease which has killed more than 11,300 Americans. Diagnostic tests screen the blood for antibodies to different parts of a virus and predict the progress of a disease. The art-gene produces a viral protein which researchers may be able to use in these sorts of tests...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: New AIDS Gene Found; Provides Target for Drugs | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

...anything definitive had been settled during the few moments that the bombs were falling. Rather, there was a sense in Washington and around the world that the U.S. had crossed a fateful line in the intensifying battle between civilized society and terrorism, with consequences that no one could truly predict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Source U.S. Bombers Strike At | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...most accountable for detecting and disclosing management fraud. The debate has heated up since the 1982 failure of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank and the subsequent near collapse of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago. Litigants are asking at least $400 million from Peat Marwick for its alleged failure to predict the Penn Square debacle. Then came the 1985 furor over E.S.M., the Fort Lauderdale Government-securities firm, amid a scandal that involved massive fraud. E.S.M.'s auditor, Chicago-based Grant Thornton (formerly Alexander Grant), has reportedly since been slapped with some $1 billion in legal claims for allegedly failing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes on Accountants | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Tenancingo has long been a rebel-controlled zone and is thus a prime candidate for the army's newest counterinsurgency campaign, "United to Reconstruct," which calls for repopulating evacuated war zones with civilians who will be organized into "patriotic self-defense militias." Some people connected with the Tenancingo project predict it is only a matter of time before their town is made a part of the army's campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Another Fragile, Isolated Truce | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...militant as the National Islamic Front, which pushed Nimeiri to adopt the strict Islamic law that mandated punishments like amputating the hands of thieves. The party and its charismatic leader, Hassan al Turabi, 53, still have a large constituency among the poor and the young. But analysts predict that the Umma Party, lead by former Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi, 50, the great-grandson of the revered leader whose forces defeated British General Charles Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, will emerge as the main force in a new governing coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan a General Fulfills a Promise | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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