Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reservoir in Man. After Yaa got her shot, Paramount Chief Nana Kwame Ofori made a pronouncement that was officially translated: "This exercise will be given the maximum support." Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, replied that it was a good thing so many countries were cooperating in an onslaught against two of the region's deadliest infectious diseases. Stewart pointed out that although Ghana has rung up a fine vaccination record recently, reported cases of smallpox have actually increased, because the disease has been imported by travelers visiting the country from other regions...
Since the smallpox virus has no natural reservoir except in man, the disease can be wiped out from a large region, as it has been in North America and most of Europe, once the cycle of infection is broken by making 85% or more of the population immune. Until now, the cycle of infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from...
...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
...November 1966, Marcus and Attorney Herbert Itkin, 41, a close friend and business associate, conferred a number of times with Tony Ducks and Bakery Union Official Daniel J. Motto, 57, who has close connections with politicians and the Mafia. These two men apparently advised Marcus to award the "emergency" reservoir-cleaning contract to S. T. Grand, and both served as negotiators with Grand. The kickback-5% of the total contract fee-was divided as follows: Marcus, $16,000; Itkin, Motto and Corallo, $8,000 each. Grand President Fried got the contract-payment enough. Corallo also got what he doubt less...
...terrorism still occur. Arab "commandos" last month infiltrated close enough to Tel Aviv to lob nine mortar shells into the suburb of Petah Tiqva, and two weeks ago another guerrilla band shot it out with police near the city's international airport. Terrorists also blew up the water reservoir of a kibbutz in Upper Galilee, almost succeeded in cutting the rail line to Jerusalem and derailed a passenger train in the Negev...