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Such dangerous viruses may seem a distant mencace, but as a Yale researcher learned last week, accidents can happen. The Hot Zone details a 1989 Ebola crisis that occurred not in the forests of Afreica but in Reston, Virginia, only 15 miles from Washington. It all started at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit, run by a company that imports and sells monkeys for use in research laboratories. When an unusual number of deaths were recorded among a shipment of monkeys that had recently arrived from the Philippines, tissue samples were sent to a U.S. Army research center...
There a technician identified the strands as either Ebola Zaire or something very close to it. Even more alarming, an incident at the Reston building seemed to confirm that this virus, unlike the African one, could be transmitted through the air. Franctic phone calls were made to Virginia health authorities and to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The Reston building was, in Army parlance, a "hot zone," an area that contained lethal, infectious organisms. An Army team, wearing space suits, killed the 450 surviving monkeys by lethal injection, and the cadavers were place in plastic bags for disposal...
...State, where he clerked in a convenience store while sending out resumes. When nothing turned up, he returned to his parents' house in Lynchburg, Virginia, only to have the pizza parlor where he had worked in college reject him as overqualified. That's when the offer from a small Reston, Virginia, accounting firm came through. But Clough's big break meant big disappointment for others: no fewer than 250 people had applied...
...SOMEONE shot and killed two Central Intelligence Agency employees literally at the gate of the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Who was the shooter? What was the motive? A breakthrough occurred when the roommate of 28-year-old Mir Aimal Kansi reported him missing. Kansi's Reston, Virginia, apartment was searched, a Chinese-made AK-47 was found, and FBI firearms experts concluded that it was the gun that fired cartridge casings recovered at the crime scene. Kansi was charged with capital murder and placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Police had the weapon but needed...
...version of this theme is sure to figure in the Democrats' presidential campaign next year. It's a safe bet their candidate won't echo John F. Kennedy's exhortation to "pay any price, bear any burden." Instead, Thomas Jefferson's warning against entangling alliances is back in fashion. Reston endorses John Quincy Adams' injunction to go "not abroad in search of monsters to destroy," while Hyland offers his own version: "The enemy is not at the gate, but it may already be inside...