Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October doctors will administer VaxSyn to 60 homosexual men from the Washington area. To qualify, volunteers must be free from AIDS virus infection and agree to use "safe sex" practices. After counseling, they must also sign a three-page consent form explaining the risks of participation and pass a quiz to confirm that they understand the experiment...
...stay the way they are for as long as possible," says a Western diplomat. The mines, he adds, are passive and untraceable, frustrating the U.S. escort mission while driving a wedge between Washington and the gulf Arabs by reminding them that before the U.S. intervened, the waters were relatively safe. Iranian officials are aware that strong anti- Tehran sentiment in the U.S. (see box) would support an American strike if Iran gave the Navy an excuse...
Within the mine sites, companies go to extreme lengths to preserve their profits. Each miner is watched at all times by two technicians and an armed security guard. The emeralds are typically put into large leather or canvas bags, which are locked in a combination safe and held up to 24 hours until a helicopter from Bogota, about 60 miles to the south, can take away the jewels...
...August Mount approached the bookstore again with an offer to sell a collection of rare Civil War manuscripts featuring three Lincoln letters. Suspicious store officials alerted the FBI, which arrested Mount when he returned to the bookstore with the Lincoln letters on Aug. 13. A subsequent search of his safe-deposit box in Washington turned up a cache of some 200 papers from the Civil War era, many believed to have been stolen from the National Archives. Despite his elegant appearance, Mount admits he has fallen on "hard times" and is living in a Washington rooming house. He has published...
...discovery of the floating bombs in an area once considered safe immediately halted tanker traffic. Oman and the United Arab Emirates quickly dispatched boats and helicopters to hunt for the mines. Gunners tried to explode the devices by blasting them with rifle and cannon fire. Despite the efforts, a small commercial supply ship blew up late last week, apparently after hitting a mine off the coast of Oman...