Word: safes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that powerful people in the Middle East sometimes behave irrationally is to flirt with the obvious. But Friedman buttresses this familiar thesis with fresh, arresting details. He chronicles the mounting debacle of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, which began with the announced goal of ending the safe haven enjoyed by Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization troops. In this Israel succeeded. That was almost easy, since a lot of Lebanese also wanted to get rid of the P.L.O. The Israeli soldiers were welcomed as saviors: "Everywhere you went in Lebanon, Jews were getting their pictures taken. This...
...drugs. It was revealed last week that an underground network of doctors in four cities has been conducting a clandestine trial of a drug known as Compound Q. In test tubes, it can destroy cells infected with the AIDS virus, but it has not yet been proved to be safe and effective in humans. In the unofficial trial, 42 patients have received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug is Robert Pitman, 48, of San Francisco. Says he: "I was prepared to get it however I could. I was desperate enough...
...taking a pharmacological stew of approved and experimental drugs and potions that it is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of any single drug. Underground studies of experimental drugs, like the Compound-Q effort, confuse an already complex situation and frustrate scientists. "They're violating all the standards of safe testing of new compounds," says Dr. Paul Volberding, an AIDS specialist at the University of California at San Francisco. The haphazard use of experimental drugs may help some AIDS patients in the short run, but it will slow down the quest to discover the best ways to treat the many people...
Luckily, I was assigned to nice, safe, Holworthy 5. When I unpacked the first day, I pulled out all the usual junk--books, clothes, sheets, vodka. The Smirnoff was a going-away present from my boyfriend back home. I dumped the boyfriend for the man from Kirkland House. Big Mistake # 1. All he ever gave me was a headache and a hangover...
...tried to enter the U.S. Washington's repelling measure has had the intended effect: whereas asylum applications in Texas ran at a rate of 233 a day two months ago, the level has dropped to fewer than ten daily. Other countries, including Britain and Denmark, ship some refugees to "safe third countries." If an Iranian, for example, arrives via Turkey or a Kurd via Egypt, he is returned to the last departure point...