Word: scares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dissuading citizens from having contact with foreigners. If so, the strategy is probably working. On one occasion, people in the Siberian town of Bilibino objected to the use of a bathhouse by a group of Western journalists. & African students in Moscow, already feeling somewhat lonely, report that the AIDS scare has made life even more isolated. "I used to hear people say 'Monkey' behind my back," says a Senegalese student. "Now I hear them say 'SPID,' " the Russian acronym for AIDS...
...prospect of a lifetime behind bars does not crack the cold composure. "To me, life is not much better on the streets than in jail," he says. "I can live here, no problem." He's not afraid of dying; he's not afraid of jail. Society has nothing to scare Hagan into line...
Executives of shipping companies said the average number of ships near the Strait of Hormuz, the southern entrance to the Persian Gulf, was down more than half to about 20 since the mine scare began...
Elsewhere in Europe, the nuclear catastrophe seemed to have faded from memory. French shoppers who once used Geiger counters to help them select produce during the height of the radiation scare now buy fruits and vegetables without concern. In West Germany, though, 20 institutes and eight community groups continue to monitor samples of suspected foods. Checks recently found excessive radiation in certain chocolates, dried mushrooms and beef...
...yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...