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...panel members emphasized that the risk of contracting an AIDS infection from donor blood is quite remote. "You have a greater chance of dying from the anesthesia," noted Dr. Richard Aster of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Stanford University Statistician Lincoln Moses estimated that about 120 AIDS-infected samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown...
...Ferdinand Marcos. The former President is in exile, and Ching, pregnant with her first child, is weary of the hardships of guerrilla life. Last week she and 167 other rebels laid down their guns and met privately with President Corazon Aquino at a Roman Catholic monastery in the southeastern city of * Davao, where rebel activity has been strong. Said Ching: "Now there's hope for a new life...
Throughout the increasingly bloody conflict there have been charges that the separatists have been aided by India, which has a substantial Tamil population in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu, 22 miles from Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. But in the past ten months, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has tried to broker a peace agreement between the Sri Lanka government and the insurgents. Last year he helped arrange two ceasefires, only to see the fragile agreement crumble. Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene, for his part, has offered greater political autonomy to the Tamils but rejects the idea...
...generations. On Valentine's Day, the prequel (though not the equal) of last year's 1918, marks one more stroll through Foote's family plot. Again we find the Vaughn and Robedaux families forcing smiles and small talk as the Great War rages 5,000 miles from their southeastern Texas town. Again we see Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts) pledging love to his gentle bride Lizzie (Hallie Foote) and declaring his independence from her father's wealth. Drama is tamped down by propriety until it explodes, like a defective firecracker, into the DTs, psychosis and suicide...
Until a few weeks ago, the Fao Peninsula in southeastern Iraq was a sparsely inhabited outpost of little interest to anyone. By last week it had become the locus of some of the fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...