Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American public officials may have to reexamine their position on drug use if they want to curb the spread of AIDS, said another conference Co-chairman, Paul Volberding, who runs the AIDS Activities Division of San Francisco General Hospital. "How can you tell people to stop sharing needles if your public posture is that using needles is not condoned anyway?" he asked...
...Doctors passing out clean syringes [to drug users] is not going to stop [the spread of AIDS]," Curran said...
Palestinians who know the dark world of Arab terrorism say the TWA aircraft bombing is the latest work of Abu Nidal, the elusive mastermind whose followers have spread blood across three continents...
...send in troops would lose us every friend in Latin America. They want us to help the contras, but not with troops. The only thing I've uttered is a warning that if this revolutionary, this Sandinista, group is allowed to solidify their base, they intend to spread that revolution to other countries. There might come a day when their acts--hostile acts --would be directly against us and a situation then when it wouldn't be going down to try and run someone else's government. It would be protecting ourselves...
...labor disputes and riots spread, the National Council, which took power after Duvalier fled last Feb. 7, was forced to recognize that it had failed to win popular support. The credibility of the joint military-civilian junta was shattered on Thursday by the resignation of Justice Minister Gerard Gourgue, an anti-Duvalierist and the only member of the junta trusted by the public...