Word: strecker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Jacob Segal, a retired East Berlin biologist who is unknown to Western AIDS experts, claimed that the virus originated in biological-warfare experiments at Fort Detrick, Md. Segal's allegation resurfaced in Zambia, then in London's Sunday Express, which cited support for the charge from Robert B. Strecker, an internist in Glendale, Calif., and John R. Seale, a British expert in venereal diseases. Strecker, who has written that the AIDS virus could have originated in either a natural or an artificial combination of viruses, dismisses the biological- warfare angle as "just speculation." Seale believes the deadly virus...
...Proposition 13, San Jose had to renege on a promise made in January to offer a 6% pay increase to teachers. The teachers, in turn, filed a formal grievance with the school board. But they are still in the classrooms. "At least they didn't strike," says Norbert Strecker, president of the school board. "If this had happened a year ago, they would have." Adds Deputy Superintendent Aaron Seandel: "They know we're broke. The kind of money we need you don't get from bake sales...