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...have not recently repeated their claim that AIDS is a strain of germ warfare concocted by the CIA, they do maintain that the disease is essentially a Western problem because of the allegedly low incidence of both homosexuality and intravenous-drug use in the Soviet Union. According to the TASS news agency, 1 million tests have been conducted among blood donors and people in high-risk categories. Out of this number, the agency said, there have been 102 positive tests, 80 of which were obtained from foreigners...
...Valentin Pokrovsky, a Soviet AIDS specialist, said in June that only seven patients, six of them foreigners, were undergoing hospital treatment for AIDS in the Soviet Union. About 30 foreigners had been treated and deported, he told TASS, while six more would be sent home later. He also said that the one Soviet patient, a homosexual who had caught the disease during a trip abroad, had infected 14 others, presumably all Soviets, who had been treated in a hospital and sent home but were being kept under observation...
...play a larger role in the gulf. Indeed, it was a Soviet decision last spring to charter three oil tankers to Kuwait that drove the Reagan Administration to counter the move by reflagging Kuwaiti vessels. But in reporting last week's negotiations with Iran, the Soviet news agency TASS noted that both Moscow and Tehran expressed mutual concern over the "unprecedented buildup of the U.S. military presence in the region." Nonetheless, the potential partnership poses problems for both countries. The Soviet Union remains a major arms supplier to Iraq. And Moscow cannot ignore the potential appeal of Khomeini's fiery...
...official news agency Tass said Gorbachev advocated the "double zero" concept in written replies to questions by the Indonesian newspaper Merdeka. The agency distributed the text of the queries and Gorbachev's answers...
...safely on the South Lawn of the White House. Then, as now, officials were shocked at the ease with which an unidentified craft was able to penetrate vital and heavily defended airspace. Initially, the Soviet press drew parallels between the two incidents, as if to minimize their seriousness. But TASS reported that during the emergency Politburo meeting the Soviet leadership took a far harsher view, and Soviet newscasters said an investigation would be conducted that could lead to the prosecution of some military personnel...