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...Members of the Delta Force say the commandos then planned to construct a full-scale mock- up in the Philippines to practice its raid; as cover, it would pretend to be a Hollywood company shooting a commando movie. The JSOC sent intelligence officers to scout a remote airstrip in Thailand, where cargo planes carrying MH-6 helicopters would land to stage the airborne assault. Officers then in the unit say the plan was to have about 40 Delta commandos swoop down on the camp, armed with machine guns, breaching charges and chain saws to cut through doors...
...reported in any 12-month period. The gloomy stats were given at the 10th International AIDS Conference in Yokohama, where much of the attention is focused on the Asian epidemic, which accounted for one-third of all new cases. On the brink of mass infection, say health officials: India, Thailand and Burma. The disease is reported to have plateaued in many Western countries, including the U.S. Worldwide, the disease has infected 17 million...
...Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute and one of the world's premier AIDS researchers, said "much of AIDS is still a story of gloom and doom." Essex cited the high rate of infection in Northern Thailand, where one in five adults have AIDS...
...wound" of his defeat is rarely glimpsed these days. He moves too fast. He has been to England, Sweden, China, Hong Kong, Taipei, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Mexico -- some of them twice -- and endless American cities. Once or twice each week he is airborne, generally in commercial planes. He earns between $70,000 and $100,000 per speech. He also gives a lot of free pep talks at fund raisers for friends...
...Jade helped a wounded prison guard reach a hospital (where North Vietnamese doctors shrugged and amputated a nearly healed leg). Jade managed to slip away into the chaos of a broken society. A boyhood friend sheltered him, and they scrabbled to find money for an escape by boat to Thailand. Twice they were turned back. Before the third attempt was successful, pirates boarded their boat, stole everything and raped the women. Jade and one of his brothers found their way to a refugee camp and spent months becalmed there, far down a long list of prospective emigres...