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...were unable to rescue them. The team radioed the CIA's headquarters, and the agency ordered them to kill the men. ABC's Nightline planned a three-part series on the story but later dropped the project, as did the Los Angeles Times, which sent two reporters to Thailand in a vain effort to verify the tale...
...believed to have originated in South America. Incas and Mayans prized it for its vibrant flavor and curative powers, prescribing peppers for ailments as diverse as arthritis, epilepsy and the common cold. Pepper seeds carried back to Europe by Christopher Columbus eventually found their way to China, Korea, Thailand and India -- the last of which today leads all other nations in per capita chile consumption...
...recent decades. Last month a woman came to a New York City emergency room with a strain of cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half a dozen drugs...
...fact that the disease spread primarily among homosexual and bisexual men and intravenous drug abusers in the U.S. and Europe but became a largely heterosexual infection in Africa. Researchers announced last week that they may have an answer. Based on a study of the newly emerging epidemic in Thailand, they concluded that HIV has shown predilections for different human host cells in different parts of the world...
...delicate move, Thailand's King last week tiptoed past a military-backed contender and, after consultations with political leaders, appointed Anand Panyarachun, 59, a former diplomat and businessman, to be interim Prime Minister for the second time. Initially installed by the military following a February 1991 coup, Anand ran Thailand's most honest and competent government in decades before stepping down last March. His sensitive task now: to organize new elections and extricate the military from politics in response to last month's bloody pro-democracy street clashes...