Word: transport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mosquitoes, which carry such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...
TRUCKING. While most people are probably unaware of it, the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 has saved them a bundle. The law boosted efficiency by dismantling 45 years' worth of interstate hauling rules, including some oddball anomalies like provisions that allowed agricultural haulers to transport milk but not yogurt or ice cream. All told, trucking deregulation since 1980 has saved consumers $72 billion in lower prices on the goods they buy, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative, Washington-based research group...
...went along, despite a warning from the Soviet Union that Pakistan would pay a high price. By last November, mujahedin equipped with Stingers were shooting down an average of one Soviet or Afghan aircraft a day. Last week, according to Radio Kabul, the rebels struck again, downing an Afghan transport plane and reportedly killing 53 people. Shortly after the weapons began to reach the rebels last fall, Afghan air strikes inside Pakistan intensified. Now Pakistan insists that the U.S. is responsible for its defense. The Reagan Administration is concerned that if it turns its back on Islamabad, Zia might...
...selling pharmaceuticals in border towns now is Ribavirin, a drug developed in the U.S. to treat AIDS but not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Despite official doubts about Ribavirin's efficacy, thousands of Americans are crossing the border to buy it; smuggling rings have been formed to transport large quantities to the U.S. for resale. "I have had people come in saying they will buy all I can get," says a pharmacist in Ciudad Juarez...
...retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and former high-level CIA Officials Thomas G. Clines and Theodore G. Shackley. All of them, he says (and has said previously to prosecutors who did not believe him), were partners of his in deals carried out by Eatsco (for Egyptian American Transport & Services Co.), which he financed for Clines and the others in 1978 in order to reap millions in Middle East arms deals...