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AIDS victims are treated like lepers even by some in the medical community. Ambulance workers in several cities have refused to transport desperately ill patients to hospitals. Hospital orderlies are reluctant to clean their rooms. Nurses are wary. When a friend visiting an AIDS patient in a Los Angeles hospital stepped out into the corridor to fill a water pitcher for him, he was shouted at by a nurse. "That pitcher should never leave that damn room!" she screamed. "How dare you jeopardize...
...R.A.F.: clockwork planning, audacity and indifference to the innocence of victims. It began when a metallic green Volkswagen with forged U.S. armed forces license plates slipped past security guards into the parking lot between the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing headquarters building and a dormitory for supply and transport squadrons. At 7:25 a.m., as hundreds of G.I.s and German civilian employees were reporting for the morning shift, a quantity of explosives concealed in the car detonated, with such force that a 5-ft.-deep crater was left in the ground. Ceiling tiles on nearby buildings were peeled off, windows...
...Cuban port of Mariel. The intelligence analysts say the deliveries included at least two batteries of SA-2 or SA-3 surface-to-air missiles, which reportedly will be installed at the Punta Huete air base near Managua. The Soviets also sent an unspecified number of Mi-8 troop transport and six Mi-24D attack helicopters. LEBANON "There Is No Alternative...
Pledges of outside aid came just as quickly. Along with the U.S. Army rescue helicopters, Washington's Ambassador to Colombia Charles A. Gillespie released an immediate $25,000 to local authorities. Within 36 hours the first of three U.S. C-130 Hercules transport aircraft flew from Howard Air Force Base in Panama to a Colombian military airport at Palanquero bearing some 500 family-size tents. In Washington, Jay Morris, deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that "we have been working around the clock to monitor and respond to the emergency requirements of the survivors." Administration officials...
...year alone, some to bus buffs as far afield as Dubai and the Czech Republic. Steve Newman, one of Ensign's directors, says that many buyers are eager to preserve a piece of London history. "If they were buildings, they'd be listed" as historical landmarks, Newman explains. Imaginative transport fans have converted the vehicles into restaurants, bars and even mobile homes. If you think a Routemaster could set you on the road to happiness, call (44-1708) 864340, or visit www.ensignbus.co.uk