Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to be present in people suffering from Huntington's disease. His evidence suggested that the marker must be near the Huntington's disease gene on the same chromosome, but he needed a larger sample to confirm his findings. This was provided by Wexler, who had previously traveled to Venezuela to chart the family tree of a clan of some 5,000 people, all of them descendants of a woman who died of Huntington's $ disease a century ago. Working with DNA samples from affected family members, Gusella and Wexler in 1983 concluded that they had indeed found a Huntington...
...exclusive interview from his jail cell in Salem, Mass., fugitive banker George Koskotas finally tells his tale of the worst political and financial scandal to hit Greece in 40 years. -- In Venezuela economic austerity measures provoke an orgy of rioting and murder. -- President Bush stumbles on the nettlesome issue of human rights during his trip to China...
...Venezuela had not seen such mayhem since 1958, when a popular insurrection toppled dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and ushered in democracy. Overnight, Venezuelans faced martial-law restrictions, including a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. When the riots ended, severe food shortages in the capital threatened to stir more disquiet. The most important victim of the upheaval was probably President Perez himself, who had begun his second term in office (the first was from 1974 to 1979) with a huge margin of popularity. That goodwill was suddenly forgotten when the rattled leader failed to stop the violence with a rambling...
Perez, who has long inveighed against his continent's onerous financial burden, had finally found austerity unavoidable. Venezuela owes foreign creditors, largely U.S. commercial banks, about $33 billion. In the 1970s, when the country was awash with petroleum revenues, the government that Perez headed spent lavishly on social-welfare projects and industrial schemes. But as oil prices took a dive in the 1980s, so did the economy, which earned 90% of export revenues from petroleum. Hard-pressed for cash, Venezuela last Dec. 31 suspended payments for 90 days on the bulk of its foreign obligations...
...CARACAS, Venezuela--In riots touched off by bus fare increases, Venezuelans sacked hundreds of stores, set vehicles ablaze and traded gunfire with police in the country's worst street violence in 30 years...