Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply, it all started with Ray. Raymond Del co. a contractor from Bristol, R.I. is having an affair with the major's wife, Sheila. The mayor, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. in a fit of anger that ultimately would make him ex-mayor and Sheila his ex-wife came over to Ray's house on March 20, 1983 and beat him up with first, his fists, then an ashtray, then a fireplace log, and finally a burning cigarette...
...discovery will enable doctors to attack a disease that has resisted all attempts at treatment and prevention: 43% of AIDS patients die within a year of diagnosis; no one has been known to recover. "This is the step that everyone has been waiting for," proclaims NCI Director Vincent Devita. Plans for an AIDS vaccine are already being made at Gallo's lab. But the most immediate application of the discovery is a blood-screening test that could be used to protect the nation's blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus. So far 83 Americans, including...
Plans for the $8-10 million complex tentatively call for 300 to 350 public parking spaces and about 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, Vincent J. Panico, one of 13 investors in the project, said yesterday...
...raised questions, and some tempers, in a region that may be richer in protest songs than ready cash. "Our banana and grapefruit economies can't maintain a gun state," declares Egerton M. Richards, publisher of the staid weekly Vincentian. Other pleas have been Seven more plangent. The St. Vincent opposition paper New Times greeted the arrival of a U.S. training team on the island with an impassioned editorial: "We want roads, and an international airport. We want university scholarships abroad. We want food, technology and cash, not guns, please." Some islanders fear that the presence of American visitors...
...worse. Last December, only two weeks after he arrived on St. Vincent, U.S. Master Sergeant Willie Washington was sitting in a bar when an islander named Keith Walker began taunting him about the U.S. presence. Tempers flared; Washington threw Walker to the floor, and another local retaliated by flinging a barstool at the American. At that point, Washington allegedly drew his gun and beat the second islander about the head with it. After arriving on the scene, police arrested only the two Vincentians. The incident merely intensified misgivings about the presence of arms...