Word: five
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Treatment. Congress is about to do something extremely rare: allocate money specifically for the treatment of one disease. The Senate voted $2.9 billion, the House $4 billion over five years for treating AIDS. And only AIDS. When Senator Malcolm Wallop introduced an amendment allowing rural districts with few AIDS patients to spend the money on other diseases, the amendment was voted down...
...important to us. There are six homeland leaders in South Africa. We are working with five. What is the importance of Buthelezi...
Silber has evolved from a political asterisk to serious contender in five short months by becoming a channel for rage and frustration against bureaucracy in general and the fiscally disastrous administration of Michael Dukakis in particular. He capped his uphill fight by narrowly corralling the necessary 15% of delegates at a chaotic Democratic state convention. For that feat, Silber drew at least as much attention as former state attorney general Francis X. Bellotti got for finishing first...
...risk-free." Cuban Americans even more conservative than Mas oppose any conciliatory gesture, but if Mas' view prevails, an early probe could involve TV Marti, the Florida- based television station that began beaming American programming to Cuba last March. Radio Marti, which has penetrated Cuba for more than five years, has given Castro fits. TV Marti is "driving him even crazier," says Pavlov. As the father of both media moves, Mas sees TV Marti as a potential bargaining chip -- "like the way the U.S. used the placement of Pershing II missiles in Europe as leverage to force the ((intermediate-range...
...Czechoslovakia the government questioned five former Communist leaders, including General Secretary Milos Jakes, over their role in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of their country. But the move was taken on the eve of the country's first free elections since 1946, and thus was seen as a bit of cheap political opportunism by Civic Forum, President Vaclav Havel's ruling coalition and easy winner at the polls...