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...matter who gets the credit for the AIDS virus, there is no doubt that Gallo laid the groundwork for the discovery with his earlier research into cancer viruses. Says French Immunologist Daniel Zagurey of the University of Paris: "Without Gallo, there wouldn't have been any work on this at Pasteur. Their research is based on his initial discovery." Gallo's quest for the cause of cancer began in childhood. As a boy of 14, in Waterbury, Conn., he watched his younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with...
Covert support of the contras in Honduras is provoking resentment in an unlikely constituency: the U.S. Army. More than 2,500 regular U.S. military personnel are now stationed in Honduras, most of them preparing the groundwork for a new U.S.-Honduran military exercise, known as Granadero I. As a preliminary to that exercise, 120 members of the Panama-based 193rd U.S. Infantry Brigade last week conducted a daylong maneuver alongside 170 Honduran troops, near the sensitive El Aguacate military base. The American soldiers involved with Granadero I are beginning to complain that CIA personnel have, in the words...
After months of groundwork, negotiations came to a head last November. Following a meeting with Machel in the Mozambique capital of Maputo, Crocker's deputy, Frank Wisner, flew to South Africa with a message for Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha: the time was ripe for bilateral talks with Mozambique. The discussions set in motion the exchange that led to last week's formal accord...
...Sheets, was released three weeks later, and a third, Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for Hero, a week after that. The sound-track album and a promotional video also came out weeks before the movie. When the film itself finally opened around the country in mid-February, the groundwork had been laid: Footloose the movie was the nation's top-grossing film for the first three weeks of its release and has earned $38 million at the box office so far; Footloose the album, with sales of more than a million, is currently No. 5 on the Billboard...
...leadership, she managed to strike a subtle balance between the stiffly formal Kremlin protocol and the more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford and Brezhnev in Vladivostok. Said Thatcher: "If there is to be progress on arms control, it will come not through negotiating skill alone but because a broader understanding has been reached...