Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...deny that AIDS victims deserve all the compassion and help that society can muster. The latest statistics presented at the conference show that the toll is still mounting and the end of the epidemic is nowhere in sight. At least 600,000 Americans are infected with the virus, more than 136,000 have become sick, and some 83,000 of those have died...
...Mandela's aim is to leave Washington with some sign that the Administration will not retreat from that grudging support. Continued U.S. sanctions would give Mandela a powerful hand to play when he and other A.N.C. officials eventually sit down to negotiations with the Pretoria government. It would also help Mandela when he arrives next week in Britain, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been anxious to reward South Africa for the gestures De Klerk has made...
...those whose aspirations he has spent half a lifetime representing. Were he to become the first elected black leader of postapartheid South Africa, the resulting immersion in the messy doings of government could make things still more trying for him. Knowing that he remains a hero in America could help to sustain him if those difficult days ever come...
Much of the time, more was going on outside the Moscone Convention Center than inside. The streets were often filled with protesting gay activists, who demanded more Government money to help find a cure for AIDS and provide care for those afflicted. Said Paul Boneberg, head of a group called National Mobilization Against AIDS: "We have to take this opportunity to draw the world's attention to discrimination and underfunded research and medical care that characterize the AIDS problem. People are dying, and these protests move policy forward...
Once the last American trip-wire battalion is gone, Germany will feel liberated in some respects but vulnerable in others. Then what? Will the government in Bonn -- or perhaps by then Berlin -- ask for help from Britain and France, which have their own independent nuclear deterrents? German pride would make that expedient unattractive...