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Rescue workers toiled at first in a nearly horizontal driving rain. They placed yellow sheets over the dead, quickly assessed the severity of survivors' injuries and warned area hospitals by radio about what type of cases to expect. The Rev. Richard Brown, who was giving last rites to the victims...
The issue of whether or not AIDS can be transmitted through saliva remains medically unresolved and a focus of fear. Firemen around the country have refused to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to AIDS patients and often to gay men in general. In New York City and Los Angeles County...
Some once robust financial institutions have also been hit by questionable dealings involving bank insiders. Dubai's Abdul Wahad Galadari, former chairman of the Union Bank of the Middle East, borrowed heavily from his bank to speculate in gold and silver. When the Dubai government rushed in to rescue the...
The easygoing former family practitioner is expected to be more of a team player than Heckler, whose clashes with White House insiders, mainly Chief of Staff Donald Regan, led to her downfall. Bowen served as chairman of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which helped rescue the foundering system in...
At least 44 people died in the flooded tri-state area (22 in West Virginia, 21 in Virginia and one in Maryland), and scores were reported missing. Thousands of homes were destroyed, drinking water systems became fouled, and interstate highway bridges were closed. Property damage in the Virginias alone is...