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...Pasteur Institute in Paris announced that traces of the AIDS virus have been found in the genes of more than 50 varieties of insects from Africa. The report's author, Jean-Claude Chermann, rushed to assure the public that insects almost certainly pose no threat to humans, but a trigger-happy French press jumped to its own conclusions. MOSQUITOES COULD TRANSMIT AIDS VIRUS, headlined France- Soir...
...more difficult problem for many firms is the cost of treating an AIDS victim, which averages about $147,000 during the two years it generally takes for the disease to run its fatal course. For small businesses, one or two AIDS cases could trigger a ruinous hike in health-insurance premiums. To keep costs in the $35,000 range, corporations like RCA have established outpatient-care programs in which AIDS patients spend far less time in the hospital and more on the job or at home...
Ever since he shot and wounded four youths who had approached him on a Manhattan subway in December 1984, Bernhard Goetz has been alternately hailed as a hero in the war against crime and condemned as a trigger-happy gunman. Now a jury will be asked to decide which label fits him. The New York State Court of Appeals last week reinstated attempted murder and assault charges against Goetz, ordering him to stand trial as early as Sept...
Washington Mayor Marion Barry Jr., who has been criticized for failing to build new jail cells, found a way to deflect further censure: the city administration charged that Monaco's report helped trigger the riot. Inmates who saw accounts of the report, city officials claimed, concluded that they would be set free if they destroyed the prison. Some convicts actually packed their belongings in plastic garbage bags before the buildings were set afire. A number of prisoners did escape Lorton afterward, but not to freedom. Nearly 500 of the 1,300 inmates involved were shipped to other area jails...
...reason for that relative lack of concern is that the new stock index futures markets, which may have helped trigger last week's selling, give institutional investors the opportunity to hedge against sudden losses. Said Arthur Randall, a broker with the E.F. Hutton investment house: "It takes much more than 80 points and two days to convince them that the party is over...