During the Tanker War of the 1980s, Iran used missiles, mines and speed boats to assert its control over the Strait of Hormuz. Back then, it took an extensive naval operation, including the ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — By the late 1980s, AIDS was no longer a distant disease to the Ozarks. It was no longer only something reported from New York, San Francisco or Houston. In January 1988, Springfield ...
Such men’s bathhouses were popular until the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic led to closures. Now some want to bring them back. Minneapolis city leaders are considering legalizing adult bathhouses and ...
The HIV/AIDS crisis and public health policy in 1980s America The HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s exposed deep social divisions and weaknesses in public health responses in the United States. This ...
Driveways were still filled with boxy sedans and station wagons, not unlike the ’70s, but now they came with more gadgets, buttons, and futuristic “automatic everything.” Teens practically lived at ...
The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” By Apoorva Mandavilli ...
One day in 1982 or 1983, a young man in New Haven, Connecticut, learned that his friend had been diagnosed with a medical condition that had only recently acquired the name AIDS. At the time, just a ...