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In the last few years, compelling research has been published about a new, AIDS-related virus named Human Herpes Virus 6 that suggests this virus may be more important in causing immune collapse in AIDS than HIV is.
Finally, the collapse of an era--or is it?
In China, for example, the big story had been the Chinese government's self-proclaimed diplomatic triumphs, such as President Clinton's visit to Beijing and Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visits to Moscow and Tokyo; in Russia it had been the collapse of the post-Soviet financial system and the humiliation of market reformers; in Israel the disintegration of Benjamin Netanyahu's government amid bitter divisions over the Middle East peace process; in South Africa the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on apartheid-era crimes; in Germany the September election that ousted Chancellor Helmut Kohl and brought the Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder to power; in Italy the country's success in qualifying to join the new euro currency; and in France its soccer team's 3-0 victory over Brazil in the final of the World Cup.
The collapse of the 40-foot pyramid, which was being set up for an annual bonfire, killed 12 and injured 27.
But to say that Reagan was more responsible for the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the end of the Cold War than Gorbachev--or that either of them was more responsible for it than the cascading economic crises in the U.S.S.R. itself--just doesn't make sense.