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The Decline of America: Funding Slaughter, not Human Needs (II)


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"Casualties of war. 

"Fourteen Americans were killed in combat in the first thirty days of 
the 1991 Persian Gulf ["war"]; during the same period, AIDS claimed 
the lives of 2,500 Americans. The equivalent of the federal 
government's entire research budget for AIDS in 1989, $981 million, 
was spent in approximately two days of the ground war. 

"Sources: "AIDS -- the Second Decade," The New York Times, June 5, 
1991; National Center for Health Statistics, _Health, Unites States_, 
1990 (Hyattsville, Md.: Public Health Service, 1991), p. 200; 
Congressional Budget Office. 

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SOURCE: 
_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New 
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro. 
[$10 paperback ] 
New York, 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House. 
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