Subject: What's News -- World-Wide
Date: Published: 1/13/88 35 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

   What's News -- 
   World-Wide

   JAPAN'S TAKESHITA ARRIVED in Washington for talks with
Reagan today.
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   The Centers for Disease Control said there were 20,620 new
cases of AIDS reported in 1987, a rate of about 400 a week
and an increase of almost 59% from the 13,008 new cases
reported in 1986.  By Jan. 4, the last date for which figures
are available, the total number of U. S. AIDS cases had
reached 50,265, the federal agency said.
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   Medical researchers in Texas said   they have used a laser
to cleanse donated blood of the AIDS virus and other
infectious agents without harming the blood.  The Baylor
University team, financed in part with Strategic Defense
Initiative funds, said the experimental technique could be
used to cleanse as many as four pints an hour.
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