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Edition number counted from The World in 1987 = 1. Publication month not confirmed; year only. The reprint is The Economist's own web copy of the original article.
In 1988, AIDS will break two gruesome records. It will be ten years since the first cases were recognised (retrospectively) in America and Belgium; and the number of people known to have caught it will pass 100,000 for the first time.
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The threat of a heterosexual epidemic in America and Europe will begin to recede.
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The World in 1988 foresaw major changes in central Europe, especially in East Germany—a year out, but pretty close.
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