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...sense is that yes, they have said that they are looking for a definitive determination of whether our current practices are in compliance with the Solomon Amendment,” says Matt W. Alsdorf, a second-year law student. “If they don’t succeed in whatever administrative options the Department of Defense has, I imagine it will go to court...
...terms of talking to professors and administrators, certainly the emotional and intellectual commitment is there to take this as far as they can,” Alsdorf adds...
...Alsdorf says even if Congress were to effectively reverse a court decision in favor of Yale, the action would stimulate public discussion on “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the defense department’s methods...
Executives of Chemie Grünenthal GMBH had been on trial for 20 months in a suit brought by the West German government in behalf of the parents and children. In a courtroom improvised from a miners' hall in Alsdorf, near Aachen, company lawyers had been skillfully using delaying moves in an apparent effort to wear down the plaintiffs. Their efforts seemed to be paying off; by last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom...
...deforming effects of thalidomide on unborn children have been known for almost seven years, and the drug's manufacturers are even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one has been able to explain just what it was in the tranquilizer-sleeping pill that produced seal-flipper limbs in children. Last week a German-born investigator with a grandfatherly manner was finally able to pinpoint to the American Chemical Society how thalidomide did its damage...