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...less. "This campaign is associating Marlboro with exactly the type of rigorous activity that most appeals to adolescents," asserts Matt Myers, counsel to the Coalition on Smoking and Health, who first saw the train ads in his 13-year-old son's copy of Sports Illustrated. "It is another trick to make smoking the way teenage boys assert their independence and proclaim their masculinity. And it's another reason why restrictions should be placed on tobacco advertising and marketing...
...falls under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the food-additives amendment of 1958. According to those laws, olestra can be approved if it carries a "reasonable certainty of no harm" when used as intended. If olestra really makes people sick, as Jacobson and others assert, the agency might well reject it. But after much fretting over the precise definition of harm (and diarrhea as well), a majority of advisory-committee members decided that while the gastrointestinal and nutrient-blocking effects may be inconvenient and even unpleasant, they're almost certainly not harmful...
...Vatican, representing as it did a powerful competing entity. Failing to snuff out the devotion of European Catholics, the dictator would probably have tried picking cardinals and Popes as the next best thing. We can only wish the Chinese no luck at all in this outrageous effort to assert their power over the life of Tibet. DAVID WREN Bloomington, Indiana Via E-mail...
JERUSALEM: U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry told Israel and Syria that if both countries make the request, American troops will help secure peace in the Golan Heights following a peace agreement. Although Syria has yet to respond, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was enthusiastic, asserting that such a force could serve as a symbolic deterrent, not a fighting force. "We have never asked for American soldiers to defend our lives, and we are not going to ask this sort of participation in the future," he said. Dispute over the Golan, which Israel wrested from Syria in the 1967 Mideast...
...reject the deal and seek enforcement of the subpoena. Soon afterward, the White House signaled that only one of the disputed conditions really mattered: other investigative bodies, as well as independent counsel Kenneth Starr, must agree that even if the notes were turned over, the White House could still assert attorney-client privilege with respect to other conversations between the Clintons and their lawyers...