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...counter promotional abuses, Kessler is doubling his advertising- enforcemen t staff and plans to release stricter drug-marketing guidelines by year's end. But doctors fear that a clampdown could actually impede the flow of medical information. Cancer specialists in particular rely on drug companies to help inform them about experimental uses of drugs. "The reality is that this is the way oncologists get educated," says Dr. Robert Young, director of the Fox Chase Cancer Center. "If you start denying that information to doctors, then people are going...
...Klerk may find it impossible to undertake a major clampdown on his security forces soon. If he did so while the threat of black violence remained, he would weaken police morale and send more wary whites into the right-wing camp. But how De Klerk ultimately handles the matter will help determine how peacefully -- or violently -- political change will occur...
Ever notice how some North American baseball fielders seem to have gloves as big as bushel baskets? Not for long. This season major-league baseball plans to enforce an old rule, previously ignored, that bans any glove larger than 12 in. from heel to tip. The clampdown has sent glovemakers hustling to redesign mitts, some of which exceed...
...cash crunch was deliberate, the result of new President Fernando Collor de Mello's desperate all-or-nothing attempt to "obliterate" Brazil's inflation spiral, which hit a monthly rate of 73% in February. The severe clampdown, which the President unveiled just hours after his inauguration on March 15, went into full effect last week. By presidential decree, the plan freezes 80% of the country's banking and investment accounts; no one can withdraw more than $1,200 from savings for the next 18 months. And to cement his reform, Collor replaced Brazil's latest currency, the new cruzado, with...
...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...