Word: code
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Perhaps the greatest recent example of absurd University intransigience was its refusal last month to adopt a code explicitly promising not to discriminate against gay students. The Faculty Council was unable to find evidence of discrimination. What the Council did do was inform a large--and repeatedly harrassed--segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much the same way, Harvard has not taken the concrete steps it should to begin to solve the problems of race relations on campus...
...first, U.S. officials found the guidelines acceptable. Then, after months of lobbying by the three U.S. formula makers and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, an interagency task force recommended that the U.S. discreetly abstain on the WHO code. Yet days before the ballot, word came down from the White House to vote no. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, declared that U.S. aid programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home...
...share 20% of that market. Two years later, Nestlé and the U.S. firms agreed to voluntary guidelines that banned such marketing abuses in developing nations. Antiformula activists say those rules were widely violated, so they pressed the WHO, an agency of the United Nations, to draw up the code adopted last week. Though they are not binding on any nation, the new guidelines apply to infant-formula promotion in industrialized countries as well. Strictly following the code, all nations would prohibit company incentives for doctors to promote formula, free samples for mothers, and consumer advertising generally...
...National Council of Churches next month will publish a report claiming that powdered formula is not strictly a Third World concern: they found that increased use of baby formula among poor families accounts for infant illnesses in the U.S. Vows John Pedrotti, an antiformula activist: "We want the WHO code to be adopted in this country as well." -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Geneva and Barbara Dolan/New York
...Carter Administration to accept and act on the uncertain proof that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam and who now works for Hughes Helicopter in Culver City, Calif. Gritz (rhymes with beets...