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Last January, under pressure from Washington, Duarte announced a plan to strengthen the economy and reduce dependence on U.S. largesse. He devalued the Salvadoran colon by 50%, which led to consumer price increases, and imposed a tax on coffee, the country's main export, to pay for the war. With an average per capita income of $535, El Salvador now faces as much as 50% unemployment, up to 40% inflation and a flight of capital as wary businessmen invest overseas. To make matters worse, half a million people have been forced from their homes by the war. The earthquake, which...
...told the Washington Post in an interview published Thursday, "I think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it." Indeed, the Post account had him advising Reagan in a bedside conference at Bethesda Naval Hospital in July 1985, when the President was recuperating from colon surgery, that it would be "wrong and unwise" to accept an Israeli suggestion that arms be traded for hostages. Reagan reportedly agreed...
...often hereditary eye cancer that develops in children. The find should lead to an accurate test for genetic susceptibility to the disease and perhaps improved treatment. It has also raised hopes that other genes will soon be found that inhibit the more common cancers of the lung, breast and colon...
That the patients were only laboratory mice did not detract from the results: 100% cured of colon cancer that had spread to the liver, 50% cured of colon cancer spread to the lungs. These are remarkable cure rates for malignancies that are virtual death sentences for both mice and people. The encouraging results were announced last week by a researcher of near celebrity status, Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. It was Rosenberg who, as spokesman for the team of doctors performing colon surgery on Ronald Reagan, shocked the nation last year by announcing on television, "The President...
...treatments. As a result, few serious side effects were apparent. With the addition of cyclophosphamide, a drug that Rosenberg believes suppresses immune-system cells that might otherwise impede the TIL cells, the treatment achieved its spectacular success rates. Most important, the combined therapy cured mice of advanced colon cancers that in parallel animal experiments had withstood the LAK cells. Can TIL immunotherapy work in humans? "There are some questions," says Dr. Alexander Fefer, a University of Washington researcher who has pioneered in the development of T cells that target malignancies. Perhaps the most significant question is whether human TIL cells...