Word: commissioner
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare drafted the tentative guidelines in response to earlier demands by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects that children be protected from unethical medical researchers.
Barbara Mishkin, the former staff director of the commission on human subjects, said yesterday she was disappointed with some aspects of the proposals, particularly the lack of an age limit after which the experiments would need the child's consent. "Children should be given the opportunity to consent as a...
Both of Stratton's parents are ministers, but she was a predental student at Indiana University in Pennsylvania when she joined ROTC for the physical challenge and the $100-a-month paycheck. She liked ROTC so much that she decided to concentrate on soldiering. She won her commission in...
Unfortunately, Nixon and Mitchell law and order paranoia tainted the early code reform efforts. When President Johnson founded the Brown Commission in 1966, charging it with recommending paths to code reform, it was well-stocked with good liberals.
But by the time the commission filed its report in 1971, the Nixon administration had already determined to use code reform as one more governmental tool to silence its critics.