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...developed the drug, hoped it would become the firm's first real moneymaker. That hope was dashed last week when the Food and Drug Administration declined to give the drug approval for widespread use until more thorough research is conducted. While IL-2 shrinks tumors in some patients, researchers contend that the drug can also trigger cardiac arrest and other serious complications. Cetus last month suspended clinical trials of IL-2 as a treatment for high blood pressure when findings proved inconclusive. After investing more than $100 million to develop the drug, Cetus now faces a battle to prove...
American advocates of RU 486 contend that the company is overestimating the opposition. A Louis Harris survey released last week found that 73% of American adults support abortion rights. Supporters believe that acceptance of RU 486 in other countries will lead women to push harder to bring it to the U.S. Doctors also warn that if the drug is not made officially available in the U.S., a black market for it will develop...
...American Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, the Governor of Hawaii and environmental groups have all dumped on the plan. They contend that the trip is hazardous and that the new $240 million incinerator on Johnston Island may not be ready to handle the disposal task safely. Hawaii Democratic Governor John Waihee argues that the Johnston plant should first complete a 16-month test period. Other critics fear smokestack emissions will contaminate the ocean food chain...
...anywhere else. More white votes, as a percent of the total, were cast for Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia and Congressmen Mike Espy of Mississippi and John Lewis of Atlanta than were cast for Mayors David Dinkins of New York City and Wilson Goode of Philadelphia. Democrats and Republicans contend in a game whose outcome is increasingly uncertain but whose winners' political allegiance is national rather than regional...
...media professionals believe that subliminal messages are widely used in popular entertainment, but many religious Fundamentalists contend that they are common and that they exert an almost hypnotic power. This theory was popularized by author Wilson Bryan Key, a witness for the two families. In the case of the Judas Priest album Stained Class, Key claims to find the repeated injunction "Do it," which he interprets as encouraging suicide. Attorneys for the plaintiffs also maintain that satanic incantations are revealed when the music is played backward. Testifying last week, Vance's mother, a born- again Christian, described...