Word: curran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard argument to sustain. Not only was Bell a Democrat, of course, but he was an old friend of the Carters' and of Lance. Faced with increasing criticism, Bell last week finally decided to put the probe into other hands. His choice was highly qualified: Paul Jerome Curran, 45, who not only is a Republican but had been the U.S. Attorney in New York City...
...turned out, Bell's problems were far from over. Trying to resist any comparison with Watergate, Bell made Curran a "special counsel," not a "special prosecutor," the title carried by Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski when they led the investigations that helped to bring about Richard Nixon's downfall. There was one important difference: unlike the special prosecutors, Curran would not have the power to charge anyone on his own. He would first have to get the approval of Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann...
...have to be earn careful about what you do to kids," Curran, a pioneer in the field of children's rights in medical research, said yesterday. Though he fears the government could interpret the rules too stringently, Curran still thinks they are reasonable. "It could have been much worse, as there were some radical proposals made which would have stopped most research," he added...
...regulations would leave local hospitals some latitude in interpreting them. "Gray areas would include drugs tried on children when the drugs may have side effects that could endanger the child," Curran said. "You may have to work with one child to protect other children. There may be some risk, but not a great risk," he added...
...Curran said researchers experimented on institutionalized mentally retarded children in order to develop a polio vaccine, and that the new rules would limit such practices...