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Doctors bow to social pressure and legal strictures not to record AIDS on death certificates. "I write TB or meningitis or diarrhea but never AIDS," says South Africa's Dr. Moll. "It's a public document, and families would hate it if anyone knew." Several years ago, doctors were barred even from recording compromised immunity or HIV status on a medical file; now they can record the results of blood tests for AIDS on patient charts to protect other health workers. Doctors like Moll have long agitated to apply the same openness to death certificates...
...pardon petition with the White House. He asked Holder if he wanted a copy. Holder, who assumed that the White House would forward the petition to the Justice Department's pardon attorney for review, as was customary, said he personally did not. On Dec. 11, Quinn delivered the massive document, about the size of a phone book, which TIME has seen, to the office of White House Counsel Beth Nolan...
...When Judge Guzman handed Pinochet an official military document from 1973 listing a number of detainees executed on the orders of the commander in the chief of the army, Pinochet responded: "I am not a criminal. Anyway, those in charge of the [judicial] processes, of the detainees, were the commanders of the different garrisons...
...pardon petition with the White House. He asked Holder if he wanted a copy. Holder, who assumed that the White House would forward the petition to the Justice Department's pardon attorney for review, as was customary, said he personally did not. On Dec. 11, Quinn delivered the massive document, about the size of a phone book, which TIME has seen, to the office of White House Counsel Beth Nolan...
There is one surprise awaiting the industry. This week lame-duck Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is expected to issue long-anticipated and controversial "competition guidelines," which the big airlines have tried for years to fend off. The document will give detailed definitions of what constitutes predatory behavior and unfair methods of competition. The guidelines will, for the first time since deregulation, allow the DOT wide latitude in looking into the subtle ways competition can be affected. For instance, if a large airline threatens vendors who offer their services to start-up airlines, the new rules would let the DOT move...