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ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE: A hit. Attempts to cajole the developed nations into committing 1% of their G.N.P.s to economic aid have not been entirely successful (only France, surprisingly, meets the goal; the U.S. figure is closer to one-half of 1%). But donor nations, among them the U.S., are more and more willing to channel aid funds through multinational organizations like the World Bank...
...conditional agreement is in line with existing University policy of informing a scholarship donor when students receiving aid become ineligible for scholarship, Administration sources said last month...
...prime target is the widespread use of plasmapheresis by commercial blood laboratories. An old technique, plasmapheresis separates the components of whole blood and returns the red blood cells-hardest for the body to replace-to the donor. The procedure as now employed can be both profitable and dangerous. Whole blood should not be given more often than every two months. But donors can and do sell plasma far more frequently, and often to laboratories that fail to protect either them or the ultimate user of their life-saving product...
Appalled by this situation, the Research Council has responded by drafting a set of guidelines aimed at protecting both the donor and the user of plasma products. To weed out the unfit, it proposes limiting participation in plasmapheresis programs to persons of "fixed address...
...conditional agreement is in line with existing University policy of informing a scholarship donor when students receiving aid become ineligible for scholarship, Administration sources said yesterday...