Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp conflict with the view of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Feedback, a newsletter published by the Harvard University Food Services, encourages students to use the artificial sweetener, saccharin. In a statement we believe to be unwarranted, the September issue of Feedback states that "saccharine, nitrites, and hundreds of other food additives are perfectly safe at the levels currently used in our foods." The publication and distribution of this document under the imprimatur of the University's Food Services raises serious questions. We shall comment here only on certain scientific and policy questions...
...large numbers of foods and toothpastes, it is difficult for the individual to avoid ingestion of this additive without governmental intervention. The FDA's action on saccharin is therefore well advised as prudent preventive medicine. Its further decision to permit the sweetener to be sold as a nonprescription drug recognizes the fact that there may well be people for whom the benefits of taking the sweetener exceed its possible risks...
Silber had attacked aspects of the station's programming in a letter calling for "an end to mindless and illiterate chatter," and to the advocacy of "quack psychotherapy," and any form of drug abuse...
...Maine, U.S. District Attorney George Mitchell says the smuggling has become "a major problem." This summer alone, 20 arrests were made for drug smuggling, and Mitchell has asked for more DEA agents (at present there are only two assigned to the state). The Coast Guard is also woefully outmanned: it has only nine cutters to patrol the entire New England coastline. According to Edward Drinan, a DEA agent stationed in Portland, drug smuggling in Maine is "an everyday occurrence." His bleak assessment: "We are getting our pants beat off. There's no doubt about the fact we just...
...Krypteia remains forceful, but not quite as secret. Scarcely a month passes without some well-broadcast defection from Eastern Europe; hardly a week goes by without some new charge about intelligence excesses in the West. In the post-Watergate epoch, almost any revelation seems credible: accounts of CIA drug experiments and poison cigars, spy satellites and submarine salvage ships, assassination machinations, all more outlandish than any imaginative work. To compete against such headlines, the novelist has to do more than reiterate events; he has to heighten and humanize them. Enter George Smiley...