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...verdict was as ambiguous and frustrating as the case. Former French health secretary Edmond Herv?'s conviction on manslaughter charges in the long-running tainted-blood case was tempered by a suspended sentence, on the grounds that he had already been punished enough over the five years of the trial. Former prime minister Laurent Fabius and former social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix were acquitted for their involvement in the scandal, in which some 4,400 individuals were infected with HIV from tainted blood productsin 1985; 40 percent of those people have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated...
...issue is whether the three former Socialist officials -- Laurent Fabius, prime minister from 1984 to 1986, former secretary of state for health Edmond Herv? and former social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix -- should be held responsible for the government's failure to promptly implement the testing of blood at a time when it was already suspected to be a medium of transmission for the AIDS virus. Although the government was warned in March 1985 that almost all of the National Center for Blood Transfusion's stock was HIV-tainted, no action was taken for several months. The delay was responsible...
From Slick Willie in Arkansas to Shifty Willie in his grand jury testimony--let us hope that Clinton becomes Swift Willie, out of the White House. Now! JOSEPH EDMOND BOURQUE Honolulu...
DIED. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, 71, banker-benefactor; of emphysema; in Geneva. The scion of the banking dynasty oversaw operations in Paris and Geneva and gave away much of what he made, most often to Israel...
BORN: Dec. 14, 1933, Edmond EDUCATION: U of Central Oklahoma, B.S., 1957 FAMILY: Wife, Rosalyn; two children RELIGION: Unitarian MILITARY: Army, 1953-55 OCCUPATION: Consulting civil engineer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 200 North Boulevard, Suite 205, Edmond...