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...that the studies were sound. Other reviews were conducted by a board of inquiry made up of three scientists from outside the FDA. In 1981 approval was granted for aspartame's use in such items as General Foods' Kool-Aid and Searle's table-sugar substitute, Equal. Last month, describing aspartame as "one of the most tested food additives ever evaluated by the FDA," the agency ruled it safe as a soft-drink sweetener after no ill effects showed up in people who had consumed five times the recommended maximum daily dosage for 28 weeks...
...shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they are on my side." But Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, a leader of El Salvador's moderate Christian Democrats, pleads for more than war games: "If these shows of strength are not accompanied by an equal effort to strengthen democracy, then they...
...does over the rest of the nation. The dream that he spoke of 20 years ago, a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, is still a dream deferred. What was then a civil rights movement has become a political movement, but the goal is still the same: an equal place for black Americans. First as a King lieutenant, now as leader...
Like the nation itself, China's offshore oil deposits are enormous but somewhat mysterious. They are estimated to range in volume between 30 billion and 100 billion bbl., which would make them perhaps the equal of the North Sea field. But for technical and political reasons China cannot maintain production from its existing wells, much less develop these huge crude reserves by itself. Last year China signed a separate joint-development contract with Atlantic Richfield, which has already begun test drilling in a 3,500-sq.-mi. block off the coast of Viet...
...Soviet prestige. Some European officials and some members of the Reagan Administration have convinced themselves that Andropov is aching for a summit as a kind of status symbol, to prove his legitimacy as Leonid Brezhnev's successor and to underscore the Soviet Union's standing as an equal of the U.S. Yet it is just as plausible that Andropov is under pressure to prove to his hard-line comrades that he is tough enough to hold out for a summit on his own terms. Nor is it realistic to think that a productive summit can be convened around...