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...Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should be used unless doctors have first determined that a woman's inability to have a baby is caused by a failure...
Other people are using the amendments to extract information about historic events, for publication in newspapers and scholarly journals. That was the basis for 30 requests by Morton Halperin, who is working on a study of Government secrecy and national security. He asked for information from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department and the National Security Council. To his surprise, he has found that "generally, the agencies are proceeding in good faith. We've received much more than I would have predicted...
...said the council left out these points because it "was trying to extract from the recommendations in the Strauch report what it thought were the immediate and essential issues...
...conjunction with several other coastal states, has submitted to the Federal Government a positive program calling for prompt exploration to determine the extent of recoverable oil and gas. To protect the public interest the exploration should be subject to thorough controls and be separated from the decision to extract the resources. Any development should be part of a national energy policy created in cooperation with the states and the people and should use methods least damaging to the environment. If the Supreme Court decides that the Federal Government is the proprietor of the offshore areas, then revenues derived from them...
Meanwhile, the government of another country has recognized that it cannot extract all that it would like from the oilmen. Norway had hoped to tax away 90% of the companies' North Sea profits. Last week, however, Oslo's Labor Party government reduced its preliminary tax proposal to 70% to 75% -still too high in the view of the oilmen, but at least a step in their direction...