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...indifference to human rights violations abroad, thus maybe even encouraging such offenses. Some committee members are troubled that Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries (see following story). When Lefever told the committee he thought the human rights job offered only "an occasional opportunity to nudge history," Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois angrily lectured him: "It's important to do more than nudge history. We want an advocate, a spokesman...
...outcome of last week's World Health Organization vote was never in doubt. Delegates to the WHO meeting in Geneva were considering an international code of conduct to restrict the advertising and marketing of baby formula, a processed, usually powdered substitute for mother's milk. The formula can lead to infant malnutrition and death when used improperly, so the WHO code had the support of doctors and government health officials all over the planet. The final tally was 118 to 1, a near miracle of consensus in any international forum. Which nation was it that cast the only...
...infant-formula controversy began about ten years ago, when Dr. Derrick Jelliffer, a public health specialist, declared that infant malnutrition could be linked to the use of baby formula. That substance, usually made from a milk base with vegetable fat, milk sugar, vitamins and minerals added, is nutritious if correctly used. In poor areas of the world, however, that is sometimes impossible. Mothers may unknowingly mix powdered formula with contaminated water or, to save money, dilute it too much. Moreover, breast feeding is healthier and more economical, assuming a baby's mother is healthy and able to produce adequate...
Critics have also complained that the infant-formula industry, which has world-wide sales of $2 billion, compounded those hazards by stepping up marketing efforts in Third World countries. Some of the sales tactics were questionable. Employees of some formula companies, dressed as medical personnel, would go from village to village promoting the products. New mothers were routinely given advertising brochures and free samples while still in the hospital...
...understanding among all the parties. One possible avenue lay in a plan outlined to TIME by a high Begin aide last week. Under the proposal, the Christian Phalangists and Syrians would disengage their forces near Zahle and elsewhere in the Bekaa Valley, as reportedly called for in the Habib formula. Israel, however, instead of ceasing its overflights in the Bekaa Valley, would pledge not to attack the Syrians on the ground or otherwise threaten their status as a peace-keeping force in Lebanon. If the Syrians were to accept this live-and-let-live approach, said the aide, it might...