Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease. In fact, some people taking AZT have developed anemia and suffered bone-marrow degeneration. "AZT may be a genie that we are letting out of the bottle," says Dr. Itzhak Brook, chairman of the FDA advisory committee and the only dissenter in the vote. Dr. Maxime Seligmann, a French immunologist who has experimented with AZT at the Hopital St.-Louis in Paris, agrees: "There simply isn't enough knowledge about the benefits of the drug compared to the toxic effects and long-term risks...
Last year, nonetheless, a French team under Dr. Daniel Zagury apparently tried, without prior tests on animals, a vaccine on African prostitutes. Many of his colleagues were fearful that he might be experimenting with Third World subjects who had little understanding of the risks involved. Zagury retorted that his critics have "no competence" to judge his methods, but so far has not released or published his results...
...William Buckley, was killed last year by his captors. Anderson and Sutherland were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces...
Another diplomatic thesis was that of Ralph Johnson Bunche, M.A. '34, on "French Administration in Togoland and Dahomey." Bunche later served as undersecretary of the United Nations from...
...battleground that Beirut has become, no one is safe. Two French newsmen, Reporter Paul Marchand, 27,and Reporter-Photographer Roger Auque, 31, were well aware of that last week as they talked with Anglican Envoy Terry Waite, who was in Beirut again to seek the release of foreigners held by Islamic terrorists. Asked which hostage Waite was trying to free, Marchand jokingly pointed to himself and Auque and replied, "All the hostages -- present and future...