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DeVries had grown frustrated by the nine-month delay in getting a go-ahead from the Utah medical center for a second implant. Said DeVries: "I'm tired of having patients die while trying to cut through red tape." He expects the ethical-review process to be speedier in Kentucky, but there will still be some red tape to get through. The Utah unit was the only one in the country with authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to perform artificial-heart surgery. Now the Humana institute must obtain the same approval...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Journalist Harrison Salisbury, 75, first approached the Chinese government with the idea of retracing Mao Tse-tung's Long March twelve years ago. "They just laughed," he recalls. But Salisbury persisted, and last fall he was finally given the go-ahead for a 70-day journey along the more than 6,000-mile route that Communist troops trekked on foot to escape Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army in 1934-35. With his wife Charlotte, an interpreter and General Qin Xing Han, deputy director of the military museum in Peking, Salisbury made some concessions...
...mood to approve the enormous foreign-aid sums that would be required, and even if they were, there is no guarantee that any such effort could cure Mexico's many economic problems. In the end the Simpson-Mazzoli approach seems likely to get an unenthusiastic go-ahead for the simplest reason: there is a growing consensus, right or wrong, that something has to be done, and nobody can think of anything better...
...materials that are lighter than the aluminum in standard aircraft. After Lear's death in 1978, his widow Moya tried to finish the plane, but financial troubles forced her to give up control to a group of investors led by Denver Oilman Bob Burch. He expects an FAA go-ahead by February and hopes to rehire the workers. But Belfast is bedeviled by doubts about whether the Lear Fan will ever be airborne...
With the assistance of a 50-member staff, Ginsburg will study proposed regulatory policies, ultimately granting them the go-ahead or sending their authors back to the drawing board. As head of OIRA, he will play a critical role in the Reagan Administration's deregulation program...