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...from Saddam's grasp, when the U.S. Administration's plan to deploy an added 3,500 Americans was publicly put on hold for a day. But officials admit the show of pique was Washington's fault: an army officer misread an order to prepare to deploy as the final go-ahead, prompting the Pentagon to announce the troops were going before Perry could seek permission from Kuwait. U.S. diplomats scrambled to repair the damage by confessing their "screw-up" to Kuwait's Emir, and a deployment that Kuwait had in fact urged on Washington quickly went ahead...
...recommendation wasn't legally binding on FDA Commissioner David Kessler. Last December 22 neuroscientists, including Seiden and Dr. George Ricaurte of Johns Hopkins, asked the FDA to "forgo a final decision on dexfenfluramine until more information is available on its serotonin-neurotoxic potential in humans." Nevertheless, Kessler gave the go-ahead for Redux last spring...
...Yeltsin's circle only a few months ago after finishing third in the first round of Russian elections, has already made enemies in the Yeltsin camp, most notably Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin who resents Lebed's continuing attempts at self promotion. Although Yeltsin hasn't yet given Lebed the go-ahead, he may do so in order to give him a certain amount of rope, possibly in the hope that the tough-talking ex-soldier will hang himself. "If Lebed makes peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin wins," says TIME's Andrew Keith. "If Lebed doesn't make peace in Chechnya, Yeltsin...
Landers stands by the major decisions of the Overseers from the past year. She defended the board's decision not to give the go-ahead for a proposed Civil War memorial which would have included recognition for Harvard affiliates who died fighting for the Confederacy...
...drugs called protease inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...