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...declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
...strike is aimed at protesting the Soviets non-compliance with human rights guarantees assured at the 1975 Helsinki accords...
...masses, the Soviet sports machine has nonetheless produced an athletic elite of awesome proportions, with all the international political benefits that implies. Just as do many other countries, the U.S.S.R. views sport as a useful political weapon. Since participating in its first modern Olympiad in 1952 in Helsinki, the Soviet Union has won 685 medals in the Summer Games-more than any other nation during those years (the U.S., in second place, has collected 603). The Kremlin considered this year's Games in Moscow-the first ever held in a Communist nation-not only as another quadrennial chance...
Cantell's manufacturing facility is unimposing, at best. It consists of a suite of labs in Helsinki's Central Public Health Laboratory. There, Cantell works with white cells derived from the 500 to 800 pints of blood donated daily to the Finnish Red Cross by citizens in and near the nation's capital. The Red Cross spins the whole blood in a centrifuge to separate its elements; the heavy red blood cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle just above, and the liquid plasma rises to the top. The Red Cross keeps the plasma and red cells for transfusions...
News of Gresser's work inspired Hans Strander, a cancer doctor at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, who had gone to Helsinki to work with Cantell in the '60s and had done his doctoral dissertation on IF production. In 1972, using IF from Cantell's lab, Strander began injecting it into children with osteogenic sarcoma, a rare and deadly form of bone cancer. Conventional treatment of this disease is to amputate the affected limb, in the hope that the cancer has not yet metastasized. In most cases, that hope is futile. Without additional treatment, the cancer spreads rapidly to body organs...