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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Establishing settlers in the so-called liberated Israel is not only unfair but also inhumane because it will take away the last hope of the Palestinians for a homeland. Perhaps now the American people will begin to realize that the money and arms our Government gives to Israel go to a country that is unconcerned about the rights of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1977 | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...arguments are often strengthened by the testimony of cancer victims who claim they have been helped by the substance. In Texas, explains anti-Laetrile Lobbyist Ace Pickens, "legislators said, 'Oh hell, if it doesn't do them any harm and if it gives them any hope, why not let them have it?' " Otherwise, says Arizona State Representative Herb Everett, "we are making criminals out of those who want to use Laetrile." Most potent of all has been the plea that people who are dying from cancer should be free to try even worthless cures. The New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Damn the Doctors--and Washington | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile), Dr. Franz Ingelfinger, the witty editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, has said it well: "Forbidden fruits are mighty tasty, and especially to those who hope that a bite will be life-giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Freedom of Choice and Apricot Pits | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...vaginal deodorants. Under the Government's nodding supervision, the purity of the product might then be assured, the flourishing black market in Laetrile-which has netted some of its pushers millions of dollars-would finally be broken, and the nostrum could be given despairing patients beyond all hope of conventional medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Freedom of Choice and Apricot Pits | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard did not make the insulin breakthrough. The scientists are part of our community and we are proud of their accomplishments. But M.I.T. is part of our community, too, and a 20 minute bus ride will take any Harvard scientist to the P-3 lab at M.I.T. Let's hope M.I.T. will share their facility in order to contribute to knowledge. And let's not forget that the larger community is footing the bill for this research and not only has the right to know what is going on, it has the right to say no if it deems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Irked Scientists | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

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