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...issue is not so simple, and the case that will be brought this week in Santa Barbara by personal injury lawyer Melvin Belli shows why. His argument rests on the notion that companies which manufacture a product ought to inform their customers of the dangers of using that product. The question is not whether smokers are responsible for their choice to smoke cigarettes. Of course they are; they're dying prematurely as a consequence of that choice. The issue is whether corporations are responsible for honestly advertising and labeling the products they manufacture...
...suit that will go to trial this week in Santa Barbara, Calif., Belli says that he will contend that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the defendant, knew that cigarette smoking was addictive long before the Surgeon General's report but failed to inform consumers of the risk. He represents the family of John M. Galbraith, an insurance-company executive who died of lung cancer in 1982 at the age of 69, after 50 years of smoking...
...writing to commend The Crimson for its efforts to inform the Harvard community about the University's activities in the Third World. I refer in particular to the article appearing in The Crimson of November 12, 1985 concerning the University's involvement in the development of a medical school in Pakistan...
Buscetta, the highest Mafia figure ever to inform on the Mob, said that breaking the organization's vow of silence was punishable by "morte--death." For his safety, he is being kept under close guard by the FBI in an undisclosed location while he testifies at the trial of some of the Mafia's top members from Sicily and the U.S.'s East Coast. They are charged in what has been called the "pizza connection" heroin case, since some of the drugs were allegedly peddled from pizza storefronts. Buscetta, 57, hopes his cooperation with prosecutors will lead to freedom...
...even, according to the book, advocated a policy of "surveillance," asking tenants to inform the university if their neighbors become unaffiliated. For example, if a woman who worked for Columbia for 15 years and lived with her family in a university-owned building were to die, her husband and family would be evicted from their home--that is, if their neighbors informed on them. More recently, Columbia has tightened the net by computerizing housing and personnel records to catch "illegitimate" tenants...