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Base camp for the project's 60 European, 45 Pakistani and 1,000 Sudanese employees is a prefabricated village erected at the juncture of the Sobat and White Nile rivers. Jokingly referred to as "Sobat Club Med," it boasts an airstrip, swimming pool, hospital, club and a French school with 40 European children. Cheese and fruits are imported from France. Says Christian Coupechoux, the project director: "Sometimes we run out of beer and whisky, but we never run out of wine." Still, life is grim. Armed bandits, holdovers from the Sudan civil war of 1955-72, harass workers. Illness...
Right now it is unclear what the resolution of the Med School audit will be. The audit report now is in Washington in the hands of Henry Kirschenmann, an HHS deputy assistant. Through an aide, Kirschenmann has refused comment on the eventual deposition of the case, though both Parigian and Harvard officials say there will be a period of negotiations between the government and Harvard over how much money will have to be paid back...
Scott and O'Brien say they expect the Med School audit to be tied up in one package with the $2.2 million still to be negotiated from the School of Public Health audit, but will not comment further on the state of the negotiations. But another official, Harvard's chief federal lobbyist Parker L. Coddington, says that the negotiating process is "making its way towards a quite acceptable conclusion...
...Brien concludes that "some improvements in our systems" ought to be made, but he resolutely maintains Harvard doesn't owe the government anything, as far as the Med School is concerned. "We think our interpretation will prevail, but I don't know...
Medical officials created the program last spring to revitalize the medical curriculum so that it can handle the wide variety of new issues raised from new discoveries and technology. Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Med School said the new program will stress smallgroup problem-solving and computer instruction...