Word: moratorium
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...that the Soviet Union has collapsed, many Americans believe it is time for the U.S. to join its former enemy in a NUCLEAR TESTING moratorium. The Administration opposes a ban. Bill Clinton has made it an election issue, but the fight is only beginning. The House and more than half the Senate support the one-year test ban written into the 1993 defense authorization bill. President Bush may veto the bill to kill the ban. Four more nuclear tests are planned this year, and six next. The Administration insists that testing is needed to ensure the safety and reliability...
...Americans agree with Bush. More immigrants arrived on these shores in the 1980s than in any other decade in the country's history. Last year alone, the U.S. absorbed 1.8 million foreigners. A majority of Americans, some 55%, want a moratorium on new arrivals, according to a Roper survey. "How many can we absorb in a time of recession and high unemployment?" argues Representative E. Clay Shaw, a Republican supporter of Bush's. "We've got to protect our shores, our people...
...federally supported research involving the transplant of tissue from aborted fetuses into humans was halted while a presidential panel weighed the therapy's ethical implications. In December 1988, after waiting several months, Yale decided to go ahead with Osserman's operation based on the panel's recommendation that the moratorium be lifted. Nearly all of the handful of transplants performed for Parkinson's have produced dramatic results, but for Osserman it was too late: he died within months. Says Yale team leader Eugene Redmond: "He may have been the first victim of the moratorium...
...last. Despite the presidential panel's recommendation, Presidents Reagan and Bush, bowing to pressure from antiabortion activists, decided to keep the moratorium on fetal-tissue research in place. This week the Senate is scheduled to debate whether to defy the Administration by overturning that ban. The House has already passed such legislation, and a majority of Senators seem ready to go along. But the proponents may not have enough votes to override an expected veto from Bush, who so far shows no sign of relenting on the transplant issue...
Since the Food and Drug Administration declared a moratorium on silicone-gel implants last month, hundreds of thousands of American women have struggled to make sense of the claims and counterclaims being made about the little bag of gel in their breasts. Outspoken patients and plaintiff lawyers have blamed the implants for everything from rashes to cancer and deadly neurological disorders. Implant manufacturers and most doctors, on the other hand, have just as vigorously insisted that the prostheses are safe...