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Citing new evidence of health risks, Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler last week declared a moratorium on silicone implants. He urged manufacturers to halt marketing the devices and surgeons to stop inserting them in women. In Spain and Australia health officials quickly followed suit; Canada, Britain and France are reviewing their policies. The decision stunned millions of women worldwide. "They are angry, frustrated and concerned," said Dr. Norman Cole, president of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. "They want to know what is going...
...recent legal proceedings against Dow Corning Wright, the largest U.S. implant manufacturer, suggest that the company may have known about safety problems for years and kept them under wraps. Kessler said he has also received a number of case reports from rheumatologists linking the device to autoimmune disorders. The moratorium is in place until an expert advisory panel can review the new information; a final verdict from the agency is due this spring. Saline-filled implants, though less popular, are still available...
...only slightly above what Le Pen personally polled in the 1988 presidential election. But the mainstream parties have kept him from making further inroads only by echoing some of his hostility to immigrants, especially dark-skinned Muslim Arabs and Africans. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac has called for a moratorium on allowing immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight out of Le Pen's platform. Even Socialist President Francois...
...tactical nuclear missiles, land based as well as naval. In addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would be kept stationary. The Soviet leader further announced a one-year moratorium on nuclear tests and called on others to follow suit...
...like to oblige, but fears are growing that a European military intervention might be necessary. "The moment may not be too far away when we have to take a step forward," Jacques Poos, the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, warned last week. The E.C.'s proposal for a three-month moratorium on independence offers the same face- saving opportunity that quieted hostilities in the breakaway republic of Slovenia. The republics' leaders could use the cooling-off period to consider how the region might be stitched together again...