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...Chicago streets Thursday afternoon and evening, blared warnings over loudspeakers. All three national television networks carried stories about the contaminated drug on the Thursday-evening news. On Friday, the FDA belatedly advised consumers to "avoid in prudence" all bottles of the capsules. By then it was virtually impossible to obtain Extra-Strength Tylenol anywhere in the Chicago area or indeed in many locations around the country. Two Midwestern retail chains, Jewel and Walgreen, withdrew all bottles of the pain reliever from their stores...
...with such a small market. Van Woert had to buy it at a cost of $2,000 per kg from a biochemical supply house, where it was available for animal experiments, and sift it by hand into capsules. When his grant money ran out, Van Woert could no longer obtain the unapproved substance; nor could Dobkin legally do so. Van Woert's patients had to make do with far less effective medications. For Dobkin, 29, that meant returning to her wheelchair. "When I'm on L-5HTP I'm very well controlled, I have fewer tremors...
...foreign policy, it was impossible for me to ignore the very serious problems in the West Bank. The continued deprivation of Palestinian rights was contrary to the basic moral and ethical principles of both our countries. In my opinion it was imperative that the U.S. work to obtain for these people the right to vote, to assemble and to debate issues that affected their lives, to own property without fear of its being confiscated and to be free of military rule. To deny these rights was indefensible for a free and democratic society...
...other, with the sleazy operations of something called the "Caribbean Connection"--revolve around the time-honored devices of mistaken identity and unwitting involvement in crime. When Jules illicitly tapes a Hawkins concert, he becomes the object of a sinister gang of Taiwanese sporting mirror-sunglasses who are trying to obtain pirated recordings of the famous singer. (For "artistic reasons," Hawkins has always refused to make records). And when a prostitute escaping from the "Caribbean Connection" (which seems to have something to do with white slavery and heroine) hides in Jules' knapsack a recorded confession revealing the identity of the gang...
Arguing on behalf of Grendel's Den. Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, defended the Square restaurant's right to obtain a liquor license despite the objection of an adjacent church. A spokesman said the high court is not likely to reach a decision in the case for several months...