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Food and Drug Administration acted in a long-simmering controversy about the safety of oral antidiabetic drugs. The agency announced that these drugs, now prescribed for 1.5 million adult diabetic patients annually, must now carry a strong warning that users face increased risk of dying of heart disease. The FDA's action stemmed from a five-year series of large-scale studies that found that the death rate from heart disease was twice as high among patients on oral antidi-abetics as it was among patients whose conditions were being controlled by injectable insulin. Still, the debate about...
...pending case on the death penalty, for example, Douglas made a special effort to attend the oral arguments in his wheelchair, but he missed conferences at which the case was discussed. In 1972 he had been part of the 5-to-4 majority that had declared the differing and "arbitrary" applications of capital punishment to be unconstitutional; the current case was to test a new scheme for mandatory imposition of the death sentence. Last week the Justices decided to postpone any decision and hold the case over for reargument next fall. As usual, no reason was given. But sources state...
...dangers for missionaries in the remoter regions of the world, there are glimpses of an extremely clever man who must hide in too narrow topics: These scholars are modestly selective, Who say our nuns in Africa, Fearful of blackmen yelling 'Ya!', Tearing off starches, heavy drape, Can take an oral contraceptive, An hour or two before the rape, How will they know dread time or place. That leaves the soul still full of grace? Better to wear Dutch cap or wad And after their debauching, use Syringe or douche away abuse, Without a sin, trusting in God, Argument...
...were singled out in a "freakish," "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Supporters of capital punishment concluded that one way around the court's ruling would be to make death the mandated penalty for such crimes as first-degree murder and first-degree rape. Next Monday the Justices will hear oral arguments on that contention. The lives of 217 convicts on death row are in the balance...
Justice William Douglas' stroke last New Year's Eve ought to have sent shivers through those death-row residents. In the 1972 case the vote against the death penalty was 5-4, with Douglas part of the tenuous majority. The court delayed oral arguments in the current case while Douglas recuperated, presumably because the other eight Justices believed there was a strong chance that they might split 4-4 without him. Last week Douglas reentered the hospital for "a few days" of rest and tests. The case will now apparently be heard whether he returns...