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King says it is not widely known that the SftP, cooperating with other groups, has agitated for several years for close monitoring of genetic engineering research and its relegation to a lower priority. He cites an SftP pamphlet published years ago that dealt with the hazards of genetic engineering long before the technology to accomplish it existed, and a barrage of letters and critiques sent out to scientific conferences, government agencies, and public interest groups...
...ended in something of a draw. The plaintiff: the multinational Nestle Alimentana, among whose myriad food products are powdered infant formulas marketed in less developed countries. The defendants: members of the Bern-based Third World Working Group. The group had distributed a German-language version of a British pamphlet that charged baby-food makers with causing the deaths of Third World babies by hard-selling their formulas to illiterate mothers incapable of preparing them properly. The Swiss pamphlet was entitled Nestlé Kills Babies. Two years ago, the company brought suit for libel...
Bern Judge Jürg Sollberger has now ruled that the pamphlet's title was in fact defamatory, but he ordered the 13 people found guilty to pay only token fines: $120 each plus an additional $160 toward Nestlé's legal expenses. The judge also granted the Third World group a moral victory by commenting that Nestlé "must modify its publicity methods fundamentally." The defendants will appeal. Said one Nestlé spokesman: "Our marketing techniques are evolving all the time...
...America he saw taking form. Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I neither read books nor studied other people's opinions?I thought for myself." He adds that he has not earned a shilling from the huge popularity of his pamphlet (under his arrangement with Printer Robert Bell, Paine's half of the profits was to be donated to buy mittens for the American expedition against Quebec...
...stage in mid-performance last January by news of an American attack on their Charlestown strong-hold.) Burgoyne is now gone from Boston, but another parting shot was recently fired at his Blockade. The Blockheads, a merciless farce that celebrates the ignominious British evacuation of Boston, was published in pamphlet form last month and is now being widely read...