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...Direct, have stepped into the void, launching discussions this month in Washington to devise their own voluntary standards, which they expect will promote integrity among their competitors. The companies said they will collaborate with the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), an educational nonprofit, to create the guidelines. They plan to present a draft of the new rules at a PMC conference in December, says Edward Abrahams, PMC's executive director...
...missile during this initial stage. Today the Soviet ICBM boost phase lasts up to five minutes. ''Fast-burn booster'' technology now in development may cut that time to as little as 50 seconds--a ''short fighting window.'' Missiles that escape the boost phase and enter midcourse flight present an overwhelming problem. By that time they have released their re-entry vehicles (warheads aimed at U.S. targets), as well as thousands of decoys and reflective metal scraps known as chaff, forming a threat cloud of up to 1 million objects. The challenge for a defense during this 20-minute midcourse flight...
...latest Soviet offer in Geneva may force Reagan to resolve these disputes over the nature of SDI and its role in arms control. At a special session of the two delegations, Chief Soviet Negotiator Viktor Karpov presented proposals that made an explicit connection between reducing offensive weapons and limiting strategic defense programs. The plan amplifies an informal one the Soviets made last month that sought to set limits on America's SDI program through maintaining continued adherence to the ABM treaty. In making their offer, the Soviets have done precisely what U.S. officials have been wanting them...
...missiles in the total and set the ceiling at 8,000. Since the U.S. is first and foremost interested in slashing the number of warheads deployed on big land-based missiles, which form the backbone of Moscow's threatening arsenal, this aspect of the Soviet plan is likely to present a problem...
...hearing, to which can be added the right of appeal. This is as it should be, but it takes time. Rather than direct criticism toward what is perceived as a protective-guild mentality among doctors, turn the attack on those who are in control of the investigation. At the present time, the medical profession occupies the uncomfortable seat of being held responsible for all medical discipline without authority over the process. The state giveth the license, and only the state can taketh it away. Robert C. Coe, M.D., Chairman Medical Disciplinary Board State of Washington Seattle Though the medical profession...