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...outcome of last week's World Health Organization vote was never in doubt. Delegates to the WHO meeting in Geneva were considering an international code of conduct to restrict the advertising and marketing of baby formula, a processed, usually powdered substitute for mother's milk. The formula can lead to infant malnutrition and death when used improperly, so the WHO code had the support of doctors and government health officials all over the planet. The final tally was 118 to 1, a near miracle of consensus in any international forum. Which nation was it that cast the only...
That dissent, ordered by the White House and based on concern that the code would restrict free speech and free trade, touched off a wave of outrage, much of it in the U.S. Dr. Stephen Joseph, the top health official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Eugene Babb, the agency's top nutrition expert, resigned their jobs in protest. Joseph called the vote "contrary to the best interests of my country, inexplicable to my professional colleagues . . . and damaging to the health and growth of the world's children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened...
...achieved significant results is being threatened. Extension of the law has already received criticism in the House and is expected to receive considerable opposition in the more conservative Senate. Furthermore, Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-III) has introduced a compromise which may be garnering increasing support. The measure would restrict Federal judges to requiring advance approval in election law changes where a pattern of voter rights abuses exists...
...city last year won the right to restrict the expansion of Harvard and other non-profit institutions into low-density residential areas. The new powers would, if granted, cover the entire city and allow city regulation, perhaps through a permit-granting process, of any purchase that would take property off the tax rolls...
...year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha has been edging cautiously toward reform of South Africa's rigid system of enforced racial separation. It has advocated the abolition or modification of many so-called petty apartheid regulations, such as the hated pass laws that restrict blacks' movement, and those forbidding racial mixing in public places such as restaurants and sports facilities. Botha has also floated vague promises of better conditions for the country's blacks and has granted some tangible concessions: legalized black labor unions and increased spending on black education. Limited as such reforms have...