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Your article "the goodwill pill Mess" [BUSINESS, April 29], about medicines that are given away to countries in need, implied that Eli Lilly & Co.'s donation of its antibiotic CeclorCD during the Rwandan refugee crisis was unwanted and not of use. Far from being unwanted, Lilly's 1994 antibiotic donation was specifically requested by the American Red Cross and other U.S. private voluntary organizations. And far from not being useful, cefaclor, the active ingredient in CeclorCD, has demonstrated its value in countries at all stages of economic development. It is the world's largest-selling oral antibiotic. Furthermore, the entire...
...when lifesaving should have been paramount. (General Norman Schwarzkopf has also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm.) But in hot spots like the Rwandan capital of Kigali, the outfit's reputation is solid...
...peak of the Rwandan refugee crisis nearly two years ago, the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, proudly announced "the largest product donation in Lilly's history and...the largest one-time pharmaceutical donation ever." The press release went on to say, "This is yet another example of Lilly's commitment to giving, especially in times of human tragedy. We are responding to the dire needs of the Rwandan refugees...
...tide of violence is threatening to further destabilize a region already badly traumatized by the Rwandan civil war. Since 1993, 250,000 Burundians, mostly Hutu, have escaped into Zaire and Tanzania, adding to nearly 2 million Rwandan refugees camped in those countries and refusing to go home. Earlier this month those numbers increased sharply when Rwandan Hutu from the Mugano and Ntamba camps, who had sought refuge in Burundi from their own civil war, fled fighting in the area and made for the Tanzanian border. Some 20,000 managed to get across. With an additional 130,000 increasingly anxious Rwandan...
...warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims of the Rwandan tragedy. Funds might better be spent this time in preventive action. More than two years of brutal civil war have demonstrated that talk alone is not enough. "We need practical measures if we are not going to plunge into the abyss," warned a U.N. official last week. That may prove an understatement...