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Among Western democracies, Canada has a unique and slightly embarrassing distinction: it does not have power to amend all of its own constitution. Control over a key section of the country's founding document, the British North America Act of 1867, is still held by the British Parliament in Westminster. Reason: the critical passages refer to the division of powers between the federal government and Canada's ten powerful provinces, which have never been able to agree unanimously on a formula that would remove the last colonial trace from the country's political structure. Last week Prime...
...President offered Moscow a wide variety of potential areas for working together with the U.S., ranging from joint solution of political problems in Rhodesia, Namibia, even Ethiopia, to further development of trade, cultural and scientific exchanges. Even the prospects for a SALT II agreement, noted Carter in an upbeat section of his speech, were "good...
Kennedy and Sen Adlai Stevenson III '52 (D-Ill.) have already explored an alternative to legislation. They sent a letter in late May to Joseph A. Califano Jr., secretary of HEW, asking him to consider the possibility of using section 361 of the Health and Public Safety Act, which would enable him to impose the NIH guidelines on all DNA research without special legislation...
...letter sent to Kennedy a few weeks ago, signed by Hale Champion, Harvard's former financial vice president and now undersecretary for HEW, he expressed his support for new legislation, and explained that department lawyers had advised that the secretary might exceed his authority if he invoked section 361. However, a source involved in monitoring DNA legislation, who asked to remain unidentified, says there are indications that Califano may reconsider the policy, especially if legislation is tied up indefinitely in Congress, a situation Kennedy's inaction on the bill may precipitate...
Harvard would also probably prefer some type of legislation rather than enactment of Section 361. But the University has shown it will not accept legislation without strong federal override provisions. Michael F. Brewer, director of the government section of the Office of Government and Community Affairs, explained Harvard believes uniform national standards are necessary to protect researchers from excessive red tape caused by overlapping state and federal regulations. Such regulations would allow them to conduct research in any university they want, so they would not have to choose their university based on local regulations. Brewer also said the overlapping enforcement...