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...possessing obscene photographs in the early 1960s. He received a suspended sentence for both offenses. Schiavone's gumshoes are delving into the personal lives of other committee staffers, as well as of some Senators. The snoops have also cultivated contacts with the staff of Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who is investigating the Donovan affair...
Donovan insisted last week that he has no intention of resigning. In a statement to reporters, the grim-faced Secretary said that he would not discuss the allegations until the Silverman report was released. "I would, however, be less than honest if I did not state publicly my disgust with the relentless and cowardly attacks that have been made on me and my company...
Even if the Silverman report clears Donovan, questions surrounding the case are not likely to disappear quickly. The issue is no longer whether Donovan is qualified to serve in Reagan's Cabinet, but whether the White House tried to derail the FBI'S investigation of Donovan's fitness for office. The bureau narrowed its inquiry, but on what authority? During the Reagan transition, Fielding and Meese were responsible for reviewing the FBI background checks on all nominees. Fielding has now been instructed by White House Chief of Staff James Baker to prepare a report of his office...
This dependency, often coupled with a lack of local government regulation, breeds corruption. Silverman says that in order to promote greater use of their products, some drug company representatives have bribed doctors and hospital administrators with cars or free university educations for their children. One Ciba-Geigy rep in the Philippines courted clients with pornographic films and prostitutes. More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand...
Prescriptions for Death has elicited vigorous denials and rebuttals from the pharmaceutical industry. At a meeting in Washington this month of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (I.F.P.M.A.), pharmaceutical executives argued that the Silverman report had focused on isolated offenses and ignored the major obstacles that drug companies face in the Third World. Some of those problems: distributing drugs to patients who may live far from medical centers; keeping vaccines refrigerated in jungle outposts; teaching uneducated patients how to take medicines. Dow, Parke-Davis and Hoechst maintain they have uniform policies on drug information worldwide. Any abuses, they...