Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission's representative in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the pair executed on charges of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union...
...abroad. But having said that, the officials claim they are trying to signal to the Chilean government that it must "make the tough decisions it needs to" and pledge to try Pinochet itself. Of course, Pinochet has immunity at home, and no one thinks he would be put on trial there even if he lacked such immunity...
...however, has a strange record in this area. In December 1989 Bush sent troops to Panama, grabbed General Manuel Noriega and hauled him to Florida for trial to face charges of narcotics trafficking. The indictment of Noriega was unprecedented because he was a sitting foreign leader, but prosecutors said they couldn't ignore his flagrant crimes. Noriega protested that the U.S. had no jurisdiction over him since his "arrest"--the Panama invasion--violated international law. But U.S. courts said the method of his arrest was irrelevant. Noriega was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail...
...Philip Needham, father of the cox-2 inhibitor, who calls the white paper Palmer presented to the FDA panel "a predictable effort to protect their drug." If you want evidence that Celebrex works, he says, just ask the 13,000 arthritis patients who took part in its trial. "We're getting letters saying, 'Please don't take us off,'" Needham says. And the side effects? Pretty close to placebo levels...
...impressed--and not at all surprised that the big drug companies were kicking up a fuss. "The cox-2 inhibitor will make it very difficult for them to compete," he says. Which could explain why Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Glaxo Wellcome are rushing to get their own versions into trial as fast as possible...