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Delaney then asked a group of doctors to design a protocol, or test model, based on an FDA trial for a similar drug called Ricin Toxin. Delaney says several FDA and National Institutes of Health officials in Washington were told of Project Inform's proposed trial, which was planned for patients in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. "At no time did anyone tell us to stop," he says. An FDA spokesman in Washington claims officials did not hear about the clandestine trials until well after they began...
...which has long provided aid to the non-Communist forces of Sihanouk and Son Sann and has not ruled out military assistance in the future, similarly argues that Hun Sen heads an illegitimate administration imposed by a foreign power. In its anti-Vietnamese zeal, Washington overlooked Sihanouk's alliance with the Khmer Rouge, which did most of the fighting during eleven years of guerrilla opposition. The Bush Administration is left in the uncomfortable position of backing a mercurial prince who remains aligned with men bent on restoring an odious regime. But the Administration maintains, with good reason, that any settlement...
...believe that Viet Nam cannot evade its responsibility to help achieve a comprehensive political solution in Cambodia." Until now, the U.S. led Hanoi to believe that the withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia would be enough to rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy. The crippling boycott has deprived Hanoi of all Western aid, credit, technology and trade, turning the country of 65 million people into a basket...
This week the crowd in front of the embassy should begin to thin under the impact of new rules issued in Washington. Would-be emigrants will no longer be allowed to apply for visas in the embassy's consular office; instead, they must fill out an application and send it to Washington. Applicants who merit refugee status will be notified by international postcard to report to the | embassy in Moscow for a personal interview...
...officials estimate that about 300,000 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews and Armenians, will send in forms during the next twelve months. The annual quota set by Washington, however, will provide no more than 50,000 with refugee visas -- a 25% increase over last year -- and an additional 30,000 with "parole" status, permission to come to the U.S. but with no financial assistance. Result: the U.S., after demanding for years that the U.S.S.R. loosen its emigration laws, will turn away more than 200,000 Soviet emigres...