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...Last week Sullivan went further by announcing the creation of a blue-ribbon commission to get the FDA back on course. "The President and I are committed to strengthening the FDA," Sullivan declared. In the Senate, meantime, Massachusetts liberal Edward Kennedy has joined with Utah conservative Orrin Hatch in a bipartisan effort to beef up the FDA's anemic annual budget by setting a floor level of $500 million, vs. the current total of $492 million. Their proposal would also provide the FDA with a single facility -- currently, it is spread across 22 buildings in Washington, from converted chicken coops...
Chile's long democratic tradition was finally back on track last week after a 16-year hiatus. In the first presidential election since the bloody 1973 coup that ousted Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens and brought General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to power, voters elected Patricio Aylwin, 71, a Christian Democrat. As soon as Aylwin's victory seemed assured, thousands of citizens poured into the streets in jubilant celebration. Said Aylwin: "Chile has again taken destiny into its own hands...
...Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...
...agony has ended," said a relieved Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Home Minister in India's newly elected government, as he was reunited last week with his daughter Rubia. The 22-year-old medical intern had been kidnaped five days earlier by Muslim extremists agitating for the secession of Jammu and Kashmir state...
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major towns in the Kashmir valley...