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...healing process began Oct. 19 in Rome with a "Dear Bettino ... Sincerely, Ron" letter from the White House, hand-delivered to Craxi by Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead. After reading the President's conciliatory message, Craxi announced his intention to attend last week's minisummit in New York City called by Reagan. Hours before that meeting, the two men had a 25-minute chat. Craxi, who later described their conversation as "good, and not falsely friendly," reiterated the reasons why he had ignored Washington's Oct. 12 request for the provisional arrest of Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan...
...like a mouse or a human being. Someday the new technology could yield treatments for diseases such as cancer, thalassemia and sickle-cell anemia. In short, an increasing number of biologists and geneticists agree, the field of transgenic mice is hot. Says Rudolf Jaenisch, a molecular biologist with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass.: "Everybody wants to jump on the bandwagon because it's such an interesting wagon to ride...
...behavior of the isolated segments interacting with cells in a laboratory dish has been studied extensively, an approach with obvious limitations. "A new gene in cell culture can't walk funny or think strange thoughts or do what it had planned to do," says David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute and a Nobel-prizewinning biologist. "You need to trace its course through a living, breathing organism...
...Group, French bank BNP Paribas and U.S. machinery firm Caterpillar have filed for tax relief in Britain using the same criteria as Marks & Spencer. "This potentially opens the floodgates for claims over the past six years," says Michael Hardwick, a corporate tax partner at Linklaters in London. Simon Whitehead of solicitors Dorsey & Whitney, which is representing Marks & Spencer, says that 70 multinational firms have already signed up for a group action that his law firm is organizing. He won't detail the total amount of claims they are seeking but says the advocate general's opinion "is very positive...
...Three [goals] to one on power plays—that was the difference,” Whitehead said...