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...like to have to differ with my president, but I believe there is some evidence of Iranian involvement with terrorists," Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead said during an extraordinary appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...While Whitehead testified, Reagan said from the White House, "I didn't make any mistakes" and declared that "I'm not firing anybody." The president then sat down with members of his Cabinet and top advisers to weigh new moves, amid a crescendo of calls by members of Congress for a White House shakeup...
Although experimental work on mammals is proceeding slowly, Richard Mulligan, who has been practicing gene therapy on mice at the Whitehead Institute, is optimistic. "We are pretty damn close," he says. "We have retrovirus vectors that transfer efficiently. It looks like we can infect the ( appropriate types of cells reasonably safely." But, he concedes, he has not yet been able to induce the genes to "turn on" and order the cells to produce the missing proteins...
Says Team Member Robert Weinberg, an M.I.T. and Whitehead Institute biologist who has done pioneering work in cancer genetics: "Once you understand the origins of a disease, you can work toward its prevention or cure...
Said Robert Cherayil, a pediatrician at Whitehead Institute, "it's a very good idea. People waiting for subways might well deserve the diversion...