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...embarrassing foul-up, however, was no laughing matter for the Reagan Administration. It is highly irregular for the White House to break the news that a foreign government has fallen, and virtually unheard of when the affected country is a U.S. ally. To compound that anomaly by issuing a report that was incorrect as well may be unprecedented. During the afternoon, when Duvalier was reported to have been seen riding through the streets of Port-au- Prince, Haiti's capital, the seriousness of the diplomatic gaffe gave way to a spirited round of pass-the-buck...
...they listened over their shortwave radios, with a battle raging sporadically around them, the British civilians stranded in Aden, the capital of South Yemen, could hardly believe their ears. A BBC announcer in London told them to assemble in "the northeast sector of the Soviet-embassy compound, repeat the Soviet-embassy compound, from which you will be taken to the beaches for evacuation...
Three doctors--Clyde Crumpacker of Beth Israel Hospital, Martin Hirsch of Massachusetts General Hospital, and Jerome E. Groopman of New England Deaconess--said last week they will apply to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to become one of five to 15 groups testing Compound S, a modification of a DNA component, thymidine...
Currently, there are only two ongoing trials of the compound. The tests, that began in July and will end in December, are taking place at the National Cancer Institute's hospital and at Duke University, where the drug was first tested on humans, said Kathy Bartlett, spokeswoman for the Burroughs-Welcome Company, the first manufacturer of Compound...
Depending on the results attained in December, Burroughs-Welcome will decide if further research should be undertaken on the effect of the compound on humans...