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...point where doctors nnd drug makers had been at odds with FDA men and many legislators, a sensible compomise was reached. Extremists crying "Human guinea pig!" had demanded that no doctor be allowed to give an investigational drug to a patient without telling him so. This would have made it impossible to compare the effects of a drug with those of an inert dummy (a placebo), as is now done in "double-blind" studies in which neither doctors nor patients know who is getting the active substance. So the law now says that doctors must tell patients what they...
...Africa itself, Jameson plans to travel through former French West and Equatorial Africa, spending most of his time in Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and the Cameroons...
Tierney advised the students to keep their anger to themselves. "If anybody wants to make an issue of it, we'll make an issue and throw them all into court. We can get them on three charges, and if someone wants to be a guinea pig for a test case, that's all right with...
...rain-drenched central plaza of West New Guinea's capital city of Hollandia, Dutch officials transferred temporary control to the United Nations. By the agreement worked out under U.S. pressure, after two years of threats and raids from Indonesia, the U.N. will be in charge until May 1, 1963, when West New Guinea will be handed over to the Indonesians and become officially known as West Irian. Not later than 1969 a U.N.-assisted plebiscite is to allow the territory to choose independence or final annexation by Indonesia...
Primitive as West New Guinea is, Indonesia's President Sukarno is determined to keep it as his own hobby. Hours after the changeover from Dutch to U.N. control, a planeload of Indonesian officials flew into Hollandia to "help" the U.N. They promised the moon: $100 million worth of development aid, 2,000 teachers, establishment of a West Irian university. Purpose of pledges: to con the Papuans out of any independence movement that might jeopardize control by Indonesia, the new imperial power in the area...