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...vote the council demanded a three-month moratorium on the disputed research, which is already under way at M.I.T. The two schools are not legally bound to comply, and in any event, Harvard did not plan to open the new lab where the work will take place until next spring. But the council could put teeth into its order by declaring such genetic research a public health hazard and banning it within city limits...
...institutions are wary of the potential dangers of this biohazard, particularly the dangers it could inflict on Cambridge, the final decision about the construction of the facility was reserved for the Cambridge City Council. After several weeks of debate, the council voted last week to place a three-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research while a special review board attempts to assess the dangers involved...
...last week's meeting is to believe that curing cancer, not researching recombinant DNA, is what is at stake. As Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci aptly noted, the parade of cancer researchers forced the councillors into an anticancer research position if they issued a longer than three-month moratorium. Such talk of cancer clearly confuses the issue. Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, pointed out last week that if the urgency of cancer research is used to battle for an immediate go-ahead for recombinant DNA, then the issues are being misrepresented. The DNA research being done...
...N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, was disconsolate about the court's action and pledged to continue fighting for each condemned convict. But he admitted that "we don't hold out much hope." The death sentence has not been carried out in the U.S. sAice 1967.* That moratorium may not last through its tenth year...
...later withdrew his order and is currently calling for a three-month moratorium, to give the parties concerned more time to review the relevant testimony...