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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ever since the overthrow of Military Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero by a group of junior army officers last October, the civilian-military junta has been powerless to halt the violence. In an attempt to prevent civil war, the present governing junta of two colonels and three civilians, including the respected longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Party, José Napoleon Duarte, ordered up a two-pronged plan of radical reform. To the shock and dismay of the country's small oligarchy, it called for a first-stage expropriation of 70% of the nation's most productive land from...
...military court to take place in Taiwan's judicial history. Overriding conservative opposition in his government, President Chiang took the unusual step of opening the trial to the press, to the defendants' families and to two representatives of Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization. Also present were two observers from the American Institute in Taiwan, the organization that has unofficially represented the U.S. on the island since Washington recognized Peking as the legitimate government of China 15 months...
...experts would not be surprised at all to see at least a few more S and Ls keel over in the coming months. Said Wall Street savings and loan analyst Jonathan Gray: "There is simply no way to describe the situation without sounding inflammatory. If rates stay at their present levels, by the end of the summer about 75% of the nation's S and Ls will be losing money...
...hardly a week passes without some mention of interferon in the press. Last week the Boston Globe reported that M.I.T. researchers had developed a new mass-production technique that could reduce the cost of a dose of interferon to one-twentieth of its present cost. Earlier this month G.D. Searle & Co. announced plans to build a $12 million IF plant at its research facilities in Britain. Abbott Laboratories, Warner-Lambert, Merck & Co., and a number of other companies are also gearing up for interferon production. When Biogen S.A., a Swiss firm specializing in the new recombinant DNA (gene splicing) techniques...
Lester E. Gordon, present director of the HIID, refused to comment, but said he "accepted whatever President Bok has said." Gordon will leave the HIID in June...