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Cochez said Col. Elias Castillo, the army chief and the No. 4 man in the military hierarchy, also was fired, along with two majors, Moises del Rio and Fernando Quesada...
...completely reversing all signs of the disease. "We saw dramatic responses even in very advanced cases," says Dr. Harvey Golomb of the University of Chicago, who directed one study. Though interferon did produce flulike side effects, these generally disappeared after a few days of treatment. Says Dr. Jorge Quesada of M.D. Anderson, who led the other study: "We have patients who run five to ten miles a day while on interferon...
Although hairy-cell leukemia affects only 400 Americans a year, Golomb and Quesada point out that it is just one of several cancers that affect a class of white blood cells called B-cells; collectively these cancers strike 35,000 Americans a year. Says Golomb: "This may be a window into a family of disorders." Interferon has already proved useful in treating multiple myeloma, a B-cell-related cancer of the bone marrow that annually afflicts more than 8,000 Americans...
...last year, Washington was inclined to discuss only the expulsion of the undesirables in U.S. custody. Cuba, however, won assurances that routine immigration procedures would be part of a deal too. The arrangement was worked out by Michael Kozak, a State Department lawyer, and Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, a Cuban Foreign Ministry official, in three rounds of meetings in New York City, the most recent and important one just two weeks...
...guidance. U.S. officials say that at recent Contadora sessions, the Nicaraguans and Cubans have occupied adjoining hotel suites. Last week's Panama City agreement was announced only after the Sandinista Foreign Minister, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, met quietly with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada. The U.S. maintains its own discreet channels of influence with Contadora through the Administration's special presidential envoy for Central America, Harry Shlaudeman, a veteran Foreign Service officer who was executive director of the Kissinger Commission on Central America...