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Meanwhile, though, Mass General has declined to comply with a request from Congress to reveal the details of its agreement with Hoechst, a position that will no doubt continue to create distrust and may result in a formal subpoena, staffers on the Science and Technology Committee say. Harvard does not anticipate formal investigation of the Du Pont grant, but the same Congressional sources indicate that they will scrutinize the information available before deciding whether the public deserves to know more. "Unless we hear some good reason, there seems to be no benefit in this type of interference," Lamont-Havers says...
...Secretary of State down-played the weapons announcement, pointing out that no specific request for arms had been received from the Chinese and that each application would be reviewed on a "case-by-case basis" after consulting with Congress and America's allies. Though the Chinese will most likely be interested in purchasing defensive hardware, such as antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles, their shopping list will not be long. Strapped for funds, Peking has placed a ow priority on modernization of its military forces and has slashed its defense budget for this year by 17%. Said one U.S. official...
...increase in appropriations for his agency. Said liberal Democrat Edward Roybal of California, "Children will be left hungry, the aged left weary and cold, the truly needy wanting, and Mr. Stockman thinks his OMB's duties should take priority." A House Appropriations subcommittee denied the request. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/Washington...
...cell at Ohio's maximum-security prison in Lucasville. Citing the Eighth Amendment's ban on "cruel and unusual punishments," the bunkmates filed a class-action lawsuit that sought a "one man, one cell" policy. A federal judge granted their request and was upheld on appeal. Last week, in a decision of major significance for the nation's overcrowded prisons, the Supreme Court ruled, 8 to 1, that "double celling" was not necessarily unconstitutional...
Wives are allowed to make conjugal visits. Why not girlfriends? So reasoned Ray Cummings, 60, a murderer serving a life term at California's San Quentin Prison. When authorities turned down Cummings' request for occasional 48-hour visits from his girlfriend Susan, who is in her late 20s, he went to court. His attorney, Don Specter of Berkeley, argues that the state is not entitled "to decide who your loved ones are and whom you are to spend time with in prison." So far, two courts have responded unromantically. A more promising solution would seem to be marriage...