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People with Koro-Flex diaphragms with F-6, G-6, H-6 and I-6 marked on the rim can return them to the issuing pharmacies--which will be reimbursed by the manufacturers--and request a refund...
Presidential Assistants Hamilton Jordan and Frank Moore (who is in charge Of congressional relations) enter the President's office at 9:45. They discuss the Administration's foreign aid request. "We're going to lose Africa," Carter says to Moore, "if we don't do something to help those poorer countries." Moore is instructed to tell Congress that "we've got to have some way to meet the challenge." On the subject of congressional recalcitrance over the $50 tax rebate, Moore tells the President: "[Senate Majority Leader Robert] Byrd called in four people yesterday...
Appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of the Carter Administration, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano asked Congress to impose federal restrictions on recombinant DNA research, a new form of genetic inquiry involving E. coli. The urgency of Califano's request underlined the remarkable fact that a longtime dream of science, genetic engineering, is at hand -and, some fear, already out of hand. In laboratories across the nation, scientists are combining segments of E. coli's DNA with the DNA of plants, animals and other bacteria. By this process, they may well be creating forms of life different from...
...Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed in Cambridge-under standards only slightly more strict than the NIH guidelines...
...analogous to the National Security Council-of the economic impact of virtually all proposed Government actions. Carter has already tried to pull the plug on as many as 30 regional water projects; he came out for a modest 20? boost in the minimum wage, to $2.50; he rejected the request of the International Trade Commission for higher duties on imported shoes (see ESSAY...