
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 1, 1991                   TAG: 9102010507
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

JUDGE ALLOWS CONTROVERSIAL MEDICINE POLICY

The military may require troops serving in the Persian Gulf to take unapproved drugs to protect against biological and germ warfare, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Stanley Harris dismissed a lawsuit that contended the troops should be warned about the risk of side effects and required to give their consent beforehand.

The action by the Defense Department, allowed by the Food and Drug Administration, to give unapproved drugs to troops in the gulf involved "strategic military decisions," not research on involuntary human subjects, the judge ruled. - Associated Press

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