European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                James april 1977 the stars and stripes Page is Kernel gang is Back in the news Cape for Moke than a Vear has passed since i list reported on the great Arol cot Kernel its time for an theres Good news and bad the Good news is that the Federal courts increasingly Are gelling to the heart of the the bad news is that the Pood and drug administration continues to exhibit an obstinacy embedded in steel and con the gang is getting some help from several stale for those who came in the great Apricot Kernel gang is composed of sever Al thousand men and including quite a Lew certified doctors of who cling to the notion that there or May some therapeutic value for cancer patients in a substance identified As amyl chemically Amygdala in is a member of the class of substances known As Cyan genetic Amygdala in occurs widely in but can be extracted most readily from Apricot peach pits and bitter in its refined and purified amyl Dally is marketed under the Trade name of but it is not marketed legally in the it can be obtained in a dozen other notably but the Fra regards laetrile As an unlawful drug and the Bureau of customs regards it As in the fads Amygdalia is therapeutically which it May Mil though the testimonial evidence is getting to be our governments position is unbelievably dictatorial and if you a patient who Falls victim to cancer the patient goes through every treatment recommended by the medical establishment Radical Radium nothing the patient is his body is riddled with in desperation he i have heard of other cancer Vic Tims who seemed to get Relief from and sometimes from May r now try that our governments to put the matter is precisely co to die we say la Elric is worthless there fare you cant have and we will prose cute any doctor or supplier who tries to make it available to this is the governments Stuffy rational from the Federal Register of the availability and use of drugs that have not been demonstrated to have objective value make no contribution to cancer such use in inter Fere with the measures that Are known to save lives because Swift appropriate diag Nosis and prompt effective treatment Are the consequence of delay May be and untimely for this the commissioner is at the opinion that a drug intended for use in cancer which lacks scientific evidence of effectiveness cannot be regarded As the arsonist District judge Luther in Oklahoma has flatly rejected this specious he has ordered Laemle made available to petitioning a judge Bohanon has on april Federal judge Mark in new ruled decidedly in favor of providing Uel rile for a 69yearold retired Joseph who is suffering from inoperable cancer of the in response to such court the Kansas but it is a stacked and rigged the Fra will not appeals in the name of Freedom of Choice leave the government state Are demonstrating belter Indiana just the other Day passed a Bill defying the fads autocratic Alaska adopted such an act last efforts to legalize laetrile continue in new new North Oklahoma and the gut Issue Here a by every rational Amygdalia is harm members of the Apricot Kernel gang eat it All the this being in the name of a free Why cant a free people have it if they want it  John Roche Britain losing its deferential glue about 30 years ago the american political science association sponsored an inquest into the sad state of our political As Drums ruffled and trumpets sounded the sachets provided a prescription what we needed to achieve responsible government was the British parliamentary that Model of stable there were a few vigorous dissents with due immodesty i note that professor Murray Stedman of Temple University and i clobbered the hypothesis in our 1952 the dynamics of democratic but we were and insufficiently what has happened to the British parliamentary system prime minister James Callaghan minority labor government has just survived a vote of Confidence by making a Deal with the 13 liberals in the House of Lite 3540 primitives in the labor known As the Tribune Are screaming treason but for the time being they Are trapped generally hailing from marginal they dont want to face an meanwhile in the fiery Cross is travelling through the Glens As the scottish nationalists Sharpen their Claymores and prepare to massacre labors scottish members o last time the nats virtually eliminated conservative representation from and to make life More interesting for the great British two party you have Welsh nationalists and a strange Crew from Northern Ireland cluttering up the while the conservatives want to torment the Gauaghan they Are scared of having to replace it they simply cant Cope with the Why this incredible disarray any simple explanation must be but i think ironically the Root of the present Dis order is the breakdown of the traditional British class the americanization of British those with my wife infinite patience con get a sense of the old order from the to series the based on Trollope his subplots Are too much for but ill Settle for up the servants horrified reaction to the 1926 general strike is a perfect example of the deferent Tia Gluc that held British society there were iwo two and As Long As the mass of the population internalized their inferior status the system purred the Marquis of Curzon epitomized this existential Gulf during world War he saw some troops bathing in the basement of flooded my he How White their skin serv ants would wander in and out of bedrooms without creating any sense of immodesty except among visiting you they were invisible the upper class quite developed a Superb technique for under mining systemic it cooped the Best and brightest in a fashion that would have delighted who in the labor Cabinet except James Callaghan is not a University graduate and in this context i recall there Are More students in the University of California than in All British uni it was a Nice setup the left Wing Don got As much deference As the righting this helps explain the pervasive anti americanism of the British it was those damned americans with their clap trap about Equality who blew the Brit ish soldiers in world War ii could never understand the relationship Between offi noncom and soldiers in our a sergeant calling a Captain by his first name British of consid ered the army in a permanent stale of with the postwar generation the deferential glue has virtually disappeared and suddenly individuals and groups have started behaving that the Way we in America expect political inter ests to the or Are unmoved by a solemn recitation of the act of Union they want that perhaps a group of British political scientists is now ready to urge the american Model it provides quite stable oking Mienl to we Nom in pm then a i town to  in my m to Sun