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DISPATCHES | Issue: "Louisiana's Buy-You-Election" May 17, 1997

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Tobacco road

Ten days after a federal district judge OK'd the Food and Drug Administration's plan to regulate tobacco as a drug, a Florida jury found R.J. Reynolds, the nation's second-largest tobacco company, not liable for the death of a woman who smoked for more than 30 years. The verdict came as marathon negotiations continued in Dallas between Big Tobacco and a group of state attorneys general. Twenty-five states are suing cigarette makers to recover costs of treating smoking-related sickness. The industry reportedly is offering to set up a $375 billion fund to cover health costs if given immunity from future lawsuits.

Neutrality and morality

Saying Swiss "neutrality collided with morality," U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eizenstat released a scathing report on Switzerland's role as a trading center for gold looted by German Nazis from conquered nations and Jewish holocaust victims. The report said Switzerland sustained Adolf Hitler's war machine by serving as Germany's chief foreign source of credit and equipment during World War II. In its annual report on worldwide terrorism, the State Department said Iran remains at the top of its list of terrorist-sponsoring nations. Also cited: Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, the Sudan, and Syria. Terrorist attacks in 1996 killed 311 people.

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