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tudy is the firs;« WASHINGTON (AP) — Box-by-box, sometimes
hers with e-by-line, government record keepers have worked
ong through t! j ^ p ast three years to declassify 600 million pages of
as they breas!» cumen t s , opening doors to America’s secret past,
re risk is higheriiM ^ 0W) because Washington fears that China got its
ly mont hs, saidM nc ] s on y g nuc i ear secrets, these bleary-eyed de-
)r. Paolo G. .\: ttjassifiers could face a daunting new task: Doing it
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5 Diseases. V Legislation headed for approval in Congress would re
studies have aKjjj.g a n 0 f the documents to be re-examined to make
eding transmi$si» re that sensitive details about the U.S. nuclear arsenal
mt to 20 percerm not s ijp 0 ut of the government’s attic.
-feeding is “This is all part of the frenzy about Chinese espi-
or women wi'ikLge that is driving Washington crazy,” said Steven
'd States, wtaBftergood, who directs The Project on Government Se-
s plentiful. H-ecy at the Federation of American Scientists. “The
developing ciAjdea that they’re going to reread material that’s already
irmula is sCd:.*Len declassified is preposterous. It will basically crip-
■alth OrganizJple the declassification program by driving it in cir-
women bein' i des.”
and make (hfl Present efforts to lift the veil of government secre-
■^are driven by an executive order President Clinton
Pgned in 1995.
I The order instructs federal agencies to open — by
; April 2000 — classified records that contain historical
aterial and are more than 25 years old. Exceptions
e narrowly defined.
In the past three years, more than 600 million pages
have been declassified.
Subjects range from the Cold War to Vietnam,
POWs to UFOs. Researchers are rewriting history with
new information about the U.S.-Soviet arms race, the
failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, a 1973 coup in
Chile, covert action around the globe, and more.
The public already can access 400 million pages
that have been unsealed. Another 200 million
pages are declassified, but are not yet on public
shelves. Nearly 1 billion more pages still must be
reviewed.
Declassification was moving at a fast clip until last
year when some lawmakers worried that nuclear se
crets — still classified under the Atomic Energy Act —
were not being properly protected. Sens. Jon Kyi, R-
Ariz.; Richard Shelby, R-Ala. and Bob Smith, I-N.H.,
wrote to National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say
ing that “in a frenzied attempt” to meet the April 2000
deadline, documents containing sensitive nuclear
weapons information may have been released or were
in danger of being released.
Such concerns prompted Congress to pass a law
last year requiring declassifiers to come up with a
plan to scan documents, page-by-page, looking for
nuclear material — unless the records were “highly
unlikely” to contain such information.
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neering operation that doctors said
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al Hospital bone marrow transplant
program participated in the opera
tion, said the approach has promis-
1 ,J/ig ramifications for other trans-
;e dailp-t patients.
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ericans. All the first time a patient received a
t take insiifkidney and bone marrow transplant
?s a day, tob ■ in a single operation, according to
sugar intoeiie| Spitzer and other experts. Spitzer
ngs werepur ; reported on the case in yesterday’s
s Journal of tiMssue of the journal Transplantation.
I Association T The patient, a woman in her 50s
studies have From the Boston area, was diag-
data about (nosed w ith kidney failure about a
tics have a hiw year ago. At the time, she learned
ccidents became also had cancer of the bone
in blood sugApnarrow — multiple myeloma —
d his coliea-^that had caused the kidney failure,
accident ratesf underwent surgery at Mass-
nts. I
achusetts General Hospital last Sep
tember, receiving a new kidney and
bone marrow from her sister to
treat both the kidney failure and the
bone marrow cancer.
“It [the transplants]
could benefit many
patients who need
transplants/'
— Dr. Thomas Spitzer
Director of transplant program
Many transplant recipients must
take strong drugs for the rest of
their lives to suppress the immune
system so it will not attack the new
organ, which the patient’s body
sees as a foreign invader. But these
drugs leave patients vulnerable to
severe infections and can cause oth
er serious side effects.
In the Boston patient, however,
the infusion of bone marrow had
the effect of blending her immune
system with her sister’s. As a result.
the new kidney was not entirely for
eign to her body and she was bet
ter able to accept it, Spitzer said.
The woman took anti-rejection
drugs for just 73 days. She now has
completely normal kidney function
and her bone marrow cancer is in
remission, Spitzer said.
Bone marrow transplants are not
done solely to prevent organ rejec
tion because they are invasive and
carry risks, Spitzer said. But doctors
might be able to achieve the same
result by giving transplant patients
enough stem cells, which are con
tained in blood and bone marrow,
he said.
“If we can, by introducing a
donor’s immune system — even at
a very low level — create this kind
of transplant tolerance, then it
could benefit many patients who
need transplants,” Spitzer said.
“I think it is a very significant
achievement that they were able to
treat renal failure plus an underly
ing bone marrow disease,” said Dr.
Thomas E. Starzl, a professor of
surgery at the University of Pitts
burgh who pioneered liver trans
plants in 1967 and was not involved
in this operation.
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