Susan - thanks for posting this very interesting article.  There's only one 
thing  - the big vote on the Code, where the US was the only country to 
vote against it, was in 1981 - not 1982 or 1983.  Or was this article 
referring to a later vote??

Pamela Morrison IBCLC
Rustington, England


At 03:13 14/08/2005, you wrote:
>Date:    Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:25:13 -0700
>From:    "Susan C. Jacoby" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: UN Ambassador Nominee Bolton /Nestle
>
>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/24/ex_emplo
>yee_alleges_mistreatment_by_bolton/
>Excerpt:
>
>  >Yesterday, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a Democrat on the
>committee, distributed Finney's letter to reporters. An aide to Boxer
>said Democrats will push to include Finney's allegations in the list of
>claims to be probed.
>
>In the letter, Finney said she was an attorney-adviser in the General
>Counsel's Office working on policies involving the UN Development
>Program when Bolton called her into his office in late 1982 or early
>1983. She wrote that Bolton asked her to persuade delegates from other
>countries to vote with the United States to weaken World Health
>Organization restrictions on marketing of infant formula in the
>developing world.
>
>Finney said she refused because improper use of the formula can be
>deadly. For example, mothers in the developing world sometimes mix it
>with contaminated water or dilute it to make it last longer,
>humanitarian groups say.
>
>Finney said that Bolton ''shouted that Nestle was an important company
>and that he was giving me a direct order from President Reagan." The
>Swiss company is among the top makers of formula.
>
>''He yelled that if I didn't obey him, he would fire me," she wrote. ''I
>said I could not live with myself if even one baby died because of
>something I did. . . . He screamed that I was fired."<
>
>
>--
>Sue Jacoby, IBCLC
>Clovis, CA

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