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within the federal sector, in looking down on our present
body, the OPRR.
I think that the commission should take a
strong position and my recommendation would be to take a
strong position in overcoming this conflict of missions,
structural conflict, as a violation of -- it is a violation
of the principle that Congress used in adopting the
legislation of the National Research Act, which was to put
the interest of research subjects first. And the basic
problem is that the location of OPRR in government or of
the McCarthy plan in government still evades the deeper
ethical principle on which the whole system rests.
If you have a contradiction at that basic level
that is not really an acceptable ethical solution to the
problem that we are in.
DR. SHAPIRO: Thank you very much. Thank you
for those remarks.
Let me turn to our other guests again before
turning to members of the commission.
We have got someone who has traveled all the
way from the middle part of the country, Illinois, so let
me turn to you, Ms. Gonsalus.
MS. GONSALUS: Thank you. It is a pleasure to
be here. Since you do not have anything in writing from me