DRUG FIRM’S OFFER
1200 Parents Accept W.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ALSDORF (West Germany), January 28. About 1200 of the 2000 parents of children allegedly malformed by the tranquiliser drug, thalidomide, have accepted the offer of 100 million marks (about SNZ26m) in damages made by the manufacturer of the drug, Chemie Gruenenthal. “What we now need in this situation is, first, peace, so that we can negotiate, and a third man—a neutral—who will be able to act as a mediator,” a spokesman for the company said. Chemie Gruenenthal made the compensation offer to ward off a prolonged civil suit for damages, which hinges on the present “thalidomide trial” of seven executives of the firin.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32209, 30 January 1970, Page 24
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