Lord Howe said he made a speech in Brussels in March 1987, when he was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, in which he called for more European co-operation on defence.

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In March 2009, before Obama named Margaret Hamburg as commissioner of the FDA, I wrote that over the past five years only five of six antibiotics approved by the FDA were approved, and detailed the difficult path that another new antibiotic was having in trying to reach the market.

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