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This fund committee is still in place and I have served as Chairman of the fund since I was elected to that position by the committee in the late 1970's.
While data from many studies conducted abroad are submitted to the FDA for this purpose, this is not the case for drugs for which the sponsor has elected not to seek approval for marketing in the US.
Each island still has its own Cabildo (Island Council), and all officials are elected by a free vote every four years.
On 9 December 1990, Poles made Lech Walesa the first popularly elected president in post-World War II Poland, a watershed event for the Soviet bloc of nations.
Congress governed the Caribbean island directly as a territory until 1952, when it expanded Puerto Rican autonomy by making it a "commonwealth," allowing it to adopt a constitution and create a locally elected government with statelike powers.