NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Pentagon OKs Paying Ex-GI Given LSD
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than 30 years after an Army sergeant unwittingly submitted to experiments with LSD, the Defense Department has dropped its opposition to compensating him for health problems, lost income and behavioral changes. James Stanley of West Palm Beach, Fla., 57, learned in 1975 that he had been given LSD to drink during interviews he underwent in the Army in 1958. He sued in 1977 for damages, but the Supreme Court rejected the suit.
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