opportunism can be prevented only by rationalizing the regulatory system that 
has permitted it. 
The Recombinant DtPk guidelines thus require amendment to exclude 
experiments in which no foreign genetic material is added to an organism's 
genetic complement; ideally, such an amendment should precede and then be 
reflected in any legislative initiatives such as current efforts by Congressman 
Fuqua and Senator Gore to create a national committee to oversee recombinant DNA 
policy. Recognizing the genetic distinction between the addition of foreign 
genes and the removal of native ones would focus on substantive questions of 
biology rather than on technical details and would unfetter the ingenuity that 
the new technology allows; hopefully attention could then be directed toward 
issues of real concern such as the use of gene splicing for biological warfare. 
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