Date:  Fri, 11 Nov 1994 22:05:34 -0500

From:  Abigail Sarah Margulies <asm16[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COLUMBIA.EDU>

Subject: Eighty-six



On Wed, 2 Nov 1994, Edward Callary wrote:



> Thanks to all who have written in response to my request

> for information on the origin of the name of RU486. They

> iterate the two stories which I have heard: first that

> RU stand for the lab which developed the drug: Roussel

> Uclaf of France; second that RU-486 is wordplay on they

> spelling: Are You For 86; 86 for killing, stopping,

> halting, aborting.





I've been trying to track down the derivation of "86." Does anyone know

where it comes from?





Abbie