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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Nation
Clinton endorses Israeli withdrawal
Leaders push for swift negotiations
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak drew the Clinton administration's endorsement yesterday for his decision to pull Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon. At the same time, he was prodded to move faster with the Palestinians toward a West Bank withdrawal.
"This is an issue that needs to be done as rapidly as possible," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said about slow-moving negotiations Israel is holding with the Palestinians on giving up more of the West Bank
The talks, under way at an Air Force
of an Israeli pullback on the West Bank scheduled for June.
"So far, there are no results," said Hasan Abdel Rahman, the PLO's representative in Washington. "Let's hope that will change."
Albright praised Barak
Albright: Supports negotiations about West Bank
at a news conference for planning to pull Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon in July under U.N. resolutions.
"It is strange that a country is criticized for withdrawing from another country." Albright said.
Barak, in Washington on a fast-paced 18-hour visit, has expressed concern the pullback could touch off violence. Syria, which has considerable influence in Lebanon and with Hezbollah guerrillas there, wants a withdrawal as part of an overall agreement in which Syria would recover the Golan Heights along its own border with Israel.
But Israel-Syrian negotiations broke down three months ago. Albright said the Clinton administration would assist Israel at the United Nations in making preparations for a milital withdrawal.
Israel's approach on Lebanon, the Palestinians and Syria all were on the agenda for Barak's meetings with President Clinton
and other top U.S. officials.
Palestinian diplomat Rahman said that confidence in the peace process would be shaken if this round of neo-
An earlier round was unproductive, he said.
Rahman said the Palestinians wanted Clinton to make clear to Barak that the negotiations
Barak: Concerned land transfer could touch off violence
must be concluded successfully by Sept. 13, a deadline set by the United States, Israel and the Palestinians.
U.S. relatives agree to meet with father
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives offered yesterday to meet with his father in Florida and bring the boy along, and a Justice Department official said Attorney General Janet Reno very likely would come to Miami to meet with community leaders and the boy's great-uncle.
The senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Reno probably would go to Miami today and meet with federal officials, community leaders and — most significantly — the family of Lazaro Gonzalez.
Arrangements still were being worked out, said the official, who added that any meetings involving Reno wouldn't alter the timetable being worked out for Eilan's return.
In a letter distributed yesterday outside the great-uncle's home and addressed to a psychiatrist assigned by the government to the case, the family said it would be willing to
meet Juan Miguel Gonzalez at any neutral place in South Florida. Relatives demanded assurances that Elian would not be taken from them during such a meeting.
Justice Department spokeswoman Carole Florman characterized Lazaro's offer to meet Juan Miguel as a family matter. "This is not a request the Miami relatives can make of the government," she said. "They need to make it to Juan Miguel."
On Monday, Lazaro Gonzalez met for an hour with two psychiatrists and a psychologist sent by the government to arrange his 6-year-old grandnephew's smooth transfer to his father. The doctors, who met with Elian's father in Washington on Sunday, held a telephone conference this morning with Immigration Commissioner Doris Meissner to give their recommendations, Florman said.
Florman said no decisions had been made about precise transfer instructions because officials wanted to evaluate the experts' latest advice.
Study fails to find a cure for colds, viral meningitis
The Associated Press
A drug that developers hoped would cure the common cold and viral meningitis has showed disappointing results in three new studies released yesterday. The developer's stock price fell sharply on the news.
The drug, called pleonaril, failed to significantly shorten bouts of illness when tested on adults with severe colds, and on adults and children with viral meningitis. However, it did appear to reduce the severity of people's symptoms.
The drug is being developed by ViroPharma in Exton, Pa., and is intended to block a broad family of viruses, known as the picornaviruses. This family includes such common viral enemies as the rhinoviruses and enteroviruses.
Early studies suggested the drug could reduce the duration of a bout of viral meningitis by about two days and a cold bad by
about three. However, the latest studies did not produce clear-cut evidence of this.
The results were released in a statement from ViroPharma. The company's stock price fell $45 morning from Monday's closing price of $71.75.
In the latest common cold study, runny nose and other symptoms completely cleared up by 7.7 days among plecanoril users, compared with 9.4 days in those getting dummy pills. The difference was not statistically meaningful.
Earlier, company officials said they had hoped to have a pleconaril pill for cold treatment on the market in 2001. Today, Claude Nash, the company's chief executive, said that ViroPharma would sponsor more large studies in cold victims this year, and its timeline for seeking approval of the drug was unchanged.
However, the company said the drug did seem to help adults with the most severe cases of viral meningitis.
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