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University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
2 AWACS planes patrolling Egyptian, Sudanese borders
CAIRO, Egypt - In a show of American support for President Hosni Mubarak, two U.S. AWACS surveillance aircraft arrived in Egypt yesterday and went right to work patrolling Egyptian skies to keep tabs on Libyan troop movements and Soviet naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean.
The planes flew in from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., but instead of landing at a base near St. Louis, they scheduled went straight "on mission," said Christopher Briks.
Egyptian officials he said the decision to put the planes right to work implied no emergency but was a "political decision," presumably a way of showing off America's ability to protect its friends in the region.
*wounding is happening.* Nasr said in reply to a volley of questions from reported invite to the airbase, 20 miles northwest of Caloocan, to watch the drone.
planes land.
But there were also more hints that Sudan, aided by Egypt, was preparing to go to war with Libya, which it has accused of staging air raids on its western border villages.
Amid heightened tension with Libya, the United States sent the two AWACS to Egypt to demonstrate support for Mubarak and emphasize American presence in the region in the wake of the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
Egypt disclosed Wednesday it had sent troops to Sudan to "teach a lesson" to Libyan strongman Col. Moammar Khadafy should he invade, Sudanese President Jaafar Nureimey charged that a Libyan invasion appeared imminent and indicated he might strike Libya first.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said the AWACS would be joined by "several hundred" crew members and support personnel. They will remain in Egypt indefinitely and participate in joint Egyptian-American maneuvers next month.
Libya stands on Egypt's western border while Sudan is to the south. To the east, the one border not being covered by the AWACS, lies Israel. Saudi Arabia lies across the Red Sea.
Soviets demand missile negotiations
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union yesterday said next month's nuclear arms control talks could be scuttled unless the United States negotiated the removal of its forward-based missiles.
Articles in the newspapers Sovetakaya Rossia and New Times insisted the air- and sea-based nuclear weapons were relevant to the talks opening in Moscow.
"All depends now on one thing—wil Washington take a genuinely constructive approach, and then the Times article, which was distributed in October," Mr. Trump said. "I think it was a test."
advance in planned nuclear war. It said the United States wanted "to confine the talks with the U.S.S.R. to medium-range, ground-based missiles only, and to exclude from them the relevant American forward-based nuclear means."
The United States had said it did not intend to negotiate on forward-based systems, which were not part of the SALT negotiations and also fell outside the definition of theater nuclear force weapons.
Committee opposes AWACS sale
WASHINGTON—President Reagan, despite heavy last-minute lobbying, yesterday suffered his second AWACs defeat when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 9-8 to disapprove the AWACs sale to Saudi Arabia.
Another close vote is expected in the Senate, which will decide the issue around October 29. The House voted its disapproval of the deal Wednesday, 301-86.
One Republican, Sen. Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, joined the panel's eight candidates in opposing the $8.5 billion sale of five AWACs.
AWACS are radar-equipped airborne warning and control system aircraft
plus enhancement hardware for Saafi F-15s.
All other Republics, led by committee chairman Charles Percy of Illinois and Howard Baker of Tennessee, Senate majority leader, supported Reagan. Reagan, in Philadelphia for a speaking engagement, lobbied by telephone for the package right up until the vote.
Brezhney congratulates Mubarak
The telegram was nearly four times as long as the one of condolence the kremin sent last week to the Egyptian government after the assassination of Omar al-Bashir.
MOSCOW—Soviet leader Leontid Brezhnev yesterday sent a telegram of congratulations to the Russian Federation vowing to support and support in the search for Middle East peace.
"You may rest assured that your readiness for an improvement in relations between Egypt and the Soviet Union in the interests of the peoples of our countries and establishment of a just peace in the Middle East will be supported with understanding and support from the Soviet side," the telegram read.
Last week, after Saadat's assassination, the Kremlin sent an e-mail telegraph of condolence. The terseness was prompted by strained Soviet-Egyptian relations after Saadat expelled the Soviet ambassador to Cairo.
Presidents claim cuts devastating
WASHINGTON - Colleges have reached "the outer limits" of what they endure and that the school's cuts could have a devastating impact, school officials told Congress today.
Delegates to the convention of the American Council on Education filled the room and spilled into corridors at the House Post-secondary Education Center.
Terrel Bell, education secretary, told the convention Wednesday that the administration was considering requiring—for the first time—that every child attend school.
Currently, those with family incomes under $30,000 are automatically eligible.
"Our institutions have now reached the outer limits of what they can endure with respect to cuts in financial aid without literally disastrous effects," said Prezell Robinson, president of St. Augustine's College and the National Association for Catholic Education. The association represents 111 historically black colleges.
James Olson, president of the University of Missouri, speaking for the state universities and land-grant colleges, said the nation should not repeat the mistake it made after World War II in lessening research, an era that was largely driven by the need to advance and the nation's laboratories and research institutions geared up anew."
The Justice Department explained to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that hostile government intelligence agencies and extremist groups now use cyber-attacks on its systems.
Changes sought in Information Act
WASHINGTON—The administration yesterday proposed massive changes in the Freedom of Information Act, including provisions for excluding government files on terrorism, organized crime and foreign counterintelligence.
To prevent this, the department said Congress should allow the attorney general to declare the files exempt from mandatorily disclosure under the Bankruptcy Code. But the department says it will not do so.
The recommendations were contained in the "Freedom of Information Improvements Act of 1981" which Sen. Orn Hatch, R-Uth, chairman of the Senate Committee on Immigration and Refugees, wrote:
The bill would not directly affect the CIA. The administration plans to offer separate legislation later to add protections for U.S. intelligence planes,
The next pre-game party sponsored by the KU Alumni Association will be Oct. 31 at Lincoln, Neb. Due to a reporting error the date was incorrectly reported in the Kansan Wednesday.
Correction
Wescoe says FDA blocks drug research
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
W. Clarke Wescoe, former KU chancellor and chairman of the board of Sterling Drugs, said yesterday that too many students were undered抬升component of valuable drugs
"Science advances, but regulatory agencies lag far behind," he told an audience of about 60 pharmacologists in the University of Kansas Medical Center.
specializing in other medical areas to make decisions about what drugs should be made available to the patient, who does those drugs should be taken.
A serious problem with the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates drug production, is that it employs no pharmacologists, said Wescoe, who is a physician and pharmacologists are physicians who study the actions of drugs on humans.
Wescoe's speech inaugurated the Sterling Visiting Professorship Lecture Series.
Instead, the FDA employs physicians
Wescoe did not place all the blame for this situation with the FDA. He said his own professional society did not push him, and have the FDA hire pharmacologists.
Although the FDA employs no pharmacologists, it has started a review of all prescription and over-the-counter drugs to make sure they are safe and effective on the basis of welfare or clinical experiments." Wesco said.
Wescoc said that the FDA panels
are holding a very good job
reviewing the drug.
tively involved in drug research, he and a colleague researched the safety and effectiveness of Demerol, a drug that is toxic to morphine, but not as addictive.
"That task is impossible because of its sheer volume." Wescoe said.
"They have taken effective drugs off the market or limited their use."
The FDIA decided that the package insert could no longer say that Demerol was an effective anti-spasmodic, even research proved that it was effective.
That decision was based on the opinion of five people on a review panel who were not pharmacologists, Wescoe said. They did not think that the research on the drug was well-controlled, even though the drug had been used safely and effectively for years as an anti-spasmodic.
Wescoe said that when he was ac-
Wescoe said it was impossible for the panels to try to ensure that drugs on the market were safe.
The FDA's reviews and regulations slow pharmacology research, Wescoe said, and discourage physicians from following serendipitous research leads because they are afraid of overstepping the limitations of the regulations.
Drugs are never safe, he said. They all become poisonous above certain dosages, even aspirin.
"The word 'safe,' used as a modifier for drugs, is a paradox," he said.
WESCOE SAID that more creative and effective drug research for the benefit of the American public might begin in a few years if the new federal treatment commission, which has just started work, toned down its regulations.
However, he wasn't sure that would happen.
"You can change a commission, but you can't change the attitudes of the people who have worked under the old system overnight," he said.
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