Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The University Daily Kansan Nation
Section A·Page 7
Actor could capture top political billing
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES—More than seven weeks after he hinted at a White House run, Warren Beatty is still teasing the political and entertainment worlds about his intentions. That is unlikely to change with his highly anticipated speech today, friends and associates said.
Beatty is to be honored in Beverly Hills by a group that shares his liberal philosophy, the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action.
"I've just heard he wants to lay out a specific set of policies and issues and does not plan to lay out his intentions of whether he plans to seek the Democratic nomination or any nomination for president," said Art Torres, chairman of the state Democratic Party.
Several people with close ties to Beatty also said the actor-director was unlikely to tip his hand at the Beverly Hills gathering.
Whatever he does, Beatty will do it under a media microscope. Reporters from across the nation and around the world are thronging to the speech, even though it holds little promise of a bombshell announcement.
C-SPAN, the government affairs cable network, plans to record the speech and air it nationally on Sunday.
to record the speech and air it nationally on Sunday. Beatty will train a spotlight on issues he believes are being neglected by the two Democrats running for president, Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley.
"He's worried the Democratic Party is not discussing some of the issues he considers important and are part of the history and tradition of the party," said Bill Carrick, a democratic political adviser who is not on the payroll of any presidential candidate. "Namely, that people have been left out of the prosperity — low income, poor people have been left out, and that's not been adequately addressed from his point of view in the debate," he said.
New anti-flu drug inhaler to hit pharmacies
SAN FRANCISCO—Junior got the flu? Bad enough for the kid, but parents also know they may be the next to contract the sneezes and fever.
The Associated Press
Now it appears there is something they can do about it. A study released Sunday shows that a new variety of prescription flu drug is the first ever proven to keep family members from getting sick when someone brings home
Relenza, an inhaled powder made by Glaxo Wellcome Inc., should be drugstore shelves on Friday. HoffmannLaRoche's Tamifu, a similar medicine in pill form, also is expected to be approved soon.
the bug.
And that's not the good sniffles news. On Sunday, Hayden also released details of a second study of the first anti-viral medicine that appears to reduce the duration of the cold cold.
"These drugs are a major step forward," said Frederick Hayden, a physician at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. "The latest data show that they clearly work for prevention, as well."
Relenza reduces the duration of a bout of flu by a day or two. Unlike the earlier generation of flu drugs, which are powerless to prevent the disease, it works against both major strains of the disease, known as influenza A and B.
Doctors emphasize that the flu vaccine is still the best way to ward off the disease, but the new drugs should help when people fail to get shots.
"This is an important aspect of the drug that could reduce the burden of influenza," said William Craig, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin.
Hayden described the results of a study of pleconaril, an experimental medicine for the common cold. The medicine was developed by Viropharma
Inc. of Exton, Penn.
Doctors found that it shortened the length of a typical moderate-to-severe cold from 14 days to 10 1/2. They looked at various measures of a cold's severity, including the number of tissues used. Pleconaril reduced the number of tissues needed by 23 percent.
One drawback to these medicines is that they must be started within the first day or two of symptoms to have any effect on the disease.
Iraq still has prohibited weapons, ex-inspector says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Iraq's ability to wage war with prohibited weapons is undiminished and possibly greater than when U.N. weapons inspections were halted almost a year ago, the former head of the inspection team said yesterday.
Ambassador Richard Butler also said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had benefited from what appeared to be diminishing international resolve in ensuring Iraqi compliance with U.N. Security Council demands that all weapons of mass destruction in Iraq be eliminated.
In contrast to global weariness with
the issue, Butler said, Hussein continued to have a profound addiction for such armaments, dating from 1988 when he used chemical weapons against an Iraqi Kurd community suspected of disloyalty.
Butler, who testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, became known for his tenacious pursuit of Iraq's weapons stocks declared illegal by the U.N. Security Council when the Persian Gulf War ended almost nine years ago.
Butler and his inspection team conducted searches until last December when Iraq barred their return.
Committee Chairman Jesse Helms, R-
N. C., said a majority of the five permanent members of the Security Council referring to Russia, China and France were not willing to enforce the weapons ban even though the 1991 resolution making them illegal was unambiguous.
A Russian resolution would essentially accept the Iraqi claim that it has disarmed and removed sanctions in exchange for Iraqi acceptance of an ongoing monitoring system.
Another resolution, introduced by Britain and the Netherlands and backed by the United States, would suspend sanctions for renewable periods of six months provided Iraq complied with inspections by a successor U.N. monitoring agency.
Butler credited Hussein with a brilliant propaganda campaign in convincing many governments that the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq were causing widespread suffering among the Iraqi people.
"Food and medicine are rotting in Iraqi warehouses undistributed while little children suffer and die," Helms said in agreement.
To ease the humanitarian plight of the Iraqi people, the Security Council has allowed Iraq to resume oil sales on a limited basis so long as the proceeds are used to meet the basic needs of the Iraqi people, but reports of suffering continue.
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