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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Marijuana use among teen-agers has nearly doubled since 1998, even as adults' use of all illegal drugs leveled off, the government announced yesterday.
About 12.2 million people used illegal drugs last year, up from 11.7 million in 1993 and 11.4 million in 1992, said the 1994 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. The increases were not considered statistically significant.
At the same time, 1.8 million teen-agers used illegal drugs last year — the vast majority using marijuana, which the government survey said is on the rise among young people after 13 years of decline.
About 7.3 percent of teens — 1.3 million ages 12 to 17 — smoked marijuana last year. That's up from 4 percent two years earlier, the survey found. Until 1992, youth marijuana use had declined every year since 1979.
Shalala used the data to attack House-passed budget cuts that would take $700 million away from federal drug-abuse programs. The Senate is considering this week whether to let those cuts stand.
"Anyone who thinks we've licked the drug problem in this country is living in a fantasy land," said Donna Shalala, health and human services secretary, whose department conducted the survey.
"We hope they remember that drug prevention is a national priority of the very same order as clean water, good roads and safe streets," Shalala said.
Mariniana accounts for 81 percent of the nation's goodwill payments.
drug use, and its rise among teens reflects a growing sense that marijuana is benign, said Lee Brown, President Clinton's drug policy coordinator. Only 42 percent of teen-agers considered marijuana a dangerous drug, down from 50 percent in 1992.
"Marijiana is not cool." Shalala told students at a Washington high school yesterday. "Marijuana use is illegal, it's dangerous, it's unhealthy and it's wrong."
To estimate the prevalence of the use of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco, the health department surveyed a nationally representative sample of 22,181 people last year. Drug use was defined as taking a drug sometime in the month before the survey. Among other findings:
—The proportion of teens who report being approached by someone selling drugs in the month before the survey increased to 18.9 percent last year, up from 14.4 percent in 1993.
—Some 10.6 million people under 21 drink alcohol in the month before the survey. Two million were heavy drinkers, defined as those who had at least five drinks on five separate occasions in that month.
—Among all Americans, 13 million were heavy drinkers.
—Four million teen-agers smoked cigarettes, steady since 1992.
—Pregnant women cut back on drug abuse during their pregnancy, with 1.8 percent using an illegal drug compared with 6.7 percent of all women of childbearing age. However, 5.2 percent of all women with children used drugs, indicating women resume drug habits once their baby is born.
Japanese company surrenders property due to bankruptcy
Rockefeller Center changes hands
The Associated Press
NEWYORK — The Japanese company that controls Rockefeller Center abandoned its stake in the company yesterday under a deal that would transfer title of the famed office complex to a high-profile American investment troika.
If successful, the deal would end the center's four-month odyssey in bankruptcy court and mark the most striking retreat by a major Japanese company from an American investment.
It also would spell the end of any ownership role by the Rockefeller family, a dynasty of American capitalism that made the 12-building midtown Manhattan landmark an icon of power and prestige.
Poised to take over is a group led by investor Samuel Zell, who has built a fortune by acquiring distressed real estate; General Electric Co, and its National Broadcasting Co. subsidiary and Walt Disney Co
Rockefeller Group Inc., controlled
by Mitsubishi Estate Co., announced a plan to surrender the Art Deco property to Rockefeller Center Properties Inc., the trust that holds its $1.3 billion mortgage.
"It's a little bit surprising that it's come to this, that they're willing to walk away without slogging it a little further through the bankruptcy," said Wayne Teetsel, an analyst at B.D.S. Securities Corp. in New York, a brokerage firm.
Rockefeller Center Properties Inc. said yesterday it signed an agreement with the group led by Zell. The Zell group would invest $250 million in the property. The new venture would seek bankruptcy court approval to take title.
GE and NBC, among the most famous tenants of the center, reached an agreement in principle to join the Zell investment group, said a statement by Rockefeller Center Properties.
Disney already is included in the Zell group, which has said that the entertainment giant has its eye on managing or leasing Radio City Music Hall. The 5,874-seat theater is one of the prime tourist destinations in the center.
The center also is known among New Yorkers and visitors for its
annual Christmas tree lighting and a jewel-box of a skating rink.
Japanese companies including Mitsubishi invested huge sums in real estate during the 1980s, when prices were high and affluent investors from Japan were pouring money into everything from Hollywood studios to American golf courses.
Some Americans saw the 1985 Rockefeller Center purchase as an affront to the nation's pride and a symbol of U.S. economic decline.
As real estate prices fell, however, real estate investors had trouble paying their bills. That was true for Rockefeller Center's owners, who sought bankruptcy court protection on May 11.
The combatants included Rockefeller Center Properties, Mitsubishi, the Rockefeller family trust, Chicago investor Samuel Zell, Disney, GE, developer Tishman Speyer Properties Inc. and others.
The center is home to the headquarters of The Associated Press, the NBC television unit of GE, Simon & Schuster and other highprofile businesses.
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