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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1986
News Briefs
Truck leaks toxins after fall off bridge
DAYTON, Ohio — A truck hauling 5,000 gallons of a toxic chemical plunged on a freeway bridge early yesterday. The accident forced the evacuation of about 100 people and threatened drinking water from wells as about 1,000 gallons leaked from the tank.
The truck was hauling methylene di-phenylene disocyanate from Geyser, La., to Livonia, Mich., when it ran on an Interstate 70 bridge into about three feet of water. The driver and a passenger received minor injuries.
The chemical could be fatal if swallowed, said officials of BASF-Wyandotte. But they also said it should pose no threat to the environment or people in the area.
S. Africa riots rage
JOHANNESBURG South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Daylong riots raged yesterday in a black township that lies in the middle of comfortable white suburbs north of Johannesburg. Residents said five people were killed, which would bring the three-day death toll to eight.
Witnesses said the rioting was the worst in the three days of bloodshed in Alexandra township that started Saturday after funerals for two anti-apartheid activists. Some whites watched it from their green lawns on surrounding hills.
Ship rejected help
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A sinking Soviet cruise liner refused help for two hours before New Zealand authorities ordered rescue vessels to save the 737 people aboard, officials said yesterday.
The luxury liner Mikhail Lermontov hit rocks and sank Sunday in a windy rain off New Zealand's South Island. The search for the one missing crewman was called off yesterday. Sixteen people were injured.
New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange ordered an investigation to determine why the liner strayed off course and was so badly damaged.
United Press International
Johnson & Johnson's decision to halt production of the capsule forms of its all-over-the-counter drugs will force other pharmaceutical drug companies into the same decision, pharmacists around the country said yesterday.
Scare may force capsule end
"It will knock everyone out of the box in capsules for a long time," said Fred Young, pharmacist at Prescription City South in Chicago, site of the first Tylterol poisoning scare in 1982.
Johnson & Johnson announced yesterday that it would replace consumers' bottles of over-the-counter medicines in capsule form and would also replace bottles thrown away since the Tylenol cyanide poisoning scare began.
shelves)," said Connie Upshaw at the Anthropology in Raleigh, N.C.
Pharmacists interviewed in random spot checks generally hailed Johnson & Johnson's decision to take Tylenol and other capsules of the market as the only possible response to the second cyanide poisoning crisis.
"I think this will give Johnson & Johnson some credibility again," said Victor Kintz at EJ's Rexall Drugs in St. Louis. "They'll probably win back their market share."
Johnson & Johnson said it is permanently shelving all capsule forms of its over-the-counter medicines, including Extra- and Regular-Strength Tylenol, Sine-Aid, Co-Tylenol, Maximum-Strength Tylenol Sinus Medicine and Dimensyn.
The discovery of two tainted bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol in
The company said it believed most Tylenol capsule users would switch to tablets or the relatively new "caplet" form of Tylenol. Johnson & Johnson said both forms would be destroyed by most poisons and are virtually tamper-proof.
From Kansan wires.
Consumers can return what remains of their bottles of Tylenol capsules and receive in exchange a coupon for the same size bottle of caplets or tablets of the same product. The address is Tylenol Capsule Exchange, P.O. Box 2000, Maple Plain, Minnesota. 55348
Consumers who have thrown away their capsules recently can receive a coupon for a replacement bottle by calling 1-800-544-3113.
Bronxville, N.Y., had proved that even triple-sealed capsule packages were not sufficiently tamper-resistant, the company said.
"The name Tylenol has stuck with 99 percent of the people as well as their doctors," said a pharmacist on Chicago's north side.
But Don Gartland of Beaverton Pharmacy in Portland, Ore., said his customers would have problems without capsules.
"I think it's damned unfortunate that one lousey clown is screwing up the whole nation," he said. "It's probably a wise decision, but an unfortunate one. A lot of people can't swallow tablets."
"I'm absolutely against doing away with all caps," said Elmar Jacobson at Sir Francis Drake Pharmacy in San Francisco. "Capsules have a place. They dissolve faster than tablets."
New type of control to be tried
United Press International
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said yesterday it was beginning the first human trials of a synthetic birth-control vaccine.
The organization said 30 women volunteered for the trials starting this month at Flinders Medical Center in Adelaide, Australia.
"The vaccine may prove to be as important a development in birth-control technology as the contraceptive pill," WHO official David Griffith said.
The vaccine offers advantages over current methods, he said, citing simplicity of administering, one-two-year effectiveness and absence of side-effects.
The vaccine consists of part of a hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin, or HCG, which is produced by fertilized eggs when a woman becomes pregnant.
HCG helps maintain a balance of other hormones during pregnancy and also is thought to prevent the mother's immune system from rejecting a fetus as a foreign substance. In animal tests, vaccination caused production of antibodies against HCG, causing the fertilized egg to be swept away.
WHO said the first trials, lasting nine months, are to determine the safety of the vaccine in already sterilized women.
U.S. envoy visits Filipinos
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — President Reagan's special envoy, Philip Habib, met separately yesterday with President Ferdinand E. Marcos and with Corazon Aquino, both unyielding in their claims to the Philippine presidency.
When Reagan sent Habib here, he said the veteran troubleshooter was on a fact-finding mission and would report back to him on the aftermath of the Feb. 7 presidential election.
presidently. Aquino was still ahead in an independent vote count although the National Assembly officially proclaimed Marcos the victor Saturday.
In a printed statement yesterday, Aquino said, "What is at stake here is more than the removal of an impostor president. It is the future of democracy itself."
Some U.S. officials hinted that Habib might try to act as a negotiator, but neither Habib nor the people he met gave any sign that that was so.
Despite world criticism of Marcos' victory claim, growing economic pressures and a unified and emboldened opposition, the president seemed confident he can rule
for another six years.
His only public comment after meeting two hours with Habib was that Habib guaranteed he was "not interested in any way in telling us how to run our affairs."
Marcos, who has been running the Philippines for 20 years with a mixture of authoritarian rule and democracy, said he gave Habib documents proving his opponents cheated and used violence in the election.
harassment or vote by the government.
Signs emerged that Aquino's call for restrained civil disobedience at a giant rally Sunday was having an effect.
Roman Catholic bishops, independent pollwatchers and international observers have cited fraud and violent harassment of voters by the government.
The price of stock in the huge San Miguel Corp. dropped about 20 percent from last week. Aquino asked Filipinos to boycott the company, whose chairman, Eduardo Coiuangco, she called a Marcos crony.
Several banks she listed for boycott reported heavy withdrawals.
Aquino has asked for strikes, school walkouts, boycotts and noise barrages the day after Marcos' inauguration, expected next week.
Engineers opposed shuttle launch
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Rocket engineers strongly advised NASA against launching the space shuttle Challenger because of concern about the effects of cold weather on crucial seals in solid-fuel booster rockets, CBS News reported yesterday.
The network quoted anonymous sources as saying that the night before the Jan. 28 launching, engineers with Morton Thiolok, builder of the giant rocket boosters, were unanimous in their opposition to
approving the 25th shuttle launch that day.
Experts suspect two rubber O-ring seals in the joint may have failed for some reason, possibly cold weather, allowing flame and hot gas to escape.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration documents show a long history of concern about the seals, but they were judged safe to fly, even though Challenger's launching came in 38-degree weather — a record for the shuttle program. The seals are known to lose resiliency in cold weather.
search for shuttle debris in or near a 6-mile-wide restricted zone where debris from a satellite rocket was found last week.
Divers from the USS Preserver, a Navy salvage ship, continued the
Photographs released by NASA yesterday showed a large piece of twisted wreckage be hauled aboard Saturday or Sunday that appeared to be the blasted remnants of the rocket's second stage fuel casting.
The four-man Johnson Sea Link 2, a small research submersible equipped with television cameras and sonar, was able to photograph the suspected remains of the shuttle's right-hand booster rocket Sunday in water about 40 miles off shore.
Chad gets troop aid of France
The Associated Press
PARIS — France sent troops and planes to Chad yesterday to support President Hissene Habre's government against Libyan-backed rebels after an air strike on the airport at N'Djamena, capital of the African country.
Defense Minister Paul Quilies announced the deployment soon after he reported that one Soviet-built Libyan Tupolev-22 jet bombed the N'Djamaa airport runway about 7 a.m. yesterday. On Sunday, French planes bombed an airfield at a Libyan-built rebel base in the north of the former French colony.
The Libyan news agency JANA said in Tripoli that the N'Djamena raid was carried out by the air force of rebel forces in Chad trying to overthrow Habre and was in response to the French raid.
The rebels are not known to have their own air force, but the Libyans have Tupelov jets in their arsenal of 535 warplanes.
Quiles said damage at N'Djamena airport was minimal and no one was hurt. JANA claimed the strike rendered it unusable.
A dispatch from Paris by the Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday that "an explosive situation has developed in the center of Africa as a result of France's growing armed intervention in Chad."
Libya accused the United States yesterday of being behind French President Francis Mitterrand's decision to intervene in Chad.
A high-ranking Libyan official, who insisted on anonymity, told reporters in Tripoli that Mitterrand was President Reagan's pawn.
Quiles said three French warplanes, two Mirage F-1s and a Jaguar, landed at N'Djamena yesterday.
France has kept 1,500 troops in the Central African Republic, poised to return to Chad, since signing a mutual withdrawal agreement with Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy in the fall of 1984. France says Libya never honored the pact.
About 200 French troops were sent to Chad over the weekend, according to the Defense Ministry. They included air force commands to protect French transports flying supplies and equipment to the Habre government. Other French soldiers man anti-aircraft missile batteries.
France says the Libyans have 4,500 troops in northern Chad.
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