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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 22, 1991
Washington
Drug fights infection
The Food and Drug Administration approved yesterday a new, genetically engineered drug it said could annually help an estimated 225,000 cancer patients fight life-threatening infections while on chemotherapy.
The drug works by boosting production of infection-fighting white blood cells, which are reduced or killed entirely by many kinds of cancer-fighting drugs.
FDA Commissioner David Kessler said the drug, called granulome colony-stimulation drug, could be a pioneer therapeutic product.
The drug may be used for patients undergoing myelosuppressive chemotherapy, a type that destroys cancer cells and certain immune cells. These cancers, each year, are vulnerable to infections that can be life-threatening, Kessler said.
Santiago, Chile Death count up to 20
Passengers clung in icy waters to the wings and tail of a chartered Chilean jetliner after it skidded off the runway in a crash killing 20 people, authorities and witnesses said yesterday.
The small four-engine jet of the Chilean airline LAN was trying to land Wednesday at Puerto Williams on Navarino island when it overshot the ocean and beached Beagle Channel, 1,300 miles south of Santiago, airline officials said.
The plane sank within minutes, and some passengers froze to death after they jumped into the icy waters of the channel, which separates the Atlantic and Pacific oceans near Cape Horn, witnesses said.
Dole leads new proposal
From The Associated Press
Package would aid women in workplace The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-N.C., led a group of House and Senate Republicans in proposing legislation yesterday to combat job discrimination, sexual abuse and violent crimes against women.
Dole said at a news conference that the legislative package was created by the House and Senate to ratify.
intimidation and discrimination.
Key provisions of the legislation,
called the Women's Equal Opportunity Employment Act, would toughen penalties for some sex crimes,
establish a fine of up to $100,000 for first offenses of sexual harassment in the workplace, require expeditited AIDS testing of people charged with a federal sex crime, permit increased federal aid for rape prevention and family violence programs, and establish a commission to study what could be done to eliminate barriers that keep women and minorities
from the top ranks of corporate management,
"Women can't have equal opportunity if they must struggle to overcome artificial and sometimes insurmountable barriers to job placement, job promotion and job advancement," Dole said.
Sponsors of the legislation said current laws were inadequate in protecting women's rights in the workplace. For example, Dole said that many women were a victim of sexual harassment in many cases only to recover back pay
Yugoslavia may disintegrate
Croatia the latest to seek secession
The Associated Press
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — Croatia yesterday invalidated all federal laws on its territory and said it would join its pro-independence ally Slovenia in initiating secession from Yugoslavia.
Croatia's parliament, the Sabor, voted overwhelmingly to proclaim the superiority of its law over federal legislation and unanimously approved a resolution formally starting its secession from Yugoslavia's federation of six republics and two provinces.
The parliament of Croatia's neigh-
borhood of Slovenia, took似
much action, Wednesday.
All 340 deputies in the Sabor voted to adopt the resolution that foresees dissolving Yugoslavia, a nation of 24 million people, into two or more countries.
The moves raised the stakes for today's scheduled meeting of the federal presidency in Sarajevo. Four previous rounds aimed at sorting out Yugoslavia's ethnic, political and economic differences have failed.
Any like-minded republics could join Croatia in a new, looser association of states that fully respect each other's sovereignty, the resolution said.
It said the federation should be based in a peaceful manner and republican style.
former borders intact
Independence moves by prosperous, pro-Western Croatia and Slovenia have set them at odds with the largest state. Communist-ruled Serbia, and threaten the country with disintegration. About 10 million Serbs, 5 million Croats and 2 million Slovenes live in Yugoslavia.
Officials of Croatia and Slovenia cite Yugoslavia's longstanding inaction to solve its deep divisions as the reason for their drive toward independence.
Serbia vehemently opposes any plans to change the current federal system. It is backed by the pro-Communist People's Army and the army's Serb-dominated officer corps. Serbia's hard-line President Slobodan Milosevic threats to alter borders to protect ethnic Serbs in other regions should the federation split.
Croatia's President Franjo Tudjani said Croatia wanted to be master of its fate and could accept it. Croatia is an association of sovereign states.
He said the republic would secede or form a union with Slovenia if talks by regional leaders fail to yield such an association by June 30.
Leaders of the poorest republic of Macedonia in the south and the central multi-ethnic state of Bosnia-Hercegovina have indicated they would follow Croatia and Slovenia if the two latter seceded秒速
The resolution said Croatia was also prepared to reach agreements with states outside Yugoslavia.
Another step toward secession
Croatia yesterday voted to annul all federal laws.
- Slovenian republic
  Wednesday also voted to invalidate federal laws;
  Slovenia and Croatia are two of the richest republics
Yugoslavia, made up of six republics and two autonomous provinces, has had political and ethnic unrest for most of this century.
SOURCE: World Book, AP
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