Friday, January 19, 1996
NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Clinton to campaign in address
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Deadlocked with Republicans over a balanced budget, President Clinton will confront a hostile Congress when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday. His election-year message: All sides must face America's real problems of crime, education and the economy.
The speech will open Clinton's 1996 campaign and preview the themes he will throw against his Republican rival.
Bill Clinton
The speech
The budget battle will loom over Clinton's address which
comes just three days before the expiration of a temporary measure keeping much of the government open. However, presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said the budget won't be Clinton's primary focus.
"In a sense, he will make the budget fight seem puny by talking about the things that have a much more direct impact on the lives of Americans," McCurry said.
It was agreed that it would be futile for Clinton to ask the Republican Congress to approve a lengthy list of initiatives.
Still, he is expected to offer ideas dealing with the economy, education, crime and the environment. He also is expected to renew his call for a campaign against teen pregnancy — a crusade he promised in last year's address, only to let fade away with his failed nomination of Dr. Henry Foster as surgeon general.
Last year, soon after taking control of Congress, the Republicans booed Clinton's speech. The mood is sure to worsen after a year of hot tempers, angry battles and veto struggles.
One thing seems certain: Clinton's address won't be as long as last year's 81-minute marathon. Republicans ridiculed it as too long, and the White House doesn't want to give them another easy shot.
On the budget, the president will argue that Congress and the White House should put aside their disputes and lock in a deal with what the administration claims are $740 billion in agreed-upon savings.
"It is wrong for us to defer this because of disagreements that are not necessary to resolve in order to have a balanced budget or a modest tax cut," Clinton said yesterday, a day after Republicans called off budget talks with the White House.
Republicans portray Clinton as the barrier to a budget deal and hope to make that the focus of the
"We'll take it to the voters rather than make a bad budget deal," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination.
November election.
Citron solicited speech ideas from political scientists at White House dinners. Other suggestions were invited from a cross section of Americans — from radio humorist Garrison Keillor to Boston University president John Silber — and their ideas were compiled in a green book for Clinton.
"The principal theme is, 'Look, setting aside all this bickering, we've got some big challenges facing us as America goes into the 21st century." McCurv said.
If there was a budget agreement, it would be the centerpiece of his speech and he would celebrate it as a historic achievement. Lacking accord, the president does not want to dwell on failure in an address regarded as the opening shot of his re-election campaign.
Clinton's focus away from the titanic budget struggle is, of course, dictated by political reality.
The speech will present "a lot of the ground on which the election is fought," presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos said.
Translation: Clinton will stake out big differences with Republicans on Medicare and Medicaid, the environment and education.
With low inflation and low unemployment, Clinton will be able to boast about the economy and declare it sound.
After running on a pledge of creating 8 million new jobs in his first term, the president is well ahead of schedule, with 7.8 million new jobs in the economy since he took office in January 1993.
Foreign policy also will be important in Clinton's address. He can point to progress in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Haiti. And Clinton is sure to bring up his trip to Bosnia last week, visiting American troops and celebrating the U.S. brokened peace.
In truth, State of the Union addresses generate hyperbole but usually are forgotten quickly.
Two years ago, for example, the big news was Clinton's vow to veto any health-care overhaul that did not cover every American. It was an empty threat since Congress refused to pass any bill.
Last year, Congress ignored Clinton's calls for a line-item veto, antire terrorist legislation, a boost in the minimum wage and approval of a major arms pact with Moscow.
At his request, lawmakers approved a major welfare overhaul, but Clinton vetoed it as too extreme
- further endearing himself to liberals already happy over his stands on affirmative action and other issues.
Researchers halt beta-carotene study
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Beta-carotene supplements do not protect Americans against cancer or heart disease, and might actually increase smokers' risk of deadly lung tumors, the government declared yesterday.
to stop smoking."
National Cancer Institute researchers shut down a vitamin study of 18,000 smokers last week, almost two years early, because too many of those being given high doses of beta-carotene were dying.
There were 28 percent more lung cancers and 17 percent more deaths among beta-carotene takers than smokers, who took dummy pills — almost mirroring a 1994 Finnish study that first raised questions about this carrot-derived vitamin's safety.
"Beta-carotene is no magic bullet," said Richard Klausner, director of NCI.
A second U.S. study fed mega-doses of beta-carotene to 22,000 doctors for 12 years and found no evidence of harm in either smokers or non-smokers. But it also found that people who took beta-carotene pills wasted their money.
Is it really dangerous for smokers? Klausner's not sure, but said, "There is one very clear message: The only way to reduce your (cancer) risk is
But the doctors emphasized that it doesn't mean people should avoid carrots and other vitamin-packed vegetables and fruits. These studies merely prove that popping the pills can't replace the complex mix of natural chemicals — and the
- fiber, low-fat benefits—in those foods.
Beta-carotene is the vegetable form of vitamin A and is found in dark yellow or dark green vegetables and fruits. People in the United States usually consume two or three milligrams of it daily, and many multivitamins contains another six or so milligrams.
Disappointingly, Klausner said, the studies revealed no benefit.
The NCI-sponsored studies fed people about 10 times the average consumption, on the theory that mega-doses might protect against heart disease or cancer by soaking up dangerous oxygen molecules that car damage cells. That theory fuels the $75 million to $100 million in annual sales of beta-carotene supplements.
The first study, run by the University of Washington's Gilbert Ommenn, a doctor, followed 18,314 heavy smokers or recent quitters for an average of four years. They ate 30 milligrams of beta-
"Beta-carotene is no magic bullet."
Dr. Richard Klausen
National Cancer Institute director
carotene plus 25,000 international units of vitamin A daily, or a placebo.
The doctors' study, however, found beta-carotene had no effect good or bad.
This was the longest vitamin study ever done, comparing doctors who took 50 milligrams of beta-carotene every other day for 12 years with those who took a placebo. Both groups had equal rates of cancer and heart disease, even the 11 percent who smoked. The vitamin industry noted that
these are the only studies to ever indicate harm from beta-carotene.
Klausner said he could not address multivitamin safety because it was not tested. He noted that other vitamins, such as E, now are being studied to see if they can provide the health benefits doctors wanted from beta-carotene.
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