NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 16, 1996
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Clinton honors King's legacy
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — President Clinton remembered Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday as a man who forced the United States to face its flaws and become a better nation.
King would have approved sending U.S. troops to keep peace in Bosnia, Clinton said.
The slain civil rights leader's legacy is a reminder to the nation that it must be the world's drum major for peace, Clinton said, referring to King's description of himself as a drum major for justice.
"If that is our role, to be drum majors for peace and justice around the world, surely that must be our responsibility here at home," the president said.
Clinton was greeted at Ebenezer
Baptist Church with applause from about 1,500 people and a warm embrace from civil rights activists and Black politicians. The crowd chanted, "Four More Years!" as the president rose to speak.
"We know about what they're going through in Bosnia. We started out with a Constitution that stated slaves were not full citizens, not fully human," Clinton said. "We lived through bitter days of lynchings and riots. Still today we struggle to overcome."
Ayinde Jean-Baptiste, the 12-year-old Chicago boy whose eloquence electrified the crowd at the Million Man March, led a litary at the ecumenical service.
King's widow, Coretta Scott King, told Clinton she admired the way he had stood for the principles of decency and asked Clinton to
convey the crowd's appreciation to Mrs. Clinton, who she described as a truly great first lady in the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Clinton was flanked by Mrs. King and her son, Dexter Scott King, president of the King Center.
King, who would have been 67 yesterday, was killed in 1968. His birthday became a federal holiday in 1986.
Clinton was the keynote speaker during the service at Ebenezer where King, his father and grandfather served for 81 years.
The visit has political significance for Clinton. He needs to mobilize Black voters in large numbers to help win re-election this year without abandoning the multiracial coalition that forged his victory in 1992.
The architect of that coalition.
Georgia Gov. Zell Miller, compared King to Moses, who started the Israelites' journey out of Egypt but did not live to see it through.
The White House issued a list of African-American accomplishments of the Clinton administration, including the president's defense of affirmative action programs and the fact that Black unemployment dropped to 7.8 percent in November, down from 12.6 percent when Clinton took office in 1993.
Elsewhere, thousands of people gathered at Denver's City Park to honor King with speches and a three-mile march into downtown.
In Concord, N.H., four white supremacists rallied at the Statehouse to congratulate New Hampshire for remaining the only state without a legal King holiday.
Debate about side effects stirs in drug legislation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Cynthia Richardson was prescribed an asthma medication to stop premature labor, even though the drug's label warned doctors that it could be dangerous.
She suffered a massive heart attack soon afterward.
Millions of Americans take medicines that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This so-called off-label drug use can save lives, but it also can kill. So Congress is struggling to find a balance as it debates legislation that could unleash a flood of new off-label prescriptions.
"It's important that patients have access to appropriate, scientifically supported medicines, even if it's not on the label," said Nancy Dickey, a physician with the American Medical Association. "But how much can you loosen up...without sabotaging the approval process that's there to protect patients?"
A drug goes on sale only after the FDA determines it is safe and effective against a particular disease.
But once a drug is on the market, doctors can prescribe it for any disease. Some 40 percent to 60 percent of all prescriptions are for uses the FDA has not approved.
Doctors learn about new uses for old drugs from medical meetings or scientific journals. By federal law, drug makers cannot tell doctors about new findings or even hand out
Nancy Dickey Physician
copies of studies. The idea is that doctors should keep up with the latest science, not be swayed by a salesman.
Now Sen. Connie Mack, R-Fla., has written legislation to let drug companies push unapproved uses of their products.
Companies could give doctors certain research data, such as studies published in medical journals or presented at accredited education programs, as long as they reveal it is not FDA approved.
Mack, whose brother Michael died of cancer, wanted to ensure that patients got every shot at the latest medical findings.
"I would hate to think that something more could be done for people like Michael but for
the government's unwarranted limitation on what a physician may be told about new treatments," he said.
But critics say patients could be hurt because drug makers would reveal only the promising research and withhold the negative.
"What it really does is allow some local-yokel doctor with no advanced training for the last 35 years to start to use something" based on incomplete data, said Charles Inlander of the People's Medical Society.
Richardson, the heart-attack victim, fears more off-label use without consideration of the risks.
"I'm a prime example of what that can do," she said.
When Richardson went into labor five weeks early, her physician prescribed the asthma drug Brethine. The drug's label warns: "Serious adverse reactions may occur after administration ... to women in labor," including life-threatening heart problems.
Her son was born hours after Richardson suffered a severe heart attack. She's suing; her physician couldn't be reached for comment.
Homeless take part in ticket agency scam
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Many loyal Bruce Springsteen fans who lined up for concert tickets during the weekend were out of luck after ticket agencies paid 100 homeless people to camp out for tickets.
The homeless lined up on Friday night and bought most of the $30 tickets when they went on sale Saturday morning. By Saturday night, ticket agencies were reselling them for as much as $400.
"I think it's wrong because I don't think the homeless people understand how bad they're being used," attorney Steve Boney, who waited for tickets on Friday, told the Austin-American Statesman.
"I think he would be sick if he saw this," Boney said of Springsteen.
A major theme of Springsteen's latest release, The Ghost of Tom
Joad, is life on the streets.
But Kent Taylor, the Showtime Tickets owner who hired 50 homeless people to buy as many tickets as they could, said he didn't feel guilty. He gave people a chance to make $50.
"Everybody has a fair chance to be the first ones in line," Taylor said. He said he hired the homeless about twice a month.
"It's easier to round up homeless people," Taylor said. "They're more flexible than people who work."
For Augustine Trevino and his friend Alfred Raymond Coleman, standing in line is easy money.
"I was out of work anyway, and, really, a beggar can't be a chooser." Trevino said.
Jay Hill, who works for Ticket City, said his company paid about five homeless people to stand in line for tickets.
"It's free enterprise," he said. "That's what America is based on."
THE NEWS in brief
Man tries to steal collection, killed by police during Mass
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Police killed a man in a church restroom during Sunday morning Mass when he lunged at officers with a knife after trying to steal a collection plate, the department said.
The unidentified man was shot once as three officers tried to arrest him at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lt. Alan Scott said.
None of the 350 worshipers or church employees was injured. Scott said the man grabbed a collection plate after being told to leave for lighting a cigarette during the service. Ushers wrestled the plate away from the man before he walked out. A worshiper in the back of the church called police on a cellular telephone.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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