European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge n the stars and stripes Roy Wilkins August 197 f h red e a Utti j c policy effectiveness Vernon executive director of the National Urban league and Presl Dent Carter Havel gotten into an argument that threatens to blow the whole Domestic policy of the country sky in washing where the leagues 67th convention was held the keynote address on Cine night and pres ident Carter Hpike at a morning session one Day later in his mentioned a new defense and Energy policy formulated by the he spoke of an african policy which treats the aspirations o Black Africa with respect arid encouragement arc Black people disenchanted with the administration they elected because we have to full employment policy to have no welfare Reform polity we have no National health policy we have no Urban Revlon ligation policy we have no aggressive affirmative action policy a have no National solutions to the grinding problem of poverty and this is the heart of the no Domestic policy which addresses itself to the grinding problem of poverty and it is nut simply a disagreement Between two men it is give or hike n location Here or take the Mailer of it May be Odd to bring it up but the loot ing during the new York blackout gives new pertinence to old figures for to unemployment figure for Blacks hits been two or three limes that of the National if the it anal unemployment Rnic is 8 the percentage of unemployed is Between 16 and ii per hips higher in some areas it hit National average of unemployment should reach there would be a National program attacking with Pilout of four of the general Popula Tion out f there would be emergency action by the while House and the con Kress a measure of the nations debt Tor Talent racism is found in the Way in which unemployment is being handled or in inc hand Ling of anything that in any Way involved Competition with whiles Laws forbidding this Competition by race said Vernon that All our needs cannot be but the administration should Start sending Sig Tow on int i tin Lou Mil m to truant bin rift not m int Utt us v m no d to cml Irh Man Ming in Mil of to he called for the immediate withdrawal of plans for altering the electoral for a Savo theotles for Pic formation of an Urban policy and for that welfare Reform president of defended his administration on All saying he offered no apologies to the Black Citi he asserted Jordans statement was to to Hopes and aspirations of the poor people and was demagogic in he said later nothing in the statement applied to Jordan Black leaders Are planning a meeting in August to discuss what is considered the Carter administrations bypassing of one of the country most pressing problems the blight of the inner cities and the Resul Tant social chief of which is in employ it is difficult to Tell whether a aware of and sympathetic to these problems but hard pressed to bal Ance his will come to terms with the needs of thai part of his constituency which gave him the balance necessary to defeat incumbent Gerald or whether once again a deprived and neglected minority will display their frustrations in the streets of the nation James Kilpatrick Fra moves fast on epilepsy drug agencies of government ordinarily move with the dazzling Speed of a Hippopotamus taking a mud but there Are sex one of those Happy exceptions May bring Relief to epilepsy victims in the United states before the end of this Liis is a Story with no particular villains and no particular but the Story of sodium Val orate has a moral at the end where theres a theres a the food and drug working cooperatively with Abbott is about to find a Way to get this drug on the Domestic a word on epilepsy la is among the most terrifying and most puzzling of something goes awry in the brain and in the nervous system a victim goes into convulsions that May last two to five min utes the attack is followed by a period of the exact cause of epilepsy is not but the National commission on epilepsy estimates hat american victims 12 million seizures every a word on sodium Val Orale the drug la a molecule that has been known Tor about 100 its  ties were discovered More or less by Acci Dent when French investigators used la As a solvent for some other Anijo Ilelle drugs under once sodium Val orate rapidly became the drug of Nice in Europe for certain kinds of Epi it became available in France in in Britain in but sodium despite its spectacular Success remains legally unavailable in the United states to this american needing the have had to travel to Europe or to rely on smugglers bringing it the situation recently was dramatically publicized by Bernard a wealthy Industrial is of whose Sye Arold daughter Felice began having secures in Abrams new to obtained a Supply of the drug for his Daugh and pledged his help to seeking to make sodium Val pursue available Abc picked up the members of con Gress began asking questions of the Fra Why  american doctors prescribe the drug for their epileptic patients ordinarily the Fra is fair for congressional Hunters seeking bureaucratic for a number of some of which make Good the Fra acts with monumental to is not unusual for ten years to elapse Between the first tiling on a new drug and the fads final approval for medical but the Fra cannot initiate applications it can act Only when it has something before big business also provides a fat and easy target for but it is hard to fault Abbott laboratories in the Case of sodium the company did hot get its License from the French firm of Labai until december it promptly filed an application for approval of an investigations new drug in compliance with fads rules and Abbott then set methodically about us business of compiling new clinical data to support a formal new drug evidence of the safety and effectiveness was piling up abroad More than 289 Fojt Retei clonal journals have last april the National commission of the Trot of epilepsy held an Al Day meeting with representatives of the Fra and several neurological the consensus was Plain the drug works it is Safe it ought to be the Fra now has agreed to do just following a precedent set seven Yean in Ute matter of drug of Choice in the treatment of the Fra will submit some of the foreign Doeu col urn co is tibents mentation its panel of experts in octo for its already expanded its schedule of Creej Inocal additional physicians Wilt be Auto Arad prescribe sodium h All a Joes next year a million seizures May be and an economic toes of in pm million May be a Udod two observations if the fads red can be Cut so dramatically for met Annnus it is reasonable could be Cut for other drugs Fop pored by solid evidence of their Worth Utlaw promoters of last role had anything approaching the 200 professional papers approving sodium they would have a whale of a better  Bif Sfart Lett