European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday March 25, 1986 Reward for information on drug Tam Perers raised to $900,000 Philadelphia a an association of Over the counter drug manufacturers monday raised to $900,000 the Reward for information leading to the conviction of drug Tam Perers As the search for contaminated capsules of three recalled product continue John t. Walden senior vice president of a drug Industry group called the proprietary association announced the association had set up a toll free phone line 1-800-222 3081, to receive confidential information on product tampering. Walden defended the Industry s use of capsules As did the head of the Federal food and drug administration Frank Young who also appeared on lbs morning new monday. There is no such thing As tamper proof Medicine said Young. And capsules have advantages they Are time released and you can see through them which could help detect tampering. They capsules Aren t More of a threat. The consumer will decide if they wan them said Walden. The Fri found rat Poison in capsules of Contact Tel Drin and Dietsc in Houston and Orlando fla., on Friday and saturday said Jack Martin a spokesman for the Fra. Smith Kline Beckman corp. Pulled the products from the Market last week after a caller identifying himself As Gary said he tampered with the drugs to Force the Phila Delphia based drug manufacturer to Stop producing capsules. Walden said the association raised the Reward on drug Tam Perers from the $200,000 offered by new Brunswick . Based Johnson & Johnson co. When its extra strength tylenol capsules were tainted with cyanide causing a new York woman s death last month. Information is being sought on this year s cases As Well As the Chicago area tylenol tampering cases which led to seven death sin 1983, he said. Young said authorities Are no closer to determining who is responsible for the nine tainted capsules found Over the weekend. An Fri spokesman who refused to give his name said the investigation was continuing. The focus now is the Fri search for the criminal Smith Kline spokesman Alan Wachter said sunday. We re helping the Fri anyway we can. But the Fri has asked we refer All aspects of the criminal portion of the Case to  Contact is a top Selling cold remedy i top Selling painkillers in percent of. 1985 Market tylenol other aspirins anacin aspirin excedrin Bayer Suffrin advil i anacin acetaminophen a 4% other painkillers 3% Inu Prin 130/0 Ipa Nadol 2% Datri ill Chicago Tribune graphic source Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins inc. Etc a weight loss drug and Tel Drin a allergy drug. Smith Kline reported thousands of Calls to a toll free phone number handling refund requests from customers who had Pur chased the capsules since March 15. If they had any doubt at All they should just throw it away Wachter said. It s not necessary for them to Send it Back just Calland Tell  in phone Calls to news organizations and Smith Kline officials Gary said he had inserted rat Poison and cyanide into the products sold in Houston St. Louis Chi Cago and Orlando. Traces of warfarin an anti coagulant and the Active ingredient in rat Poison were found in six capsules of Contact two of Tel Drin and one of Dietsc in Houston and or Lando Martin said. No injuries have Bee reported. Initial reports indicated the Poison would sicken a person but Wachter said the Fra and Smith Kline physicians now believe the Small amounts of Poison found in the Cap Sules probably would go unnoticed by a con Sumer. The concentrations of the warfarin found so far were less than 1 percent Wachter said. No cyanide has been discovered. Justices Jet a. Sobriety roadblocks continue Washington a the supreme court Mon Day let police in Virginia continue using sobriety Check roadblocks in an Effort to curb Drunken Drivers. The justices without comment refused to hear arguments that setting up such roadblocks violates the constitutional rights of those motorists who Are stopped. State courts have split on that Issue and monday Section does not resolve it definitively. The High court in 1979 struck Down As unconstitutional the use of random stops of automobiles by police to Check Driver s licenses and car registrations. The court said in that ruling that random stops of motorists who Are not suspected of breaking any Law violate the Constitution s Protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The 1979 decision struck Down a Delaware Law that gave police officers Broad discretion in choosing cars for the routine checks saying it left too much room for discrimination. But the ruling did not bar states from developing methods for spot checks that involve less intrusion or that do not involve unconstrained exercise of  the justices seven years ago suggested that questioning All oncoming traffic at Roadblock Type stops could be an alternative. Two justices suggested that police could make stops that were not purely random such As every 10th Carto pass a Given Point. Since then Many states have initiated Roadblock pro Grams to crack Down on Drunken Drivers. Those tactics were upheld by state courts in Virginia Illinois Florida and Massachusetts but were struck Down by state courts in Washington and new Hampshire. In other action the court said it will consider a further relaxation of the so called exclusionary Rule aimed at deterring police mis conduct by barring illegally seized evidence in criminal cases. The justices agreed to hear an Appeal by Illinois officials seeking to prosecute alleged theft of cars and Auto parts in Chicago. Stepped into a potentially important environmental supreme court Roundup Battle by agreeing to decide whether alleged polluters of interstate Waters May be sued outside their Home states. The justices said they will consider blocking a lawsuit against the International paper co. By Vermont officials and residents who say the firm s Ticonderoga n.y., Plantis fouling Lake Champlain. Agreed to decide whether states May protect Coal mine lands by requiring mining companies to leave Hal their Coal reserves in the ground. The court said it will hear a Challenge by Western Pennsylvania Coal mining companies to such a state requirement. Let stand a Winnebago county 111., ordinance restricting what movies Are shown at outdoor drive in movie Heaters. The court Over two dissenting votes turned Down a constitutional Challenge to the ordinance that outlaws the showing of sexually explicit scenes on screens visible from any private residence or Public Street. Let stand a ruling that states May allow hospitals to remove the Corneas from the eyes of deceased patient without notifying the next of Kin. The court without comment rejected an Appeal by a Georgia woman who said her rights were violated when the Corneas were removed from her dead infant s eyes Tobe donated to someone else. The Roadblock Case acted on monday began when Jimmy Dale Lowe s car was stopped by Charlottesville va., police at a weekend License and sobriety checkpoint in the Early morning hours of Jan. 28,1984. Officer Lawrence Brown noticed that Lowe s eyes were red and that he smelled of alcohol. Lowe was ordered to move his car to the Side of the Road get out and perform three dexterity tests. He failed the three. Lowe then was arrested and charged with driving while under the influence of an intoxicant. He submitted to a breathalyzer test that showed a blood alcohol Content i excess of the Legal limit. At his trial Lowe sought to suppress All evidence Gath ered at the police Roadblock. He said the evidence had been obtained during an unlawful seizure. The Virginia supreme court ruled against Lowe Las nov. 27. Balancing the state s Strong interest in protecting the Public from the grave risk presented by drunk Drivers against the minimal inconvenience caused motorists approaching the Roadblock we hold that the action of the police. Was not an impermissible infringement upon Lowe s reasonable expectation of privacy the stat court said. Reagans Hurt angry and annoyed by Patti s novel Washington up president and mrs. Reagan admitted they have been Hurt angry and annoyed at apparent descriptions of their parenting in their Daugh Ter Patti Davis autobiographical novel Home  they acknowledged their feelings in an interview with Barbara Walters taped for Abc to and scheduled to be shown before the Academy awards program monday night. I thought i was a Good father Reagan said adding that being in show business gave him More time to spend with his Chil Dren than if he had had a 9-to-s Job. And maybe there were times when i should have been sterner than i was the president said. I tried to be a Good Mother mrs. Rea Gan said. I Don t think anybody s perfect but then you know there s no perfect Par ent there s no perfect  Walters reminded the reagans that in their daughter s Book she talks about a father who s interested in his political Ca reer to the exclusion of his children and a Mother who was a clothes horse and so protective of the father that she won t let the kids give their own  in response Reagan said ill have to answer that because Nancy has t read  a few weeks ago the first lady s press Secretary Elaine Crispen said mrs. Rea Gan had read the Book and agreed with her husband that it was interesting  Reagan said i did t recognize anyone in the Bookend certainly the happening never  As for their son Ron dancing on the Tele vision show saturday night live in his underpants recently mrs. Reagan said she thought he showed a presence and a warmth and a humor and a timing in some thing he had never done  the president agreed and both said they were not offended by the television program. We were kind of surprised because we had never seen him do anything Reagan said adding that his son s principal preoccupation has been writing