European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 25, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 High Cost of Dpt vaccine questioned Washington up the Price of a dose of Dpt vaccine for diphtheria pertussis or whooping cough and tetanus or lockjaw has risen 10,000 per cent in the past four years increasing from 11 cent sin 198210511.40. Sen. Howard Mcuen Baum a Ohio wants to know Why and has asked the general accounting office to investigate. It is the taxpayer and the individual consume who is footing this Bill said Mere Baum. His legislative assistant. James Wagoner explained there s a larger focus than just the Cao report. We want to make sure that there is Money available for research on a safer vaccine and that no Parent hat logo through the agony of having a child damaged by a vaccine. Lederle laboratories of Wayne ,. And con Laughl laboratories of Swiftwater pa., provide Al of the is Mill Ion doses of Dpt sold annually. Lederle which has about one third of the Market purchased the vaccine from Wycich laboratories in 1984-85 at 20 cents a dose and sold the same vaccine at 12.80 a dose for a 1,400 percent markup Accord ing o statistics supplied by a consumer group. Dis satisfied parents together which is based in Vienna va., but has a nationwide membership with chapter sin 20 states cd Eric officials were unavailable to confirm the statistics. About 60,000 Dpt shots a year result in Stron Adverse reactions including brain damage or convulsions health officials said. Dissatisfied parents together said a 1979 study financed by the food and drug administration showed that one in 815 Dpt shots resulted in convulsions High pitched screams or collapse. The group s president. Jeffrey Schwartz said manufacturers Are making about j80 million in Windfall profits from the substantial Price increases. The government pays for half the Dpt vaccine sold by drug companies annually As much As $100 million. Wagoner said Lederle blames the latest increase on costs of liability insurance but he said there Are other groups that have questioned that and wondered whether this is a Way to stockpile. Excess prof its the Price increase has been so Large so substantial in will Cost government Money. In will Cost con Sumers Money when they take their child in for shots. We want to know the facts he said. At a recent hearing by health subcommittee of the the House committee on Energy and Commerce Robert Johnson of Lederle said 100 lawsuits were filed last year claiming damages for Dpt vaccine associated injury More than the total filed in the three previous years. Our recent Price increase was required As a result of the risk of future liability  Johnson told the lawmakers. The new Price per dose of Dpt is j11.40 j 8 of which is dedicated to a special product liability Reserve. Without any insurance Coyer age we find ourselves in a very tenuous  self insurance measures Are inc Only Way we can remain in the Market. It is doubtful based on current insurance expo sure hat we will Ever again gel liability insurance coverage for vaccines Schwar said the Price hike is unjustified because Only a handful of vaccine damage lawsuits have lost by drug companies. He questioned the need for Sav Ine upwards of so million per year to  for Dpt related liability  while Lederle threatens logo out of the vaccine business Schwartz said the firm is assuring Wall Street investors and the securities and Exchange commission that the lawsuits pose no risk of mate rial Advent effect on the company. A House Energy and Commerce committee re port said Only js6.2 million was paid in settlements by the seven manufacturers of All . Vaccines to 32 children injured by vaccines during the past five years. My delivers warheads to 2 targets Washington apr an my mis Sile carrying nine Dummy warheads Lew 4,200 Miles to separate target areas in the Pacific saturday completing the 13th lest launch of Fth missile the Penta gon said. The missile lifted off from Vanden Berg fab in California and for the first time delivered its unarmed warheads to two different locations within the Kwajalein missile Range the Pentagon said in a statement. The my is designed to carry 0 independently targe table warheads each with a Range of More than 6,000 Miles. The air Force plans to have 10 my missiles in silos at . Warren fab by december. A Crew from the Wyoming base participated in saturday s test the Pentagon said. The air Force won t divulge the accuracy of the my warheads but says they Are significantly More accurate than Are existing minuteman missiles. Congress has authorized so my mis Siles. The air Force however Hopes to win approval for an additional 50. My missile oto00 3 motor height 71 feet csar Neter 92 inches weight 192,000 pounds person inca Range 5,000 mites maximum pw15,000 m.p.rt., accuracy with Fri 300feet of target Ham meat 10indrvuuaty targeted Nuci oar warheads Moc fled Doe h Wyo ring number to i deployed so fun Tor current tote Teton Chicago Tribune graphic source . Department of defend Marcos won t return without . Approval Honolulu up ousted Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos has told a rally of american supporters that he will not return to the Philippines unless the United slates approves. About 400 supporters of the deposed Leader staged a rally saturday outside his rented beachfront none and presented petition urging him to return to help foil the communist  Marcos told the crowd that he fear such a takeover. But he said he will not return to his Homeland without the per Mission of . Officials i think they know 1 want to go Back he said to have written Many times if ican go Back to the Philippines i will. But i not i would like to stay in  he said he has not received any Indi cation from american officials on whether he will be allowed to return Home. He also brushed aside reports height try to sneak Back to the philippine As speculation and that s All Marcos again maintained he is the True president of the Philippines rather than president Corazon Aquino and suggested a recount of the votes in the last election. I won by More than 1.5 million votes he said. About 200 of the 400 supporters were from the Mainland United slates most of them from California. The rally was organized by or. Oily Artiga of los Angeles Leader of the newly formed movement for the return of democracy to the Philippines. The group was organized aug. 13 to try to return Marcos to the Philippines Arliga said. One unidentified supporter yelled would even die for Marcos the cry sparked cheers from others. Supporters carried signs saying presi Dent Marcos please go to the Philippines soon and please help save democracy in the Philippines by going Home  others wore to shirts that said mar cos forever the supporters read a petition that Marcos aides said would be sent to president Reagan the state department and other Federal agencies. We strongly urge president Marcos. To return to the Philippines to help foil the communist takeover the Peti Tion said our ancestral country and oar Amer ican bases there the free world s deter rent against communist aggression in the Pacific Are at a real danger of falling into communist bands at  the rally was held As Aquino was pre paring to leave on her first overseas trip to Indonesia and Singapore despite re mors of a possible coup by Marcos Back ers. She left sunday. See Page 8. Aquino supporters fearing a coup had urged her 10 Call off the trip and a visit to the United states scheduled for sept. 15 to 23. Alaskan Glacier blocks fiord imperils fishery Fairbanks Alaska a the Hubbard Glacier an 85-mile-Long ice mass has moved several Hundred feet in recent weeks to Block Russell fiord s narrow outlet with disenchantment Bay near the top of Alaska s Southeastern Panhandle. The movement has turned Russell fiord into Russell Lake now about 1,000 feet deep and imperils the area s Salmon fishery. While there Are hundreds of surging glaciers of various sizes in Alaska most ire in Remote areas of the slate s vast wilderness and cause few problems. Tie fast rising Russell Lake though is worrying scientists government officials and the Iso residents of Wakulat 30 Miles to the South. Melt off from the Glacier and precipitation Are making the level of Russell Lake Rise More than a foot a Day said Larry Mayo of the . Geological sur vey in Fairbanks. He is one of 30 representatives of Federal state local and in Dian agencies who met last month to consider ways of dealing with the Gla Cier s effects. While the rate of Rise in the take is expected to diminish with colder weather Mayo said in about two years the surface should reach 200 feet above sea level. When that happens he said rus sell Lake and he adjacent Mamatuk fiord will spill Over into the situs  Ley creating a new River in an old Chan Nel formed a Century ago when Russell fiord was last dammed by the Glacier. The situs Valley internationally acclaimed As a fishing area is expected Tobe severely damaged. The Small situs River a major pro Ducer of Salmon and Steelhead is expected to be flooded and the Swift silly water should impede Salmon  Highway 10 could become impassable hindering Access to several fishing Camps some recreation Sites and a Small Landing strip used chiefly by Hunters and fishermen. The Glacier is moving three to five times faster than any of the other fast moving glaciers in Alaska Mayo said. The surge of the Hubbard is expected to continue All  he said the effects Are not going to be immediate they Are going to be with us for the rest of our lives or  because the Hubbard Glacier Origi nates in the Canadian ice Fields and flows into the United states through the Wrangell St. Elies National Park an preserve it concerns a number of Federal agencies including the Forest service and the National Park service. It also concerns scientists at the University of Alaska and officials of the City of Yaku Tat the Alaska department of fish and game and the Skalaska native regional corporation. Representatives from these agencies have met at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks to review the history of the Glacier and to plan to Deal with the impending Impact on Pom communications and budgets