European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 29,1994 -. _ curio 1 Page 8_ the stars and stripes . A a a a a alternative drug for aids approved Washington a aids patients who fail to improve or who react poorly to the anti viral drugs that have been in use for years now have another Chance at finding something that works. On monday the food and drug administration approved an aids drug called Sta Udine or d4t, As an alternative to the three other anti viral drugs used to treat aids. Bristol Myers Squibb co., which developed and tested Sta Udine said the drug will be sold under the name zerit. The company said it will be shipped to distributors july 8 and should be available for prescription use shortly after that. The news comes none too soon for some aids patients. The currently available anti viral drugs have proved to be toxic or of diminishing value to Many patients. Doctors and infected people have been looking for something new to try against the some limes rapid Progress of the disease. Donald Hayden a Bristol Myers vice president said that clinical trials of Sta Udine proved there is a need for a new weapon against the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids the drug was offered on an experimental basis and the company was swamped with volunteers. A we put 13,000 patients into the 20-month trial 1 Hayden said. A that shows that there Are a number of patients in need.1 Sta Udine joins three other products a zidovudine a Didan Osine Del and Zalc Tabine dec a in a class of aids drugs called nucleoside analogs. All slow the spread of his by blocking the action of an enzyme essential to making new viral particles. The new drug is to be prescribed for patients who have shown no Benefit or who have developed a toxic reaction to the other drugs. A St Vaudine. Is an important drug because its gives people with aids and their doctors another treatment option when currently available drugs become less effective a said Fra commissioner David Kessler. In clinical trials the. Health of his infected patients taking Sta Udine was compared with patients taking at. After 12 weeks patients on Sta Udine showed a slight increase in the blood cells that Are killed by his suggesting that spread of the disease was slowed. Patients on at in the trial showed a de Dine of the same kind of blood cells. The major Side effect of Sta Udine is pain tingling and numbness in the hands and feet a symptom experienced by 15 to 2 percent of patients in the trials officials said. Sta Udine is taken every 12 hours. The wholesale Price of the drug will be $186.72 for a bottle of 60 capsules of 40-Milligram strength giving a daily wholesale Cost of $6.22. Price to the consumer will be higher. Wholesale prices for at Are $1.24 per 100-Milligram capsule or $6 to $7.44 a i Aye depending on the dosage said a representative from the Burroughs wellcome co. In research Triangle Park n c. Jane Roe As in Roe is. Washington apr two decades after the landmark 1973 supreme court ruling in Roc is. Wade that legalized abortion plaintiff Norma Mccorvey has stopped dodging the past by writing an unvarnished account of her tumultuous hard knocks life and How being Jane Roe transformed it. A i am a rough woman born into pain and anger and raised mostly by myself a she wrote in the Book i am Roc my life Roe v. Wade and Freedom of Choice. The Louisiana native chronicles her difficult child Hood and How she stumbled into the history books after finding herself at age 21, divorced and in her third pregnancy. The 21/2-year project with free Lance journalist Andy Meisler was cathartic Mccorvey said. A it was very hard for me to bring All these memories Back again a she said in an interview at the conclusion of her Book tour last week a i had tried very hard not to go Back to those dark Days of my the Book Isnit a treatise on abortion or How the court ruling altered the political landscape. It in t a Legal primer either touching Only lightly on Texas attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee who pushed the Case to the supreme court. Instead its the account of one life and How that life was forever changed when in a Dallas restaurant in february 1970, Mccorvey agreed to become the plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn texas1 antiabortion statute. There appears to be Little in her past that she fears to divulge. By Page 2, she acknowledges being a lesbian and a formerly battered wife and she admits abusing drugs and alcohol. She details her years in Reform school in Gainesville Texas a troubled relationship with her Mother a rape while a teen Ager marriage at 16 and be Para Tion shortly thereafter while pregnant a botched suicide attempt and periods when she sold drugs for a living tended bar m Gay hangouts and worked As a carnival Barker. It took a decade for her to acknowledge publicly that she was Jane Roc. In response gunshots were fired into her Home eggs were thrown at it and baby clothes were scattered on her Lawn. Through it All Mccorvey said she remained a virtual Recluse. She hid from her memories from the Burden of being Jane Roe and from the lie that her third pregnancy a the one that led to Roe is. Wade a resulted from rape. It was t until a 1989 abortion rights March in Washington that she began reconciling her separate with autograph pen in hand Norma Mccorvey a or Jane Roc a appears in Addison Texas to promote her Book. Identities. The once naive woman who wrote that she did no to even know pregnancies could be terminated until her third and who stumbled through Early interviews and Public appearances now talks with ease about being Jane Roc. She said she claimed a rape led to the Roe pregnancy because she thought that was the Only Way to get an abortion. In truth it began with an affair with a professional Gambler. Although the Roe Case won women the right to an abortion Mccorvey had already Given birth by the time it was resolved. She gave up the baby for adoption. She wrote that she does t know two of her three daughters the second child she bore after a fling with a Hospital orderly and the third child the Roe baby. A of my Many sorrows this is without a doubt the worst a she wrote. Mccorvey said her Book has a message. A what i want people to understand. After Reading i am Roe is the simple fact that it Only takes one person to make a difference that it does no to matter How far Down in the Gutter you get or How absolutely negative everything seems at the time Quot she said. A there is always that Light at the end of the during her seven City Book tour Mccorvey was met by anti abortion demonstrators at stops in Washington Chicago and Dallas. On monday she started work As a Counselor in a Dallas area women a Driver passes Legal Roadblock Tumwater Wash. A the opossum and her seven babies made the mistake of crossing in front of Steven Garity a car. They got squished a on purpose. But Garity made the mistake of being in front of a police car. He it charged with cruelty to animals. And so began the great Possum debate with people around Here sinking their Teeth into a spirited discussion of animal rights Are opossums such pests that you can to be cruel enough to them or do they deserve As much respect As any other living creature a judge added his opinion monday dismissing the Case and declaring Tumwater a animal cruelly ordinance too vague. But Given the opossum passions in this Western Washington town the last word on Road Kitt morality has yet to be heard a i m not a lawyer and certainly not a judge Quot said Michael Ellis director of a wildlife Rescue Center in nearby Mccleary. A but i have to say that any human being with any sense of humanity would realize that aiming a car at any animal and running it Over intentionally is the Case began March 31, when police officer Johnna Stevens saw Garity 39, suddenly change lanes and hit a Mother opossum and the youngsters clinging to her a a a a hey re pests a a the officer quoted Garity As saying. A a a ally a they do is eat dog food and cat food and be a pest. They just Hiss at a a Garity was accused of intentionally running Down the opossums and was cited under Tumwater a animal cruelty ordinance which says its a crime if someone a purposefully or recklessly subjects any animal to cruel the offence carries up to 90 Days in jail and a $5,000 Fine
