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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1981
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octors seek controls
n use of antibiotics
United Press International
BOSTON — Worldwide overuse of antibiotics as a
areall is feeding the growth of deadly bacterial su-
srstrains that resist any known treatment — at a
Bte threatening global health, scientists say.
“It’s getting worse at a speed none of us ex-
ected,” says Dr. Stuart B. Levy ofTufts University
ledical School.
Levy is one of a group of doctors from the United
ptates, Brazil, Mexico and the Dominican Republic
S|ivho Tuesday banded with others from Europe and
_lsia in putting out the first international call for
‘ controls on antibiotic use.
If nothing is done, said Dr. Walter Gilbert, a
. Nobel laureate and Harvard University molecular
[f biology professor, “We can look forward to a time
when 80 to 90 percent of all infections" are resistant
to current treatments.
As a result, bacteria easily killed by these drugs am
being wiped out and resistant forms, such as the
widely publicized new strain of gonorrhea, are taking
their place — sometimes causing death when not
detected in time.
f When penicillin came into use in the 1940s, it
cured nearly 100 percent of all infections caused by
the common staphylococcus germ, said Dr. George
Jacoby Jr. of Harvard. Now it’s effective in only 10
percent.
fe A typhoid epidemic in Guatemala recently killed
up to 13,000 people because the microbe causing the
disease shrugged off the two standard forms of treat
ment.
Levy, Gilbert and Jacoby called for an internation
al code governing use, distribution and advertise
ment of antibiotics.
They blamed their colleagues for passing out pills
and shots too often and for ailments on which they
have no effect—such as the flu. They said doctors, as
well as patients, drug companies and advertisers,
must be educated.
“The wise doctor is cautious about giving antibio
tics unless he knows it’s a disease that’s going to
respond," Gilbert said. “All the flus, all the viruses
— there’s nothing you can do but let it run its course.
Giving an antibiotic is a total fake.”
In addition, they issued a statement echoing their
concerns by 150 physicians from 25 countries. The
statement was prepared in January at a five day
international meeting in Santo Domingo.
The Boston doctors said they were joined by col
leagues at simultaneous news conferences in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, Mexico City and Santo Domingo.
They said the problem is much greater in Europe
and developing nations where there often are no
regulations governing antibiotic use or where such
drugs are much more widely distributed. In Japan,
Levy said, they are used widely in the fish-raising
industry.
Pint-sized pitcher
Photo by Denise Richter
Five-year-old Alfredo Pastora works on his pitching techni
que near Mount Aggie. Benito Pastora, Alfredo’s father, said
he brings his three children out to practice baseball twice a
week. Mr. Pastora is a graduate physics student.
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Hi ELK CITY, Ore. — The antennas are slowly returning
to Elk City, ending a three-month television blackout that
got mixed reviews from residents of the small logging
community.
8 “One guy’s got his antenna back up and I’m going to put
[ mine back up, hopefully, sometime this month,” said Ted
Stopyak, owner of the Elk City general store. "I’ve got to
buy 1,200 feet of cable.”
if Stopyak was ready when Publisher’s Paper Co., owner
of forest land around the town, gave permission for resi
dents to re-erect their antennas on a high ridge in the
Oregon Coast Range about 30 miles from the Pacific.
The firm had disconnected the community’s four TV
antennas while it logged the area.
“When you sit in this store 14 hours a day, seven days a
week, it gets dull,” said Stopyak. “You can only read so
many magazines and papers and play so many games of
Scrabble.
“My wife really missed the soaps,” said Stopyak, who
moved to Oregon from Chicago two years ago. “She
couldn’t wait to turn them back on.” •
Others in the community of 15 residences took the
forced withdrawal from TV in stride, and some have de
cided they may never go back to watching the tube.
For Kay Parks, her husband and two teenage sons, it was
a time to get in more fishing, haul and cut a winter supply of
wood, plant a garden, and for the boys to play baseball and
compete in track.
“We got a lot more done,” she said.
Nevertheless, she admitted her family isn’t ready to give
up TV entirely.
“ We ll be glad to have it again when fall comes, ” she said.
Dutch Mauch, a neighbor of the Parks, said he had no
trouble giving up TV since he found he got “more local
news” listening to his radio.
People who live even further back in the woods than
those at Elk City already had gone through the TV with
drawal problem two or three years ago when Publisher’s
Paper logged in their area.
Pauline Parks, who said she lives in the “suburbs of Elk
City” some 3 miles away from the community and a mile
from her nearest neighbor, said she is glad to have TV back
again.
“I’ve been sick a lot lately, otherwise I wouldn’t watch it
so much,” she said.
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WASHINGTON — President
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sional leaders saying he wants to
complete the sale to Saudi Arabia
of five AW ACS reconnaissance
planes because it will boost secur
ity and the United States’ position
in the region.
A copy of the letter to the lead
ers, a preliminary step toward for
mal notice to Congress of the sale,
was made available to United
Press International Tuesday.
Sources said Reagan wrote to
Senate Republican Leader Ho
ward Baker of Tennessee, Senate
Democratic Leader Robert Byrd
of West Virginia, House Speaker
Thomas O’Neill of Massachusetts
and House GOP Leader Bob
Michel of Illinois stating he will
submit the military package for
the Saudis in the near future.
The State Department
announced last week formal notifi
cation would be made Sept. 9.
Congress would then have 30 days
to disapprove the sale by majority
votes of both houses. Unless
vetoed in that fashion, the sale will
take place.
“I am convinced that providing
Saudi Arabia with this equipment
will improve the security of our
friends, strengthen our own post
ure in the region, and make it
clear both to local governments
and to the Soviet leadership the
United States is determined to
assist in preserving security and
stability in Southwest Asia,”
Reagan wrote.
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sophisticated, four-engine jets
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spying equipment. They are cap
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signs of military activity.
'S “I am aware information from a
variety of sources has been circu
lating on Capitol Hill regarding
this sale and many members have
been under some pressure to take
an early position against it,”
Reagan said.
> “I hope that no one will pre
judge our proposal before it is pre
sented,” he said. “We will make a
.strong case to the Congress that it
is in the interest of our country,
the Westen alliance and stability
in the Middle East.”
; Reagan said one of the “essen
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tion’s strategy for the oil-rich re
gion “is to provide Saudi Arabia
with a package of equipment and
training to improve its air defense
capabilities.”
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