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national Battalion/Page 10 -1 April 9,1982 • Reagan policies stop progress, official says United Press International HOUSTON — A former Treasury official who says the country’s economic problems go back at least two decades con tends the Reagan administra tion’s current policies are setting progress back even further. C. Fred Bergstfcrn, a former assistant secretary of treasury under President Carter, Wednesday called for the annul- * *3 MANOR EAST MALL MANOR EAST 3 823-8300 Midnight Movie — thurs.-Fri. & Sat. ment of President Reagan’s tax cuts and the implementation of a tax increase that would reduce the deficit and “put the country back on the road to economic stability.” “We cannot blame the cur rent administration,” Bergstern told members of the Center for International Business, “but the current policy is setting back our progress, both at the domestic and global levels.” he said. “It looks rather grim. It is more se rious than people realize.” The former government of f i cial’s statements were a direct contradiction of predictions by the Reagan administration. Under-Secretary of the Treasury Beryl W. Sprinkel, who spoke Tuesday to the group of international businessmen attending the conference, said the recession is coming to an end and will be over by mid-June. “We’ll look back on the second quarter (of 1982) as the beginning of recovery,” Sprink el said. Bergsten said he agrees with some points made by Sprinkel, such as a noted decrease in in na tion and a decline in farm and energy prices. But, he said, the United States must get its own domestic economy in shape be fore it attempts to tackle the problems of the world economy. 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I think it’s very encourag ing to parents, the data as they stand.” The study said patients were likely to suffer seizures again if they’d had epilepsy for a long time before treatment was started, if they had mental retar dation or physical disability caused by neurological disturb ances, or if they had a certain type of seizure or a combination ol seizures. cent ol (he U.S. population,(HI least 1 million people,hayea form of convulsive disora The St. Louis team fotiiii relation between increased! of relapse and age wfrene|| TheTexas ^e when t erap|^ ni stopped, race, sex orM ^ , to, no! epilepsy. sMUMustan] I here also was noapdjT Mexico id.moN ol 'elapse to die; the Ql number ot seizuresdiildrti^t nter fered before treatment,I 'Coach Das The Washington University researchers studied 1 18 chil dren who stopped treatment af ter four years without a seizure. They reported that up to 28 years after treatment began, only 41. or 28 percent, had re lapses. prognosis appeared quitta || e 2,-5 f or t lor those who had had for more than six years.'H The 41 fell into at least one of the four risk categories. Epilepsy, a disturbance in the electrical activity of the brain that causes convulsions, occurs in two to eight children per thousand, savs Dr. Bruce (). Berg of the University of Cali fornia at San Erancisco. The American Epilepsy Foundation says at least 2 per- studv said. I \ pe of convulsions wen I important. Those raisidi high risk are Jacksonian I /tires, a subtle form thatld in a hand or foot and I spread to the rest ofthebn Combinations of sen such as those involvinghai nations, convulsions in I whole bodv, or quick Wacti also indicated high risk. I 1 he study also said -tlipeni ol the « hildren with nciiioM al problems relapsed ascl pared to 22 percent oil others. 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