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Minister says resignation
ould break up Cabinet
I CEBU CITY, Philippines (AP) —
jrDefense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile
isaid Sunday the Cabinet will break
I up if'President Corazon Aquino asks
jt him to resign over his opposition to
1 her peace policy toward communist
I rebels.
■ The 62-year-old minister, who
held the same post under ousted
resident Ferdinand E. Marcos,
;ave the warning during a radio talk
ihow. He said other Cabinet mem-
icrs have asked him to step down or
j stop publicly criticizing the peace
iolicy.
Asked if he would resign, Enrile
aid he would “think about it when
be time comes.”
“The government is a coalition
vernment,” Enrile said. “And I
ink if they ask for the resignation
any member of the coalition, well.
that means the Cabinet will have to
be dissolved.”
It was not clear if Enrile envi
sioned Aquino as having to step
down in the event of a Cabinet
break-up. He recently said that by
dissolving Marcos’ constitution, she
revoked her legal basis for authority.
Enrile apparently sees Aquino as
holding power solely because of an
alliance between him and other lead
ers of the revolt that forced Marcos
into exile in February.
Enrile’s statements marked the
latest stage in a growing rift between
him and Aquino over strategy for
ending the 17-year-old insurgency
by the communist New People’s
Army.
Aquino has vowed to pursue all
avenues to a negotiated settlement
with the communists, but to crack
down if talks fail. Enrile says the
communists, are not bargaining in
good faith, and has called for tough
military action.
Commentators believe the rift
could set off a government crisis be
cause of Enrile’s support among
some military officers.
Government and rebel negotia
tors met Saturday for the first time
since the Sept. 29 arrest of commu
nist leader Rodolfo Salas.
Presidential executive secretary
Joker Arroyo said the two sides dis
cussed cease-fire proposals and rebel
demands for immunity from arrest
during negotiations, but with the
communist rebels in August. The
talks were suspended after the Na
tional Democratic Front, a commu
nist-dominated umbrella group rep
resenting the rebels, accused the
military of arresting Salas to sab
otage negotiations.
OP files
>9,000 pages
>f reports
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
National Republican Senatorial
Committee says it wants to show it
has nothing to hide. It has turned
over 59,000 pages of financial
disclosure documents in the larg
est filing the Federal Election
Commission has ever received.
The party committee, an arm
of the GOP whose goal is to help
elect Republican senators, turned
in 12 cartons of paper to meet last
week’s disclosure deadline for fi
nancial reports by candidates and
ampaign committees.
"It’s 17 feet, five inches tall,”
ommittee spokesman David
iJarsavage said of the report,
thich amounts to nearly one-
ifth the total volume of docu-
tents filed with the Senate Public
ecords office in all (if last year.
The reason for the size of this
uarter’s report was the GOP
nmmittee’s increased solicitation
f what are known as “earmarked
ontributions.”
Earmarking involves money
iven to the committee to be
assed on to a specific Senate Can-
idate.
The committee encouraged
armarking in a highly successful
lass mailing that went out to
ontributors Sept. 2.
The report of the Democratic
enatorial Campaign Committee,
hich files on a monthly rather
item quarterly basis, will fit “in
less than one box” when it is filed
londay, said spokeswoman Di
ne Dewhurst.
Patients leave U.S.
for non-approved
drug treatments
NEW YORK (AP) — The first
drug proved effective for a common
psychiatric disease called obsessive-
compulsive disorder is being ob
tained illegally in Canada by hun
dreds of Americans because it is not
available here, a government re
searcher says.
“There’s a tremendous black mar
ket in this drug,” Dr. Thomas Insel
of the National Institute of Mental
Health said Saturday at the annual
meeting of the Phobia Society of
America.
“This is one of the most common
psychiatric disorders in the United
States,” Insel said. “There’s been no
medical treatment for it until now.”
He said surveys have found that
2.5 percent of the population, or
about 5 million Americans, suffer
from the disorder.
The drug, clomipramine, also
called chlorimipramine, is in a cat
egory of drugs called tricyclic anti
depressants. It is available as an anti
depressant with the trade name
Anafranil in Canada and Mexico,
Inselsaid.
But in the United States it has not
been approved by the Food and
Drug Administration because its
manufacturer has not yet supplied
adequate evidence for its safety and
effectiveness, Insel said.
I
Its manufacturer, Ciba Pharma
ceutical Co. of Summit, N.J., a divi
sion of the Ciba-Geigy Corp., has be
gun trials of the drug at 20 research
centers across the country with the
hope of seeking approval by luly
1988, Insel said.
Studies by Insel and others have
shown that clomipramine can pro
duce a 50 percent improvement in
the symptoms of the majority of pa
tients who receive it.
For about 20 percent of patients,
the drug is effectively a cure, Insel
said. Some patients who took the
drug for six months five years ago
are still healthy, he said.
For about 10 percent of the vic
tims of the disease, the drug has no
effect.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is
characterized by recurrent impulses
that are senseless and unpleasant —
obsessions — and by repetitive be
havior performed according to cer
tain rules — compulsions.
For example, it can take the form
of excessive handwashing to the
point of causing skin disease, or ex
cessive checking of locks on windows
and doors.
Insel said he receives two or three
calls a week from people who have
obtained the drug in Canada and are
looking for another source of it.
Customs inspectors at the Ca
nadian border have recently in
creased efforts to confiscate the
drug, in accordance with FDA regu
lations, and have begun opening
mail from pharmacies known to sup
ply it, Insel said.
\fghan leader seeks to establish
independent path’from Moscow
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) —
fghan leader Najibullah, now in his
th month as head of a Moscow-
backed government, says reconcilia- 1
tion with Moslem guerrillas is his
ain goal and that he envisions po-
ical parties in the future.
Najibullah, 40, also indicated that
he is not trying to impose a Soviet
system on Afghanistan, but seeks an
independent path.
He spoke during a 2'/a-hour meet
ing late Saturday with Western re-
terters who were invited to Afghan-
jtan to witness the withdrawal of six
Soviet regiments, or between 5,000
to 8,000 soldiers.
\ According to Western estimates,
^Jbout 118,000 Soviet troops have
been stationed in Afghanistan since
1979 to help the government fight
the nationwide Moslem uprising.
Najibullah said his People’s Dem
ocratic Party of Afghanistan is will
ing to accept rival political parties
and a style of government markedly
different from that of Moscow to
end the fighting.
He said a reconciliation meeting
with the guerrillas was expected to
take place “in the next few days.” He
declined to elaborate, saying nego
tiations were too sensitive to discuss
in public.
Najibullah also said Afghanistan
was not developing according to a
Soviet blueprint, and listed some of
the differences between the two
countries.
When asked about socialism’s pro
motion of atheism, he said, “Islam is
the religion of the absolute majority
of our people.”
About 99 percent of Afghani
stan’s more than 17 million people
are Moslems, said Najibullah, noting
he has followed Islam all his life.
He also said 99 percent of the
country’s farmland is privately
owned and public markets operate
on the private enterprise system.
Najibullah laughed when asked to
comment on views held widely in the
West that he was installed by the
Kremlin. He said neither his party
nor his people would stand for an
appointed leader.
Najibullah became general secre
tary of Afghanistan’s communist
party in May.
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