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By Rachel Cowan
Reporter
Concern over environmental is
sues during the past decade has en
couraged Texas A&M students to
get involved in issues affecting wild
life through the Green Earth So
ciety.
Founded two years ago at A&M,
the society distributes literature and
invites speakers to inform students
about environmental concerns. It is
affiliated with several national and
international organizations, includ
ing the Greenpeace Society, Earth
First, the Sierra Club and animal
rights organizations.
The society deals with issues such
as nuclear waste disposal and endan
gered species and promotes local en
vironmental issues including storage
of radioactive substances and im
proper disposal of toxic chemicals
on campus — a concern of the so
ciety since its formation, says Gilbert
Gonzalez, society president.
The society has helped set aside a
park in College Station to protect an
endangered orchid species, indige
nous to Brazos County, which has
been found in only four counties na
tionwide.
“Right now, we mainly distribute
literature and bring in speakers to
get people interested in peace is
sues,” Gonzalez, a senior psychology
major, says. “We hope to get more
actively involved in these issues in
stead of just educating people.”
Several peace groups at A&M, in
cluding the Green Earth Society,
sponsored a march last year to dem
onstrate their concern for human
and environmental issues, he says.
“That day, people from different
universities, like North Texas State,
were here for a meeting,” Gonzalez
says. “They were surprised that a
conservative school like A&M was
having a march.”
Well-known environmental
groups, such as the Sierra Club and
the Greenpeace Society, are becom
ing more aware of the A&M organi
zation, he says.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A spokesman
for hundreds of AIDS victims in
Texas has sought help on Capitol
Hill to pressure the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration to speed ap
proval of the sale of ribavirin, a drug
reportedly effective in treating the
disease.
Troy Stokes of Austin said in a let
ter to Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas,
that “hundreds, perhaps thousands”
of AIDS victims in Texas and Cali
fornia have for months been using
ribavirin bought in Mexico on advice
of their physicians.
But he said the Mexican connec
tion — an informal arrangement
with Mexican representatives of the
drug’s California manufacturer for
bulk, discount purchases of ribavirin
in Mexico — was cut in February be
cause of pressure from Mexican au
thorities.
Stokes said the drug still is avail
able in pharmacies in Mexico but no
longer can be bought in large quanti
ties or at a discount.
“In short,” Stokes said in his letter
to Bentsen, “what we have is hun
dreds, perhaps thousands, of Tex
ans who took part in this wearisome
arrangement because their doctor
advised it. The doctors still advise
the medication, but do not know
where their patients can be sup
plied.”
Ribavirin is an anti-viral drug
that, after clinical trials at medical
centers throughout the United
States, was found in January to be
effective in slowing the progression
to AIDS with minimal side effects.
Stokes was the car-pool coordina
tor for a Houston group that made
the bulk purchases in Matamoros,
Mexico for about six months before
the sales were stopped, he said.
The Houston group, in cooper
ation with manufacturer ICN Phar
maceuticals Inc., “facilitated the im
portation of enough ribavirin via
Brownsville-Matamoros each month
to medicate 1,000 patients for one
month,” Stokes told Bentsen. A San
Francisco group of AIDS victims
also arranged for ribavirin ship
ments from Mexico, Stokes said.
Bentsen’s office passed Stokes’ let
ter along to the FDA, which last
week assigned two investigators
from the agency’s Austin and San
Antonio offices to question Stokes
about the bulk purchases.
Stokes said he signed an affidavit
drawn by the investigators saying
that he had no first-hand knowledge
of the details of the arrangement be
tween groups in Houston and San
Francisco and ICN for the bulk dis
count purchases.
John Davis, with the San Antonio
office of the FDA, said the investiga
tion was initiated only to keep Bent-
sen’s office informed.
“All drugs for AIDS have been
given the fast track at FDA,” Davis
told the Austin American-States-
tnan.
A spokesman for the FDA says ap
proval of ribavirin has been delayed
due to inadequate documentation
from the drug’s manufacturer.
“We received their application in
late January and wrote them for
more information in early Feb
ruary,” said Brad Stone with the
public affairs division of the FDA.
“When we receive the material we
will continue our review,” Stone
said. “It will be expedited. We’re
working to review any application
fqr AIDS-celated drugs as quickly as
possible.”
Howard Bragman, a spokesman
for ICN Pharmaceuticals at its Costa
Mesa, Calif, headquarters, said the
firm would have no comment on the
delay.
Officials say
FDA failed
to test food
AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration is coming
under fire because of failure to test
millions of tons of fruits and vegeta
bles imported into the United States
each year from Mexico and other
countries for pesticide residues.
The FDA tests less than 1 percent
of the fruit and vegetables that
comes across U.S. borders, the Aus
tin American-Statesman reported on
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studies and interviews with various
officials.
FDA officials have four inspectors
to cover the 1,200-plus miles of the
Texas-Mexico border from
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their time is spent on other domestic
duties, officials say.
General Accounting Office audi
tor Ron Hughes, who conducted a
study of the FDA program to mon
itor pesticides in U.S.-produced
foods, said the agency needs to de
vote more time and money to pesti
cide monitoring.
FDA officiais in Washington are
drafting a reply to the accounting of
fice reports, but meanwhile maintain
food brought into this country is
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