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Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 2, 1987
U.S. government approves sal
of drug that curbs cholesterol
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
federal government on Tuesday au
thorized the sale of a cholesterol
lowering drug that could help mil
lions of people reduce their risk of
heart attacks and strokes.
Lovastatin will be recommended
primarily for patients with a genetic
condition that makes it virtually im
possible for them to control choles
terol by diet and exercise alone.
It will be labeled as intended for
use in those patients and for others
only when diet and exercise alone
have not reduced cholesterol suffi
ciently.
However, now that the drug has
been approved by the Food and
Drug Administration, it will be up to
physicians to decide which of their
patients to prescribe it for.
Given the numerous studies that
have established a link between high
cholesterol and cardiovascular dis
ease — coupled with the millions of
Americans with elevated blood cho
lesterol — the new drug is likely to
be prescribed for far more than the
estimated 400,000 Americans with
the hereditary condition that ren
ders them incapable of controlling
the condition with diet and exercise.
Indeed, a leading researcher who
hailed development of the drug ac
knowledged that the "greatest risk of
misuse” will be patients and physi
cians who turn to lovastatin prema
turely, before being certain that diet
and exercise won’t work for them.
Antonio Gotto, chairman of the
Lipid Research Clinic at the Baylor
College of Medicine in Texas, said,
“Diet will remain the cornerstone of
treatment for the majority of pa
tients.”
He was joined at a company-spon
sored news conference by Michael S.
Brown, professor of genetics at the
University of Texas Health Center,
and Joseph L. Goldstein, of the insti
tution’s department of molecular ge
netics.
Brown complimented researchers
at Merck Sharp & Dohme Research
Laboratories for “tremendous faith
and perservance” in pushing devel
opment of lovastatin, and Goldstein
said “everyone in basic science and
clinical research is very excited about
this drug.”
One reason for that excitement,
Goldstein said, is that it “acts to stim
ulate a normal process” and seems to
have few serious side effects.
“One is capitalizing on a normal
bodily process” by which the liver
controls cholesterol levels in the
body, he said.
Officials of Merck Sharp 8c
Dohme, the U.S. manufacturing and
marketing division of the parent
Merck 8c Co., Inc., of West Point,
Pa., said the new drug, to be sold un
der the brand name Mevacor,
should be available in pharmacies in
two or three weeks.
One tablet, the anticipated daily
dose for most patients, will be sold to
pharmacies for $ 1.25 each.
The retail cost to patients will de
pend on how much tneir drug stores
mark it up.
Jonathan A. Tobert, director of
Merck Sharp 8c Dohme’s cardiovas
cular clinical research, said c
terol levels rise again oncetheii
cation is stopped. |
“As soon as you stop takingiij
(cholesterol) level goes backup!
said. “Normally, you would
the rest of your life.’’ jftuSTlN (
Dr. Richard Havel, director Jdents on
Cardiovascular Research Imtr or Day week
the University of California ffiiday.
Francisco, one of the centcnM'he DPS i
conducted the first clinical tr^urmg the 7
the drug in 1984, said therear‘986, when 4
some reservations about the;nd thr ee mo
long-term safety. jpBainedina
“We will need more exptnHWe are set
with it before we start giving r I Ira flic fate
people with high cholesterol Offipared to
who could be taking it fordec->F$> director
he -..mi 98, id the i
In its announcement of drfh<:h began i
proval, the FDA said lovastai; East year,
duced total cholesterol in drrucae result of ,
als by from 18 percent to34p<*ctor, he sale
depending on dosage, and mijBossett viic
the particularly dangerous lo>
sity lipoprotein, or LDL choles
hs trom 19 }k*i cent to 39 pertGi
Poppy seed bagel sentences inmat
back to term in federal penitentiary
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A
federal inmate was removed from a
halfway house and returned to
E rison to complete his sentence, all
ecause he ate a poppy seed bagel.
It seems Anthony Clarizio’s gas
tronomic gaffe violated a new U.S.
Bureau of Prison policy written be
cause the seeds alter drug test re
sults.
Medical experts say the effect of
poppy seeds on urinalysis tests is well
known and legal experts say the gov
ernment has a right to test inmates
for drugs, but some civil libertarians
argue the policy is arbitrary and un
fair.
Public Defender Richard Reeve
said Clarizio, who lives in Stratford,
was released to a Hartford halfway
house about four months ago to
complete his sentence for loan
sharking and extortion. Clarizio,
who pleaded guilty to the charges
two years ago, is scheduled to be re
leased Oct. 1.
Reeve said Clarizio and a friend
ate bagels taken to the friend’s house
in Stratford by a neighbor Aug. 9.
The bagel contained poppy seeds,
according to the manufacturer.
When Clarizio returned to the
halfway house and routinely gave a
urine sample, he told house officials
there could be a problem because he
may have eaten some poppy seeds,
Reeve said Tuesday.
Nevertheless, Clarizio, who is in
his 50s, was sent back to federal
prison in Danbury on Aug. 24, five
Allan Adler, legislative counsel
for the American Civil Liberties
Union in Washington, D.C., said,
“Generally, drug test policies take
that into account and ask a person
whether they’ve eaten something of
that nature. If so, then the drug test
“I think it’s an absurd rule and it smacks of the grave
dangers of falsely imprisoning somebody. ”
— William Olds, executive director of the Connecticut
Civil Liberties Union
days after failing a urine test, to
complete his sentence.
Tuesday, William Olds, executive
director of the Connecticut Civil Lib
erties Union, said, “I think it’s an ab
surd rule and it smacks of the grave
dangers of falsely imprisoning some
body.”
is put off until that’s out of the per
son s system. It (Bureau of Prisons
policy) seems to be manifestly un
fair.”
Yoon, of Yale University
ryung
medical school’s department of toxi
cology, said urine tests cannot distin
guish between exposure to poppy
seeds and exposure to heroin or
other illegal drugs made from the
poppy plant.
But Robert Hassen, spokesman
for the Danbury prison, said all pris
oners allowed to complete their
terms in halfway houses sign a
statement promising not to consume
poppy seeds.
“He’s got to go over it with his cor
rectional counselor,’’ Hassen said. “I
would find it hard to believe that any
one would not read his furlough re
lease.”
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all federal halfway houses in \ ter in El Paso
because “inmates started usinj jfcetired D
way out of positive drug testiibedie Reyes,
‘Hey, we just ate poppy seedi c °^nieti( s coi
Kathy M orse, spokesman forDflli seraph
reau in Washington. men rued pin
There were 8,773 inmates
ferred to halfway houses it ‘ Here 1
1986, Morse said. ^Bne Parade
“There’s nothing illegal abo:celebrities in
ing a poppy sect 1,” Morse saiii cade. And, ol
poppy seeas trigger the exac used to comt
test results as an illicit drug. W; he- e she is in
start accusing people of usine'«C ! mother n
when in fact they’ve taken j; Here I an
seeds. lar >d. She wav
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viously that s less senous tkant tive Ca i iforn
one using henon, she said: n{nv with , u
way it’s a violation of their t * and . v
tion. ■gj.
Reeve asked U.S. District
Ellen B. Burns in New Haiti
Monday for a reduction indfl
sentence. Burns said she plant:!
rule soon.
John Durham of the U.S
ney’s office said Clarizio shoii
peal the halfway house’s decis?
stead of seeking a reduce
sentence.
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Appeals fail as convicted killer
goes to electric chair in Georgia
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — William
“Billy” Mitchell, convicted of mur
dering a 14-year-old boy during a
holdup at a grocery store that also
left the teen’s mother wounded, was
executed Tuesday in Georgia’s elec
tric chair.
Mitchell, 35, was the fourth per
son executed in the state this year
and the 11 th since Georgia resumed
executions in 1983.
Nationwide, 90 people have been
executed since the 1976 U.S. Su
preme Court ruling that cleared the
way for states to reinstate the death
penalty.
Mitchell was pronounced dead at
7:21 p.m., said Department of Cor
rections spokesman John Siler.
His lawyers appealed to the U.S.
Supreme Court after being turned
down Monday by the 11th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals.
The high court voted 5-3 to deny
a last-minute request for a stay of ex
ecution.
The Georgia Board of Pardons
and Paroles also upheld the death
sentence Tuesday, even though
Mitchell’s lawyers asked the board in
a letter not to consider the case.
The letter expressed Mitchell’s re
gret for the pain suffered by the
family of the victim, but noted the
board had denied clemency to other
condemned men who had been
model prisoners.
“Simply put, he believes very
strongly that clemency as an alterna
tive to execution does not exist in
Georgia,” the letter said.
Mitchell pleaded guilty to killing
Christoper Carr during a holdup at
the grocery store in Sylvester where
Carr’s mother worked.
“I won’t be satisfied until I get re
venge,” the boy’s mother, Peggy
Carr, said in a 1985 interview.
Mrs. Carr was shot four times
during the robbery, which netted
Mitchell about $160.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld
Mitchell’s sentence in June after rul
ing on April 22 in another case that
Georgia’s death penalty does not dis
criminate against some prisoners on
the basis of race.
Mitchell also was sentenced to life
in prison for killing a 50-year-old
man the day before the Sylvester
robbery.
Mexican president: Border shows promise
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Miguel de la Ma
drid said Tuesday the northern border region has re
covered from economic crisis and “renewed its tradi
tional confidence and vitality.”
In his 113-page state of the union message, the presi
dent attributed the region’s recovery to economic diver
sification and the increase of the “maquiladora,” or twin
plant, assembly industry along the border.
“This has made its pattern of development less vul
nerable and has consequently strengthened its role as a
rampart of national sovereignty,” de la Madrid said.
The six of Mexico’s 31 states that border the United
States traditionally have been its most prosperous. The
area was hit hard by the economic crisis that started in
1982 and the accompanying devaluation of the peso
currency.
Maquiladora plants that assemble goods for export,
taking advantage of low labor costs in Mexico, now vie
with tourism as the nation’s No. 2 source of foreign ex
change after petroleum.
De la Madrid, cautioned, however, that economic de
velopment in the border region shows that the infras
tructure for industrial development is inadequate there.
The growing population also is placing pressure on ur
ban services, he said.
Firefighters
battle blaze!
in Californi
SACRAMENTO, Calif
— Thousands of firefigki
called in from across the na*
were deployed Tuesday in ;
forests of Northern Calif-1
battling hundreds of li u
spawned fires that blacWj
68,000 acres and forced evaoj
tions in some mountain com®
mties.
Three rural communities
western Oregon were threats I
by fires surging through tW I
dry timber, while firenghten I
Idaho slowly gained gr(*
against a range blaze that
aced a neighborhood in PocatM
In California, nearly 5*
firefighters battled major I
in the Stanislaus, Klamath,!*
and Shasta-Trinity national'!
ests and nearly 300 smaller ^ I
Mike Milosch of the U.S, foil
Service in Sacramento said.
Milosch said firefighters k 1 '
controlled about 700 otherW
ignited by nearly 5,000 light 111
strikes since Saturday.
“But we’re probably goiitj
get some more fires, withl
ning activity expected to conti 1 '
for a day or two,” Milosch said l
It is the worst onslaught®i
kind in California since the®
ning-plagued summer of 1*
when a fire in the Los Padres'!
tional Forest blackened m
200,000 acres, fire officials said
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