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Of the 162 hepatitis A cases in the county this year, 45 were re ported in the past two months, the health district reported. San chez estimated there are several hundred more cases unreported. Poor hygiene, particularly lack of hand washing by staff and chil dren in day-care centers, has been blamed for some of the Hepatitis A rarely is fatal — even manifesting itself as mild, flu-like symptoms in young chil dren — but it can be serious in older people, many of whom are infected by children through dia per handling. Symptoms include fever, nau sea, abdominal discomfort and jaundice. cases. “You can’t get it standing next to someone — it’s not airborne,” Sanchez said. “It can be pre vented by good hand washing and by discouraging the sharing of food by youngsters.” Nine recent cases in both adults and children were linked to one day-care center, Sanchez said. Health district staff have of fered immunization to people there exposed to hepatitis. Several other cases were linked to an elementary school. Sanchez declined to identify ei ther school. “It’s not unusual for a school to have some hepatitis cases,” San chez said. “A lot of times, it’s the children at home playing with other kids in the neighborhood.” who probably go to the same school.” Nerd House by Tom A. Madison \/JALK.ING HOAaC TH£ CHRISTMAS PLkH, fdt&BE&T GETS A STZANGE FEELING THATSOHW /S MATCHING HIN\- Sales drowning in red tape Inherited S&L assets cost taxpayers WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s sale of real estate and other assets inherited from bank rupt savings and loans is drowning in red tape, costing taxpayers mil lions of dollars, a congressional re port said Wednesday. The report, by the staff of the House Banking Committee, ac knowledged that the 16-month-old Resolution Trust Corp. “has been as signed a difficult task in cleaning up the largest financial crisis in the na tion’s history.” But it said the agency must de velop a better sales effort if it is to succeed in the task. “Investors and would-be home- owners have encountered innumer able stumbling blocks in their at tempts to negotiate purchases of RTC-held assets,” the report said. “Uncooperative property man agers, difficulties in obtaining cur rent and accurate appraisals, delays in contract negotiations, deteriorat ing condition of assets, and a simple inability between RTC and many po tential buyers to effectively commu nicate, have delayed or prevented the closing of countless transactions, costing the federal government mil lions of dollars in carrying costs while billions of dollars worth of un sold properties continue to deterio rate,” it said. “Congressional offices have been inundated with letters from frus trated investors, brokers and home- buyers who have found that pur chasing property from the RTC is not a simple case of arriving at mu tually acceptable terms of sale, but rather involves hours of sifting through paperwork and bu reaucratic red tape, often leading to “Investors and would- be homeowners have encountered innumerable stumbling blocks in their attempts to negotiate purchases of RTC-held assets.” — congressional report frustration and disappointment,” it said. The staffs report was released as the committee opened two days of hearings on the trust corporation. It was scheduled to hear from more than a dozen agency critics but from none of the RTC’s top executives. R FC spokesman Stephen li; nos called the report “nonstj From the RTC’s creation in An; 1989 through Sept. 30, ithasa over 493 S&Ls with $251 bilk assets. At the end of the perici was left with 207 institutions S142 billion in assets. “We’ve moved assets rough! size of Citicorp back into the sector,” he said. “I think it’s pretty productive year Katsanos said some buyersitii frustrated because they want to vately negotiate a purchase au gain-basement price rather compete against other bidders “That’s not what Congress as for in the legislation,” he “There are a lot of complainen there, but there also are a It* happy people who have stuff.” BUEN( said Wed Hussein vs vowed th; end the cr “I have is willing! months ag Bush’s President “We wl to invade to it,” Mei “The onl) condition: Bush 11 dent’s pal seized by day. Bush ci quickly. that they to the da show of st The pi ession of Bush’s m dress to la “Let th racy und< Le Uni Hoi DENT have the omy next sionary f Texas ect “Housi state out Houston of depi Weinsteii nomic D< the unive About ploymen be in H colleague new stud J ob g r from abc Study: Texas youth usf less drugs than in 198$ pe rar rcent largest r have few AUSTIN (AP) — Fewer Texas youth are using less illegal drugs to day than two years ago, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. But that good news was offset by some bad news, said commission Ex ecutive Director Bob Dickson. The survey also found that use of tobacco and alcohol has increased since 1988. “And the use of these illicit, ‘gate way’ drugs places these young peo ple at serious risk for later use of il licit drugs,” Dickson said. “In fact, when alcohol and tobacco are in cluded, only one-third of Texas youth remained drug-free during the 1990 school year.” However, Dickson said, “The news is generally good. It’s not all good, but it’s generally good.” The survey of some 110,000 sec ondary school students found that current use — defined as use within the past 30 days — of all illegal drugs had declined between 1988 and 1990. It said 10 percent of 1990 re spondents reported having used such substances within the past month compared with 17 percent in 1988. The study also said that current use of marijuana dropped from 12 percent to 8 percent; uppers — am phetamines, “speed” and others — dropped from 6 percent to 2 per cent; downers — sedatives, tranquil izers and others — dropped from 4 percent to 1 percent, and current use of inhalants, cocaine and halluci nogens also decreased. “Lifetime use of illicit substances also decreased between 1988 1990 ... Most significantly, the centage of Texas’ secondary students who had ever usedani licit drug dropped from 39 pens in 1988 to 25 percent in 1990,": study said. Th economi: Houst ing the compare they prec New and Aus e percentage of student! porting that they had everusedi ijuana fell from 32 percent in ll! to 23 percent; use of uppers from 17 percent to 7 percent;: use of downers dropped fron percent to 5 percent. Since the 1988 survey, a nuO of new programs aimed at pre‘ tion have been started. Dicksons this year’s results show thatpre: tion is the right track. “It’s an indication of what*: been saying for three years i? Prevention efforts do work,"he The study said that while studi appear to be responding to messi| about illegal drugs, they con use alcohol and tobacco. “Eighty-one percent of sei students have drunk alcohol ini j lifetime, up from 76 percei 1988,” the study said. “Drinking is now more pre 1 among groups that were amonj lowest users in 1988: lifetimeal( consumption among seventh ers rose from 59 to 69 pt among blacks it rose from 64 percent, and among females it from 74 to 81 percent.” The percentage of student smoked cigarettes during the vious month increased. Among school seniors it was up from2i cent in 1988 to 26 percent in If the study said. 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