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their apologies to the Texas Tech
University community and the
groups affected by the incident."
Community service has been
suggested as discipline for the fra
ternity, but that punishment "is
not going to suffice by any
means," Ms. Myles said.
"We have a campus of over
24,000 people, and this is 1992,"
she said. "Anything like this that
can go on is atrocious. Something
more should be done than just a
slap on the hand.
"In my opinion, with people
praising the Grand Dragon —
that is justification for them being
thrown off the campus complete-
iy"
Judi Henry, assistant vice pres
ident for student affairs and dean
of students, said according to the
code of student conduct, sanc
tions could range from a repri
mand to probation to suspension.
Groups were holding an Open Fo
rum Thursday night to discuss
the incident, she said.
Joshua Mora, assistant dean of
students, said an investigation is
being conducted, but no discipli
nary action has been taken.
No aspirin warning labe
cause of deaths, report saj
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A five-year U.S. government delay
in requiring warning labels on aspirin led to the need
less deaths of 1,470 children from Reye's syndrome, ac
cording to 1 an analysis being published Friday.
"These 1,470 deaths were especially tragic, because
they were, typically, healthy children who never recov
ered from viral infection or chicken pox," the report's
authors wrote.
The deaths provide a dramatic example of the poten
tial harm in easing public health regulations, said one of
the authors, Patricia Buffler, dean of the School of Pub
lic Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
"The Reagan administration and the Bush adminis
tration have been marked by a commitment to deregu
lation," she said. "When it occurs in an area where it
has a health impact, the consequences are profound —
profoundly adverse."
Dr. Thomas Bryant, chairman and president of the
Aspirin Foundation of America in Washington, D.C.
said the report's authors "have got an interesting argu
ment, but they overstate it." The foundation is a trade
association of aspirin makers.
He said voluntary public information campaigns by
the aspirin industry had already led to a drop in Reye's
syndrome before warning labels were required.
Reye's syndrome often strikes children who are
about to recover from the flu or chicken pox. They sud
denly take a dramatic turn for the worst, beti
lethargic and quickly sinking into a coma. Me
dead within a few days. Others recover but are
severe brain damage.
The report by Buffler and Devra Lee Davis of
tional Academy of Sciences appears in Friday’si
The Lancet, a British medical journal.
It notes that Reye's syndrome deaths
sharply after warning labels were required in 11;
year, 103 deaths were reported to the U.S. Cents
Disease Control. In 1987, the figure dropped to3f
Taking into account that the reported deaths^
sent only a portion of actual deaths, the research
culated that 1,470 lives would have beensavedit:
bels had been adopted in 1982.
Doctors had already reached a consensus in IS
the use of aspirin to treat flu and chicken pm
cause Reye's syndrome, Buffler and Davis said;
noted that the Centers for Disease Control recoir;;
ed warning labels as early as November 1981.
In September 1982, President Reagan's seotlr
health and human services, Richard Schweiker,?:
proposed regulations requiring the warning label i
fler and Davis said.
Yet five years passed before labels were
1986.
Bryant, of the Aspirin Foundation, said theM
tween aspirin and Reye's syndrome was not
1981.
Sunday, Nov. 1, 1992, 7:30 p.m.
ON CERT | Police delay search for bodies at border ranc
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MATAMOROS — State judicial
police on Thursday temporarily
suspended their search for as
many as four bodies they believe
are buried on an isolated ranch
east of this border city.
Heavy rains in the area made it
too difficult to dig at the site near
the Rio Grande, where police un
earthed three victims of drug-re
lated slayings earlier this week.
said police Commander Sergio
Gonzalez.
The search for other victims
that may be buried at the ranch
will resume as soon as the weath
er clears, police said. Authorities
also will use a scuba diver to
search some cars found in the riv
er.
"We have to conduct a good
search until we exhaust all our op
tions," said Gonzalez.
Police began digging Sunday
after two suspected drug traffick
ers who were arrested during the
weekend admitted to killing sev
eral people and disposing of their
bodies at the ranch.
The two, identified as Jesus
Guajardo Lopez of Matamoros
and Victor Gilbert© Rivera of
Brownsville, were being held on
murder charges Thursday in the
Matamoros prison, said Gonzalez.
Rivera also is wanted by the
Brownsville Police Department in
the Aug. 12 slaying of a
Brownsville man.
Guajardo and Rivera®
lieved to be part of a dnif4i
ticking organization basri
Matamoros.
Authorities are seardiji
other men who may have
volved in the slayings.
The first two victims, wba
found Monday, have berate
f ied as Neftali Juarez Safa
Heriberto Ruiz, Matamore
dents who had been misaiis
eral months.
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WASHINGTON — Government researchers Thursday said?
posing thousands of healthy women to a drug with dangerowfi
effects is worth the risk if it performs as hoped and prevent^
percent of breast cancer cases.
"There are things we don't know about tamoxifen," Dr.fc
dine Healy, director of the National Institutes of Health, teslfe
before a House panel.
There have been indications that tamoxifen can cause cancer t
the uterus or liver, blood clots, blindness or birth defects.
NIH and the National Cancer Institute were criticized forfe
$68 million study that will give the drug to 8,000 women io see if:
prevents breast cancer. It has been used for 30 years to treat fe
not to prevent cancer.
"In the last year, new research has been published aboutfe
dangers of tamoxifen, and new concerns about the study
been raised," said Rep. Donald M. Payne, D-NJ., chairman off*
House Government Operations subcommittee on human?
sources.
"In fact. Public Health Service experts have long believedt"
study could expose women to risks that outweigh the likely be?
fits,' / Payne said.
Healy and her colleagues disagreed with that, saying the dr.;
shows promise in preventing 30 percent to 40 percent of bit-
cancer cases.
"No intervention is totally without risk, and tamoxifen dtf
have some potential side effects," said Dr. Peter Greenwald.: [
National Cancer Institute's director of cancer prevention and £’'
trol. "The likely benefits are a reduction in breast cancer,inte-
disease and maintenance of bone density." 1
This study is somewhat unusual because it is using people"'
are not sick, rather than the more usual study in which an expc
mental therapy is tried on someone whose only alternative may-
to die.
Women volunteering for the study are screened to ensure?*
they are healthy but considered at increased risk for develop' 1
breast cancer.
Some 30,000 women have already gone through theinit
screening process.
"For women long under-represented in many studies on
ease prevention and all too often the unwitting subjects of?
proved therapies, there is often a fundamental issue of trust"?
Helen Rodriguez-Trias, president-elect of the American Pi?
Health Association, said in testimony for the hearing. "Thisisp*
ticularly true in low-income women and women of color."
Although Greenwald testified that women participating in
study were being given complete information, another wiio?
said that wasn't the case with her,
Sybil Fainberg of Chevy Chase, Md., who has had three bre I
biopsies and whose twin sister recently developed breast car?
said she was interested in being part of the study and attend^’
two-hour meeting at Georgetown University.
"One-and-a-half hours were devoted to general informal
about breast cancer which I and probably many others present'
ready knew; only the last 30 minutes dealt with specific inf#
tion about tamoxifen," she said in her written testimony. "N
away feeling that I was not provided with enough information
make an informed decision on whether to participate in the stud
"Nevertheless, I placed myself on the list as a possible stu"
participant," she said.
The study will track 16,000 women for 10 years. Half of th'
will be given tamoxifen, and the other 8,000 will get a placeh-v
unmedicated preparation used as a control in testing the ef#
of a medicine.
Tamoxifen has long been a breast cancer drug.
It was picked for further study as a preventive therapy wh?
was noticed that women who took it for treating localized can-
in one breast had a 40 percent reduction of new cancers in tbra'
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