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VtcCain declares candidacy
krizona senator puts focus on military background
NASHUA, N.H. (APJ — Republican presidential
ndidate John McCain issued a “new patriotic chal-
ige” for America yesterday, promising to return dig-
pio the White House, strength to the U.S. military
Tonesty to a government that is now “a spectacle
elfish ambition.”
as KTBrnally opening the campaign he began nearly 10
)nths ago, the war hero and Senate maverick also
t0 P rotect Social Security, cut taxes, veto pork-
rrel spending, improve access to the Internet and test
the f » Merits of spending government money in private
isissipp: nationwide.
rctey. top issues: reform political campaign laws and
ercepte;prove America’s national security,
n-high i: McCain said both issues are examples of how he
)lden Ecjpits to challenge Americans to champion a “cause
;ey goa eater than self-interest. ”
tackle; Speaking to a crowd of about 500, McCain said, “It
mpted Bause I owe America more than she has ever owed
s mtheJdiat l am a edndidate for president of the United
punt a!' at ^'
« McCain concluded, confetti and miles of stream-
.Jgl^Has dropped on the crowd as a recording played of
nick Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”
11165 ni Bie son and grandson of Navy admirals, the former
HB pilot and Vietnam prisoner-of-war scheduled his
’ naiHB start W1t * 1 a visit to t ^ ie N ava l Academy in An-
the *|Q n o ress disputes
Spending bill
ASHINGTON (AP) — Disputes
r everything from milk prices to
SA have dashed any hope Con-
ss’ Republican leaders had of
ping their pledge to complete
Ending bills before Friday’s start of
:al 2000.
Already planning to violate a sec-
■d promise to honor 2-year-old
Bnding limits, Republicans are us-
assisttoeing accounting gimmicks to claim
tiarkoftfieBy are holding to a third promise:
wo seceBat they will not use Social Security
iscruiserwrpluses to pay for federal spending.
largest I Though most Americans pay little
witness a sptentipn to the government’s fiscal
We Acalendar or spending limits, polls
icampus. |iow they are attuned to both parties’
once in Podges to protect Social Security’s
, siting [Jhuge trust funds.
Sunday nil Violating these promises can be
V ,■ particularly harmful to the GOP be-
tim’-r- ■. eause its core conservative support-
iotl»® care deeply about their party’s ef-
/brts /or//'seal austerity.
are goodg
e sta 1
napolis, Md. A poor student and troublemaker, McCain
barely graduated from the school but later distinguished
himself as a flyer and prisoner of war.
Later, in New Hampshire, the lead-off primary state,
his speech to voters was laced with references to his mil
itary record — “I have passed from a young man to an
old one in the service of my country” — and with criti
cism of his political foes.
“It is because I owe
America more than she
has ever owed me...”
— John Mccain
ARIZONA SENATOR
President Clinton, he said, broke a promise to protect
Social Security and weakened the U.S. military. By
promising to "respect the dignity of the office,” McCain
suggested that Clinton has not.
He said both parties in Congress wasted money on
“unneeded weapons systems and other pork projects
while 12,000 [military] personnel — proud young men
and women — subsist on food stamps.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A
medicine that blocks the AIDS
virus from entering cells has
shown promise as a last-ditch
treatment for patients who fail to
respond to standard AIDS drugs.
The medicine, code-named T-
20, is still in early-stage testing,
but researchers said yesterday that
it could offer a reprieve for those
who have run out of options.
The drug is the furthest along
of a new class of AIDS medicines
called fusion inhibitors. They
work by thwarting the virus’s
ability to fuse with blood cells
and inserting their genetic mate
rial into them.
“It looks quite good” Dr.
Michael Saag of the University of
Alabama, said. “We are looking at
something with a totally different
method of action. It is an impor
tant, potent new option.”
The treatment has one large
drawback compared with other
AIDS drugs: Instead of being a
pill, it must be injected twice dai-
New drug shows promise
ly. Nevertheless, Saag said pa
tients in advanced stages of AIDS
are willing to give themselves
shots, and they seem to tolerate
the drug well.
The results were reported Mon
day by Dr. Jay Lalezari of Quest
Clinical Research in San Francisco
at a meeting of the American So
ciety for Microbiology.
Other AIDS drugs work princi
pally by thwarting the virus’s abil
ity to stitch its genetic material
into cells it has invaded or by
blocking its ability to disperse ma
ture copies of itself.
Doctors gave T-20 to 55 people
who had high levels of the AIDS
virus despite trying many different
combinations of AIDS medicines.
While these standard drugs
have proved to be life savers for
many with AIDS, they do not
work for all patients.
Doctors administered T-20 in
combination with other drugs,
even though the patients’ HIV was
resistant to the older medicines.
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