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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1982)
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY STUDENT TEACHERS & T E E M \ STUOENTS emerald inter I national Afl i Shuttle lands; mission a success WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, MM. Framed by purple mountains and a brilliant blue sky, Amer ica's space shuttle sliced through desert breezes Tues day to crown its longest, tough est and most ambitious test flight. Three down, one to go and Columbia flies for hire. Weight on wheels came at 9:05 a m. MST on an unfamiliar runway, 22 hours past due. 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Gordon Fullerton as it was inhospitable the day before Skies were relatively calm — a stiff headwind instead of the cantankerous sandstorm that made a return Monday impossi ble "Everybody in America start ed breathing again when you made that landing.” Pres Reagan told the pilots in a tele phone call. “Our thoughts and prayers have been with you every second that you've been up there. " In Houston, flight operations director Glynn Lunney said the spacecraft survived its trip bet ter than the two-day second flight last November "STS-3 (flight 3) was a very powerful success," he said, and added that nothing stands in the way of "flying payloads for pay ing customers," beginning with the fifth flight next November The astronauts and their ship had been in space 8 days. 4 minutes and 49 seconds since launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 22 Had the weather proved unac ceptable Tuesday. Columbia would have been directed to Kennedy's concrete runway FDA approves genital herpes drug WASHINGTON The first drug to ease suffer ing from genital herpes should be available in drugstores in 30 days, following its approval Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration Up to 20 million Americans are afflicted with genital herpes, a painful venereal disease that, unlike syphilis and gonorrhea, cannot be cured Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, the FDA commissioner, said the new prescription drug, acyclovir ointment, ‘‘is not a cure for herpes virus infections,'' but is "a step forward” in treatment Genital herpes is caused by a highly contagious virus that usually is transmitted during sexual intercourse It causes genital sores that blister and form ulcers The sores heal but may recur for unknown reasons, and doctors tell people to re frain from sex while they have Lenny ^ has 55<t Lowenbrau _ active infections The FDA said the ointment wilt reduce virus growth and shorten the healing time for sores in patients with initial in fections In tests, it also sig nificantly decreased the pain in men. but not in women. The ointment will be available by prescription in about a month under the brand name Zovirax by the Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N C. Most cases of genital herpes are caused by the herpes simplex virus type 2 — one of the family of five herpes viruses that cause a wide range of ailments including chicken pox. shin gles. infectious mononucleosis, cold sores and even birth defects The FDA, which took only eight months to approve the drug, said it "did not show im portant benefits" for people with recurrent outbreaks. How ever. the drug's developers believe it has promise for all sufferers from genital herpes Recession slowing, but not yet over WASHINGTON A key government forecasting gauge indicated Tuesday that the recession, though probably slowing, is not yet over Trea sury Secretary Donald Regan conceded as much, telling Congress that the economy continues in the grip of the second recession in two years " Regan spoke confidently of recovery this summer. And private economists generally echo that forecast, though with less apparent confidence But a 0.3 percent February decline in the government's In dex of Leading Indicators, a report designed to show future economic trends, seemed to in dicate recovery was hardly at hand The February decline, the 10th straight monthly drop, was considerably smaller than the 0 8 percent and 1.2 percent drops in December and Jan uary But Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige implied that February's index will probably be revised downward when later figures are available Regan, testifying before the House Banking Committee, said the overall economy would turn up slightly in the April-June quarter although still remaining “not very strong.” He said that July-September growth — as measured by infla tion-adjusted gross national product — should be at a relatively brisk annual rate of 4 Vj-tO-5 percent nail fashions SCULPTURED ACRYLIC NAILS $25.00 -Mh coupon ExpIrM April 30,1982 (Full line of acrylic products available lor purchase) • Hypo-Allergenic . 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