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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1986)
WELCOME BACK Our cookies are wajtjng for you! EUGENE’S FALL CR ERY HWWWWWVUWUWUUlAfWWWWWWW 881 East 13th nexttoUO bookstore *484 1662* M-F 7 30-6 Sat 8-3 Coupons in the Emerald save you money. Chech every page, every day. It pays. L——J Dollar cost of AIDS estimated CHICAGO (AP) —The cost of the nation's first 10,000 cases of AIDS will come to more than $6.3 billion in hospital fees and lost in come, says a study thought to be the first to estimate the economic impact of the deadly disease. Researchers were not trying “to put a dollar figure on a Ufa. which seems kind of heartless, but (to show) that this is a loss that everybody shares," said public health specialist Ann Hardy of the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "it's not just these health-care costs that are important, but we’re losing people in the prime of tbeii lives." Hardy, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. More than 90 percent of AIDS patients are between 20 and 49. she said "The first 10,000 patients with AIDS will lose approximately 8,387 years of work and $189 million in potential earnings due to disability," said the report in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. Lost earnings due to early death were calculated at $4.69 billion. All lost-income estimates were determined using 1980 data. The first 10,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome had been reported to the CDC by May 4, IMS. By Monday, the total had risen to 18.138, with 8.220 deaths. “We estimated that approximately $147,000 is being expended for the hospital care of each patient with AIDS,” researchers staid. Estimated hospital costs may be high, they said, because data on total time spent in hospitals came only from New York, where AIDS patients may spend more time in hospitai*. Still, the hospitalteation estimate is good enough to be compared with totals for other ailments — $1.8 billion for lung cancer and $8.7 billion for motor-vehicle injuries in 1980. the latest year for which good data are available. Hardy said. The AIDS hospitalization figures are bas ed on 198.1 and 1984 data, she said. A Series of Lectures at the University of Oregon: Jan 22 "Affinities of Art & Politics: Gilt by Association' Dr. Judith Balfe • 4:30pm EMU Forum Rm. Feb 19 "Reshaping Policy for Arts Education: A Response to Our Cultural Dilemma. Dr. Ralph Smith • 4:30pm EMU Forum Rm. Mar 5 "Art and the Public Interest' Dr. Edward Banfield • 7:30pm Gerlinger Lounge. Sponsored by the Department of Art Education with support from the Cultural Forum. Political Science, Architecture & Allied Arts Oepts. Apartheid protesters praise Bishop Tutu WASHINGTON (AP) -Wav ing signs and chanting their theme phrase, "Freedom Yes! Apartheid No!" more than 300 protesters ignored freezing temperatures outside the South African Embassy to extend a warm welcome to Bishop Des mond Tutu. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize and a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement , praised the demonstrators Wednesday for their role in try ing to force change in the white ruled nation. "Freedom is coming to us in South Africa — black and white.” the South African cleric said, adding that protests are “undermining the morale of the perpetrators of apartheid.'* In South Africa! he said. "Peaceful demonstrations are virtually impossible.". In Washington, daily pro tests.- which culminated in the arrests of ritore than 3,000 peo ple. took place outside the em bassy between Thanksgiving *• 1984 and the same holiday .in 1985. The demonstrations are . now held occasionally. Tutu’s visit to the nation's* capital came during a three week trip to the United States to raise money for his .Southern Africa. Refugee Scholarship Fund and the Bishop Tutu Refugee Fund. . Portland fire investigated PORTLAND (AP) —A 20-minute delay in activation ofa fire alarm system contributed to the deaths of four people in a New Year's Day blaze In an apartment building, a preliminary investiga tion shows. In addition, if the Hollywood Hast apartment building had automatic sprinklers throughout instead of only where city code re quired them when the 15-story structure was built, no one may. have died; City Fire Marshal Robert Hayden said Wednesday. Hayden said he would request a city ordinance requiring that all high rises in Portland be equipped with sprinklers throughout. □ □□ BIG SELECTION USED COLOR TV’S $49.00 and Up DEKA Electronics 390 W. 12th • 342-2488 COUPON * CONTRACEPTIVE CREAMS A JELLIES / 40% Mow Retail — Our Regular Price! Send 3.S0 for a prepaid 4 44 oz tube of your choice Ptmmnt check your p«rl«fenc» and return put coupon with your name addrrrvs check of moony ordaf 10 -p- SEATTLE Koromei Jolly D Orthocreme OEPT. MO Koromaa Cream O Gynol II Jelly 4426 Burk* N. Orthogynol LJ Koromea Cryttel Clear o«e order per cu.lomer