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World news_ Makers of Tylenol announce the end of capsule production PARIS (AP) — France sent troops and planes to Chad on Monday to support President Missene Habre's government against Libyan-backed rebels after an air strike on the airport at N'Djamena, capital of the African country. Defense Minister Paul Quiles announced the deployment soon after he reported that one Soviet-built Libyan Tupolev-22 jet bombed the N'Djamena air port runway about 7 a m, Mon day. On Sunday, French planes bombed an airfield at a Libyan built rebel luise in the north of the former French colony. The Libyan news agency, JANA said in Tripoli that the N'Djamena raid was carried out by the "airforce” of rebel forces in Chad trying to overthrow Habre and was in response to the French raid. The rebels are not known to have their own air forco. but the Libyans have Tupolev jets iri 1 NEW BRUNSWICK. N.J. (AP) — The maker of Tylenol announced Monday it will no longer produce over-the-counter medica tion in capsules, nine days after cyanide contaminated capsules killed a woman and more than three years after they killed seven people in Illinois. “We feel the company can no longer guarantee the safety of these capsules, said lames E. Burke, chairman of Johnson & Johnson. The announcement came as a team of in vestigators went to Pennsylvania to trace the path of the Tylenol capsules taken by a woman who died in suburban New York City Feb. 8. Burke urged people to switch to coated oval-shaped tablets known as caplets, and said Johnson & Johnson would replace free any cap sules consumers or stores now have. The deci sion was made to “protect the public,” he said. The replacement program will cost the company an estimated $150 million, he said, adding that does not compare with the suffer ing of the family of 23-year-old Diane F.Isroth. who had taken cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. The future of capsule medications was called into question after Elsroth died and a se cond bottle containing tainted Tylenol cap sules was found in a store less than two blocks from the store in which the fatal dose was pur chased in Bronxville, just north of New York City. . , Caplets, introduced after the 1982 poison ings, were designed as a capsule substitute, Burke said. They are solid, and company of ficials say they cannot be tampered with because cyanide would break down the medicine. Since Etaroth’s death, at least 14 states, the District of Columbia and Italy have banned sales of Tylenol capsules. William Grigg. spokesman for the U S. Food and Drug Administration, said the government considered the tampering a "local incident.” Grigg said the potassium cyanide that kill ed Elsroth and that found in the second bottle was not the same kind responsible for the seven deaths in Illinois. ASUO Women's Task Force presents IN THE FACE OF VIOLENCE An Acquaintance Rape Awareness Symposium Tuesday, February 18 7:00 p.m. EMU Forum Room "Defining Acquaitance Rape" Helena See and Karen Kane of Rape Crisis Network will discuss both marital and date rape. Representatives from Men against Rape will also speak. Wednesday, February 19 7:00 p.m. EMU Forum Room "Personal Perspectives on Rape" Three short films - "The Date", "Just One of the Boys", and "End of the Road" will be shown. The films will be followed by rape sur vivors speaking out about their experiences. Thursday, February 20 6:30 p.m. 150 Geology "Fight Back" April Norman, Campus Security, and Nadia Telsey, Rape Crisis Network, will speak about rape prevention and self defense. 8:00 p.m. EMU Courtyard to UO Cemetery “TAKE BACK THE NIGHT rally starts with music, songs, and poetry. Following the rally, Project Safe-rUn dogs will lead the "Take Back the Night" march. All events are wheelchair accessible, childcare is provided and hearinq impaired are accomodated. MEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND ASUO Women's Task Force 686-3724 • Men Against Rape 485-5901 France supports Chad fight against Libyan-backed rebels their arsenal of 535 warplanes. (Julies said damage at . N’Djamena'. airport was •’minimal" and no one was hurt. JANA claimed the strike •‘rendered it unusable.'? . \ . • A dispatch from Paris by the Soviet news agency Tass said Monday that J,an explosive situation has developed in the center of Africa as a result of France's growing armed in tervention in ('.had '* '• Libya accused the United States Monday of ia»ing behind French President Francois Mit- ■ terrand’s decision to.intervene in ('had A high-ranking Libyan of fId a l, • w ho > i n. s.i s fe.d .6 n anonymity, told reporters in Tripoli that ' Mitterrand ;ls «f pawn- in the .hands' of' (Presi dent) Reagan:" v ;". ’ U.S.-Libyan relations piung-' ed after Washington' accused Libya of backing terrorists who raided airports in Rome; and Vienna Dec. 27,‘Flve Americans were among 20. people ki.lled Libya denied* involvement . (Julies said three ‘ French warplanes, two Mirage F-lsand a (aguar. landed af N DjamenH Monday. ‘ /■ France hag kept T,5(-K). troops in the (jmtral.’African Republic, .poised-to return' to"Chad, situ <■ signing a . mutual, withdrawal agreement with Libyan 'leader Miiammar Khadafy in the fall of 1984. France says Libya never - .honored the pact. ’ ■ in August 1983, th«t french intervened-' with '- a/ 3.000-man : force coderiamed Martt'ii to iialt an advance'from the north by a . combined fame of rebel and . Libyan troops About .260 French troops were sent' to Chad oyer the weekend.'. according to the Defense Ministry They; includ ed air force commandos to pro tect. French transports flying supplies and equipment to the llabre government. Other French soldiers man anti aircraft missile batteries. France says the Libyans have 4.5(H) troops liv northern Chad and the rebels another 4.0(H). facing about 5,(HN) (lhadian government troops. 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