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
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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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