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Clinton sends delegation to Japan auake site LOS ANGRlivS (AP) - President C-lin ton, commemorating the one year anniversary of California's Wilier *• »rth quake, ordered a high-level delegation to Japan to help Tokyo cope with the extra ordinary fury" of its quake A powerful tremor tore through several western Japanese cities, toppling hum dreds of buildings, touching off raging fires and killing more than 1,700 people With billboards featuring scenes of the UW-t Northridge earthquake forming a backdrop, Clinton said he ordered Fed era! Kmergencv Management Agent v and Transportation Department officials to Japan. He said the United States "sends our profound condolences." Gen. John Shaliknshvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in Japan on other business and has promised U S military support, Clinton said "We know that nature has stuc k again here at home in California, with the floods, and with extraordinary furv with the earthquake in Japan," Clinton said. He said the administration has made contact with Japanese officials, prompt ing him to send the high-level delegation. He did not say what the delegation would do. In a trip loaded with politic nl impiil a lions. Clinton inspected earthquake-dam aged uiti** from tttiM and areas hit by this year's flooding Hit- *(**<< h was delivered at California State University, a campus heavily dam aged in Hi>h Clinton's tour of a rebuilt v.iumo building was canceled after three devices resembling pipe bombs were found The Set ret Service later deter mined then* was no bomb With 54 electoral votes at stake in the 1990 presidential election, the White House cannot afford to look laggard In responding to California's natural disa* ters — fires floods, mud slides or earth quakes Yesterday was the first anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, who h killed til people, injured at least 0.000 and caused $20 billion In property damage, buckling highways and crumbling honors li was the most expensive natural disaster in U S history Across the Pacific, japan was reeling today from an earthquake that killed more than 1,700 people, injuring thou sands and causing massive property damage. Clinton, after talking Monday night with I ' S Ambassador Walter Mandate in Tokyo, said the United States w ill stand ready to help" japan recover, Press Sec rotary Mike \l< < aim said Inst year's Northridge earthquake trig K*»r»Hl a masMM) outpouring of federal tits aster relief The White Hottsv said nearly Si 1 r> billion vva- made available m recovery effort*, with direct aid going to inure than BOO,000 psKipIo Clinton was e\{*s ted to visit flood res cuers at a local fire station He was then traveling to Roseville. California, to walk n flood stricken street and talk to lor a! resident* Storms battering California for almost two weeks created floods and mud slides that killed at least 11 people and caused an estimated S UM) million m damage Eager to show his sympathy, Clinton produced spr< tal radio and television addresses for California last week Aides bragged that the administration took less than an hour to approve Republican Cm Pete Wilson's request for federal aid More than 10,000 people already have applied for the aid. hoping fur loan guar ontees. temporary shelter or dim t aid Several agencies have anted up. im lud ing the Transportation Department, which released SS million fan 1 i and was to provide SIS million more yester day Aides shrugged off suggestions that Clinton's disaster response was politii al ly motivated Hut thuv wid it was impor tant to get the federal government involved quit klv and visibly, otherwise, voter* blame the president "l think Americ an* have the right to expec t the government to act swiftly I don’t think there's anything political about that," Met lurry said Clinton, who won California in the 1 ‘HI2 election ami has always found polit ical solace here, has watched his political fortunes sag in recent months The most recent /.os trige/rs Times poll showed him with a M) percent approval rating in the state, higher than his national aver age Hut that was in Oc tober, and the political tandsi ape has c hanged drasti cally sune then Democratic gubernatorial c andidate Kathleen Hrown lost to Wilson In Novem ber. despite Clinton's efforts in her umi pntgn California Democrats lost three seats in the House in the midterm elec tions, and the Republican landslide meant a loss of power for California Democ rats who had Intm running power fed congressional committees Aides cite Clinton's immigration effort, the cpoc k response to the earthquake and the administration's plan to cushion defense cuts as reasons the president should hold California in DWti Devices look like bombs; Clinton’s tour cut short LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Bill Clinton scrapped plans to tour an earthquake-damaged building today after authorities dis covered a device they thought looked like a pipe bomb It turned out to Ih* just pipes. Secret Service spokesman Curtis Eldridge said the device discovered in a science building at California State University's Northridge cam pus was found to be innocu ous. "It just turned out to be some old pipes," Eldridge said from Washington Clinton went ahead with his scheduled speech at the university, but security appeared even tighter than usual and he canceled plans to tour the science huildmg "The bomb squad was ( ailed at 7:40 am. after the Secret Service found three devices resembling pipe bombs," said Officer Rigo Romero, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Depart ment, Carl Meyer, another Secret Service spokesman, said that during a routine search of the science building before Clin ton s visit, investigators dis covered "some pipes in a uib inet,” including a pipe that was capped. Bomb-sniffing dugs worn brought in, and one of thorn "alerted" that it had smelled something of potential con cern, Meyer said The decision to abandon the tour was made before Clinton left bis hotel in San ta Monit a and drove the :I0 minutes to the college in Northridge. McCurry said the material — which he refused to iden tify was found during a routine set urity sweep " The construction workers who were working m that building weren't able to iden tify the material quickly, erring on the side of caution (We) thought it would be smarter for us to make some changes," McCurry said At the site. Secret Service agents were seen conferring with construction officials Then a member of the police bomb squad in a protective Suit went insole the S< lence Two building with some type of equipment. Several minutes later the bomb squad member came Ixick outside, and a few min utes later While House advance man Dave Nelson told reporters that the presi dent would deliver his sjxssh at the university but would not tour the building FDA approves drug for alcoholics NEW YORK (AP) A utu day pill heroin addicts take to help them kit k the habit will now I hi given to alcoholic s, making it the first new drug used to fight alcoholism in nearly SO years Researchers, who concluded that the drug naltrexone has some benefit in blocking the craving for alcohol, i autioned, however, that it does not retire sent n "magic bullet" in (he tat tle against alcoholism The manufacturer. DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co , said Tuesday it would sell the drug as a supplement to traditional alcoholism therapy. Available since l‘)H-t. naltrex one blot ks the euphoria people feel after taking heroin and oth er narcotic s The Food and Drug Adminis (ration gave DuPont Merck authorization on Dec 30 to mar ket the drug for use against alt o holisrn after two studies involv ing tt>7 people showed it also appears to curb aleohole s' i rav ings. The only other drug now sold for alcoholism is Antabuse, introduced in UMH, which makes a person nauseous when they drink Researchers said Tuesday that it hasn’t been very suo essful because HO pen ent of patients fail to take it properly They were cautious in their expec tations for naltrexone "None of these studies militate this is a substitute for good psy chosocial treatment 12-step programs like alcoholit s anony mous." said Dr Charles O'Brien, a professor of psyc hiatrv at the U m verst I y of Pennsylvania Drugs like naltrexone "address some unmet needs in alcoholism treatment, but no single medication i* a magic bul let. " O'Brien said, using the term once applied to penicillin the drug, which has been sold under the brand name I res an. in the future will be called Kevia Doctors are allowed to pre scribe approved drugs for any reason they see fit, and some have already been using najtrev one for alcoholism, the researchers said. DuPont Merck a partner ship of the nation's biggest chemical company and the biggest prescription drug maker plans to sidl the onte-a day pill for a wholesale price of S3 HO per day in a treatment pro gram lasting three to ms months Patients who can’t afford it will receive it for free, said DuPont Merck's president and chief executive. Kurt landgraf Alcohol is the most widely abused drug in the United States, and about 15 million Americans are alcoholics, the researchers said Researchers estimated the annual cost of the disease at $100 billion in prema ture deaths and Illnesses, lost productivity, treatment costs and other expenses In the two studies, both done in 1992 in conjunction with counseling, scientists said the drug reduced euphoria, c ut the c raving alcoholic s feel for drink ing and also rod need the result ing rolnpsos into drinking that many people suffer after Quit - >"'K A 1 ~ week study of 70 lung turin alcoholic men done by the University of Pennsylvania showed 7 I peri ent who were on the drug relapsed compared with s-t [>ert ent of those given a plat eho Those who did drink while on the drug drank less fre quently and in smaller quanti ties Asked which kinds of people would be best suited to naltrex one. the researchers said they weren't sure and that broader studies are planned to find out. The major side effect of the drug is nausea, whit h w as expe rienced by about 10 percent of patients who have taken it About seven percent got headaches, and smaller numbers suffered from di/./.iness. ner vousness. fatigue or insomnia DuPont Men k exe< ulives said sales exptu tations are modest Naltrexone brought in about $14 million last year as a narcotics treatment and tin* company expects an additional $70 mil lion this year Paul Wood, president of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, a Now York based education and advo c acy group, said the drug appear* to have potential "If you could reduce the < rav ing and desire to drink, it would certainly help the standard alco holism treatment a lot,” he said Drop-In Group v'f* nfttumj h* the IWrrfwnr u# i Vegan f-Juc jcvcuJ Support Smntrt Wednesday evenings 6-7:15 pm The Koinonia Center 1414 Kincaid Street Ft* morr information call 146-1142 of the LUBA ofike it 546- JJ60 ^6*1 don't fbrgrt thr LUBA cufluAociftl hsw rvrr> Thuntd*> *ftrrr*»>« At 4 p.m. WANTED [ U OF O STUDENTS MUST ENJOY ♦ Classic Italian Cuisine ♦ Wood Oven Baked Pizza ♦ Upscale Billiards ♦ Free Pool Daily (11 30 4 00 p m.) ♦ Eugene City Brewery Ales MoMaP^.y a 830 Olive St. • 343-1072 • Daily 11:30 a m.-11:30 p.m. ‘ V »/ • \ - great scores <23> great skills... 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