Ringling Brothers’ circus comes to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON
(Al>) Thrw
months oftnr the
(iOIJ swept mlo
control, 130.000
pound* of
ji'H nxH'nn — uio nopiiniicaiifi
txdoved symbol — came luin
bering to Capitol Hill
Wednesday
Hut bringing the • m:u» to (Urn
grim# seemed Almost redundant
as House members debated
which party claims the bigger
clowns
Why licit her with the perform
ing elephants and dam mg girls
on the Capitol plaza when you
can wall h professional politi
cian* defy logo , asked Rep l.uis
Gutierrez. 1)111
“Step right up and you'll see
Republicans giggle numbers." he
promised visitors to the House
gallery, bracing for at least si*
hours of dtrhato on lh«* GOP tan
bill.
Rep |n< k Kingston, R (ai. who
followed CJutierre* to the House
floor. said Domex rat* were sini
ply afraid of Iteing trampled by
i barging elephants
"They already had that expe
rience in November." Kingston
said
One by one. House members
trooped to the microphone and
loaded ton* of circuit jargon into
the |Minivm sjwxs.few tlmt ojx-imkI
the day's session
In a Capital basement confer
ante room. Democrats (ailing
themselves the "fiOP Prize
Patrol” singed a mock TV show
awarding pretend $1 million
(ash prizes to the "billionaire
Benwlid Arnolds” and wealthy
corporations they said would
benefit from Kepuhluan legisla
lion
Outside the Capital — home to
at least 23 ton* of (.{)!’ lawmak
ers — 13 five-ton elephant* bal
anced on their hind leg* and
formed what < ircu* people c-all a
long mount
"'We have the outer < in us and
the inner circus." said House
Speaker Newt Gingrich. R fin . ns
he went to greet Kmgling Urns
and Barnum k Bailey president
Kenneth Feld
Karlier Wednesday,
folumhus (Ohio) Zoo director
|n< k Hanna tumid the animal
loving speaker’s office into a
petting coo complete with
hissing cot kroaches and a firo
lielly newt
Gingrich, cuddling a North
Afrit jui (nulls fox, confessed that
his first boyhood dream was to
Ihj a coo director.
It took a House-Senate resolu
tion to authorize the < irt us’
125th anniversary perform on< «
in the (Jipitol parking lot
Gingrich, who watched from a
folding chair placed on a small
sin* of red i arpet, reveled in the
jierforming elephants' avmhol
ism
Asked about the absence of
donkeys — mas< ot for tfie
Democrat* — Gingrich said,
"That was an independent, pri
vate-enterprise circus decision
about what works."
For Senate Majority Leader Bob
Dole, a COP presidential con
tender. it was a picture-perfei t
photo opportunity
1 In- ’ 1 \ear old k.ms.in posi-.j
beside the 46-year-old King Tusk
C'a young Republican, Dole
quipped) and flashed reporters a
"thumbs-up."
As if on cue, the 14,762-pound
pachyderm curled his trunk up
to his forehead and winked.
Accompanied by a polite
molorcadn of presidential pro
portions, the elephant* had him
bored tnmk-fo-tnil the nenrlv two
miles from the DC, Armory,
where the cm.us opens a two
week run on Thursday, to the
Capital.
.Sen Hob Smith. K-N H., the
only senator to oppose the per
formance, said the sergeant tit
arms told him security for the
two-hour circus ai t would rival
that used for the president's
State of the Union address — a
tost to taxpayers of about
S52.000
The pinra was roped off to the
uninvited public but about 300
local schoolchildren packed the
Capitol steps at Gingrich's invi
tation They waved small Amer
ican flags, marveled at the jump
roping dogs and giggled at the
clowning clowns.
Survey: College freshmen drink alcohol early, often
BOSTON (AT) More than half the
freshmen attending colleges w here
drunken parties are n way of life go on a
hinge during their first week on « ampux,
n< cording to a survey released Wednes
day
"We notii ipated they would drink a
lot. hut these findings surprised even US."
said researcher Henry Wei hsler of the
Harvard School of Public Health. "We
found they start drinking early, and they
do it often."
The study. ( ondui led at tdiooll where
hinge drink mg is « orntnon. w ait designed
to examine whnt happens to freshmen
who enter this drinking culture
An earlier report by the same team,
published in th* ember in the journal of
the American Medu.nl Ass<* intion, sain
pied 17.582 students at 140 colleges in
40 states It found that at one-third of the
si hoofs, half tlie students go on drinking
bingos, meaning they down at least four
or five drinks in a row
In the new study, the researchers ques
Ol) it I | ut the same
heavy drinking colleges. They found that
(VH pen enl of new students had binged
In the end of their first semester, 54 }Kir*
( enl of them in their first week at school.
Timothy Brooks, dean of the Universi
ty of Delaware, said many college admin
istrators view drinking as their biggest
problem and the latest freshman data "are
right on target
Researchers did not identify the heavy
drinking schools.
Wechsler said he has presented the
freshmen data to conferences of college
dean* and trustees lie derided to make
the results publii now because high
school seniors are deciding which col
leges to attend
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AIDS virus becomes resistant
to new experimental drugs
NKW YORK (AP) - The
AIDS virus la* omes resis
tant in many immtwn of a
promising i:l(M nl drugs if II
is exposed Io just <mi> of
them, an anting lo a study
lhat offi'rs new mvIiImiiv of
just how slippery a foe HIV
is.
The study involved pro
lease inhibitors, which are
experimental drugs
designed lo stop the virus
from reproducing by dis
abling a crucial enzyme.
Researchers said the rind
ing suggests that treating a
patient with one proteose
inhibitor may make using
another one later less effec
live, and that using several
protease inhibitors at once
may not avoid resistance,
either.
Other exports said it is too
soon to draw conclusions
about what the findings
mean for therapy
The work is reported in
Thursday's issue of the jour
nal Nature by |on Tundra
and colleagues at the Merck
Research Laboratories of
West Point, Pa., and scien
tists elsewhere.
I ho work, involved a
Mon k drug rolled MK-fvl9,
and Condra stressed in an
interview that tho results do
not question tho usefulness
of that drug or of other pro
ir.iti' inhibitors
patients appear to he btttl*
efiling from MK f» t9 despite
the development of n-sis
tam e, mid Men k is devel
oping the drug very aggres
sively, he said
I he results suggest thal if
researcher* want to test
combinations of protease
inhibitors, they should keep
in mind that one drug in the
nits might create resistance
to the others, he said
The study found that in
four AIDS patients receiving
Mh ti.'t'i. the AIDS virus
spawned variants that
showed varying degrees of
resistant e to Mk-639 and all
five other protease
inhibitors tested Resistance
was measured in test tubes
by noting how mm h drug
was needed to suppress
virus reproduction
In one patient, resistant
variants appeared after 24
weeks of therapy. Other
patients showed them at 44
and 52 weeks.
Condra said the results do
not mean that the variants
would show resistance to all
protease inhibitors. He also
said nobody knows what
percentage of patients treat
ed with MK-639 develop
resistance to multiple drugs
Condra said the study was
done with patients who took
a lower dose than current
studies use Higher doses
may delay the appeurani e of
resistant variants, he said.
Dr Robert Schoolin' of the
University of Colorado said
it is not known whether
drugs other than MK f* i*»
would ha\e the same effect
He also said using a combi
nation of drugs may delay
the development of resis
tance.
Cook allegedly
spikes breakfast
LEBANON. N H (AP) — A breakfast
rook at a Denny's was charged with assault
for allegedly spiking two Vermont state
troopers' eggs with Tabasco sauce.
Michael Town#, 20. could get up to two
years in jail and a $4,000 fine
Troopers Timothy Ciouatre and Mu haul
Manning, who had crossed into New
Hampshire for breakfast on Feb. 7. said the
eggs burned their mouths and upset one
officer's stomach.
Towne claimed that the hot pepper sauce
must have been left on the grill from an ear
lier order, police said.
He was arrested three weeks later
"We've got enough trouble without peo
ple screwing around w ith our food,” said
lebanon police l.t. Ken I ary
in c ourt [wipers, police quoted an uniden
tified witness who claimed to have seen
Towne put a large amount of Tabasco on
the food The witness "said that Towne did
not like police officers and ciici it as a joke,"
polic e said.
Towne's trial is s«t for June 6.
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