Friday, September 27, 1968, THE MICHIGAN {DAILY Page Five Friday, September77, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five 0 McCarthy reported preparing ev on -TV House committee scores Army M-,16 rifle cost to endorse umphr Brous close By The Associated Press System said earlier a representa-' ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sen., Eu- tive of the Minnesota senator had gene J. McCarthy is considering asked to buy a half hour of prime appearing on nationwide televis- television time for an "important ion in October to announce his statement" by McCarthy. support for Vice President Hubert There was speculation McCar- H. Humphrey, the St. Paul thy planned to announce his sup- Pioneer Press said today. T h .e port of Hubert H. Humphrey for Minnesota senator has not en- president. McCarthy, who sought dorsed any candidate since he the Democratic presidential nom- lost the Democratic presidential ination himself, has refused, so nomination to Humphrey in Aug- far, to endorse any presidential ust. candidate. McCarthy, who arrived in New On arrival at Kennedy Airport, York yesterday from a post-con- McCarthy told newsmen he had vention. vacation on the French "no significant statement to Riviera, confirmed that he'd ap- make" until Oct. 8. "Even then,"a pear on television in October, but he added, "I'm not so sure what refused to say what for. I'm going to say." ,The Columbia Broadoasting The article said McCarthy has been told by nume friends and advisors and by his wife; Abigail, that he will be blam- ed for Humphrey's defeat if' the cainpigi 68 vice president loses the election. "McCarthy had been told, and I think with great impact, that he can determine whether Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey moves into the White House next Jan- uary," the story quotes a Mc- t Are prescipindrugs safe? Seniate -,comaittee investigates Carthy "confidante" as saying. Other persons close to Mc- Carthy said Wednesday they con- sider it unlikely that the Minne-I sota senator will do anything but support Humphrey if he decides to go ahead with the telecast, the story added. NEW YORK - Metromedia News has offered four Chicago or-, ganizations including the Mobili- zation Committee for the Demo- cratic Convention, an opportun- ity to respond to the film produced by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. John Corporon, Metromedia television news vice president, said yesterday that the Yippies, the American Civil Liberties Un- ion, the McCarthy for President Committee and the Mobilization Committee had all requested an hour to respond to the Daley film. * * * CICERO, Ill. - City officials in this suburb west of Chicago have refused a permit for George C. Wallace, third party presiden- tial candidate, to make a cam- paign speech at the town hall next Monday. Cicero Mayor John Karner and City Atty. Christy Berkos denied on Wednesday a permit for Wal- lace to make the speech at the rear of the town hall as he re- quested. They also denied permis- sion for him to speak on any streets in Cicero. Reason given for the refusal was simply that public property could not be used for the speech., Wallace aides said a search was continuing for a suitable large private field or a hall in Cicero or neighboring Berwyn. WASHINGTON (P) -- A special House subcommittee says the price the Army is to pay for M16 rifles in its most recent con- tracts is unreasonable and should be lowered. In a report made public yester- day, the special armed services subcommittee on the M16 rifle program said it "views the Army awards as an exercise of ex- tremely poor judgment from the standpoint of procurement policy and practice, and in callous dis- regard of the interests of the tax- payers of the United States." New conflict hits C6nlmbia NEW YORK (A:P)-Demonstrators from Columbia University and po- lice clashed last night as some 200 students marched from the Man- hattan campus to a nearby ca- thedral. The marchers weredheaded for the Episcopal Cathedral of St- John the Divine, the largest church in North America. They said they were protesting the evic- tion of seven elderly persons from a cathedral-owned residence hotel in the area. They were stopped by police a block from the cathedral. First to be grabbed was a young man carrying a red flag. While a sergeant tried to take him to a radio car, three other officers were surrounded by demonstrators and neighborhood residen s, who chorused: "Let him go!" Then scuffling began as more police cars and men arrived and two young men finally were drag- ged into the radio car. The subcommittee said the Army did not achieve price com- petition and, as a result, issued contracts that will cost from $24 million to $38 million more than could have been obtained other- wise. The subcommittee reopened its investigation of the M 16 rifle program last spring after the De- fense Department awarded two contracts to produce the M 16 rifle to the Hydramatic Division of General Motors, Ypsilanti, Mich, and Harrington and Richardson of Worcester, Mass. It received congressional com- plaints that the Maremont Co., Saco, Maine, was an unsuccessful bidder even though its offer was $20 million lower than that of General Motors' Hydramatic Divi- sion. A fourth company consider- ed, Cadillac Gage, Warren, Mich., was prepared to bid $36.8 million. Hydramatic was given one con- tract with its bid of $56 million; Harrington and Richardson, the other with a bid of $42 million. Each was to produce 240,000 rifles. Congress has passed legislation to require the Defense Department to solicit and receive price pro- posals from prpspective offerers in negotiated contracts. You mean, because I'm a student or teacher I get special rates at all Hilton hotels in the U.S.? Yes! See y6ur campus Studentravel Director for more information or use this coupon. g .. -m------------- - - - Hilton Hotels Corporation National Sales Office, Palmer House Chicago, Illinois 60690 U Please send the Faculty-Student Rate Brochure that tels al I am a Faculty Member 0 Student O Please print full name and address plainly. NAMEU 3 HOME ADDRESS_ _ __ _ STREETEu COLLEGENAME T STREETCTY STATE ZIP -L -----m--m--- m --m mm-m By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-Is a drug prescribed by your doctor under its generic name as effective as the same drug prescribed under its brand name? The question has embroiled government and industry in a sometimes bitter, years-long ar- gument which soared to highest heat during still - continuing hearings r bef ore a Sen'ate mo- nopoly subcommittee headed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (R-Wis.). A recent report by a federal task force representing the De- partment of Health, Education and Welfare "cautioned both sides, in effect that the returns are not yet in. } The report put the question this way: "Given two drug products containing essentially the same amount of the same active in- gredient-that is, two chemical equivalents-will they give es- sentially the same clinical ef- fects." It is estimated that 80 per cent of all prescriptions call for brand-namne drugs, presumably because doctors are more famil- iar with them and with their, quality. The debate has particular re- levance now because there are proposals-including a plank in the Democratic platform - to add some of the out-of-hospital costs of prescription drugs to Medicare benefits for millions of beneficiaries. Question to be settled: If any such proposals become law, would the government require that doctors, in prescribing for" such patients, use only generic names for the prescribed drugs? Champion of -the viewpoint that brand-name drugs are the most dependable - and that generic versions are not neces- sarily as effective and, in some instances, might even be risky -is the Pharmaceutical Manu- facturers Association (PMA)- the trade organization for the nation's major drug firms. The PMA also says cost dif- ferences between brand-name and generic drugs have been unduly stressed and that gener- ics may sometimes cost as much as brand-name products. In the rival camp-as evi- denced by witnesses at hearings conducted by Sen. Nelson's sub- committee beginning in May, 1967-are a number of individ- ual pharmacologists, physicians and other medical personnel not associated with the drug in- dustry. Because the hearings-entitled "Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry"-are still un- der way, Nelson's committee has not yet issued a complete report or specific recdmmendations. But Nelson said in a Senate speech in March: "During the monopoly subcom- mittee hearings . . . the issue of therapeutic equivalency has leen debated for many months. "The question has always been whether drugs-either generic drugs or brand-name drugs-- which meet standards set down by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Form- ulary (NF) -the official com- pedia of the U.S. government, are in fact therapeutically equivalent. . "E m i n e nt pharmacologists, practicing physicians, hospital staff doctors and pharmacists have testified to the committee that drugs which meet the same USF and NF standards are of equivalent therapeutic value- with proven exceptions rare. "The drug industry has con- sistently argued t h a t even though two drug products meet official compendia standards, therapeutic equivalency cannot be claimed for them unless there is an actual clinical test. Against this background, there now comes the recent report of the federal task force on pre- scription drugs. The group said the whole question of clinical equivalency of chemically equivalent drugs "is now under careful considera- tion by the scientific commun- ity," but it added: "Objective research has shown that in cer- tain instances the clinical ef- fects may not be the same." In this connection, the task force recommended that current clinical tests of "important" chemical equivalents, being con- ducted or approved by the Food and Drug Administration with human volunteers, be continued "on a high priority basis.'' These tests-begun last year and aimed for completion by 1970-are designed, amohg other things, to try to determine whether different manufactur- ers' versions of chemically equivalent drugs, brand-name or generic, are "biologically equi- valent." For example, do they produce comparable blood levels in nor- mal humans under comparable conditions-a possible gauge of whether they would be equally effective in a sick person? Dr. Herbert L. Ley Jr., FDA commissioner, a physician, and a member of the task force, told a reporter, "We still maintain there are relatively few of these generic drugs which don't per- form up to standards. We may be wrong. But if we are, we'll be the first to admit it." F - ---__ I I -by, 11 WEDNESDAY, 730 P.M., Multipurpose Room, UGLI Lecture, Slides Discussion about KURDTA'S IN COLOR India Art. S hop S330 Maynard St. (come in and browse) . o -- - o --y o4-- >- e-- o - c)_- o c se- --oS SUNAYOCT. 20, 1:30 P.M. *-S U Masoic Aud., Detroit Tickets: $5, $4, $3 On Sale at Marwil's N.'Land, W.Land, Warren at Cass SMail Order: Masonic Aud. 500 Temple Ave., Detroit 48201 Enclose Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope I(HINA TODAY: Red Guard Movement and Cultural RevolutionII Survival of Religion min China Art and Likterature in China China as Model for Third World NEALE and DEIRDRE HUNTER are a young Australian couple who taught in Communist China from 1965-1967 and lived the Cultural Revolution through their students who became Red Guards. From July 1966 when all classes had stopped with the students saying that they were "busy" until April 1967 when the Hunters left China they kept up withdevelopments in Shangai, reading the wall posters, attending Red Guard meetings and talking with their students. Well educated in Sino affairs, fluent in the language and so able to move about alone, they traveled to Shansi and Kiaggsi provinces and to Huhehot, the capital of Inner Mongolia talking to the people and learning much about China today from them. Neale did three years of graduate work in Chinese and Japanese at Can- berra deferring further doctoral work for a time to travel. Deirdre has done grad- uate work in Indian and Chinese Political Science. Co-author of China Observed with Colin MacKerras (Praeger, '68) Neale is finishing a study for the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley The Tiger's Back (Uof Cal Press and Praeger, '68). Deirdre's Chinese Youth and Education will be published early in '69. 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