OA - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 3, 1997 NATEIONIWO RLD HEPATITIS Continued from Page IA the program, which is required to buy only U.S. products, according to. a spokesperson. ~So far, the only reported illnesses lin'ked to the tainted berries have been ~'inr Michigan. Fruits with the same lot *numbers were also sent to Arizona, -California, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee. As many as 9,000 youngsters and adults may have been exposed to the 'fruit in Los Angeles, where officials Fdermined that fruit cups served last v k in 18 public schools may have been contaminated. Hepatitis A causes a mild liver infec- tfil "and is often spread through uncooked food. Those at risk of more severe symptoms are the elderly, people with weak immune systems and the very young. For most people, symptoms appear about 28 days after exposure. They include jaundice, fatigue, abdominal dis- comfort, vomiting, fever and dark urine. The virus can be transmitted orally or through human waste, often by food han- dlers with poor personal hygiene, through undercooked shellfish from infected waters or through tainted water ornce. "' 4 h is is an unusual outbreak because it 'is linked to one source that has nationwide implications" said lan *'Williams, an epidemiologist with the .Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In Amanda's hometown of Marshall, about 97 miles west of Detroit, the epi- demic peaked a couple weeks ago - before officials had connected the strawberries to the disease. Most people don't have to be hospi- talized, but Amanda was one of nine people in Marshall who required treat- ment for dehydration, said Oaklawn Hospital spokesperson Jill Kingsley- Hinde. About 2,000 people in the Marshall area got protective gamma globulin shots after the illnesses began, she said - including many who lined up at school basketball games where the shots were offered. Some doctors extended their office hours to deal with the problem. Health officials also were tracking down children from across the state who participated in a Special Olympics competition where strawberry short- cake made with the tainted fruit was served. The hepatitis was linked to the straw- berries late last week, said Dr. David Johnson, chief medical executive of the Public Health Agency at the Michigan Department of Community Health. No one in Michigan is known to have become sick recently, he said, "My prediction is we've seen the bulk of the actual cases that we're going to see already'" he said. Dr. Thomas Dobbins of Marshall was one who had extended his office hours to handle the influx of patients. The virus hit close to home - his 8-year- old daughter, Kehvren, got sick. "It's unfortunate - it would have been impossible to have identified the strawberries without the increase in dis- ease," Dobbins said. Clinton at center of fund- raising efforts A o N TH A Pentagon to favor noncombat missions WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's strategic blueprint for the next decade will increasingly emphasize the military's expanding - and controversial -- nonorp- bat roles, from peacekeeping and drug interdiction to humanitarian aid, officials said yesterday. Though such missions have..critics on Capitol Hill and in the military itself a Pentagon draft report says the armed forces should be equipped to take on many more of the two dozen such deployments the United States has mounted sincet fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Such assignments areg'ust reality," said Lt. Col. Tim Muchmore, an Army staff officer who has been closely involved in the Pentagon's study. "They're out there for us:' The report, due for completion in mid-May, predicts that the Cold War's end has brought a strategic "pause" that will leave the United States an unrivaled super- power until at least 2010. Nonetheless, it calls for the armed forces to master a full range of military roles - what one official called "full spectrum dominance?', As in earlier studies of the military's mission, the Pentagon report calls forthe armed forces to be prepared to handle two major regional conflicts - such as those that could explode in such international hot spots as Iraq and Korea - in "1o succession:'W WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton was the Democratic Party's projected $50 million man -- one minute the marquee draw at a fund-rais- er, the next chiming in on the smallest of money-raising details, documents released yesterday show. "Ugh," Clinton scribbled alongside one memo from aide Phil Caplan that detailed the Democratic Party's expect- ed debts and even recommended bud- geting $1 million for "potential fines" after the 1996 election. "I think we can do better w/mail if we have the right message,' Clinton wrote back another time when then- deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes raised concerns that the Democratic Party wasn't raising enough money to spend in federal races. The documents were among hun- dreds of pages from Ickes' White House files that were turned over last month to congressional committees investigating allegations of fund-raising abuses. The papers were released yes- terday by the White House. The memos portray a White House eager to exploit the money-drawing powers of its chief occupants while inti- mately coordinating a Democratic fund-raising machine it now admits was out of control. Many of the memos are blunt -- lay- ing out precise and ambitious goals. One page attached to an Ickes memo projected the president should raise $50.2 million by attending fund-raising events, while Vice President Al Gore should bring in $10.8 million and Hillary Rodham Clinton an additional $5 million. The first lady was slated for a variety of fund-raising activities in the docu- ments, from making 10 calls to donors to being host for a "Pakistani event" that would raise $100,000. If the various lists of fund-raisers were added up, the total associated with the president's possible attendance could have been as much as $70 million -- from coffees and dinners to a con- ference call expected to yield $100,000. "The fund-raising needs for the DNC will require a very substantial commit- ment of time from the President, the Vice President, the First Lady and Mrs. Gore,' Ickes wrote in one memo direct- ly to Clinton and Gore. The words "very substantial" were underlined. The release of the documents domi- nated the daily press briefing at the White House, where officials once again found themselves defending the extensive time spent by the president, vice president and presidential aides on political fund raising. "The Republicans outspent us" and it was a "difficult political contest;' White House counsel Lanny Davis said. Press secretary Mike McCurry added: "If you ask the Republican National Committee to present you with their analogous set of documents ..you'd see the same thing?' The White House documents show that at least in one instance Ickes was kept apprised of the large amounts of money raised by a handful of donors who attended two coffee klatches with Clinton in June 1996. "Harold, here are the coffee attendees (with POTUS) and amts. raised," read a handwritten cover letter faxed to Ickes from the DNC about two weeks after the coffees. An accompanying list showed that each attendee had raised or donated between $50,000 and $100,000- for a total of $1 million. Some had asterisks alongside their names to denote "con- tributions are in installments:' Census may add mixed race category WASHINGTON -The U.S. Census Bureau is considering counting people of mixed race as a separate category for the first time, an idea that is stirring an emotional debate. Supporters say the move would help foster a sense of pride and self-affirma- tion among the swelling ranks of mixed-race Americans, many of whom feel ignored by the larger society. But some civil rights advocates worry that the new category would reduce the numbers of blacks and Hispanics recorded in the census, imperiling minority voting districts and financing for minority aid programs. For Ramona Douglass, a California activist who is of mixed parentage, the issue is simple. "I don't want to be invisible any- more,' said Douglass, president of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans, a San Francisco-based advocacy group for multiethnic and multiracial people. "The census form allows me to select 'other' as a choice, but I'm not an 'other;"' Douglass said. "I'm a multira- cial person and I shoultd be represented:" A preliminary decision on whether the next census will include a new cat- egory for multiracial people is expect- Research says older minds can learn Contrary to long-standing scientific dogma, the brain rises to a challenge by developing new neural cells in 4reas devoted to 'learning and memory'- even in middle-aged minds, neurosci- entists at the Salk Institute' f Biological Studies reported yesterday. In a provocative glimpse into how the brain is shaped by the world around it, a team of Salk researchers in San Diego led by Fred Gage now has demonstrated in laboratory animals that the right kind of mental gymnastics can .dramatically increase the number of cells in a key region of the adult brain. ' r SENIORS Graduations and PARTIES are our Specialties! j ~It's SOOOOO Simple! 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Facing a firestorm of furor and fear, nearly a dozen senior Mexican offi- cials, led by Foreign Secretary Jose Angel Gurria, spent hours yesterday trying to convince a skeptical nation that the new law will not trigger a wave of deportations and flood Mexico with newly unemployed compatriots -- nor rob it of the more than $4 billion that Mexican migrants send home from the United States each year. Court orders man shot for killings SAN'A, Yemen- An appeals court yesterday ordered a man who opened fire on two schools, killing six people, to be executed by firing squad and his corpse nailed to a cross for public dis- play Mohammed al-Nazari was sentencedI to death Monday for killing a head- mistress, a teacher, a cafeteria worket a bystander and a student. "5 i Another student died Tuesday' of wounds suffered during the weekend attack, and the appeals court added his name to the charge sheet retroac- tively. The lower court rejected reportstat' at-Nazari acted after one of his daugh- ters was raped and that the slain head-, mitesand her husband had a role in the assault. -- Compiled froim Daily wire report!' Yes, I am interested in finding out more about Oakland University's. College of Arls and Sciences Spring and Summer credit courses. Please send an application and information on: i I [Art and Art H~istoryI B iochenhistry I N -M BiohllliCAI Sciences I il si cs)y1 oliahtical Sciene .............I I RlM u ric , CoTheatrn J mr di m iu oy and Danth e . 'ly Ote D{~h~pfhy Ii