Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 January 1992 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 24,1992

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Lilly is expanding its Clinton plant SSOO million expansion will produce first of a new class of antibiotics

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The federal approval Eli Lilly & Co. has received to market a new antibiotic called Lorabid is making people in Vermillion County feel a lot better. The Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical maker announced Thursday it will invest SSOO million in ongoing construction protects at its Clinton Laboratories, mostly to expand production capability for the new drug. LILLY HAS INCREASED its workforce at Clinton by 340 to a current total of 1,300 since 1990. The Food and Drug Administration approved Lorabid on Dec. 31, and it will hit the market in the fall. Expansion projects at Clinton and Lilly’s other facilities in Indianapolis, Lafayette and

Tsongas breaks from Democratic pack

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas was delivering his standard campaign talk about the need to revive America’s manufacturing industries when he was asked how he would change his political career if he could do it over again. A former member of the House and Senate, a lawyer, a corporate board director and cancer survivor, Tsongas thought for several minutes. “FOR TOO LONG I followed the pack” of traditional Democratic politics, he finally replied. “I wish I had broken out sooner.” Not to worry any longer. Where some of the other Democrats in New Hampshire’s leadoff primary tout a middle-class income tax cut to cure the recession, Tsongas dismisses it as “irresponsible. ...They’re trying to buy your votes for 97 cents a day.” Where other contenders threaten retaliation against Japanese economic policies, Tsongas recently began airing a television commercial that shows a shuttered

Strains of drug-resistant TB

ATLANTA (AP) Strains of tuberculosis that drugs can’t stop and which often prey on people weakened by the AIDS virus are appearing across the country 40 years after medicine seemed to have conquered the lung disease. Outbreaks of drug-resistant TB, some of them fatal, have been reported recently in New York City, Michigan, Florida and the New York state prison system, the federal Centers for Disease Control said Thursday. “THERE IS THE potential for

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Greenfield will create an average of 2,000 construction jobs each year, the company said. Lilly has invested $2.3 billion in Indiana since 1987 and has announced sl.l billion in additional projects before the end of the decade. A NEW DRUG such as Lorabid typically costs $250 million to develop before it reaches the market, and industry averages show only three of every 10 drugs marketed recover their investments, said Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., Lilly’s vice president for corporate affairs. Less than 1 percent of the drugs in the development stage ever reach market, he added. “It’s an enormously risky business we’re in,” Daniels said. “We spend a lot of money looking for

factory. “ALL THE JAPAN bashing in the world won’t open this factory. ... America must take control of its own fate,” he says. Instead, he proposes a capital gains tax cut for long-term investment to stimulate the creation of jobs, as well as other tax incentives for research and development. “What I’m arguing for is common sense. I know that’s a radical idea for Democrats,” he said recently to an appreciative whitecollar audience at an insurance company. AFTER _ CAMPAIGNING in New Hampshire for 50 days, Tsongas’s economic prescription and statewide organization win respect from other camps, and he shows strongly in the early pre-primary polls. Yet he’s battling the perception that he is a purely regional candidate who can’t possibly compete with other contenders when the race leaves New England. “I had been leaning for Tsongas,” Ila Snyder said at a recent campaign speech in southern New

similar outbreaks of multiple drugresistant tuberculosis to occur in other places, unless we do the things we need to do,” said Dr. Dixie Snider, who heads the CDC’s tuberculosis division. Federal officials hope to unveil a strategy next month for fighting TB’s re-emergence, Snider said Thursday following a two-day conference on the disease. “Multiple drug resistance is a new wrinkle, and it requires some different tactics as well as some different emphasis,” Snider said. HE RECOMMENDED that health officials implement infection control programs in hospitals and upgrade laboratories so TB is detected more quickly.

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miracles we never find.” Lorabid will succeed the company’s enormously successful Cecior, the world’s top-selling antibiotic, as Cecior loses U.S. patent protection. Both drugs treat a range of infections from middle-ear ailments in children to respiratory tract illnesses in adults. DANIELS SAID the company was announcing the size of its investment in the state to underscore its commitment to Indiana, which he said will feel an economic impact of $8.5 billion from the investments by the year 2000. Lilly did not ask the state to provide any grants, job training funds or other incentives for the company’s ongoing expansions, he said.

Hampshire. “I don’t want to throw away my vote.” DOC ANDERSON, the Raymond Democratic chairman, said if voters could mark two ballots, one for the candidate they think can win and one for the candidate they hope will win, Tsongas “would win the second one right down the line.” But voters can only vote once, of course, and Tsongas is realistic enough to acknowledge that some candidacies will perish in New Hampshire. “If I can get the voters to believe that the other Democrats are really Reagan-Bush in other clothing I’ve got them,” he said in a recent interview on a crowded day of campaigning. “If not, I’ve got a problem.” TSONGAS HAS been written off before. He defeated an incumbent Republican to win his House seat in 1974 from Lowell, Mass., his home town and a region that had been depressed for decades after its mills closed. He won an upset primary victory in a 1978 Senate race before toppling GOP

Dr. Sam Dooley, an epidemiologist with the CDC, said studies have shown that one infected person can spread the bacteria that causes TB to dozens of others. In New York City, health-care workers who treat TB patients at city hospitals are required to wear masks, gowns, gloves and work in isolation rooms to avoid spreading the disease. The bacteria commonly is spread during coughing and sneezing and through contaminated foods. TUBERCULOSIS, carried by the tubercle bacillus, causes small, rounded growths called tubercles to form in the lungs and other organs. Symptoms often include weight loss, fatigue, night sweats, chest

Don’t blame worker for country’s competitive woes

WASHINGTON (AP) Americans didn’t much like what Japan’s Yoshio Sakurauchi said the other day about the American worker that he or she “won’t work hard.” But was there some truth to it? Not much, say economists who earn their living studying the American worker and America’s competitive problems. THEY SAY Sakurauchi, speaker of Japan’s lower house who has since retracted his remarks and said he didn’t mean to disparage American workers, was off target. There’s plenty wrong in the American factory, but the workers’ will to work isn’t the problem, these observers say. “American workers work very hard and try to work even harder,

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“No incentive we could possibly ask for from the state possibly could pay for that kind of investment,” he said. SINCE 1987, Lilly has increased its Indiana workforce by 2,200 to 12,300 from 10,100, the company said. Indianapolis has gained 1,650 jobs; Clinton, 400; and Lafayette, 300. Lilly employment at Greenfield has fallen by 150 in that time as it restructured its DowElanco farm chemical joint venture with Dow Chemical Co. Daniels pointed out the Clinton expansion is a project half as large as the widely publicized $1 billion United Airlines maintenance plant to be built in Indianapolis with S3OO million in state and local incentives, he added.

Sen. Edward Brooke. Over the years Lowell developed a thriving high-tech economy, then began failing again. Tsongas was preparing for a reelection campaign six years later when he was diagnosed with cancer. He quit politics and underwent treatment, and told one campaign audience recently that he was the only candidate to have been in the New England Journal of Medicine. These days, Tsongas makes his campaign rounds armed with an 86-page economic manifesto titled “A Call to Economic Arms” that is unabashedly pro-business. HIS MESSAGE is grim: “The Cold War is over. Japan won and Germany won,” and America must revive the stalled engine of its economy, its manufacturing industries. His campaign message may be disconcerting, but Tsongas blends it with a style that ranges from puckish to scathing. “Does a politician accept contributions from political action committees? They say because they’re getting money from the

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pain and the coughing up of phlegm. Most cases can be cured drugs, but health-care practitioners have complained that they have trouble making sure all patients continue treatment until they are cured. Snider said the drug-resistant strains frequently attack people with weakened immune systems, including those infected with HIV, the AIDS virus. IN THE NEW YORK state prison system last year, a drugresistant TB outbreak killed 13 HIV-infected inmates and a hospital guard who had cancer. In New York City, health officials said 23 percent of new TB cases were drug resistant Similar

the thing that impresses me is how hard they’ll fight just to get a lousy job,” former U.S. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said. He said he thinks the problem is American management MARSHALL POINTS to the highly successful joint General Motors-Toyota venture in Fremont, Calif. “The same workers, the same plant, the same technology; the only thing that changed was the management system and within 11 months it was one of the most productive auto plants in the world,” he said. Marshall said U.S. management uses too many white-collar and administrative workers and too many supervisors and inspectors and gives workers too few oppor-

Marketing of Lorabid, the first of a new class of antibiotics called carbacephems, will begin in the fall. One of its advantages is its twice-daily dosage, compared with three times per day for Cecior. LORABID WILL BE protected by its product patent through November 2004, while Ceclor’s product patent expires at the end of the year. Daniels said he does not expect generic drugs to erode Ceclor’s market share until after 1994, when a key production process patent for Cecior expires. Analysts project Cecior generated $925 million to $950 million in sales during 1991 for Lilly, which will not report its fourth quarter sales figures for the drug until next week.

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PAUL TSONGAS Different economics PACs doesn’t mean they own me,” he says. “Well, maybe they’re renting you.” A TRADITIONAL liberal on social issues, he shoehorned a visit to the state abortion rights group, NARAL, into his schedule recently to stress his support after the Supreme Court said it would render a ruling on abortion.

outbreaks were reported earlier in a Michigan drug center and a Miami hospital. “The factors which have gone into the outbreaks in Florida or New York City don’t just exist in Florida or New York City,” Snider said. “There are other health care facilities where relatively large numbers of people with HIV infection are being cared for.” But TB cases began to rise again in the 1980 s, and last year 25,701 cases were reported nationwide, the most in 10 years. Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit and New York all reported increases in tuberculosis cases in 1990.

tunities to use their minds. THE SAME POINT is made by Barry Botsworth, a Brookings Institution economist who served in Jimmy Carter’s White House. He said management of American manufacturing industries insist on organizing work in ways that were adequate 30 or 40 years ago: assigning workers to simple, repetitive, mass-production tasks. “But today where products are extremely complicated, where the worker has to be sure it is done right and understands the process, that involves judgment,” he said. “It means keeping workers interested and involved in their jobs.” He also faults business for promoting marketing and financial management people who know nothing about production and for failing to invest enough to give American workers the finest tools. Japan invests three times as much per worker, he said. WHERE THE American worker and the schools that educate him and the companies that employ him can be faulted is for not giving workers the skills they need for to make the workplace operate at its most productive level, the experts say. “Solving problems that involve putting words and numbers together is a problem for an amazing number of workers,” said Julie Gorte, who studies international competitiveness at Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment The result is that American industries are forced to rely on in-

PRESIDENT BUSH $14.3 billion for NASA Bush seeks more funds for space WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush will call for an 11 percent increase for the Space Station project next year, as well as money to put robots on the moon and build a new space launch system and a hypersonic transport plane, administration officials say. Bush was scheduled to announce his space proposals today in a speech to the Young Astronauts Council, according to officials who discussed the proposals Thursday night on condition they not be identified by name. BUSH’S FOCUS will be to reaffirm his commitment to return humans to the moon and send astronauts on to explore Mars, one official said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s $14.3 billion budget will go up modestly under Bush’s 1993 budget proposal, which will be formally unveiled next week. Officials said it would not match the increases of some previous years, but would exceed the current 3 percent rate of inflation. THE SPACE Station project, which aims to launch a permanent orbiting platform by 1996, is slated for $2.25 billion, an 11 percent increase over 1992 funding. The project last year survived attempts in Congress to cut its funding completely. The president’s proposal will keep Space Station Freedom on target for astronauts to work in it by 1997 and to be permanently occupied by 2000. THE PRESIDENT’S budget also will contain funding for some priorities of the National Space Council, chaired by Vice President Dan Quayle. Those include money for a program to put robots on the moon, part of Bush’s larger plan to send astronauts back to the moon by the first decade of the next century and to Mars the following decade. The robots would precede astronauts who ultimately would live and work on the moon. U.S. astronauts last visited the moon during the early 1970 s in the Apollo program.

ferior production systems and quality suffers, she said. BROOKINGS economist Laurel McFarland pointed to a 1989 study that said 62 percent of America’s largest companies had difficulty finding employees with needed educational skills. “Our vocational training, compared to Japan or Europe, is a joke,” said Jeff Faux, president of the Economic Policy Institute, which studies economic growth. “In Japan, if you don’t go to college, you go into a training program, often run by companies, which adds to your skills. Kids in the United States drift for five or six years at minimum-wage jobs,” he said. “WE DON’T HAVE anything like the school-to-work transition programs the Japanese have. As a result, the quality of our labor force, relative to our competitors, is declining.” But Faux said Sakurauchi was on the mark in suggesting that America’s problems lie here, not overseas, and in saying that the United States is becoming Japan’s “subcontractor.” “It’s true: We’re supplying Japan with inputs, with raw materials and they’re designing and manufacturing the final goods. The Japanese have been moving over here to assemble components produced in Japan,” he said. The problem with that, he said, is that high wages go to the production workers of the world, not the assemblers.