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News Digest Edi^d^by^ctori* Ayotte Ukrainian Communist Party replaces old boss MOSCOW - The conservative chief of the Ukrainian Communist Party lost his position as boss of the Soviet Union's strongest political machine Thursday to a progressive protege of President Mikhail S. Gor bachev. Gorbachev sharply criticized the dictatorial style; of the ousted official, Vladimir V. Shcherbitskv, who ran the Ukraine and its SO million people i with an iron hand for 17 years. He was reared m a meeting of Ukrainian Communists, which Gor bachev attended. The new Ukrainian party boss is Vladimir A. Ivashko, wno was Shch erbitsky’s second-in-command and who three weeks ago used the pages of the daily newspaper Izvestia to sharply criticize absolute command ers unresponsive to the public. Ivashko, an economist aid engi neer, was chosen in a competitive, secret ballot, the Tass news agency said. Shcherbitsky was expected to lose the Ukrainian job after he was retired from the Soviet Union's ruling Polit buro last week in a shake-up that cemented Gorbachev's hold on power! The meeting Thursday of the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee was highlighted by Gor bachev's warning to Ukrainian Com munists to stop fighting reform groups and start listening to iitcir ideas and complaints. “Either we recognize the right of others to independence of thought and actions, either we lead active work to gain public opinion and pub lic sympathies to our side, and multi ply leading forces of perestroika, or we turn into a limited organization, merely claiming a leading role,” Gorbachev said in a speech broadcast* on national television. With the exception of Gorbachev himself, Shcherbitsfcy was the last member of the Politburo picked by the late President Leonid Brezhnev, whose rule is now officially termed the “period of stagnation." Activists in the Ukraine blamed the 71-year-old Shcherbitsky and his men for slowing economic andpoiiti cal reform in the nation’s breadbasket and industrial heartland. Activists said he remained in power as long as he did because Gorbachev did not have the political strength to oust him, or because Gor bachev needed his strong-arin tactics to keep Ukrainian nationalists in line. In the Izvestia article, Ivashko described himself as “a stubborn supporter of choosing leaders from “This is critically important, for after all it is impossible to change the system if one absolute commander is simply reptooed by another," he said. Northern Ireland commotion renews BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A mysterious rash of leaked security files has led to new accusations that Northern Ireland’s embattled secu rity forces are cooperating with Prot estant murder squads. The British government is embar rassed, the Irish government is ex pressing dismay, and the Irish Repub lican Army is enjoying a propaganda windfall in its war to rid Northern Ireland of British rule. Desperate lo build credibility with she deeply suspicious Catholic mi nority, die police force has taken the drast.c step of calling in 15 detectives from England lo conduct an inde pendent inqui ry into the source of the leaks. The affair began Aug. 29, when British Broadcasting Corp. reporter Chris Moore was taken blindfolded to meet four masked men who had files and a videotape to show. The men claimed to belong to the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a shadowy Protestant organization that special izes in killing Catholics Four days earlier the group had killed Loughlin Maginn, a 38-year-old Catholic fa ther of four. The masked men said they wanted to convince the reporter that Maginn was on file as an IRA suspect and was not an innocent victim. If, as the Ulster group claimed, the files came from the security forces, then how did they fall into the hands . of an illegal and murderous organiza tion? The furor has worsened in the ensuing weeks m at least eight more security files have surfaced. The files consist mainly of sheets of photos with names and addresses of IRA suspects. In the hands of the police or army, the files are routine anti-terrorism documents. In the. hands of the Prot estant group, they are death lists. “This is an intolerable situation/ * said Seamus Mai Ion, a leading politi cian in Northern Ireland who, while consistently critical of the security forces, has in the past urged fellow Catholics to cooperate with police investigations of IRA outrages. Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, has long claimed that collusion exists between the security forces and Protestant groups. Mallon, who be longs to the more moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, says the fact that files are leaking out of secu rity bases all over the province points to a widespread problem. The Royal Ulster Constabulary, the province’s police force, has pub lished a statement by its chief con stable, Hugh Anriesley, in all Bel fast's daily newspapers. "The RUC (police) will not toler ate wrongdoing, should it be uncov ered in its own ranks, or flinch'from tackling it in any other branch of the security forces, or anywhere in soci ety," the statement said. ' Some lists have come to Mallon, others have gone straight to the me dia. At least two disappeared from police stations, and two more from oases of the locally recruited Ulster Defense Regiment. In most cases they have been mailed without explanation, but one, sent to a Scottish newspaper, came from a former soldier who said he wanted to show bow easy it was to obtain such documents. Another, sent anonymously to a London newspaper. The Independ ent, included the names of 25 people living in the Irish Republic. This added a fresh dimension to the con troversy because it suggests that in telligence collected by Irish police and shared with colleagues across the border, may also be available to the murder squads. Critics say some of those listed are simply victims of mistaken identity. "One is a well-known business man with no connection with subver sive activity, and at least six of the addresses published are wrong, which puts the lives of innocent people in jeopardy," Joe O’Neill of Sinn Fein mid a r<r.w; rnnfp.rp.nrr New AIDS drug available wA&Hir«jiUN - A promising new anti-AIDS drug still in the early stages of testing win be made widely available while safety and effective ness trials continue, the government announced Thursday. The plan for expanded distribu ' uon of dideoxyinosine, or ddl, marks the first time an unapproved, experi mental AIDS drug will become so widely available so early in testing. “The epidemic of AIDS is ex traordinary, and must be met with extraordinary measures,” said Food and Drug Administration Commis sioner Frank Young. Health Secretary Louis Sullivan said the plan ‘‘reaffirms our commit ment to speeding both the develop ment and the availability of promis ing new drugs for patients with AIDS whenever possible.” Dideoxyinosine has stirred much anticipation and expectation in the AIDS community because early study results have shown it may be effective in stopping replication of the AIDS virus with fewer side ef fects than zidovudine, known as AZT, the only FDA- approved drug to combat the AIDS virus. Under the plan, ddl would be available to about 2,600 people with AIDS or AIDS-related complex in controlled clinical trials to test it head-to-head against AZT. The plan will also make ddl avail able lo people with AIDS or ad vanced AIDS, related complex who cannot lake AZT and those for whom ^ the disease is progressing despite AZT and who have no onset treat mcNt options 4. Bristol-Myers, which holds the license to manufacture ddl, has said it will distribute the drug at no cost under the plan. Neither the company nor the FDA would estimate ho\V many people with AIDS might benefit undpr the plan. Clinical trials will be conducted at SO sites around the country, the com Cay said. AIDS patients will have to ve been rejected for,one of the clinical trials before they will be able to receive ddl under the other distri bution options. AIDS activists applauded the ac tion. Mark Harrington of the New York-based AIDS Coalition to Un leash Power, or ACT-UP, said: * ‘This is the start of something we've been working for for a long time.... Let's use this as a good precedent and build on it.” The plan is the first demonstration of a concept that has been under consideration by officials at the Pub lic Health Service, an HHS division that includes the FDA and the Na tional Institutes of Health, to make promising AIDS drugs available to more people earlier in the testing process. They have called the concept ‘ ‘ parallel track, ’ ’ mean mg that a drug would be made available to people with AIDS in clinical trials as well as to those who cannot participate in the trials. The first phase of clinical trials, during which dosage is examined, have been completed on ddl by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and In fectious Diseases. f TMe RMtUR u j _J __i Toys R’ Us recalls baby rattle ffAomnvm/w — a mator toy retailer is voluntarily recalling 11,000 baby rattles because parts of the toy may become detached and choke young children, a government agency said Thursday. The "Wooden Shaky Head Rattles" were sold nationwide for about $2 each in 1988 and 1989 by Toys 'R* us, Inc. The toy consists of a 6 1/2 inch wooden handle topped with a red, yellow, pink or black head’Sheped rattle which has sprats hanging fan each side. Attached to she springs are two small wooden balls. The nutle “fails to meet the Con sumer Product Safety Commission mandatory standard for rattles that is intended to prevent choking acci dents involving young children," said Anne Graham, the panel's acting chairman. Consumers should take the rattles away from children and return them to the nearest Toys ‘R‘ Ur store for a refund, the commission mad. 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