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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 17
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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 17

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MARCH 2, 1990 The Atlanta Journal AND CONSTITUTION B-11 Roper gets off to non-stop start as he takes over helm of CDC By Steve Sternberg Staff writer Dr. William L. Roper's first day at the Centers for Disease Control began Thursday the patriotic fanfare of a John Phil4 ip Sousa march and the whispered warning, "You're a minute late." By late afternoon, the minutes had piled up, and the new director of the agency, which has a billion-dollar budget, had not yet reached his desk in the CDC's headquarters at 1600 Clifton Rd. "We've just gone building to building, desk to desk, shaking hands," he said when, at 5 p.m., he finally reached his second-floor office an hour behind schedule. It was not a surprising start for the personable, veteran administrator who has agreed to lead the CDC in its mission to vanquish some of the hardiest adversaries in the history of human misery: AIDS, injuries and a host of chronic diseases.

Dr. Roper's schedule the first day was relentless, crammed with obligations, both public and private, that literally left no minutes to spare. In the morning he took his place beside nine other luminaries in a "Celebration of Public Service," a U.S. Office of Personnel Management job fair. The tall, bearded, Lincolnesque 41-yearold, who until Wednesday was the senior White House.

adviser on health policy, played his part, presenting plaques to three civil servants one of whom had been briefly considered for Dr. Roper's job. smoking, Of the three David Lilly, the minesafety official who pulled infant Jessica McClure from a Texas well; Dr. Helene Gayle, an AIDS epidemiologist at the CDC; and Dr. Donald Hopkins, the former CDC deputy director briefly considered head the agency it was Mr.

Lilly, whose experience as a West Virginia miner was furthest from Dr. Roper's, who appeared to command his closest attention. It was at the conclusion of the ceremony, as Dr. Roper was being shepherded off by the man he replaced, Acting CDC Director Walter Dowdle, and other officials to visit the heads of the six centers that make up his diverse agency, that his meticulously planned schedule began to unravel. "You're already a minute late," Dr.

Alan R. Hinman, director of the Center for Preventive Services, whispered, with a smile, over the noise of the crowd. By the end of the day, Dr. Roper had toured the agency's headquarters, three of the six office parks that house more than 1,500 of the CDC's 5,000 employees, and the $23-million, maximum-containment laboratory used for research into lethal organisms. His first impression, he said later, was that the agency has overflowed its headquarters and needs space.

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In the interim, he must sell his home in Washington, buy a house in Atlanta and move his wife, Maryann, and year-old son, Will Jr. "Until then, I'm commuting on weekends," he said. "In a way, for the first month, I'm better off being a bachelor. I can work longer hours." WASHINGTON "Creative bookkeeping" and inadequate planning mask the size of the federal deficit and prevent Congress from making rational decisions about the 1991 military budget, the head of Congress's investigating arm said Thursday. The 1991 deficit will be more than four times what President Bush's budget projects and will be increasing in 1993, even though Mr.

Bush says it will be balanced that year, said Comptroller General Charles Bowsher, head of the General Accounting Office. Advocating major cuts in the existing five-year defense plan, Mr. Bowsher told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Defense Department has failed to produce a plan to enable Congress to make the cuts wisely. He said Mr. Bush's 1991 budget would produce a $273 billion deficit instead of the $63 billion deficit the president predicts.

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