Battalion VieWpOlllt
Texas A&M University
Friday
October 21, 1977
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
bines artificial respiration and artificial circulation to sustain a life threatened
by cardiac arrest. CPR is a specialized technique that takes only six hours of
training to learn properly.
The mayors of College Station and Bryan declared October as CPR
Month”. It was an effort to publicize the necessity of learning this specialized
technique. Why? Because each year heart attacks and cardiac arrest account
for thousands of deaths that might have otherwise been prevented had CPR
been tried.
Texas A&M University and local women’s organizations are sponsoring
classes in CPR throughout the month of October. The response to these
classes so far has been poor to say the least. Here is an opportunity to teach
people as young as eleven-years of age how to save the life of someone
stricken with a heart attack.
Why is it that someone is unwilling to spare six hours to learn Cardiopul
monary Resuscitation? Is it apathy or are people unaware that courses are
being offered in the community? Since both mayors declared October as
“CPR Month” the news media printed and broadcast information concerning
the CPR classes, dates, and times. So, it must be apathy because the infor
mation was well-publicized. The classes are free, and are offered in the
morning and evening, on Monday-Wednesday, Tuesday-Thursday, or
Saturday sessions.
It’s not too late to enroll in one of the six-hour courses. Just call 846-3820.
The classes meet for two three-hour sessions of lectures and practice on
mannequins.
Six hours of training in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation can mean a
lifetime to a child or an adult stricken with heart failure. It’s too late for the
person sitting beside you if he collapses from a heart attack and dies if you
haven’t been trained in CPR.
Six hours of training is worth a life, or is it? Peggy Macho!
Texas A<b-M Emergency Care Team
Is saving a life worth a few hours?
is a lifesaving technique. It com
Carter neglect worries Orient’s leaders
By DAVID S. BRODER
HONG KONG — Getting into China is
still difficult for Americans, but it is be
coming easier. Getting over China is
something else. That takes some doing.
This reporter has been out for several
days after his first trip and despite the dis
tractions of this lively city, my head is still
back there somewhere, on the other side
of the bridge.
The reason, I think, is that China is an
intensely personal experience — a set of
incidents and encounters that impact each
individual in his or her own way. Many
things are done repetitively, but almost
nothing is done mechanically. Whether
you are offered yak-butter tea in a one-
room Tibetan home or elegant refresh
ments in the Great Hall of the People, it is
always with a personal touch.
To make a great leap from the personal
to the presidential, that is one reason why
I regret that Jimmy Carter is not going
farther east than India on his forthcoming
continent-hopping trip.
I think that with his flair for personal
communication, he would touch and be
touched by a great many people in the
Orient — not just in China, but in Japan,
Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Australia,
and New Zealand. They are, from what
one hears, also very anxious to meet this
new President.
Their anxiety is in itself an important
element in the international equation.
Mike Mansfield, the wise ambassador to
Japan, used the word “vulnerable” three
times when talking about the way the
Japanese see their position in the world.
With the changes Carter is making in
the development of U.S. troops in the Fa
East, Korea and Taiwan must be feelin
that “vulnerability” even more.
But so, I would guess, is China. Behind
all its propaganda warnings about the Rus
sian “polar bear’s” claws and what it claims
is America’s tendency to turn into a “paper
tiger,” one senses an understandable and
genuine sense of insecurity.
Think of it this way. If you were the
senior Peking official whose principal link
to the unknown President in Washington
was through a retired labor union presi
dent, and you read almost daily of that
President dealing with the Soviet foreign
minister on every major issue in the
world, might you not get a little neurotic
about what was going on?
That is not to denigrate the role of
Leonard Woodcock, the former United
Auto Workers president who heads the
U.S. liaison office in Peking. But while
Woodcock was back home for the past
fortnight, the Chinese leaders in Peking
had visits from former Secretary of state
William P. Rogers, former ambassadors to
the United Nations George Bush and
William W. Scranton, froiner White
House counsellor Dean Burch, and the
head of the 1976 President Ford cam
paign, James E. Baker III.
In two weeks, they saw more big-shot
officials of the last two Republican admin
istrations than they have seen Democrats
in the nine months since Carter was inau
gurated.
Back in Washington, it made some
sense when people argued that Carter
should not have sent Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance to Peking last summer. Car
ter knew in advance that he was not ready
to “normalize relations with China by
shifting diplomatic recognition from
Taiwan to Peking.
From this side of the world, the argu
ment looks suspect. They very fact that
“normalization” is precluded by domestic
political considerations for the foreseeable
future makes it all the more imperative for
his administration to seek every opportu
nity for frequent talks, informal and for
mal, with the Chinese.
The fact that Carter will make two major
overseas trips in his first year in office
without coming to the heart of Asia sends
the wrong message to China, Japan, and
the other nations of the Pacific Basin. It
adds to a feeling of neglect, which only
personal diplomacy can counter.
(c) 1977, The Washington Post Company
Problems stacking up for new president
By HELEN THOMAS
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Is this the autumn
of President Carter’s discontent?
He says not. In fact. Carter told Demo
cratic Party stalwarts at a recent gathering
that he welcomes “the recent controversy
swirling around the White House.”
If that’s true, he’s a glutton for punish
ment. For Carter, there are few headlines
these days that can make him happy.
Washington window
His energy program is faltering despite
dire warnings about shortages during a
very cold winter ahead. He has said ap
proval of the Panama Canal treaties is “in
doubt.”
He is having trouble with his welfare
reform program, and he is about to unveil
a tax reform package which certainly won’t
please everyone.
Part of Carter’s problem appears to be
that he has yet to command a loyal follow
ing — lieutenants on Capitol Hill who feel
strongly about his programs and are will
ing to go to the mat for him.
When Sens. James Abourezk, D-S.D.,
and Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, did
just that with a filibuster to try to break the
Senate tide for deregulation of natural gas,
the administration pulled the rug out from
under them.
Vice President Walter Mondale and Se
nate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd
worked out the strategy to kill the filibus
ter and succeeded. Mondale maintains it
was done without Carter’s knowledge, but
Abourezk seems to think otherwise. He
accused Carter of lying.
If the President indeed did not know of
the strategy of the floor managers, and
gave no signals, he is in bad shape. For to
say the least. Carter should monitor his
own centerpiece legislation and to try to
keep it on track.
The past nine months have been a get-
acquainted trip for Carter and Democratic
leaders and there’s no indication they
know each other yet.
Carter took office at a time when Con
gress was asserting the powers it lost in the
Johnson and Nixon eras. They wanted no
dictates from the president and no strong
powers from the White House.
As a result, Carter has used kid gloves in
his dealings with Democratic leaders, and
he has tried to stay on the side of the
angels as they show him the ropes.
For all the unprecedented consulation
he has carried on with members of Con
gress, they still complain. But it is true
that Carter worked out a joint U.S.-Soviet
declaration on the main issues involved in
a Middle East peace settlement without
consulting the lawmakers most concerned
with the problem.
Carter says part of the blame lies with
his trying to tackle age-old problems that
have defied solution for years — the
Arab-Israeli confict for one. He also has
moved into areas of controversy where
previous presidents have stepped gingerly
— human rights and the Panama Canal
treaties.
Pundits, who prefer the status quo and
seek far more predictability, have dis
played their outrage. Some of Henry Kis
singer’s followers believe Carter’s open
ness and his zig-zags in foreign policy are
detrimental to the nation’s foreign policy.
According to critics. Carter not playing
ball by the old rules. Some are showing
more relief now that the United States and
the Soviet Union are getting along better
Tetters to the editor
Where is
Editor:
Picture this if you will: I have survived
another hard day of class. I trek over to the
MSC, seeking a little relaxation and some
relief from the horrors of lecturedom. I
descend to the basement, whereupon I
feed my daily quota of quarters to the elec
tronic bandidos assembled there. Having
expended my life savings, I stroll over to
the closed-circuit television. I read the at
tached notice, and learn that 55 minutes of
Popeye awaits my critical review. De
lighted, I take a seat and eagerly await
some diverting and wholesome entertain
ment. It is now 3:45.
Eventually I get a sneaking suspicion
that I am growing impatient. I look at my
watch. It is 4:05. I look at the television.
Nothing. I look at other people around
me. Several are seated, blank stares on
their faces, evidently hypnotized by the
absolute inactivity unfolding before their
very eyes. I say to myself, “Where is
Popeye?” I wait another minute or so,
then leave murmuring vague obsenities
under my breath.
The story you have just heard is true,
and it has happened to me twice recently.
Why must we endure such treatment?
Should we let the Video-tape Committee
dangle such temptations as Popeye before
our noses? I mean, it just isn’t nice to tease
Aggies. Tell me, Video people/where is
Popeye?
—Paul Hughes ‘80
Art apologies
Editor:
The Arts Committee would like to
clarify any misunderstandings which may
have resulted from last week’s advertise-
and edging back toward detente.
For a time, they felt that Carter had for
gotten the axiom that the world is made up
of two superpowers. When U.N. Ambas
sador Andrew Young went off to Africa to
extend a sympathetic hand to the inde
pendent movements in the Third World,
Carter was urged to restrain him and a
mini-movement began in the House to
impeach Young.
It appears that Carter is marching to his
own drum and is on the opposite side of
the fence from the Democratic-controlled
Congress in foreign affairs and some areas
of domestic affairs. So much so that he has
told Republican legislators they are more
helpful to him at times than his Demo
cratic cohorts.
It’s clear that he must be reading it
more and enjoying it less. What comes
through is that neither Congress nor the
pundits have a clear fix on Carter’s goals,
his methods or his philosophy. A lack of a
clear line bothers them.
By definition, Carter has created confu
sion by his contradictory signals, all of
which lessen confidence in him.
But despite all, Carter looks on the rosy
side. “I’m still learning,” he said. “I’m
eager to learn. I want to be a good presi
dent.
Popeye?
ment for our print sale. Neither the Com
mittee nor the dealer purposefully tried to
deceive anyone, yet we apologize if any
one was inconvenienced by the ad.
—John Purcell
Public Relations Director
Arts Committee
Wishbone must go
Coach Bellard:
The foregoing statements are the opin
ions of myself and many. That is, the
wishbone offense is obsolete. All opposing
teams know how to defend against it. Ah!
But you say that this isn’t true because the
of Aggie team has scored quite well and
has won all except one of their games. The
reason that we’ve (Aggies) won those
games is not the use of wishbone, it is be
cause of the extremely talented player who
battles out the victory with this archaic
weapon.
Yes, Coach Bellard, we all know that
you are the inventor of the wishbone, and
it’s a great offensive lineup. But it no
longer works efficently. It is a well-known
offense and it has become easy to defend
against.
Look at t.u., they’ve finally stopped
using the wishbone after a couple of losing
seasons and now, they’re undefeated.
Come on Coach Bellard, we know you
have a propeasity for “your baby” but it’s
time to retire that old friend. I have not
talked to anyone who has disagreed with
me. We would all love, to see our Ags to
the Cotton Bowl, but it’ll be difficult to
travel there by the wishbone. So, let’s
break the wishbone and pass more
victories our way.
—Concerned W.B.N.
Battalion Spirit
1. Who are Texas A&M’s two biggest rivals?
2. How do you define Aggie Spirit?
3. Do you think Aggie Spirit is on the decline?
4. Do you care?
Please turn in your answers (by Oct. 25) to “Quiz,” The Battalion, 216
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Cutting classes good for you
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Official work on the Bonfire will begin Sunday. Aggies who are
going to cut timber must have a bonfire cutting card with them at all
times. To get this card, students must attend a cutting class. Classes
will meet at 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Oct. 25 at the Animal
Science Pavillion.
: State
‘Racehorse' makes jokes at trial
The length of the T. Cullen Davis murder trial probably is working
to the benefit of the defense, one of the prosecutors Marvin Collins,
said Thursday in Amarillo. The trial of the Fort Worth, Tex., mil
lionaire is in its ninth week and already is the longest murder trial in
Texas history. “The longer it goes the more they lose their concentra
tion and they (the jury) quit paying attention. Then one side or the
other offers comic relief to regain their attention,” Collins said. De
fense attorney Richard “Racehorse” Haynes used that tactic Wednes
day during the 43rd day of testimony, interrupting his own question
ing of prosecution witness Frank Shriller to speculate jokingly on
whether prosecutor Joe Shannon Jr. was wearing a wig and whether
cross sections of wig fibers found at the crime scene had the shape of
dog bones.
Rusk superintendent dismissed
A two-month investigation of patient abuse at the Rusk State Hos
pital has led to the dismissal of the institution’s superintendent. Men
tal Health and Mental Retardation Department commissioner Dr.
Kenneth Gavor Wednesday said Robert B. Sheldon’s dismissal was
effective immediately. Caver, in his letter discharging Sheldon, said
the superintendent “was not administering Rusk State Hospital in a
manor consistent with the policies of the department.” Sheldons
dismissal was not related to a recent controversy at the hospital over
his firing of a nurse and physician who made allegations of patient
mistreatment.
Hill jury disagrees on testimony
The jury has disagreed about an unnamed witness testimony in
early deliberations in the wrongful death suit in Houston against
oilman Ash Robinson. The seven-man, five-woman civil court jury
deliberated seven hours Wednesday without reaching a decision. The
panel could consider as many as 47 special issues in the complex
lawsuit. The survivors of Dr. John Hill claim Robinson paid $25,000
to have the plastic surgeon killed because the oilman held Hill re
sponsible for the death of his daughter Joan Robinson Hill. The jury
must decide from evidence presented in the trial if a conspiracy
existed to take Hill’s life, and if Robinson and two other persons
already serving prison terms for their role in the death were part of
that conspiracy.
Nation
Got?, wants money for South
Georgie Gov. George Busbee, the new chairman of the Southern
Growth Policies Board, plans a meeting of Southern leaders this
winter to start gathering data to convince President Carter and Con
gress the South is being short-changed in federal funding. Busbee
said this week he wants to shift the board’s emphasis from a scholarly
study of growth patterns to an activist lobbying role before Congress.
He said he was disappointed Carter, a former SGPB chairman, re
cently signed a community development block grant law with a fund-
ing policy that Busbee says unfairly favors the North and Midwest.
Fuelish caddies recalled
World
Firebombing in West Germany
Leftist terrorists and their allies have opened a new offensive
against West Germany, killing a top industrialist and firebombing
German vehicles and businesses across France and Italy. The Bonn
government, returning the challenge, said it will hunt down the
killers of kidnapped industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, whose body
was ound Wednesday' in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France. The
violence came after West German commandoes freed 86 hostages from
a hijacked Lufthansa airliner in Somalia, killing three of the four Arab
and German hijackers in a seven minute Entebbe-style raid. Hours
t er the commando raid, West Germany announced the suicides of
Andreas Baader a co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhop gang
° U} j n x ? u ? rri as , an ^ two comrades in Stammheim prison. At the
United Nations meanwhile, Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
moved to head off an international strike by airline pilots incensed by
the execution of the pilot aboard the hijacked Lufthansa jetliner. The
pi o s ave emaned the U.N. take actions against air piracy.
Weather
Mostly to partly cloudy today and tomorrow with southeasterly
winds 10 mph. High today upper 80s. Low tonight mid 60s. 20
percent chance of rain tomorrow afternoon.
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correct fuel hose leaks which have caused at least 100 engine fires.
The fires have injured at least seven persons, but Cadillac officials
said the “danger was minimal.” Included in the recall was every
Cadillac Seville ever sold—a total of 111,000—and 22,000 Coupe
DeVille and Eldorado models with electronic fuel injection systems.
Cadillac described the injuries reported as the result of engine fires as
minor. The fuel leak is caused by a deterioration in the fuel hose
connections between the gas tank and engine fuel rail.
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