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[ WACO — Three city workers
j *ying to stop a natural gas leak at an
I vacuated shopping center were in-
: tied Tuesday in the explosion of the
j as line. All three were treated and
Released and damage was minimal,
j Officials at Midway Shopping
‘Center, a 15-store shopping area in
j^he suburban community of Wood
way, smelled the gas and immediate
ly ordered the complex evacuated
and summoned city crews, gas work
ers and the fire department.
City manager John Lynch specu
lated the gas fumes were ignited by a
heater.
Lynch said four stores received
minor damage. He estimated the
damage at about $100,000.
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WACO — Officials of church-
owned Baylor University obviously
don’t want Playboy Magazine’s
photographer around but what
started as a controversy over naked
and nearly naked women has swelled
to include freedom of the collegiate
press.
University President Abner
McCall Monday said the student
newspaper, The Lariat, was too con
cerned with “the plans of a pornog
raphic magazine’’ and said the 30-
person staff should either resign or
refrain from criticizing his anti-
Playboy stand.
McCall has threatened to disci
pline Baylor’s students who pose for
Playboy’s “Girls of the Southwest
Conference” photo layout.
Editor of The Lariat Jeff Barton
Tuesday said the staff may indeed
resign, but in protest of McCall’s
heavy hand. McCall contends that
since the Baptist-owned university
pays the newspaper’s expenses,
Baylor officials have the power to de
termine what is published.
Barton maintains the staff should
be publishing things that are of con
cern to students and that includes
Playboy magazine coming to town
and McCall’s opposition.
“Playbov has been of great interest
to students. It’s dominated our let
ters (to the editor) section and what
we’ve tried to do is keep up with
student interest,” Barton said. “We
perceive a very great interest.
There have been no organized stu
dent protests against Playboy and
the Baylor women are split in their
opinions.
One student, who refused to give
her name, said she was considering
posing semi-nude and felt the Baylor
administration was overreacting.
“I don’t see anything wrong with
it,” she said. “Things like that don’t
bother me, and I don’t think it’s any
of their business.”
Two women, who also refused to
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give their names, said women who
pose would not be “well received” at
Baylor.
“I think it would be a disgrace to
Baylor but it’s up to the individual,”
one said. “I think you will see a lot of
uproar if there are people from the
campus that are included in the
magazine.”
Barton says more Playboy stories
are planned but the university has
imposed some restrictions. The
Lariat staff was told Monday that all
editorials must be submitted two
days before publication so they can
be checked by editors and the news
paper’s faculty adviser.
McCall contends the newspaper is
an extension of the university
nistration since it pays for expei
and that gives it publisher’s ri|
control editorial comment.
“Freedom and discretion to t
dent editors and reporters is iW;
matter of constitutional right bull
exercise of discretion by the
lisher as to accomplishing the es
sought by the publisher,” he sail
Barton said McCall’s directive^
out editorial comment has dem
ized the staff and a mass n
is possible.
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HOUSTON — Tiny, 23-day-old
Puerto Rican twin girls joined at the
chest have gained 5 ounces in less
than seven days and doctors Tuesday
said they might be strong enough for
separation surgery by the end of the
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compared to their 7-pound, 4-ounce
weight upon arrival at Texas Chil
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Thursday.
“They’re holding their own,” a
hospital spokesman said. “They’re in
critical but stable condition, just the
way they have been. They are still on
the respirator and will be until
surgery.”
A team of five surgeons and fou
expert consultants was assembled to
carry out the surgery, originally
planned Tuesday, but postponed af
ter a meeting in which the doctors
agreed the twins remained too weak.
“They decided to delay it until late
this week or possibly next week to
give the babies a chance to build up
some more strength,” said Pat Kiley,
a hospital administrator.
Neither the hospital nor the doc
tors, whose names have been with
held, have disclosed details of the
twins’ anatomy, particularly whether
they have fully separate hearts or
some combined heart function.
“The family has requested that no
medical information be disclosed,” a
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that the surgical team was being cal
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