Page 12 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1980 world Soviets deny academician status for dissident leader Sakharov x X GREEKS: AN AGGIE ADDITION Interested in finding out about sororities? United Press International MOSCOW — Exiled dissident leader Andrei Sakharov said Tues day, in a statement issued through the fiancee of his stepson, he had in effect been deprived of his academi cian status by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Sakharov earlier in the day tried to call a news conference but was pre vented from talking to reporters by militiamen. In a message from Gorky where he was exiled last month, Sakharov said he received a telegram from the pre stigious Soviet Academy of Sciences relieving him of his responsibility to attend the annual academy confer ence which opened Tuesday. “The participation in the general session of the Academy of Sciences is the right and duty of each member according to its statutes,” Sakharov said. “To my request to participate, the presidium (of the academy) re plied by in effect taking upon itself the responsibility to deprive me of that right and to relieve me of my function as an academician.” Lisa Alexeyeva, the fiancee of Sakharov’s stepson, telephoned several Western reporters Tuesday morning and invited them to a news conference to be held in Sakharov’s apartment. When the reporters arrived, they were confronted by two Soviet policemen who told them that Lisa Alexeyeva was not in the apartment and that they could not go in. The policemen said only Ruth Bonner, Sakharov’s mother-in-law, and Maria Podyapolsky, an elderly friend of the Sakharov family, were in the 7th-floor apartment. “We are here to protect Ruth Bon ner,” was the only explanation the policemen would offer for their pre sence to arriving reporters, who in cluded camera crews from the NBC and ABC networks. Sakharov’s friends and relatives have said they fear the Academy may be asked to vote for the expulsion of the distinguished nuclear physicist. The official news agency, Tass, re ported the opening in a brief dis- United Pi ASHING1 Wichita Falls 1 ing before a po in April that ma try to outrun dreadful mistal § Of the 26 pe jured by the st patch and that ■'the up the results of the work c-,., discove by the Academy over thek^| roaching Sakharov, once honoredtL ^ * ie homes 1 work pioneering the lnC llt injJ rogen bomb, was strippedj: many state awards and exiled;^ ky, 250 miles east ofMoscm ( ! 22. Son} Texas A&M Panhellenic is inviting you to their 1980 Rush Forum to answer questions you might have about sorority life and how you can become involved. WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2nd at 7:00 p.m. WHERE: THE RAMADA INN BALLROOM (TEXAS at UNIVERSITY) *Open to all female undergraduates at A&M U. S., Mexico sharing health care program new reco United Press International EL PASO — High level Mexican and U.S. officials are directing a cooperative program for emergency health care along the 1,950-mile bor der to benefit citizens of both coun tries. Cooperation in emergency medic al care is one of 10 public health cate gories which the U.S. Surgeon Gen eral, his Mexican counterpart and the director of the Pan American Health Organization agreed to address when they signed a Compre hensive Health Agreement in April, 1979. The nine other categories are im munization, tuberculosis, maternal and child care, environmental health, health system planning and evaluation, use of comparable statis tics, economic analysis, disease sur veillance and exchange of Spanish language health education materials. These will be discussed at the Border Health Association’s annual meeting April 20-23 in Saltillo, Mexico. health effort is a program that has been operating in the San Diego, Calif.-Tijuana, Mexico, area since 1976. For instance, if an American citizen is seriously injured in Ti juana, he is first taken to Tijuana General Hospital and given emergency treatment, health offi cials said. The Mexican doctor tele phones a physician at Bay General Hospital in Chula Vista, Calif., ex plains the treatment provided and makes arrangements for an Amer ican ambulance to transfer the pa tient to Bay General. The cooperative agreement allows U.S. and Mexican officials at the bor der crossing to “just wave them right on” when the ambulance arrives, said Sarah A. Markarian, director of the San Diego County Emergency Medical Services. A model tor the emergency care portion of international cooperative On the other hand, if a poor Mex ican citizen is injured in the San Diego area, he is taken to the hospit al of the University of California at San Diego and the co*unty pays the bill, she said. United Pi NEW YORK mthusiasm for p tlie United Sony Corp. wil "You can t leave people reting another there in the road,’ Markaria^ video cassi Almost all of New Mexk pokesman for ern and western Arizona idiary. Phoneix and Tucson, and tklv ern third of California inekcj Video casse Angeles are part of the apwiewers to rec In Nuevo I^redo, Mexi ams for later p the Kio Grande from Larec lisc players can vironmental study is beidut instead gested as a model for analyai ideodiscs. 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