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The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 118
12 Pages
Monday, March 17, 1980
College Station, Texas
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Phone 845-2611
This one's for two
Freshman forward Claude Riley goes in for a back
wards dunk as Louisville’s Rodney McCray (22) and
Darrell Griffith (35) look on helplessly. The Cardin
als defeated the Aggies 66-55 in overtime Friday
night, and went on to defeat LSU, 86-66, Sunday for
the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship in
Houston’s Summit Arena. For more sports news, see
page 11. Staff photo by Lynn Blanco
Reagan, Carter leading
iwjin Illinois opinion poll
. WM United Press International
CHICAGO — Illinois sent another sig-
| nal today that 1980 is the year of the volatile
«K‘ voter: Ronald Reagan overtook John
COLOR Anderson, George Bush dropped like a
' rock and President Carter lost a chunk of
support in a statewide poll taken within two
days of Illinois’ presidential primary.
The Chicago Tribune poll, which last
week showed favorite son Anderson lead
ing Reagan by a whisker, gave the former
California governor a 36 percent to 34 per
-cent lead over the Illinois congressman on
; the basis of samplings taken Friday and
<r/n| Saturday.
NOW * £ | The Reagan lead, which is within the
poll’s margin of error, makes the GOP con-
j; test a two-man tossup, because Bush, run-
f ning at 20 percent a week ago, plummeted
I to 12 percent in the final survey.
Hi On the Democratic side, the poll, which
has a good record of reliability, showed
arter’s Illinois support dropping, but Sen.
t Edward Kennedy holding fast.
I Carter’s lost support went into the unde-
! tided category, which could mean it will
-wind up in Kennedy’s column, or because
there is no registration by party in the state,
witching over to the GOP side to vote for
Anderson.
Both Bush and Kennedy campaigners
tried to put the best face possible on what
shaped up as more bad news for their candi
dates.
T do not believe the Tribune poll,’ said
Bush aide Sam Skinner.
He then amended his statement to say he
disagreed only with the survey’s findings of
a sharp Bush drop, not with the Anderson
slump it also showed.
Skinner, who took over Bush’s news con
ference when the candidate refused to dis
cuss the poll because he had been criticized
for not concentrating on issues, said the
former U.N. ambassador’s own organiza
tion had found Bush’s support increasing.
Kennedy, campaigning Sunday in Con
necticut — which holds its primary along
with New York on March 25) — made no
predictions about Tuesday’s vote, but told
supporters he had just been given two bun
ches of shamrocks, with which “every Irish
man gets two wishes.”
“I’m going to use one of them up on the
Illinois primary and the other one in Con
necticut,” he said.
Kennedy today also was taking advan
tage of St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago by mar
ching at the head of the city’s famous big
parade with Mayor Jane Byrne.
The parade, for which the city dyes the
Chicago River green and paints a green
stripe down State Street, is a favorite cam
paigning ground for local politicians, and
Kennedy hopes to bolster his Chicago sup
port with the appearance.
Despite his poor showing in the state
wide poll, Kennedy expects to do far better
in Chicago with the fiery mayor’s help. Be
cause delegate selection is separated from
the popular vote “beauty contest” in the
two-tier Illinois primary, Kennedy’s sup
porters hope to capture most of the 49 dele
gates Chicago gets in the 152-member Illi
nois Democratic convention delegation
and pick up some additional delegates in
downstate areas.
The same kind of disparity may show up
in the selection of the state’s 92 Republican
delegates. There is separate voting for
them and Reagan is the only candidate who
has anywhere near a full slate running.
Bush has only four delegates running under
his name and Anderson has barely half the
full slate on the ballot.
Reagan campaigned Sunday in suburban
Schaumberg, where he told supporters at a
$100 a plate fund-raiser: “Unless the Re
publicans win this time, what you just paid
for lunch is going to be the regular price for
a lunch.”
United Press International
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A de
legation of American Olympic hopefuls will
meet with President Carter this week in an
attempt to keep alive their chances of com
peting in the 1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow.
Anita DeFrantz, a member of the
Athletes Advisory Council and bronze
medal winner in rowing at the 1976 Olym
pics in Montreal, said the meeting March
21 in Washington will be the first direct
communication between the athletes who
have been in training for the Summer
Games and the administration.
The U.S. Olympic Committee’s Admi
nistrative Committee Saturday held a six-
hour, closed door meeting in which it
drafted a resolution dealing with President
Carter’s proposal that the United States not
send a team to Moscow this summer.
The contents of the resolution, which
will be considered by the USOC’s House of
Delegates next month, were kept secret.
However, USOC President Robert J. Kane
and Executive Director F. Don Miller said
the resolution was in keeping with the com
mittee’s previous stand.
“There is nothing startling in the resolu
tion, ” said Kane, “and we expect the House
of Delegates to accept it.”
Kane and DeFrantz also said they did not
consider President Carter’s position on the
boycott issue irrevocable.
“Nothing is irrevocable except to the
foolish and dead,” Kane said.
Kane also indicated that because public
opinion against a boycott seems to be grow
ing, the USOC might delay as long as possi
ble the decision to formally withdraw the
American team from the games.
The USOC said a survey it conducted
among Americans following the Winter
Olympics and letters the committee has
received at its headquarters indicates six
out of every 10 Americans now favor send
ing a U.S. team to Russia.
“We have noticed a trend toward shifting
public opinion,” said Miller. “The calls and
letters we are receiving are much stronger
in support of our sending a team to
Moscow.”
DeFrantz said the main concern of the
athletes is that be heard by the administra
tion.
“There is obviously a vast gap in com
munication,” said DeFrantz. “One of the
questions we want to ask President Carter
is how he reached the decision that boycot
ting the Olympics was the best method for
dealing with the Soviet’s military actions in
Afghanistan.”
And although she said American athletes
were ready to support any efforts the Car
ter Administration might deem necessary
to preserve world peace, DeFrantz sum
med up the feelings of the athletes who feel
they have become pawns in the political
struggle over the Olympics.
“The President is taking a stand that, at
least for this year, is threatening to destroy
the Olympic movement,” said DeFrantz.
“All of this from a government that had
shown no interest whatsoever in the Olym
pic movement.”
Congress examines
budget, oil profits, FTC
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democratic con
gressmen will consider how to slash ex
penditures for the current fiscal year this
week while the Senate gets its crack at the
oil windfall profits bill. The House will also
consider an emergency measure to keep
the financially-ailing Federal Trade Com
mission from dying.
House and Senate Democratic leaders
will meet with top administration economic
officials, reconvening the group that
helped devise President Carter’s program
to cut the 1981 budget by some $13 billion.
Today, Senate Democratic leader
Robert Byrd of West Virginia said, the
group will start looking for ways to cut ex
penditures in the current fiscal year ending
Sept. 30.
In a related development, leaders of the
House Budget Committee are preparing a
proposal to earmark the $11 billion in re
venues from President Carter’s oil import
fee to provide business and Social Security
tax cuts, the Washington Post reported to
day. Carter had requested the money be
put into reserve.
Byrd said he was “very encouraged” by a
promise of Republican support made by
Senate GOP leader Howard Baker of Ten
nessee.
Byrd also plans to call up a compromise
$222.7 billion oil windfall profits tax bill,
possibly Tuesday.
It faces a tough fight in the Senate —
including a filibuster threat by Sen. Henry
Bellmon, R-Okla., — but is expected to
pass.
The compromise passed the House last
week by a 302-107 vote.
Call girl ring
Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Russell Long, D-La., who chaired the con
ference committee that put together sepa
rate House and Senate versions of the legis
lation, expects Senate action to be com
pleted in about five legislative days.
Bellmon wants to send the bill back to
conference to seek a better break for inde
pendent oil producers.
Voting fraud charged
in Iranian elections
United Press International
The hard-line Islamic Republican Party
grabbed an early lead in balloting for the
Iranian parliament, charged with deciding
the fate of the 50 American hostages, but
allegations of voting fraud raised the possi
bility some results could be voided.
Meanwhile, a medical team in Panama
decided that the former shah of Iran is too
weak to undergo an operation to remove his
spleen. Doctors said they would wait to
remove the spleen after the shah has more
fully recovered from past operations.
The shah then flew back to his exile home
on Contadora Island. Iranian militants have
demanded the shah’s return since they
seized the U.S. Embassy Nov. 4.
The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, sup
reme ruler of the Islamic republic, has said
once the parliament convenes it will decide
whether the Americans, held captive for
135 days, will be freed. The militants hold
ing the hostages said Sunday they will obey
the legislature.
But any annulment of balloting could
further the delay the process of electing
Iran’s Majlis, the 270-seat parliament, ex
pected to convene in May.
Results trickled in from across the coun
try and the final outcome for the first phase
of the election, which was held Friday, was
not expected for two weeks.
Initial reports, however, showed the
fundamentalists setting an early winning
trend.
Tehran Radio Sunday night said the Isla
mic Republican Party, led by Ayatollah
Mohammed Beheshti, took the early lead
in 28 electoral districts. It said 60 candi
dates won seats but did not specify which
parties were the winners.
If the early trend proves correct, it would
be a blow for Iranian President Bani-Sadr, a
moderate who has campaigned for an end
to the 20-week-old hostage crisis to allow
Iran to attend to internal matters.
Bani-Sadr ordered an investigation of the
charges of fraud. He asked the election
supervision committee in Tehran Sunday
night to announce the total number of votes
cast, region by region, at the end of each
day.
He said the cheating mostly involved
attempts to coerce or trick illiterate voters
into casting ballots for specific candidates.
gets wrung | Doctors atBeutel
using new flu drug
United Press International
ATHENS, Greece — Police have
smashed a suspected international call girl
ring that included Miss Greek Tourism
1979 and 14 other women who allegedly
catered to wealthy Greek and Arab busi
nessmen at champagne and cocaine par
ties.
An American, male dancer Mose Hep-
pin, 39, and a French woman, Dominique
Blanouet, 45, were taken into custody on
charges of running the ring, which sold
sexual favors for $200 an hour to $500 a
night.
“They are wonderful looking girls,” a
police spokesman said. “Five worked as
fashion models in an Athens salon, and
have appeared in Greek magazines and on
calendars.”
Police said 15 American, British, West
German, Danish and Canadian women
were questioned about champagne and
cocaine parties with Arab businessmen in
hotels around Athens. A police spokesman
would say only “two or three” American
women were questioned.
The ring was uncovered when a Greek
vice squad officer, posing as an Algerian
businessman, arranged an appointment
with two British women at a hotel near
Athens airport last week.
Police said 10 women were detained
briefly and supplied names and addresses
of their clients.
The women questioned included Della
Leslie from England, named Miss Greek
Tourism at the Dafhi Wine Festival last
September.
Miss Leslie, a popular model in Greece
who has appeared in magazines and on tele
vision, admitted in an interview she had
worked as a call girl, “but independently. ”
Several of the women said they gave one-
third of their earnings to Miss Blanouet,
the French woman. But Miss Leslie said, “I
never gave any money to the French
woman or the American.”
By TERRY DURAN
Campus Reporter
Doctors at the A.P. Beutel Health
Center are experimenting with a diffe
rent way of treating the flu.
Students coming to the Health Cen
ter with severe influenza symptoms are
asked to participate in the project; if
they agree, they are treated with a drug
called ribavirin, administered as a vapor
through a facemask.
Dr. John M. Quarles, one of the doc
tors working on the project, said the
ribavirin vapor, administered in alter
nate four-hour intervals, reaches the re
spiratory system much quicker than
drugs taken as pills.
Quarles said students not wishing to
try the ribavirin can also participate:
they are treated with the traditional
methods of “plenty of fluids and lots of
rest. ” Extensive tests are done on pro
ject patients whether they are taking
ribavirin or not; Quarles said this helps
to show the normal progress of the dis
ease in comparison with ribavirin-
treated cases.
Dr. Clifford Dacso, of the Baylor Col
lege of Medicine in Houston, is also
working on the project. He said it can be
anywhere from 48 hours to a week be
fore doctors are sure if a patient actually
has “the flu”, rather than some other
virus.
Quarles said the usual spring out
break of flu has arrived, but with a
slightly different twist: since many stu
dents (over 2,100) were vaccinated last
spring against the Russian flu, a type A
strain, most of the cases diagnosed as flu
this spring have been type B influenza.
Most outbreaks are type A influenza.
Quarles said about 600 people re
ported to the Health Center last week
with respiratory problems, compared
with a normal figure of 200 to 300.
Quarles said the experiment started
about two weeks ago when the increase
in respiratory problems began, and will
probably continue for another two
weeks.
Dasco said the three machines used
in the study are a much simpler third
generation of the original model de
veloped at Fort Dietrich, Md., about a
decade ago.
The machines used now cost only
$350 to $400 to build, Dacso said, com
pared with thousands of dollars for the
first two types.
Gregg Hart said Wednesday he was
put on the ribavirin treatment Monday
afternoon. “I feel a lot better now,” he
said. “I was surprised, since I had never
heard of anything like this before. I’m
just glad there aren’t any shots,” Hart
said.
Quarles said the machine, when
tested and refined more, should be
helpful to those with acute influenza,
elderly patients with low resistance to
disease, and people who develop in-
fluenze pneumonia.
Both Dacso and Quarles said they
thought the ribavirin treatment was
helping flu patients, but Dacso empha
sized they wouldn’t know until all the
information has been analyzed.
“Until this field of study gets much
more developed, though,’ Quarles
said, “the mainstay will still be preven
tion. It’s cheaper, simpler and, at this
stage of the game, still the most effec
tive.”
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