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IA blood drive will be held for Jeffrey
lllis, 10, a hemophiliac, today from 11 a. m.
ntilOp.m. at St. Mary’s Student Center.
1 The center is located at 103 Nagle in
jollege Station.
[ The drive is being held for the son of M r.
(id Mrs. Jewell Ellis of 1201 Timm Dr. in
lollege Station.
By a replacement agreement with Scott
||l White Hospital in Temple, Jeffrey’s pa-
ents receive the anti-hemophilic that
elps their son’s blood to clot in exchange
ir donated blood.
Jeffrey’s mother, Frances Ellis, said they
ponsor the blood drives in order to replace
he blood used by Jeffrey. The hospital has
fever denied her son the medicine he
leeds, but she said it is important that they
hold the drives to replace some of the blood
he uses or they may be forced to do so.
Since Jeffrey needs approximately 500
pints of blood a year and medicine which
Xsts $70 a bottle, Ellis said they are pre-
lently far behind in their replacement
count.
J “Jeffrey lives a fairly normal life provided
[he can get the medication he needs,” Ellis
[said. A day of skating usually means an
afternoon of transfusions for him, she
added.
I People do not realize that hemophilia
involves external bleeding and internal
bleeding, Ellis said. “Bleeding in the joints
i? the problem Jeffrey has now,” she said.
Texas A&M University students, in the
t, have been very generous about giving
ood, Ellis said. “Jeffrey realizes that the
ople are giving blood for him, ” she said,
and he is very grateful. ”
Personnel from Scott & White Hospital
vill draw, process, and ship the blood.
Doctors say
^Tito’s health
is grave
United Press International
^ BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — President
Josip Broz Tito was reported in exception-
Py grave condition today but his doctors
| Said they had managed to lessen the 87-
year-old leader’s internal bleeding.
. The general health condition of Presi
dent Tito is somewhat better than the pre
ceding days, but it is still exceptionally
grave, the official daily medical bulletin
laid.
The bleeding is considerably less. “In
tensive medical measures continue,” it
said.
[( t The bulletin indicated that what doctors
| f 1 ®? 11 ’- somewhat better” was that they
>. e ii, r a d managed to control somewhat the
"v i Hi ."^spread hemorrhaging in Tito’s sto-
mach and intestines.
> ot °® It still meant Tito’s badly damaged liver
Was steadily deteriorating, his jaundice was
i up 01 severe, his fever high, his heart weakening,
| seven j his kidneys in total failure and his pneumo-
lS ini' Pa not responding to treatment.
D-2 All this indicated that Tito, the only lead-
igaiBil ^Yugoslavia has known for 35 years, had
cl asW 1 'J us t about come to the end of his more than
mort® ‘month battle against the stacked odds of
<isease and old age.
hs just a matter of time,” a Western
mplomat said.
Doctors treating Tito, 87, in the north-
|vest city of Ljubljana issued their most
pessimistic bulletin yet, Monday, saying he
f?s ' n exceptionally grave” condition with
J, 0n | list of serious medical complications
a t endanger the life of comrade Presi
dent.
His impressive three-month battle
against disease was the last of a man who
, as always fought and won against over
whelming odds.
if it bme, however, while his struggle
j °r life illustrated the almost legendary re-
|P| Yugoslavs have for the man who has
led them since World War II, no one se-
Pijy thought Tito could win.
!i Ibe mood of the people by now has
ec °me one of why don’t they let him die,”
p ne source said.
I Jbe medical team’s list read like a medic-
Pi extbook of disease and showed almost all
of faT° * V * ta ^ or S ans in an interrelated state
j None of his ailments is responding to the
Ith 0 * 01 ^ b ltens * ve medical measures” and
j ore has been an overall serious deteriora-
| l0a w ithin the past week.
J- 0 ^ as boon kept alive by the “intensive
I e measures,” comprising daily kid-
| » an d antibiotics,
te rf j/ ness > which began when he en-
LJ? me hospital for two days, of routine
l S ? ° n a blood vessel disorder in his legs,
bull 'H c b r °nicled in brief, daily medical
Wo w b os o terminology has by now
! °r ed its way into the everyday language
| ot me country.
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su 6 C ° l ec ^ ve leadership government that
cceeds him has long been made in all but
the formal sense.
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ted 11
The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 143' Tuesday, April 22, 1980 USPS 045 360
12 Pages College Station, Texas Phone 845-2611
Aggie Muster, the traditional remembrance of fal
len Aggies, was held Monday at Texas A&M and in
over 450 places around the world. San Antonio City
Councilman Henry G. Cisneros, ’68, addressed the
largest Muster crowd in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Other Muster activities included the presentation of
colors, a special candle service and the traditional
21-gun Salute. Staff photos by Lynn Blanco
Aggies celebrate Muster
here, and all over world
Aggie Muster, the traditional remem
brance of fallen Aggies, was held Mon
day at Texas A&M University and
around the world. Aggies came together
in more than 450 places around the
world to honor fallen comrades in the
traditional San Jacinto Day memorial
service.
The largest Muster was at G. Rollie
White Coliseum on the Texas A&M
campus where San Antonio City Coun
cilman Henry G. Cisneros, ’68, addres
sed students and faculty.
Cisneros, a former Aggie Band Com
mander and professor at the University
of Texas at San Antonio, told the crowd,
“Muster is the most sacred of all Aggie
traditions.”
Comparing life at A&M to life after
graduation, Cisneros said “The words
soldier, statesman and knightly gentle
man are A&M ideals which spring into
action when duty calls them forth. ” Cis
neros added all Aggies are representa
tive of these ideas, Corps and civilian
alike.
The traditional roll call of those who
have died was held after Cisneros re
marks. This year’s Muster also included
a special candle-lighting ceremony and
the traditional 21-gun salute by the Ross
Volunteers followed by Silver Taps.
Special guests at the Muster were
members of the class of’35. Seven mem
bers of that class were participants in the
now legendary Muster held during
World War II on Corregidor Island.
Peru embassy may house
high-rank Communists
United Press International
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — High-ranking
defectors from Fidel Castro’s government,
the “cream of the Communist crop,” may
be among the 1,400 Cuban refugees still at
the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, a top
diplomatic source says.
The diplomat said a member of the
Cuban government who fought beside
President Fidel Castro during the Cuban
Revolution may be among those in the
Peruvian Embassy.
“They could be the cream of the Com
munist crop, ” he said of the 1,400 Cuban
who have remained in the embassy and
refused safe conduct passes to return to
their homes.
The exodus from the embassy slowed to a
trickle Monday despite the first evacuation
by private Cuban exile boats to Key West,
Fla., of those desperately seeking to leave
the communist island nation. Forty Cubans
arrived in Florida on the two ships.
Cuba said other private vessels reported
in the waters near Cuba would be allowed
to pick up some of those seeking asylum at
the embassy, but cautioned the boats
would not replace the “freedom flights.”
In the sole plane flight carrying the re
fugees, 41 Cubans, including 17 children,
arrived in Spain from Havana Monday and
were taken to a Red Cross hospital for
medical checkups.
A high Costa Rican official Monday
warned his nation would break relations
with Cuba if Havana refuses Costa Rica’s
offer to take all of the approximately 9,000
Cubans remaining in the Peruvian
Embassy.
In another potential snag to the exodus, a
source said Peru has refused to accept ab
out 300 Cuban refugees already in Costa
Rica because they are “anti-social ele
ments, common criminals, bad people.”
Castro, apparently upset at the hero’s
welcome for the Cubans in San Jose, stop
ped the shuttle freedom flights that used
Costa Rica as the first “bridge,” or way
station, on the road to permanent homes in
Peru, Spain and the United States.
Costa Rica, which promised to give per
manent homes to only 300 of the 10,800
seeking to leave Cuba, reversed itself over
the weekend and said it would take them all
and asked that the flights resume.
There has been no response, but the
Cuban Consulate in San Jose Monday told
Costa Rican officials the Castro govern
ment will respond Wednesday.
Reports have surfaced indicating that the
1,400 remaining in the embassy include
high-ranking dissidents, including a mem
ber of the Cuban Cabinet — a man who
fought alongside Castro to topple President
Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
“These people don’t trust the govern
ment to give them safe passage,” the source
said. “We think those people may be very
close to the (Cuban) government, perhaps
high officials.”
Another Western diplomat said the
1,400 must have a “powerful reason” for
rejecting the safe conduct passes.
Pa. battle
is a keystone
for Ted, Bush
United Press International
PITTSBURGH — President Carter and
Ronald Reagan had the opportunity today
to effectively knock Sen. Edward Kennedy
and George Bush out of the 1980 nomina
tion races. The question was whether
Pennsylvania would provide the votes.
The weather was right for a big turnout
by the state’s 2.9 million Democrats and
2.2 million Republicans. The National
Weather Service called for “another
beautiful sunny day, with high readings
from the mid 60s to the low 70s.”
The last published polls showed Carter
and Reagan ahead in the quest for the
state’s 185 Democratic and 83 Republican
delegates.
But the campaign pollsters and indepen
dent soundings showed Kennedy and
Bush, who have few big states left where
they can close the delegate gap, were not
out of it and both worked hard in the state
in the closing days to keep their flickering
campaigns alive.
The delegates were the prize in Pennsyl
vania, but neither Carter nor Reagan were
in danger of losing the big leads they have
built up since January.
The president had 960 delegates and
Kennedy had 486.5 in the race for the 1,666
needed to lock up the Democratic nomina
tion. Reagan led Bush, 547 to 96, with 998
needed to win on the GOP side. Rep. John
Anderson, not on the Pennsylvania ballot,
had 56.
There were two Senate primary fights to
help the turnout. Former Pittsburgh
Mayor Pete Flaherty, a Democrat, and for
mer Philadelphia prosecutor Arlen Spec
ter, a Republican, were favored for the
nominations to seek the seat of retiring
GOP Sen. Richard Schweikcr, Reagan’s
proposed running-mate in 1976.
The Kennedy camp has admitted Penn
sylvania is crucial to bolster its claim that
Carter cannot carry the populous Northern
states Democrats traditionally need to win
the presidency. It hopes to parlay a win in
Pennsylvania with another Saturday in the
Michigan Democratic caucuses.
The Carter campaign puts less value on
Pennsylvania, but believes a victory for the
president really would leave the Mas
sachusetts senator in a hopeless situation
with few big delegate-rich states left in
which Kennedy could gain ground.
Mother visits son
in U.S. embassy
United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — Wisconsin housewife
Barbara Timm clasped the hand of her
Marine son, Kevin, for 45 minutes during
the first visit of a relative to any of the
hostages.
President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, speak
ing at the campus of Tehran University,
lashed out at President Carter and told
10,000 Iranians gathered there Iran was not
frightened by threats of economic blockade
or military attack.
Iran is “prepared to make any sacrifice in
order to defend its independence, ” he said.
The campus resembled a battleground
from Monday’s all-day battles between lef
tist and Moslem militants, that left three
persons dead and 300 injured.
Bani-Sadr said the large crowd at the
campus demonstrated the power of the
Islamic Revolution. “Mr. Carter must
know that we can mobilize a gathering of
this size in a matter of one hour. He must
not try to scare us with threats of an econo
mic blockade or military attack. ”
In Pueblo, Colo., the parents of another
Marine held captive by Iranian militants,
Cpl. William Gallegos, said they will mort
gage or sell their home to visit their son in
Tehran. “We would like to do it, if at all
possible,” said Richard Gallegos.
A University of Kansas professor who
helped arrange several trips by Americans
to Tehran, Norman Forer, said three fami
lies have contacted him about a visit. He
declined to name the families.
But in Washington, the State Depart
ment said families of the hostages would
not be exempt from a ban on travel to Iran.
The Timms were en route to Tehran before
the law took effect.
President Carter, speaking in an inter
view on CBS-TV, also said the deteriorat
ing political situation in Iran has put the
hostages “in jeopardy.” The captives are in
their 171st day of captivity.
“I think I achieved a minor miracle to
day,” Barbara Timm said of her 45-minute
visit inside the U.S. Embassy with her son.
Marine Sgt. Kevin Hermening, 20.
“We never quit holding hands — it was
as if we had a permanent attachment to one
another,” she said. “There were no tears.
He was surprised and overjoyed that I had
traveled across the globe to see him.”
The visit took place as Tehran University
turned into a virtual battlefield with left-
wing students battling their Moslem coun
terparts with knives, stones and clubs
throughout the day.
The government closed the university in
order to expel all political organizations,
based inside since last year’s revolution.
Unrest also was reported in Kermanshah
in western Iran where students marched in
the streets and Tabriz, where Moslem stu
dents took over the central building.
Mrs. Timm said her son was “strong and
in excellent physical condition.”
“He never lost faith. He has a deeper
religious feeling,” Mrs. Timm, a Roman
Catholic from Oak Creek, Wis., said of her
impression from the visit — the first time
the militants holding the captives allowed a
relative to meet with a hostage.
“He has gained two pounds,” is familiar
with all the sporting events “back home”
and “vitally interested in the local baseball
team,” she said.
“He told me he was now spending his
days with several other hostages, reading
and playing cards — he said he was the best
of the gin rummy players. ”
Mrs. Timm spent a total of six hours in
the embassy buildings “talking, talking and
talking,” and then the students gave her
dinner. “We never discussed the other hos
tages nor did I see them,” she said.
Her husband, Kenneth, accompanied
his wife to the embassy but was not permit
ted to see his stepson.
Islamic Judge Sheikh Sadegh Khalkhali,
the self-proclaimed head of Iran’s revolu
tionary courts, called for Hermening’s re
lease “to show our good will toward the
American people.”
Headache
control study
planned
By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Campus Staff
People bothered by recurring tension
headaches may now participate in a
headache control program conducted
through the educational psychology de
partment at Texas A&M University.
Fred Drummond, a graduate student at
Texas A&M, is studying the treatment of
tension headaches as part of his doctoral
work in counseling psychology.
Drummond said his study will be a com
parison of treatments for tension headaches
including biofeedback, cognitive coping
skills, and a combination of the two treat
ments.
Biofeedback is not a cure which elimin
ates headaches when the person is hooked
up to a machine.
“Biofeedback gives you information ab
out physiological responses by registering
muscular activity,” Drummond said.
Subjects will have sensors placed on
their foreheads. Information about the de
gree of muscular activity or tension will be
transimitted by the machine in the form of a
“beep.”
The speed of the beep measures the de
grees of relaxation. In this way, people
learn to relax until they stop the sound.
“This is a skill-building thing where the
people are receiving training in muscular
control, that can help control responses to
stressful situations where headaches might
occur.” Drummond said.
In the other method Drummond is
studying, subjects will monitor their think
ing before, during and after a stressful
situation and then will be taught ways of
dealing with that stress.
“The first thing I do is get people to
notice what are the situations where they
have tension headaches, where they get
stressful, and then look at the cues to the
situations,” Drummond said.
“Most people think it is the situation that
causes them to become anxious or stress
ful,” he continued. “But it is my opinion
that it is more the attitude or beliefs a per
son has about a situation that causes him to
react in that stressful way.”
Drummond now has eight people enrol
led in the program, each required to parti
cipate an average of two hours per week.
He said that he needs a minimum of 24
participants to draw valid conclusions from
the study.
The program is open to any Bryan-
College Station resident. Sessions will be
done individually, not in groups.