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BALTIMORE — Doctors at the Baltimore Zoo are trying to save
jhe life of Gunni, a 12-year-old African elephant suffering from a
[sease that caused her to lose 700 pounds from her 3-ton frame in
|e past two months.
J Gunni, one of two elephants in the state, has a disease that causes
the animal’s antibodies to attack her own system.
Zoo director Steve Graham said Gunni’s feet and face have puffed
■t section,; up and she spends much of the day on her side.
“She’s still on display, ” he said. “An elephant is a creature of habit
d the best thing is to let her do what she’s used to doing. She’s
tting the best care possible.”
Gunni has been in the zoo since 1972 and got sick last January.
Dr, Thomas Zizic of the Hopkins Multi-Purpose Medical Center
is in charge of the elephant’s treatment, which includes massive
the drug Prednisone. Treatments are given orally and cost
about $58 a, day.
Since Saturday, Gunni has refused most of her food and the
ffiness of her face and feet has become worse, Zizic said.
—n«''We are confident that Gunni can be saved, but it’s a very touchy
if I situation,” Graham said.
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Hollywood supplies stars
for congressional meetings
United Press International
WASHINGTON — If the dra
matic world of Washington, with
its pressure politics, satchels full
of cash and Capitol Hill romances
can provide Hollywood with script
material, it’s no surprise Holly
wood is supplying stars for con
gressional productions.
Congressional hearings are
often long and boring, only occa
sionally producing an uncoopera
tive Mafia witness, a bribe-taking
miscreant or an impassioned pro
tester for some cause or other.
But lately, they are taking on
the appearance of Hollywood
Squares as celebrity after celebri
ty turns up before congressional
committees to save refugees,
movie archives or victims of rare
diseases.
The latest was Pearl Bailey,
whose monologue on the need to
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United Press International
TIFFIN, Iowa — When the
tes were counted, the Bible
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lear Creek School District vo-
| doubled last year’s turnout
iday and soundly defeated a
ge student’s proposal to adopt
Bible as a supplementary
iho il text by a 689-90 vote.
S |But Ian Johnson says he is un-
linted and will try again — in
Moines.
he proposition’s defeat was
nation’s first real victory
st religious zealots since the
Jember election, when the
ifal Majority backed President
;an. executive director of the
Civil Liberties Union, Julie
lien said.
ICLU had threatened to go
urt if the referendum passed
^ Be eastern Iowa school district.
Ls'iater I Golden called the proposal an
ntire page of gibberish and said
Kge would mean the school
linked tldould be endorsing a Christian
mal ring Brine. The only people who
r ould have voted for the proposal
ere those blinded by religious
she said. \ : W
hnson, a University of Iowa
[student, had forced the re-
dum by gathering two dozen
lures on a petition.
[Well, I’m not terribly sur-
d,” he said after the results
announced. “I was expecting
lose, probably pretty badly.
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I’m seen here as an outsider trying
to make trouble.”
Burt Wagoner, a Des Moines
school board candidate, told John
son he planned to put the issue
before Des Moines residents.
“It’ll be the same procedure —
different words,” Johnson said.
“They will not consider him
(Wagoner) an outsider. They will
not be easily intimidated by a
suit.”
The director of the Iowa Con
servative Union Phil Sheldon, also
had approached some Iowa law
makers in an attempt to try to put
the issue into law by legislation,
Johnson said.
Some residents of the Clear
Creek school district, which in
cludes Tiffin, Oxford and parts of
Coralville and Iowa City, had ex
pressed worries the referendum
could have led to teaching the Bi
ble in school and open the way for
cults to enter the school.
Wallace marries
miner s daughter
United Press International
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — For
mer Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace Wednesday announced
his “recent marriage” to the 33-
year-old daughter of a wealthy Jas
per, Ala., coal mine operator.
Wallace spokesman Elvin Stan
ton issued a two-sentence state
ment saying the %2-year-oId Wal
lace and Lisa Taylor announced
their “recent marriage.” He said
both are “very happy.”
Stanton declined to say when or
where Wallace and Taylor were
married and would not give addi
tional details.
Wallace, partially paralyzed
from a 1972 assassination attempt
during a presidential campaign,
confirmed his engagement earlier
this year. He insisted his marriage
plans were “personal and private”
and refused to discuss the subject
with reporters.
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day’s hearing of the House Select
Committee on Aging. The hear
ing, called by 81-year-old Rep.
Claude Pepper, D-Fla., was a
publicity forum for attacking man
datory retirement.
Also testifying was Studs Ter-
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tor, and some other elderly men
who are still working at their pro
fessions.
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touching on the subject at hand,
did not seem to bother Pepper.
For. having chaired the only
hearing of the day and snagging a
major celebrity, Pepper was re
warded with the presence of 10
television cameras and about a
dozen reporters.
Entertainers on Capitol Hill
are nothing new. More and more
often, a celebrity with a current
TV show or movie winds up be
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In recent months, the witness
parade has read like the index of
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★Brooke Shields against
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★Edward “Lou Grant” Asner on
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★Linda “Billie Newman”
Kelsey against infant formula sales
abroad.
★Leontyne Price against cuts in
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tion.
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