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Battalion/Page 7 October 4, 1982 state / national - * Baylor clinic aids women with herpes mi : . it i.i. j* United Press International HOUSTON — Educating individuals with genital herpes to the nature of the virus and how it is transmitted toothers is essential, a nurse at a new herpes clinic for women says. “Probably the most impor tant thing in dealing with a patient with genital herpes is to help her understand the nature of the disease, how it is transmitted, and how to pre vent spreading the infection to others,” said Martha Allen, nursing coordinator at the cli nic at Baylor College of Medi cine. Dr. Raymond Kaufman, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the clinic, said the new program also will pro vide Baylor a pool of patients with which to study the dis ease and its suspected relation to cancer. “There are a number of questions about herpes that have not been answered prop erly,” Kaufman said. “By hav ing a large number of people in a single clinic who are will ing to participate in these stu dies, we feel we can generate a lot of new information.” Many people mistakenly think they have herpes, Kauf man said. Herpes causes le sions on the sexual organs that can recur repeatedly on geni talia and elsewhere. Kaufman said Baylor will use the latest diagnostic tech niques, some of which are usually very expensive. But, Baylor will charge $25 for a viral culture and $10 for blood tests. “The prime reason for the clinic is to offer individuals a place where they can go for diagnosis and counseling that can reduce much of the anxie ty associated with herpes,” Kaufman said. “Counseling may also play a major role in the care of herpes patients whose lesions recur frequently. Approxi mately half of the patients with genital herpes have re currences, averaging twice a year.” One proposed study at the clinic will look at the role of stress in these recurrences, which strike some patients as often as twice a month. “We know stress modifica tion has been used with other chronic diseases, like hyper tension, with good success,” said Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, who will head the herpes stress program. Officials said Baylor will serve only women patients be cause of limited funds. Men with herpes will be referred to physicians for private care. Merger draws criticism United Press International NEW YORK — With the dust settled from the most bizarre corporate takeover battle in U.S. history, the question remains whether things went too far in the Bendix-Martin Marietta skirmish. Critics repeatedly question whether merger struggles serve any greater social or economic purpose than massaging egos of the executives involved, filling pocketbooks of teams of lawyers and bankers, and providing windfalls for speculators. But never has the outcry been as loud as in the aftermath of the four-way battle in which two companies — Bendix and Marietta — tried in Pac-Man like fashion to swallow each other while two other giants — Allied Corp. and United Technologies Corp. — waited to pick up the remains. Allied Chairman Edward Hennessey, who resolved the battle by agreeing to a “friendly” takeover of Bendix, told repor ters: “The spectacle of two large companies trying to swallow each other up is not very pretty, and it’s a situation potentially very damaging to the companies themselves, their employees and their stockholders.” Even Edgar Bronfman — who as chairman of the Seagram Co. started Wall Street’s biggest merger battle ever by launching a hostile and ill-fated takeover drive for Conoco Inc. — ques tioned whether there just might be something wrong with a sys tem in which four companies amass such large amounts of money to buy stock when it doesn’t help create one new job. Bronfman, in a letter to The New York Times, said recent takeover battles have placed huge demands on credit at a time when credit is tight. He advocated that tax laws be changed to disallow the deducti bility of interest on takeover bor rowings so that unfriendly takeovers would become dis- couragingly expensive. Marietta President Thomas G. Pownall acknowledged at a news conference last week that Marietta was financially weakened by its counter takeover. Bendix Chairman William Agee, who started the battle with a hostile takeover bid for Mariet ta, said Bendix “came out very well” from the peace settlement with stockholders getting a good price for their stock and the company remaining intact — although it will become a sub sidiary of Allied. car '’f* Farmers warned against oliticians’ promises natioiil i aerof forced imeseci United Press International NEVADA, Iowa — A South akota congressman Saturday arned the nation’s farmers not to fall victim to Reagan adminis- Iration promises coming on the ive of the November election. “Farmers are harvesting a bumper crop of election eve promises,” said Rep. Tom Das chle, D-S.D., in his keynote it«K address to the Farm Crisis Day her® Rady. He called Reagan admi- diaiKepiistration farm policies “the agic election potions of those ho have fought all year to kill very real plan to help farmers. “Any farmer who believes the ctober promises of those who ave helped David Stockman gtohi andjohn Block destroy the farm 0. coalition had better hope he IwanuMoesn’t have to take those prom- h him'Bes to the bank after November sored by several farm groups called the Iowa Farm Unity Coalition, which includes the National Farmers Organization, the Iowa Farmers Union, the American Agriculture Move ment, Rural Iowa Inc., and the U.S. Farmers Association. Daschle blasted what he called a “foreclose first” policy by the federal Farmers Home Admi nistration, while offering “plen ty of money to let big oil keep its tax loopholes.” He also criticized farm state Republican congressmen who “put their party ahead of their own farm constituents" from January to August • AAA Alpha Lambda Delta will have their Apple polishing dessert party on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 7 p.m. ROOM #145 MSC (All members please come by the cubicle in 216 MSC to pick up an invitation so you can invite your favorite professor.) DOUGLAS JEWELRY 15% STUDENT DISCOUNT WITH CURRENT A&M ID (REPAIRS HOT INCLUDED) Keepsake Registered Diamond Rings PULSAR SEIKO, BULOVA St CROTON WATCHES AGGIE JEWELRY USE YOUR STUDENT DISCOUNT TO PURCHASE A DIAMOND FOR YOUR CLASS RING (ANE LET US SET IT FOR YOU) AND 212 n. 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