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October 4, 1982
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Baylor clinic aids
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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.
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Farmers warned against
oliticians’ promises
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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
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