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Page 2B/The Battalion/Friday, September 2,1983 Newborn dies of AIDS United Press International BOSTON — A newborn who received a blood transfusion for a common ailment died of AIDS nine months later in the second known case of inf ant death from the immune system disease mostly affecting homosexuals, Canadian doctors reported Thursday. The doctors reported in the New England Journal of Medi cine a baby born to French- Canadian parents not in an AIDS risk group was given transfusions shortly after birth from five donors. The child la ter developed AIDS and died from the disease, which strips its victims of their immunity system. “There’s no doubt about it in our mind — this was a case of AIDS in a newborn baby after a transfusion,” said Dr. Normand LaPointe of Sainte-Justine Hos pital in Montreal. “As far as we know there’s only been one other case like this — that of a baby getting a transfusion and developing AIDS in San Fran cisco.” A letter by LaPointe and his colleagues said one of the donors was subsequently found to be homosexual. But LaPointe said in an interview that was not certain, and the donors who have not been identified would have to be studied and ex amined. The finding was reported a day after the Red Cross con firmed it had recalled more than 5,500 vials of a special plasma product used by hemophiliacs because one of many donors of blood for the product had died from AIDS. 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Some per formers returned to the early days of rock while others ven tured into virgin territory — punk, new wave, heavy metal, techno-pop and reggae. This year, rock has finally found a new home, a musical milkshake of styles with a whip- crack beat called New Music. The synthesized blend of rock, soul, reggae, and disco has kids dancing and buying again. “You’re finding a lot of newer groups reaching sales plateaus that almost used to be impossi ble,” said Audrey Strahl, spokes woman for the Recording In dustry Association of America, a New York firm that tracks re-' cord sales for the industry. “There is a rebound in terms of new music. That’s a very healthy sign.” music being re- creativity in leased now.” All this comes after one of the Through July 1983, the RIAA certified 35 singles as gold, which means each 45 rpm record sold more than one mil lion copies. That’s double the total for the same period last year. industry’s worst slumps. It be gan in 1979. Early in 1982, ma jor companies laid off hundreds of workers, dropped dozens of artists and closed offices. “New music is becoming mainstream music,” said Strahl. “It’s good for new artists because people are buying a vaster assortment of music.” “We see all kinds of music in fluences that are being used in imaginative and intelligent ways,” said Rob Altshuler, vice president of press and public in formation at CBS Records Group. “There are more varied kinds of music. We see a wave of Peoplejust weren’t buying re cords like they used to: PacMan was gobbling up entertainment money, consumers were taping records at home, the price of an album approached $ 10, popular music was old hat, radio stations were boring, and the economy was a mess. Robbin Ahrold, division president of communication! RCA Records, said MTV compresses t he time it takesfn new group to become know the public — “something would have had to be achiei over a much longer period time by touring in the 197(ls “I just think that what we; seeing is an audience dial quick to recognize and respo ginformation about t to new groups,” Altshuler “That is a very healthy dint United Press Internatioi fimely Labor Day i ins for the nation’s ret “Many women are st ire of protections and ovided under feders Cole Ale omen’s Bureau direct the foreword of the i iirth edition of the bo She said women no iTS percent oflhe lab (that women’s avera; gs are only 59 per en’s. “Itisourhopethatby job rights we will help in full equal opport for an industry which believ* ccssl0 j o bs, promotii bringing new artists throng maximum exposure. But if radio wasn’t playing the stuff, how did people find out about the new groups? The answer is Music Television, the video music channel on your cable TV dial. 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Some VAN ELI styles at Richland only. “Various parts of the country were getting exposed to bands they have not seen on network TV or heard on radio,” Strahl said. “MTV and other video out lets have a great deal to do with it.” tifying” profits in the first u Spercent of all womei quarters of 1983. “RCA is fully participating the record industry’s uptffli ercent a decade ago The march of great which we attribute to both4 positive effect of the econo! ers of women to work upturn and a renewed inteti tdited, in part, to the in music,” said Ahrold. The Women’s Burt ar. During the past I orkgrewby 14 million ter are employed — icord. That compares ALL PARTIES AT TKE HOUSE TKE PARKER HOUSE ST. ANDREWS CHURCH Saturday 9/3 (after game Themelesi OLD COLLEGE MAIN Thursday 9/8 (8:30j Neuvo Wave DOWNTOWN BRYAN TEXAS (NORTH) Saturday 9/10 (8:30 Golf Party •FREE i metro proper!