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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1983)
Tuesday, November 1,1983/The Battalion/Page 5 ■Jew tile being created^ Potential speakers listed by Ed Alanis Battalion Reporter inning next week, find- guest speaker will be leleasier with a speaker re- irce file. The file is being set up to inform the University Immunity of potential ;rs and the topics they qualified to speak on. Student Activities Advisor tarlotte Taylor, Off- ipus Center Advisor Nan- i Ludwig and Housing Prog rams Supervisor Nyla Ptomey worked together to create the file. Three copies of the file will be kept so that it will be acces sible to as many people as pos sible. The Student Activities Office, the Housing Programs Office and the Off-Campus Center will each have a file. Speakers listed in the file mainly will be faculty mem bers. The programs will be di vided into five categories — educational, social, self im provement, cultural and health and physical fitness. “Right now we want to zero in on what is available on cam pus,” Taylor said, “but we plan to branch out into the community later on.” There are a lot of resources to tap in this area, she said. Taylor will send out letters periodically to attract new speakers for the file. She also hopes that various student organizations will contribute names of some of their speak ers from the community to the file. Organizations using the file will be provided with a prog ram evaluation form. The evaluation will be sent to the speaker after the presenta tion, and a copy will be kept in the file for future reference. : groups live at Texas A&M, Taylor said, and because of this a speaker file should be very useful. Similar files haved proved to be very successful on other campuses, she said. Replay of lethal dialysis machine failure tried Jrilab review refused United Press International WASHINGTON — Gulf st Mafia boss Carlos Marcel- id a high-ranking Louisiana T1 lost their final battles iday to have the U.S. Sup- [eftourt review the legality he FBI’s Brilab sting opera- he justices refused to con- rpleas from Carlos Marcello (Sharles E. Roemer II, top slant to former Louisiana cert/- Edwin Edwards, to review ir convictions for nfluence state >r attempting officials with to lx ‘Seems as though it’s all tricks that l Bo treats,” said Marcello to hipmey Arthur Lemann in » jr L w Orleans. “It’s Halloween, te sh 1 ^ I 1 went against us.” _The FBI operation unco- ed a conspiracy to bribe a lisiana officials into buying ilic employee insurance poli- s that would have allowed the endants to collect lucrative kbacks. appi The sting was dubbed “Bri- romD]” because it began as an he dercover operation to deter- ileted f 16 if there was widespread pair bcry occuring in labor unions widf Louisiana. at, ioemer, Marcello and three menf| er P eo pl e were indicted June sanopa 1980, for violating the Rack- [fici;, ering Influenced and Cor- exctpj 1 ', t oveni -d and! rupt Organization Act (RICO) based on an 18-month FBI in vestigation. The key to the undercover operation was a convicted swindler named Joseph Hauser, who convinced Marcello to join him in a plot to bribe state offi cials into buying certain public employee insurance policies. Lemann said the two defen dants questioned the sufficieny of the evidence used to convict them, as well as the legality of the FBI law enforcement techni ques. “I’m disappointed not only as a lawyer,” he said. “I’m dis appointed as a private citizen. I just really feel the government outfit not go beyond a certain point in order to test the virtues of a citizen. “Everyone is susceptable to accept an offer too good to re fuse. It’s just a question of de gree. I don’t think it’s proper for the government to make a citizen run the gauntlet like that.” Hauser told Marcello he would get a share of the commis sions from the lucrative con tracts. All the while, Hauser was actually an informant for the FBI. 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After the sting became puolic, virtually every major political fi gure in the state — including Ed wards and several candidates attempting to succeed him — was called before the federal again grand jury in New Orleans. Marcello, Roemer, Washing ton lobbyist I. Irving Davidson, New Orleans attorney Vincent Marinello and veteran state aide Aubrey Young were indicted. I Roemer and Marcello were the only defendants convicted. United Press International DALLAS — Technicians and federal investigators met Mon day to try simulating a kidney dialysis machine failure that sent superheated fluid into the bloodstreams of seven patients and killed three of them, offi- I cials said. Technicians examined the machine at Dallas Kidney Dis ease Center during the weekend and found faulty wiring caused a backup heater to cut in Friday, overheating dialysate fluid. An alarm also failea to sound and alert medics. Center medical director Dr. Tom Parker said Monday feder al Food and Drug Administra tion investigators were present during meetings Sunday with the manufcturers, Roy- Extracorporeal Inc., and center owners. “What they’re going to try to do (Monday night) is to repro duce the situation,” Parker said. Based on the findings of that simulated mechanical failure, the FDA could call for an inspec tion of the manufacturer’s equipment nationwide. “The FDA is trying to decide if this is a systemwide problem or an isolated incident,” Parker said. Parker said manufacturer’s representatives examined the equipment within hours of the incident and found faulty wiring in a logic board that shorted out the machine’s alarm. 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