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^ge 8/The Battalion/Thursday, December 8, 1983 Adoption agency objects Warped by Scott McCullar to Cabbage Patch Kids United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Promo- ional techniques employed by >oleco Industries in marketing he “Cabbage Patch Kids” show it “simplistic, negative” ipproach to the adoption pro- ess, an adoption agency official ;aid Wednesday. Patricia Dorner of the San Antonio Adoption Awareness Center said she plans to file a formal letter of protest with Col- eco by Friday, urging them to modify their marketing approach. The dolls, said to be the hot test gift item of the Christmas season, are sold with a set of adoption papers, which show Need a friend? Barbara, James and Keith Lott will be ministering in Word and Music in Room 410 Rudder at 7 p.m. Tonight! Sponsored by Chi Alpha they come from the cabbage patch. “Adopted persons do not come from the cabbage patch, nor are they commodities for the marketplace,” Dorner said. “Coleco’s approach has offen sive implications for birth fami lies, adopted persons and adop tive families.” The advertising concept will make adoptive children believe they were chosen like a doll “off the shelf,” she said. “There is a burden in feeling you were chosen. You think ‘what are the possibilites of being un-chosen?’ “The entire theme is one of distortion and mockery of the adoption process,” Dorner said. “It’s a simplistic, negative kind of thing. Coleco is really doing a great disservice.” Dialysis nmy be needed Panda’s life AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823 8051 AGRICULTURAL MAJORS If interested in going on ANIMAL PRODUCTION FIELD STUDY COURSE TRIP (AnSc. 400A, 2 hrs.) between semesters, please come to 1/2 hr. meeting THURS. 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Center Heritage Select Q-Horse Hughes Q-Horse Ranch United Press International WASHINGTON — Worried veterinarians are considering di alysis to save America’s female giant panda, Ling-Ling, from a sudden and life-threatening kidney disorder, the chief doc tor at the National Zoo said Wednesday. Doctors are trying to figure out how the furry clack and white, 227-pound panda con tracted the kidney problem and severe anemia “that could lead to her death,” Dr. Mitchell Bush told a new conference. They said the problem could be related to her delivery last spring of the nation’s first panda cub, but are awaiting further test results. Ling-Ling, and her mate, Hsing-Hsing, were gifts from China following President Nixon’s 1972 visit. “Until two weeks ago, we we ren’t suspicious of any prob lems,” Bush said. “This is very perplexing. She doesn’t look sick.” He said doctors are consider ing dialysis to help the panda’s two kidneys rid 14-year-old Ling-Ling’s system of waste, but cautioned, “We’d like to point out that dialysis is for the short term.” Bush said the expensive and time-consuming procedure would not be feasible as a pro longed treatment. Dialysis in volves filtering the blood through a machine and is fre quently used for human kidney patients. In 1979, doctors at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo used dialysis to treat a female panda, Lan-Lan, who died of a kidney ailment anyway. Lan-Lan’s death appeared to be related to pre gnancy. Bush and chief zoo patholog ist Dr. Richard Montah spent 90 minutes Wednesday at the 16th in danger 'go Society of Nephrology — or kid ney studies — consulting doc tors on the panda’s acute condi tion. “We’ve pretty much ruled out a kidney transplant,” Bush added. "Our hope is that the kid ney disorder is not irreversible.” Ling-Ling — who received blood transfusion Tuesdayfra 11 sing-Using — was restingafu a morning meal, panda ke([e Barbara Bingham said, ‘‘Until two weeks ago, we weren’t suspicious of any problems, 'fliis is very perplexing. She doesn ’t look sick. ” The panda, who also is antibiotics, gave birth laslii} mer to a 4.8 ounce inaleoilijK it died three hours laterofais spiiatory infection. Zoo officials said doctors would probably use a kidney from Hsing-Hsing or another giant panda if they did a trans plant. Pandas, like other mam mals, have two kidneys. At the zoo’s Panda House, The surprise birth was4 first for Ling-Ling and Hii$ Using, after eight yearsoflai attempts at natural matings artificial insemination,anodt tors anticipated anotherki next year. “This kind of threw a the whole thing,” Binghaims “It doesn’t look good. But mi hoping she’ll pull through!: surprise us once more." 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White said he could not par don Geter without a recommen dation from the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, which, he said, is reviewing the computa tion of Geter’s sentence. “I’m following very closely the district attorney’s office’s re sponse to the inquiry being made there,” he said. “I think in this case if the man is innocent he should be declared to be in nocent of the crime.” White said he was unsure of the implications raised in the “60 Minutes” program. “What I know directly is what I’ve read in the newspaper, and l IPO] the be it appears the comments inibeing on '60 Minutes’ were made the U people who were not fortho Sciem mgand never presented an] much dence to the district attorne' sixth in the trial of the case," hes chns “There are a lot of thingsilifater go on in the prosecutionotc ^eei d that may or may not be quaSB “W evidence to present to then free a but may become part of a tele ! ocear sion story that casts the result “Our i a vastly different light," WiBiinri added. 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