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Influenza
Student Health Center receiving
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By PAMELA BARNES
and USA PEDERSEN
Reporters
Have a headache? Fever?
Sore throat? Aching muscles?
Are you coughing, sneezing
and generally lee! like you’ve
been nit by a Mack Truck? Dr.
Claude Goswick, director of
the Student Health Center,
says with these symptoms you
probably have tne flu.
Texas A&M’s annual in
fluenza epidemic has hit
rather early this year and left
an estimated 200 to 250 flu
victims a day visiting the
health center, Goswick says.
Most of the cases diagnosed
last week were a new variant of
the type A Russian strain of
influenza, he says.
Because of the fast out
break it seems that this is the
type of epidemic that goes sky
high in just a couple of weeks
and subsides just as quickly,
Goswick says, if this is the
case, this week (Jan. 30 to Feb.
3) may be the worst part of the
epidemic.
“We usually expect the flu
season to start after Christmas
lasting until spring break,”
Goswick says. “This year it's
hit fast and hard.”
If you do have the symp
toms mentioned, accompa
nied by possible nausea and
heavy congestion, Goswick re
commends aspirin or an aspir
in substitute for fever and dis
comfort, but if aspirin doesn’t
help, the health center can
give something more potent.
In addition, he recom
mends plenty of fluids and
rest.
*Tt“s necessary to drink lots
of liquids to prevent dehydra
tion, Goswick says. “The best
things to do are get lots of rest,
(an<f) don’t go to class, if pos
sible.”
The good news is that the
illness usually lasts only 24-4B
hours, depending on the indi
vidual case, Goswick says.
“The students that fight this
thing will have symptoms for a
longer period of time,” he
says.
Reasonable treatment and
an early diagnosis speed re
covery and keep complica
tions, like pneumonia, to a
minimum, Goswick says.
“We haven’t seen many
complications yet, but it is still
an early stage for an epide
mic," Goswick says. However,
there is no definite treatment.
“You just have to let it run its
course till it goes away.”
The bad news is prevention
is difficult, Goswick says, but
being in good physical condi
tion, eating right, and getting
enough rest help to avoid get
ting me flu.
In addition, Goswick re
commends staying far away
from those who are sick. The
virus is easily transmitted
through the air by sneezing or
coughing.
If your roommate or close
friend has the flu and is un
avoidable, Goswick says, take
precautions like wiping the
phone before use and staying
on your side of the room.
The health center has ab
out 40 hospital beds for those
flu victims that are running
high temperatures and feel
too sick to be at home. At the
beginning of the week all beds
were full but as patients recov
er and are released more beds
are available, Goswick says.
Goswick attributes the
rapid epidemic to the low tol
erance of the new variant of
the virus. “No one has been
exposed to it yet and the toler
ance is low,” Goswick says.
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WASHINGTON — Mem-
ers of Congress from the re-
aion will turn their attention to
jthe budget this week with the
arrival of President Reagan’s
proposed spending plan for the
pscal year beginning Nov. 1.
Reagan's budget is expected
to seek $924 billion, including a
■13 percent hike in real defense
spending.
In past years, members of
JCongress got a look at the
^budget a few days in advance,
usually over a weekend. This
I'ear however, the administra-
own ' :ion wants to wail to brief mem-
t early# until a day or two before
re reprt& Wednesday’s official release of
soonai^the fiscal 1985 spending bluep-
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0 \ budget volumes will be plenty of
L be in p ro j ec t s of interest to the region,
many of them the so-called
^ “pork barrel” items that mem-
bers of Congress work so hard to
Bprotect from budget cuts.
Among the categories sure to
be of interest to the region will
be the Army Corps of Engineers
proposals. Department of In
terior spending that includes
dams, forests and park acquisi
tions and military contruction
funding.
Reagan also has told Congress
he is proposing accelerated
work on hazardous waste
cleanup — an important topic to
the entire region — and will seek
$50 million more this fiscal year
for the Superfund program and
ask for $640 million for the next
Fiscal year.
The Senate this week plans to
continue consideration of the
Comprehensive Crime Control
Act while the House is expected
to debate — and possibly vote on
— the Agent Orange and Ato-
mic Veterans Relief Act and a
resolution to establish state com
missions on teacher excellence.
Although this will be only the
second week of congressional
activities in 1984, congressional
committees and subcommittees
have numerous hearings sche
duled to deal with subjects left
over from the first half of the
98th Congress. After Wednes
day, however, they will start
turning their attention to the
sections of Reagan’s budget
under their jurisdiction.
Among the hearings of in
terest to the region is a daylong
session scheduled Thursday by
the House Agriculture Subcom
mittee on Conservation, Credit
and Rural Development, which
will look at how the Farmers
Home Administration has been
administering economic
emergency and disaster loan
programs.
Also this week, former Rep.
Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, will
be in Washington to give the
keynote speech at a National
Prayer Breakfast. Jordan cur
rently teaches in Austin.
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U.S. envoy, Saudi mediators
continue talks amid skirmishes
United Press International
BEIRUT — Amid renewed
skirmishes in the capital, U.S.
Middle East envoy Donald
Rumsfeld and Saudi mediators
worked Sunday to break a three-
week impasse on a plan to sepa
rate Beirut’s warring factions.
Druze Moslem leader Walid
Jumblatt and Palestine Libera
tion Organization rebels, who
drove PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat and his fighters from
Lebanon, met in Libya with
Abdul Salaam Jalloud, leader
Moammar Khadafy’s top aide,
state Beirut radion said.
Libya supplies arms to the Sy
rian-backed Lebanese opposi
tion.
As sporadic fighting sounded
throughout the capital Sunday,
two Lebanese soldiers were
wounded by Shiite Moslem mili
tiamen who opened fire on their
patrol on the road leading to
Beirut airport, state-run Beirut
radio said.
Other army troops ex
changed mortar and rocket fire
with Druze Moslem militiamen
near the villages of Souk el
Gharb and Aramoun in the
Druze-held Shouf mountains
overlooking the capital.
After nightfall, mortar and
artillery shells fell along the
length of the mountain ridge be
tween the two forces, Beirut
radio said. i
Rumsfeld returned to Beirut
after a day of talks in Amman
with Jordan’s King Hussein, and
Beirut radio said he postponed a
shuttle to Damascus scheduled
for Sunday.
“There is nothing dramatic,
but the talks are continuing,”
said a U.S. source. “The United
States continues to be interested
in the security plan.”
The security plan for Beirut
and a region south of the capital
calls for a disengagement of
warring Moslem and Christian
militias, and deployment of
Lebanese army troops into some
power vacuums.
It could allow for at least a
partial withdrawal of the 1,200
U.S. marines at Beirut airport.
U.S. officials would not give
details of Rumsfeld’s latest talks,
but Lebanese officials said the
envoy met no government fi
gures in Beirut Sunday and was
waiting to travel to Syria, poss
ibly by way of Egypt.
Student reportedly
raped by two men
Spending plan discussed
By Sarah Oates
Staff writer
A Texas A&M University stu
dent reported early Friday
morning that she was raped af
ter being abducted by two men
who identified themselves as
football recruits outside a frater
nity house.
Bob Wiatt, director of secur
ity and traffic for the University
Police, said that “there were no
football recruits at all at Texas
A&M (Thursday) night,” and
that he does not believe the men
were football recruits.
The woman told police she
was at a party at the Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity house in the
300 block of Bittle Lane in Bryan
and walked outside to look for a
friend around 1 a.m..
She told police that two men
in a car called her name and
thinking she knew them, she
went to the car. She said the driv
er showed her a gun and said,
“Get in the car right now.”
She said the men offered to
take her to her dormitory, but
instead drove out to the country
where they sexually assaulted
her. They then drove her home.
According to the Bryan police
incident report, she reported
the assault around 3 a.m.
The case may be related to an
incident the previous night on
the University campus. The
Texas A&M police department
Wednesday night received a re
port that a woman was harrassed
by two men in a car near Rudder
Tower. She fled from them.
The car described by the
assault victim Friday morning is
similar to the one described in
the Wednesday night incident.
The Texas A&M and Bryan
police forces are working
together on the case. Wiatt said
the Texas A&M police have a
few leads.
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