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-v Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, February 10, 1984 MAYBE I SHOULD CALU HIM. GOOD ftORNm. WE ARE (Hr MAWAYMER *65 III MODS mxmcEs.. OH, SHUTTVR 2.-/0 Dead? Last-minute coughing saves dona before donation could be made United 5PACE Mcdamlle ids wi band, land* w, United Press International MSC Cepheid Variable presents GENE RODDENBERRY THE S1AR TRGK EXPERIENCE Feb 18 7:30 Rudder Auditorium Tickets on Sale Now One ticket per A&M I.D. MSC Cepheid Variable Officials destroy 25 tons of marijuana United Press International BROWNSVILLE — Drug En forcement Administration agents Thursday burned 25 tons of marijuana and interro gated 14 Colombians and Hon durans who were arrested as the Coast Guard seized the 75- foot ship Lady Mar earlier this week. The pot, valued at $20 mil lion by the DEA, were set afire at the city landfill inside a locked fence at the Port of Brownsville. Meantime, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs said the Lady Mar, which rammed the Coast Guard cutter Durable during a 22-hour chase in the Gulf of Mexico off the Mexican Yuca tan Peninsula last Saturday and Sunday, would be seized by the government. oyster fishing boat, was empty when first confronted by the Coast Guard cutter. The vessel orginally radioed that it was registered at Roatan, Honduras, but investigators said the Honduran government disputed the claim and gave permission for the Coast Guard to board the vessel. Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry Lee Hall said Thursday the DEA was continuing its in vestigation into the registry and ownership of the boat and mari juana. LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — A “dead man” who stunned nurses by coughing as they were preparing to take out his organs was in critical condition Thurs day fighting for his life. “He’s improving. I’m a posi tive thinker. I’m hoping for a miracle,” Genevieve Supergan, who had signed death certifi cate papers when her son was pronounced dead Monday, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “It is really frightening,” she said. Alan Supergan, 20, suffered massive brain injuries in a car accident in which he was charged with drunken driving. He was taken to Condell Memo rial Hospital. Doctors told Su- pergan’s family his situation was hopeless and the family or dered his life-support systems cut off and his organs donated. But Tuesday, as doctors and nurses prepared to remove Su- pergan’s heart, kidneys and liver, he coughed. He was listed in critical condition Thursday. It was the second time in the same day organ donor surgery was halted by signs of life. Doc tors at a Memphis, Tenn., hos pital canceled surgery to re move a “dead” man’s liver when his feet started twitching invol untarily. The patient, who had been in a car accident, was de clared dead nine hours before surgery at the University of Tennessee’s Howard F. Bowld Hospital began. “This is an extremely flukv and rare event,” said Gary Hall, organ transplant coordinator at the Tennessee hospital. Supergan’s parents were al ready planning his funeral and the Lake County coroner had listed him as dead of injuries suffered in a one-car accident Feb. 2. Dr. Meneleo Avila, surgeon, said Supergan showed no brain function or response to pain and that his pupils were dilated when he was examined Monday afternoon. Avila said he told Supergan’s family the situation was hope less and the family making funeral arrange^ “Can you imagine beinj funeral parlor picking oml casket and then findingoitj still alive?” asked his Amy. Avila said nurses werti f Ffldless, NASA's n for lhe .. Spacewalk Instead paring Supergan foror[ moval surgery about 12:3' in sP^e w “I felt e be UP/S Iced hk mova Tuesday and were usingsuc on his trachea when“hesa to have evidence of somet® reflex.” 1 “They stopped eve^ and called me," he said i. then he has improved a more. He now moves. Itisi flex move but movemeniin theless.” Police said Supergan neuro- through a stop sign and 1 1 Houst tree. He was charged drunken driving, transj lion of open alcohol, nit stop sign and driving wit valid auto registratioi Supergan has been inai ever since. Unite< WASH 20 applic for possi buttle as NASA’s J in space age “ r The af ilitary ergo a v medical onal A< Administ DEA agents said the suspects probably would be charged with possession with intent to distrib ute the marijuana. They were being processed by Immigration and Naturaliza tion Service officials and then DEA agents continued to w iH be booked into the Cam- grill the suspects, trying to de- eron County Jail, U.S. customs termine which one of them fal- spokesman juaquin Leggarreta sely reported that the ship, a said. US could do more to aid Mexican crisis, prof says Of United Press International SAN ANTONIO — The United States could do more to help Mexico through its present economic crisis by understand ing the problems the country is [Coming in Monday’s Batt: Our Valentine Special' Pcuna, * Piaaa Happy Hour at Alfredo 1 From 3:00 to 8:30 going through, a political sci ence professor Thursday told members of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Dr. Gabriel Szekely of the Center of International Studies, College of Mexico, called on Texas newspaper editors and publishers to increase their un derstanding of Mexico’s politi- cal and economic situation “f Minina Ettccm .c <x> .£ en 5 Enjoy 99€ pitchers with every Papa'i. Pt^a 16 in. Pizza — $5.99 Add. items 99d each 5 Serving Luncheon Buffet Sandwich and Soup Bar Mezzanine Floor Sunday through Friday 11 a.m. to i :30 p.m. from a Mexican point of view” and not to judge the country “by American standards.” “The United Slates could help Mexico develop industri- szrj. ally," he said. "But it will take a great deal of patience on the ^ part of Americans and a realiza- L [lion that reforms in Mexico and \ throughout Third World couuntries are slow in coming.” A panel discussion which in cluded Szekely, Dr. Edmundo Flores, economist, and Dr. Car los Bosch, concluded in San An tonio Thursday. The seminar continues Friday in Mexico City with a talk by Carlos Salinas de Gotari, minister of program and budget, and an interview with President Miguel de la Ma te drid. X Szekely said Mexico needs • w American investors to help Mexican industry become more competitive in the U.S. market. ALAN loast Gi hursda; ior offic ^ male fr le also i appa board tf Capt. 1 jngton, fc f the Ru live hear turbed aboard omen i Warrant Meter. 846-0079 846-3824 Hours: Sun-Wed 4-11:30 Thurs-Sat 3-2:00 Free delivery To Campus And Surrounding Area IB- Owned & operated by A&M students Delicious Food Beautiful View Open to the Public x sor anct research scholar said one of the areas most misunder stood by Americans is the posi tive role played by illegal aliens who are crossing into the United States in record num- Unite Ik-i s from Mexico and til Latin American countries. "Migrants who leave Mi to seek employment United States hurt our because they are workers not find jobs in Mei Szekely said. "But the) positive role because workers who are in thelli States, legally or illegal needed dollars back helping our economy.” Szekelky said U.S. ti aid in developing indusii) help Mexico overcome its sent economic problems,*! include a foreign debt between $80 billion to lion, an 80 percent ml rate and chronic unen)| merit and underemployi “The United States, the international banking munity and the Intern: Monetary Fund, proving to be a friend of ico by helping us without problems,” he said, adding officials of the IMF say Mexico is succeeding in its tei ity program. Unemployment is a i problem and the rateofm employment, those who s less than the minimum work only part time, has estimated at 45 percent,hes “This year Mexico cut the inflation ratelw- M 11( , - 40 percent,” Szekely saidJ I J/P f the process of austerity J® ° er be so severe that the peoplt 1 suffer. In Mexico we Se Unite* WAS? nate v< short the has been legislatioi death pes der and residem On a ( agreed t the mea come to the 10-da ibatbegii ■sjet* “Quality First” ered shouted ... . ■ mond, R svgn ouv own suicide notice. j udic - avy a senatoi fuse to g for that?’ The condition better E} Transpiant patient United Press International MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three- year-old Jonathan Lehman of Irving, Texas, who underwent a liver transplant Feb. 3, was up graded to serious condition Thursday and may be moved out of the intensive care unit, a hospital spokesman said. “He’s been doing extremely well,” said Scott Kent, spokes man for LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center. “He’s eating weeks Hopefully it ; val i 0 , n light foods, progress continues, he *1 verse the moved out of intensivecatt f ec j era | day.” trials Meanwhile, double li sei zec i ev transplant patient Megan fc of South Daytona, Fla,, slijf| into very critical com Kent said. It The 8-year-old girl plagued by infection since! 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