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Aggie Olymipics
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jlEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli war
planes bombed suspected Palestinian
uerrilla bases east of Beirut Thurs-
[ay as leaders of President Amin
emayel’s own Christian communit
Jirged him to honor the May
iccord with Israel.
The Israeli fighter jets struck near
he mountain town of Bhamdoun,
lituated in the Druze Moslem rebel-
ontrolled mountains 12 miles east of
eirut — in their third such air strike
iftve days.
Referring to suspected Palestinian
ositions in the area, Israel said the
[ttacks were aimed at “terrorist bases
ad headquarters” and an artillery
sition. Syrian radio reported “sev-
[ralcasualties among the civilians.”
“All Israeli planes returned safely
i base,” the military command said
lan announcement from Tel Aviv.
With the fighting between the re
els of west Beirut and the army in
ast Beirut only a mile away, Leb-
nesearmy units of the pro-rebel 6th
Brigade moved along the main shop-
street of the western half of the
apital.
Their movements, mainly to pro-
|ide guards around government
tildings and to be a presence on the
Jtreets, also included replacing Shiite
[ioslem militiamen at checkpoints
near the U.S.-controlled Beirut air-
agreement on the army, apparently
members of the 6th Brigade, taking
over the Marine compound at Beirut
airport once the U.S. Marine evacua
tion from Lebanon was completed.
The pullout began Tuesday.
While the fighting continued,
Gemayel faced more pressure from
members of his own Christian com
munity not to make concessions de
manded for peace by Syria and Syr
ia’s Lebanese rebel allies.
Fadi Frem, leader of the 10,000-
man Christian militia, warned that
Christian opposition will be “ignited”
if Gemayel cancels the troop withdra
wal accord he reached with Israel last
May 17.
The accord laid the basis for nor
mal Israeli-Lebanese relations in re
turn for an Israeli promise to with
draw fom south Lebanon. It also
provided for arrangements to ensure
security for Israel’s northern border.
The militia has been under the po
litical influence of the Phalange
Party, led by Pierre Gemayel, the
president’s father, but Frem’s atti
tude about abrogating the treaty with
Israel suggested a rift in the Chris
tian movement.
Chamoun has harshly criticized
Gemayel for reports he was willing to
abrogate the May 17 accord, calling it
a “surrender” to Syria. But after the
meeting, the National News Agency
reported Chamoun said “there were
no differences.”
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from San Antonio, and Bob Blakely, a math
professor, check out the cockpit of an F-16
Fighting Falcon. The jet was parked in the
parking lot of the Military Sciences Bldg, as
part of an “Air Force awareness” promotion.
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JlOUSTON — David, America’s 12-
■ear-old “bubble” boy, joked in his fi-
J waking hours and winked a good
ie before apparent complications
om an experimental attempted
lure killed him, a doctor said Thurs-
lay.
Dr. William T. Shearer, speaking
[trough tears, said David asked him
tone point Wednesday morning to
[emove intravenous tubes so he
go home. David died about 11
)urs later.
With David “slipping fast,” the de-
sion was made to place him on a
spirator and give him a muscle re-
mt to allow the machine to take
'er his breathing.
Before that occurred, Shearer
id “He winked at me. That was the
stthing he communicated.”
Shearer said the boy, who lived
nil 16 days ago in germ-free isolat
es separated from the outside world
plastic, knew he was dying.
He said something to the effect
here we have all these tubes and
all these tests, and nothing is work
ing, and I’m tired. Why don’t we just
pull all these tubes out and let me go
home,” Shearer said.
His death and the subsequent au
topsy, Shearer said, was more signifi
cant to medical history than David’s
life shielded from germs that his
body could not fight.
The immediate cause of death was
heart failure, but an autopsy sur
prised doctors by revealing the heart
failure was caused by an overgrowth
of disease-fighting cells which ate at
his lungs, spleen and intestines.
“David’s death was as unique as his
life. The findings were totally unex
pected and they consisted of B-cell
proliferation. There were multiple
ulcerations throughout his gastroin
testinal tract,” Shearer said.
Cancer has not been ruled out as a
cause of the growths. Additional tests
were scheduled.
Combined Immune Deficiency,
whose last name has never been re
vealed, spoke with his family early
Wednesday before the respirator was
inserted, Shearer said.
“David’s last conscious moments
were with his family, and at that time
he was given the last sacraments of
his faith,” Shearer said.
David’s parents were in seclusion.
Shearer said they were holding up
well and had not waivered from their
decision to authorize an experimen
tal bone marrow transplant Oct. 21
because they believed it gave their
son a chance to live outside the bub
bles.
Despite touching his mother’s
hand and receiving a kiss Feb. 7 for
the first and only time when he was
removed from the bubble for treat
ment, David never got to walk bare
foot on the grass outside the windows
of his house — his often repeated
wish.
The longest lived victim of Severe David was born Sept. 21, 1971 into
an isolator crib and did not leave a
sterilized environment his first 12
years because he was born without
ability to fight infection.
In the transplant, doctors took 2
ounces of bone marrow cells from his
15-year-old sister Katherine and in
jected them into David’s bloods
tream, hoping they would migrate to
David’s bones and set up a disease-
fighting defense.
Shearer told the news conference
there was no evidence the transplant
ever began to work.
David’s bubbles at home and at
Texas Children’s Hospital will now
be dismantled and never used again.
Shearer said.
“We have no need for them in
medicine. The day is long gone when
we place children in bubbles,”
Shearer said.
Doctors did not have enough in
formation in 1971 to think they
could counter Severe Combined Im
mune Deficiency Syndrome.
David was born into a sterile iso
lator because an older brother had
died of SCID at 7 months. When he
was 6 he walked around in a “space
suit” fashioned by NASA, but he
quickly outgrew it.
“David was a happy boy,” Shearer
said. “He was ready for problems,
but he tended to hide his feelings.
Whatever the situation was in the last
few days, he made it easy for his doc
tors.”
David’s parents and other relatives
were near him at death.
“The parents don’t regret the deci
sion. They feel it was the right deci
sion at the time,” Shearer said.
They knew that if he was to live a
normal life he had to come out of the
bubble, doctors have said.
Baylor College of Medicine
spokeswoman Susannah Moore Grif
fin said private arrangements were
being made for David’s funeral.
David’s treatment was funded by
grants from the National Institutes
of Health. At his death, the cost was
estimated at $1.1 million.
Marines
awaiting
settlement
United Press International
BEIRUT — The commander of U.S.
forces in Lebanon said Thursday
that Marine combat troops would not
leave their positions and ammunition
stockpiles until an agreement is
reached with the Lebanese army on
which units will replace them.
“We would not go off and vacate
the premises,” Brig. Gen. James Joy
told reporters. “We’re confident we
will have an agreement. We think we
have an agreement now.”
Thursday was the third day of the
Marine evacuation from Beirut for
support personnel and equipment,
military officials said. Combat troops
remained in position onshore.
Joy said more negotiations on the
handover were planned for today,
including discussions on the timeta
ble for the turnover. “We’re not in
any type of panic operation,” Joy
said. “It’s being accomplished in a
very orderly process.”
The Marine compound will be
turned over to “elements of the Leb
anese armed forces that will have re
sponsibility for security at the air-
port,” Joy said.
He refused to elaborate, but the
Lebanese army’s 6th Brigade, which
is acceptable to the anti-government
forces, began moving into the gen
eral area Wednesday.
The 6th Brigade, commanded by a
Shiite Moslem, refused to fight anti
government militias during the rebel
uprising Feb. 6 and abandoned many
of their positions in west Beirut.
Joy said the U.S. command had re
ceived “assurances” from various fac
tions that the Marines would not be
attacked during their withdrawal.
Military officials said the Marines
will leave behind a stockpile of am
munition for the Lebanese troops
who will take over the American
compound near Beirut Airport.
“We’ll be leaving our spare
ammo,” said logistics officer Lt. Col.
Charles Rinehart of Jacksonville,
N.C., as wave after wave of Sea
Knight and Sea Stallion helicopters
ferried equipment and supplies from
Marine headquarters to U.S. ships
offshore.
The Marines plan to leave behind
spare 105mm shells for the Lebanese
army’s U.S.-made M-48-A5 tanks
and ammunition for its American-
made M-16 rifles.
The incoming Lebanese forces
also will take advantage of security
improvements that the U.S. troops
made on the sprawling airport com
plex after the suicide car bombing
that killed 241 U.S. servicemen last
September.
The Marines will not dismantle
their heavily fortified bunkers or the
protective earthen mounds, barbed
wire, and 7,500-pound concrete
blocks called “dragon’s teeth” that
seal the compound off.
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wwi n „ • ,’ij ofln tdenn, whose poor
camnai he ^° Wa caucuses has left
" ‘Rn scrambling, criticized
Walter Mondale’s labor support.
Glenn acknowledged that he
sought the endorsement of the pow
erful AFL-CIO, but said “I was not
willing to make the big promises that
he (Mondale) made.”
“I don’t think we can go before the
American people, and expect to win
in November, by overpromising,
Glenn said in taking a slap at the for
mer vice president.
South Carolina Sen. Ernest Hol-
lings, sitting next to Glenn, said he
has been pushing the need for fiscal
responsibility. “I thought that J obn
would do that in Iowa, but he
flunked the test.”
California Sen. Alan Cranston de
fended the exchanges, saying “the
testing that we do reveals each oth
er’s strengths and weaknesses.
Jesse Jackson told the audience at
St. Anselms’s College that “we’re not
fighting for unity, we’re fighting tor
distinction.”
The eight found some matters on
which to agree, however. All said
they would take some form of action
to keep the Strait of Hormuz open if
they were blocked by Iran, although
each said that as president they
would formulate policies to prevent
such a thing from ocurring.
“Those sea lanes must stay open,”
Mondale said.
“It is worth fighting for,” said
Jackson.
The candidates were trying to woo
a sizable number of voters w ho have
yet to make up their minds.
At least 14 percent of New Hamp
shire Democrats are still undecided,
according to a poll released Thurs
day night bv Boston television station
WBZ.
According to the survey of 500
Democrats, taken Wednesday, Mon
dale went into the debate being fa
vored by 32 percent of the electorate.
Glenn, who had undisputed claim
to second place for months, slipped
into a tie with Han for the runner-up
spot, with both drawing 15 percent.
Several of the men who did not
fare well in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation
caucuses have hinted they may drop
out unless they do much better in
New Hampshire.
Cranston, Hollings, and former
Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida,
would have difficulty remaining in
the race unless they stage a surprise
in New Hampshire.
George McGovern, who qualified
Thursday for federal matching
funds, and Jackson, both of whom
are running shoestring campaigns to
make a moral message to the party,
appeared likely to stay in the race
longer.
The Boston television poll of 500
independent and Democratic New
Hampshire voters found Hart pick
ing up more ground and matching
Glenn — 15 percent each.
The poll, released Thursday, also
showed Mondale with 32 percent;
Jackson. 8 percent; Cranston, 4 per
cent; McGovern, 3 percent; Hollings,
2 percent; and Askew, 1 percent.
Fourteen percent were undecided.
In Today’s Battalion
Local
• World record holder Carl Lewis says he will submit
to any steriod testing beacause he doesn’t use drugs while
longjumping.
• I exas A&M professor Will Worley will be one of the
runners carrying the Olympic torch to the Summer Games.
See story page 5.
State
• The prosecuting attorney in the Geter case is re
signing to return to private pratice. See story page 7.
• Henry Lee Lucas pinpoints the site of a double
burial of twoo people he and his partner claimed to have
killed. See story page 9.