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Serving the Gniversity community
Vol 78 Mo. 114 GSRS 0453110 10 pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 20, 1984
By ROBIN BLACK
Stall Writer
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siderable suBThe recent moral controversy con-
vith only SsBning genetic engineering has been
ness majorsp)ul)ling society as much or more as
the engine p technological difficulties that
/ companitBisl be overcome,
attractingkBriial controversy, a question of
es is in theiwether the new hope for medicine
it Stanford* the hazard for mankind was of
rvard and tBater importance, was discussed
Monday night in Rudder Theater by
# genetics experts, C. Thomas Cas-
H i By, a doctor at the Kleberg Center
foi Human Genetics at Baylor Col-
— in aCCOlMe of Medicine, and Leroy Wallers,
dii rtorof the Center for Bioethics
1 ;!|ihe Kennedy Institute of Bioethics,
(er prepBorgetown University.
Jfudenlsfe l )r ff Ualion ’ sponsored by
■hbGreat Issues, was moderated by
secure a •ties Wild, an associate professor of
•chemistry and biophysics at T exas
■“■“■■■■•Gaskey, who addressed the audi
ts of comp first, said that because of recent
ews with I Ijteresi and achievements in the
•e from tl ilea, genetics has entered an exciting
iter now |®wera.
; mid-1970iB “Right now,” he said, “the lecli-
majorfirni ppies are incredibly simple and the
graduates! iprutial is very powerful.”
rs. SeveralBCaskey said new technology in the
iding Moi field of genetics is opening up the
tl Motors; p i, '' s 'i)ilities of preventing inheritable
aveestabli: fporders such as sickle cell diseases,
dally to mB CoiTecling genetic disorders is
d< c in two ways: cellular genetic
aes the stui 1 msfer and embryonic genetic
build sudii-msfer, he said.
for a carwB These are done by injecting the
•lor embryo with corrective recom-
elops stre;.pi u < 1111 DNA
>r technidB Currently, theraputic treatment
im provideiP 11 ' disorders like muscular dystro-
istoricalseAy, another genetic disease, is
ither lang fighly inadequate,” Caskey said,
ecognition ||l'ich makes further development of
erpersonalB 11 ^ correction even more imput
ation skills. | nl
lily, a capafl! I Pasl g enel ' c breakthroughs have
■ 1 -“‘-i' t '- 1 with few
’Pokes sold;
Bum hopes for
Bright future
Dr. C. Thomas Caskey shows a slide of geneti
cally engineered mice in his speech Monday
Photo by DEAN SAITO
night. Caskey stressed the importance of genet
ics work, but also emphasized precautions.
md creativetP 10vec l vitally successful
complex, (IIrawbacks, he said.
of
nvironmei* Insulin, used in the treatment
n these qd |>abeles, could once he obtained only
irtant loif I
from the pancreas of horses. Insulin,
hormones and interferon can now be
synthetically reproduced.
“If we didn’t have synthetic insulin
today,” he said, “there would be a se
vere world shortage of insulin avail
able to treat diabetes.”
Walters, elaborating on Caskey’s
theme, pointed out that although ge
netic research is vital and should con
tinue, certain ethics problems must
be solved first.
“We have to consider what can be
done along with what ought to be do
ne,” he said.
There will be ethics arguments
both for and against every avenue of
possibility in genetics, he said.
“Most critics of genetic research
see this as just the beginning of the
engineering of human life,” he said,
“similar to that in Huxley’s Brave New
World."
That same argument was made, he
said, when the first breakthroughs
were being made with “test tube” ba
bies.
“There fears were not realized,”
he said, “and instead over 300 pre
viously infertile couples have since
been able to have children.”
Walters said fears about genetic
engineering getting out of hand
should not inhibit the development
of new and potentially promising
breakthroughs, but instead should
increase our awareness efforts to
prevent any of these possibilities.
Iraq says jets hit Iranian targets
United Press International
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vised to aqi |
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etter prepalj BAGHDAD — Iraq said Monday
work thaiiB s J els P oun ded Iranian targets east
have narrow* ^ asra , and a U.N. team returned
iccure a fir# Geneva to report on its investiga
tion of charges that Iraq was using
|iemical weapons in the 42-montli-
old Gulf war.
I "Iraqi air force jets raided Iranian
Brgels east of Basra, scoring direct
4id effective hits, and then returned
|l safely to base,” (he Iraqi military
said in a communique on action dur
ing the past day.
The Iraqis said their forces killed
and wounded “a number of enemy
soldiers, while a vehicle an obser
vation post and a weapon emplace
ment were destroyed.”
They also said Iran continued its
artillery shelling of the southern port
of Basra and the border town of
Mandali.
The Iranian news agency IRNA
claimed it “inflicted considerable
losses and casualties” on an Iraqi
company “who tried to infiltrate Ira
nian troop positions” on the western
batllefront Sunday.
It said long-range Iraqi artillery
fire damaged at least 20 houses and
shops in the southern Iranian city of
Abadan.
The U.N. experts concluded a six-
day visit to Iran and returned to Ge
neva after inspecting areas in the war
zone where Iran claimed mustard
gas and mycotoxin, or “yellow rain,”
were used by Iraq.
U.N. spokeswoman Therese Gas-
taut said the experts would prepare a
detailed report in Geneva for U.N.
Secretary General Javier Perez De
Cuellar, who would decide whether
their report would be made public.
United Press International
HONOLULU — The Dallas
Cowboys were sold Monday for the
largest price ever paid for a sports
franchise — an estimated $80 mil
lion — to an II-man limited part-
nership headed by Chairman of the
Texas A&M Board of Regents H.R.
“Bum” Bright.
Bright, the senior partner in Dal
las-based Bright and Co., will be the
general partner of the club owning
17 percent, and Tex Schramm, the
current general manager, will be
named managing partner and will
continue to run the club the same
way be did under Clint Murchison
since the team was founded in
1900.
Ed Smith Jr., of Houston and
J.L. Williams of Dallas each own 15
percent while George M. Under
wood Jr., of Dallas will own 10 per
cent and his son George M. Under
wood III will own 5 percent.
Bright did not specify the per
centages owned by the other gen
eral partners, who are L. Brad
Camp of Dallas, Craig Hall of Dal
las, J.L. Huffines jr., of Dallas, Ar
thur Temple of Diboli and S. Foster
Yancey Jr., of Dallas.
The NHL has a provision speci
fying that each team must have a 51
percent owner, but the league
waived the provision while approv
ing this sale at the league meetings
which began Monday.
Bright said Schramm would have
more power as a managing partner
of a limited partnership than the
chief operating officer in many cor
porations with 51 percent control
would have.
Bright refused to give any finan
cial figures, but it is believed the
Cowboys were sold for $(50 million
with the other $20 million coming
for the right to run the lease at
Texas Stadium in Irving.
The group is expected to build
more luxury boxes at Texas Sta
dium to recoup some of their in
vestment.
Bright said there will be no dif
ference in the way the Cowboys will
be run under him than the way
Murchison directed the club. Mur
chison was rioted for staying in the
background and letting Schramm
run the team. Tom Landry, the
only coach the team has ever had,
has one year on his contract and
will remain as coach.
“If you think Clint Murchison
was an invisible owner, you will be
shocked at me,” Bright said. “I will
be more invisible than he was.”
Bright said he would not inter
fere with the way the club is run.
“It's like owning a good piece of
art,” he said. “You don’t nave to
paint it to enjoy it.”
Bright, who was involved in
bringing Jackie Sherrill to Texas
A&M from the University of Pitts
burgh with a multi-million dollar
contract, said he would not be di
rectly involved in the team’s opera
tion.
“Tex will run the club,” he said.
“You will not notice a change. It
would be ludicrous for any one to
think they could add to Tex’s direc
tion.”
When Bright was asked what he
would do if the Cowboys failed to
make the playoffs next year, lie
said, “I’d be disappointed.”
Schramm then cut in and said,
“I’d be more disappointed than he
would.”
Bright then finished his
statement by saying, “That (the
Cowboys’ failing to make the play
offs) would not make me think I
was an oracle.”
Bright said the other limited
pari net s will be as invisible as him
self.
“Their role is to furnish me with
money when l call for it,” he said.
“The failure to do so gives me the
right to drop the hammer on the
heads.”
Bright said he was interested in
buying the Cowboys because they
were “the premier franchise in the
premier locale.”
Under the direction of Murchi
son and Schramm, the Cowboys
have had a record 18 straight win
ning seasons and have made the
playoffs in 17 of those years. That
record and the lucrative television
contract are the main reasons why
the Cowboys were considered to be
worth $00 million.
The last time a franchise
changed hands in the NFL was four
years ago when Edgar Reiser
bought the Denver Broncos for an
estimated $30 to $35 million.
When Murchison named
Schramm to run the dub, Schramm
hired Landry as head coach and Gil
Brandi as chief scout. Those three
men have been together ever since
and apparently will continue their
relationship in the Bright regime.
But the Cowboys are at a cross
roads after losing their final three
games of last season. Bright is con
fident that they will bounce back
next year.
“They always have,” he said.
See related editorial, page 2.
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In Today’s Battalion
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cut
Local
• A Brazos County official talks about the area’s
continual preparation for a nuclear attack. See story
page 3.
State
• Texas traffic fatalities decreased in 1983 while
arrests for drunk driving in the state went up 33 per
cent. See story page 3.
National
• The Supreme Court has given the go-ahead for
the March 31 execution of “Candyman” killer Ronald
.Clark O’Bryan. See story page 3.
Lack of progress in peace talks
triggers more Lebanese fighting
United Press International
BEIRUT — Rival militias, impa
tient with the lack of progress at the
Lausanne peace talks, rained shells
on Beirut’s neighborhoods Monday.
Police and local radios reported one
person killed and 20 wounded.
At the same time, U.S. Embassy of
ficials said the search was continuing
for American diplomat William
Buckley, a political officer kidnap
ped in Moslem West Beirut Friday,
but no hard leads to his whereabouts
or the identity of his abductors sur
faced .
Monday’s fighting in Beirut fol
lowed a weekend of shelling and
street battles that left at least 16 dead
and 50 others wounded.
Local newspapers attributed the
fighting to frustration over the
stalled peace talks in Lausanne, Swit-
zerland, where the leaders of Leb
anon's warring factions remained
unable to agree to a new power-shar
ing arrangement.
“Only a miracle will save the con
ference from failure,” the leftist As
Safir newspaper reported.
The radio station run by the right-
wing Phalangist party said a young
woman was killed Monday and five
members of her family were
wounded by a shell that blew apart
their home.
It called the shelling of residential
areas in Christian East Beirut “a mas
sacre.”
Rival gunners opened fire with ar
tillery during the morning rush
hour, trapping commuters in their
cars and sending residents scurrying
for cover in basement bomb shelters.
Shells hit Dora, an industrial area
northeast of Beirut, and the resi
dential suburbs of Zalka, Tdeide and
Baouchriyey.
Clashes along the so-called green
line that divides the city into Chris
tian and Moslem sectors raged
through the afternoon, with Moslem
militiamen pouring rocket propelled
grenades and small arms fire into
Christian positions.
Sporadic rocket fire and shells also
fell on Beirut’s Moslem-controlled
southern suburbs, and the Moslem-
controlled Voice of Arab Lebanon
accused Christian militias of starting
the clashes.
One shell hit the Beirut home of a
Iqbal Akhund, a Pakistani U.N. offi
cial responsible for assisting the re
construction of Lebanon, but neither
Akhund or his two sons were
harmed, a U.N. spokesman said. It
was not known who fired the shell.
For the third consecutive day, the
committee set up to monitor a cease
fire ordered last week failed to meet
Monday.
Sources affiliated with the cease
fire committee said the four rival fac
tions represented on the group prob
ably would not meet again until more
postive word came from the negotia
tions in Lausanne.
The committee’s failure to meet
dashed hopes that Beirut airport,
closed since early February because
of fighting, would be reopened
quickly. It also postponed plans to
have French peace-keeping troops
man a buffer zone between the war
ring militias.
In Tripoli, 40 miles north of Bei
rut, police reported heavy fighting
overnight between Syrian forces and
the fundamentalist Moslem Taw-
heed movement. There were no im
mediate reports of casualties.
The Tawheed movement is a
strong backer of Palestine Liberation
Organization Chairman Yasser Ar
afat, whose guerrillas were forced
out of Tripoli last year after a pro
longed siege by Syrian-backed Pales
tinian rebels.