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Photo by PETER ROCHA
Mark O’Neil, using a sprinkler attachment on a hose, waters a
flower bed near the Rudder Complex. More watering and the
replanting of some flower beds has been necessary due to the
lack of rain, said O’Neil, a member of the grounds mainte
nance flower crew. The lack of rain has affected the area with
Easterwood Airport having .38 inches of rain for July.
TAMU paramedic allowed to start IV
By STEVE THOMAS
Staff Writer
The Texas A&M Emergency
Medical Services marked an impor
tant milestone Tuesday when para
medic Louis Gonzales was ordered
by St. Joseph Hospital to perform an
advanced technique on a patient at
Texas A&M.
Terry Dunlop, a 49-year-old fire
school participant from Sinton,
Texas, collapsed Tuesday morning
in 224 Memorial Student Center.
David Phillips, Texas A&M EMS
chief and driver-on-duty at the time,
said Dunlop’s heart was struggling,
and after a few minutes St. Joseph’s
emergency room radioed orders for
an intravenous fluid line.
“Before now it was an act of Con
gress to get advanced orders from
St. Joe’s,” Phillips said.
“We were afraid his veins were
going to collapse because of the low
blood pressure and the weak heart
output,” he said. “This guy (Dunlop)
was an emergency patient who defi
nitely needed advanced care, but he
was not going to die the next minute.
That’s what’s so significant. He was
not that bad and we still got orders
(for the IV).”
Intravenous fluid lines are consid
ered to be an advanced life support
measure in emergency medicine.
The Texas A&M EMS department
has not received orders for an IV in
over a year, and before that it had
been nearly two years. Yet the pro
gram has had the state-required
equipment and personnel for ad
vanced life support since its incep
tion in 1979.
Phillips said that in other cities
where advanced life support is used
routinely, a patient in a situation
similar to Dunlop’s would have auto
matically received an IV. Bryan’s
Fire department is not equipped or
staffed for advanced life support,
but College Station’s is, and the city
council recently approved the initia
tion of a paramedic (advanced life
support) program.
Phillips said he feels Bryan-Col-
lege Station is slowly but definitely
moving toward full acceptance of
emergency medical advanced life
support, and Dunlop’s IV may be
the beginning of a trend toward St.
Joseph’s acceptance of this advanced
level.
He said St. Joseph’s past attitude
about advanced life support resem
bled reluctance, whereas this time
the emergency room people were
very cooperative and supportive.
Texas official
resigns to White
United Press International
AUSTIN — Secretary of State
John Fainter Tuesday submitted his
resignation to Gov. Mark White, say
ing he intends to return to a private
law practice.
Fainter’s resignation, which has
been rumored for months, was con
firmed by Dwayne Holman, who is
in charge of White’s appointments.
Holman said Fainter informed
White of his decision Tuesday af
ternoon but told the governor seve
ral months ago of his intentions.
White did not indicate whom he will
appoint to replace Fainter, although
Sarah Weddington has been men
tioned as the most likely prospect.
Weddington, who is currently in
charge of Texas’ Office of State and
Federal Relations in Washington,
D.C, has served as an advisor to
President Jimmy Carter and a Texas
legislator.
She also was lead counsel in the
historic Roe vs. Wade case, which re
sulted in the legalization of abortion.
Holman indicated Weddington is
being considered for the job, al
though he said White has not made a
final decision, and there are also sev
eral other candidates being consid
ered.
Fainter was not dissatisfied with
his job, Holman said, but wanted to
take advantage of several business
opportunities.
Commandos kill
plane hijackers
United Press International
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao — Ven
ezuelan commandos coached by a
crack U.S. anti-terrorist team sent in
by President Reagan stormed a hi
jacked jet before dawn Tuesday,
killed two air pirates at point-blank
range and rescued 79 hostages.
Terrified hostages, including four
Americans, fled through a rear door
of the Venezuelan Aeropostal DC-9
and hurled themselves onto the tar
mac after the hijackers set fire to
gasoline-soaked newspapers inside
the plane.
As the hostages were escaping,
marksmen outside the plane fired
and wounded both hijackers, Mar
lene Pardo, 42, one of seven hos
tages left inside the plane, told
United Press International.
She said two Venezuelan com
mandos then rushed into the plane
and finished off the two wounded
air pirates — shooting one at point-
blank range as he lay bleeding in the
aisle, and the other as he was
slumped in the galley.
None of the 74 passengers or five
crew members aboard the airliner
was wounded in the 2:10 a.m. EDT
assault that ended a 37-hour odyssey
to four Caribbean islands off the
northern coast of South America —
the Venezuelan island of Margarita,
Trinidad, Aruba and Curacao.
The hijackers, identified as Do
minique Hilertant and Segundo Fe
lix Castillo, had threatened to blow
up the plane unless they were given
$>5 million and a helicopter.
Hilertant, a former Haitian cap
tain sentenced to death for a coup
attempt against the late President-
for-life Francois “Papa Doc” Duva-
lier in the 1960s, was armed with a
pistol. Castillo, a Dominican, had a
starter’s pistol. Authorities said there
was no indication they had a bomb.
Panic broke out on the Venezue
lan DC-9 after sharpshooters shot
out the tires of the jetliner to prevent
it from taking off for an undisclosed
destination.
Pardo told UPI that Castillo
poured gasoline on a stack of news
papers in the aisle and set fire to it,
setting off a stampede for the rear
door and two emergency exits in the
middle of the plane.
“We grabbed our children and
ran for the back door,” said Nancy
Perret-Gentil of Manhattan, Kan.,
one of four Americans aboard.
“Everyone was panicky. We didn’t
see the part where the men were
shot. We were running from the air
plane to get away from the bomb
they were going to explode. We lay
down in the middle of the airstrip
and waited there.”
Castillo began walking back to the
rear of the plane when he was hit by
a marksman’s bullet.
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