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■ icnoriLi CErm PO toi 59062 71229 aid Air's debts big to fly with Copper workers don't want bail out mmm Cowboys need final eleven roster cuts 16 Texas ASM ^ « a The Battalion Serving the University community Voi 78 No. 188 (JSPS 043360 16 pages 1 College Station. T< Wednesday. August 22. 1984 Pick up your tickets now ^ of thr vatbmM and aJi-MMMts *ok* Um the (UTm Monday at the ur krt booth Field ddtet booth m locaurd at Grnm I hi tfer north end of hylr Field h be open from » a.m «> 5 p m a0 week and the ftm week of admal. IO * to ptcfc up**their counon hooka. If the darndkatam is incorrect on the fee «hp. it muat be cor * mcaad before packanf up a cou pon book Thn can be done wwh a adfeout I D or throi^fi verdka of hour* by Heaton Halt F» k t*P fame ockem in as scheduled >«hU> prKM- to the aamr. ju- <m i i*e«1ay. suphocnofes nf kdr Field TlMr**"n*»ta*e, Health center working on thwarting meningitis By D AIN AH BUULARD Staff Wmri More than 350 students who may have been exposed to memgocuncal meningitis at Fnh C medKai tre. A received ent at A.P. BeutH Health Center Tuesday morning, tatri Dr Claude Coawkk. health cen ter director Efforts currentlv are underway to contact about 350 remaining partici pants of Kwh Camp A. which met Aug 11-14 at Lakeyiew Methodist Assembly near Palestine Parti* i- pants of later Fish Camps, including Fish Camp B. A jg. 15-lh. were not exposed to the disease. (Wmwk k said. InformatKMi provided by the me dia has made many students aware of the danger he said. “If are had 350 students on the doorstep of the medstal center this momma. I believe that s a good re sponse. Goswick said Students who report to the * enter me treated with Rifampin, an anti biotic which will prevent the infec- tmcv. Coswsck said. Students will re- cetke bOO multgrtv of RiAunpai every dav for four day*. He said Students and counselors may have been exposed to meningitis by an in coming freshman who attended the camp Stephen Hodsden. ar IB- C ar-old from Dsboll. was diagnosed e Monday as having menigo*octal mevitngitis Hodsden. who attended Fish (^amp from Aug 11-14. Friday waw admitted to Memorial Hospital in latfkm He later lapsed into a coma and was listed in poor «ondMion in intensive care (kwwick said he wm contacted Monday evening by Hodsden s fa ther. alter the ntemngtfi* was cun- firmed Dr (airofyn Adair director of Student Activsbrs. said she w pri marily concerned with contacting the I z to 15 students who shared a tabm with Hodsden and the 12 to 15 students who participated in Hodsden's discussion group. .About half of those students have been con tacted. she said Letters are hemg mailed to all camp A participants The Mk*hh ronfgious meningitis may be contracted by direct ex sure (contact with someone who meftangms) or indirect exposure (cotMact with someone who has had contact with an infected person), (ioswick said In rare cases, menin gitis may hr contracted from a ear ner who shows no symptoms of the disease he said The incubation pe riod of the disease w four to five days. (ioswtrk said symptoms of memn- gitis are ncmtprrinr. but include sore throat, sun neck, malaise, nau sea. skin rash and headache. The disease may be spread through sneering or other respiratory ex changes. he said Goswick said no new cases of men mgMis have been discovered. If no other cases arise within the next 10 dag^^te danger period will be over. . We know of no other cases,’* Gos- WM k said “If we did. we d have an ep*<*mi( i>n HU hands We re trying to prevent an epidemic Ford ridicules Democrats in speech DALLAS — Gerald Ford, whose hears-breakina kiss to Jimmy fas net was avenged by Ronald Reagan in 19B0. lashed the Democrats Tuesday as the party that would give the fu ture to v the wasters, the watsters. the whmers and the sveak ** Scoring Democratic candidate Waher khmdale for “four years of rnonng mflaOon. skyrocketing inter est rates and so-called malasae' dur ing the Carter adnuniM ration. Ford summoned delegates to the Republi can National Convention to work for Reagan s re-election “to keep our land bra A and free, to make our country stronger, better and hap- pter “ Ford, who has appeared countless times on pod to ms of Repubfuan conventions over the pest three de cades. delivered Km speech in tele vision prime ume on the eve of the renocmnation of Reagan and Vice Resident George Bush — “a tried iand test president. a tried and tested backup partner, both of whom have proved their fitness (or four more years" The longtime Michigan congress man. who served as president for less than 18 months after Richard Nixon’s resignation m disgrace 10 years ago. ridic uled Mondale as too liberai and stressed Km connection with Carter He chided Mondale’s "new rea lism.’* declaring. “There’s on^ one kind of realism You don't get u by cruasang Jimmy Chrser’s innocence ' Tr- wnh Cieorge Mct-ovem s pre in the sky." In an appeal to disaffected Demo crats. Ford scoffed at the Dr HKn rats for too many promises and Mon dale's c all to make the lall decOon a 'referendum on the future *} ^ “I can’t blame him for wanting to tor get the past." Ford said "The Democrats in San Franc mo talked a lot about the future. ‘Their theme seemed to be that America’s future belongs to the wishers, the wasters, the wanters. the whiners and the wreak “ Ford opened his remarks with an expression of thanks, saying he and his wife, Betty, “are everlastingly grateful to the American oeoph* and to this party for all the honors any two people could ever imagine " Ford. 71, had given up his primary political ambition — winning the post of House speaker — and de cided to seek a final two-year term in 1974 when political lightning struck: The resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in October 1973. Nixon nominated Ford to fill the vice presidency, the first use of the 25ch Amendment, and when Water gate disclosures drove Nixon from office Aug 9. 1974, Ford became the 38th president and first chief ex ecutive not elected by the people. Reagan challenged Ford for the party’s 197b nomination and Ford considered seeking the party's bsd in IBBD. but decided against it He since has settled into a low-profile rede as a Republican elder statesman Good Bull Freshman Corps of Cadets members learn the story of Sullivan Ross, and what being a good Aggie is all about. Ferraro releases more financial information la HMMsaJ Boftohon Editor in critkxH condition Three Aggies involved in one-car accident One of three Texas AJrM stu dents involved m a one-car rod over on Monday mght wm still m crstacal condflBon Tuesday ntghi at 10 p m B«B Robinson, a senior journal—m nugor and eduot of The Bat taboo is luted m very critical condition at St Joseph Hospital in Brvan Today would have been Robin son’s first day as Fall 1984 editor of The Battalion Dr Carl Schmidt, a neurosstrgeon at the hospital, said Robinson still u in the intensive care unit with severe head and beam mfurtes Robinson has been in s deep coma since the A- cident occurred at about 10 40 p.m on Monday. “If he’s going so bve or not — we’re still not sure.* S* hmsdt said Apparently, the car rotted on top of Robinson's chest and he stopped for “tjuite a long while." ding PM under a 1969 Fiat sports car convertible when a flipped on Dowling Rond. Hopes Creek Rond. Pawl I Rand is nsar the intersection nf 2818 and WeMbom Road m south west CnBege Station TRe driver. Darnel Alan Rogers. 21. a civil engmeenng major from Austin, was admitted to St Joseph Hospital immediately After the acci dent but wm sdensan at S am. Tuev r *„_*'* . student BtBy’ Lynn e-- 5 ’ Y NEW YORK — (ieraldine Fer raro acknowledged Tuesday that some of her and her husband’s fi nancial dealings are ’sloppy’’ but said she has divulged more than any other candidate in U S history and it shows she did nothing wrong. The Democratic vice presidential nominee also revealed at a lengthy news conference that she has de cided to give up her position as an officer in her husband John Zacca- ro’s real estate company — a point of intense controversy since she claimed she had no knowledge of her husband's finances She acknowledged mistakes tyi her handling of the financial contro versy that has snowballed since her triumphant nomination last month, but she said the reams of financial documents she released Monday proved she has nothing to hide She also defended her decision to keep her husband's income secret while she was m Ciongress "It’s sloppy. T grant you that." Fer raro said, adding. “At no lime did 1 violate any trust placed in me by my constituents.* Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale said, “I believe the Ferraro performance is a demon Stratton of strength, nut weakness. A demonstration of a ticket (hat be lieves in candor and openness.* Ferraro and her husband, who. are in the 40 percent tax bracket, made public tax returns hack to 1978 and a net worth statement showed them to be multimillionaires — worth $3 78 million as compared w«ti $2 I million for Vice PresaAmt Georer Rush She defended her ciaun that she had neither knowledge nor benefit trout P. Zaccaro Co., even if she was an officer with a share worth one- third of the business. , , Ferraro sam *ne only became in volved m the business after her hus band’s brother and father died of cancer and the couple began to nnriy about what would happen in the event of Zaccaro’s death In Today’s Battalion Drum, 21. a computer science major from Caddo Mdh and Robinson s roommate, refused treatment the Drum said the car. when round ing a corner, hit gravel and Rogers lost control of the vehicle “The car flipped and all three of us gut trapped under X," Drum said "Dan picked his door open and got out. Then he went to a house and catted for help I hen he pulled me out and we both tried to get Bill out He wasn’t breathing I tried to give him CPR —- what 1 could remember of* — and then the ambulance am- Rogers had a large cut over his left eye but otherwise he had only mtnof cuts and bruises, Drum said. Robert Marline/, a trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety, said there n no evidence that Rogers was speeding when the acci dent o* cured Robinson served as editorial page editor for The Battalion this sum mer Fie was the assistant sports edi tor m the spring and wars sports re porter for the newspaper in the » k acijT faN of I9R2 He also worked at KAMU-TV as a reporter • The Corps of ( odeta won't he the only rigues this fall. See story page 4. • Gofttegr Stack*) asks for voluntary rrietty See story page 3 World • Angry Filipm ra aiaerfi See story page 7. the >f Manila