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Wednesday, December 12, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13
Schroeder may go
home for holidays
United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bionic
heart patient Bill Schroeder took a
ride in a wheelchair to view his hos
pital’s Christmas tree Tuesday and
officials said there is a “remote”
chance he will leave the hospital by
the holidays.
Schroeder and the desk-sized ma
chine providing compressed air to
power his artificial heart were
wheeled from his private room by
nurses to the hospital lobby so he
could see the 5!/2-foot, artificial tree
decorated with white doves.
As a safety measure, technicians
also brought along a portable drive
unit that could be hooked up in sec
onds to the two plastic air hoses lead
ing to the pulsing heart in Schroed-
er’s chest.
Doctors later had Schroeder con
centrating on bedside exercises and
on learning how to switch to the al
ternate power unit to prepare for
the day when he is well enough to
move to a nearby house.
Robert Irvine, a spokesman for
Humana Hospital Audubon, said
Schroeder would be “getting even
more exercise walking around his
room” in an effort to increase his
strength as he recovers from the
Nov. 25 mechanical heart implant.
The 52-year-old patient’s daily
routine has included leg and arm
lifts in his bed and brief walks
around his room overlooking a
wooded area of suburban Louisville.
His doctors have said they hope he
may leave the hospital by Christmas.
“There is a remote possibility he
will be out by Christmas,” Irvine
said. “I don’t want to make a projec
tion. We have no indication when he
will leave the hospital and no indica
tion it will be prior to Christmas.”
Nurses on Monday began teach
ing Schroeder and his wife of 33
years, Margaret, how to switch back
and forth from the cumbersome
323-pound drive unit to the porta
ble, 11-pound machine hung from a
shoulder strap.
Switching from one power source
to another and back involves remov
ing two air-drive lines and plugging
them into the second unit, a process
in which Schroeder misses two or
three heart beats.
The shoulder-slung portable
drive unit named for West German
Dr. Peter Heimes can be used for up
to three hours at a time and will give
Schroeder more mobility and thus
increase his quality of life, a key fac
tor cited by critics of the artificial
heart.
Schroeder, a grandfather and re
tired munitions inspector from Jas
per, Ind., has said repeatedly that
his goals include being able to move
about to resume his pasttimes of gar
dening, walking in the woods and at
tending ball games.
Schroeder first tried the Heimes
unit — which is about the size of a
camera case — on Nov. 30. He was
the first person to have a mechanical
heart powered by a portable unit.
Barney Clark, the world’s first
permanent artificial heart recipient,
never had his health improve
enough to test the portable unit. He
lived for 112 days with an artificial
heart tethered to the big drive sys
tem developed at the University of
Utah.
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Explosions rip NATO
pipelines in Belgium
United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Bombs
exploded at six NATO pipeline sites
in Belgium Tuesday, spewing foun
tains of burning fuel into the air and
shutting down sections of the alli
ance’s largest pipeline system in Eu
rope, police said.
No injuries were reported in the
bombings, claimed by the terrorist
group the Communist Combatant
Cells in a “war” against NATO.
The blasts came 48 hours before
16 alliance foreign ministers includ
ing Secretary of State George Shultz
were to begin their regular fall ses
sion Thursday in Brussels.
“The war against NATO has be
come the main thrust of our action,”
the Communist Combatant Cells
said in claiming responsibility for the
blasts in a letter to tne Brussels news
paper La Cite.
“Our actions took the revolution
ary attack simultaneously to three
provinces, cutting the pipeline net
work and the supply of NATO’s
armed forces in sensitive spots,” the
letter said.
The explosions damaged valve
pits and started fires in at least two
places.
The 3,680-mile pipeline system
carries fuel for NATO forces be
tween France and West Germany or
from the port of Antwerp to Ger
many with branches to Belgian air
bases and the Supreme Allied Com
mand Europe at Casteau, Belgium.
It also is used for the transport of
products for private companies.
“It is not pleasant to see that
NATO as such becomes a target
now,” a NATO official said. “Maybe
it is also a pointer to some vulnerabi
lities.”
The six bombings Tuesday oc
curred along a 100-mile belt of pipe
line running from the French to the
West German borders across the
southern half of Belgium.
At Ensival near the West German
border, aviation kerosene flowing
from the ruptured pipeline set fire
to a nearby forest, with flames leap
ing 30 to 50 feet into the air.
Probation
(continued from page 1)
as much time with her as possible.
“I used to spend a lot of time foo
lishly — enough to get by. The best
graaes I ever pulled was when I was
studying with Lenette.”
Foderetti says he was upset when
he called his parents at mid-terms
his first semester. It was the first
time in his college career he had en
countered trouble.
“They were very understanding,”
he says. “They gave me a lot of
moral support and lots of prayers.
They told me that if I couldn’t make
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it, there would be no disgrace to
come back home and if I could make
it, to keep going and do what I
wanted to do.”
Foderetti didn’t meet his proba
tion terms that semester and he
thought Texas A&M was history for
him. He says he just waited for an of
ficial letter saying he could no longer
attend this university, but it never
came. Instead, Foderetti received a
letter saying he had improved so
much that the business college was
going to give him one more cnance.
The dean let him go to summer
school to make up the remaining
grade points.
What were Foderetti’s worst fears
when he didn’t meet his probation
terms?
“The thought that I couldn’t
make it in college and having to go
home were my worst fears,” Fode
retti says. “I didn’t want to think I
was a failure — even though I don’t
do some things very well — I didn’t
want to think I was a failure.”
Renee, an agricultural economics
major graduating this December,
says she just sat and hoped and
prayed when she didn’t meet her
probation terms of C-plus-six. But,
like Foderetti, she got a second
chance.
“I just wasn’t ready for college,”
Renee says. “I had made straight A’s
all through high school and didn’t
know how to study at A&M.
“My parents knew what I was feel
ing the whole way. They told me to
go see counselors, but I didn’t want
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“Before, I didn’t know what in the
world I wanted to do.” she saVs.
“The people in this college careo a
lot more and that helped. I liked ev
erything about the ag college. I
changed my study habits more.”
Renee’s oiggest fear was just get
ting kicked out of school. Now she
wants to go to graduate school —- if
she can muster up the money.
Beard and Foderetti say their bad
semesters didn’t affect their job in
terviews.
Beard, who graduated with a
2.998 GPR, says that during inter
views he didn’t have any problems
concerning his first semester here- A
2.998 GPR is hardly a grade point
average anyone would laugh at, but
it bothers Beard.
“That was two one-thousandths
away from a 3.0 and, yes, that both
ered me,” Beard says. “I changed
majors after scho-pro and made 4-Os
and 3.75s the rest of the time, and I
still didn’t graduate with a 3.0.”
Beard graduated with an indus
trial education degree, but chose to
accept a management position
rather than teach.
Foderetti, who graduated with a
2.1 GPR, says Luby’s wasn’t con
cerned with his grades during his in
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concerned that he had a degree and
his grades were never mentioned.
He says he had two other job of
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he says, there was a computer
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didn’t think he was qualified.
“They looked at my personal re
sume and my college background,”
he says. “They didn’t think I h^d
enough qualifications — but tbey
never mentioned grades.”
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