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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 24, 1985 .mi II I jIJL^ ijUrm M jI CHIMNEY HILL BOWLING CENTER m "MSB ■■ SHOE by Jeff MacNelly $ eVen clje frOITI fir© 40 LANES League & Open Bowling Family Entertainment Bar & Snack Bar 701 University Dr E 260-9i> ! HBV, YOU'RE , n^lUN&AWAP OF PAPER I KNOW. THEY'RE THE NOTES I MADE TO REMiNp ME OF ALE THE FTTUFF I WAVE TO VD in home for elderly Associated Press SWEET VALLEY, Pa. — Fire flashed through the first floor of a boarding home that housed mostly elderly people early Tuesday, killing seven residents who never got out of their bedrooms, witnesses and offi cials said. He said the victims were found on the first floor, all of them in their bedrooms. Hudock said five of the victims were in their beds and the other two apparently died trying to escape. Live Aid At least 13 people were injured, including three firefighters and the couple who owned the Thomas Guest House. Two of the injured were in critical condition. The Ronald Thomas family, which ran the home and lived on the second floor, escaped by climbing onto the roof of the two-story frame building. A daughter, Leslie, 21, jumped to the ground, and her • SWIMMING POOL • TENNIS COURTS . HOT TUB • MICROWAVE OVEN • CEILING FANS brother, Ronald Jr., 7, was dropped to her, according to a relative. 904 UNIVERSITY OAKS »1 409-704-8682 409-846-0331 MODELS OPEN DAILY DEVELOPED BY STANFORD ASSOCIATES, INC. Geldof honored by congressional group Associated Press WASHINGTON — Rep. Mickey Leland presented an award Tuesday to Bob Geldof, the rock musician whose efforts for the starving in Af rica culminated in last week’s mas sive Live Aid concert and generated over SI00 million in pledges for famine aid. At a news conference on Capitol Hill, the 32-year-old, Irish-born C*el- dof, a member of the punk-rock Boomtown Rats, spoke of the logisti cal and political problems plaguing famine relief efforts in drought- stricken Africa. “He’s just unbelievable,” Leland, D-Houston, said later. “I have never met anybody so knowledgeable about the issues in volved who comes from his realm,” said Leland, chairman of the con gressional Select Committee on Hunger. “I’m really excited that he would take the time to learn about the is sues surrounding Africa, not only the hunger, but the nuances of the politics that come into play not only in Ethiopia, but the other countries that he’s studied evidently,” Leland said. delphia that featured 44 major rock artists. - Leland said Geldof wanted coop eration between U.S. AID, the Agency for International Devel opment, and Band Aid, which began as a collaboration of British rock mu sicians to record “Do They Know It’s Christmas” as a benefit for famine relief last year. Leland also met in his office Tues day afternoon with actor Ed Asner and ventriloquist Paul Winchell who had testified earlier in the day be fore a House subcommittee about their effort to put together long- range drought relief projects to feed African nations after the immediate threat of famine has ended. Janet Cross, 38, who called in the alarm shortly before 4 a.m., said she woke up hearing shouts and saw the fire from the front window of her house across the street. “It was small, no great fire at all. It looked like something you could go over and stamp out,” she said. Luzerne County Coroner Dr. George Hudock said Leslie Thomas helped identify the victims. wUMMfc <arae: Vol. 80 CONDOMINIUMS Leland and Michigan Rep. Bob Carr presented Geldof with two ;d < “Then I saw the windows on the door blow out, and that’s when ev erything started burning fiercely. It was unbelievable, once those win dows broke open, the flames mush roomed up and the whole place was burning.” They were identified as: Lucy DelRegno, 73; Agnes Scanlon, 72; Nicholas Demko, 69; Stephen Hav- erly, 90; Emmett Dempsey, 64; Rhonda Raedler, 19, and Grace Sorber, 75. r PLITT THEATRES __ 1st SHOW OHLT EACH Ml Ljll (Except Holiday!) SENIOR CITIZEXS AITM Post Oak Mall 3 «mthem»u £** “We don’t know where or how it (the fire) started,” Walsh said. 2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 The heat Is on at Saint Elmo's fin EMILIO ESTEVEZ • ROB LOW St Elmo's Fire Band Aid’s record was followed by a similar U.S. effort, “We Are the World.” Geldof was one of the promoters of the July 13 telethon “Live Aid,” a benefit concert and telethon held si multaneously in London and Phila- framed certificates, one a joint reso lution signed by President Reagan declaring July 13 as “Live Aid Day,” and the other an award from the Congressional Arts Caucus. “The award is from the Congres sional Arts Caucus,” Leland said at the ceremony, “but it is really from the children of Africa.” Sweet Valley Fire Chief Robert Walsh said the home was not a nurs ing home and the residents were able to walk. “But it evidently caught them unexpected,” he said. A large alarm bell at the rear of the house was ringing wildly when firefighters arrived, Walsh said, but the fire had spread quickly. The house, licensed as a personal care-boarding home, received its an nual inspection by the state Depart ment of Public Welfare in March. Three minor violations of state regu lations were found, none having to do with fire safety. The violations were corrected and a 12-month li cense was issued on March 17, said department spokesman Mike Moyer. 2:45-5:00-7:15-9:30 STEVEN SPIELBERG Pwieraj ~ THE GQ0NS6S IE) Join fh* odwntun. (PG-13) 1:20-3:20-5:20-7:20-9:20 “LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN’’ WHEN YOU ARE SEVENTEEN PEOPLE THIN K THEY CAN DO ANYTHING TO YOU. CINEMAS 3tS COLLEGE N. More than 100 sought in drug crackdown Associated Press the CHICAGO — Federal and lo cal law enforcement agents ar rested dozens of people Tuesday ,in a crackdown oh drug dealing that the FBI said was one of the largest raids of its kind in the na tion. Bob Long, FBI spokesman in Chicago, said the raid seeking 132 people culminated a two-year federal investigation and in volved cocaine, marijuana and heroin. He said most of those charged were from the Chicago area. The Hammond (Ind.) Times reported that raids were con ducted in Chicago, Cicero and Aurora, as well as in Indianapolis and Hammond, Ind.; Miami; and Lansing, Mich. The arrest warrants stemmed from indictments returned last week by federal grand juries in Chicago and Hammond, newspaper said, quoting un named federal authorities. The investigation was con ducted by the FBI, the federal Drug Enforcement Administra tion and U.S. Customs Service, and targeted people identified as major heroin and cocaine dealers in Lake County.and the Chicago metropolitan area, federal au thorities told the newspaper. Franz Hirzy, public informa tion officer for the DEA Chicago office, declined comment. U.S. Attorneys Anton Valukas of Chicago and R. Lawrence Steele Jr. of Hammond sched uled a news conference for later Tuesday. The newspaper quoted federal authorities as saying those named in indictments included members of the Herrera family in Chicago and the Zambrana family in Lake County, Ind. Publicist says Rock Hudson seriously ill with liver cancer 1:20-3:20-5:20-7:20-9:20 STALLONE is back as... RAMBO First Blood Part 111] Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Rock Hudson, a movie idol of the 1950s and 1960s who went on to television stardom in “McMillan and Wife” and “Dynasty,” is gravely ill with inoperable liver cancer in a Paris hospital, his publi cist said Tuesday. Hudson, 59, is being treated at the American Hospital in Paris by spe cialists of the Institute Pasteur, a fa cility that specializes in AIDS re search, publicist Dale Olson said. But Olson described reports that Hudson is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome as speculative. “He’s been in and out of a coma,” Olson said. “He’s a very, very sick man.” Hospital spokesman Bruce Redor told Tlie Associated Press in Paris that Hudson’s condition was satisfac tory and that the actor was under ob servation. “When he appeared on ‘Dynasty,’ he looked terrific, displayed great energy and as always was the con summate professional,” Spelling said. “All of us who worked with him on ‘Dynasty’ are praying for his re covery.” 1:00-3:15 it t» twruun* jWr 5;30 tfnuMdol. 7-45-10:00 It U nothin* ran EE Summer KM die Show*, T ueedey Door* Open 0:30 a m. • "FOR THI LOVt OF BENjr. Feature ItflOajn. Olson said Hudson “will see addi tional specialists tomorrow to deter mine if anything can be done to alle viate his condition.” “My official statement is that Rock Hudson is in the American Hospital in Paris, where his doctors have di agnosed that he has cancer of the liver and that it is not operable,” Ol son said, adding that there were also signs of cancer in Hudson’s blood. Hudson, who underwent a qua druple bypass heart operation in 1981 while making the “The Devlin Connection” for NBC, bounced back to resume his career, most recently on “Dynasty.” Aaron Spelling, executive pro ducer of “Dynasty,” said the cast and crew of the ABC-TV series were “stunned by the terrible rumors about Rock Hudson’s physical condi tion. Hudson appeared in six episodes of ABC-TV’s top-rated “Dynasty” until a scripted plane crash last spring left uncertain the fate of his character, wealthy horse breeder Daniel Reece. Olson noted that there had been reports in the press that Hudson was suffering from AIDS, which de stroys the body’s immune system. “They are speculative reports and have been neither confirmed nor denied by his doctors,” Olson said. Group says doctors not taught enough about nutrition Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. medical schools, while cramming future doc tors full of technical know-how, are teaching them too little about food and nutrition despite growing evi dence of the importance of diet in disease prevention, a federal study group said T uesday. The president of the Association of Anierican Medical Colleges quickly disagreed, saying current medical school attention to nutri tion, which he called “the in thing” in society, is about right, considering all the other information students must learn in four years. The report, from the National Re search Council’s Committee on Nu trition in Medical Education, said flatly, “The teaching of nutrition in most U.S. medical schools is inade quate.” The committee based its recom mendations on a survey of 45 of the nation’s 127 medical schools. Those schools average 21 hours of nutri tion education in a four-year course of study, with 60 percent offering less than 20 hours of such instruc tion and 20 percent providing less than 10 hours, the report said. “To cover these core concepts ad equately, a minimum of 25 to 30 classroom hours should be allocated to them during the preclinical years,” it said. Improvement could be achieved without much disruption in medical schools’ coursework, it contended. Most schools offer nutrition course electives, but relatively few students take them and “required courses serve as a focal point for a discipline and significantly increase the probability that the student body has a uniform base of knowledge,” the report said. However, it said getting support from faculty and administrators could be a bigger problem, suggest ing that upgrading most nutrition programs “may require a major philosophical adjustment.” medical schools association, said much nutrition education isn’t iden tified as such — for example, infor mation on vitamin C and amino ac ids and protein in biochemistry courses. Asked to comment on the report, which he had not yet received, Dr. John A. D. 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