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Thursday, September 12, 1985TThe Battalion/Page 13
Warped
by Scott McCullar
Colds
New findings could make virus vaccines possible
Associated Press
WASHING TON — Scientists said
Wednesday they have finally
mapped one of the liny viruses that
cause the common cold, raising
hopes for vaccines or other drugs to
fight any number of life-threatening
or merely pesky viral ailments.
The findings could lead to new
progress against diseases ranging all
Ithe way from sniffles to multiple
sclerosis to leukemia and perhaps
even to the mysterious and deadly
AIDS virus, the lead researcher,
Purdue University Prof. Michael
Rossmann, said.
He said there was great scientific
significance in his group’s ability to
put together a three-dimensional
I map of a human virus — the first
I time such a viral code has ever been
(cracked — making it possible to
study exquisitely tiny interactions
within the body.
However, he made it clear that
drug-counter applications of his
findings are still nopes rather than
realities.
Rossmann said there actually may
never be a one-shot vaccine for colds
because they can be caused by more
than 10(3 dif f erent viruses.
However, he said, “it may be pos
sible to find a cure for the cold that
may not be along the lines of a classic
vaccine” — a drug, for example, that
would attack not the virus itself but
would involve the site where the vi
rus attaches to healthy cells.
As f or broader significance, an of
ficial of the National Institute of Al
lergy and Infectious Diseases said in
an interview that Rossmann’s find
ings were “a good basic piece of in
formation.’’
“It takes a lot of pieces to put to
gether something of clinical impor
tance,” added William Allen, a viro
logy program officer for the federal
institute, which helped pay for the
research.
He said Rossmann and Dr. Robert
Gallo of the National Cancer Insti
tute were already setting up an ex
periment aimed at mapping leuke
mia-linked viruses using the same
high-technolgy processes used on
the cold virus. The virus that appar
ently causes acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, or AIDS, could
eventually be part of that effort,
though success in that area “is very
speculative,” Allen said.
Rossmann said he was mostly con
cerned with understanding viruses,
but he also said the new results made
a drug against colds “much more
possible, absolutely.”
Air Force announces astronauts
selected for March shuttle flight
Associated Press
SPACE CENTER. Houston — Air
Force Undersecretary Edward G. Al
dridge Jr. has been named to fly on a
secret military space shuttle mission
next March, joining five astronauts
and an Air Force major on the first
flight to be launched f rom Vanden-
berg Air Force Base, Calif ., of ficials
announced Wednesday.
Alridge, 47, a former aerospace
executive, will serve as a payload
specialist aboard space shuttle Dis
covery when it is launched March 20
carrying a secret payload.
In a statement released by an Air
Associated Press
I DALLAS— Haing Ngor played a
I Cambodian photographer capt ured
jby Khmer Rouge troops in the
[movie, “The Killing Fields,” but his
[ real-life experience as a refugee flee-
I ing oppression is more horrifying,
1 he says.
I Speaking to the World Anti-Com-
I munist League conference in Dallas,
I Ngor said that before he left his
homeland in 1979, he was captured
and tortured three times. His wife
land child were among the estimated
millions of Cambodians who died
[ under Khmer Rouge rule, he said.
Force spokesman at the Johnson
Space Center, Aldridge is quoted as
saving, “It's a great honor for any
American to fly on the symbol of the
success of the American space pro
gram.
“I’m thrilled at the opportunity
and thrilled at the prospects that I
will Ik* able to apply what I have
learned to expanding U.S. efforts in
space.”
The Air F'orce also announced
that Mai. John B. Watterson, 36, will
fly on the mission as a payload spe
cialists.
The two join National Aeronau-
“I believe that God let me survive
so that 1 could bear witness against
these atrocities,” he said.
The league is holding its annual
meeting in Dallas. About 300 partici-
Dants will listen to speeches from
reedom and resistance movement
fighters from more than a half-
dozen countries and attend
workshops to discuss the fight
against communism.
Ngor, a doctor in Los Angeles
who spoke to the group Tuesday,
described “crimes against the Cam
bodian people.”
tics and Space Administration astro
nauts Robert Crippen, the mission
commander, and Guy Gardner, Dale
Gardner, Jerry Ross and Mike Mul-
lane on the flight.
Aldridge has been Air Force un
dersecretary since 1981. His job in
cludes the supervision of the military
space program.
He earlier held a variety of jobs in
the Department of Defense, includ
ing two years as deputy assistant sec
retary of Defense for strategic pro
grams, and a term as an adviser to
the Defense secretary.
Aldrige also has held manage
ment positions with Douglas Aircraft
Co., LTV Aerospace Corp., and the
Systems Planning Corp.
Born in Houston, Aldridge is a
graduate of Texas A&M and holds a
master of science degree from
Georgia Tech.
Watterson, a native of Garden
City, N. Y., who grew up in Littleton,
Colo., is a graduate of Virginia Mili
tary Institute and the Air Force In
stitute of Technology. He is a sys
tems engineer who was named to the
U.S. Air Force Manned Spaceflight
Engineer program in 1980.
Discovery’s launch from Vanden-
berg will be the first space shuttle
mission into a polar orbit, a flight
path that carries the craft over the
ent ire globe in a matter of days.
‘Killing Fields’ star recounts
real-life refugee experiences
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