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Lab monitors, diagnoses various ills
Ohio clinic treats restless sleepers
Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio — Donald Light-
ner spends part of his days much the
way most people spend their nights
— fast asleep.
He’s one of a number of Ameri
cans with apnea, a disorder in which
a person briefly stops breathing
while asleep, and as a result doesn’t
get a good night’s sleep.
Apnics are commonly overweight
and male, and snore as they try to
breathe through excess fat, said Jane
Skinner-De Marchis, a polysomno-
S hic technologist at Kettering
ical Center, which opened a
sleep disorders lab in January.
The job interferes with her own
sleep, though she has no problem
grabbing a nap when she can. As the
person who runs the equipment for
sleep tests, she’s used to working
overnight shifts, as well as running
afternoon nap tests.
About 200 centers are accredited
by the Association of Sleep Disor
ders Centers. A center has to be
open at least a year before it can ap
ply for accreditation.
Skinner-DeMarquis and Dr. Mark
A. MacNealy, a medical neurologist
and polysomnographer at Grand
view Hospital, say there is a need for
the service, but question whether
Dayton needs three centers.
Grandview opened its center
three years ago. The Kettering lab
opened in January. In July, Miami
Valley Hospital opened a neurosci
ences institute and center for sleep
and wake disorders.
Dr. Martin Scharf, clinical direc
tor of the center at Miami Valley and
director of the Cincinnati Sleep Dis
orders Center, estimates that one-
third of the population complains of
sleep difficulty.
MacNealy estimates one in seven
people suffer a chronic sleep disor
der.
Red Cross
begins campus
blood drives
(continued frdm page 1)
is administered by Wadley through a
system called the Aggie Blood Club.
According to the system, for each
blood unit donated by an Aggie, a
credit is added to the blood club ac
count. The credits can then be ex
changed with the Wadley Institute
for blood whenever an Aggie or an
Aggie’s family member needs it.
Wadley, a member of the Ameri
can Association of Blood Banks,
serves primarily Dallas-area hospi
tals and other areas of the country.
Brazos County hospitals are not a
member of the association, so they
don’t receive Wadley blood.
Aggies — students, faculty and
families — who don’t receive blood
from member hospitals may send
their bill to Student Government,
which forwards it to Wadley. Wadley
will then reimburse the cost of the
blood and any processing costs not
covered by insurance. The credits
are good for a year.
Wadley also says Aggies are cov
ered for their entire life.
“A lot of old Ags use this service,”
Morrison says. “We think we owe it
to Ags to nave good drives each
year.”
Faulkenbery says whether Aggies
get blood or not really depends on
the hospital they go to, not on to
whom they donate blood.
“The Red Cross covers 50 percent
of the entire nations’ hospitals,”
Faulkenbery says, “so whether you
get Red Cross blood really depends
on whether that particular hospital is
served by us. It’s a community phi
losophy.”
Faulkenbery emphasized that
comparisons between Red Cross and
Wadley credit policies aren’t fair be
cause the Red Cross covers commu
nities where Wadley covers individu
als.
Local Red Cross officials argue
that they are trying to cover some of
the Brazos County community blood
needs with A&M blood drives.
“The American Red Cross as
sumes students are residents of
Bryan-College Station,” DuVall says.
“Therefore the Red Cross is respon
sible for your blood needs whether
you’re in Dallas, Houston or Austin.
“They (Red Cross) will cover you
as long as you’re in school. The Red
Cross will credit you for blood even
if you don’t give blood, as long as
you’re a student, you’re covered.”
DuVall says tne Red Cross was
looking at some empty shelves two
weeks ago.
“Last week (two weeks ago) we
had high blood use,” DuVall says.
“Without the blood collected at the
(vet school) drive we’d be in trouble,
I think last week was the highest (lo
cal) blood usage since last May.”
. DuVall says the chronic problem
for the local Red Cross is getting do
nations to match blood use, some
thing that rarely happens in the Bra
zos County.
Morrison says the blood drive
committee was pleased with the first
ever Red Cross blood drive and says
Student Government will meet with
the Red Cross on setting up an on-
campus drive, probably in the
spring.
“We were just worried that if we
had six blood drives a year,” Morri
son says, “then the students would
get burned out. We don’t want blood
drives to be casual.”
Jane Skinner-DeMarchis places wires on Donald
Lightner for a test at Kettering Medical Center’s
AP photo
sleep disorders lab in Dayton, Ohio. Three sleep
disorder centers are located in Dayton.
Scharf says the primary complaint
is insomnia. Another common com
plaint is apnea, which causes some
people to complajn they’re more
tired than when they went to bed.
Snoring is hard on the body be
cause “snoring represents blocking
of the airway,” he said. Typically,
during snoring, blood pressure rises,
which has made doctors question the
relationship between snoring, high
blood pressure and strokes.
Sleep is important because “sleep
recharges our batteries and allows us
to function optimally. Most of us are
sleep deprived,” which affects sus
ceptibility to illness, Scharf said.
A sleep disorders test amasses re
sults of between 1,000 and 1,500
pages of neurological functions dur
ing a night, Scharf said.
Lightner, 35, a research chemist
from Enon, Ohio, didn’t realize he
had a sleep disorder until co-work-
ers last year reported he was drop
ping off to sleep at odd times and
would seem to fade in and out of
conversations at work. As a graduate
student with responsibilities of a
family, he was accustomed to keep
ing strange hours.
After testing in Cincinnati, he un
derwent surgery last fall to remove
excess tissue from his throat and
pharynx, but his problem was not to
tally corrected.
Lightner underwent a follow-up
test at Kettering to see why surgery
hadn’t fully corrected the problem.
Book cites corporate waste
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The private sec
tor wastes $862 billion a year,
according to a new book on cor-
E orate bloat, which the authors
ope will rival in importance the
celebrated Grace Commission re
port on waste in the federal gov
ernment.
“If the federal bureaucracy
stunts economic growth, the cor
porate bureaucracy does six times
worse,” says Mark Green, co-au
thor of “The Challenge of Hidden
Profits: Reducing Corporate Bu
reaucracy and Waste,” published
by William Morrow 8c Co.
To arrive at the $862 billion fig
ure, “We took the best studies and
estimates from scholars, consul-'
tants and business leaders,” Green
said. In each of 13 categories, the
waste estimate was taken from ei
ther an existing economic study or
from a recognized expert in the
field, and these are cited in more
than 1,100 footnotes as well as a
name index.
Other categories of corporate
waste include environmental
abuse, market constraints, product
safety, innovation, discrimination
and “corpocracy,” a term they
coined “to distinguish the cor
porate bureaucracy from its more
well-known federal cousin,” Green
said.
Acknowledging that the “meth
odology is necessarily primitive
and imprecise,” Green and Berry
arrived at the $862 billion figure.
“If Professor Murray Weiden-
baum could make a guesstimate
about the cost of regulatory waste
and J. Peter Grace (head of W.R.
Grace 8c Co.) could make an esti
mate about the cost of federal
waste, we should attempt a parallel
effort to guesstimate the cost of
corporate waste,” said Green.
Back in 1980, Weidenbaum, an
economics professor at Washing
ton University in St. Louis, esti
mated the cost of compliance with
federal regulations at about $120
billion a year.
In 1983, the Grace Commission
issued its report claiming that
$424 billion could be saved over
three years if government waste
was reduced.
Eleventh graders taking exit-tests
(continued from page 1)
a failing grade while 25 percent will
flunk the math test on Wednesday
— a total of about 62,000 students.
They also have estimated the fail
ing grades among all blacks will be at
least 45 percent and 35 percent for
all Hispanics.
Those making failing grades will
be able to take the exit-level test
again on May 1 and 2, and two more
times during their senior year, said
Pat Potter, Texas Education Agency
director for special programs.
“There are no tricky items” on the
tests, said Keith Cruse, TEA director
of educational assessment. “These
are things they have been taught and
that are essential for a high school
graduate to know.”
State Education Commissioner
W.N. Kirby has predicted to the
Board of Education that the passing
average will rise rapidly the next two
years as the state’s new emphasis on
academics in schools becomes effec
tive.
The tougher new curriculum
standards, laid down by the Legis
lature, did not become effective until
the 1985-86 school year.
The Legislature’s mandate for
exit-level tests also requires school
districts to provide courses to help
those students who do not make
passing scores. Special remedial help
must be provided each failing stu
dent.
The Texas Educational Assess
ment of Minimum Skills tests ini
tially consisted of four multiple-
choice questions on each of 18 objec
tives in both the mathematics and
English language arts tests, making a
total of 144 questions.
However, the Board of Education
at its July meeting agreed that stu
dents should not be penalized for
missing any of the questions in areas
not adequately taught to them be
fore the reforms took effect.
Reagan offers Heckler new job
(continued from page 1)
spokesman said. “Meanwhile, she re
mains as secretary of health and hu
man services.”
Speakes was asked repeatedly why
Reagan wanted Heckler out of the
Cabinet post but would not reply di
rectly.
Although Speakes characterized
the offer as a promotion, it would
mean a pay cut of about $15,000 a
year ana the loss of a department
largest budget in
nployee
the world with the
exception ot the entire U.S. and So
viet budgets — $330 billion.
Reports had circulated for days
that Reagan was about to name
Heckler ambassador to Ireland.
“That’s a lovely position — for
someone else,” Heckler said of the
ambassadorship last month.
Much of the confirmation for re
ports Heckler’s position might be in
jeopardy came from her supporters
on Capitol Hill whom she sought to
rally to her defense.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, said
Regan told him the president would
offer Heckler the ambassadorship.
Hatch’s spokesman reported.
The spokesman, Paul Smith, also
quoted Hatch as saying Regan
promised to pass on a letter to the
president urging Reagan to keep
Heckler in her Cabinet post.
Soviets confirm kidnappings
£
(continued from page 1)
anuary 1984. Thirty-five foreigners
ave been abducted since then and
14 other foreigners are still missing
— six Americans, four Frenchmen,
three Britons and an Italian.
Lebanese authorities identified
the Soviet diplomats as Second Sec
retary Valery Kornev, Commerce
Attache Oleg Spirin, Cultural At
tache Arkady Katakov and embassy
physician Nikolai Versky.
Anonymous men claiming to rep
resent Islamic Jihad telephoned two
Western news agencies in Beirut and
claimed the Shiite Moslem funda
mentalist group had kidnapped the
Soviets and would kill them unless
Syrian-backed leftists end their siege
of Moslem fundamentalists in the
northern port city of Tripoli. (The
news agencies asked not to be identi
fied.)
Leftist militias, including the Mos
cow-oriented Lebanese Communist
Party, have besieged Moslem funda
mentalists in a bloody two-week bat
tle for control of Lebanon’s second
largest city.
The anonymous callers said the
lyr
ild
soon” unless Moscow pressured
Syria, its main ally in the Middle
East, into stopping “the annihilation
of Moslems m Tripoli with Soviet
tanks and artillery guns.”
The Associated Press bureau in
Beirut also received a call from a
man claiming to represent Islamic Ji
had. He said in Arabic that the Sovi
ets “will not be freed until the siege
of Tripoli is lifted.” Then he hung
up without mentioning any death
threat.
There was no way to authenticate
the calls.
The shadowy Islamic Jihad has
claimed before that it holds six
Americans. The group says it wants
to trade the Westerners for 17 com
rades jailed in Kuwait for a string of
bombings in 1983.
Kuwait has refused to free any of
the men, including three sentenced
to death.
Islamic Jihad remained silent
Monday atiout a reported plan to
produce some of the hostages at a
news conference.
A caller claiming to represent the
fundamentalists told a Western news
agency by telephone Sunday that
some of the Americans would ap
pear at a news conference.
The caller said in Arabic that after
a news conference, the U.S. govern
ment “will assume full responsibility
for the lives of the hostages.” He did
not elaborate.
He gave no indication when or
where the news conference would be
held. There was no way to verify
whether the call was authentic.
In Washington, presidential
spokesman Larry Speakes said of the
report: “We would, of course, wel
come any first-hand evidence of the
well-being and the actual situation of
the hostages.”
Speakes repeated the administra
tion’s refusal to make concessions to
terrorists to obtain the hostages’ re
lease, but added: “We’re willing to
talk to any party in order to obtain
their safe and prompt release.”