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Page MAThe Battalion/Thursday, October 24, 1985 Adviser says Aggie survives Mexican quake health care inadequate (continued from page 1) those may be. Routine physicals nor mally would be a part of the service the nealth center provides, but be cause of the student overload and the staffing problem, the center had to discontinue this service, he says. The first obligation of the health center is to take care of the sick, he says. Goswick says that because of the waiting period to see doctors at the health center, the center often sug gests students go to Planned Paren thood of Brazos County. “We recommend the students go to Planned Parenthood,” he says. “We appreciate it and they (the stu dents) appreciate it and they’re happy with the results.” But at Planned Parenthood, col lege students are no longer consid ered income-eligible by the state to receive low-cost birth control serv ices. In the last legislative session de pendent students were removed from the income-eligible category and now must pay according to their parents’ income. Stock says NOW is encouraging the University to implement a coun seling service which provides infor mation about the different types of birth control. This service should be available at the health center, she says. But Goswick says it’s not feasi ble because the doctors don’t have the time to counsel the students on this issue. However, he doesn’t ob ject to a program administered through a different department. (continued from page 1) “Within maybe thirty or forty sec onds, the room started to crumble apart,” Dixon said. “The windows were breaking out and the furniture was sliding all over. The front wall facing the bed broke and I could see out into the hallway.” Dixon said after about a minute he was able to put his clothes on, stand up and make his way to the door. “By that time the door had jammed because the wall was leaning badly, so I had to kick it in,” he said. He said when he got out of the room he saw several people in the center of the hallway nolding on to what had been a pillar but was now a steel support with fragments of con crete still clinging to it. Water was spewing from broken pipes and there was a loud hissing from cracked gas pipes. The spiral staircase leading down to the first floor had collapsed. “I told them that we should just go ahead and crawl down through the rubble and get out in the street,” Dixon said. “And we did.” He said by the time he and the others reached the street, the quake was over. It had lasted about 2'/a minutes. “I really didn’t think it was all that bad until we got out in the street,” Dixon said. “T he hotel across the street had collapsed and there were no survivors.” He said that while in the street he talked to people, listened to the ra dio and waited for an af tershock. After an hour, he and several oth ers went back into the hotel tp collect their belongings. When Dixon got to the fifth floor he found a paraplegic man in the room next to his. The man wasn’t able to get out of the hotel during the quake and needed help to leave the building, he said. “So we got him out and I left that area and went on to finish the day’s business,” Dixon said. Part of Dixon’s business was to leave word at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City that he was safe. The embassy was supposed to contact his family in the United States. On Sept. 20, one. of Dixon’s friends who is a student-teacher at A&M, received an urgent message from Dixon’s wife, Marybeth Ande- reck. Bob Murray, 33, who is working on a doctorate in biology, said that when he received the message it dawned on him that Dixon was in Mexico City. Murray said Andereck and Dix- i’s family had been calling the U.S. Embassy to find out Dixon’s status. “His parents and wife had made calls many calls down there (the embassy) and they kept checking for Clifton Dixon,” Murray said. “On the com puter printout they got nothing.” Murray said the MSC Amateur Radio Commmittee, which was working to contact families of Mexi can students, tried to locate Dixon by radio from Sept. 20 to Sept. 21. The second earthquake struck the night of Sept. 20. Murray said the radio club called him on Sept. 21 and said no one at the Guadalupe Hotel had been killed in the first quake but knew nothing about the second quake. On Sept. 21 at about 2 a.m., Dix on’s wife received a call from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. The embassy told her that Clifton Andereck was not injured in the first quake, but there was no word from him following the second. Somehow, the embassy had re placed “Dixon” with “Andereck,” which was his wife’s maiden name, Dixon said. Murray, who refers to Dixon as “Skeeter,” said that after a week without word from the younger Dixon, Dixon’s father, also named Clifton, decided to go to Mexico in search of his son. “Skeeter’s father was very anxious to go and said he wasn’t going to be put off any longer,” Murray said. By that time, the younger Dixon was supposed to be doing research on stingless bees near Tlapa, a town in the state of Guerero south of Mexico City. Murray said he agreed to accom pany the elder Dixon to Tlapa. “I felt like if it was me down there and my father was upset like that, 1 would want one of my friends to do the same thing,” Murray said. Murray and the elder Dixon met at the Houston Intercontinental Air port on Sept. 31) and Hew to Aca pulco where they began the eight hour drive to Tlapa. That night they stayed in a hotel in Tlapa. They liegan looking for the younger Dixon the next day. They still had not found him after two days of searching the mountain villages and waiting at his residence in Tlapa, Murray said. On Oct. 13, Murray said that he made a telephone call to the younger Dixon’s mother, Lena Dixon, in New Orleans. She said an airline stewardess had met the younger Dixon in Mexico City and had called from Miami to tell her that her son had not lieen harmed in the second quake. The younger Dixon said he was visiting the home of a professor at the University of Mexico when the second quake hit. On Sept. 30, the same day Murray and the elder Dixon were Hying to Acapulco, the younger Dixon re turned to Mexico City to try to get a message home. The younger Dixon said the U.S. Embassy, which had lost all of his messages following the second quake, was not meeting the needs of American citizens in Mexico City. “Believe me, if there’s any bones to pick, it’s with the embassy m Mex ico City,” the younger Dixon said. On Oct. 4, the younger Dixon re turned to his home in Tlapa and found his father and Murray sleep ing on his floor. Copy quality so good you can’t tell it's a copy Clejn. clear, crisp copies from out new Kodak copier-duplicaiot, Plenty of free parking, fast service. Try us today! KWIKKOPYIWiVC 3M2 S. Tetat Avtn* Bryan W-ftl Dec. 14 GRE On Oct. 5, the elder Dixon and Murray caught a flight back to Houston. Murray said although the missed week of school might ties troy his 4.0 grade-point ratio, lie would do it all over again if the same situation arose. “He would have done the same thing for me," Murray said. 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