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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, December 18, 1985
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Tugoslavs
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Sec-
Iretary of State George Shultz
slammed his hand on the table Tues
day as the Yugoslav foreign minister
jat beside him, then criticized Yugo
slavia for letting a PLO suspect in
the Achille Lauro hijacking pass
[freely through the country.
Shultz told a news conference he
"expressed disappointment” during
[meetings with Yugoslav leaders that
PLO official Mohammed Abbas, ac
cused by the United States of mas
terminding the Oct. 7 ship hijacking,
was not detained while in Yugosla-
ia.
Abbas was aboard an Egyptian
[airliner with four Palestinian hijack
[suspects when U.S. Navy planes
forced it to land Oct. 11 in Sicily.
The four were detained, but Italy al
lowed Abbas to leave for Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia refused to arrest him af
ter U.S. authorities requested his de-
| tention.
“In dealing with the problem we
[ need to create an atmosphere so ter
rorists have no place to hide and are
brought to justice,” Shultz said. The
Palestinians detained by the Italians
were convicted last month of posses
sing arms and explosives and face
I trial on charges of killing New York
tourist Leon Klinghoffer during the
[ hijacking.
At the news conference, Yugoslav
| Foreign Minister Raif Dizdarevic
| said he agreed on the need to com-
| bat terrorism. But when he added
| that nations must also consider the
! injustices that create terrorism,
| Shultz responded angrily.
“Hijacking the Italian ship, mur
dering an American, torturing and
holding a whole bunch of other
Americans is not justified by any
| cause that I know of,” Shultz said,
slamming his hand on a table. “ It’s
not connected with any cause, it’s
wrong,”
Shultz arrived here Tuesday
morning. On his flight from Buda
pest, Hungary, he confirmed re
ports that Abbas had been in Iraq,
which he charged had “welcomed”
Abbas, a member of the Palestine
Liberation Organization Executive
Board,
There were no plans to “take
some military action or something”
against Iraq, Shultz added, nor
would the United States put Iraq on
a U.S. terrorist list.
Such action, he said, would spark
trade cuts and place other restric
tions on U.S. relations with Iraq at a
time when the Reagan administra
tion is relatively sympathetic to Iraq
in its five-year war with Iran.
Yugoslavia has diplomatic rela
tions with the PLO, which has a rep
resentative in the country.
A U.S. official, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said Shultz did
not express himself so vehemently in
the talks with Yugoslavian leaders,
including Prime Minister Milka
Planinc.
The official said there were exten
sive discussions on U.S.-Yugoslav
trade relations, which Planinc want
improved to help her economy.
Home Again, Home Again
Photo by MIKE DAVIS
Senior Julie Peterson, an elementary education
major from Houston, waits for her ride home be
side her boxes. Texas A&M students, who are
moving out of dormitories, must check out of their
rooms by 5 p.m. Friday. The penalty for not doing
so is $25.
House’s vote
imperils A&M
pension plan
AIDS test drug
Medicine to be used against infants'virus
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A drug being
tested against AIDS has won condi
tional government approval for use
against an infection in children,
which could make it more widely
available to AIDS patients, officials
said Tuesday.
The drug, called ribavirin, is the
first of a growing number of experi
mental AIDS drugs to receive any
government approval, although the
The drug is being ap
proved for treatment of
infants with respiratory
syncytial virus, a common
infection that can be fatal
in premature infants.
— Dr. Caroline Breese
Hall.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
has not approved the drug for use
with AIDS patients, and its effective
ness against AIDS has not been dem
onstrated.
Final approval of ribavirin could
come in weeks, said Brad Stone, an
FDA spokesman.
The drug is being approved for
treatment of infants with respiratory
syncytial virus, or RS virus, a com
mon infection that can be fatal in
premature infants and in those with
heart or lung disease, said Dr. Caro
line Breese Hall of the University of
Rochester Medical Center in New
York.
FDA regulations allow doctors
leeway in use of approved drugs,
meaning that doctors will be able to
prescribe ribavirin for their AIDS
patients.
But the drug is being approved in
an aerosol form meant to be inhaled
by infants, which might make it im
practical for use with AIDS patients,
Stone said.
There is currently no treatment
for AIDS. Doctors can treat the in
fections and cancers that result from
AIDS, but cannot attack the disease
directly.
Some of them may, therefore, be
eager to prescribe ribavirin to their
AIDS patients, doctors say.
The FDA told the drug’s maker,
Viratek, of Costa Mesa, Calif., that
approval will be granted if certain
changes are made in the proposed
labelling of the drug, Stone said.
ICN Pharmaceuticals, Viratek’s
parent firm, had no comment.
In a separate development, the
FDA said that Dr. Michael Scolaro
and colleagues at St. Vincent Medi
cal Center in Los Angeles had ap
plied for permission to give AIDS
patients combination therapy of ri
bavirin and Isoprinosine.
Isoprinosine is a stimulator of the
immune system, and ribavirin is an
anti-viral agent.
Some researchers believe such
drugs must be used together to kill
the AIDS virus and restore the im
mune cells the virus has destroyed.
AIDS, or acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, is caused by a virus
that attacks the body’s ability im
mune system.
Both ribavirin and Isoprinosine
have been under study separately
for treatment of AIDS, but the stud
ies have not been completed.
Combination studies with other
drugs for AIDS patients are under
way at the National Institutes of
Health, Stone said.
Isoprinosine has been available in
Under a compassionate
use provision of the FDA’s
regulations, doctors could
obtain the drug for their
patients although its effec
tiveness hasn’t been
shown.
— Luana Kruse, a
spokeswoman for New
port Pharmaceuticals..
limited quantities since mid-May to
doctors who requested it from its
manufacturer, Newport Pharmaceu
ticals of Newport Beach, Calif.
Under a compassionate use provi
sion of the FDA’s regulations, doc
tors could obtain the drug for their
patients even though its effective
ness has not yet been shown, said
Luana Kruse, a spokeswoman for
Newport Pharmaceuticals.
Some 70 patients are now being
treated, she said.
She had no comment on the St.
Vincent proposal to combine Isopri
nosine with ribavirin.
from staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON — The Optional
Retirement Program, which covers
most Texas A&M University System
faculty and administrators, is in dan
ger again since the U.S. House
passed Tuesday the most sweeping
overhaul of the income tax in more
than 30 years.
John Honea, A&M System direc
tor for insurance and risk manage
ment, said the bill added a non-dis
crimination clause to the tax code
section, which governs the ORP.
The clause would make the ORP
illegal because the program is avail
able only to state university faculty
and professional staff and not to
other state employees.
If the proposal becomes law, the
state would have two years to modify
its retirement plans to meet the new
standards. The ORP covers about
30,000 faculty and administrators at
95 state-supported institutions,
Honea said.
A GOP alternative plan could
have saved the ORP, but the House
rejected that version and defeated a
final Republican attempt to send the
whole issue back to committee.
Although Reagan preferred the
GOP bill to the Democratic version,
he urged passage of either to keep
tax-reform alive. Since Democrats
hold a 71-vote majority, the GOP
version hardly had a chance.
The Democratic version will be
sent to the Senate for consideration
next year.
The legislation would cut taxes
for most people, excuse more than 6
million of the working poor from in
come taxes, require many wealthy
individuals and successful corpora
tions to join the ranks of taxpayers
and shift $140 billion of taxes from
individuals to business over the next
five years.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-lll.,
chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee and chief author of the
bill, conceded the 1,379-page mea
sure “does not untangle all the con
tradictions and distortions in the”
tax laws but said it “is as full of,
promise and vitality as any tax bill
reported out of the committee . . .
for decades.”
In exchange for their votes. Re
publicans won from Reagan a
pledge to veto any final bill that does
not meet the standards he laid out
earlier this year.
Bryan man
charged in
wife’s killing
Associated Press
A former Bryan broadcasting ex
ecutive remained in the Brazos
County Jail Tuesday charged in the
shooting death of his wife, authori
ties said.
The victim, Neva Barnett, 29, was
shot five times in the chest Monday
evening, investigators said.
Two hours later David Lee Bar
nett surrendered to police in Hearne
and turned over a .38-caliber re
volver, police said.
Barnett, a former radio station
manager in Bryan and Huntsville,
was returned to Bryan, where State
District Judge John Delaney set
bond of $100,000.
Police suspect others
in kidnapping case
Associated Press
COPPELL — Police investigating
the abduction of a 3-month-old girl,
who was found and returned to her
mother Monday, said there may be
other suspects besides the 39-year-
old baby sitter, who was arrested in
College Station and charged with
kidnapping in the case.
Police arrested Susan Oglesby
Miller of Seabrook about 2 a.m.
Monday in a College Station hotel.
She was later transferred to Lew
Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas and
was being held Tuesday on $ 100,000
bond on a felony kidnapping
charge.
Jennifer Lynn Sutton returned
from Florida with her daughter
Monday after the baby was found by
investigators at a Tampa, Fla. home.
Sutton said her failure to check
the baby sitter’s references was “irre
sponsible.” Now, she said, she just
wants to be with her baby.
The penalty for kidnapping is up
to 10 years in prison and a $5,000
fine.
“There may be others involved,”
Coppell police Lt. Jack Foley said
Monday. He w'as unavailable for
comment Tuesday and did not im
mediately return phone calls from
the Associated Press.
Sutton, 20, and her mother,
Glenda Sutton, identified Miller in a
photo lineup Monday night, police
said.
Although investigators originally
said they believed the baby was kid
napped for sale, they now suggest
Miller wanted to raise the child her
self. They refused to release further
details of the case, saying they feared
it would hinder their investigation.
College on Foot mokes statement about peace
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By STACEY ROBERTS
Reporter
If you are looking for an alterna
tive study plan for the spring semes
ter, you might apply for the College
on Foot program, a nine month
walking-university aimed at making
a statement for world peace.
The walk, sponsored by a year-old
non-profit, non-partisan organiza
tion called Pro-Peace, will begin
March 1, 1986, in Los Angeles,
Calif., and finish in November in
Washington D.C.
Peter Kleiner, media coordinator
for The Great Peace March, said the
march will travel through 15 states
with 50 billion steps taken on the
road to global nuclear disarmament.
"Pro-Peace must involve thou
sands of students to represent the
; nation as a whole,” Kleiner said,
i “Each student can now arrange to
receive academic credit through the
College on Foot program.
“The march and the courses of
fered will present a historical over
view on nuclear weapons and how
they have affected every aspect of
our society,” Kleiner said.
Marshall Mayer, director of edu
cational programs, said the topics in
clude Nuclear Weapons and U.S.
Foreign Policy, Theory and Politics
of Non-Violence, Historical Over
view of the Nuclear Arms Race and
The Cold War.
Mayer said students can partici
pate in all of the programs offered
or develop their own independent
studies on the general theme of
“peace studies" with their academic
advisers.
“Some related projects may in
clude psychology, sociology or politi
cal science,” Mayer said. “All it takes
to develop such a curriculum is
imagination and a commitment to
peace.”
To receive the academic credit,
Mayer said, a student must have an
academic adviser as a sponsor and
the approval of the student’s univer
sity.
Dan Pallotta, director of college
fund raising, said the march hopes
to have 5,000 marchers.
“The marchers will walk 15 miles
a day, wear out 20,000 pairs of
shoes, eat 4 million meals, take 1.275
million showers, and set up and take
down 2,500 tents each night,” Pal
lotta said.
Funding for the project is difficult
because the project is non-profit and
the everyday expenses are great, he
said.
“The march should run $15 mil
lion to $22 million total cost,” Pal
lotta said.
Earlier this year, Pro-Peace spon-
THE GREAT PEACE MARCH
sored a 10-kilometer Peacewalk at 65
campuses across the nation to help
raise money for the march.
Pallotta said the money raised
from this event will be used to buy
some of the tents needed to house
the marchers.
One way money is being raised is
through a program entitled “Gimme
Shelter.”
“Students will be able to make
contributions through sponsoring
tents for $350,” Pallotta said. “Each
tent will have the name of the spon
soring college or organization
painted on the side.
“So tar there are no Texas univer
sities officially represented,” Pallotta
said. “We hope to begin hearing
from the southern schools as public- .
ity increases.”
Kleiner said Pro-Peace plans to
appeal to the nation as a whole for
funds and marchers through public
service announcements.
Recently a commercial for The
Great Peace March was filmed in Los
Angeles by Nicholas Meyer, director
of the acclaimed television movie,
“The Day After.”
Kleiner said over 1,000 concerned
celebrities gathered for the filming,
including such notables as Martin
Sheen, Leonard Nimoy and Ma
donna.
“Everything was donated,”
Kleiner said, “from the cameras to
the satellite link-up.”
The commercial has been aired
on numerous local channels as well
as the cable channel, Music Tele
vision.
To become a marcher, there is an
application and interview process
that is necessary.
“So far we have had 15,000 re
quests for applications and 800 have
been approved,” Pallotta said. “We
must make sure these individuals are
physically and mentally prepared
for 9 months on the road.”
Each person must also be com
mitted and dedicated to the idea of
promoting peace, he added.
“The Great Peace March is a great
way for students to be heard.”
Kleiner said. “Knowledge brought
forth by students of peace and ap
plied toward college degrees will
lead the way.”
The Great Peace March is gearing
up and waiting for more applicants.
For more information, donations or
applications, Pallotta urges students
to call toll free 1-800-453-1234.