New Schedule!
St. Franics Episcopal Church invites you to
join us in Sunday worship and Christian edu
cation at our new time:
Worship
Sunday School
9:15 am
11:00 am
Infant and toddler nursery provided
The Rev. Jeff Schiffmayer, Vicar
696-1491; for ride, 764-0598
Schulman’s Palace Theater
presents
Stage Center’s
Spoon River Anthology
March 6-8,13-15
8 p.m.
Ticket information: 693-0050
nff*** BETTERGET
LiT*! v MAACO.
From Crashes to dents to rust, the MAACO Collision Experts
restore your car’s body and paint it like new...all for a price
that's lower than you’d ever expect. And MAACO works with
your insurance agent to quickly settle your claim.
PAINT SERVICES START AS LOW AS... ^ -| ^Q95
BRYAN
1300 South
College Ave.
(1 block behind Gallery Nissan Datsun)
823-3008
HOURS: Mon. thur Fri. 8-6
Page lOThe Battalion/Friday, March 14, 1986
Testing blood for AIDS
Government favors examinations for high-risk groups
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a recom
mendation that could affect millions,
the Public Health Service recom
mended Thursday that all people in
high-risk groups undergo periodic
blood tests to check for infection by
the AIDS virus.
While there remains no cure for
AIDS, agency officials said, research
over the past year shows that vir
tually all people in high-risk groups
who repeatedly test positive to the
blood test can infect others.
Thus, they said, people with veri
fied positive results can be counseled
on how to avoid spreading the
deadly disease to others, particularly
including sexual partners.
Dr. Donald R. Hopkins of the fed
eral Centers for Disease Control,
said “The thrust of these recommen
dations is that we’re saying, have this
serological (blood) test.
“We have great confidence in this
test,” Hopkins said. “And it’s in
creasingly obvious that a large part
of the problem ... is represented by
people who are infected but who are
not now symptomatic.”
Most such people that test positive
are infectious, intermittently or per
manently. “We think it’s important
for them or their partners to know
whether they are positive or not.”
The recommendation was an
nounced at a news conference by
Hopkins, federal AIDS coordinator
Walter R. Dowdle and Dr. Harry M.
Meyer of the Food and Drug Ad
ministration.
None of the three could say how
many people were covered by the
recommendation. Hopkins, under
intense questioning, estimated it
might be between 10 million and 20
million. But Dowdle said the poten
tial figure clearly is in the millions.
The government’s list of highnsB
population includes homosexual^
bisexual men, a figure which sot-)!
have estimated at 10 percent of*
male population.
Others include past or presentj
travenous drug abusers: peopK
born in countries where heterosal
ual transmission of AIDS is cons*
ered common, including Haiti an
Central Africa; male or femalepj
titutes and their partners; sex par*
tiers of high-risk individuals; heroi
philiacs who have received 14(1
clotting-factors.
Soviets televise space launch live
(continued from page 1)
world attention on the benign part
of their space program.”
The Soviet Union has insisted that
its work in space is intended only for
peaceful purposes.
Soviet viewers could hear Kizim
and.Solovev reporting back 50 sec
onds after their craft blasted sky
ward on a column of orange flame.
Television monitored about four
minutes of radio conversation be
tween Baikonur ground control and
the cosmonauts, who answered to
the call signal Mayak (Beacon).
Kizim and Solovev, who hold the
record for the longest space flight,
could be seen for about three min
utes, strapped in their seats with the
commander reading what appeared
to be sheets of instructions.
Before the launch, Soviet tele
vision showed the cosmonauts un
dergoing final medical check-ups,
boarding a bus and clambering into
the Soyuz T-15.
Soviet television has shown
launches live only three times be
fore: in 1975, when a Soyuz went
into space to hook up with an Ameri
can Apollo vehicle; in 1982, when a
French cosmonaut flew a mission
with Soviet spacemen, and in 1984
when an Indian was aboard.
State cuts funds for Planned Parenthood
(continued from page 1)
vealed because of the confidentiality
of the pay scale.
“Of course there will be a problem
for many women,” she says. “So long
as people are aware of it, they can
usually make arrangements.
“If a person is truly indigent, we
will try to provide services any way
we can. The problem is we walk a
fine line deciding who is truly desti
tute. It’s a judgement call.”
Miller says patients will be told of
the increases when they call to make
an appointment. She says there are
no plans to decrease office hours or
personnel.
In order to stretch the govern
ment money, the clinic tried a new
method to determine financial need
for students who are supported by
their parents. Miller says.
The student’s total income was de
termined by adding her personal in
come with her parent’s income to de
termine eligibility for government
assistance.
This evaluation method, which
excluded many students from re
ceiving any government aid, was
stopped in January, Miller says, on
the recommendation from Planned
Parenthood administration in Hous
ton.
The government cuts have caused
Miller to consider future fund-rais
ing events to generate private dona
tions, she says.
Miller says she doesn’t see any in
creases in government funding in
the future, only further cuts.
Although a medical doctor is affil
iated with the clinic, the exams are
usually done by certified nurse prac
titioners.
A nurse practitioner is a regis
tered nurse who, after an additional
year of formal education, takes a
certification exam.
Miller says the clinic will see about
I (),()()() people this year, and the fig
ure is expected to increase each year.
About 70 percent of the 10,000
clients are students, students’ wives
or women connected in some way to
Texas A&M, Miller says.
“I believe we provide a valuable,
nonacute, routine health care service
for students which is not readily
available elsewhere,” Miller says.
Reagan favo’i
new bill to
overhaul taxes
(continued from pagel)
that Reagan has said are essentii
to any “tax reform.” It would ca
tax rates significantly forindiiid
uals and corporations, raise tht
standard deduction, boost tlx
personal exemption to $2,000fot
almost all taxpayers, restrict dt
ductions for some state and loo!
taxes and interest, and increax
investment and saving incentive
It also would retain the tax-fm
status of most employee fringt
benefits.
According to staff estimate
Packwood’s bill would cutincont
taxes for those in the SlO.OOO-tfr
$20,000 income class by 23 pei
cent, compared with 22.8 perem
under the House bill and I6J
percent under Reagan’s plan..i
the $30,000-to-$40,000 level, tlx
cuts would average 9.3 percentu
the House and Senate bills and
6.3 percent under Reagans.
Those with incomes ovei
$200,000 would get a 5.9 percent
cut under Packwood, 6 percent
under the House bill and 13.6
percent under Reagan's bill.
But the consumer tax increases
included in Packwood’s bill could
reduce the size of the incometas
Some students are fascinated by A&M’s steam tunnels
|
(continued from page 1)
Wedding Expedition/Bob and
Cheri.
Why do people go into the tun
nels?
“I guess it’s just the thrill of doing
something you’re told not to do,”
says one A&M student and steam
tunnel enthusiast, hereafter known
as Bill. Over the course of several
years and dozens of ventures below
ground, Bill has gained an astound
ing knowledge of the miles of steam
tunnels that sprawl beneath the cam
pus.
Bill can explain, for example, how
to get into all the old fallout shelters
with their supplies of toilet paper
and stale candy.
Bill can speak with authority
about dozens of tunnels — decribing
in detail what sorts of utilities run
through each, where each tunnel
leads and which tunnels are no
longer used. He also can tell you if
there are locked doors preventing
access to buildings and what it would
take to get past the obstruction.
The maintenance department has
done everything it can to to make it
hard to get around in the tunnels,
building sturdy doors wherever pos
sible, especially where the tunnels
lead into buildings.
On the approach to the Memorial
Student Center, for example, a steel
door bars the path. But the bars
have been pried apart wide enough
to allow a thin person to crawl
through. Security concerns are well
justified. For example, a pile of gar
bage was set on fire in a basement
storage room of the Systems Build
ing. Joe Estill, director of the Physi
cal Plant, says he believes the people
responsible entered the building
through the steam tunnels.
Somewhere beneath the Rudder
Theater Complex, Bill stands in
front of a door that has been welded
shut.
“It would probably take dynamite
to open this door,” Bill says.
On the wall beside the door ?
message is scratched into thepaint>
Tunnel Masters opened thisdat
— ’84
But just below this claim, ill
maintenance department replies: |
“Tunnel Master” busters ctaj
this door.
It’s possible that Bill knows ife|
steam tunnels as well as manyofilil
maintenance personnel.
Bill has even studied the
tunnel diagrams kept in the ma:
room of the Sterling C. Evans I;
brary, but he complains thattheyafl
badly out-of-date. Bill’s passion
steam tunnels is not unique. Hesad
there’s 20 to 30 people who go
on a regular basis.
Charles M. Russell, Indian Scout, 1897, Oil on board.
Painting of the American West
MSC Gallery
Through March 14
Last Week to see this exhibition!
Remington Poster Available; $5. 00