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Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, June 24, 1986 World and Nation Shultz says U.S. wants Marcos to leave SINGAPORE (AP) — George P. Shultz made clear Monday that the United States would like Ferdinand E. Marcos to live elsewhere, and aides said the secretary of state will tell the new Philippine government financial help is on the way. Schultz told reporters traveling with him in Asia, “Marcos has on a number of occasions expressed his desire to leave the United States and we don’t have any desire to have in our country people who don’t want to be there. So under the circum stances, we’d just as soon he leave if he wants to leave.” He added, however, that no other nation had agreed to take Marcos, who fled to Hawaii on Feb. 26 after 20 years as president of the Phil ippines. Shultz did not respond directly to a weekend report in the Baltimore Sun that Marcos had been asked to leave U.S. territory. But his remarks reflected continuing impatience in the Reagan administration with Marcos’ support for demonstrations against the government of President Corazon Aquino. When a military-civilian uprising drove him out of the Philippines, Court changes tax rule for charities WASHINGTON (AP) — Sav ing the government hundreds of millions of dollars, the Supreme Court said Monday that tax- exempt charitable organizations must pay taxes on the sale of group insurance to members. In a 6-1 ruling involving the nation’s largest lawyers group, the justices said such organiza tions must pay taxes on income earned by selling insurance to members. The members may not escape paying taxes by claiming part of their premiums as charita ble deductions, the court said. Thousands of non-profit orga nizations engage in providing group insurance to members, the court was told. The court ruled against the American Bar Endowment, which advances legal research and seeks to improve the admin istration of justice by making grants to other charitable and ed ucational organizations. Experiments prevent AIDS in test tube PARIS (AP) — Two companies announced today that their scien tists conducted successful experi ments with genetically engi neered products that prevented AIDS in the test tube. The announcements were made by Genentech Inc. of San Francisco and Oncogen, a Seattle, Wash., firm working with Trans gene of Strasbourg, France. Professor Luc Montagnier, leader of the French team that discovered the AIDS virus called LAV, said these results have been known “for months” but cau tioned that “it will be a long time before it is in general use in man.” A biologist with Genentech said the team injected a special protein into test animals. The an tibodies created in response to the protein were extracted from the animals and mixed with AIDS Insurance company to acquire Tenneco LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville insurance holding com pany said Monday it has signed a letter of intent to acquire all the insurance business of Tenneco Inc. of Houston for $ 1.5 billion in cash. The deal would nearly double the size of I.C.H. Corp., making it the third-Iargest publicly held company in Kentucky. I.C.H.’s revenue was about $1.5 billion last year. None of the insurance compa nies I.C.H. would acquire is based in Kentucky but several are li censed to do business there. The five companies in the agreement are Philadelphia Life Insurance Co., Philadelphia; Southwestern Life Insurance Co., Dallas; Phila delphia American Life Insurance Co., Houston; Southwestern General Life Insurance Co. and Security Life Insurance Co. of Georgia, both of Macon. Former aide to McCarthy disbarred NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, whose career has taken him from the Senate floor as a key aide to communist-hunt ing Sen. Joseph McCarthy to the side of mobsters over four de cades, was disbarred Monday by the state. The order against the flamboy ant Cohn was handed down by the Appellate Division of state Su preme Court, which polices law yers for the state and was effec tive immediately. Cohn is permitted to appeal, said Michael Gentile, spokesman for the state Bar Association. The court wrote, “Simply stated, the four charges involved alleged dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation. After a thorough review of the record, we have come to the conclusion that all four charges should be sustained, and that respondent should be disbarred.” Cohn, the son of a judge, rushed through Columbia Law School. In the U.S. attorney’s of fice in Manhattan, he worked on the prosecution of Ethel and Ju lius Rosenberg, helping convict them as Soviet spies and send them to the electric chair. In the Heart of the Brazos Valley / 37,000 students / 9,300 faculty/staff / Only 250 a word / Free at 28 locations The Battalion Reed McDonald Building Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843 (409) 845-2611 Marcos said he would remain in Ha waii temporarily while seeking a per manent home in another country. Panama and Singapore were men tioned as possible havens, but nei ther agreed to accept him. Shultz is to arrive in Manila on Tuesday, after a stop in Brunei. Of ficials traveling with him on the five- nation Asian trip said the secretary of state will announce later this week in Manila that a $200 million instal lment of U.S. aid has been cleared for delivery the Philippines. Washington pledged in April to speed up the grant, which is part of a $500 million aid package for this year. The announcement apparently has been timed to coincide with the visit to Manila so Shultz can present tangible evidence of U.S. support for Aquino’s government. Shultz repeated his view that Mar cos’ conduct of the government over two decades led to the Philippines’ current economic problems. The secretary would not comment on demonstrations by Marcos loy alists or any role the former presi dent might have in them- Cyanide Poison in two deoths come from some botch SEATTLE (AP) — The cyanide that killed two residents of Auburn who swallowed Extra-Strength Exce- drin capsules came from the same batch of poison, but was different from the cyanide used in other tam pering cases, federal authorities said Monday. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Susan Hutchcroft said tests on the poison were continuing after the tenative findings on Fri- dayat the FDA’s heavy metals labo ratory in Cincinnati. Cyanide is blamed for the deaths this month of Sue Snow, 40, and Bruce Nickell, 52, who lived a f_w miles apart in Auburn, a suburb south of Seattle. The FDA has warned against use of all Extra-Strength Excedrin cap sules, and Bristol-Myers, manufac turer of the painkiller, has recalled all non-prescription capsule prod ucts, including Datril, Bufferin and Comtrex. Bristol-Myers has told consumers to send in or otherwise dispose of their Extra-Strength Excedrin cap sules, but spokesman John Weisberg said the company was not telling consumers to stop using Datril, Buf ferin and Comtrex. Weisberg said the capsule prod ucts would be introduced in the solid caplet form over the next few months. Officials of the FBI, Bristol-Myers and the FDA have said they believe the tampering was done locally, and steps taken nationally are precau tionary. SDI (continued from page 1) growing number of university pro fessors, both here and at other uni versities. “Let me clear the air on one thing,” Gramm said. “I can assure any member of the faculty at Texas A&M who does not want to partici pate in SDI research that they don’t have to. “In fact, how refreshing to have people who don’t want the govern ment’s money.” In regards to the same issue, Van diver said he believes research shouldn’t be stifled before it begins, and pointed to “the marvelous fall out of an unexpected nature” that has resulted from the space pro gram. “I get irritated when I’m told by some faculty members that we must not do this research,” he said. “I re gard that as an infringement on my academic freedom. “Later if you discover that the re search has some heinous application, then the issue can be taken up about whether the application of the re search should be carried out.” About 50 A&M professors have recently signed a petition similar to those circulating at over 100 univer sity campuses protesting SDI re search. 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