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Wednesday, April 22, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 13 — Hon Officials: Military rebellion ends in Argentina mt RL'ENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — jlbout 250 soldiers peacefully ended a six-hour mutiny Tuesday in the ■•them city of Salta after hundreds c is certainlyum; lofcivilians gathered outside the base We have nopK t0|irotest the uprising, officials re potted. t NAT'O (loctncf® ov - Roberto Romero of Salta the possibility(ii, Irevinee said Tuesday evening: tons, Bud said. sh into’an agtt(5j® ineers ' company Is central tenets rjBf' Mini. Ricardo Rodriguez Goronel lit. Rep. Rich;; |d the rebel leader, Maj. Jorge Du- ,i member of. In, turned himself in. He did not tie military conflict initiated by ’ ——- C5 is totally t back from! ortant forpeop! svc have a loiott urope besides tl the ground-bi s (that are catei nge missiles). several hundn ■ systems utt limitation if lot of nuclear ipacity to respi say whether Duran was arrested, lit was the third army revolt in a week. iBfhe restive soldiers oppose the arnn s leadership and demand am- nesu for officers accused of torture p killing during the “dirty war” linst leftists conducted by military osi rnments in the late 1970s. The government said Tuesday that 19 top officers had quit or been fired since revolts at two other army camps, but President Raul Alfonsin denied the purge was part of a deal with the rebels. Romero told the Rivadavia radio network earlier in the day the 250 officers and men of engineer com pany C5 revolted over the amnesty issue and the civilian president’s choice of Gen. Jose Dante Caridi as new army commander. He said about 600 people were outside the base gates, but no inci dents had been reported. Romero said rebel officers remained in their quarters and, “I’m confident this will all be solved without repercussions.” The soldiers at Salta were in sym pathy with an infantry brigade in Tucuman, where another uprising had been reported Tuesday, he said. Gov. Fernando Riera of Tucuman province denied there was an upris ing and said the infantry unit was “absolutely normal.” Col. Nestor Cassina of the Fifth Infantry Brigade in Tucuman re quested retirement Tuesday and his application was accepted, the gov ernment news agency Telam re ported. Salta is 1,000 miles northwest of Buenos Aires and Tucuman is 800 miles north of the capital. Soldiers who mutinied last week demanded the dismissal of Gen. Hector Rios Erenu, then army com- Studies mander, and amnesty for officers ac cused of human rights violations. Rios Erenu left his post Monday. The government said he “volun tarily resigned.” The private Argentine news agency Diarios y Noticias said earlier Tuesday the Regiment 19 camp at Tucuman was “in a virtual state of rebellion.” When asked about the report, government sources would say only that “there are some difficulties.” Alfonsin had told military leaders Tuesday, including Caridi, the new army commander: “Let’s Finally clar ify there was no negotiation.” Grenade kills 1, inures 64 at South African academy JOHANNESBURG, South Af rica (AP) — A hand grenade thrown fiver the wall at a police academy in Soweto killed an un armed black cadet and wounded 64 others in one of the worst at tacks ever on South African secu rity forces. The assailants, speeding by the school in a white Toyota truck, lobbed the grenade over a fence onto a parade ground Tuesday morning, said Pieter de Beer, commandant of the Tladi Munic ipal Police Training Center. An anonymous telephone caller told the Sowetan newspa per that the Azanian People’s Lib eration Army, an underground black group, claimed responsibil ity for the attack at the sprawling black township outside Johannes burg. Deon van Loggerenberg of the government’s Bureau for Infor mation said 64 unarmed cadets were wounded in the 8:40 a.m. blast. Forty-two of them were ad mitted to Baragawanath Hospital, six in serious condition, said a hospital spokesman. The others were treated and released. ieform its seize i office iRouck R(k V; [-of- than $21 n (iurt Finn ouche-relatedg judge in Boston declined con ioned about *i I he taken agau: nself. LaRoudi last Decoubfi I (Continued from page 1) lendant would he liable for. J If one of the defendants is in- cfsolvent, the other defendant is |able to pay his share as well. I Montford’s package would ihange the system by freeing de fendants with less than 25-per- itent liability from having to make |up the difference in a settlement In the event of the other de fendant’s insolvency. I Caperton prefers the current I'stem. | As Grubbs put it: “The first ob- pgadon of society is to make (the Bictim) whole. And if that’s a little lit unfair to one of the other guilty defendants, that’s their problem.” I Montford’s proposal for puni- live damages would limit awards loi such damages to three times lie amount of actual damages awarded or $100,000 — which- pier amount is greater. I Grubbs said Caperton origi- ■ally opposed any limits on puni- Bve damages. But in an effort to Kompromise, he now seeks to iaisethe limits included in Mont- Ird’s package, perhaps to Five itimes the amount of actual dam- Jiges, or $200,000. J “Our feeling is that it’s arbi- lary to set that kind of ratio," jGrubbs said. “Obviously, we’re baking a lot of concessions. But :es *rs prove continitf 9 s several avenue hiited States (oti history of help® r perishable praie rformed seasoii ited States for y 1. 11)86. would ? us. v defines season^ work related tup Itivating, grottif •getables of even i modities, asdeF ■y of agriculture ither perishable efinition of fm* ml field workrej- as trees, cut al specialties, S|® nd tobacco. jill eal emative du see, id it’s n actual 1 users i against 1 ’ ji avoid ipie Offer. -ieck or Momy •UNNING OS. Youns , 55397. aw » ! unmaik^ ecSemtad plus a boot store coaP 0 ^iake Check we’re also trying to balance that by making sure that it’s fair to vic tims.” Caperton’s objection to an across-the-board statute of limita tions in personal-injury cases stems from fear that such a stat ute would be unfair to minors, Grubbs said. The current statute of limita tions is two years, but it doesn’t take effect for minors until they’re 18, since personal-injury suits for minors must be filed by their parents. Grubbs argued that under Montford’s proposal, minors fall ing victim to medical malpractice would be out of luck if their par ents never filed a lawsuit on their behalf within the specified eight- year period. However, he said, the current system allows such victims the option of filing suit once they reach legal age. Montford and Gaperton also disagree on the question of pre judgment interest. Montford would like to do away with the awarding of such interest except in contract actions. Gaperton pre fers the current system. Pre-judgment interest is the in terest that accrues from the time a person is injured until his case is settled in court. The court com putes the interest based on the amount of the settlement. (Continued from page 1) $40 incentive was the main reason she volunteered for a study. “It was in The Batt, and a lot of girls down the hall had done it befo re,” Dominguez says. “It’s a good thing for college students, because of the money.” G&S advertises only in The Bat talion. Goswick says the good re sponse from the students makes an Eagle ad unnecessary. “We don’t need that much busi ness,” he says. “We’ve had our times of just literally being swamped here. But it’s especially hard to turn stu dents down. You know they need the money.” Kim Chaddick, a junior education major, is one student who couldn’t volunteer because the study was al ready full. “One time when I was sick, I called them up,” she says, “but there was a waiting list. So I never got around to it. I Figured my cold would be gone by then.” Where are the funds coming from? That $40 — sometimes more — for each student can quickly add up. Various pharmaceutical compa nies in need of an array of informa tion usually fund the studies. Ques tions need to be answered about drugs not yet on the market and which existing brand customers pre fer. Also, the companies may need to submit the information to the Food and Drug Administration or gather it for commercials. “This is a situation where every one wins,” Goswick says. “The com- William Windom "Thurber / the one-man play. For 15 years, William Windom has delighted audiences with his one-man showcase of James Thurber, Fiew Yorker magazine's most famous writer and sketch artist. NSC Town Hall Broadway presents William Windom in “Thurber 1“ Thursday, April 23 in Rudder Auditorium at 8 p.m. Windom is one of America's best loved stage and television actors. He is best known for his Emmy Award winning role in MBC-TV's 1969-70 series, “My World and Welcome to It", based on the work of James Thurber. Most recent ly, he has played Doc Seth Hazlitt in CBS-TV's "Murder, She Wrote". 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Some drugs are already being sold in other countries but must go through safety and efficacy studies to be approved in the United States, where the FDA’s requirements are stringent. “We did one with a drug that’s not on the market here,” Goswick says. “It is on the market in Europe, and apparently quite a good seller, but it’s not licensed by the FDA. We did this study to help get it licensed he re.” Although the students volunteer eagerly for the studies, some are a bit nervous about unfamiliar medi cation and procedures. “I went with a friend,” Doming uez says. “We were kind of scared before we got there, because we didn’t know what we were going to do. “But they were really nice. It wasn’t like, OK, they’re going to give me this pill and watch to see if I die.” She laughs. “It wasn’t like that at all,” she says. “It was either aspirin or sugar. Either way, it was some thing I had taken before.” Both companies use the “double- blind” method for many of their studies. This means that the patient, at random, gets either the medica tion or a placebo, a sugar pill. Nei ther the patient or the observing doctor knows which is which. Pauli says his firm gives the medi cation in a pre-determined order. “Each medication bottle will have a patient number on it,” Pauli says. “When you enter into the study, you’re dispensed the next number available. It’s all sealed up and the code is kept in a safe at the pharma ceutical company.” Pauli and his associates often don’t know the results until months or years later, after the entire study is complete. “Every drug that’s on the market has been through this kind of re search, every one,” he says. “They have to have them tried out on the general population, and they’lf do this in maybe one site or they’ll do it in 20 sites all across America.” Pauli Research has just finished an asthma study. The office is now doing a marketing study for Advil. Sometimes the conditions speci fied by pharmaceutical companies for studies are hard to follow. One such study Ct&S conducted dealt with anti-inflammatory drugs for ankle injuries. The injury had to be within a certain amount of time be fore the study, usually 24-72 hours. The specified conditions can also be difficult for the volunteers. Sandy Caballero, a junior community health major, says the G&S sore throat study she volunteered for turned out to be more work than she expected. “I didn’t think it would be that big of a deal,” she says. “But it turned out I had to take these zinc tablets. First of all, they tasted so gross, and second, I had to let them dissolve in my mouth every two hours. By the time one dissolved, it was already an hour. “And every night when I went to bed, at the same time every night, I had to take my temperature. And I had to record everything — how many tablets I took each day, what my temperature was, how many times a day I took it, and so on.” For some, like Dominguez, the money was well worth the time spent. “It was really easy,” she says. “We just sat there and studied our books, because it was the week before finals. It was kind of boring, just sitting there, but it was worth it. Four hours for $40 — that’s $ 10 an hour!” Goswick says students fit the pro file of the ideal volunteer for the company’s research. “The whole thing is sort of stu dent-oriented,” he says, “because you’re looking for intelligence in a volunteer, and ability to understand and follow the instructions. Because if they don’t — if they vary from it — the case gets thrown out. “It’s a young, generally healthy group. 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