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Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, July 17, 1987
World and Nation
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Constitution Compromise of 1787
celebrated in official ceremony
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The
compromise that made the Constitu
tion a reality 200 years ago was cele
brated here by Congress Thursday
amid shouts of protesters and claims
that the Reagan administration tried
to shred the system of checks and
balances.
In a hushed and solemn cere
mony in the assembly room of Inde
pendence Hall, the official 55-mem-
ber congressional delegation,
matching the number of Americans
who wrote the nation’s basic charter
in 1787, praised the enduring na
ture of the Constitution and signed a
resolution commemorating the
event.
tied rivalries between large and
small states.
The compromise resulted in the
invention or Congress, with the es
tablishment of a House of Represen
tatives based on population and a
Senate with equal representation
from every state.
Shielded by the Constitution’s
free-speech protections, protest
groups included about 100 support
ers of the National Organization for
Women pressing for an Equal Rights
Amendment.
Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-La., was
elected chairman of the delegation
and presided, in resplendent red,
over her mostly male colleagues in
dress blue suits in the historic cham
ber.
They celebrated the “Great Com
promise” of July 16, 1787, which set-
Other demonstrations were orga
nized by the Gay and Lesbian Task
Force and by groups opposed to
Reagan administration foreign and
domestic policies. Protesters demon
strated despite what they considered
efforts by program planners to keep
them away from the action.
“They think this is a pageant and
they can write the script,” said Barry
Steinhardt, executive director of the
American Civil Liberties Union for
Pennsylvania. “They don’t want any
one deviating from the lines.”
Security was tight and officials en
forced a judge’s ruling that demon
strators did not have the right to
march within sight of the lawmakers.
Rolling into Philadelphia in a spe
cial 14-car train protected by heavy
security, including Army helicopters
overhead, the congressional dele
gates said they agreed that the luster
of the Constitution has not dimmed.
The 55-person official House and
Senate delegation and many of the
200 other members of Congress who
came as observers said they believed
the strength of the document is in its
flexibility. They said compromise is
still the engine that makes the Amer
ican system work.
But many members said the Con
stitution has been placed under se
vere strain by actions of the Reagan
administration, disclosed by the con
gressional Iran-Contra investigation,
in implementing a covert foreign
policy and lying about it to Congress.
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“To hear some of those %
House witnesses testify, you’dii
they were working for Kineii
XIV who said, ‘I am the state,'
Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., 4
86 is the oldest member of Conp
“There’s no fault in the Com
tion,” Pepper said during the
ride to Philadelphia. “They
kept faith with the oath theyti
support the Constitution
make sure that the laws are f;
executed.”
On the train, and in remarlij
delivery in both Independence
and Congress Hall, where
tional legislature met for a
beginning in 1790, de
stressed a need to compromise
to maintain the constitutional cl
and balances.
“It must be clear to all Amei
who have followed recent
said Senate Majority Leader R<
C. Byrd, I)-W.Va., “that our
of checks and balances can neveil
taken for granted.”
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Federal judge postpones
Deaver trial 3 more months
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
perjury trial of Michael K. Deaver,
President Reagan’s former aide and
longtime confidant, was postponed
for at least three months Thursday
by a federal judge whose attempt to
conduct jury selection in private was
rebuffed by an appellate court.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Pen-
field Jackson dismissed a 94-mem-
ber jury pool and tentatively set Oct.
19 as a new trial date, pending a pos
sible Supreme Court review of
Wednesday’s decision by the Court
of Appeals that interviews of the
prospective jurors be conducted in
public.
early October, decides to hear the
case, Deaver’s trial could be delayed
further, perhaps a year.
Deaver, now a lobbyist, served as
deputy White House chief of staff
during Reagan’s first term and is a
longtime friend of the president and
his wife, Nancy.
attorney, he specialized in civil liti
gation.
Even in civil cases, according to
the June 1 ABA Journal, his reversal
rate is the second worst among the
Wasni
rnng-
Under the appellate ruling, based
on protests from news organizations
about the judge’s closed-door meth
ods, Jackson still could have pro
ceeded with the jury pool assembled
Monday by conducting the remain
ing interviews in public.
Deaver’s attorney, Herbert J.
Miller, said he would make the ap-
K eal to the high court,' even though
is client is “anxious to get this case
over with and behind him. He
doesn’t like my decision, but he re
spects it.”
If the Supreme Court, which is
not scheduled to meet again until
But Jackson said, “I am no longer
confident of my ability to obtain
from this panel a fair and impartial
jury who would be willing and able
to trust my rulings and tp follow my
instructions, making a mistrial a dis
tinct likelihood later on.”
Jackson, a Reagan appointee, has
been reversed many times since tak
ing the bench in 1982. As a private
13 federal trial judges in
ton.
Independent counsel Whitney
North Seymour Jr. objected to any
extensive delay, saying, “We’ve al
ready had a number of weeks of
struggle. The Supreme Court has al
ready been supplicated by other ac
tions of the defendant,” a reference
to Deaver’s so-far unsuccessful chal
lenge of Seymour’s authority as spe
cial prosecutor.
Jackson said “the several inter
ruptions of these proceedings, occa
sioned by the news media’s efforts to
cause revisions of the voir dire pro
cedures to their liking, in which they
have largely succeeded, have left an
impression in the minds of the (jury)
panel that it is the news media, not
the court, who dictate the pace of
this trial.”
Outbreak of rare bacterial disease
kills 3 in Salt Lake City institutions
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Health officials thought
they had a typical outbreak when the Utah State Train
ing School reported a case of hemolytic uremic syn
drome in June.
But after killing three people and hospitalizing seven
others in 10 days, the rare bacterial disease, known as
HUS, is provoking considerable fear.
“At first it was a low-key investigation and a chance to
learn more about a rare disease, but then we started
having these deaths,” Utah Health Department spokes
man Ross Martin said. “Now, we’ve got people working
overtime on this and it’s scary.”
The disease, which is known to be carried by a strain
of the E. coli bacterium often found in food or feces, is
usually preceded by gastrointestinal or upper respira
tory illness and most often is characterized by bloody di
arrhea.
Fatal cases involved a resident of the State Training
School in American Fork and two residents of a home
for the mentally handicapped in Salt Lake County.
Since the first death July 4, health officials have iden
tified four more confirmed or suspected cases from the
training school and three from the public.
Three of the patients were in critical condition, one
serious, one fair and two satisfactory, a nursing supervi
sor at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center
said Thursday.
Martin said health officials believe there is a link be
tween the school and the group home. “We’re assuming
there was a common food link between the two that led
to the outbreak,” he said. “The onset was right on the
same day.”
HUS has no single cause, and data collected on the
syndrome does not even include a proved medium in
which to grow a culture of the bacteria, Martin said.
There is no cure for HUS, only treatment to control
body fluids, transfusions for severe anemia, control of
hypertension and dialysis if kidney failure occurs, he
said.
100 people are investigating
se Control i
the outbreak,
in Atlanta sent
At least
The federal Centers for Disease
an investigator to Utah.
Martin said health officials believe the outbreak
started from a common food source, but now is being
transmitted through poor hygiene.
The disease has been mostly confined to the two in
stitutions. Diarrheal illnesses are common among insti
tutionalized people, who sometimes lack the capacity to
maintain good personal hygiene, Martin said.
Japan vow;
to keep rei
on exports
WASH INCH ON (AP)-
pan has promised to tighten
export-licensing and ta
steps to guard against ill
of sensitive technology to the
viets like that made by a sub
iary of the Toshiba Corp,
Commerce Department
Thursday.
U.S. officials assert that];
nese computerized machine
sold to the Soviets enabled tit
to produce submarine propel
that run more silently thane
ventional ones, making it hani
to track them.
Japan’s trade minister, Hapt
Tamura, also said his ages
would pursue its investigation!
the T oshiba incident “witha
toward criminal prosecution,
spokesman for Commerce Sn
tary Malcolm Baldrige said.
Baldrige and Tamura metfi
two hours Thursday and eni
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ing the cooperation and effect;] j nim jg r -
ness of export controls,” said> c j ian ^ es
spokesman, B. lay Cooper. £ g ul
uriue told
Earlier, Baldrige told a pm-i-vire <
of reporters that Japan
“weak link” in an mternatiffljtLeirbia
organization that restricts b®
technology exports to theSc'B The
bloc — the Paris-based Coor] poses Hi
nating Committee for Multibj
ral Export Controls.
Baldrige called for punisk I
against Toshiba “severe enofi]L(J\
to be a deterrent to other com®
nies thinking of doing that a'i
future,” but said it should) Dv-xV.
meted out by the Japanese
ernment, not the United State 1 7 T
Abou
Tamura is here for a series’
meetings with congressional 4
administration officials inani
fort to quell U.S. anger over ;
Toshiba case.
The Senate voted on June)
92-to-5, to ban all exportsbyl
Toshiba company to the li'f njuLt ^V
States for a period of two to iff * ev
years. Other bills calling for „,,,
sanctions against the Jap arii m^ii es s
company are before the hot^jj Station
Toshiba Machine, a subsidy i'i ie t
of the electronics company, 2(i is wr
advanced computer-control
machine tools to Moscow.
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that may prevent rejection of organs
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A single
dose of special antibodies can pro
duce lifelong acceptance of trans
planted tissue in mice, a devel
opment scientists say may lead to
long-term tolerance of organ trans
plants without anti-rejection drugs.
Researchers at Stanford Univer
sity Medical School said Thursday
that their work apparently is the first
successful use of monoclonal antibo
dies to spur permanent tolerance of
transplant tissue in animals.
rapy in monkeys as a step toward hu
man tests, but cautioned that wide
human application probably is five
years away even if subsequent stud
ies go well.
In a report to be published Friday
recognizing the transplanted tissue
as foreign.
The researchers transplanted
pancreatic islets, cells that produce
insulin, from healthy mice into di
abetic mice.
The cells make insulin, the hor-
mice rejected the islets overap
If similar therapy can be devel
oped for humans, it could free or
gan transplant patients from lifelong
dependence upon expensive and po
tentially hazardous anti-rejection
drugs that reduce resistance to infec
tion, they said.
“This is a pretty exciting model because we’re able to
create tolerance in the animals with one course of mo
noclonal antibodies and no other drug treatment. ”
— Dr. C. Garrison Fathman, researcher
“This is a pretty exciting model
because we’re able to create toler^
ance in the animals with one course
of monoclonal antibodies and no
other drug treatment,” Dr. C. Garri
son Fathman said.
Fathman said he will try the the-
in the July 17 issue of the journal
Science, Fathman and Dr. Judith A.
Shizuru said their method involved
using the antibody to temporarily
kill off a certain type of white blood
cell that is instrumental in stimulat
ing the body to reject foreign tissue.
These blood cells, called helper T
lymphocytes, eventually grow back
to normal levels, but the researchers
said the new cells apparently stop
mone that controls sugar levels and
metabolism in the body, after taking
up permanent residence in the re
cipient’s liver.
The islet transplant technique, pi
oneered by Dr. Paul Lacy of Wash
ington University in St. Louis, has
had only limited success in humans
because the recipient’s immune sys
tem eventually destroys the foreign
cells, Fathman said.
In the Stanford study, untreated
of weeks and died within
from complications of diabetes
But animals treated withilit ;
body show no signs of rejection]
their blood sugar levels rental|
ble, Shizuru said in a telephoP
terview.
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proteins that attach to fol
materials, whether disease
nisms or tissue, and hasten tlifk
struction.
Monoclonal antibodies are],
ratory-produced hormones ntal
specifically target certain other
teins.
Shizuru said the work is anil
taut step in the goal of using j
plants to cure Type-1 insulin ^
dent diabetes, sometimes (;
juvenile diabetes because it
early in life.
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suffer with this type of <1p|
which can lead to blindness, k 1
failure and other complication^
must take daily insulin inject^
control the condition.
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