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Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, July 24, 1987
World and Nation
Reagan chooses final members
for commission set to study AIDS
Vol. 8
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan
put the newly constituted AIDS commission to
work Thursday, saying “a good strong dose of
common sense” must accompany research, edu
cation and prevention.
Reagan named a dozen people, including a ho
mosexual geneticist, a Roman Catholic cardinal,
a former chief of naval operations and four
women, to complete the ranks of the 13-member
panel headed by Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chair
man of the Mayo Clinic’s board of governors.
Reagan flew by helicopter to the National In
stitutes of Health in suburban Bethesda, Md.,
where he visited with children suffering from
AIDS, or acquired immune defiency syndrome,
and then met with commission members.
He also visited the laboratory of Dr. Samuel
Broder, where the first work was done on the use
of the drug AZT to fight the AIDS virus.
“After the visit to the ward today and after the
death by AIDS of friends and former associates,
this is my prayer: One way or another, whether
by breakthrough or steady progress, we will beat
this disease,” the president said.
The president, who last April 1 declared AIDS
“Public Health Enemy No. 1,” gave the commis
sion 90 days to submit a preliminary report that
will identify where research on the disease stands
and what is needed.
As of July 20, the White House said, 533 cases
of AIDS among children 13 or younger had been
reported to the Centers for Disease Control.
Overall, the CDC said, AIDS had been diagnosed
in 40,970 Americans by June 1, and 20,849 of
these victims had died.
Reagan said the panel would develop a “full-
fledged strategy” for coping with the AIDS prob
lem and said that if new drugs and vaccines
emerge, “I am determined that red tape will not
keep them away.”
“It seems to be common sense to recognize
“After the visit to the ward today
. . . this is my prayer: One way or
another, whether by breakthrough
or steady progress, we will beat this
disease. ”
— President Ronald Reagan
The list of members was released as Reap
flew by helicopter to the National Institutes!
Health in nearby Bethesda, Md.
One member, Frank Lilly, head of genetics]
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in
York, who served for a time as a memberoftl
board of directors of the Gay Men’s Health Ctis
in New York, is a homosexual.
“I hope to forcefully represent the gay cnH
munity as well as the biomedical communityiiM\vASl
member of this commission,” Lilly said mH^ain
statement. u§S Sl
Sen. Cordon J. Humphrey, R-N.H. critmj^ on( i a y
Lilly’s appointment, saying that “for years ®u e j en d
leaders of homosexual groups have been D lane ar
the
that when it comes to stopping the spread of
AIDS, medicine and morality teach the same les
sons,” he said. “It’s also common sense that igno
rance about extent of the spread of the AIDS
won’t help anyone — those who have it, those
who might get it, those who are looking for ways
of preventing its spread.”
Reagan had appointed Mayberry as chairman
of the commission on June 25, and the White
House initially announced the panel would be
comprised of 1 1 members, including the chair
man.
But gay rights groups voiced fears that the ho
mosexual community would have no representa
tion on the commission, and Reagan last week
signed an executive order expanding it to 13
members.
manding society accept their sexual practices IJq i, ; ave
‘normal.’” . Wirt-rn
“The president’s action seems to bow toL Thirt
demand, at least in this instance," Humphi( we]r in
said. “That is wrong, because tolerance does Struck t
require approval. Nor does the compassioimJthe plar
feel for the victims of AIDS affect the oveuLfile or
moral issue.” Hn Gu
Cary Bauer, a domestic policy adviser to y m istake,
gan, denied that the commission was expanfcjstates at
to make room for a homosexual representatiuMalapt.
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AIDS is a contagious, fatal disease thatatt , w ret y
the body’s immune system, rendering it inap
hie of resisting other diseases and infections i| ^ sl
most cases, it is spread by sexual contact q Ue st re
health officials estimate that 1 million to 1.5ij^j av y a d
lion Americans have been exposed to theviri |g etai
Homosexual men and drug addicts who skH n on [
needles are high-risk groups. H s t [ iaI
to
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22
Navy escorts Kuwaiti ships
out of attack ‘danger zone’
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Two
Kuwaiti tankers moved northward
Thursday, under the American flag
and U.S. Navy escort, through an
area between Iran and Saudi Arabia
where Iranian speedboats have at
tacked several merchant ships.
Iran’s news agency quoted For
eign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati as
saying Kuwaiti oil was “prohibited
goods,” implying that ships carrying
it would be attacked, but Velayati
said in West Germany that Iran
would not shoot first.
By sunset, the ships were in the
last stage of their 500-mile voyage
up the Persian Gulf from the Strait
of Hormuz to Kuwait’s Al-Ahmadi
oil terminal.
Sources following the convoy’s
progress said three warships made
the entire trip and others of a nine-
ship U.S flotilla in the gulf joined
from time to time.
Salvage officers based in Dubai
said their main concern was mines in
the Al-Ahmadi shipping channel,
where at least four vessels have been
hit in recent months.
American, Kuwaiti and Saudi ex
perts declared the channel safe after
a minesweeping operation last week
end.
The Kuwaiti vessels, a 401,382-
ton supertanker and 46,723-ton
products carrier renamed the Brid
geton and Gas Prince, were to arrive
Friday.
After they are loaded they will
steam south, again with a guard of
Navy ships.
Velayati was quoted by Iran’s offi
cial Islamic Republic News . Agency
as making the indirect threat of at
tack in a message sent Wednesday to
U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez
de Cuellar.
On Thursday, Velayati said in
Bonn: “If Iranian ships are not sub
jected to attack, if no ships are at
tacked by the Iraqis, no ships will be
attacked in the Persian Gulf.”
He called the U.S. warships “a
threat to Iran” but sidestepped ques
tions about Iranian response. Ve
layati did not mention the message
to Perez de Cuellar.
Lloyd’s Intelligence Unit in Lon
don says 333 vessels have been hit in
attacks by both sides during the 7-
year-old war between Iran and Iraq.
At a news conference after talks
with Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich
Censcher, Velayati repeated Iran’s
rejection of any U.N. cease-fire reso
lution that does not call Iraq the ag
gressor.
The war began, after several bor
der skirmishes, with an Iraqi inva
sion in September 1980.
The U.N. Security Council unani
mously passed a cease-fire resolution
Monday, one of several approved
since the war began.
Shipping and salvage experts,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said they did not discount the possi
bility of Iranian attacks on the
loaded tankers during their return
trip through the gulf next week.
Iran accuses Kuwait of receiving
arms for Iraq, the emirate’s eastern
neighbor at the northern end of the
gulf, and began last September to
concentrate its attacks on ships
owned by or serving Kuwait.
Iraq’s ports were closed soon after
the war started. Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia export 300,000 barrels of oil
daily through the gulf on Iraq’s be
half.
Eleven of Kuwait’s 21 tankers are
being reflagged and will be escorted
through the Persian Gulf by the U.S.
Navy.
Soviet Union OKs pact barring
ocean dumping of plastic trash
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union has rati
fied an international agreement to bar the dumping of
plastic trash at sea, leaving the United States as the lone
roadblock to the pact’s implementation, U.S. officials
said Thursday.
The agreement, known as Annex V of the Interna
tional Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from
Ships, enters into force one year after nations rep
resenting half of the world’s shipping tonnage have ap
proved it.
Rear Adm. J. William Kime, head of the Coast
Guard’s marine safety and environmental protection
division, told two House subcommittees that he re
ceived a letter last week from the deputy director of the
Soviet Union’s Marine Pollution Control Authority say
ing Soviet officials have ratified the pact.
The Soviet Union, which represents 6.2 percent of
the world’s shipping, is the 28th nation to approve it,
bringing the total up to 48 percent, Kime said. The
United States, which has 4.8 percent, would make the
pact official.
“The ball is squarely in the court of the United
States,” Kime said. “All we have to do is take action and
this will come into force.”
President Reagan sent the agreement to the Senate
for ratification Feb. 9, but no action has been taken.
Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro has been in
strumental in drawing attention to the problem.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has sched
uled a hearing on the agreement for Wednesday. Sen.
Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of the panel, strongly
supports the measure and congressional aides expect it
to be approved without controversy.
The agreement would prohibit the disposal of plastic
garbage anywhere in the ocean and ban the disposal of
other garbage within 12 miles of land.
U.S. law bans the disposal of garbage from ships
within three miles of the coast.
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Excess heat,
humidity
plagues U,S,g^
lln wf
The high heat and humid::
which have made life beastly (e!
people across the eastern halfol
the nation have taken a toll ocj
livestock too, broiling chickensrj
their coops and killing the apptj
tiles of cattle and hogs.
People were coping bettertk
some experts had feared, al
though at least three deaths btl
been attributed to heat this weel
“1 am surprised wearenotse stressed
ing more people,” said Dr. Doir.on the ]
las Carroll, an emergency roc:. reduce
physician at Greater Baltimoidcalled oi
Medical Center, which treatKliifg Con
three people Wednesday. J|| As h
“But problems usually inertty committ
during a heat wave,” Carroll saic] most pc
“It sometimes takes a couple eland cur
days for people to feel tnet:|gain su
feels.” Hi. Mo:
Bernice Cooper, a spokesnu Pearanc
for Leila Hospital and Healiltbre ove
Center in Battle Creek, said, resident
just talked to the chief of ot lbill s inq
trauma unit and he thinks it’slx||,'
cause it’s been hot for so lonj! I he
people are learning howtocope ^ ve s<
From Connecticut to Califoi-HpG bill
nia, there was barely a douditf
the sky Thursday afternoon. r* 251 bw
Record temperatures at mida: ; creditoi
ternoon Thursday included 92 ] numln-i
Alpena, Mich., 97 in Harrisburi World.”
Pa., and 99 in Jacksonville, Fla , bent!
which also had an ozone advison Ppangin
William Satterfield, spokesnia!||
for the Delmarva Poultry Ind»! I “You
try Inc. in Georgetown, Del.,saitf anymor
the heat killed half a millionbinl| turn to
just on Tuesday. [ the retu
“The first day of a heat wavti
hits them hardest and then thfl
adjust to the heat a little bit,"
ing gen e
I It is
around
said. “T he chickens who wen product
gonna get it, probably gotitot
Tuesday.”
Growers have
coops with big fans and mistinj
systems, and also tried to get tit
chickens to fan themselves bj
stirring them up to flap theii
wings. Still, poultry worth abot
$750,GOO was lost, Satterfieli
said.
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lave to
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cause the hens stop laying,” sail u f 1S1 . 1
Dr. Cordon Miller at Hoi S m P hasi
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Farms.
Teen-ager drowns, leaves message for family
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — A 17-
year-old scuba diver who had
planned on going out to celebrate
his mother’s birthday instead found
himself lost in an underwater cave,
and scratched a farewell message to
his family on his air tank before he
drowned, officials say.
“I love you Mom, Dad and Chris
tian,” read the words on the tank,
which contained only a few minutes’
supply of air when found, Sheriffs
Sgt. Frank Bierwiler said.
The tank was a few feet from
where Jason Tuskes’ body was dis
covered Tuesday, in 57 feet of wa
ter, in a spring which had been
posted with a “No Diving” warning.
sage on the yellow metal tank.
The teen-ager’s father, Art
Tuskes, said Jason had been close to
his parents and 13-year-old brother.
“He was so exceptional. . . . He
was my arms and legs and sometimes
my head,” said Tuskes, who is wheel
chair-bound. “It’s such a loss. Why
couldn’t they take somebody like me
who’s been crippled up for 28
years?”
Authorities believe the honor stu
dent got trapped in the cave and
shed his gear while trying to make
his way to the surface. When he real
ized he couldn’t, he unsheathed his
diver’s knife and etched his last mes-
Jason would have been a high-
school senior this fall. He had been
enrolled at a community college and
was scheduled to receive an asso
ciate’s degree in mathematics next
spring. His goal was to be a lawyer by
age 23, his father said.
He also was an expert swimmer
and had made about 100 dives since
obtaining his open-water certifica
tion in February.
Tuskes said he reluctantly gave
his son permission to dive in the
spring with 16-year-old Vincent
Cusmano after a scheduled dive in
the Gulf of Mexico was canceled.
“I said, ‘Fine, but keep it short,’ ”
Tuskes said.
When Jason left the house Tues
day morning, he planned to be
home in time to celebrate his moth
er’s 42nd birthday by going out to
dinner with the family that night.
Although no one will ever know
for certain, authorities believe Jason
got lost in the spring, near Weeki
Wachee in west-central Florida, and
became trapped in a narrow passa
geway. He had a guideline, which di
vers deploy so they can trace their
lack, but a
way bad-
apparently lost it.
“He got wedged into a small area.
It was quite murky down there. . . .
The poor lad just didn’t know which
way to go,” Bierwiler said.
Vincent made his way out of the
cave but lost his friend as their
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dents gt
Somehoi
movement kicked up silt and greJ f Studei
reduced visibility. Experienced courses
vers say the area is surrounded! mance oi
mixture of limestone and mud, college a
unstable combination that is ea:
disturbed.
“Most experienced divers
even go around it,” said Lai
Green, a certified diver who m<
two dives looking for jason. “It's)
a very advanced dive.”
The cave opening has a diamfi
of about three feet leading into u.6.-Me)
cramped, dark cavern thatdesceo he on tht
to 80 feet, divers said. Reported
The “No Diving” sign is hard agent, a <
see and may be misinterpreted Naturalh
mean no diving headfirst frouHSimila
platform, rather than a warning! year, saic
scuba divers, Hernando Com lingen l
deputies said. Texas.
“It’s really a dangerous cave,”siB “Then
Kevin Love, a water manager coming i
district worker familiar with fA
cave. “It needs to be blocked up
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