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First AIDS hospital in U.$/<
prepares to close doon
tendin
tered
HOUSTON (AP) — Rather than celebrate its first
anniversary looking to new developments, the nation’s
first AIDS hospital will be working to salvage research
and treatment programs as it prepares to close.
“We have done everything we can think of,” said Dr.
Peter Mansell, medical director of the Institute for Im
munological Disorders. “I don’t know where to go
next.”
The hospital opened Sept. 2, 1986. Mounting finan
cial losses caused the hospital to lay off staff in March
and stop accepting indigent patients. On Aug. 6, the
hospital announced it would close within a year.
The hospital is owned by the for-profit firm of
American Medical International and is staffed by the
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tu
mor Institute.
As operations at the facility wind down, Mansell said
he and other administrators are trying to save a $5.8
million contract from National Institutes of Health des
ignating the institute as one of 19 facilities around the
country for testing experimental treatments.
If the contract is not renewed in June, AIDS patients
in Houston would be hundreds of miles from facilities
which
offering the latest treatments for the as-yet incJ woode
disease. Houston has the fourth-largest num® Ma
AIDS cases in the nation. brash
Patients who have signed up to take partinttj un
mental drug tests in Houston may have to im cers le
other cities if the contract is lost, Dr. Gary Bm prehei
the institute said.
“People on the protocols might have the opt
transfer to Tulane (in New Orleans) or Miamit
Diego,” he said. “That is the distance they woulj|
to go to get into an ATEU protocol.”
ATEU stands for AIDS Treatment Evaluate bulldo
the name given centers where experimental trea^ night,
are administered. ®3r the
Mansell said the Financial decline of the instir,
due to several factors, among them poor coopt
from private physicians and lack of an effectivei*
ing campaign.
“For all the things AMI didn’t do, it did dooiie;
Mansell said. “No one else in the country opentif
hospital like this. Its motives might have been!;l
odd and its methods not ideal, but it opened Wi
lute. It just didn’t work.”
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Earthquake simulator tests
may tighten building code
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An
earthquake simulator that evolved
through research for NASA’s space
program may convince officials in
earthquake-prone areas like Mexico
City to strengthen building code reg
ulations, researchers say.
Mexico City is still trying to reb
uild from two devastating earth
quakes in September 1985 that
crumpled hundreds of buildings
and killed thousands of people.
There were reports that some of
the fallen structures were poorly de
signed and did not meet construc
tion codes.
“Masonry by itself is a very poor
earthquake-resistant design and
most times in earthquakes all over
the world, where you hear about
damage being incurred, it’s usually
in strict masonry construction,” said
Dr. Dan Kana, a Southwest Research
Institute engineer.
He said steel is needed to bolster
the construction, and reports from
Mexico City showed many buildings
there did not use steel.
earthquakes began about 15 years
ago when NASA wanted to know the
effects of earthquakes on liquid con
tainers.
Kana said liquid fuel accounts for
a large percentage of the total
weight of a space vehicle at liftoff
“What we would like to be
able to do is take scale
models of such founda
tions and study them un
der simulated earthquake
conditions in the labo
ratory and predict what
those foundations will
do.”
— Dr. Dan Kana, a South
west Research Institute
engineer
the impact of a quake on abic
Kana said the design had
geometrically and dynamical
portional to test the motion ;|
soil surface.
“That’s the problem of p
from lull-scale to subscale 1 j
said. “Youjust don’t makeiuiJ
looks just like the full-scale,Kp
it’s tnt
just
:<• d\ n.imu propertie
you’re interested in.’
With the help of $20(1,000 from
the National Science Foundation, re
searchers, including professors and
students from the University of
Texas at San Antonio, are trying to
simulate an earthquake in the Hous
ton area.
Such an occurrence is highly un
likely, Kana noted.
The institute’s research into
and the fuel sloshes around, disturb
ing the vehicle.
The institute simulated those ef
fects and as well as tremors on scale
models of other liquid-storage facili
ties, including petrochemical and
nuclear plants, Kana said.
The current earthquake simulator
uses 30-inch miniature
The box of soil implaniedi' Someti
tubes is placed on an earc; ij»n 0 u C
simulator, which shakes theki'f -pyj.
measures the vertical andhoa| jj as ru!
effects on the tubes. gs e( j f (
The results of the expcflLrred
should be available later ik ||^ ar 0 I
Kana said. Bgtgfj u
“What we would like totx*||| rv i ce
do is take scale models of sue.- p ! ast se
dations and study them unde:|§8j C h e:
lated earthquake condition!: J
laboratory and predict wha :
foundations will do,” Katil
“Obviously you cannot simis
earthquake in full scale.
“By such studies the finalo-
would be recommendatioc
building codes that would nee:
followed in such eart
cas of 50-foot vertica
f lastic repli-
steel piles
planted in a box of soil to determine
areas.
“Those codes, of course,;
in Mexico City, but were'
equate and not followed ini
cases and that’s when thep*
occurred.”
Officials in Mexico plan to dravi
tourists with newest ocean resd
SANTA MARIA HUATULCO,
Mexico (AP) — Cows and donkeys
still graze by the runways that will
open to commercial flights late this
year for the start of what the govern
ment hopes will be Mexico’s next
successful ocean resort.
Planners for the Bays of Huatulco
hope to avoid the mistakes that have
marked such successful ventures as
Cancun on the tip of the Yucatan
peninsula and Ixtapa on the Pacific
north of Acapulco.
“This is this administration’s most
important tourism project,” Manuel
Alonso, spokesman for President
Miguel de la Madrid, said during a
weekend tour of the project on the
southern state of Oaxaca’s Pacific
coast. “One billion pesos (about
$670,000 at current exchange rates)
have been invested already.”
De la Madrid, whose six-year term
ends in late 1988, toured the area
and dedicated everything from
waste treatment facilities to the first
hotel open for business to taxi con
cessions on Saturday.
Unlike Cancun and Ixtapa, where
four- and five-star hotels generally
priced out of reach of Mexican vaca
tioners were built in homogeneous
strips, the Bays of Huatulco will have
a mix of moderate and expensive
hotels stretched out over nine bays.
Officials also were careful to point
out that plans are for the resort to
serve as a new market to spur agri
cultural development in impov
erished Oaxaca. Cancun, by con
trast, largely is supplied by wholesale
markets from as far away as Mexico
City.
De la Madrid in a speech at La
Crucecita, the first town rapidly
springing up for workers from the
resort, said, “We do not want an en
clave of progress and of boom sur
rounded by misery.”
Projections are that 146,000 tour
ists will visit Huatulco, almost all of
them Mexicans, next year. The fig
ure will rise to 680,000 by the year
2000, about two-thirds of them Mex
ican and one-third foreigners.
De la Madrid dedicated the small
Hotel Posada Binniguenda, the first
open for business. It is not located
on the beach itself.
The Club Med with 500 rooms
and the Hotel Sheraton with 368
rooms, both five-star hotels and di
rectly on the beach, are scheduled to
open this winter.
The view from the planet
nine bays’ area is spectacular-
less lines of deserted beads
lush jungle spreading inland,
Some of the campesinosm
land in the areas objected ton
ment expropriation and thel
opment plans.
De la Madrid said Saturdi 1 '
only nine expropriation case
main to be settled out of men
1,000 and that 55 of 265||
still are pending.
“The government offers b
justice for those pending ass
the government also desires^
those pending cases it be knot;
the interest of the majority is
more highly than the interesi
minority,” he said.
Tourism Secretary Antoni;
quez Savignac said on Aug- ’
the target of 5 million foreij
tors for 1987 to Mexico will?
passed and that tourism wife
brought in $1.95 billion ini'
exchange by the end of theydl
Tourism vies with the
dora,” or twin-plant, assemble
try as the No. 2 source of fots
change for Mexico after petre
Grayson County college student
builds clocks for tuition, pleasure
PRESTON BEND (AP) — To
find the future, Lewis Lafas reached
back to the past.
Lafas, 34, plans to study electrical
engineering at Grayson County Col
lege this fall. In order to help pay his
way through school, he is building
and selling clocks that are made en
tirely of wood.
The art of budding all-wood
clocks wound down about a century
ago with the development of brass
gears, he said.
Reinventing the all-wood clock
meant two years of hair-pulling
problems interspersed with jump-
up-and-down joy.
Problems ranged from devel
oping a design for an all-wood clock
to finding a way to turn %-inch thick
chunks of maple into precise, long-
lasting gears.
Lefas works as a freelance
plumber-electrician-repairman, and
investing $2,000 in tools and
material for the project took a large
chunk out of his family’s finances.
Plus, he commandeered one of
their mobile home’s two bedrooms
for a workshop, squeezing wife Ann,
daughter Amy, 3, and son Phillip, 8
months, into less space.
Lefas’ timepiece is about the size
of a traditional grandfather clock,
but without a case. The inner works
are open to view.
A 20-pound weight provi?
pull that swings a wooden [X 1
connected to a wooden escaf'
anism that regulates woode;
that turn wooden hands that
wooden numbers.
“These clocks aren’t m
for people,” he says. “They?'?
lector’s items.
“It’s a functional artwork
to see one of my clocks in a®
someday.”
“In most clocks, you can see the
hands move and that’s it,” he
says.“But here, this clock actually
shows you how time is measured; the
interaction of the timekeeping ma
chinery.”
For now, Lefas hopes the
clocks will help pay his way® !
sociate’s degree from GCC
He would like to eventuall'
and build biomedical device?
But he says he will aW
time for clock building.
“I’ll be doing this until 1 :!
man,” he says.