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im page 3) i of Corpus Chris losed project has been ission of problems. I criticism began on h the first proposed Island and later For. lattle then shifted tot I proposed setting eet T-Head; thentoi tion on an ill-fated, tie in Corpus Christ uilly to its present isti Beach, al choice of a futurt reach generated cot. e the matter court in a settlement ty and Helen Royal ionic and motel neat ite on Corpus Christ nated 600,000 visitors ck to the Texas State jally, its economic im- ea is expected to million a year, based 1 sales-tax revenue, ey, president of t Area Convention i. i on the first of four Jesse H. and Man ilf of Mexico 1 nder way, with all but the $31.5 million cost Quenton Dokken e Texas State Aquar i. efforts are continu- o raise the $6.2 by September or Of' said. f the project also was vith support from the Christi and private the state. Private set ns total more and the city has in llion in the project other increases in the re associated with the f the infrastructure eeded for the site al plans, the city was site on the Peoples t no cost to the aquar n. However, mcern over locating >n the aging T-head d would not supper, mrfaced, and aquar gan seeking alternate Ian unveiled in iociates to developat n inertial landmas oples Street T-Head. re earmarked for -foot, $5 n uch public claim in, developed duritij years over the pre mass. So in Febman ium association with' and mass project and an the south end of Beach, i of the current sir an additional S3 mil t projection for the ipally for higher in id land costs. The ite was owned by the sociation had to pur site. The Battalion WORLD & NATION 7 Wednesday, April 19,1989 ting jm page 3) er sister, Brenda ler husband, 1 it the Duncanville nent shortly after? • ask for a policees- louse. went to pick up the r-old son and a e they feared for y. They told police h unk and angry, his partner, Staq le Smiths at Wise’s srward, Wise ar- clot lies, angry and ord said, ished his service knew Wise on a s, pleaded with the -op the gun, but, witnesses, Wise o shoot, as Wise stood in me and pointed at said he believes first shot, in self- /bitten of the Dal- artment, which is own investigation, othing to dispute said. “Repp has nville investigators e first shot just be- went off.” fired by Wise ycle, Whitten said, hot may have been he ground, as if ad been hit by the ave all the written as far as prelimi- it appears Repp Whitten said. • ninty Medical Ex iled that Wise was .ted, with a 0.12 Diitent, at the time E Wise said he had I over the deaths ars he supervised in the past nine House approves plan to close 86 military bases WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to back a plan to close 86 military bases and scale back five more despite complaints that the move will not save as much as advocates had promised. By a vote of 381-43, the House rejected a resolution to disapprove the recommenda tions of the Commission on Base Re alignment and Closure, giving the green light for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to follow through con the panel’s proposals be ginning in January. "It is incumbent upon all of us to make sure this base closing list is implemented,” the chairman of the House Armed Services Chairman, Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., said moments before the vote. The commission’s recommendations af fect a total of 145 domestic military installa tions by closing some, reducing the opera tions of others and changing the missions of additional bases. The law establishing the commission, the Base Closure and Realignment Act, re quires that, once approved by the secretary of defense, the commission’s recommenda tions proceed unless both houses of Con gress vote to disapprove them, in which case none of the proposals would take ef fect. - Here is a list of Texas military installations affected by the recommendations of the Commis sion on Base Realignment and Closure, approved Tuesday by the House. The numbers after each installation indicate a loss or gain of jobs and the amount of annual savings 'where any is expected. Bergstrom Air Force Base Austin Reorganized, plus 963. Carswell Air Force Base Fort Worth Reorganized, phis 32, Fort Bliss El Paso Reorganized, minus 321. Galveston Naval Station Closed, minus 537, $2,s5 million. Goodfellow Air Force Base : .. San Angelo commission Reorganized, plus 217, . ! Ingleside Naval Station Corpus Christi Reorganized, plus 876. Red River Army Depot • Texarkana Reorganized, plus 63. Wichita Falls 1 Reorganized, plus 865. The House action means the changes proposed by the commission will proceed. In debate before the vote, opponents of the move said it would not save as much money as the commission projected. “This list simply does not save money,” Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., said. He was joined by representatives from Il linois and California in saying the plan would not save $694 million in the first year, or $5.6 billion over 20 years, as the commission projected. “In terms of savings, I don’t believe they’re there,” said Saxton, who opposes the closing of Fort Dix in his home state. “In terms of expenditures, I believe they’re underestimated.” Saxton cited a congressional report that said the savings in closing Fort Dix had been overestimated by $20 million. Heartmonitorl Coroner: Abbie Hoffman committed suicide saves patients valuable time PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A briefcase-sized monitor that plugs into a telephone outlet will let doctors for the first time not only monitor but also treat heart pa tients even before an ambulance can arrive. The first “MDphone,” devel oped by MEDphone Inc. of Par amos, NJ-, was installed recently in the home of a 72-year-old pa tient who had bypass surgery, said Dr. Edwin Rogers, director of cardiac care at Sacred Heart Hospital here. Rogers said his patient will have the MDphone for 90 days. “This is the kind of thing you hope would not be used on the patient,” he said. "The first three months after a heart attack are critical because this is when a pa tient is at highest risk of having another cardiac episode.” The MDphone is plugged into a wall jack. If a problem arises, the patient or family member just opens the case and attaches elec trode pads. The machine auto matically dials the hospital emer gency room, setting off,alarms. The base unit in thy jlyospital re trieves the patient’s records and displays them on one computer screen while another shows the electrocard iogram. If the patient develops a dan gerously erratic heartbeat, known as cardiac arrhythmia, a doctor at Sacred Heart could immediately defibrillate the patient by signal ling the device to deliver an elec tric shock. MDphone is the first telemetry ■system that allows treatment in this way, said MEDphone Presi dents. Eric Wachtel. DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Yip- pie founder Abbie Hoffman com mitted suicide with a “massive over dose” of the drug phenobarbital, the coroner said Tuesday. “The death was from the com bined effects of phenobarbital and alcohol,” Coroner Dr. Thomas Rosko said at a news conference. Hoffman, who held fast to his anti-establishment convictions and made his points with searing humor, was found dead April 12 at his home in New Hope. He was 52. “I think it is likely that he literally fell asleep and died in his sleep,” Rosko said. “Other than that, what occurred in his last hours is strictly speculation.” The autopsy found the residue of about 150 pills, several times the le thal dose even without the presence of alcohol, the coroner said. Pheno barbital is a long-acting sedative and an anticonvulsant. Hoffman’s blood alcohol level was .20, twice the legal limit in Pennsyl vania, Rosko said. The coroner said laboratory tests showed two other drugs were pre sent in Hoffman’s system. But he said the small quantities of propra- nol, used for cardiovascular condi tions, and benzo-diazepine, a class of drugs including the sedative Valium, had no connection with Hoffman’s death. Although Hoffman was consid ered a self-taught expert in drugs, Rosko said there was no evidence he was using drugs for pleasure. The coroner said he relayed his findings to Hoffman’s family min utes before his news conference. Although Rosko ruled the death a suicide, Hoffman’s brother, Jack, held out hope it was an accident. “Abbie, as many of you know, was somewhat careless with pills and we always warned him about this kind of thing,” Jack Hoffman said at a news conference in Worcester, Mass., the family’s hometown. Hoffman’s mother, Florence, de clined to comment. The day after her son’s body was found, she speculated that he had committed suicide, saying he had sounded depressed in recent tele phone conversations. But the next day, she said the family no longer suspected suicide. Other relatives and friends men tioned suicide. Rosko said Friday there was no indication then that Hoffman killed himself but that pre liminary results were inconclusive. Rosko’s autopsy report last week also did not elaborate on a trickle of blood reported found caked under Hoffman’s nostril. In June 1988, Hoffman said he was taking painkillers a doctor had prescribed for injuries he suffered in nr* niitr* onr'irlr Hoffman was last seen alive on April 11 by a girlfriend of his land lord. He was found dead by a neigh bor, Michael Waldron, who told po lice Hoffman had been depressed about the car accident. A memorial service planned Wednesday in Worcester, Mass., is to include a peace march from his mother s house to Temple Emanuel, which Hoffman attended as a child. ’ Soviets: Mir abandoned in effort to save money Teachers strike enters 2nd day in Mexico; conversations begin MEXICO CITY (AP) — Education Secretary Manuel Bartlett on Tuesday summoned leaders of a dissident teachers movement and the government-backed union in an attempt to resolve a teacher’s strike for higher-pay and the removal of corrupt union chiefs. Defying government warnings, thousands of Mexi co’s public school teachers cut classes for a second day Tuesday to push for a 100 petcent pay increase and greater democracy in their union, which, with 1.1 mil lion members, is the largest in Mexico and one of the biggest in Latin America. Before dawn Tuesday Bartlett summoned leaders of the National Education Workers’ Coordinate, a dissi dent group within the National Education Workers Union, and the government-backed union leadership, a strike activist said on condition of anonymity. “Our leaders were taken at three in the morning to INVENTORY the Education Department for meetings with Bartlett,” the leader said. “We think the conversations are contin uing because they haven’t returned to strike headquar ters.” The coordinate has rejected a government offer to increase pay by 10 percent and benefits by 18 percent. Teachers earn about $147.50 per month after taxes. Bartlett warned over national television late Monday that striking teachers could face disciplinary action if they didn’t return to their jobs. He said teachers in the federal school system will re ceive a net salary increase of 20 percent once an um brella 10 percent hike for state and federal teachers goes into effect in May. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari acknowledges that teachers are underpaid, but says his hard-pressed government cannot afford to double salaries. MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviets decided to bring home the cosmo nauts from their space station next week and leave it temporarily vacant to save money, but a new crew will be launched in August, the deputy flight director said Tuesday. Viktor D. Blagov said no technical problems had cropped up in the Mir, the 3-year-old orbiting complex that is the showcase of the Soviet space program. He said plans to keep Soviets aboard the station con tinuously were abandoned for seve ral reasons. “By this action, we are of course economizing some sum which can be used for other purposes,” said Bla gov, speaking in a telephone inter view from the Mission Control Cen ter in Kaliningrad, north of Moscow. He did not identify the areas where money would be diverted or say how much would be saved, but the public has called for the untold millions of rubles spent on space to be targeted to end chronic shortages of consumer goods and food. Blagov also said Soviet scientists were swamped analyzing informa tion gathered from Mir — the Rus sian word for “peace” — since its launch Feb. 20, 1986. They now must pause to review “what we have accomplished and decide what’s next.” Tentative plans call for a module the same size as Mir to be attached to the station at year’s end, and until then there is no need for a crew, he said. Wednesday’s scheduled launch of a replacement crew has been canceled. Cosmonauts Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Valery Polyakov are to mothball the Mir and return to Earth on April 27. A new crew will be sent up in mid-August to prepare for attaching the module, Blagov said. The attachment contains a space bicycle for cosmonauts, a solar battery to supplement that of the Mir station itself, an East German optical experiment and an airlock through which cosmonauts can pass to take spacewalks. ini v iLm i i \sv $4 Oj > 14K •HAINS SALE ENDS MAY 13th Save 25% to 50% on selected TAMU Logo items We will do anything to keep from counting merchandise, so we are marking it down to give you Big Savings on Texas A&M logo items and selected gifts such as glassware and 14K gold chains. All mark downs are for quick sale. Come in and save. Don’t make us count this merchan dise! 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