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ASME and ASCE
present:
The Collapse of the Kansas City
Hyatt Regency Walkway
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A Case Study and Panel Discussion of
the implications of this disaster to
the Engineering Profession
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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1989
7:00 RM 110
CIVIL ENGINEERING BLDG.
CASE STUDY BY DR. LOWERY Professor Civil Engineering
Panelists: Dr. M.J. Rabins
Colleen Batchelor
Walter Evans
John Epling
Mechanical Engineering Dept. Head
Attorney at Law
ASME State Coordinator
Assoc. Prof. Construction Science,
Attorney at Law
Moderator: Dr. T. Kozik
Professor Mechanical Engineering
Presented as part of the ASME Hot Topics Series
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Communist Party faces
decision on nationalities
Spokesman says committee won’t address issue
MOSCOW (AP) — Four years
into Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s reforms,
the Communist Party leadership
must decide how to handle restive
nationalities, how much power to
give a new legislature and other
questions perestroika has raised.
Some of them, including the fate
of political maverick Boris N. Yelt
sin, may come up at a Central Com
mittee meeting that begins Tuesday.
Gennady I. Gerasimov, spokes
man for the Foreign Ministry, told a
reporters no agenda had been an
nounced for the Central Committee,
which has more than 300 members,
but said the nationalities issue would
not be on it. A Western diplomat
said the question probably would
come up, however, at least briefly.
At least 20 people were killed in
ethnic violence last month in Soviet
Georgia and more than 90 were
killed last year in Armenia and Azer
baijan, neighboring republics in the
Caucasus region.
Gorbachev, 58, has said an entire
Central Committee meeting this
summer will be devoted to policy to
ward the more than 100 nationalities
in the Soviet Union.
He indicated in a meeting Jan. 8
with scientific and cultural figures
that a separate plenum would focus
on “conception of social-economic
development of the country.” Gor
bachev may have been referring to
the session that begins Tuesday.
Tass, the official news agency,
said Tuesday a Central Committee
panel meeting Monday worked out
ways to increase the effectiveness of
capital investment and management
in the social-economic area. It gave
no details.
This will be the first full Central
Committee meeting since the March
26 elections, when at least three
dozen top local officials across the
country lost bids for seats in a new
f jarliament that will choose a smaller
egislature.
Among the losers were Yuri Solo
vyev, a candidate member of the rul
ing Poltiburo, the premiers of Lativa
and Lithuania, the mayor and party
chief of Kiev, and the mayor and
No. 2 party leader of Moscow. .
Defeats in elections to the Con
gress of People’s Deputies were par
ticularly embarrassing for Commu
nists who ran unopposed. Multiple-
candidate races were the first since
the Bolshevik Revolution 70 years
ago.
The Central Committee could dis
miss members who lost campaigns
for parliament, but that would not
affect Ukrainian party boss Vladimir
V. Shcherbilsky, the only Politburo
holdover from the leadership of
Leonid I. Brezhnev. Shcherbitsky,
7 1, won his seat.
Another winner was Yeltsin, who
ran an anti-establishment campaign
and got 89 percent of the vote. At its
last meeting, the Central Committee
opened an investigation of Yeltsin,
who was dismissed as Moscow party
chief after saying Gorbachev’s re
forms had not accomplished
enough.
Vadim A. Medvedev, the Com-
munist Party’s chief ideologist, has
said a committee examining the
charges would report at the next ple
nary meeting. The Central Commit
tee has the power to discipline Yelt
sin, who still is a member.
Gorbachev portrayed the March
election as a referendum on reform
He said party and government offi
cials lost because they “were restruc
turing slowly.”
The Western diplomat, who
spoke privately, said Tuesday's
meeting might focus on political re
form and plans for the 2,250-seal
parliament, whose first meeting is
scheduled for May 25. It is to electa
3resident as well as a full-time legis-
ature.
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Psychiatrists protest leeway
given to army psychologists
WASHINGTON (AP) — Psychiatrists are up in arms
about a new law allowing the military to train its psy
chologists to prescribe powerful drugs for depression
and mental illness.
It’s the newest battlefield for a long-running dispute
over who is qualified to write prescriptions. Psychia
trists, who have medical degrees, say their qualifications
are indispensable. But psychologists, who don’t have
M.D.’s, suggest money is really at the heart of efforts to
keep them out.
Currently, no state permits psychologists to prescribe
psychotropic drugs, which range from mild tranquiliz
ers to anti-psychotic medications that can affect the car
diovascular and motor systems.
The new provision on military psychologists, pushed
by Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, was included in a
House-Senate conference report on the fiscal year 1989
appropriation for the Defense Department. Congress
approved the measure Sept. 30, 1988, and it was signed
by then-President Reagan the next day.
“Given the importance of addressing ‘battle fatigue,’
the conferees agree that the department should estab
lish a demonstration pilot training program under
which military psychologists may be trained and autho
rized to issue appropriate psychotropic medications un
der certain circumstances,” according to a legislative re
port accompanying the provision.
Courtney Welton, an Army spokesman, said the serv
ice “is considering” the issue, including training proce
dures, but he did not know when such a program might
be begun.
Inouye’s efforts on behalf of psychologists have been
spurred by his administrative assistant, Patrick DeLeon,
a trained psychologist and member of the board of the
American Psychological Association.
DeLeon, in a written presentation last December,
said it is “absurd, to put it mildly,” to “proclaim that one
needs to go to medical school and take all of their
courses” in order to write prescriptions for psycho
tropic drugs.
In a telephone interview, DeLeon said the Defense
Department “seems a perfect place for this expansion
of psychologists’ authority to prescribe drugs becauseof
its training facilities and a high incidence of mental
healt h problems in the military.
That’s not how the medical community sees it.
“To attempt to provide military psychologists with
prescribing privileges without accredited medical edu
cation and postgraduate clinical residence training.,
trivializes medical diagnosis and judgment,” said Dr
Melvin Shabshin, medical director of the American Psy
chiatric Association.
Dr. Donald Bennett, director of the drug divisional
the American Medical Association, said simply, “We
think it is inappropriate for psychologists to prescribe
psychoactive drugs.”
“These drugs are not to be used lightly,” added Dr
Donald Klein, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia
University. One hazard, he said, is the “potential inter
actions between the psychiatric drugs and medical
drugs — those interactions at times can be dangerous.’
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