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WORLD & NATION 11
Friday, May 5,1989
Koop ends 7-year career
as U. S. Surgeon General
Militia officials
say German doctors
kidnapped in Sidon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. C.
Everett Koop, the bearded surgeon
general whose straight talk made
him a lightning rod for critics, said
Thursday he will resign after seven
years as the nation’s top health offi
cer.
During his tenure, Koop lived up
to his reputation as a tough-minded
professional and made what had
been a figurehead position into a
pulpit from which he hammered at
the ills of smoking and became the
nation’s No. 1 promoter of condoms
in the fight against AIDS.
In a brief letter to President Bush
delivered Thursday, Koop said he
had told the president in February
he would not serve out his full sec
ond term, which ends in November.
Koop told Bush he would leave the
job July 13 and retire Oct. 1.
The president credited Koop with
“tackling some of the toughest pub
lic health issues facing our country.”
President Reagan’s 1981 nomination
of Koop, then surgeon-in-chief of
the Children’s Hospital of Philadel
phia, set off a bitter, nine-month bat
tle for Senate confirmation.
A pediatric surgeon with an inter
national reputation, Koop was
strongly opposed by liberals who
feared him as an anti-abortion cru-
C. Everett Koop
sader who lacked experience with
public health issues.
But he turned most of those critics
around, many of them when he is
sued a no-nonsense report on the
AIDS crisis in October 1986 that ad
vocated the use of condoms and ex
plicit sex education about how the
deadly virus is spread.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Two
West German doctors doing human
itarian work in Lebanon w'ere kid
napped Thursday in the southern
port city of Sidon, according to a
Moslem militia official in the area.
He said the two, a man and a
woman, were seized “by unknown
gunmen between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
just beyond the Sinique Bridge” on
the southern edge of Sidon, 25 miles
south of Beirut, the capital.
Police said they could not confirm
the abduction.
If the kidnappings are confirmed,
they would raise the number of for
eigners missing and believed held
hostage in Lebanon to 17. The
woman doctor would become the
first woman hostage.
The abduction came less than a
week after the prosecution in West
Germany demanded a life sentence
for Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Leb
anese Shiite, for his role in the 1985
hijacking of a TWA plane and the
murder of a U.S. Navy diver wTio
was aboard.
The official, of the Sunni Moslem
Nasserite miltia that has been ruling
Sidon since the outbreak of Leb
anon’s civil war 14 years ago, de
scribed both doctors as working for
the French-based Doctors Without
Borders.
Speaking on condition of ano
nymity, he said Mustafa Saad, head
of the Nasserite militia, immediately
called Shiite Moslem militia leader
Nabih Berri in Beirut and asked him
to act urgently to try to secure the
Germans’ release.
Berri’s Syrian-backed Amal militia
controls most of south Lebanon.
House, Senate
OK budget
of $1.2 trillion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House and Senate approved on
Thursday $1.2 trillion budgets
which uphold a much-criticized
agreement with President Bush to
reduce the deficit w'ithout cutting
spending or significantly raising
taxes.
The House approved its plan 263-
157 after budget committee chair
man Leon Panetta, D-Calif., called it
“the only choice for us to fulfill our
budget responsibilities and avoid cri
sis.”
The Senate then passed its ver
sion, 68-31. As laid out by the White
House agreement, the budgets claim
to shrink the federal deficit to just
below $100 billion, as required by
the Gramm-Rudman law. They
would allow' federal programs to
grow but, especially at the Pentagon,
at less than the rate of inflation.
The Senate then passed its ver.t
sion, 68-31, after some minor tinker
ing.
Worker testifies against nuclear plant
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former nuclear plant
worker told Congress on T hursday he was “under du
ress” when he accepted a secret labor settlement with
the plant’s builder that rewarded him for not telling
federal regulators about alleged safety flaws.
In sworn testimony to a Senate Environment and
Public Works subcommittee, Joseph J. Macktal said he
now believes the agreement was illegal because it con
tains clauses that restrict his right to testify to the Nu
clear Regulatory Commission.
“The agreement prevented me from talking to any
body” about safety issues, Macktal said.
He signed the agreement about 18 months before
NRC licensing hearings on the Comanche Peak power
plant ended. No final licensing decision has been made
yet.
The subcommittee is investigating how many such se
cret deals have been made at the nation’s 110 licensed
commercial nuclear power plants. Officials said earlier
this week the panel knows of one other and is seeking
details of a third.
Louis Austin Jr., president of Brown & Root, the
company that built the Comanche Peak plant, near
Glen Rose told the subcommittee he believed the Mack
tal deal was legal. But he added the company wished
the law were cleared.
Mark Augenblick, a Brown & Root lawyer, went fur
ther, saying, “With the benefit of hindsight we should
have” settled Macktal’s case without limiting his right to
testify to the NRC.
Macktal, who worked at Comanche Peak from Jan
uary 1985 to January 1986, signed the agreement to
settle his complaint with the Labor Department that
Brown & Root had unfairly dismissed him as a result of
his allegations about unsafe conditions. He said the deal
gave him $15,000, and his lawyers got $20,000.
FIRST
AIRPLANE
The Wright Brothers began
experimenting with kites in
the 1890’s and in 1903
became the first to sustain
flight for 852 feet over the
beach at Kitty Hawk.
FIRST LOVE
She was the only one who
didn’t laugh when you fell off
the jungle gym and broke your
leg. She even let you win at
checkers. What a woman!
FIRST CAR
The world’s first motor car,
the Lenoir, named after its
inventor, ran at an average
speed of 4 miles per hour. In
1863 the 11/2 horsepower
vehicle made its first drive of
6 miles in only 3 hours.
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STUDY ABROAD OFFICE
TAMU Study Abroad 1990 SUMMER
Britain SSM
ENGL 231: Survey of English
Literature I
Prof. Katherine O’Keeffe
Prof.
ory of England
. James Rosenheim
GEOG. 322: Geography of Britain
Prof. Peter Hugill
Greece/Turkey SSI
ARTS 350: The Arts and Civilization
Prof. Charles White
CARC 311: Field Studies in Design
Communication
Prof. Wes Harper
E.E.C. Countries SSI
MKTG. 401: International Marketing
Prof. John Burnett
Kenya SSi
ANTH 350: Archaeology of the
Old World
Prof. Bruce Dickson
RENR 205: Fundamentals of Ecology
Prof. Fred Smeins
France/Germany/Russia/Spain
FREN 221 & 222: Field Studies
GERM 221 & 222: Field Studies
RUSS 221 & 222: Field Studies
SPAN 221 & 222: Field Studies
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Britain SSII
REPK 401: Commercial Recreation Enterprises
Prof. John Crompton
REPK 423: Tourist and Resort Development
Prof. Carlton Van Doren
Dominica SSI
WFSC 300: Field Studies
Prof. Douglas Slack
WFSC 485: Wildlife Problems-
Scientific Journal
Prof. Keith Arnold
WFSC 485: Widlife Problems-
Caribbean Environment
Prof. Keith Arnold
E.E.C. Countries SSI
BANA 364: Operations Management
Prof. Benito Flores
Prof. Robert Davis
Italy SSI
ARTS 350: The Arts and Civilization
Prof. Paolo Barucchieri
HIST 101: Western Civilization to 1600
Prof. James Bradford
Jamaica SSI
ANTH 660: Field Archaeology
Prof. Donny Hamilton
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