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CALL £45-2611 The Battalion Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, July 26,1989 Doctor says drugs might be to blame for cardiac arrests bB What’s Up AACOT1CS ANONYMOUS: w« ct *» C O P E at 845-0280 CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST CCC wWdy mBBbng ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: wM thoC.D.P.E. al845-0280 at 8:30 pjn. For mor* IntormaMuii cor* : wW moot at 7^0 p m. In 301 Ruddar tor a moat at noon For mora mtormaiun contact Thursday TAMU SAILING TEAM: w« irwm al 8 p m m 104 Zmchry ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: wW maaf al 6 p.m. For mora Information contact tha C O P E at 845-0280 MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION wM ma* at 8 30 p.m. In 704 Afi Ruddar to watch a vtdao praBantatlon on Via ooncapt of God In Mam. For mora tntorma- tion contact Mooaa at 846-3350 or Brad at 846-1404 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: wM maat at 830 p.m. For mora mformaBon con tact tha C O P E at 845-0200 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: wfN maat at noon. 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Dr. Joel Morganroth. director of cardiac research at the University of Pennsylvania's hospital in Philadel phia. said T uesday in an interview that he arrived at tne estimated mor tality toll after surveying 1,000 car diologists to find who had pre scribed two heart medicines, encainide and flecainide. during the trials. Encainide and flecainide were ap proved in 1987 for preventing a type of cardiac arrhythmia that features extra irentricular beats A national study of the drugs, called the cardiac arrhythmia suppression trial, or CAST, was started in June 1987. It was halted abruptly last April when data showed suaden death rates in creasing among patients taking the drugs. Since then, Morganroth said he conducted a randomized survey To determine how many patients mav have died prematurely from the use of the drugs He said 250 cadiologists re sponded to his survey atid that half said they had prescribed the drugs. Based on these results,'Morganroth said he extrapolated th*. number of premature deaths by factoring in na tional heart attack death rate statis tics and the prescription record for the two drugs CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two former PTl. aides were convicted Tuesday ol esading $525,000 in in come taxes on money thes u>ok from the television ministry to buy condo miniums, furs, jewelry and neatly $100,000 worth of shoes A federal jury deliberated five hours before convicting the broth ers. James and David 1 aggan. on identical charges: conspiracy to de fraud the government and impede the IRS by willfully evading income taxes, and filing false tax returns for the years 1984. 1985. 1986 and 1987. "Greed doesn't pay," said federal prosecutor David Brown after the verdict. “No matter how rich vou are, you've got to pay vour taxes United jet lands at DFW after hydraulic failure GRAPEVINE (AP) —T he pilot of a Houston-bound United Airlines jet that experienced hydraulic failure Tuesday went to a backup system and diverted the plane to Dallas-Fon international Airport for a “precau- tionarv" landing, the airline said. United Flight 275, en route from Chicago O'Hare to Houston Hobby Airport, landed at DFW at about 3:40 p.m.. said United spokesman Sara Lxirnac ker. The Boeing 737 was carrying 64 passengers, two pilots and three Bight attendants. No one was in jured, she said. A complete hydraulic failure forced the emergency landing last Wednesday of United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa. The DC-10 somer saulted. broke apart and burst into flames, killing 111 people. "Fifteen hundred to 2.000 died, if all the assumptions are appropriate’' in the last 12 months ol the trials, he said. For the previous year, when the drugs were not as widely used, he es timates the premature deaths at 750 to 1.000. . Physicians' Weekly, which re ported on the survey, called the drug tnab a “sudden-death deba cle ' The maga/ine said that “before a trial found that two drugs to block sudden death actually triggered it, thousands mav have died prema turely." Morganroth and other cardiolog ists have said they were shocked and surprised when the CAST studies determined that the drugs may actu ally have caused more, not less, deaths among a certain class of pa tients. Patients in the CAST studies, which were initiated bv the National Institutes of Health, had all suffered a type of heart attack and then expe rienced very mild irregular ventricu lar bean beats. These arrhythmias caused no noticeablr pr»»blems to the patient and were thus called asymto- matk. Morganroth said it was known (hat the sudden death rate among such patients was 1.5 to 2 times greater than among heart attack pa tients who had no such arrhythmias “CAST's objective was to take peo ple with these arrhythmias, give hall of them sugar pills and half a drug that suppresses (the irregular heart beats).' he said The statement was not about PTL; it was about David T aggart and James 1 aggart s obligations to pav then taxes no matter bow much they own and what kind of lifestyle thev live.** Brown said he wasn't surprised the jury took just five hours. "TTiey didn’t need to spend a lot of time looking at the dcKuments." he said. **A prison can omit $200 (in income) on their Lax return, but it's hard to miss $1 million.'* “They were innocent going in and thev are innocent coming out," said defense lawyer Ben Cotten. He said he was to blame for the guiltv ver dict, citing “my ineptitude and two very capable and competent gosern- ment counsel backed with umimited resources’* SIOUX CITV. Iowa (AP) — The United Airlines crew whti flew a DC- 10 tumbo jet with no hvdraulK con- irols went by the btHik until they ran out of standard prixedures and then improvised, the plane's pilot said I uesday. “We realized we had (more than just an engine failure." pilot Al C. Havnes said at his first publx com ment on the crash, a news confer ence. in Sioux City, where Flight 232 i rashed a week ago. “It was apparent to all of us we had lost all of our hy draulic fluid." Havnes. co-pilot William R Re cords, (light engineer Dudley Dvo rak and oil-duty United pilot Denny Fitch brought the plane down at Sioux Gateway Airport, where it * rashed. flipped, broke apart and burst into flames Of the 296 pa**^p gets and crew, 185 survived and 111 were killed. Haynes said the crew never con- templated not making it to the air port. “We were just going to go in and land, and that's what we tried to do." he said. “How could we operate if we didn’t believe that?*’ He would not discuss the cause or technical details of the crash because the National Transportation Saletv Board is still investigating Investigators searched corn and soybean fields about 60 miles from the airport again Tuesday fot im portant pieces of the DC-lO’s No. 2 engine, tne tail-mounted engine that apparently blew apart and severed lines of all three hydraulic systems Those hydraulic systems allow pi lots to set key wing and tail panels that control the aircraft’s altitude and direction. Without them, the pilot has little control over the airplane other than his throttles. Meanwhile, in Washington. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner said Tuesday (hat nothing about the crash indicates that other DC-10s are unsafe or that anything more now noetic to he done to make them safer. He defended a declaration bv new Federal Aviation Administration head James Busey that the DC-10 is a safe aircraft even though the cause of the crash has not been deter mined. 6 Friendship’ motto receives more criticism; Richards says slogan too ‘wimpy’ for Texas AUSTIN (AP) — T he plan by state highway officials to emblazon “The Friendship J»tate“ on Texas auto li cense plates is getting more heat, with the latest blast coming Tuesday from a gubernatorial candidate. “It’s wimpy." said Democratic state I reasurer Ann Richards, wno (oined the chorus of opponents speaking up since last week's vote by the State fiighwav and Pub lic Transportation Commission. “When I first saw it, I thought. ‘Well, why ivould we want to do that?' " Richards said “Obviously, it's not an earth-shattering decision. But I think 'The Lone Star State' has served us well." I be new slogan has generated hundreds of phone calls from Texans outraged over the idea, many of whom have suggested trplacing the current sloganless plates with those bearing the “Lone Star" nickname. Attorney (general Jim Mattox, who's also expected to seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, had a different idea. “Let’s have all the daily newspapers around the state run ballots that the public can fill out and mail in." he said, adding that the ballots could offer several options for the slogan "That way. we wouldn’t have to go through an ex pensive ballot proposition of having the public actually vote on the matter, but the people would have the dec i- sion-making in their hands." Mattox said Richards said she agrees with those who say “friendship" is too generic a term for Texas, where the tough “Don't Mess With Texas" anti-httenng slogan has proven so popular. -« "I think the reason the don't mess with Texas thing has been so successful is that it sort of conunues that image that we're great, we’re wonderful, we tfiink we are, she said. "The friendlv state — you could put that on Kansas. Ohio .. Two former PTL aides convicted of tax evasion