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Leland, others remain missing
in Ethiopia as of Tuesday night
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) —Police and
farmers with flashlights searched a remote
| mountain area Tuesclay night for the missing
plane carrying Rep. Mickey Leland and 13 other
people.
John Guerra, political officer at the U.S. Em-
| bassy in Addis Ababa, said the search was con
ducted on foot and with the aid of jeeps, trucks
and other vehicles. The aerial search was sus
pended at dusk Tuesday.
Embassy officials said several planes remained
| on dirt airstrips in the desolate area of southwes-
| tern Ethiopia, ready to resume the search at
dawn.
The twin-engine plane carrying Leland and
the other disappeared Monday on its way to the
Fugnido refugee camp near the border with Su
dan, 480 miles southwest of Addis Ababa.
The 44-year-old Houston Democrat is chair
man of the House Select Committee on Hunger
and he has taken a keen interest in Africa’s refu
gee problem.
Aboard the plane with him were eight other
Americans and five Ethiopians. His office in
Washington said the Americans included Patrice
Johnson, Leland’s chief of staff; Hugh Johnsoh
of the Hunger committee staff, and Joyce F. Wil
liams from the staff of Rep. Ron Dellums, D-
Calif.
President Bush said he telephoned Leland’s
wife, Alison, in Houston to express his concern
and promise his administration will do “all we
can to learn” what has happened.
“She’s strong, has a lot of hope, and we all pray
that he’s safe,” But told a meeting of the National
Urban League in Washington, where delegates
observed a moment of silent prayer for Leland’s
survival.
“I think it says a lot about Mickey that he was
on his sixth humanitarian mission to help feed
the hungry in that part of the world,” Bush told
the meeting.
State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said Ethiopia’s government has asked
for a “specialized search plane” and that the
United States is trying to find one to accommo
date them.
“We have offered to assist in every way we
can,” Boucher said.
Heavy clouds and poor visibility hampered ae
rial sweeps Tuesday as rescue planes criss
crossed the cold, windswept plateau in Ethiopia
until sunset.
Robert Houdek, U.S. charge d’affaires in Ad
dis Ababa, said searchers were encouraged by re
ports that a small plane was sighted Monday cir
cling a field at Dembidola, 75 miles from the
refugee camp.
“If it was our plane, what we find encouraging
is that it would have traversed a lot of the more
treacherous terrain to Fugnido,” Houdek said.
He said Dembidola is in an inaccessible region far
from communications points, “which could pro
vide a benign explanation for why we haven’t
heard anything.”
“They could be sitting in the bush with the
plane not capable of taking off but in good shape
waiting for search and rescue,” Houdek said.
At a briefing in Washington, Leland press sec
retary Alma Newsom also was hopeful.
“At this point no news is good news,” she said,
recalling being on similar trips with the congress
man where air travel and communications were
disrupted.
‘Never give in’ spirit keeps student
alive in memories of friends, faculty
By Kelly S. Brown
SENIOR STAFF WRITER
Many students and faculty will re
member John Stone, Class of’84, for
the “never give in” attitude which he
used to fight a rare enzyme defi
ciency that cost him three livers, his
spleen, and eventually his life.
Stone, a former Corps of Cadets
member, died July 29 at Baylor Uni
versity Medical Center in Dallas,
where he had been hospitalized
since receiving the first of three liver
transplants in December 1987.
In the months before Stone’s
transplant, money was raised on
campus and around the community
for his surgery. Those who couldn’t
contribute in monetary terms gave
of themselves; more than 900 units
of blood were donated by Aggies to
the Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.
In a May 1988 issue of The Battal
ion, John’s mother, Marion Stone,
spoke of the devout love her son had
for Texas A&M and for practicing
medicine.
Stone, who completed the 1986-
87 school year at the University of
Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,
wanted to set up a medical practice
in Bryan-College Station when he
finished school.
Ironically, Stone wanted his
health to stabilize so he could go on
to save lives. He knew his own battle
was going to be long, but he was will
ing to fight.
Stone had Alpha-1-AntiTrypsin
Deficiency, a disease that kept his
body from controlling digestive en
zymes and resulted in cirrhosis of
the liver. After his original liver was
destroyed , the medical battle began.
In December 1987, his first trans
planted liver became infected and
was replaced with a second liver 37
days later. After 11 days, the second
liver was replaced because it was
bleeding. His third liver was re
ceived on Jan. 17, 1988. His spleen
was removed after the last transplant
to increase his white blood cell
count.
Stone remained in the hospital
with complications from the trans
plants until his death.
Donations may be made to the
John T. Stone Memorial Fund for
Genetic Research. Checks may be,
sent in care of Dr. Alice O’Donnell at
the UT Medical Branch, 415 Texas
Ave., Galveston, TX 77550.
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Just do it
Running back David Drapela, a freshman from Kerrville
Tivy, leads a group of players through a drill Tuesday af
ternoon at Kyle Field. Tuesday was the first day of workouts
for freshmen and walk-ons. Veterans start practice Monday.
Sam Houston official
gives A&M group tips
to limit spread of AIDS
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
Texas A&M is no different from
any other college — it has a killer on
its campus waiting to strike at unsus
pecting students.
That ‘killer’ is acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, and it’s a dis
ease that can be prevented only
through education and protection,
Director of Medical Services for Sam
Houston State University Joe Burt
said Tuesday.
Burt, Class of ’61, told a group of
the A&M System Association of Pro
fessional Support Staff that the only
sure protection from contracting the
AIDS virus is abstinence from sex.
Unfortunately, he said, few college
students are willing to practice that.
What makes the disease so dan
gerous, Burt said, is the time of dor
mancy of the virus varies according
to the immune systems of those in
fected.
“The bad thing about AIDS is that
until you go full-blown, there are no
signals or symptoms,” Burt said.
“You don’t know if you have AIDS.
The hospital doesn’t know if you
have AIDS. No one knows you have
AIDS. Yet every person you have
sexual contact with, you expose to
the virus.”
He said some of the symptoms of
full-blown AIDS are glandular
sweating, heavy sweating at night,
and massive weight and hair loss.
Burt, who has been involved in
AIDS research and is the health edu
cation director for AIDS at Sam
Houston, said a person can transmit
the disease twelve hours after they
are infected.
However, sometimes a person
who has the virus will be tested neg
ative for AIDS because the antibo
dies are not yet present. It takes six
to 12 weeks for the presence of
AIDS antibodies to appear in AIDS
testing.
A positive test indicates the pres
ence of AIDS antibodies, which
means the person tested has been
exposed to the virus. However, it
doesn’t mean the person has the dis
ease. They are carriers and can
transmit the disease to others.
Burt said Houston, which is ap
proximately 80 miles from Bryan-
College Station, ranks fourth nation
ally in the number of AIDS patients
behind New York City, San Fran-
sisco and Washington D.C.
“There are more AIDS patients in
Houston today than in 45 of our
states combined. Every 12 hours a
person there is tested for HIV posi
tive. Every 17 hours, there’s a
death.”
AIDS, an affliction in which a vi
rus attacks the body’s immune sys
tem and destroys the body’s white
blood T-cells, leaves victims suscepti
ble to a variety of infections and can
cers. Burt said AIDS, patients most
often die of pneumonia.
The disease can only he trans
mitted through sexual intercourse,
transfusions of blood or blood prod
ucts and the sharing of contami
nated hypodermic needles or sy
ringes. It can also be passed from
mother to child at or before birth.
See AIDS/Page 6
John Tate, Class of ’85 and owner of Hullaballoo Custom
Screen Printing in College Station, stands next to the T-
shirts he intended to sell at the 1987 Cotton Bowl game.
Former student sues
firm for confiscating
Cotton Bowl T-shirts
By Timothy J. Hammons
CORRESPONDENT
A former student of Texas
A&M is taking a Dallas company
to court over the right to sell T-
shirts at the Cotton Bowl.
John Tate, of J.T. Enterprises,
owner of Hullabaloo Custom
Screen Printing in College Sta
tion, has filed a suit asking for
more than $1 million in damages
and punitive damages against Ed
Campbell of Campbell Services
for confiscating goods before
both the 1987 and 1988 Cotton
Bowl games.
Tate said he had planned to
sell the T-shirts before the games,
but was unable to because off-
duty police officers confiscated
the goods. The police officers
had been hired by Campbell, and
Tate claims they were hired for
the purpose of confiscating his
merchandise.
D. Bradley Dickinson, Camp
bell’s attorney, said Campbell has
exclusive rights to sell concessions
on the Cotton Bowl fair grounds.
He said Campbell hired off-duty
police officers to maintain crowd
control, which is a stipulation of
his contract.
“Tate did not have the proper
license to sell the shirts,” Dickin
son said. “The officers have the
option to place the goods in stor
age or make arrests.”
Tate rented a buildingjust out
side of the fair grounds for the
1987 Cotton Bowl game between
A&M and Ohio State to sell the
T-shirts. That year and the fol
lowing year the merchandise was
confiscated.
“The first year (the police)
seized the shirts and stored them
in Campbell’s warehouse,” Tate
said. “They gave the shirts back to
us the next day, but by then it was
. too late.” > Y
Campbell said Tate did not
have the proper licenses and the
officers took the merchandise
with the consent of Tate.
“I didn’t instruct the police of
ficers to take the stuff,” Campbell
said. “Most of the time, they just
tell (the vendors) to leave. The of
ficers did this on their own
accord. I told them I didn’t want
anyone arrested.”
Campbell said he knows the
laws and if everyone could set up
to sell T-shirts, the place would be
surrounded by vendors.
Tate said the officers gave him
no choice in the matter and seized
the shirts. He said the officers
never issued him a citation for
operating without the proper li
censes.
John C. Hampton, Tate’s attor
ney, said they had the required li
censes for selling the shirts. He
said they also were covered by the
occupancy permit of the hotel
and parking lot where they were
selling the shirts. They also had
the required sales tax permit.
“We called the City of Dallas
before the event, to make sure we
didn’t need any city permits, and
they said we didn’t need any,”
Hampton said. “We had all the li
censes we needed.”
Tate is suing for $107,000 in
damages and 10 times that
amount in punitive damages.
Space shuttle Columbia blasts
into orbit to launch spy satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)
— Columbia rejoined NASA’s fleet
of active space shuttles Tuesday,
blasting into orbit with five astro
nauts to put a 10-ton spy satellite on
a path over the Soviet Union, China
and the Middle East.
Columbia, the oldest shuttle, had
been grounded for 3.5 years while it
was stripped and overhauled from
its toilet system to its outer skin. Its
performance during the countdown
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and at liftoff was as trouble-free as
any of the previous 29 shuttle
flights.
“As good as new,” Bob Sieck, the
launch director, said. “It’s going to
be a gem of a vehicle.”
The Air Force, which booked the
entire five-day flight from the civil
ian space agency, said nothing about
the cargo in the shuttle’s 60-foot-
long hold. Neither did NASA, which
shut down its public announcement
network, except for periodic “all’s
well” reports.
The mission is expected to end
Sunday with a landing at Edwards
Air Force Base in California about
9:30 a.m. CDT.
The shuttle’s path, almost perpen
dicular from its seaside launch pad,
was a confirmation of pre-launch re
ports that it would travel on a north-
northeast course instead of heading
eastward.
The resulting high-latitude orbit
takes it over Poland, the Soviet
Union, Mongolia, China, and parts
of the Middle East not normally cov
ered by eastward-bound shuttles.
The satellite is designed to take
highly detailed photographs of
troop movements, military installa
tions and other targets of interest.
Sources close to the program said
the satellite can make small adjust
ments to its orbit, a flexibility that
would enable it to respond to chang
ing conditions on the ground.
The cargo bay reportedly holds a
package of scientific instruments for
military research, possibly for the
“Star Wars” missile defense project.
Columbia, a veteran of seven
flights, ended its last mission in Jan
uary 1986, 10 days before the Chal
lenger exploded with a loss of seven
lives.
“Any time a vehicle is down for a
long period of time it’s a little worri
some,” said J.R. Thompson, deput
administrator of the National Aer<
nautics and Space Administratio
“There were really no problems
any significance. The weather V
good to us.”
Columbia’s return restored
shuttle fleet to three ships. Atlar? j
scheduled next for launch or
12, carrying the Galileo prof
piter, and Discovery is sche
another military mission
her.