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iled abo: ’field sail s into \\i timate f workfe 'rnmen!: keeps th arms i[S ntentiorc Page 11 Until we build a completely perfect nation and world, we need to think of other solutions like safe sex ... and more Independent education.” -columnist Tanya Williams on self education on HIV, AIDS Unseasonably warm and chance of rain through Saturday. Highs near 80. iot deci T1S tO/t; t in Chi!: egion, k' policy, >: to sell Sections Vol.91 No. 55 The Battafion y- ies area;- )m fute ot use fe esignatec jpportm lering a: not fout: 'aline wit s said. J.S. are it' ons, but* " he saic the oth :h of the: ilitary pi: U.S. the he sales:: College Station, Texas “Serving Texas A&M since 1893” 12 Pages Friday, November 15, 1991 Proposal expands AIDS definition !tt agree: d to ere;: / for am 'duce th hsused. ive majc the US md theS: ly reache: d establi: ales. eementr lines th: rms sate supplie: nons we: legitima:: e. Cave d to avo:: crease te is or cot ^ress >bill -ABC inf: w, he saii n a rece places an ding." ru've bee: is a goe: ephonet; r Bob Do!: y Leade: I think it; enthuste od in then presided one, too, ro mas, E villingnef dent tore i he think me unpof y Leade ne said.' on his re ATLANTA (AP) — The num ber of U.S. AIDS cases could near ly double under a federal proposal Thursday that would expand the definition of the disease to include V 0,000 people infected but not yet fcriously ill. The case count stands at 195,718, but 1 million more Ameri cans are believed to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes the disease. Health officials estimate lo0,000 of those, many of whom don't know they're infected, would fall under the new defini- tion. AIDS activists said the expand ed definition would make more people qualify for disability pay ments, but warned that more offi cially recognized AIDS patients could mean a bigger battle for treatment resources. | The current definition, adopt U.S. Center for Disease Control wants count to include persons with severe HIV ed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 1987, is based on condi tions that prey on HIV-infected people, such as a rare pneumonia and a rare skin cancer. The proposal goes out Friday for comment from health experts. The CDC hopes to release its final version in January, with state and local health officials using it to re port AIDS cases by April. The new definition would add patients who aren't necessarily sick, but whose immune systems are already under severe attack by the virus. ''We recognized that the cur rent definition was missing people who had severe HIV disease/' said Dr. John Ward, reporting and analysis chief at the CDC's Divi sion of HIV and AIDS. "To get a more accurate repre sentation of the total population of severely infected people, we're adding this immunologic criteria to the case definition." The new definition will mean thousands more AIDS patients will qualify for disability, either from their jobs or with Medicaid, said Peter Uitdenbosch, treasurer of the National Association of Peo ple With AIDS. That could mean even more of a battle for treatment dollars. "What the government is try ing to create in this case is people who have the disease fighting among each other, all fighting to the last dollar," Uitdenbosch said. "People declared with full-blown AIDS ... can go on disability, which is automatic for Medicaid. And there are no more dollars available." Ward said the new definition is driven in part by the cases of people already under treatment for HIV but not included among AIDS patients. Doctors can now treat infected people with drugs such as AZT to try to delay illness. "They (the newly recognized patients) are out there already," he said. "Part of the job of a surveillance system is to identify how great a burden is on the health care system; we were un der-representing that with the cur rent definition." Inquiries for HIV information decline By Jayme Blaschke The Battalion HIV awareness, heightened by Magic Johnson's announce ment last week that he had contracted the virus, is subsid ing in the Bryan-College Sta tion area, say officials with lo cal health centers. Andrea Beshara with the health education division of A.P. Beutel Health Center at Texas A&M, said Thursday that although many students called after Johnson made his announcement, the phone has been ringing less and less over the past several days. "There have been calls, but it isn't a flood it's more like a trickle," she said. "The calls we have gotten have been mostly the same questions: What is it (HIV), how is it transmitted and what can be done about it?" Beth Horner, infection con trol nurse at Humana Hospital, said her office has also noticed a decline in the number of calls. "We had an increase of See Calls/Page 4 1 ' h' M - iik ,' IE 1 _ : ; iiSi ll ||i! f ^ || SSL ... /Pit I- . : $ J r ■*; ^ ° tt * * * iiSPraTr - , ■ •- 'A * $ % Mi-(mmmm - S- ^ t n 1 ^ V l| ; .• :r.-. ... t ! ' A : — md t-% s % - : ;>• . : . . ' ,> ./ '■ i ^ x I. ;■ ’ ^..—I. EAT DIRT! Chad Bradley, a freshman electrical engineering major from Odessa, struggles to do one more push-up Wednesday during a JAY JANNER/The Battalion two minute drill at Spence Park. The drill was part of a training test all Army ROTC members must take twice each semester. igressiow as reache: ned out ft :epped-i>l loans tk asure. ide six/ enefits fa to deplet' ; ge ever rout work ctra covet; . how bal 3a state. esented < session E 3$ tried less get' ms of led no -v' coverap A&M conference examines Remedy for recession free trade in North America Authorities blame Libyans U.S., British indict two in '88 bombing of Pan Am 103, threaten use of force WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Libyan intelligence agents were charged Thursday by U.S. and British authorities with planting the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 peo ple. Bush administration officials said high-ranking Libyan officials were deeply involved in the plot and left open the possibility of ac tion against the Moammar Gad- hafi government. "We find it very hard to be lieve this could have been carried out without the active involve ment of higher ups within the government," White H6use spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. The indictment of the two agents returned here by a federal grand jury and the British charges capped what FBI Director William S. Sessions called "the largest in ternational terrorist investigation ever conducted." The charges against the agents of Jamahirya Security Organiza tion, the Libyan inteJligence ser vice, were announced simultane ously in Washington by Acting Attorney General William P. Barr and in Edinburgh by Scotland's Lord Advocate, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie. The Dec. 21, 1988 bomb blast killed all 259 people aboard the New York-bound Boeing 747 plus 11 people on the ground when de bris from the explosion fell on Lockerbie, Scotland, and the sur rounding countryside. See U.S./Page 6 By John Lose The Battalion Texas A&M will host an inter national conference on free trade Monday and Tuesday, which will examine the implications of a pending free trade agreement be tween the United States, Mexico and Canada. The academic conference, ti- tled "North American Free Trade: Public and Private Partnership," will feature speakers from the business, government and aca demic sectors from each of the three countries involved. "This is a very timely confer ence," said Dr. Julian Caspar, di rector of research for A&M's Cen ter for International Business. "The free trade agreement may be one of the most important devel opments in free trade this decade with significant impact for Texas." See Conference/Page 3 Experts say solution lies within work force By Greg Mt.Joy The Battalion The cure for U.S. economic woes could be found within the nation's work force, Texas A&M manage ment experts say. Dr. Michael Hitt, a professor of management, and Dr. Jay Barney, an associate professor of manage ment, agree human resource management may not help with current symptoms like the recession, but could eventually save the faltering U.S. economy. Hitt said in the long run the outlook for American firms is positive. "I am optimistic about the potential of many American firms," Hitt said. "One major resource of firms is its people. The human element is one of the prime competitive weapons firms can use, but it real ly hasn't been utilized." He said the road to recovery, however, will be a time-consuming one. "It took us a long time to get into this mess," he said. "There is no short-term answer." Barney, who spoke on a panel with Hitt at a man- See Professor/Page 12 nave Tie fits k T nextAf - the exfa Colonel visits A&M as consultant for Corps By Karen Praslicka T7?e Battalion A colonel from the U.S. Military Acade my who recently visited Texas A&M was invited to the University as a consultant on discrimination and harassment against women in the Corps of Cadets , not as an in vestigator, said Corps Commandant Maj. Gen. Thomas Darling. Lt. Col. Robert McDannell, chief leader of the development branch of the U.S. Corps of Cadets, spent two days at the Uni versity at the end of October to learn about A&M and the Corps. "I tried to get a sense of what A&M and the Corps is all about," he said. McDannell said he is not sure what he might recommend to A&M, because he still does not know enough about A&M and the University's oldest organization. "I only spent a couple of days there," he said. "I'm not sure at this stage if I need to make any recommendations. I don't know enough to make any recommendations." McDannell said he spent most of his time in the Quadrangle talking to cadets while he was at A&M. He also met with Corps officials and was introduced to several University ad ministrators. McDannell said he hopes to return to A&M, and that West Point and the Univer sity will continue communication. "I'd like to come back," he said. "I en joyed the hospitality and was impressed by the cadets." "I hope this is the beginning of a long term relationship." Darling said McDannell's visit to A&M was helpful. See Commandant/Page 6 Band to honor ex-director Saturday Texas A&M’s Aggie Band will dedicate its drill field on Saturday in hon or of the former director who wrote many of their sig- nature marches for 16 years. Col. Haney br onze marker will be presented at the Joe T. Haney Drill Field by Class of ‘92 band members at 3:30 p.m. The Class of ‘92 was the last class Col. Haney directed before his retire ment in 1989. The drill field is be hind Dorm 11, Under wood and Appelt Halls. PICK UP A BATTALION GAMED AY TOMORROW