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ADULT SKIN INFECTION STUDY
Individuals age 13 and older wanted to participate in a research study
for bacterial skin infections such as infected wounds, earlobes, infected
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CHILDREN S SKIN INFECTION STUDY
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Tuesday, September 8,1992
The Battalion
War deprives baby
of life's necessities
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina — No one will ever know
what kind of chances Alija Catic's
baby might have had in peace
time. But in war, she's fighting for
her life.
For two weeks,Adelaida, born
prematurely at Sarajevo's main
Kosevo hospital, has been in a
ward with no water or electricity,
in an incubator that sometimes
runs short of oxygen.
Such shortages are becoming
so serious that they relegated the
crash of shells around the hospital
on Monday to mere background
noise. As winter approaches, they
could bring Sarajevo to its knees.
"I'm not letting her die," Catic
said of the tiny, wizened baby
wrapped in cloth napkins in a ma
ternity-ward room lit only by can
dles.
"She's had two crises, but both
times she's made it through," said
Catic. "I'm hear her. I touch her.
She can feel me. She's got to
fight."
Catic, a nurse at Kosevo, gave
birth Aug. 16. Her contractions
began after a night of heavy
shelling on her apartment build
ing in the hard-hit Dobrinja sub
urb. A truck driver braved shells
and snipers to rush her to the hos
pital, where Adelaida was born
nearly three months early.
Since then, the infant's weight
has dropped from 32 ounces to 27
ounces. And the war raging out
side for five months now is hardly
helping her chances.
The Bosnian government
claims that on Aug. 29, Serb mili
tiamen cut Sarajevo's last avail
able 2 megawatts of power — 1
percent of the city's normal pre
war consumption. Since then,
Adelaida has had to share an in
cubator.
Food shortages are a worry
too, especially since the humani
tarian airlift has been suspended
after last week's crash of an Ital
ian relief plane. In Geneva, a
spokeswoman for the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees, Syl-
vana Foa, said Monday that food
stockpiles in Sarajevo could run
out within three days.
Water has also become a
weapon in the struggle for Saraje
vo. Serb forces are accused of cut
ting power on Saturday to pumps
serving the Bacevo reservoir, the
city's biggest water supply.
By Monday, water flowed
again from some Sarajevo taps,
but the main hospitals still went
without.
One baby born at Kosevo could
not be washed. Instead he was
merely wined with cloth.
Capt. Damien McKeown, a
Royal Brihsh Engineer trying the
help to restore the basic utilities,
refused to lay blame for the short
ages.
"If we did that, we wouldn't
get anywhere," he said.
Crews escorted by U.N. peace
keepers have come under mortar
fire during repair operations. On
Saturday, 15 minutes after a
switching station was repaired, it
was shelled again.
Over the weekend, Ogrevtrans,
Sarajevo's biggest coal and wood
supplier, sold the last stocks from
its warehouse.
"If it stays empty, then all the
forests around Sarajevo will dis
appear," said Ljuca Rehim, the
company's 29-year-old general
manager.
Communist leader quits,
hostile forces gain power
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — The hard-line Communist president,
Rakhmon Nabiyev, resigned Monday after armed anti-government
militants stopped him at the airport and prevented him from leav
ing the Tajik capital.
Two presidential bodyguards were injured as Nabiyev was de
tained. Nabiyev was the third president of a former Soviet repub&c
to be toppled in the tumult following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet
government.
The Georgian and Azerbaijani presidents also were ousted amid
civil strife.
The resignation came a week after armed opponents seized the
presidential palace, forcing Nabiyev into hiding and taking more
than 40 hostages, who were later freed. Days later, Nabiyev's Cabi
net and leaders of the Supreme Soviet legislature approved a vote
of no-confidence in his government.
He faced growing opposition from a coalition of former Com
munists, the liberal Democratic Party, the Islamic Revival Party
and Rastekhez, or Renewal, a nationalist people's front. They said
he did not move fast enough to introduce political and religious
freedoms and end civil strife.
Nabiyev, 61, said that he decided to resign in order to end a civil
war in the poorest former Soviet republic, a mostly Muslim country
of 5.3 million people bordering China and Afghanistan.
Tajik television showed the white-haired Nabiyev at the VIP
lounge of Dushanbe airport, wearing a gray suit and brown tie and
surrounded by 15 senior government and legislative leaders as he
signed a document. He then said in a calm voice: "I'm submitting
my resignation."
He passed his powers to parliament speaker Akbarshah Iskan
derov, in accordance with the constitution.
"Taking into account the political situation, and in order to sta
bilize it and stop the fratricidal war, I decided to relinquish my
powers as president," he said. His statement was later broadcast on
television throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Nabiyev also foreswore any "provocation or intrigues" in Tajik
politics, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
The Cabinet voted to give Nabiyev a pension along with the
home in which he lives, and to provide bodyguards. Nabiyev' and a
group of lawmakers had gone to the Dushanbe airport to fly to his
native Khuzhand, in northern Tajikistan, to meet with other pro-
Nabiyev lawmakers boycotting the legislature.
They were detained in the VTP lounge by militants who identi
fied themselves as "the youth of Dushanbe," the group which last
week occupied the palace and took officials hostage, Interfax said.
They released the last of the hostages on Thursday and left the
complex without incident on Saturday.
Election-year politics makes Congress nervous
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — A restive Congress will
have to cope with election-year jitters and a
more combative President Bush when it re
turns this week to wrap up its legislative busi
ness for the year.
Crucial decisions on taxes, spending and
family issues await lawmakers whose atten
tion will be diverted by the onrushing fall elec
tion campaign.
President Bush, accepting the Republican
Party's nomination for another term, served
notice last month that "if Congress sends me a
bill spending more than I asked in my budget,
I will veto it fast."
At least two other veto showdowns are like
ly — on legislation to make employers provide
unpaid leave for family emergencies and to
impose trade restrictions on China. The 102nd
Congress so far has failed to override any of
some 30 Bush vetoes.
Beyond the normal political tensions, law
makers are nervous about special counsel Mal
colm Wilkey's probe of the House bank scan
dal. Wilkey is nearing an end to the initial
phase of his review of members' check over
drafts.
Majority" Democrats in Congress will get an
early opportunity to challenge Bush when the
House on Wednesday takes up the family
leave bill. This measure would require compa
nies with 50 or more employees to provide up
to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a childbirth or
medical emergency.The Senate passed the bill
just before Congress recessed for the GOP con
vention last month — but only after several
Republicans insisted on a voice vote so the;
could not be recorded individually.
Bush vetoed a nearly identical bill two years
ago as a hidden tax on business, and House
Republicans helped sustain it for him. The
White House is counting on them to do the
same again. ' ’
Leaders in both parties thought they had
avoided another tax brawl in August when the
latest attempt to enact Bush's proposed cutsin
capital gains tax rates garnered only 37 Senate
votes as part of an urban aid bill.
But that was before the Republican conven
tion, where Bush said he would seek across-
the-board tax cuts accompanied by equal re
ductions in government spending — without
specifying where — in a second term.
Truman legacy part of presidential race
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
George Bush and Bill Clinton
opened their fall campaigns Mon
day promising prosperity and
fighting to claim Harry Truman's
legacy of plain talk and presiden
tial leadership.
Presenting voters in key Mid
western states with what Democ
rat Clinton described as "the
clearest choice in a generation,"
each man offered himself as the
best hope for the future and derid
ed the other's claims of common
ground with Truman.
The traditional Labor Day cam
paign launch hardly seemed like a
beginning. "I think the American
people feel this one's been going
on about 10 months too long,"
Bush told Republicans at a picnic
in Waukesha, Wis.
The president paid tribute to
"all who punch the time clock,
pay the bills, sweat it out at tax
time." And he said his top priority
in a second term would be to
build economic security for them.
Clinton, in Truman's home
town of Independence, Mo., said
Truman would "always be re
membered as the working peo
ple's president" and pledged to
match the opportunity, security
and dignity he said the Democrat
had given workers.
The candidates go into the final
50-odd days of the race with Clin
ton leading in national polls, eco
nomic indicators sagging and vot
ers overwhelmingly unhappy
about the direction of the country.
Bush's uphill task was under
scored by a pink bed sheet held
aloft at the Waukesha fairgrounds.
"Hey George," the sheet said.
"This pink slip's for you."
The president started his day
with a chilly dawn walk across the
Mackinac Bridge connecting
Michigan's upper and lower
peninsulas.
He headed for Detroit after the
Wisconsin picnic.
Clinton was speaking in Ohio
and Connecticut after a rain-
soaked rally in Independence.
Truman has been the third man
in the race almost since Ross Perot
abandoned that role in July. Both
candidates have invoked Tru
man's name frequently, Bush so
often that Margaret Truman
Daniel, the late president's daugh
ter, was moved to write a newspa
per column in protest.
Competition for the reservoir
of good feeling that Truman ap
parently has left behind reached
new heights Monday. Clinton, the
governor of Arkansas, pictured
himself a can-do, Truman-style
populist as he stood before a Tru
man statue in Independence. Less
than an hour earlier in Waukesha,
Republican Bush was saying that
while he hadn't voted for Truman
in 1948, he had a lot in common
with him.
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The Film Society of Texas A&M
- EPIC FILM SERIES PRESENTS -
The 50th Anniversary of
CASABLANCA
starring: Humphrey Bogart
Thursday @ 7:00 & 9:00PM
Presented in Rudder Auditorium
Tickets are $2.50
Next Week: Alternative Film Series presents FalLing From
Grace and the Blockbuster Series presents Wayne's World.
Clinton's past friend
reports on draft status
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At the
height of the Vietnam War, two
bright young men from small
town Arkansas win coveted
scholarships to Oxford Universi
ty. Each manages to avoid mili
tary service.
A quarter-century later, their
friendship long since dissolved in
bitterness, one of them is running
for president; the other would
like to stop him. Cliff Jackson is
an insistent voice from Bill Clin
ton's past who says he helped the
now-Democratic presidential
nominee avoid military service
during the Vietnam War.
Jackson was active in the
Arkansas Republican Party years
ago but says that when he was
approached recently by GOP offi
cials he declined to discuss the
draft controversy with them. Still,
he has discussed it with the news
media.
Jackson himself had been ex
cused from the draft for "minor
health reasons," including aller
gies. "I always felt a little guilty
that maybe a doctor had mercy
on me,"he says. "Maybe that's
why I helped Bill."
The Little Rock attorney has
provided news organizations
with information about Clinton's
draft status, some of it contained
in letters he wrote 23 years ago
while he was helping Clinton
stay in school. The question of
military service has dogged Clin
ton throughout the campaign.
Responding to questions based
on Jackson's information, he ac
knowledged that he received a
draft notice, explaining that it ar
rived at Oxford in 1969 after the
induction date had passed. He
will not say whether he still has
the notice that would confirm the
dates in his account.
The story of Clinton's relation
ship with Jackson begins at Ox
ford University in 1969.
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