Tuesday, March 9,1993
The Battalion
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Armed men
Tubularman
By Boomer Cardinale
raid embassy
in Nicaragua
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica —
Three heavily armed men
stormed the Nicaraguan Embassy
on Monday and took 10 hostages,
including the Nicaraguan
ambassador, officials said.
The other hostages held with
Ambassador Alfonso Robelo were
believed to be mostly embassy
workers, police spokesman
Marino Donato said. Nineteen
people work in the embassy.
The motive for the attack was
not immediately known, officials
said.
Bijt Nicaraguan Foreign
Minister Ernesto Leal said the
attackers were politically
motivated. He did not elaborate.
Leal added that Nicaraguan
officials planned to negotiate with
the attackers.
A radio station said Security
Minister Luis Fishman spoke witn
the attackers, who asked for two
planes to leave Costa Rica.
Police had surrounded the
embassy, but Leal said they had
drawn back at the request of the
attackers.
Police said the men, armed
with AK-47 machine guns and
other heavy weapons, entered the
embassy about 3 p.m.
Angioplasty
kills women
more often,
study reports
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Women are 10
times more likely than men to die
in the hospital after undergoing
angioplasty, a procedure that uses
a tiny balloon to reopen clogged
heart arteries, a new study
indicates.
Of 2,134?. paints who
underwent the surgery during
1985 or 1986 at one of 16 medical
centers across the United States,
four of the 1,590 men and 14 of
the 546 women died without
leaving the hospital, the study
said. Twelve of the 14 women
who died during the procedure
were 65 or older, said the study,
published in the March issue of
Circulation, a scientific journal of
the Dallas-based American Heart
Association.
Angioplasty is one of two
popular techniques used to
restore blood supply to the
heart's muscle through the
coronary arteries.
It involves inserting a thin tube
with a tiny deflated balloon on its
tip into a vein or artery in the arm
and pushing until the tip reaches
a disease-narrowed artery. When
the balloon is inflated, the
narrowed segment of the artery is
dilated or widened.
The balloon procedure is done
to spare patients the trauma of
open-heart surgery, in which a
blood vessel from the leg or chest
is used to construct a detour
around the diseased part of a
coronary artery.
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don't believe there is any connection whatsoever."
Wilson said he believes the charges were politi
cally motivated and raised to discredit the agree
ments that were signed.
"Ever since the (presidential) election there has
been evidence that they would like to change
archivist," he said. "There was a strong feeling that
the election called for changes everywhere."
As Bush Library Center director, Wilson will be
involved in the library's construction and coordina
tion with the various components of A&M. He will
not handle the documents that will go into the li
brary which is expected to open in 1997.
The library's director will be appointed by the
next U.S. archivist when the library is completed,
Wilson said.
Wilson was nominated as U.S. archivist by Presi
dent Reagan in 1987. He also served as director of
the Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum in Ann Ar
bor and Grand Rapids, Mich, from 1981-1987 and as
deputy director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Li
brary in Abilene, Kan. from 1974-1978.
Wilson said he does not feel like he is taking a
step back from being U.S. archivist.
"I'm excited about being affiliated with A&M," he
said. "That's a better job than being archivist of the
United States any day in my book. It's a very excit
ing move for me plus the opportunity to teach and
do research."
Contrary to the belief that Wilson was hired by
George W. Bush Jr. and Dr. William Mobley, Texas
A&M University president, Wilson said Mobley and
Gage were the ones who did the hiring.
Dr. George Edwards, director of presidential
studies, was unavailable to comment on this story
until April.
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