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The Battalion Page 11 • Wednesday, August 25, 1998 ;ast m [edto eclassified documents ay be re-examined Fear of espionage fuels Congress'consideration of law AGO (AP) - ■cted women chance of im their moi ast-feed for two! mducted in (lit !' Malawi founii, tudy is the firs;« WASHINGTON (AP) — Box-by-box, sometimes hers with e-by-line, government record keepers have worked ong through t! j ^ p ast three years to declassify 600 million pages of as they breas!» cumen t s , opening doors to America’s secret past, re risk is higheriiM ^ 0W) because Washington fears that China got its ly mont hs, saidM nc ] s on y g nuc i ear secrets, these bleary-eyed de- )r. Paolo G. .\: ttjassifiers could face a daunting new task: Doing it Institute of A: X; n 5 Diseases. V Legislation headed for approval in Congress would re studies have aKjjj.g a n 0 f the documents to be re-examined to make eding transmi$si» re that sensitive details about the U.S. nuclear arsenal mt to 20 percerm not s ijp 0 ut of the government’s attic. -feeding is “This is all part of the frenzy about Chinese espi- or women wi'ikLge that is driving Washington crazy,” said Steven 'd States, wtaBftergood, who directs The Project on Government Se- s plentiful. H-ecy at the Federation of American Scientists. “The developing ciAjdea that they’re going to reread material that’s already irmula is sCd:.*Len declassified is preposterous. It will basically crip- ■alth OrganizJple the declassification program by driving it in cir- women bein' i des.” and make (hfl Present efforts to lift the veil of government secre- ■^are driven by an executive order President Clinton Pgned in 1995. I The order instructs federal agencies to open — by ; April 2000 — classified records that contain historical aterial and are more than 25 years old. Exceptions e narrowly defined. In the past three years, more than 600 million pages have been declassified. Subjects range from the Cold War to Vietnam, POWs to UFOs. Researchers are rewriting history with new information about the U.S.-Soviet arms race, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, a 1973 coup in Chile, covert action around the globe, and more. The public already can access 400 million pages that have been unsealed. Another 200 million pages are declassified, but are not yet on public shelves. Nearly 1 billion more pages still must be reviewed. Declassification was moving at a fast clip until last year when some lawmakers worried that nuclear se crets — still classified under the Atomic Energy Act — were not being properly protected. Sens. Jon Kyi, R- Ariz.; Richard Shelby, R-Ala. and Bob Smith, I-N.H., wrote to National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say ing that “in a frenzied attempt” to meet the April 2000 deadline, documents containing sensitive nuclear weapons information may have been released or were in danger of being released. Such concerns prompted Congress to pass a law last year requiring declassifiers to come up with a plan to scan documents, page-by-page, looking for nuclear material — unless the records were “highly unlikely” to contain such information. AGOIFLANPI C m a branch of Greater TEXAS Federal Credit Union Open a new account & receive 1 box of Custom Aggietand (IT'S) checks FREE! Plus, you’ll receive a maroon Aggieland Pulse Card, Aggieland checkbook cover and 1 dozen starter checks - all FREE! Unlimited Check: Writing, No Minimum Balance, and No Monthly Service Charge 201 Southwest Pkwy. E & 501 University Dr. W Offer expires 9/30/99 696-1440 mbsKidney, marrow transplant organ rejection rt because it col® oard membew pointed stars an: ed as such. On d the anti-gan d1 officials to Civil Libertiesi t down. BOSTON (AP) — A woman re- tCeived a new kidney along with a bone marrow transplant in a pio neering operation that doctors said . -fill spare her from having to take nui publtcae * an |i. re j ec p on drugs for the rest of :th memberso(n erlife J reconsider. J| x| ie bone marrow should make tid hewr it easier for her immune system to ■j «,,, Laccept the new kidney, doctors said. ? said. We are 1 Dr Thomas S pitzer, who as di- hebestpnncip<!| ectoro f t | 10 iv[ assac husetts Gener- al Hospital bone marrow transplant program participated in the opera tion, said the approach has promis- 1 ,J/ig ramifications for other trans- ;e dailp-t patients. « The operation was believed to be ericans. All the first time a patient received a t take insiifkidney and bone marrow transplant ?s a day, tob ■ in a single operation, according to sugar intoeiie| Spitzer and other experts. Spitzer ngs werepur ; reported on the case in yesterday’s s Journal of tiMssue of the journal Transplantation. I Association T The patient, a woman in her 50s studies have From the Boston area, was diag- data about (nosed w ith kidney failure about a tics have a hiw year ago. At the time, she learned ccidents became also had cancer of the bone in blood sugApnarrow — multiple myeloma — d his coliea-^that had caused the kidney failure, accident ratesf underwent surgery at Mass- nts. I achusetts General Hospital last Sep tember, receiving a new kidney and bone marrow from her sister to treat both the kidney failure and the bone marrow cancer. “It [the transplants] could benefit many patients who need transplants/' — Dr. Thomas Spitzer Director of transplant program Many transplant recipients must take strong drugs for the rest of their lives to suppress the immune system so it will not attack the new organ, which the patient’s body sees as a foreign invader. But these drugs leave patients vulnerable to severe infections and can cause oth er serious side effects. In the Boston patient, however, the infusion of bone marrow had the effect of blending her immune system with her sister’s. As a result. the new kidney was not entirely for eign to her body and she was bet ter able to accept it, Spitzer said. The woman took anti-rejection drugs for just 73 days. She now has completely normal kidney function and her bone marrow cancer is in remission, Spitzer said. Bone marrow transplants are not done solely to prevent organ rejec tion because they are invasive and carry risks, Spitzer said. But doctors might be able to achieve the same result by giving transplant patients enough stem cells, which are con tained in blood and bone marrow, he said. “If we can, by introducing a donor’s immune system — even at a very low level — create this kind of transplant tolerance, then it could benefit many patients who need transplants,” Spitzer said. “I think it is a very significant achievement that they were able to treat renal failure plus an underly ing bone marrow disease,” said Dr. Thomas E. Starzl, a professor of surgery at the University of Pitts burgh who pioneered liver trans plants in 1967 and was not involved in this operation. 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