Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1981-01-11

              73rd Year No. 100 Good Morning! It's Sunday, January 11, 1981 4 Sections 54 Pages 50 Cents
Influenza expected soon
as students return to area
ByJohnHartman
Missourian staff writer
Brace yourself, Columbia: The flu is headed
this way.
" It may well be here now, if not now, then
next week," said Mike Sanfong director of the
Boone County Health Unit
There have been reports of flu- li- ke illnesses in
the area, he said, but there have been no con-firmed
cases of flu. '
A St Louis man died Wednesday from a con-firmed
case of A- Bang-kok
flu, according to Dr.
Arthur Liang, service officer from the national
Center for Disease Control, which monitors Mis-souri.
Liang said three cases were confirmed
Friday in Kansas City.
Officials at the center reported Friday that A- Bang-kok,
previously unreported in Missouri,
has reached epidemic proportions in Massachu-setts,
Alaska, Montana and New York, with out--
breaks in 13 other states.
Columbia could be particularly vulnerable be-cause
the students returning to area colleges
could bring the flu with them, Sanf ord said.
Influenza is difficult to stop once it starts to
spread among a population, and it can spread
rapidly in a university environment, Liang said.
The difficulty is componded, he said, because
people can carry and spread the disease.
There is a vaccine available, and people vac-cinated
last fall should be safe, Sanford said. A
flu shot now would be futile, he said, because
the body needs two to four weeks after the vac-cination
to build immunity.
According to Liang, A- Bang- kok influenza isn't
more virulent than other strains, and healthy
unvaccinated people should not worry about be-coming
seriously ill form it " We're not pushing
the vaccine to the average citizen," Liang said,
adding that the vaccine is appropriate for the ill
or elderly, if it is taken before the flu arrives. j
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sweet home
Kevin Morley, left, talks with
Matt Swanson in his temporary
living quarters in a Hudson
Hall lounge. Morley, of Rich-mond,
Va., and 1C others are
living for now in Hudson's sec-ond,
third and fourth floor
lounges because of a shortage
of rooms. Ironically, most,
dorms are vacant now, but the
situation is changing fast vriSr
the return of students for Mon-day
classes. Meanwhile, Mor-ley
and his cohorts are waiting
to see whether rooms will be-come
available. For now, three
other students are getting by in
Morley's lounge. " Tftere are
bunk beds set up but there are
only three desks so aS of us
can't study at once if we need
to," he said.
CtefcGctenl
Senate panel will subpoena
Nixon- Hai- g tape summaries
ByAdamClymer t New York Times
WASHINGTON In a compromise that all
but assured the prompt confirmation of Alex-ander
M. Haig Jr. as secretary of state, the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed
Saturday to subpoena logs summarizing 100
hours of tapes of 1973 conversations between
Haig and President Nixon.
The logs were sought so they could be
checked to see if the tapes themselves were
needed to judge Haig's qualifications. Com-mittee
Democrats agreed that a Senate vote
on Haig's nomination should not be put off if
there was a delay in obtaining logs or tapes.
Republicans hope to push the vote through on
Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
No subpoena was issued Saturday, howev-- I
er, as Sen. Charles H. Percy, the committee
I chairman, sought a voluntary agreement
that would allow committee access. Robert
Warner, head of the National Archives, and
Herbert J. Miller, an attorney for Nixon, are
to meet Sunday.
" If we do not have the cooperation of past
President Nixon's lawyers, we will have no
choice but to issue the subpoena," Percy said
Saturday night. He said he preferred a volun-tary
route to avoid time consuming liti-gation.
Haig continued his dominance of the hear-ings
themselves, though he risked a chal-lenge
from the right when he declared that
he would not be bound by the Republican
Party platform and took several positions
that did not support that conservative docu-ment
Haig's assertion that he would not feel
bound by a document " that I had no role in
drafting" was an unusually frank acknowl-edgement
of the disregard with which ad- -
ministrations often treat their platform
pledges, especially since it came 10 days be-fore
the new administration takes office.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R- N.- C, was out of the
room at the tune but said he would demand
that Haig explain himself at Monday's hear-ing.
Helms did not get a chance to raise the is-sue
Saturday because the last 90 minutes of
the meeting were given over entirely to argu-ing
about tapes, subpoenas and logs.
First. Sen. Claiborne Pell, the Rhode Is-lander
who is the committee's senior Demo-crat,
asked the majority to agree to subpoe-na
those 100 hours of tapes, far less than he
originally requested. " We are not seeking to
rehash Watergate," be insisted.
But Sen. Charles H. Percy, the Illinois Re-publican
who chairs the committee, said m--
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Buckeyes Bnsinsfs demolition derby
BUCKEYE, La. ( UPI) The shrill sound of the 7: 45 ajn.
bell at Buckeye High School sent dallying youngsters bolting
for classrooms. They settled down for the morning roll calL
but three desks were empty.
In his office down the hall, harried Principal Charles Wait- e- s
his eyes snowing the strain of being squeezed by two
feuding judges reluctantly scratched the names of three
white girls from the school roster.
" This shows that the federal courts are running our
schools and I'm sick and tired of it," Waites said. He faced a
possible jail sentence for ignoring State District Judge Rich-ard
Lee's order to enroll the girls and $ S0O- a- da- y contempt of
court fines from Federal Judge Nauman Scott if he let mem
in.
When the girls tried to return to Buckeye after the
Christmas holidays, a festering confrontation between the
federal and state courts opened. The cries of " state's rights"
were so loud you would have thought the Civil War had
started again..
InsigtBt
Caught in the middle were three girls who wanted to go to
school with their friends but ended up being escorted by state
troopers.
Scott, a federal judge since 1970 and a lifelong resident of
Rapides Parish, stayed in the courtroom trying to enforce
his order designed to achieve racial balance in schools but
Lee jumped freely into the public spectacle.
The all- whi- te Buckeye area, a rural region that is evolving
into middle- incom- e, tree- shad- ed subdivisions, has been
known as a haven for Klan activities, and the word " nigger"
peppers the comments of patrons down the road at Riders'
Truck Stop.
" The reason people are moving out here is to get away
from the problems in the city schools," said the husband of a
Buckeye teacher who refused to be identified.
" Dont use my name or they may transfer my wife to a
nigger school." ".
The battle has turned Judge Lee, a descendant of Confed-erate
Gen. Robert E. Lee, into a folk hero.
Portable signs along Louisiana 28 read " God Bless Dick
Lee," pickups sport " Lee's Hot, Scott's Not" bumper stick-ers
and local country- wester- n singer Kirby Clark whose
six children attend six different schools under Scott's deseg-regation
order has recorded " The Ballad of Judge Lee."
Judge Lee, he has set the people free
Judge Lee, it's the only way to be
Judge Lee, he loves the Buckeye Three
It's the way he feels inside.
The desegregation fight started last summer when Scott is-sued
a plan for Rapides Parish schools that would have re-quired
107 of the 12-- and 13- year- o- lds from all- whi- te Buckeye
to bus 21 miles 33.6 kilometers) into Alexandria and attend
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San Salvador rebels begin
long- promis- ed offensive
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ( UPI) Leftist
guerrillas began their long- promis- ed general of-fensive
against the U. S.- back- ed Salvadoran junta
Saturday with coordinated attacks on government
troops stationed around the capital, witnesses
said.
" This is the moment. Free homeland or death,"
the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
said in a short broadcast over Radio Romantica,
a private station in the capital that the guerrillas
had apparently seized.
" People of El Salvador, we have now started
the national liberation. Now is the time to look for
flammable material and take to the streets."
In Washington, there was no immediate reac-tion
from the State Department.
Undetermined numbers of the guerrillas at-tacked
the National Guard command post in east-ern
San Salvador and the nearby air base with
bombs, rocket- propelle- d grenades and automatic
weapons fire, witnesses said.
Residents of the capital's northern neighbor-hoods
of Ciudad Delgado and Cuscantancingo re-ported
" columns of guerrillas" had entered the
district and taken control.
Heavy fighting was reported around the San
Salvador University in the heart of the capital,
In Soyapango. about foar miles east of the capi-tal,
dozens of residents were pinned down under
crossfire between the attacking guerrillas and de-fending
government troops, the witnesses said.
At least one building burned out of control but
neither firemen nor Red Cross rescue squads en-tered
the area because of the heavy fighting, they
said.
The attacks, apparently coordinated and begun
within minutes of each other, are part of the long- promis- ed
" general offensive" by leftist guerrillas
to topple the military- Chistia- n Democrat junta
headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte, which is strong-ly
supported by the United States.
The broadcast on the seized Romantica station,
interspersed with revolutionary music and loud,
emotional shouts urging the populace to join the
rebellion, said the leftists had taken over 11 small
towns and neighborhoods.
The broadcast said the leftists dug trenches
across the main highway entering the capital
from the north.
In addition, reliable sources said the guerrillas
took over the Puente de Oro, a strategic bridge 43
miles ( 68.8 kilometers) east of the capital linking
the eastern section of the country and its gov-ernment
troops with San Salvador.
Witnesses in Chalcnuana. located on an impor-tant
highway 47 miles ( 75.2 kilometers ) west of
the capital, reported heavy fighting between the
guerrillas and government troops.
Details on the number of guerrillas participat-ing
in the offensive were not immediatelv avail-able,
but the Farabundo Marti Front, an umbrella
group of El Salvador's five leftist guerrilla orga-nizations,
consists of an estimated 4,000 to 6,000
rebels.
Iran most likerv
will OK hostage
terms by Friday
By John Kifner
1 New York Times
TEHRAN. Iran Sounding an optimistic note, a key Irani-an
official said Saturday that an answer " most likely" ac-ceptance
on the proposed terms for the release of the
American Embassy hostages would be given by Friday, the
deadline set by the Carter administration.
" The Algerian statement, including the undertakings.
which lias to be accepted by the two countries of Iran and the
United States, is being studied, and the results shall be an-nounced
officially by the end of the current week." Ahmd
Azizi, the director of hostage affairs said. Azizi. the govern-ment's
second- rankin- g spokesman on the hostages, adde d :
" In its statement, the Algerian delegation has raised cer-tain
points, which have been considered, in principle, accep-table,
and which will, most likely, be accepted by the Iranian
government."
Azizi, in a brief interview with the Persian- languag- e af-ternoon
newspaper Kayban. was speaking of the end of the
Islamic week, which would be Friday. Jan. 16. which the
Carter administration has said was the latest that it could
make an agreement before leaving office.
His remarks were the first public comment by an official
here since Behzad Nabavi, the minister of state for executive
affairs, who is in charge of the hostage negotiations, said on
Wednesday that the Algerian intermediaries had drawn up a
proposal designed to end the 14- nionth--
old hostage dispute.
That night. Under Secretary of State Warren M. Christo-pher
suddenly flew to Algeria to answer questions passed on
through the intermediaries here. The questions were under-stood
to concern financial details involving Iran's frozen as-sets
in America. Christopher has remained in Algeria.
While the precise terms of the Algerian proposal are not
known, it appears to be an expansion of the original role of
the diplomats as go- betwee-ns,
shuttling messages back and
forth between the two nations.
The Algerian plan was drawn up after the diplomats took
an Iranian proposal to Washington, where they had four days
of talks with American officials. Iran's proposal then was for
the United States to deposit S24 billion in the Algerian Central
Bank as " guarantees" for the return of frozen assets and the
late shah's wealth.
Nabavi, in explaining the Algerian proposal, said: "' In
these suggestions, the Algerian government has said it : s
ready to undertake the warranties of both sides, which
means the United States and Iran will leave their commit-ments
in the hands of the Algerian government. We will pass
it on to them."
It thus appeared that the Algerians were offering to func-tion
as a sort of trustee or as kind of holder of the stakes
responsible for adminstering the transfer of the hostages and
the return of Iran's assets.
The United States and Iran seem essentially agreed on
terms to fulfill the four conditions set by Parliament on Nov.
2 for the release of the hostages.
Doctors cure girl
by freezing brain
CLEVELAND UPIi Doctors at the Cleveland
Clinic hail as a miracle the recovery of a young g: ri
who had suffered seizures that almost killed her but
was cured after her brain was put to sleep.
Doctors at the clinic paralyzed, cooled and put Julie
DeCapua, 11, Bay V illage. into a deep coma by using
barbiturates.
The treatment was decided upon when she began
having almost non- st- op seizures about a month ago af-ter
suffering an attack of the flu.
Doctors at first thought she had Reye's syr. drcrne.
sometimes an after- effe- ct of the flu. or a brain tumor.
but tests at the clinic ruled out those two possibilities.
Dr. Gerald Erenberg. a pediatric neurologist, and
Dr. James Oriowski, assistant director of the Cimc's
Pediatric and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, then
thought the child had viral encephalitis, a brain in-flammation
caused by a virus, but tests failed to con-firm
that diagnosis.
Oriowski and Erenberg decided to try a treatment j
that would pot the girl's brain temporarily to sleep. I
They then put fee girl on a respirator and gave her
barbiturates to put her into a deeper coma. They par-alyzed
her wi& other drugs and put her on ice to drop
her temperature to about 85 degrees F 29degreesCi.
After five days they raised her temperature and got
it back to normal.
At first she had a few mild seizures, but an electrcen-- I
cephalogram showed amazing results. 1
" I'm not ashamed to say that I classify this as a mir-- I
I acte." said Erenberg. " I