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MX battle may climax
Presidential candidates fight against dense-pack
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Four Democratic sen
ators with presidential ambitions are heading
into the thick of a fight against President
Reagan's plan to put 100 MX nuclear missiles
in 21 square miles of Wyoming prairie.
Congressional sources said the battle could
reach its climmi on the Senate floor today
when the Senate is expected to get around to a
stopgap spending bill containing MX money.
Sens. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina,
' Alan Cranston of California, Gary Hart of
Colorado and John Glenn of Ohio all are
expected to play major roles in the debate.
All also are contemplating races for the
. Democratic presidential nomination.
Hollings, who has a committee exploring his
pr6idential prospects, succeeded Wednesday
in getting the Appropriations Committee to
put strings on the $9BB million earmarked for
purchase of the first five missiles.
Under the Hollings amendment, the money
could not be spent unless Congress approved a
basing mode for the weapons, each of which
would carry 10 nuclear warheads.
Reagan and a bipartisan group of senators
have proposed a so-called alternative under
which the president would recommend one or
more basing modes by March 1 and Congress
would have 45 days to approve one plan. If it
doesn't approve one, the money remains fro
' zen.
The difference is that the Reagan-backed
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Staubach, mascot of the Navy detachment at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas, looks a bit out of sorts during a
special march yesterday morning. But he had good reason instead of a proper Navy man holding his leash he had Army
First Sgt. James Wittek, who had been assigned to escort the goat across base. The ceremony is an annual one determined
by the outcome of the Army-Navy football game. If Army had won, the Navy detachment would have marched a mule.
plan includes a time limit for him to submit a
plan and Congress to consider it.
But the bottom line is the same: Until
Congress agrees on a basing plan, the MX
cannot be built.
A source close to the Republican leadership,
who would not agree to be quoted by name,
said, "The votes are probably out (in the
Senate) to put in the compromise language
when the time comes" and Hollings conceded
that The president might win on the Senate
floor.
Administration officials have left no doubt
Reagan's acceptance of the so-called compro
mise was little more than an attempt to buy
time to lobby for the dense pack scheme.
"As far as fallback positions or alternate
systems, frankly we don't have any," Secre
tary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tues
day at about the same time Reagan was
announcing the compromise at the White
House.
Later that day, a White House official who
asked that his name not be used said of the
agreement: "We're satisfied with it because
. . . it does give us more time to sell our ideas
on the basing mode."
He said some members of the two armed
services committees felt "there wasn't an
adequate selling job" on dense pack.
Nonetheless, House Speaker Thomas P.
O'Neill Jr., D-Mass., predicted that the House
,will stick by its original decision to delete the
production funds altogether.
It's not an easy job. Koopowitz and his colleague,
• Lafry Keenan, have spent the last two years perfecting
flatworm brain transplants.
Cruise missiles deployed
By MEL REISNER •
Associated Press Writer
ROME, N.Y. The first of thousands of
nuclear-armed, ground-hugging cruise mis
siles designed to. be dropped from bombers
and sneak past Soviet defenses entered com
bat readiness yesterday at Griffiss Air Force
Base.
Sixteen 6 B-52 bombers of the 416th pombard
rn,ent Wing 'will each carry a dozen of the
highly accurate weapons, making up the van
guard ofia 201-plane force that could launch a
strike on 10 minutes notice.
Strategic Air Command chief Gen. Bennie
L. Davis, Defense Department Undersecre
tary for Research and Engineering Richard
D. DeLauer and,Clyde Skeen of Boeing Corp.,
the contractor in adapting the jet-propelled
missiles to Boeing-built B-525, took part in a
ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday marking
deployment.
Davis said the air-launched cruise missile
"adds mightily to our strategic deterrence
and enhances the chance of world peace."
Asked whether the subsonic, low-level
weapon might goad the Soviet Union into
stepping up the arms race, Davis responded,
"It just gives us an additional capability, and
certainly we can expect the Soviets to move to
defend against it. The Soviets have a cruise
missile and have been working to improve.
theirs."
Maj. Richard Tebay, of SAC headquarters
in Omaha, said the missile has a range 1,500
miles, a top speed of 600 mph and the ability to
electronically scan and react to changes in
terrain. This allows it to gain altitude to clear
Flatworms:
Brain surgery takes on a new twist
By PATRICIA WOLF
Orange County Register
IRVINE, Calif. In 12 years of doing brain trans
plants on flatworms, Harold Koopowitz has discovered
some interesting things. A flatworm can live without a
brain, for instance, but it• can't swim very well.
,If a brain is transplanted upside down into a flat-.
worm, the flat-
Worm will take
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a while to re
cover from sur
gery, but the creature will eventually be able to do
nearly everything that a flatworm with a rightside-up
brain can do.
What Harold Koopowitz learns from flatworms, he
believes, might one day help humans suffering from
spinal cord injuries and strokes.
Scientists don't usually choose to study flatworms,
Koopowitz said, because, flatworms and humans have
nothing biologically in common. He believes he is the
only scientist in the world studying the flatworm brain.
,He thinks study of the way the one-inch to two-inch
worms repair their nervous systems, might suggest
ways to repair human nervous systems injured by
strokes or spinal-cord injuries.
"Flatw
brains
that
ever
evolved,
about the brain of these animals, we should gain insight
into the overall question of why brains evolved in the
first place."
Flatworms are gray creatures that live under rocks
in cold, salty water.
When provoked, they try to blend in with the rock or
obstructions while flying below radar.
Carl Eilenberg, Rome's mayor, said most
residents have learned to live with the base
and are unconcerned with the possibility that
addition of a new weapons system would
cause it to stand out as a target for enemy
bombs.
"It's not possible to know what the Russians
are thinking. I've never seen the Russian list
of targets," he said. "But we are aware that
anything as 'strongly armed as Griffiss and
central New York has always been a target
area."
The B-52s that will carry the cruise missiles
have been a ,key part of the U.S. strategic
force for 30 years. Yesterday, a B-52 Air Force
' bomber crashed near Mather Air Force Base
in California, killing all nine crew members.
The Air Force said that plane carried no
nuclear weapons. . • I
The United States and its NATO allies also
plan to base 400 Air Lawiched Cruise Missilei
in Europe next year along with Pershing 2s, a
plan that provoked demonstrations in several .
European cities.
Protests against basing of cruise missiles at
Griffiss halm been subdued, and limited to
organized anti-nuclear groups. The Mohawk
Valley Peace Council planned a silent vigil
yesterday at one gate to the base in central
New York.
Dr. Irwin Redlener, Utica surgeon and
spokesman for Physicians for Social Respon
sibility, said deploying the missiles was a
tragedy calculated to goad the Soviet Union
, into extending the arms race.
"In the event of war, this area would be
saturated with nuclear weapons."
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makes pe
riodic trips to the shore to catch his own research
subjects. He has a flatworm-catching permit for San
Onofre State Beach.
Catching the flatworms is difficult; performing brain
transplants is no easier, Keenan, who perfected the
surgical procedure, said. A flatworm brain is about
one-sixty-fourth of an inch long, smaller than a pin
head.
Keenan performs the transplant in a laboratory dish
under a microscope. He anesthetizes the worm and
restrains it with a fence of cactus spines.
It takes 12 days after surgery for a flatworm with a
transplanted brain to feel like himself again, Keenan
said.
Flatworms are the first bilateral animals animals
with a distinct right and left sides that evolved, the
researchers say. Koopowitz theorizes that a central
control, a brain, was needed so the animal could
coordinate its sides and not tear itself in half.
The researchers have found that flatworms can
survive up to
"%MO'
captivity, if
kept in dark
ness and fed store-bought brine 'shrimp. The worms
will hatch eggs in captivity, but the offspring survive
no longer than two weeks, Keenan said.
Koopowitz and Keenan are beginning a new phase in
their research injecting a fluorescent dye into the
transplanted brain in an effort tounderstand how the
nerve cells heal and grow.
"We know the nerve cells find the right targets and
grow to the correct location even when put in improper
ly," Keenan said. "We hope to find out how they do
this."
Friday, Dec. 17
state news,briefs
Residents face cold without utilities
HARRISBURG (AP) More
than 3,000 Pennsylvanians face the
winter without heat, while 2,000
more are without electricity,
according to a survey obtained
yesterday by The Associated
Press.
The survey, the first of its kind,
was performed by the Public Utili
ty Commission's Bureau of Con
sumer Services.
The survey polled the eight larg
est electric companies and the
seven largest gas companies in
Pennsylvania blue laws bite the dust
HARRISBURG (AP) "Opera
tion Repeal," an effort by the
Thornburgh administration to
wipe obsolete laws from Pennsyl
vania's statutes, continued yester
day as the governor signed a dozen
pertinent bills.
His action brought to 38 the
number of obsolete laws repealed
under the act. Among those signed
yesterday:
•. An 1897 law that regulated the
number of days per week a person
may work in a bakery or confectio
nary establishment.
nation news briefs
Man slishes throat after conviction
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP)
A defendant yelled he was inno
cent and then slashed his throat
with a razor blade yesterday after
a Circuit Court jury found him
guilty of sexually abusing his
grandchildren.
Witnesses said the Rutherford
County jury had just read its ver
dict convicting Wiseman McCor
mick, 56, of the aggravated rape of
his 11-year-old granddaughter and
aggravated sexual battery of his
12-year-old grandson when he
pulled a razor blade from his pock-
Stolen exam may mean fake doctors
LANSING, Mich. (AP) State
licensing of about 255 Michigan
medical school graduates as doc
tors is in doubt because part of
their qualifying test was stolen,
officials said yesterday.
Officials said the theft apparent
ly took place the night before the
three-day test began Dec. 7.
The theft could have national
world news briefs
Baby dies after television appearance
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP)
-. While her mother pleaded be
fore a live audience, "For the love
of God, save my baby," a 9-month
old girl went into cardiac arrest on
television and died en route to a
hospital.
The mother, Maria Elinalda da
Silva Garcia, appeared with her
baby Tuesday on "The People on
TV" program to complain that the
still unnamed child had been re
fused treatment at major Rio hos
pitals over a five-month period.
The baby suffered from a badly
bleeding eye, which one doctor
had tentatively diagnosed as being
caused by a tumor, Mrs. da Silva
Garcia said. She said she had
come to the program's studios
after hospitals rejected the child
Hundreds arrested in Chilean protests
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Po
lice have arrested more than 200
people for staging an anti-govern
ment protest in Chile's three larg
est cities, Roman Catholic church
sources said yesterday.
Groups of youths gathered
Wednesday night in downtown
squares and streets of Santiago,
Valparaiso and Concepcion and
shouted slogans against repres
sion and economic mismanage
ment by Chile's military regime,
Pennsylvania.
The poll found 3,038 gas heating
customers and 2,277 electric cus
tomers without service as of De
cember 15.
It was the first time the PUC
made such a comprehensive sur
vey, but efforts are under way to
make the project a yearly under
taking, PUC Chairman Susan Sha
naman said.
Unlike some states, Pennsylva
nia has no winter moratorium on
winter utility shutoffs.
• An 1865 law that provided for
the indenture of apprentices in
Philadelphia and Allegheny coun
ties.
• An 1878 law prohibiting mer
chants from doing business within
one mile of a .camp meeting or
religious gathering.
• A 1799 law that provided an
apprentice who left the service of
his master before his period of
indenture had expired could be
held liable for that action upon
reaching the age 21.
et and cut his throat.
"You have convicted an inno
cent man," the Smyrna resident
said as he slashed his throat and
fell to the courtroom floor.
Judge J.S. Daniel called a re
cess, and ambulance workers
treated McCormick for minor in
juries.
After the recess, Daniel told
McCormick his behavior "was un
called for" and sentenced him to
75 years in prison 50 years for
aggravated rape and 25 years for
aggravated sexual battery.
ramifications because the same
Federal Licensing Exam is given
simultaneously in all 50 states and
the stolen questions may have
been taken out of Michigan.
The questions for part of the
second day and the entire third
day of the examination were taken
from the Lansing Civic Center.
for admission despite worsening
symptoms.
Mrs. da Silva Garcia told the
audience that doctors at city hos
pitals had told her to simply clean
the blood off her daughter's eye.
As the program's moderator,
Wilton Franco, attempted to con
tact the Health Ministry while on
the air, Mrs. da Silva Garcia's
baby went into cardiac arrest and
the mother began massaging her
arms and chest.
The little girl later revived brief
ly, but died in the car of Marcia
Franco, the moderator's daugh
ter, who rushed the mother and
baby to the hospital after ambu
lances failed to arrive quickly
enough.
witnesses said.
Leaflets had announced a
"march against hunger, for the
return of exiles and for respect for
human rights." No sponsoring
group was named.
The government gave no infor
mation about the arrests. But an
official of the Catholic Vicariate of
Solidarity, the church's human
rights agency, said police told him
the number detained in Santiago
alone was 208.
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