12—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1983
Concessions may be
last hope for union
By The Associated Press
McKEESPORT, Pa. Union lead
er Dick Grace has long resisted giv
ing ,U.S. Steel Corp. contract
concessions, but he says it may be
time to accept company-proposed
changes at the National Plant.
"We've held off to the last," Grace,
president of United Steelworkers Lo
cal 1408, said yesterday. "But when
you have a sister plant making the
same thing, it's local against local."
Grace has called a meeting of his
4,200 members on Sept. 14 to discuss
concessions similar to those other
local unions have been granting steel
makers this year mostly job com
binations and eliminations and
reductions in crew sizes.
'!I want to get a sense from them,
explain how we look businesswise,
and say, 'What do you people want?'
The older guys say shut it down, but
they get a pension," Grace said.
Grace said he has always refused
requests to cut labor costs at the
McKeesport pipe and tubing mill,
where only 100 people are working
and more than 4,000 are furloughed.
But until now, he said, he had a
"gentleman's agreement" with the
local president at U.S. Steel's Lorain,
Ohio, plant "to stand fast and resist
all proposed changes."
But Martin Bartos has retired as
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Lorain president, and his successor,
Andy DeAngelis, agreed with the
company last month to revise work
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The USW's contract with seven
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nies to bargain with union locals for
wage and benefit concessions beyond
those the union granted March 1. The
union estimates those cuts will save
the industry $3 billion in three years.
A USW spokesman said there are
no records of how many locals have
voted to grant additional concessions.
Jim McGeehan, president of USW
District 7 in eastern Pennsylvania,
said most of his locals have been
spared additional givebacks.
But he said the union may have to
consider concessions to keep open the
Fairless Works outside Philadelphia.
U.S. Steel Corp. wants to import
semi-finished slab steel from Great
Britain for finishing at Fairless.
Last week, workers at Bethlehem
Steel Corp. in Johnstown voted over
whelmingly to accept concessions
after the company threatened to close
its plant without them.
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West Germans, Americans protest
Anti-nuclear demonstration to block U.S. Army base tomorrow
By DAVID MINTHORN
Associated Press Writer
MUTLANGEN, West Germany Anti-nuclear
demonstrators plan to blockade a U.S. Army
base tomorrow to launch a "hot autumn" of
protests against the deployment of new Ameri
can missiles in West Germany in December.
Authors Heinrich Boell and Guenter Grass,
Daniel Ellsberg and Daniel Berrigan from the
United States, and prominent left-wing West
German politicians are to join the 72-hour block
ade in this south German town, the organizers
said.
At least 1,000 people are expected to take part
in the first of a three-month series of sit-ins, lie
ins and other acts of civil disobedience through
out West Germany. They will sit down on the 200-
yard-long black-topped road into the Mutlangen
base to prevent vehicles from entering or leav
ing. Mutlangen is one of several bases in West
Germany that will get the new missiles.
According to public opinion polls, up to 75
peicent of West Germans oppose the stationing of
the Pershing 2 and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
But the Bonn government plans to go ahead with
the deployment if there is no progress in U.S.-
Soviet arms talks in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Mutlangen demonstrators, many of Ahem
students in their 20s living at a "peace camp!'
near the base, have been rehearsing the blockade
twice a day at the base's front gate for three
weeks.
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every morning and evening as two dozen people
sit in a circle beneath a sign reading, "We Pray
For Peace. Don't Disturb Us."
After an hour of silence, they Sing German
hymns or the U.S. civil rights song, "We Shall
Overcome." Then they walk back to their camp a
mile away for strategy discussions and instruc
tion in passive resistance.
`These young people are
right. I support them. They
can have an effect.'
—neigbor of Mutlangen missile
base
"Our immediate goal is to prevent the missiles
from going in. A long-range aim is to demon
strate that non-violent civil disobedience is effec
tive against military occupation," said Wolfgang
Schlupp, a 25-year-old social worker from Man
nheim.
The action is not without danger. Organizers
said two, days after the camp opened on Aug. 6,
the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb,
several protesters were nearly run over when a
U.S. military car sped through the gate and
scattered a silent circle on the road.
After that, the demonstrators left the road at
the approach of military vehicles.
U.S. Army officials refuse to comment on the
blockade, saying it is a German affair and the
German police will handle it.
The Mutlangen base, which is surrounded by
concertina wire, sits atop a hill in the rolling
farmland of Swabia.
Soldiers behind the wire repair the trucks that
would transport mobile Pershing 1 missiles
which have been in place for years and would be
replaced by the longer-range Pershing 2 to
locations in the field.
No missiles have been visible on the trucks foi
the past month.
A sign at the gate bans unauthorized entry to
the base and forbids photographs or sketches of
the installation. Army sentinels patrol the pe
rimeter, and white-and-green German police
vans patrol the area.
"These young people are right," said an elder
ly German man tending his vegetable garden
nearby. "I support them. They can have an
effect."
More than 600 people have gone through train
ing at the peace camp, where anti-war slogans
are tacked onto a colorful assortment of 75 tents
pitched on rented farmland between a cornfield
and a forest of fir trees.
Organizers say about half the campers are
students and the others hold jobs. Many are
women; some are lawyers and teachers in the
civil service who could face disciplinary action
for involvement in the blockade.
Virus used to correct birth defect
By PAUL RAEBURN
AP Science Writer
NEW YORK A genetic defect responsible for a
severe human brain disorder has been corrected in
the laboratory by infecting defective human cells
with a virus that inserts a new gene into them,
thereby restoring normal function, researchers
said Tuesday.
It is the first time viruses have been used in
human cells to correct a genetic defect responsible
for a human disease, they said.
The researchers estimated that it will be four or
five years before the technique moves out of the
laboratory and into trials with patients.
The disease, known as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, is
a brain disorder that results in mental retardation
and strange behavior patterns, including a tenden
cy toward self-mutilation and compulsive aggres
sive behavior, according to Richard Leavitt, a
spokesman for the March of Dimes Birth Defects
Foundation. It strikes males almost exclusively,
occurring once in every 50,000 male births.
The new technique, developed by Ind& Verma of
the Salk Institute in San Diego and Dr. Theodore
Friedmann of the University of California at San
Diego, was reported in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
It could lead to treatment for a wide variety of
human genetic diseases, said Friedmann. "I tend
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to think this kind of manipulation will find its place
in therapy," Friedmann said in a telephone inter
view. But he added that "it won't cure everything."
Blood disorders and immune deficiency diseases
are likely candidates for this type of treatment, he
said.
Howard Temin, a Nobel laureate at the Universi
ty of Wisconsin, said the research was "a very
important development," that "potentially opens
the way" to the use of viruses in human gene
therapy.
Similar research has been done by Richard
Mulligan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, according to several scientists interviewed.
But Mulligan's work has not been published, and
efforts to reach him in Paris, where he is visiting a
colleague, were unsuccessful.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome is due to a defect in a
single gene, which triggers the production of an
enzyme known as HPRT, Friedmann said. When
that gdne is defective, HPRT is not produced, and
cells in certain parts of the brain begin to malfunc
tion; he said.
A variety of researchers have shown that viruses
can be used to insert selected genes into the cells
they infect. Friedmann and his collaborator, Inder
Verma of the Salk Institute in San Diego, thought
they might be able to use a virus to insert a normal
HPRT gene into defective human cells.
If that gene would function properly and produce
files
HPRT, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome could be elimi
nated.
Friedmann and Verma used genetic engineering
techniques to insert the normal human HPRT gene
into a mouse leukemia virus, one of a class of
viruses called retroviruses. The virus was also
modified in such a way that it would not cause
cancer.
The researchers then exposed human cells with a
defective HPRT gene to the virus. The virus en
tered the cells, and the cells did indeed begin to
produce HPRT.
In a further complication, the researchers found
that the altered virus had lost the ability to repro
duce itself. So they infected it, in turn, with another
virus that nested inside it and allowed it to repro
duce.
In more recent research that has not yet been
published, the researchers found that mouse bone
marrow cells infected with the virus and injected
into the marrow of living mice will produce HPRT.
That is presumably the strategy that will one day
be used with humans. The bone marrow cells of a
patient with Lesch-Nyhan syndrome will be remov
ed, infected with the virus, and returned with the
newly acquired ability to produce the crucial
HPRT enzyme.
Verma said retroviruses are by far the most
efficient tool for inserting genes into cells. "If you
eventually want to do human therapy, this is the
only viable way," he said in a telephone interview.
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