'Star Wars' still a snag in arms control hopes
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. American sum
mit hopes have been set back by Soviet
demands to halt the "Star Wars" program
and by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's
lack of understanding of U.S. policies, a
senior Reagan administration official said
yesterday.
"We are undismayed, but we can wait,"
the official said in summing up 14 hours of
talks in Moscow involving Gorbachev, Sec
retary of State George Shultz, and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
"The pace of progress was set back by
this meeting," the official said in a wrapup
briefing for reporters under rules that bar
red use of his name. He spoke in Reykjavik,
Iceland, where the U.S. party stopped for
rest and refueling en route home from
Moscow.
Bowen is
chosen to
replace
Heckler
By WILLIAM KRONHOLM
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON President Rea
gan has chosen former Indiana Gov.
Otis R. Bowen to become the next
secretary of health and human serv
ices, an aide to Sen. Dan Quayle, R-
Indiana, said yesterday.
Peter Lincoln, a spokesman for
Quayle, said the senator's office had
been told that Bowen was the presi
dent's choice to succeed Margaret M.
Heckler, who agreed last month to
relinquish her Cabinet post to become
U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
"We now expect Governor Bowen
wil be in Washington on Thursday
morning. We understand he will be
meeting with President Reagan in the
White House," Lincoln said.
"It's all decided. It's all finished,"
a knowledgeable health industry
source with close ties to the White
House told the Associated Press late
yesterday in confirming Bowen's se
lection.
NBC Nightly News, in its broadcast
last night, and the Indianapolis Star,
in its editions for today, quoting un
identified sources, said the White
House will make the announcement
today.
Mrs. Heckler remains as HHS sec
retary until she is confirmed in her
new post, however, there are reports
that she may continue serving into
January.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes, asked yesterday about the
choice for a new secretary, said he
had no comment and that there was
no timetable for a decision.
A source in the health care industry
with close ties to the White House said
the White House has sent word to
Capitol Hill that an announcement
was imminent.
An aide to one senator who would
be notified said she could not confirm
timing of an announcement, but that
it was expected soon.
The industry source, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said reports
circulated among lobbyists that a
final decision was made Monday
night and only the timing of the
announcement was uncertain.
Bowen, 67, was Indiana's governor
from 1973 to 1981 and has served on
presidential commissions under both
Reagan and President Ford.
He was chairman of Reagan's Ad
visory Council on Social Security,
which in March 1984 proposed major
changes in Medicare to keep the
federal health insurance program for
the elderly and disabled from ex
pected bankruptcy.
Among the council's recommenda
tions were raising the eligibility age
for Medicare to 67, taxing employer
paid health insurance benefits and
boosting the tax on alcohol and tobac
co.
The other top contender for the post
was Anne Dore McLaughlin, underse
cretary of the interior. She and Bo
wen were both interviewed by White
House Chief of Staff Donald Regan,
who made the final recommendation
to the president.
Other candidates mentioned by in
dustry sources had been Los Angeles
surgeon Dr. Tirso del Junco and Dr.
William Mayer, assistant secretary
of defense for health.
Bowen, now professor of family
practice at the Indiana University
School of Medicine in Indianapolis,
said earlier this week he wouldn't be
disappointed if Reagan chooses
someone else.
the
daily
The official suggested the administration
now saw the summit as primarily a get
acquainted session for President Reagan
and Gorbachev, leading possibly to an invi
tation for Gorbachev to visit the United
States for a second summit in 1986.
In an interview in Washington on Wednes
day with correspondents of Western news
agencies, Reagan said there is "every indi
cation" 'that Gorbachev is "a reasonable
man" and that gives Reagan hope he can
convince the Communist Party chief at the
summit that the United States has no expan
sionist aims.
Reagan also said he would deploy a "Star
Wars" missile shield unilaterally if he could
not get other world leaders to agree on an
international system to defend against nu
clear attack.
The president said his comments in an
interview last week with Soviet journalists,
in which he appeared to make deployment
Grant refusal sparks controversy
By NANCY FUNK
Collegian Staff Writer
A Hispanic University student was recently
refused a grant by the Office of Student Aid
beCause the grant, intended for black students
only, was incorrectly classified as a "Minority
Contingency Grant," which legally would in
clude all minority students.
An office coordinator informed Sadie Coto (ju
nior-marketing) on Oct. 9 that she was not eligible
for the grant because she is not black, Coto said.
In response to Coto's complaint, the office has
reclassified the grant as the "Title Six Contin
gency."
The decision to retitle the grant was made by
Executive Assistant to the ,President William
Asbury and the Office of Student Aid, said Bron
wen Wagner, assistant director of the Office of
Student Aid.
"It should have never been called that in the
first place," said Asbury.
But the new title could also be misleading
because the Title Six laws represent all minority
groups, not just Blacks, said Jerri Solomon, staff
attorney at the federal Office of Civil Rights.
Asbury disagreed, saying he did not believe the
New Daily Collegian editor
By COLLEEN BARRY
Collegian Staff Writer
Anita C. Huslin was selected as
next year's editor of The Daily Colle
gian last night by the Collegian Inc.
Board of Directors.
Jack Sulzer, chairman of the board,
said the decision was close and for the
first time in years, the members of
the board had to raise their hands in a
vote.
Earlier in the semester, editor can
didates were required to submit a
resume, cover letter, transcript and a
proposal of their goals for the Colle
gian. Last night each was inter
viewed by the board before the
decision was announced.
The editor presides over the news
division of the Collegian. and acts as
a liaison between the communtiy and
the staff. •
olle • ian
of a Star Wars system contingent on dis
mantling offensive weapons, were erro
neously interpreted.
Asked earlier if he meant, in effect, to
give the Soviets veto power over deploy-
Ment of the proposed defensive weapons
system, Reagan replied, "Hell no."
The American party returned to Washing
ton on Wednesday afternoon, with Shultz
telling reporters at Andrews Air Force Base
that the Soviets "think that everything that
happens in the United States is a conspiracy
of the military and big business."
Shultz later met with Reagan at the White
House for half an hour to report on his
Moscow meetings and on prospects for the
Nov. 19-20 summit in Geneva. He made no
comment to reporters about his session with
the president.
Asked whether prospects for an arms
limitation agreement appeared slim after
the secretary's meetings, White House
new title would be misleading to other minority
students.
"If anyone has a problem, they can come see
me," Asbury said.
The refusal of the grant is grounds for Coto to
file a complaint against the University under the
Title Six 1964 Civil Rights Act, which states that no
person can be excluded from any program receiv
ing federal assistance on the basis of race, Solo
mon said.
"The mistake was
. made and I am entitled to
that money. Changing the name of the grant is not
enough," Coto said.
Coto said at this time, she does not plan to press
charges against the University.
Coto approached the office to apply for the grant
after being referred by a black friend who had
received it, she said.
"I assumed since the grant said 'minority' that
it was for all minorities," Coto said.
She said a number of Hispanic and American
Indian students have misunderstood the title of the
grant and thought they were eligible.
Wagner said because of confidentiality, she
could not say how many students had been turned
down for the grant.
Coto said she met all of the other qualifications
In her proposal to the board, Huslin
(senior-jounalism) stressed the im
portance of open communication be
tween the public and the Collegian.
To obtain this, she proposed a survey
to determine readers' interests and
concerns.
In addition, she said she will work
for better internal communication
and reorganization to strenghthen the
Collegian's news coverage.
"I'm looking forward to a prom
ising year working with the staff and
our readers to ensure a quality pa
per." she said. "I'd like to see the
Collegian become the number one
college daily again."
Huslin's one-year term begins in
January 1986 when Gail L. Johnson
(senior-journalism) will step down
from the editor's position.
Huslin has been a member of the
Collegian staff since Fall Semester
1983. She has been the campus editor
since last January and was previous
ly the state reporter. Other experi
ence in journalism include
internships at the Caribbean Busi
ness, a weekly business newspaper
out of San Juan, Puerto Rico and the
Burlington County Times, Burling
ton, N.J. Huslin is also a member of
the Society of Professional Journal
ists.
Other candidates for editor were:
Nan Crystal Arens, science editor;
Kim Bower, assistant campus editor;
Richard Douma, business page coor
dinator, Jeanette Krebs, national re
porter; Meagan O'Matz, assistant
town editor.
Tonight, the board will select a
business manager who will be in
charge of the business division of the
Collegian.
spokesman Larry Speakes said Shultz's
sessions with Soviet leaders "made some
progress, but differences do remain."
"We are prepared for our part to enter
into serious discussions . . . but realistical
ly, I don't look for any arms control
agreement," Speakes said.
The official who briefed reporters in Ice
land described Gorbachev, after seven
months at the Kremlin apex, as articulate,
vigorous and intellectually curious.
But, he said, Gorbachev also was argu
mentative, occasionally impulsive and "ap
parently there are some gaps in his
knowledge of American criticism of Soviet
programs and also of our concerns."
• "Specifically," he said, "Gorbachev did
not seem to understand why the build up of
Soviet long-range missiles targeted at the
United States led Reagan to initiate his
research program on anti-missile defenses.
"The United States has no alternative to
to receive the grant.
When asked to verify this, Wagner said again
that individual student cases could not be dis
cussed.
"Hispanics are supposed to be considered mi
norities," Coto said. "The name of the grant is
incorrect and misleading to all of the other minori
ty students at this University."
Charles Bolan, coordinator of University schol
arships and assistant director of the Office of
Student Aid, said the grant is in accordance with a
court order requiring the University to provide
financial aid to black students.
"A large part of our problem is that, to the best
of my knowledge, there are no funds dedicated to
Hispanics and Native Americans. The court order
didn't cover them," Bolan said.
Wagner said the University has not made any
funds available to minority students other than
Blacks.
"Although it was never our intention to exclude
any minority, the fact is the funding was always
available to Blacks only," Wagner said.
Wagner said she believes funding should be
made available for all minority students.
She said funding for other minority students has
not been provided due to a lack of available funds.
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this," the official told reporters traveling
with Shultz and Robert C. McFarlane, the
presidential national security• adviser.
"They have driven us to this."
In at least one respect, he said, Gorba
chev had backtracked on the Soviet position
on Star Wars. Two months ago, in an inter
view with Time magazine, he seemed will
ing to accept some U.S. research on
futuristic space-based technology.
But now, the official said, "They want a
ban related to SDI (the Strategic Defense
Initiative), including fundamental re
search."
The official said Gorbachev "did not
understand the need to go ahead."
Shultz, McFarlane and Arthur A. Hart
man, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, met
for four hours Tuesday with Gorbachev in
his Kremlin office. They also held 10 hours
of talks over two days with Shevardnadze.
Mandia
unstable:
may have
infection
By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS
Collegian Science Writer
Anthony Mandia, the heart trans
plant patient who was sustained for 11
days with the University's pneumatic
artificial heart, developed a fever
yesterday and his condition was
downgraded to critical and unstable.
Carl Andrews, director of public
relations at the University's Hershey
Medical Center said, "Mr. Mandia
has developed a fever and elevated
white brood cell count and his doctors
suspect that he has an infection."
In an 8 a.m. report yesterday, Dr.
John Burnside, vice president for
health affairs at the medical center
said doctors planned to return the 44-
year old Philadelphia man to the
operating room yestersay to irrigate
and drain his chest incision.
"It's been described as a brief
procedure," Andrews said.
Mandia is being treated with anti
biotics to help thwart the infection,
Burnside said.
Infection is a known complication
of the drugs Mandia is receiving to
prevent his body from rejecting the
transplanted heart, he said.
With out the drug cyclosporin-A
Mandia's body would attack the
foreign tissue and destroy his new
heart. However, supressing his nor
mal immune system also makes
Mandia more succeptible to other
infections, Andrews said.
"It's a very difficult medical proce
dure to balance the administration of
the Cyclosporin-A with the patients
need to retain some of his immune
system," Andrews said.
Mandia's vital signs are good and
he is awake and responsive, Burnside
said, adding that Tuesday's hemodia
lysis a proceedure that purifies
blood was successful.
"(Mandia's) spirits are good and
he is looking forward to full recov
ery," Burnside said Tuesday.
Mandia remains on a respirator
which allows him prolonged periods
of sleep, Burnside added.
Mandia, who received a donor
heart Oct. 28, was the first human to
be sustained with the University's
artificial heart.
When Mandia's diseased heart be
gan to fail on Oct. 18, doctors at the
medical center implanted the artifi
cial heart to sustain him until a donor
organ could be located.
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weather
Today lots of clouds with may
be, just maybe, an appearance
by an indentified yellow disk.
There is a risk of early evening
showers. High of 55. Tonight,
cloudy with a chance of show
ers, low 37 Heldl Sonon