COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS
April 1887-April 1987
Soviets
By CAROL J. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW The Kremlin said yes
terday that five more American dip
lomats must leave the country and
withdrew the 260 maids, drivers and
other Soviet workers who handle the
U.S. Embassy’s daily non-diplomatic
operations.
Soviet employees may be replaced
by Americans but an overall person
nel limit placed on the embassy and
the U.S. consulate in Leningrad may
mean, for instance, that a choice
must be made between having a cook
or a diplomat.
The Soviet Union seldom uses local
employees in foreign missions. Its
Washington embassy and San Fran
cisco consulate operate almost en
tirely with Soviet staff.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen
nady I. Gerasimov announced the
expulsions and restrictions the day
after 55 Soviet diplomats were or
dered out of the United States.
Gerasimov’s announcement
Gorbachev
By ALISON SMALE
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev said yesterday that the
U.S expulsion of 55 Soviet diplomats
was a wild action that led him to
question Washington’s reliability as a
partner in arms control efforts.
“There is no bridling the hawks in
the White house,” Gorbachev said in
a nationwide television address.
“Each time when there appears an
opening in the approaches to major
issues of Soviet-American relations
... it’s followed by a provocation
designed to disrupt the possibility of a
positive solution, to poison the atmo
sphere,” Gorbachev said in his 50-
Penn State pneumatic artificial heart patient Robert Cresswell, right, with
his wife, Faith, is OK after the 220th day of living with the artificial heart. Still
Beat goes on for artificial heart patient
By KATHI DODSON
and CHRISTINE KILGORE
Collegian Science Writers
Now living his 220th day on the
Penn State pneumatic artificial
heart, Robert Cresswell has sur
vived longer on an'artificial heart
than any other living person.
William Schroeder, who received
the Jarvik-7 artificial heart at Hu
mana Hospital-Audubon in Louis
ville, Ky., survived for 620 days but
died on August 6, 1986. A Tuscon,
Arizona woman named Bernadette
Chayrez survived for 250 days on
the Jarvik-7 before dying on Oct. 11.
Jan Rooney, assistant director of
the news communication division of
the University Medical Center, part
of the University of Arizona’s Col
lege of Medicine, said Chayrez’s
attending physician has found
the
daily
boot 5
brought to 10 the number of American
diplomats ordered to leave in the
current exchange of expulsions, in
cluding the army and naval attaches.
Gerasimov said the United States
could replace the 260 translators,
drivers, secretaries, mechanics,
maids and cooks employed in the
Moscow and Leningrad missions only
with Americans..
He said the total number of staff
members must not exceed 225 at the
embassy and 26 at the Leningrad
consulate, the limits imposed on the
Soviet Embassy and consulate in the
United States.
State Department spokesman
Charles E. Redman said in making
the expulsion announcement Tuesday
in Washington that five Soviets were
being kicked out in retaliation and the
other 50 in order to reduce the Soviet
staffing level to that of the United
States in Moscow and Leningrad.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Jaroslav
Verner said yesterday that 225 Amer
ican diplomats were accredited in
doubts U.S. reliability
minute speech, as translated by Ra
dio Moscow.
He promised tough retaliation for
the American expulsions, but did not
mention measures announced by the
Foreign Ministry.
Referring to the U.S. expulsions,
Gorbachev said American officials
“have taken actions in recent days
which to the normal human mind
appear simply wild after such an
important meeting” as the Oct. 11-12
Reykjavik summit with President
Reagan.
He said he was speaking about the
Reykjavik summit on television for
the second time in eight days because
it showed the potential for nuclear
disarmament and because of what he
called a distorted picture of the meet-
strong evidence that she died when
her body rejected a donor heart.
At a press conference held at the
University’s Hershey Medical Cen
ter yesterday, doctors said Cres
swell is still in critical condition and
awaiting a suitable donor heart.
Cresswell,"the second recipient of
the Penn State pneumatic artificial
heart, received the device Mar. 17,
after his body rejected a trans
planted human heart. Since then,
the 49-year-old Huntingdon man has
steadily improved, his doctors say,
except for a slight stroke he suf
fered in early May.
David Geselowitz, University
professor of bioengineering and
medicine, said the pneumatic
heart, which is similar to the hearts
implanted in Chayrez and Schroed
er, is operated by an external com
pressed-air pump. The heart unit,
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Moscow and 26 in Leningrad, which
means the diplomatic staff would
have to be reduced to replace Soviet
employees.
He would not comment on the ex
pulsions and restrictions.
Members of Congress have pres
sured the embassy to reduce its de
pendence on Soviet personnel, partly
because of fears that some of them
pass sensitive information to the
KGB secret police.
Soviet employees work for far low
er wages than Americans, however,
and need not be provided with hous
ing.
U.S. diplomats also have argued
that local employees know the com
plicated operations of the Soviet bu
reaucracy better than Americans.
Gerasimov said four diplomats
from the U.S. Embassy and one from
the consulate were ordered to leave
by Nov. 1, the same deadline given
five other U.S. diplomats on Sunday
and the 55 Soviets by the State De
partment on Tuesday.
ing presented to the American public.
Reykjavik marked “perhaps the
first time in many decades that such
a big stride was made in the quest for
nuclear disarmament,” Gorbachev
said.
But he questioned whether U.S.
policy is set by President Reagan or
his staff, “which is breathing hatred
with regard to the Soviet Union.”
Most of his speech repeated what
he said in a 65-minute televised ad
dress last week, painting Moscow as
the reasonable partner in arms con
trol and Washington as intransigent
and old-fashioned.
There has been confusion in the
West about whether Gorbachev’s pro
posals can be negotiated into sepa
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waiting for a compatible donor heart, Cresswell is now the longest living
artificial heart recipient still alive.
when implanted in the patient, is
connected to the air pump by 6-foot
long tubes three eighths of an inch
in diameter that run through the
patient’s chest, he said.
The heart unit is a rigid plastic
case surrounding a flexible plastic
sack made of polyurethane, Geselo
witz said. Air is pumped through
the tubes and into the space be
tween the rigid case and flexible
sack. This increases the pressure
inside the rigid case and causes the
blood to be squeezed out of the sack
and into the patient’s arteries, he
said.
When the air is pumped out of the
space, the lower pressure created
in the space between the rigid case
and the flexible sack causes blood
from the patient’s veins to be
sucked back into the sack for anoth
er cycle, Geselowitz said.
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Dr. John Pennock, associate pro
fessor of surgery at the medical
center, said at the press conference
that he is concerned about Cres
swell’s health because of a low
grade infection that has set in
around one of the tubes that supply
air pressure to the ventricles.
“He has had for some time a low
grade infection around one tube site
the other one is nice and clean,”
Dr. William S. Pierce, head of the
Division of Artificial Organs at the
medical center, said. “We’re very
concerned about that ... we just
have to watch it and dress it prop
erly.”
Pierce said chances of this infec
tion have been increased by the
prolonged use of the heart in Cres
swell’s chest. “Everytime (Cres
swell) gets up and sits or stands,
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Clinger, Wachob
rip each other
By JAMES A. STEWART
Collegian Staff Writer
Moderator Paul Duke character
ized last night’s televised 23rd Con
gressional District election debate
between Republican incumbent Wil
liam F. Clinger and Democratic chal
lenger Bill Wachob as a “hands-on”
debate, with both sides taking the
opportunity to interrupt and chal
lenge their opponents’ statements.
Clinger characterized Wachob’s
jobs proposals as “pie-in-the-sky”
plans unlikely to prove successful,
while Wachob accused Clinger of
voting in favor of oil and gas interests
outside the district.
“The difference between Bill Wa
chob and myself (on jobs) is the
difference between fantasy and reali
ty,” Clinger said.
Clinger said Wachob’s plan for a
‘development bank’ funded by a pub-
Casey, Scranton
face off in debate
By THOMPSON HOLLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
As expected, Republican candidate
William W. Scranton 111 and Demo
cratic opponent Robert P. Casey re
sponded last night to questions about
negative campaign advertising in a
statewide televised debate from Phil
adelphia between the two candidates
vying for lieutenant governor.
While current Lt. Gov. Scranton
repeated his refusal to air television
advertisements that are excessively
critical of his opponent, former Audi
tor General Casey said the issue of his
campaign is not negative advertising,
but “the negative record of William
W. Scranton III.”
“My primary concern is that this
campaign is a campaign of negativi
ty... a campaign that has brought
weather
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chance of a shower. Low 47. Tomorrow, the possibility of a shower lingers
on, and so do the clouds as the high reaches 59 Heidi Sonen
lic/private partnership would fail to
attract the necessary public support
because investors would not want to
invest in “high risk, low return”
projects.
Wachob said the $5 billion project
would provide funds for industries
such as local glass and paper con
cerns which could “go downhill” for
lack of capital.
“The federal government should be
the entity of last resort for low-inter
est loans,” Wachob said.
Wachob criticized an advertise
ment touting Clinger’s contribution to
the decreasing unemployment rate in
Cameron County since 1982 through
the addition of an incubator, a facility
designed to aid and encourage small
business.
Wachob attributed the decline from
35 to 6 percent unemployment in that
Please see CLINGER VS. WACHOB,
Page 16.
the state-of-the-art advertisement
that one newspaper called ‘the 30-
second smear’ into the central posi
tion of this campaign,” Scranton
said.
Scranton defended Monday’s deci
sion to withdraw negative advertis
ing, but still reserve the right to
defend his record and attack his
opponent in speeches and direct mail
ing campaigns.
Casey rebutted, saying Scranton
was the first to initiate negative ad
vertising on Aug. 6, in a political
campaign that then had Scranton
ahead by 12 points in the polls and $1
million in campaign funds. Casey
criticized the Republican candidate
for now calling the campaign a “back
alley brawl.”
Please see CASEY VS. SCRANTON,
Page 16.