University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 18, 1988
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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — About 1,000 demonstrators created a commuter nightmare yesterday but failed to achieve their goal of blocking the Pentagon during a protest of U.S. policies toward El Salvador.
Authorities said 214 men and women were arrested, most on charges of obstructing passage. Several episodes of fistulism between officers and demonstrators, and three people were charged with assault.
the demonstration, sponsored by a coalition of a half-dozen peace
groups, began at 4 a.m. CDT and extended into early afternoon. The protesters succeeded in forcing the police to abandon the huge parking lot south of the Pentagon — which normally accommodates 3,700 cars — and to run a human gauntlet through the entrances to get to the offices.
The demonstrators oppose U.S. sage the Salvadoran leader and be engaged in a war against leftist guerrillas since 1980. An estimated 60,000 people died in that war.
U.S. researchers win Nobel Prize British scientist shares medicine award for drug development
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two researchers from the United States and one from Britain won the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for helping to identify a genetic mutation, malaria, heart disease and stomach ulcers.
They share the $300,000 prize with Sir James W. Black of King's College Hospital Medical School in London. His research led to a beta blocker drug for heart disease and a drug for peptic ulcers.
The award capped more than four decades of pioneering work for Gertrude B. Elson and George H. Hitchings, who began collaborating in 1945 at the Rockefeller Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
The Associated Press
"I wished I had my beta blockers blacked," Black, 65, said at a news conference at King's College London.
Beta blockers block the stimulating effect of adrenaline on the heart, reducing the rate and force at which the heart pumps blood through the body — and reducing hirth blood pressure.
The Nobel Assembly certified Elon, 70, and Hitchings, 83, with helping develop six different drugs that can be used for at least nine serious conditions.
They included 6 mercaptopurine and thougua for leukaemia; azathioprine for organ transplant rejection and autoimmune diseases; allopurinol for gout; acetylcine for herpes virus infections.
pyrimethamine for malaria; and trimethoprim for bacterial infection and pulmonary infections
The assembly said their ideas also paved the way for development of azidothymidine, or AZT, which is the best documented drug so far in the field of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
AIDS, usually transmitted through sexual contact, infected needles or blood transfusions renders the immune system unable to resist infection and may require drug treatment for treating AIDS in the United States.
"I'm pleased more for my descendants than I am for myself." Hitchings said.
Peres promises talks if elected
TEL. AVIV. Israel — Labor Party leader Shimon Peres said yesterday that if he were elected prime minister, Palestinians in the occupied territories would elect delegates to peace talks with Israel.
The Associated Press
Peres spoke two weeks before national elections and on a day when 13 Palestinian were reported shot in the West Bank, an occupation occupied West Bank and Gaza Stri.
"if the violence is restrained, we will hold election in Judea, Samaria and Gaza so that a Palestinian... delegation can be
elected to represent the Palestinian side in negotiations," Peres said, using the biblical names for the West Bank.
News Roundup
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Lukud Pakistani and other leaders will "remain willion" of Palestinian protesters if they carry out threats to use weapons
Likud opposes territorial compromise in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. In 1987 Middle East War, Labor favors inside part of the occupied lands for peace.
THE FIRST LADY'S BORROWED CLOTHING:
First Lady Nancy Reagan expressed regret for the loss of a child in White House lawyers that she formally discharged her borrowing of gowns and other designer apparel. But her press secretary and a government official there there was no legal requirement that she do so.
OZONE HOLE MODERATING: The Antarctic "ozone hole," which has raised scientific concern in recent years, seems to have moderated slightly. But the apparent improvement does not mean that the threat of ozone depletion is over. Ozone is an atmospheric Administration reported yesterday.
DAMAGED AIRLINER: A foot-long crack and 29 smaller cracks were discovered by chance on a plane that landed at an airport similar to the one that caused an Aloha Airlines jet to break apart in flight last April.
HAITIAN COUP FOILED: The military government in Haiti said yesterday that it foiled an attempted coup against President L. Gen. Prosper Avril by two military officials. Radio station La Tribune and 30 more were arrested in the coup attempt early Sunday. It gave no further details.
GRAND JURY INDICTS CONGRESSMAN: A federal grand jury indicted rep. Patt Swindall on charges of stealing the two-term Republican congressman of Swaindall said he hoped to bring the case to trial on charges he自发 his name by the Nov. 8 general election.
U. S. IN SPACE WITH SOVIETS? NASA officials are discussing the possibility of installing U.S. scientific instruments on a Soviet spacecraft to monitor the Earth's ozone layer, monitor damage to the Earth's ozone layer, Tass said yesterday. U.S. equipment has been used aboard a Soviet spacecraft in the past, but this venture would be the first in which the crew would own the equipment by working with the Soviets.
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