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University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1983
Speakers to discuss living with diabetes
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
The untreated victims of diabetes 50 years ago lost their vision and had bells. They contracted gangrene, tumours, and kidney and heart diseases.
But the most serious complication of diabetes was the diabetic coma. A victim's appetite faltered, constipation occurred, and he slowly died.
The younger victims lasted about a year, while the older victims died in
DIABETES NOW HAVE longer life expectancies than they did an additional 40 years in most cases—but diabetics who do not need are needed to extend their lives.
And it is these preparations and treatments that are the focus of a program.
ment Saturday in the southeast conference room of the Frank R. Burge Union.
the diabetes seminar, sponsored by the Douglas County chapter of the American Diabetes Association, Watkins Memorial Hospital and the UiTins center on ovarian nutrition, pregnancy and the diabetic college student.
Guest speakers include doctors and nurses from both the Lawrence and the Kansas City campuses. The seminar will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 4 p.m.
DIABETES IS A DISEASE in which the body is not able to break down sugar for energy, but holds the sugar in the kidney. Symptoms of the disease include extreme thirst, hunger and loss of weight and strength.
Howard Rytting, professor of pharmacy and pharmacology and chairman of the Douglas County chapter of the American Diabetes Association, said
He said about 10 million people in the United States and about 100 KU students are reported to have diabetes.
the speeches in the seminar would benefit all diabetics, whether they are students or not.
THE OTHER TYPE, called maturity- onset or non-inusual depend. affects older people, and the victims need not take insulin, he said.
Two types of diabetes are common, he said. One type, called juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes, affects fewer people than the other type but it is the most severe. Victims must take insulin injections about two times a day.
Both types are hereditary, he said, but more cases of hereditary diabetes have been reported of the non-insulin dependent type.
Despite the hardships of both groups victims of each type must be careful
about what they eat, must exercise properly and must keep close tabs on their sugar levels — research in diabetes has supplied victims with new treatments and some new clues as to the causes of diabetes, he said.
"I think we're in a golden era of diabetes research," he said. "There's been a lot of attention on diabetes in the last several years and it looks as if it could help in the long range treatment of diabetes."
RYTINGT SAID SOME of the research showed that a virus was causing the immune system of the non-insulin dependent disrupt the body's insulin production.
Other areas of research include treatment of some of the secondary complications of diabetes, such as blindness and vascular problems that can lead to gangrene and kidney disorders.
Reagan's appearance draws 4,500 demonstrators
By United Press International
PITTSBURGH — President Reagan took his prediction for national economic improvement to one of the country's high unemployment areas yesterday and said 4,500 sullen demonstrators were confused about the recovery.
"The leading economic indicators are positive, and I can tell you, so am I," Reagan told a meeting of the National Conference on Dislocated Workers who were outside demonstrators stood in the forest and protested his economic policies.
REAGAN SAID THE NATION owes "an obligation and a helping hand to those who pay the price of economic readjustment," but said he would reject a budget passed by House Democrats that would earmark more money for social programs.
Reagan took a back road route into rain-soaked Pittsburgh and entered the hotel where he walked through an alleyway, and saw him from seeing the demonstrators
gathered outside the site of the conference.
Still, the demonstrators — estimated at 4,500 by police — booled loudly, chanted and waved signs to proddy them. A bass drum thumped over the noise while he spoke.
WHILE THE PRESIDENT neither heard nor saw the demonstrators, he departed from his remarks to acknowledge those "unemployed steelworkers across the street (who were) venting confusion and anger as we speak."
The unemployment rate nationally is 10.2 percent, but in metropolitan Pittsburgh it stands at 16.2 percent and borrowing Beaver County it is 26 percent.
While aides on Air Force One worried that the presence of so many demonstrators — one of the largest groups of protesters to gather at a Reagan event — might become "confrontational", they said the appearance was necessary to show Reagan was not afraid to face area where his policies were unpunished.
REAGAN BROUGHT ALONG Labor
Secretary Raymond Donovan and
Specter said, "If there are brickbats we want to be there to shield him."
two Republican Senators from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter and John Hines.
Reagan visited a computer training center before arriving at the conference where he lapsed into the complicated jargon of the computer generation to demonstrate that vocational retraining is necessary for many workers who have lost their jobs to advancing technology.
The president, who frequently claims newspapers carry hundreds of advertisements for jobs, became specific to the issue. The secretary can appoint positions require special training.
READING A HELP WANTED ad from the Pittsburg Press, Reagan said it called for a "Sysms programmer
- large scale IBM VTAM, TSO-SPF, ACP2, CICS, OS-MVS. The point is that we're in a new age. No longer do the ads simply offer jobs where good homes and living. You have to be specialist to know what the ad is even about."
Reagan's visit to the Control Data
Institute was carefully choreographed as the president looked at video terminals and blinking computer gear were being retrained and steelworkers were being retained.
After watching the gadgety at work the president admitted. "I don't know a lot about it."
THE ONLY UNEXPECTED event came as Reagan concluded his appearance at the training facility when Ron Bricker of the Houston, Pa., who lost his job as a steelworker a year and a half ago, and abruptly called to the president.
"I've been looking for a job for a year and I can't find one. Will you take my resume?"
Reagan shook hands with Bricker, who wore a button reading "Jobs or income" on his maroon sweater, took his resume and handed it to an aide.
Aides later said that Reagan read the resume completely and he said he would take care of it personally, commenting, "This is typical of the kind of person we want to help. This is the kind of guy who deserves a job."
plying for the Costa Rican program were required to be at least second-semester sophomores with a minimum 3.0 trade point average.
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS ARE not required to be language majors, they must have completed four courses that will be eligible for the program. she said.
The deadline for applying for admission to the fall semester of the Costa Rican study abroad program has been moved up from May 6 to April 8, a study abroad advisor said yesterday.
Oetting said students interested in the program should contact Anita Herzfeld at the study abroad office in Room 203 of Lippincott Hall.
Annett the adviser, said that the deadline had been changed so students applying for the program could take advantage of the study abroad orientation program April 16.
The two East Berliners shot a line with a bow and arrow from the roof of a five-story East Berlin tenement house near the wall to a West Berlin accomplice on the roof of a four-story building on the other side.
Germans escape East Berlin using high wire act over wall
"We had enough of the German Democratic Republic," one of the refuges, 25-year-old heating re-enforces identity with Michael B. the Bild written
By United Press International
BERLIN — Two East Germans who staged a daring escape to the West over the Berlin Wall said yesterday they risked their lives because they had "had it up to here" with conditions in the communist state.
The accomplice attached the line to an automobile and the two men crossed over on the pulley. The refugees glided 85 feet above the 9-foot-high wall the communists built in 1961 to halt the flight of refugees.
MICHAEL AND HIS FRIEND, a 24-year-old electrician, escaped over the Berlin Wall to the American sector and was suspended a pauley suspended from a high wire.
MICHAEL TOLD THE BILD news paper they had to shoot three arrows. He said the first arrow they shot fell short of the wall and the second went over it, but their accomplice could not find it. The third worked.
Costa Rican deadline moved
AMC sales for the month were up 121 percent from last year. AMC sales so far this year are up 117 percent.
AMERICAN MOTORS CORP. sold
9,035 cars in the final 10 days of March,
up 175.4 percent from 2,861 in the period
last year. The increase is attributed to
the success of the Renault Alliance,
made in Kenosha, Wis.
--at the
Oetting said that students ap-
Volkswagen of America sold 3,292 cars in the final 10 days of March, down 3.2 percent from 4,552 last year. VW sales for March were down 37 percent and are down 21.7 percent for the year.
Come in before or after the Comets game tonight and get
For the month, GM sales were up 0.5 percent from last year. So far this year, GM sales are up 2.2 percent from the first quarter of 1982.
Special deals help car sales rise in March
50c draws with KU IDs
Ford now is offering 9.9 percent drive on its small models as is GM.
GM's sales for the final 10 days were down 5 percent on a daily rate basis
Import automakers reported a sales increase of 5.6 percent in March, but their market share fell to 26 percent from 28.7 percent the month before.
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By United Press International
DETROIT — Domestic car sales were up 3.8 percent in March but rose just 0.5 percent in the final 10 days despite the expiration of incentive programs, automakers said yesterday.
Ford's sales for the final 10 days were up 3.6 percent on a daily basis. Ford sales for the month rose 3.4 percent, but are down 0.3 percent for the year.
31st Annual
Total industry sales in the United States in March were 807,705, up 3 percent from 774,711 the year before. The increase is due to that total, up from 198,863 last year.
DOMESTIC AUTOMAKERS SOLD
597,765 cars in March, up 3.8 percent
from 575,608 last year. Sales for the Big
Three alone were up 2.8 percent.
For the year, domestic sales to date are up 3.1 percent from the first quarter of 1982. Big Three sales for the year are up 2.2 percent.
"First quarter industry sales aren't setting records, but they're clearly ahead of a year ago this time and they're every bit as strong as we expected," said Ford Motor Co. Vice President Phil Benton.
Analysts had predicted bigger in creases for the domestic automakers because their 11.9 percent financing programs ran out March 31. The firms have since introduced new programs good through May.
Chrysler was the only automaker to offer buyers a choice between rebates and 11.9 percent financing. It has extended the program until April 10.
CHRYSLER SALES WERE up 13 percent for the month and up 7 percent for the year so far.
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Exhibition Starts at 3:00 p.m., Big 8-Jayhawk Rooms, Kansas Union
Banquet at 5:30 p.m., Kansas Union Cafeteria
Cultural Show at 7:00 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.
EXHIBITION
Displays of artifacts and slide shows from several countries.
CUISINE
CULTURAL SHOW
Food from around the world.
TICKETS FOR BANQUET
IRAL SHOW Song and dances from different countries.
$5.00 Adult
$3.00 Children
Tickets are available at SUA Office, KU International Club (B115, B Kansas Union) and Office of Foreign Students Services (112 Strong Hall). For information call 864-4824.
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