November 29,1984
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NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
Byrd expected to retain minority leadership post
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will meet Dec. 12 to choose their leaders, and every indication is that they again will pick veteran Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.
No public challenge to Byrd has surfaced.
The Democrats also are expected again to elect Sen. Alan Cranson of California as assistant leader and Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii as secretary.
Students want ban on Playboy
Bryrd served four years as major leader He became minority leader when the Republicans gained control of the Senate in the 1980 elections. He also is chairman of the Democratic Policy committee and the steering committee that determines committee assignments.
LOS ANGELES — Declaring them sexually exploitive, a group of university students asked yesterday that Playboy, Playgirl, Oui and other sex magazines be banned from the bookstore at California State University-Northridge
"These magazines are exploitative, and the campus profits from selling this material," and Zeke Zeidler, Associated Students president. ". . . I don't think that is in line with the meanings of the university."
Report indicates study habits
WASHINGTON - Girls do more homework than boys, the government's first report on after-class studies showed yesterday, with the typical American student spending about $1/2 hours a week hitting the books at home.
The report, based on the Census Bureau's October 1983 school enrollment study, was the first to report information on homework — a topic that has drawn new attention amid the national campaign for excellence in education.
1985 calendar will show all
DE KALB, Ill. — A 1895 calendar to be published off-campus by a former Northern Illinois University student will feature color photographs of nude college women.
"It's a hot item," said Frank Trebasak,
who also publishes the off campus Desk
of Information.
A spokesman for the 25,000-student university said NIU was not taking a stand on the calendar because it will be published off-campus.
Trebasak said he offered to pay $200 for the women pictured in the nude, and $150 for topless. Twenty-two women applied
Compiled from United Press International reports.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — William J. Schroeder, the world's se- meal from his wife, Margaret (center), at Humana Hospital cond artificial heart implant recipient, takes part of his first Audubon.
Heart patient progressing rapidly
By United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky — Bionic heart patient William Schroeder, making "amazing" progress on the largely unexplored road to recovery, joked with his nurses yesterday and sat up for his first meal since surgery.
Schroeder's wife, Margaret, was quoted by a cardiologist as saying her husband had been more comfortable in the past 24 hours with the artificial heart pulsing in his chest "than he had been for months prior to the surgery."
Dr. Robert I Goodin, head of cardiology at Humana Hospital Audubon, also said Schroeder should be past the risk of surgery related complications by the middle of next week. But Goodin said the mechanical problems would never be able to relax completely.
VESTERDAY AFTERNOON, HOSPITAL officials said Schroeder sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed.
"I'm amazed he has this kind of strength and progress at this point, three days following this kind of surgery." Goodin said.
A blood test yesterday revealed no sign of infection, one of the immediate worries of the medical team maintaining an around-the-clock watch over Schroeder, the world's second recipient of a permanent artificial heart.
Mrs. Schroeder fed her husband his first meal since Sunday's operation. It consisted of apple juice, grape juice, warm Cream of Wheat, a chocolate milk shake and milk
The 52-year-old former munitions inspector, who must always be attached to the air boxes that drive his heart, sat up in his intensive care bed to eat and is expected to get out of bed today — ahead of schedule — and take a step or two to a nearby chair.
THE HOSPITAL'S PATIENT coordinator,
Shirley Moore, said Schneer "has a tremendous will to live. All he wants to do is survive."
Dr. Allan Lansing, chairman of Humana Heart Institute, said Schroeder was in excellent spirits, joking with his doctors and nurses and sometimes playfully complaining about an uncomfortable procedure.
attitude is a very important factor in his favor as far as recovery is concerned."
Barney Clark, who died 112 days after receiving the first permanent artificial heart two years ago in Utah, was plagued by seizures during the early days after he received his implant. The Louisville medical team is taking extra precautions to keep that from happening to Schroeder.
Lansing said Schroeder's "positive mental
DOCTORS THINK PART of Clark's problems stemmed from the fact that his mechanical heart was set to pump considerably more blood per minute through his body, including his brain, than his weak natural heart had been putting out.
Schroeder's heart was set to beat 70 times per minute and its output had been raised gradually to about five quarts per minute yesterday, still low for a man with a normal heart. The maximum output of a healthy heart of an average man during exercise can be as high as 26 quarts a minute.
The Jarvik 7 heart in Schroeder has a maximum output of 16 quarts a minute, enough to support moderate exercise.
Callers deny Islamic Jihad plotted bomb
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Callers claiming to represent Islamic Jihad yesterday denied, that their terrorist group plotted to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
The Italian Embassy in west Beirut;
stepped up security measures, sending
alarm guards to search vehicles and to man
the road at the roof of the two-story building
Home police said Tuesday they had arrested seven Lebanese planning a truck, bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy. An eighth suspect was picked up in Switzerland carrying more than 4.4 pounds of explosives.
"We deny that our organization was linked in any way to this attack plan," a man claiming to represent Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, said in a call to a Western news agency. "When we decide to undertake a suicide operation we charge only one person to do it."
"The Rome government must assume full responsibility for having wrongly implicated us in an attack at a time when it the Italian government was not included in our operations."
The man, who spoke Arabic with a Lebanese accent, warned Italy "not to be drawn into affairs that do not concern it in order not to be attacked like others have," but he made no specific threats against Italian targets.
"We considered Italy as the friends of the deprived and that is why, until now, we have spared it from our attacks in Lebanon, and overseas," he said.
Islamic Jihad said it was responsible for the two suicide bombings of U.S. Embassy buildings in Beirut and the truck bombattack on the U.S. Marine barracks
"Now the Italian government has begun to follow in the steps of American colonialism and protects these interests," the caller said.
In another call to a Western news agency, a man who identified himself as a spokesman for Islamic Jihad delivered a similar message but did not directly deny Islamic Jihad had planned to attack the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
"Our Moslem people have never harbored any harm toward the Italian people. As proof of this we have so far excluded them from our relations either in Lebanon or abroad," the caller said.
"But it seems the Italian government has started following the trails of American imperialism and is desperately defending its role," the man said in a Lebanese accent.
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