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Wednesday, February 18, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nixon aides relate to McFarlane suicide attempt
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two Nixon administration officials who survived the Watergate scandal say they are not surprised that Robert McFarlane, a key figure in the Iran arms-contra aid affair, attempted suicide
John Ehrlichman, Nixon's No. 2 man who was jailed for conspiracy in the Watergate cover-up, acknowledges his suicide had crossed his mind. Others touched by the scandal said pressure often built to intolerable levels.
Erichman and Jeb Stuart Magruder say that pressure borne of intense public scrutiny and worries about personal reputation, career and family affects not only those embriled in the controversy but also strains marriages and drags children "through hell."
Some of those who survived Watergate say things may get worse before they get better for those involved in the current controversy. But some also say the experience can have a silver liming.
Ehrlichman said the McFarlane
incident did not surprise him. "I'm sure that kind of thing is not an unusual reaction to pressure of that sort. Most people, for religious or other reasons, reject it."
other request asked whether suicide had occurred to him, Ehrlichman, who served 18 months in prison and now is a successful writer in Sante Fe, N.M. said, "Of course it did, sure."
McFarlane is recovering after taking 20 to 30 Valium tablets Feb. 9. In the aftermath of what police investigated as a suicide attempt, friends have said that McFarlane was strug
gling to deal with an uncertain career and the failure of the U.S. program to sell arms to Iran, which he helped to initiate.
Magruder, deputy director of Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign who pleaded guilty to a Watergate-related offense, said he was "saddened but not surprised" by McFarlane's action, and understood the stress brought on by feelings of personal failure and uncertainty.
"That's how I felt. I came to Washington to save the world and went out to a high degree of negative
public opinion and negative personal issues for the future," said Magrudrer, now a minister in Columbus, Ohio, and to remarry.
"I'm sure a lot of the Nixon people can understand what is happening to him, and all the rest," said Harry Tinker, his special counsel from 1968 to 1972.
"The stress and the humiliation and the utter destruction of one's self and one's family is magnified under the circumstance of being in the national spotlight," said Dent, now a Christian lay minister in Columbia.
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Ehrlichman agreed, saying, "In Washington I think everything is double or triple. The glare is just very, very bright. The press coverage is very aggressive."
Ehrlichman, portrayed along with Nixon chief of staff H.R. Haldenam as a major villain of Watergate, recently wrote in Newsweek magazine that he remembered laying in the turf, particularly of the form of media hounding that the scandal had brought to his family.
Pandas starving in China's reserve
Animals will be moved to new home with more bamboo
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PEKING - About 100 giant pandas threatened with starvation in China's largest nature reserve will be taken 450 miles to a new mountain home where there is plenty of bamboo to eat, the official People's Daily newspaper said yesterday.
"China's hunger-stricken gian pandas are expected to migrate from the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan to Shenmongjia in Hubei," Pei
ple's Daily said.
At least 62 of central China's estimated 1,000 wild giant pandas have died of starvation since a periodic blossoming of the animal's staple food, arrow bamboo, began about four years ago. The blossoming uses the bamboo inedible for the reserve's estimated 100 giant pandas.
The plant blossoms every 60 years, and it takes at least 15 years for the bamboo seedlings to become edible
tor pandas, one of the world's rarest animals.
The People's Daily announcement indicates officials may have failed in an attempt to get some 1,700 residents of the 500,000-acre Wolong reserve to evacuate the region.
In 1984, officials told a group of visiting journalists that Tibetan and other minority residents living in valley areas within Wolong — China's largest nature reserve — would be arranged so the pandas could
descend to lower elevations where another type of edible bamboo grows. But some of the residents said they would not leave.
People's Daily said Shennongjia, 450 miles east of Wolong, is similar in temperature to Wolong and covers 1,200 square miles.
The newspaper did not say how the evacuation, proposed by scientists of the Wuhan Botany Institute and Wuhan University, could be carried out or when it would begin.
7-year-old arrives in Pittsburgh, begins tests for liver transplant
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PITTSBURGH — A 7-year-old Miami boy who received $1,000 from President Reagan for a liver transplant was flown to Pittsburgh yesterday for tests and received "Somebody loves me in Pittsburgh" sweatsht from a waiting ambulance crew.
First-grader Ronald Desillers was surrounded by stuffed animals as he was carried on a stetcher from an air ambulance and taken to Children's Hospital after the two-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He will undergo a week of tests to determine whether he can receive a transplant, a hospital spokesman said.
Doctors say the boy, who now weighs 38 pounds, is unlikely to live more than three months without a new liver.
--already have given about $400,000 for the boy's surgery. The $1,000 check and an autographed picture from Reagan came after the theft of $4,000 that the youth had raised for the operation
Contributors from around the
"We're glad to be a little part of this," said Bill Noble, manager of the Lifesist Ambulance Service crew, which presented Desiliers with his sweatshirt at Allegheny County Airport. "We're glad to donate the service."
The boy's mother, Maria Desillers, and his stepfather, Jose Castillo, thanked the people around the nation who have sent cards,
If surgeons approve a transplant, the boy would be placed on a waiting list for a suitable donor, which could take up to 18 months. "There's really no way of saying how long it might take," hospital spokesman Lynn McMahon said.
receptoned their concern and contributed to the almost $400,000 fund.
"Three weeks ago, we had no way of getting here." Desillers said. "It's meant a lot. It's given me a lot of strength. People say, 'How can you be so calm?' But they don't see me when I'm alone."
Maria Desilliers said her son enjoyed the trip. "It was Romie's first plane ride," she said. "He kept telling the airplane pilot. . . Please keep your hands on the wheel!"
The youth suffers from cirrhosis of the liver, a complication caused by underdevelopment of the bile ducts, or congenital hypoplasia, a condition he was born with.
Desillers said doctors had told the family Ronald probably would not live more than several months without a transplant.
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