The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 4, 1979-Page3 One girl dies, another critical in bout with Reye's Syndrome Perm Special by Eunice *.?C5Q Including Hair Cut until Oct. 13 HOUSE OF BEAUTY 411 Hamilton-662-0023 From staff and wire reports A five-year-old Sanilac County girl hospitalized about two weeks ago -with ,Reye's Syndrome has died of the mysterious children's disease, Univer- sity Hospital officials said yesterday. Suzie Girard of Peck, Michigan had, been in critical condition since her Sept. 20 admission to Mott Children's Hospital, part of the University Hospital complex. She died Tuesday, hospital spokesman Joseph Owsley said. TWO OTHER GIRLS suffering from Reye's Syndrome, which usually has a fatality rate of about 30 to 40 per cent, remain hospitalized at Mott. One of the youngsters, a nine-year-old Ann Arbor girl, was in critical condition in the hospital's intensive care unit, Owsley said. She had been admitted Sept. 3 and initially had been ill with chickenpox. The other victim, 16-year-old Julie Jakab of Petodkey, was in fair con- dition and had been removed from in- tensive care. Admitted Sept. 22 after a bout with a respiratory infection, she had been in critical condition earlier. THE THREE LATEST Reye's Syn- drome patients brought the total num- ber of cases reported in Michigan to 63 so far this year. There have been 10 deaths, including Girard. Joseph Baublis, a University Medical School pediatrics and communicable disease professor, said last week that the disease is not contagious and occurs in children-and young adults recovering from viral infections such as influenza or measles. Baublis explained that the "initiating" disease breaks down the body's defense mechanisms, causing harmful "toxins" to store up in the body, ultimately damaging the brain. BAUBLIS, WHO IS the coordinator of Mott's "Reye's Syndrome team," has been battling the disease since 1974. He said symptoms of the disease range from vomiting to mental disorders. As the body's defense mechanisms fail, he said, hallucinations or periods of delerium occur. The "Reye's Syndrome team" at Mott Children's Hospital, while not fin- ding a cure for the disease, has managed to reduce the death rate of af- flicted children. Baublis said when the team was establishe din 1974, nearly 50 per cent of the victims died. Baublis said that figure is now down to 20 to 30 per cent. Baublis said the team still does not know what causes the disease, altough environmental factors are suspected. He said there are no clues as to what children are more vulnerable to the disease than others. POETRY with David Kozubei, Deborah Soltar, Paul Bail, John Jackson, Nancy Bock readings from their works Thurs., Oct. 4 7:30 PM -Refreshments- GUILD HOUSE, 802 MOOn LUNCHEON homemade soup & sandwich 75t "MIRAGE' "-A Teaching and Performing Creative DANCE COLLECTIVE- a panel presentation Friday, Oct. 5 11 noon Monroe, (corner of Oakland) 14 1 / , Ke hey sues Flint for pollution; Cty officials we LANSING (UPI) - Attorney General Frank Kelley sued the city of Flint yesterday in a bid to clean up what officials call one of the state's most serious municipal pollution problems, but city officials said they welcome the action. FLint Mayor James Rutherford said the city has filed its own suit over equipment at its waste water treatment plant and hopes the two actions can be considered together. THE SUIT WAS Kelley's second charging a Michigan city with water pollution. A similar action is pending against the city of Detroit. Kelley asked the Genessee County Circuit Court to order Flint to take corrective action to halt the pollution of the Flint River. Kelley charged the plant's discharges contain excessive levels of phosphorus and ammonia in violation of state and federal water quality standards. Fish and aquatic life are threatened and residents of the area have complained of foul odors originating at the plant, he said. PLANT OFFICIALS, Kelley charged, have repeatedly ignored or failed to comply with pollution warnings from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -The suit asks that Flint be ordered to undertake a program STUDY ABROAD AT' ITHACA COLLEGE LONDON CENTEF lcome action of corrective measures established by the state Department of Natural Resources to bring the treatment plant into com- pliance with federal and state standards. It seeks a penalty of $10,000 for each day the city fails to comply with a court-established corrective program and asks that the city be required to reimburse the state for the cost of enforcing pollution standards. "I REALIZE that the city of Flint faces serious problems and difficulties in its effort to correct this situation," Kelley said. "But this problem cannot be allowed to continue. I'm not happy about taking the city of Flint to court, but after con- ferring with Natural Resources Director Howard Tanner, I feel there is no choice." Rutherford called Kelley's action "very understandable." "HE HAS A JOB to protect the environment and a job to protect the water. We understand that," he said. Rutherford said there is "absolutely no contest" that the river is being polluted, but said the city believes the problem stems from equipment installed at the plant in 1974. He claimed the city was forced to accept the equipment because it was part of a low bid offer and currently is in court against the contractor. U U U SEMESTER OR YEAR PROGRAM ITHACA COLLEGE CREDIT BRITISH FACULTY' COURSES - British and European studies ar off ered in literature, history, art history, drama, business administration, music, sociology, educa communications, psychology and politics. Courses are designed to make the most of the Program's location in London and the United Kingdom. Field trips, excursions and guest lecturers are an integral part of the curriculum For further information write: Director of Foreign Study Muller Faculty Building-SP Ithaca College Ithaca, New York 14850 THE ition, fit 1- 4 - S Kelley his second suit BLOW TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate yesterday soundly defeated two attem- pts by environmentalists to weaken President Carter's proposal for a powerful new agency to speed new energy projects. By votes of 59-38 and 60-34, the Senate agreed to give an Energy Mobilization Board broad powers to push for con- struction of new facilities, including synthetic fuel plants and oil refineries. SENATORS concerned about the en- vironmental dangers of such new facilities did win one major concession that would give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) veto power over some projects. By a voice vote, the Senate agreed that if plants are found to be a hazard to health after construction begins, the EPA would have authority to stop building. But that could occur only if state or local governments sought to -block construction. The Interior Departmentwould also have to certify that the energy project would not be a danger to wildlife if it were built. " LATER, environmentalists also suc- approves power to override federal laws which inhibit the construction of new energy plants. The amendment was urged by Sen. Walter Huddleston (D-Ky.), who criticized "untouchable" environmen- tal protection laws which he said should not be permitted to limit energy development. But overall, the president's proposed board designed to open bureaucratic bottlenecks survived intact, despite an intensive assault from Senate environ- mentalists and states' rights advocates. IN THE FIRST key vote, the Senate voted to table, or kill, a version of the board with much weaker powers than those urged by Carter. Later, there was an attempt by Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine), to eliminate a section of Carter's proposal allowing the mobilization board to step in if state and local agencies failed to meet decision deadlines. That effort also failed. In opposing Carter's version of the board, Sen. Gary Hart, (D-Colo.), said: "Our energy needs are great. But they are not so great we have to abandon all Energy Board HART SUPPORTED a version of the board proposed by Sens. Muskie and Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), and backed by environmental organizations and associations of city, county and state governments. Under the Carter version approved by the Senate Energy Committee, the mobilization board would be em- powered to force local and stte agencies to meet deadlines for approval or disapproval of a wide range of energy projects. If work on a project had already begun, local agencies and state gover- nments would be prohibited from retroactively blocking it. RIBICOFF'S proposal would have required court approval for most ac- tions by the board. It would also have been limited to selecting 24 priority projects, compared to the president's proposal, which set no ceiling. At stake are billions of dollars prop- posed for the construction of oil refineries, synthetic fuel plants and gas and oil pipelines, which are often delayed by regulations at all levels of government. Environmentalists say they are afraid that in the rush to ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil, the country will reverse the drive to reduce and control industrial pollution in the air and water. The president's proposed mobilization board, Muskie said, "is a clear attack on environmental laws, especially the Clean Air Act." Moreover, he said, state and local governments should retain the right to decide the wisdom of controversial energy projects. SEN. HENRY Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Energy Com- mittee, questioned "punctilious con- cern for the environment and states' rights." PUBLIC NOTICE LIQUIDATION OF PERSIAN AND OTHER ORIENTAL RUGS All to be Sold for Financial Troubled Mona Oriental Rugs of Richmond VA. AUCTION AT Briarwood Hilton State Street & 1-94 Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, Oct. 5th, 1979 View:7:00 P.M. Auction: 8:00 P.M. Big, small, scatter and large roam size rugs includes silk Qum, Esphan, Nain, Tabriz; Kerman, Keshan, Princess Bokhara, Deep pile Bokhara, Tabataby, Chinese, Romanian and Indian rugs. AMA LIQUIDATORS Consultants-Appraisers-Auctioneers of Massachusetts Terms: Cash or Check g k' } ;. RSG head proposes ceeded in defeating, 56 to 37, an attempt other national goals in a single-minded to give the board and the president the pursuit of new energy plants." elee ti 0i ru le s e h a i g e By CHARLES THOMSON Citing concern over a lack of student "really a collection of departments . . jqG and the departments have a fairly participation in Rackham Student strong organization." Milbrath ex Government ( RSG) , Bob Milbrath, Govenmen (RG), ob ilbrthplained that the proposed amendment RSG president proposed an amendment p d the prosedtamendmeni to the Rackham constitution would Tuesday night to the RSG constitution utilize the program organization of t which would change the RSG Executive graduate school at the de ri%,nn~ ntntin nrnnc grauat scool t te dpartment Y it d t His Holiness The Dt9A! ILAMA o f TIBET will speak in HILL AUDITORIUM sunda y, October 7-4:00 pm. on "The Ruddhist Way to WodAd P eace" FILMS Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Bicycle Thief, 7 p.m.; A Brief Vacation, 8:45, Nat. Sci. Auditorium. Cinema II- Women's Film Festival, 7 p.m. Angell Hall Aud. A. Cinema Guild - Repulsion, 7,9:05 p.m. Old Arch. Aud." Mediatrics Films - Utamaro and Five Women, 7, 8:40, 10:20, Michigan Union Assembly Hall. MEETINGS Black Student Union - mass meeting, 7 p.m. Trotter House. Students for ERA - 7 p.m., Stockwell Conference Room. PERFORMANCES Musical Society - Bohemian State Folk Ballet of Prague, 8 p.m., Power Center. Musical Society - Soprano Joan Sutherland and pianist-conductor Richard Bonynge in recital, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. SPEAKERS College of Engineering - John Dealy, "Some Difficulties in the Application of Engineering Principles to Plastics Processing," 11 a.m., East Engineering, Room 2084. Anthropology - William Merrill, "A Year in the Life of the. Tarahunar Chihuahua Mexico," noon, 2009 Music Building. Hopwood Room - Hopwood Tea, Jane Kenyon, 3:30 p.m., Hop- wood Room. Young Workers Liberation League - Judith Mercadel and Walter Corley "SALT II FOrum," 7p.m., Trotter House. LSA - Angus Campbell, "Psychological Well-Being," 8 p.m., : Rackham Auditorium. MISCELIANEOUS Councul election process. After presenting his proposal at the RSG Executive Council meeting, Milbrath explained the proposed amendment must first be approved by council and then by the Rackham student body in an election. He added that an RSG subcommittee will have completed the entire text of the amen- dment by the RSG Executive Council's next meeting Tuesday. THE PROPOSED amendment seeks to end its current practice of electing RSG Executive Council members in Rackham school-wide elections. In- stead, Milbrath said, the amendment would create an assembly of ap- proximately 120 representatives who would be selected from departments within the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. This assembly would meet twice a year to select Executive Council members. If the amendment passes, the tecent role of the Executive Council would remain similar, according to Milbrath. The amendment only would change the number of council members to 11. Currently, there are 12 people serving on council. level. Several Executive Council members questioned Milbrath's proposal. Coun- cil member Ashok Katdare expressed concern that the system proposed by the amendment would cost RSG more money than the current system, and thought a 120-member assembly might be less efficient. But council member Ted Pena said "the question isn't whether it (the proposed system) will be perfect, but whether it will be better." EL CINE POLITICO Friday, Oct. 5 4:00 pm Aud A and SUN., OCT. 7 8:00 P.M. AUD "B" SUN., OCT. 14 8:00 P.M. Nicaragua: Patria Libre 0 Morr Fim be ngs wth scenes of Fol 1978 upr s ng by FSLN-explores history of ntervention in Nicaragua and role os Sandino-Eden Pastora (Commandonte Cero) discusses organization and armed struggle- interviews women and men of FSLN--Ernesto Cardenal celebrates Mass in camp and speaks of the oppressed and liberation. Six Days In Soweto "Six Days In Soweto- is a cinematically stunning and emotionally powerful film-not merely a record of rebellion against the violence of apartheid. but an insight into the daily lives and consciousness of the people of Soweto. - - -I I It WT r