The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, May 22, 1985- Page 3
Woman
delivers
7 babies;
6 survive
ORANGE, Calif. (UPI) -A high school
teacher who took fertility drugs to
"round out" her family gave birth
yesterday to seven babies. One of the
babies was stillborn and doctors said
the others faced a day-to-day fight for
survival.
S+yThe six living babies, only 27 weeks
in gestation, were in critical but stable
condition, doctors said. All weighed
lies , , wbetween 1 pound 1 ounce and 1 pound 3
S .ounces.
The infants, four boys and two girls,
were so tiny that one could comfor-
tably fit in the palm of an adult's
hand, a hospital spokesman said.
Dr. Ragnar Amlie, a neonatal
specialist at St. Joseph Hospital,
estimated their chance of survival at
only "30 to 40 percent."
Associated Press The mother, Patti Frustaci, 30, of
M arshland m ishap nearyRiverside, was listed in good
condition.
Rescuers attempt to locate workers who were trapped when an oil drilling rig capsized yesterday in a Louisiana bayou. Six men are dead and six The babies were all placed on
are still missing. respirators and were being fed in-
travenously. Amlie said the biggest
. danger facing them was lung disesse
because premature infants "lack the
B io e myer substance that helps keep their lungs
Bildvides labor, e poers pntrehbah.
Amlie said the infants' future would
be rkne na "a-ody ai
By KATIE WILCOX Know" bill which would expand the federal Oc- Richard Studley of the Michigan Chamber of and added, "We will fight for each
Special to the Daily cupational Safety and Health Act to include a Commerce said that businesses are "ready," baby and only time will show. It's
greater number of state employers. willing, and able to negotiate on this issue." But going to be a rocky course over the
LANSING - Citizens of Michigan have the right The bill would also require more stringent "non-manufacturers simply don't have the human next few weeks and months."
to know about dangerous chemicals in the work- labeling information of chemicals and allow or financial resources or expertise to conduct the
place, representatives of several labor unions workers to refuse the handling of unidentified con- hazard evaluation needed to comply with this Had all seven babies survived, it
argued at a state House of Representatives tainers of hazardous materials. bill." would have broken the record for
hearing yesterday. The bill has relevance to Lorch Hall employees George Carr of the Michigan Chemical Council multiple births. There have been
But a spokesman for the Michigan Chamber of at the University, who last October complained cited the same problem. "A unique Michigan label several sets of sextuplets, according
Bommerce sksan thatw e buinessgnterae tatthU esyand unique Michigan requirementa will be an un- to the Guinness Book of World Recor-
Commerce said that while business interesta are that they had not been notified of asbestes par- due burden on employers in Michigan," he said. ds.
willing to compromise, additional safety ticles in the building. The Right to Know bill would STUDLEY also criticized the Blanchard Ad- Dr. Martin Feldman, Frustaci's ob-
regulations would make it more difficult for com- require the University to post such information in minisration for "wanting to have their cake and stetrician, said the last baby may
panies to compete with businesses from other buildings which are undergoing construction. eat it too" after pledging support for the bill but not have been dead for several days due
states. THE SPONSOR of the bill, Juanita Watkins (D- aporaigayfnst mlmn h o"yetnin rmte"xrm
THE HEARING, sponsored by the House Labor Detroit), said that the bill is an effort to "expand ppropriating any funds to implement the to "hypertension" from the "extreme
Committee, was an effort to evaluate the "Right to the scope of coverage," for workers. proposed regulations, amount of crowding.
Surge of campus protests face summertime blues
Reagan administration is Barbara Ransby, a graduate Ransby said the group will make a resurgence in the fall," Black said. said Brodie. "It's still not totally ac-
galvanizing force that people are student at the University of Michigan concrete proposal to the University's "Conventions like ours give people a ceptable, but more people are willing
~going to keep reacting to. All the and a founder of the Free South Africa governing board, following legal chance to organize and fon aehtvrm net-en to TakS CStand."eran
schools aren't going to divest during movement at Columbia as an un- channels at first. "I don't think you works and mag whatver hapns THIS EASE in numbers, Ran-
the s The CIA's not g to dergraduate, said that she and other can demand their response without even stronger. Gitlin said similar shy said, draws other students in.
stop recruiting on campuses. And students formed the "U-M Free South asking them first," she said. conventions werepopularin the '60s. "When I went back to Columbia, I saw
weapons contractors aren't going to Africa Coordinating Committee." The group plans to sponsor teach- ANOTHER REASON student lead- all these people I was in class with,
'stop offering research contracts to Ransby said over the summer the ins and a lecture series, and perhaps ers give for their optimism is a who weren't that interested in the
universities." group will concentrate on education set up a course through the Uver- change in student attitudes. "Before, issue when it wasn't glamorous. But
Aldon Morris, an associate and aini u rt of the students on sity's "Free University Program, there would be about a dozen people with all the media exposure we've
professor of sociology at the Univer- camgasng s ppor Ransby said. who would be active, while everybody been getting, you can't afford not to
sity, agreed with Brodie. "The key Ransby also said that the group sent JOHN SHENIAN, former president else said they agreed with them, but have an opinion anymore."
will be that the same issues will still a letter out to President Harold of thw Wisconsin Student Assembly, 'you know, we might get into trouble Gitln, who was a housemate of Tom
be around, The issues - especially Shapiro and the Board of Regenta said activities over the summer are a or something.' Now they don't care," Hayden at the University, added
be aoun. Te isues- epecall ShairoandtheBoar ofRegntsbridge to increase activity in the fall. said Ross Hammond, a Berkeley another reason why he thinks ac-
apartheid - are not going to go away soliciting their opinions on the "recent "Aetivism will return.
during the summer," he said. events in South Africa and around the during wil-ereae slihtly rsensos invole "e i tivi'will hetun.
Morris compared today's activism country." The ultimate goal, Ransby durtatig eh summer but I really believe protesta in Berkeley. "In the 'sts the student movement
to the 'is when larger social said, is the total divestment of the at it will increase in the fall," he "This talk about conservatism on was strongest when it bit into an issue
movements, especially the Civil University's stocks in South Africah said. "There are going to be several campuses is caca," said Hammond. that had two faces. One that took
Righta movement, continued to grow THE University currently holds 5 conventions over the summer to build "People felt demoralized after they place far away, and, one that took
regardless of the semesters, million in South Africa-based stocks different coalitions.." saw Reagan was going to be president place right in the immediate setting -
GITLIN agreed that many studenta after divesting $45 million of these One of these conventions, sponsored for another four years, but now for example, the University's in-
in the 60's ent th r worki stocks in 1983. One reason the Univer- by the All-People's Congress on June 8 they're over the shock. Now it's fight volvement in enforcing the draft."
on the issues. Similarily, several sity is holding onto these stocks is for and 9, expects to draw several hun- or die." "THE CIA AND the divestment
campus lesders said that there will be a basis for its lawsuit challenging a dred activists to Baltimore, according Brodie and Ransby have also seen a issues strike me as similar in that
some activity during the summer - state law mandating divestment. The to Sandra Black, a spokesperson for change in attitudes. 'One of the things respect," said Gitlin. "The CIA
though probably not in the form of law is a threat to the University's the group. I've seen happen is that getting in- recruiters and the board of trustees
civil disobedience. - > . autonomy, the administration says. 'Absolutely, there will be a volved is less freaky, less abberent," are targets close to home."