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n Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Thursday, October 16, 1986 News Diss rl By The Associated Press V-m- " - "-"- M Soviet pullout Tanks, troops withdraw from Afghanistan ( In Brief SHINDAND, Afghanistan Com munist Party chief Najibullan threw flower petals at about 1,500 members of a Soviet tank regiment who clanked away in a dusty column Wednesday on their long and well-publicized trip home. The departure from a parched basin in this region near the Iranian frontier began the withdrawal of about 8,000 of the estimated 115,000 Soviet soldiers who help the communist government fight Moslem guerrillas. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised the pullout in July, during a speech in Vladivostok. Moscow has contended that Afghan government for ces are much stronger now than when it sent the first troops to Kabul in December 1979. Western diplomats in Afghanistan say the withdrawal is insignificant, a gesture timed to ward off criticism dur ing annual U.N. debate on the Afghan war later this year. Soviet officials call it a symbol of Kremlin willingness to achieve a polit ical settlement in Afghanistan. They say a complete pullout is not possible until the United States, Pakistan and other countries stop supplying politi cal support and weapons to the Moslem guerrillas. Najibullah declared the occasion "a historic day for Afghanistan." The 38-year-old leader told the depar ting troops the years after the coup in April 1978 were "a difficult and black period of our revolution," but govern ment forces had grown stronger with! the Soviets' help. ! Our people know that the soldier internationalists are the soldiers of peace," he said. . The regiment of about 90 tanks and hundreds of armored personnel carri ers and support vehicles is one of six moving north this month to Soviet Turkmenia. The others are two moto rized rifle regiments and three anti aircraft units. Nebraska to raise state park fees LINCOLN For the second time in two years the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will raise campground, cabin and other visitor-service fees for state parks and recreation areas. Commissioners approved the increases Wednesday. They will take effect Jan. 1, 1987. Dale Bree, assistant director of the parks division, told commissioners that the "across-the-board" increases will generate about $250,000 in additional revenue. Bill Benedict, an administrative assistant for the commission's parks division, said the increases are necessary to make up for about $350,000 in budget reductions incurred by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission during the last two years. Under the new fee schedule, cabin fees will be increased by 12 to 14 percent, Benedict said. The average increase will be about $5 per cabin per day, he said. The average campground fee will increase by about $1. For example, campground fees at Louisville State Recreation Area now are at $3 or $4, and will increase to $4 or $5. ska may get AIDS dm; OMAHA An experimental drug for treating acquired immune deficiency syndrome might be used soon at the University of Nebraska and Veterans Administration medical centers in Omaha, officials say. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided last month to make the drug, an anti-viral agent called azidothymidine or AZT for short, more widely available because of encouraging early test results. University of Nebraska Medical Center has received approval to use AZT on three patients and is awaiting arrival of the drug, said Dr. James Armitage, chief of oncology-hematology. The VA Medical Center plans to ask for permission to use the drug on one patient, said Dr. Marvin J. Bittner of the VA staff. Bittner said the government decided to make AZT more widely available after cutting short a study of the drug. "The best news was that in the short term there were fewer deaths among patients who received AZT than among those who didn't," he said. One of 145 patients on AZT died compared with 16 of 137 patients who were not on the drug, he said. Bittner said AIDS patients interested in AZT treat ment should consult their doctors. Patients eligible for treatment must meet certain criteria. Muscular Dystrophy gene discovered NEW YORK Researchers have found the long-sought gene respon sible for the most common form of muscular dystrophy' a "historic dis covery" that could lead to the first direct treatment of this now-incurable disease. The Muscular Dystrophy Associa tion, which provided much of the financial support for the research, cautioned that the discovery would not immediately help children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, an illness that afflicts 20,000 to 50,000 American boys who will not survive beyond their 20s. This discovery of the gene by Louis Kunkel, Anthony Monaco and colleagues at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Bos ton caps several years of unusual cooperation by scientists around the world. In a report to be published Thurs day in Nature magazine, Kunkel and Monaco describe the isolation of a segment of genetic material that makes up about 10 percent of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene. This piece of the gene can can now be used to isolate the entire gene. The researchers also report that the gene appears to serve as the blueprint for manufacture of a pro tein in muscle tissue. Nobel science prizes shared by Americans, Canadians, Europeans STOCKHOLM, Sweden Two Amer icans and a Canadian won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday and three Europeans shared the physics prize, with all cited for helping many to peer into the tiny world of molecules and atoms. Dudley R. Herschbach, 54, of Har vard University; Yuan T. Lee, 49, of the University of California at Berkeley; and John C. Polanyi, 57, of the Univer sity of Toronto shared the chemistry prize for their study of how molecules interact to form new substances, the Swedish Academy of Sciences said. It said their work "provided a much more detailed understanding of how chemical reactions take place." The academy awarded the physics prize to three inventors of high-powered microscopes: Ernst Ruska of West Ber lin, who built the first electron micro scopes in the 1920s and 1930s; and Gerd Binnig of Frankfurt, West Ger many, and Heinrich Rohrer of Switzer- :.:v.v.:1v,vw.,v.,.v. r land, who designed a new type of elec tron microscope called the scanning tunneling microscope. Ruska, 79, was awarded half of the $290,000 phsics prize. Binnig, 39, and Rohrer, 53, who work together at the IBM laboratory outside Zurich, Switzer land, will share the other half. Sture Forsen, a chemistry professor and member of the Swedish Academy, said the three chemists' research even tually could be used to fight air pollu tion, acid rain and erosion of the ozone layer of the Earth's atmosphere. Congress labors to finish year's work (C (o)(o) TOCO Mexican Food Restaurants EVERY THURSDAY Taco del Sol Southwest Corner of 10 & Cornhusker WASHINGTON Less than three weeks before Election Day, the House and Senate rushed Wednesday to adjourn the 99th Congress as legislators began whittling a stack of major domestic measures to finance the government, over haul immigration laws and combat illegal drug trafficking. Both chambers were in the midst of what promised to be a series of marathon sessions as congressional leaders searched for compromises on sticky issues and pushed to wrap up legislative business by Thursday or Friday, two weeks after the original adjournment target of Oct. 3 The biggest and most pressing item on the agenda was a nearly $576 billion, omnibus spending bill the largest ever considered by Congress to meet the funding needs of most government operations and programs for the fiscal year which began Oct. 1. 0h Ml , a J v W I I I FREE upsidedown margaritas and door prizes for residents of Seward, Butler and Saunders Counties. Straight from Bee, NE Interstate 5 plays at 8:30 p.m. 1st Ke FREE fit 7?O0 fja. t?1 ilOJ Upto5qts. 10W30 Quaker State Motor Oil w Lubricate Install new oil filter I UNLY Most Cert with thiscoupon Exp. 10-31-83 n PI I YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ONE STOP TIRE & AUTO SERVICE CENTERS in."! 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