THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1988 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83. NO. 93 Ticket Reagan to speak on campus Monday information By DAN BERGER all students who don't get tickets to the President Reagan will visit the Univer­ speech will come out to see the landing," Undergraduates: ASDU will distribute sity Monday to speak at a conference on he said. Several local high school bands 2,500 free tickets for President substance abuse, the White House an­ and community groups will also attend Reagan's speech to undergraduates nounced Wednesday. the ceremony at the landing site, Mizell presenting a student ID between 10 Reagan will address the conference said. He added that the men's basketball a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday at the upper "Substance Abuse in the Workplace: team will likely participate in the fevet of the Bryan Center. Another dis­ Strategies for the 1990s," which is being program at the lacrosse field prior to the tribution table may be set up at the East sponsored by the University and the office president's landing and to a lesser extent Campus Union during the same hours, of North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin. The after he arrives. but a final decision will not be made un­ president's trip from Washington D.C. Before taking the dais, Reagan will hold til Thursday morning. Of the 2,500 tick­ will be made exclusively to attend the a closed meeting in Cameron with several ets, 750 will be allocated to East Cam­ event. community leaders affiliated with the pus. If all tickets are not claimed, the Reagan's five-he­ substance abuse issue to get "a hands on Bryan Center table will operate for the licopter entourage feel for the issue," Mizell said. The presi­ same hours Friday. Leftover tickets wit! is expected to land dent will then move to the stage where he be available in the ASDU office. at the lacrosse field will participate in a panel discussion with at the corner of N.C. various substance abuse experts. The Graduate students: The Graduate and highway 751 and University marching band will play Professional Student Council will offer Science Drive at ap­ honors for the president and will be 1,000 tickets in the Bryan Center on proximately 1:15 seated behind the speakers' platform at STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE the north end of the building. Thursday to graduate school students. p.m. Monday, President Reagan Students in the professional schools cording to Pat THE VISIT OF THE After the discussion the president will must be allocated tickets through their Mizell, a White PRESIDENT deliver his closing remarks, lasting about lege in 1905. deans'offices. House press officer 10 to 20 minutes, Mizell said. Finally, Preparations for Reagan's trip began now in Durham making preparations for there will be a presentation to Reagan, Faculty members: Tickets will be made several weeks ago when a White House the president's trip. Reagan will likely "probably Duke oriented," he said. available from 9 to 11 a.m. Monday in forward advance officer came to Durham make a brief speech to students, faculty Reagan's appearence, which comes in to examine the possibility of a presiden­ the Academic Council conference-room. and staff at the landing site before answer to an invitation by University tial visit. A larger advance contingent proceeding by motorcade to Cameron In­ All other seats: Remaining seats will be President Keith Brodie and Gov. Martin, representing various White House door Stadium for his speech, Mizell said. given to business and civic leaders and is the first presidential visit to campus in departments arrived Monday to make government officials invited to attend "Our concern is that Duke University the University's history. President more detailed plans. The president's final the conference. gets to see the president. Our hope is that Theodore Roosevelt spoke at Trinity Col- See REAGAN on page 7 ^ AMA president: House vote ends contra aid ByJIMDRINKARD half of this issue. We will continue con­ health care tops Associated Press sultations with these congressional WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided supporters and other concerning the By LYDA CREUS House voted Wednesday to cut off U.S. future of the resistance and the peace process," said presidential spokesman Health care in the United States is bet­ military support for Nicaragua's Con­ Marlin Fitzwater. ter than it has ever been, but problems in­ tra rebels, rejecting President cluding AIDS, the elderly and adolescents Reagan's aid request in the hope of for­ A Contra spokeswoman in Miami still face the medical industry, according tifying the Central American peace termed the vote "a serious setback in to the president of the American Medical process. our struggle for freedom and Association (AMA). The 219-211 vote, culminating six democracy." "The American people have an insatia­ years of overt and covert military sup­ "The vote does not mean we will ble desire for health now," said Dr. James port for the rebels fighting the leftist stop," said Marta Sacasa, spokes­ Davis, president-elect of the AMA and Sandinista government, killed woman for the Nicaraguan Resistance, Reagan's request for $36.2 million in the Contra umbrella group. She said faculty appointee at Duke and the Uni­ SCOTT NEUMEISTER/THE CHRONICLE versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. new aid to keep the Contras alive as a Contra leaders would "reassess possi­ Dr. James Davis "And although they are helping by living fighting force through June. ble strategies" but added, "there's no way a U.S. vote is going to change our better lifestyles than before," the public "low-risk" areas to take the AIDS blood It was a serious defeat for the presi­ needs to be educated about these major is­ dent, who had lobbied hard on the is­ determination or will. We will just test. In the "high-risk" areas like New have to do without." sues in the medical arena, he told a crowd York City, San Francisco, and Miami, sue for two weeks and has put the Con­ tras among the top foreign policy of about 75 in Duke Hospital North such testing would serve "only to increase In the voting, 12 Republicans sided priorities for his final year in office. Wednesday night. figures" instead of helping to control the with the Democrats to defeat the presi­ Only a day earlier, Reagan had offered Davis called AIDS "the most disastrous dent's aid request. one final compromise giving Congress medical event in man's history since the "Today's vote is the end of a Regarding the elderly, Davis called for more say in the military aid. He ar­ bubonic plague." Although the "ideology" chapter," said House Majority Whip "drastic changes" in the health insurance gued that failure to extend aid would and methods of transmission are under­ Tony Coelho, D-Calif. "The Contra pol­ system. "Medicare, as we all know, is strengthen communist influence in the stood, the possiblities of finding a vaccine icy is the past. Now we can deploy bankrupt. It's a poor system of financial hemisphere. in this century are unlikely, he said. transfer rather than a true insurance America's greatest strengths, from aid "Education and persuasion" must be used scheme." In order to deal with the increas­ The White House issued a statement and trade to diplomacy, to stoke the to help control the further spread of the ing numbers of elderly needing medical saying it was disappointed the House flames of liberty and secure the future disease, he said. care and decreasing funds, the AMA "did not vote to keep pressure on the for Central America." Sandinistas during the peace process." In discussing the AIDS problem, Davis wants to include the elderly in Medicaid, But Republicans bitterly warned addressed the increasingly controversial an organization parallel to Medicare, and "We thank our many supporters in that the action would relieve part of issue of confidentiality. Doctors must set up "risk pools" to underwrite their Congress who worked so hard on be­ See CONTRAS on page 5 • "divulge what the law requires, but other­ needs, Davis said. wise the doctor-patient relationship is sa­ Davis also discussed the medical profes­ cred," Davis said. The problem results sion's concerns about youth. "It used to be when a patient refuses to give the names that adolescence was the golden period of Inside Weather of sexual partners thereby preventing life," Davis said, "but, today it has become TWO dOWn: Two to go. With the Hog WallOW: Today will be ideal for doctors from warning others who may be a period of peril and suffering, violence second game of hell week safely under a relaxing roll in the mud. A 60 percent at risk. In this case, Davis said the doctor and death to those not even 18 years old." involved is responsible for contacting the our belts, even all the President's men chance of rain should ensure that the Davis said the AMA has called together mud doesn't dry up unpleasantly in the health authorities. 30 leading medical societies specializing are excited about seeing the number four team in the nation win its next middle of your wallow. Besides, with In responding to a question from the in child and adolescent issues, to estab­ the high in the upper 50s, the cool mud lish a national forum and policy "on what two games. Details of our 78-65 thrash­ audience, Davis said anonymous testing ing of Georgia Tech oh ry."13. '-" will do wonders for your complexion.