Six Arrested Smuggling Nuclear Firing Triggers New Device Saves Heart Patient's Life Center Will Coordinate Community Service Ef
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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 125 Six arrested smuggling New device saves heart patient's life By MATT SCLAFANI nuclear firing triggers Medical Center doctors used a pioneering device to keep a dying ByJEFFGERTH heart patient alive for 56 hours N.Y. Times News Service while others have not, officials until a heart donor could be Six people were arrested in said. found. The device could someday Britain Wednesday in what They identified one of those have broad use in saving the American and British officials arrested, Ali Daghir, as the lives of heart transplant pa said was an attempt to smug leader ofthe smuggling ring. tients. gle electronic devices used to The names and Alice Drinkwine, the 56-year- trigger nuclear weapons to nationalities of the others old patient, was the first Iraq. were not divulged, but offi benificiary of this new tech Electronic equipment that cials said they included citi nology. Drinkwine was kept alive has military uses was also zens of Iraq, Britain and Leb from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26 with this seized in Britain Wednesday, anon. device, called the Anstadt Cup. the officials said. The arrests were a result of The Anstadt Cup has numer The moves capped an 18- a long and complex charade ous advantages over traditional month undercover inves carried on by the British and heart support devices. It is used tigation. American authorities, long- as a "bridging" apparatus to Officials said a sealed in range undercover detective maintain heart function in a pa dictment returned by a fed work and false documents. On tient, while waiting for a heart eral grand jury in San Diego several occasions, the whole donor to be found. describes a scheme in which investigation was nearly "We at Duke are proud of this MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE several foreign nationals tried revealed. accomplishment," said Dr. University doctors display the Anstadt heart-stimulation device. to smuggle out of the United Federal investigators devel Joseph Reeves, director of the States through England small oped the case after a Califor Medical Center's Heart Center in The Anstadt Cup is unique in avoiding clotting or bleeding. The electronic devices that were nia company, identified as a prepared statement. "Thanks that it fits around the heart like Anstadt Cup is also much said to be required by Iraqi of CSI Technologies, was ap to the research interests and a sheath and uses air pressure to cheaper than other bridging ficials for building nuclear proached by Iraqi agents seek skills of a Heart Center surgical pump the heart. Other, more devices. weapons. ing to export items that can team and the dedication of a man complicated devices are attached The glass or plastic cup sur Some of the six people ar not be sent out of the United who never gave up on an idea inside the heart. rounds a thin plastic membrane. rested in London have been States without a license from conceived in his youth, a woman This means the device can be Two tubes are attached which charged in the indictment See NUKE on page 6 • who faced imminent death from applied very rapidly and has no are attached to a large air pres- heart failure is alive today." contact with the blood supply, See HEART on page 7 ^ Center will coordinate community service efforts Virus hits By REVA BHATIA links with the University and student affairs. The proposal President Keith Brodie has ap Durham. called for a million-dollar endow N.C. State proved a $20,000 grant to the "I was extremely impressed ment for a center that would new volunteer center to cover the with the number of students in unify campus service efforts. salary of the center's first di volved with community service "The center will be some sort of computers rector and to start an intitial here," Brodie said. "I was told conglomeration of all service ef From staff reports programming fund for campus that in the past year we had forts on campus," said Trinity ju nior Jon Rubenstein, chair of the With the recent discovery of service groups. 2,000 students volunteer in the two computer viruses at The first director would be a community. This will make it a student advisory committee for the volunteer center. "It will North Carolina State Univer recent University graduate who lot easier for [students] to be sity (NCSU), the center for ac come aware of opportunities out serve as a clearinghouse for all could coordinate present campus ademic computing is asking there, and it will help people in volunteer work in the Durham service programs and work Duke students to practice safe the community know where to community and the Duke com closely with students and the ad computing. ask for help from Duke munity." ministration to find additional The first virus NCSU to funding for the center. students." The volunteer center will also provide resources and office confront users was "The The money will come from the The plan for the volunteer cen Stoned Virus," according to president's contingency fund, ter began two years ago as a pro space for existing service organi zations, help students start new MARK WASMER/THE CHRONICLE Fred Jennes, special projects and will be used by the center posal by Maureen Cullins, as manager for academic com See SERVICE on page 7 • John Rubenstein next year to help form its first sistant to the vice president for puters. MS-DOS computers includ ing IBM personals and Ze Blue Devils, Razorbacks niths are susceptible. The virus sits on the diskette where it attacks the boot re set to rumble on Saturday cord sector, which includes By SETH DAVIS things like the file directory. Richardson's team has pres This is a "critical area," Jen If fast-paced, run and gun bas sed, trapped and dashed its way nes said. The virus also gets ketball is going to be the style of to a whopping 95.9 points a game into the computer and is the nineties, then Arkansas head this season. They captured the easily passed to other disket coach Nolan Richardson is ready. Southwest Conference title with tes, he added. "We're trying to play 94 feet," a 96-84 victory over Houston, After a few ticks of the corn- said and they edged SWC rival Texas See VIRUS on page 6 • Richardson, 88-85 in the Midwest Regional whose Final to earn their way to the Razorbacks Mile High City. face Duke The backbone to this team is Weather in the their backcourt — sophomores Final Four Saturday in Denver. Attention Dukies: Rain Lee Mayberry and Todd Day. will inundate the Gothic Won "When you're playing 94 feet, Since he arrived at Arkansas the you're hoping that you're not to derland today, so watch out 6-foot-2 Mayberry started every for those puddles! Highs in tally in a half-court game where single game at point guard. As a MARK WASMER /THE CHRONICLE you're playing a chess match. I'm the 50s. Wear those raincoats, freshman, he scored 12.9 points bring those umbrellas, and Juniors Clay Buckley and Greg Koubek walk through Parking not into chess matches. I'm not per game and dished out 4.2 as- may the mud be with you. Zone "K" as they depart for their third Final Four in three years. very good at that." See ARKANSAS on page 13 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1990 World & National Newsfile Mexico considers free-trade talks with U.S. Associated Press NO border guard: Lithuania's gov By LARRY ROHTER ernment backed down Wednesday on N.Y. Times News Service eliminate barriers to the flow of goods be claims to defend. one of its hottest points of conflict with MEXICO CITY — In a break with the tween the countries involved. Over the last decade, a period of crisis the Kremlin, a plan to establish its policy of economic nationalism that has These restrictions include quotas limit marked by stagnation and inflation, Mex own border guard, saying it wanted to prevailed here since the Mexican Revolu ing the import of goods and services or ico has given up some of its traditional avoid clashes with Soviet troops. tion of 1910, President Carlos Salinas de duties on product shipments. economic isolation by moves like joining Gortari has agreed to consider negotia For example, the U.S.-Canada free- the General Agreement on Tariffs and Soviet army leads: Throughout tions for a free-trade agreement with the trade agreement, which went into effect Trade in 1986. United States. last Dec. 31, calls for duties to be reduced But suspicion of American intentions the tense standoff over Lithuania's bid The move represents a huge political or eliminated on 8,000 categories of prod remains a potent force in Mexican poli for independence, President Mikhail gamble and has prompted a spirited pub ucts over the next 10 years. The pact also tics, and no candidate for office ever gives Gorbachev has allowed the Soviet mili lic debate. makes it easier for Americans and Cana a speech without promising to protect the tary to take the lead on Kremlin policy The Bush administration said Tuesday dians to work in each other's markets. country's "sovereignty" and with harsh language and tough ac that the two governments had begun Since coming to power in 1929, the In "independence." tions. "preliminary discussions" that could lead stitutional Revolutionary Party has em to a pact similar to one that last year phasized development of the Mexican There is no timetable for talks about Green lawns unhealthy: The eliminated major trade barriers between economy by keeping foreign competition formal economic integration between the $1.5 billion Americans spend each year the U.S.