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The 52 freed American hostages banners proclaiming, "Welcome to The ex-hostages will stay ill Sunday returned to America, the the champions - our hostages." seclusion with their families at West open arms of joyful rt:latives and a Cheerleaders ran up and down both Point until Tuesday's official tumultuous national celebration of sidelines trailing yellow streamers welcome in Washington. their safe return from 444 days as and a band played "tie a Yellow As they walked down the plane prisoners of Iranian militants. Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree.'' ramp into the chilly sunshine, the The released hostages stepped off One of the freed captives, Army hostages disappeared into a sea of "Freedom One," the jet that Master Sgt. Regis Ragan, im· hugs, smiles and tears and then brought them home from West mediately parted company with his exchanged prolonged greetings in Germany, to an explosion of cheers colleagues to return home to the privacy of the airport terminal. at Stewart Air·port and threw Pennsylvania to visit his ailing Then, sirens blared as the sb(. themselves into the arms of waiting mother. green and silver buses left the --and weeping.relatives. Mrs._ Anna_ Ragan, 70, was _ airport, __ and the crowds - Following private family hospitalized with heart trouble estimated at more than 260~000- .· .. ·reunions in an airport terminal, Wednesday shortly after she talked exploded into applause and cheers. they traveled to the U.S. Military by telephone with her son in The hostages were serenaded Academy at West Point in a bus Wiesbaden. along the route with "God }31ess calvalcade along a 17-mile yellow The former captives left West America", "America the ribbon.:bedecked road, waving to Oermany earlier Sunday and Beautiful" and chants of "USA! 200,000 shouting and screaming refueledin Shannon, Ireland, while USA! USA! by people teeming well wishers along the way. their families got a tearful send-off behind barricades along the route Smaller celebrations were staged from. newly inaugurated President under trees streaming with yellow by other towns around the country Ronald Reagan in Washington. dbbons. - large and small. Football fans at "Freedom One" touched down at The hostages and their relatives the Super Bowl in New Orleans Stewart Airport at 2:54 p.m, less waved back and smiled, some with decked themselves out in yellow than an hour after the arrival of continued on page 5 Medical School Looks for Causes of MD Doctors at the UNM School of Trotter $25,000 to pursue his ex­ and puts us in a position to Medicine have held clillicsfoty~s periments with muscle-tendon eliminate it completely. 9 "to nelp tesidencs· th'fd\igHout' the c6Hnl!ctions. "Take the example of polio. state fi~ht, muscular. dystrophy. Trotter said that muscular Clinical research gave us the iron , Now research in the school's dystrophies might do their crippling lung1 and that allowed people to anatomy department may shed work by cutting some of the muscle survive while the disease ran its some light on this crippling and fibers away from the tendons, course. That machine saved a lot of usually incurable disease. leaving the muscle unattached and lives. But .it couldn't keep anybody Assistant Professor fir. John unable to flex. healthy, it was only useful once trotter is investigating the chemical somebody was already sick. Basic bonds that connect muscle fibers to Trotter's .research is . basically research analyzed polio and tendons. He said that there is a investigating the chemical bonds developed a vaccine, and now chance that a breakdown of these betwee:n the muscle andthe tendon, Dwight Capshaw earetlllly leans from a Cherry picker to cut the connections may be associated w.ith nobody has to get the disease at what types of chemicals keep all,'' Trotter added. branches oft a tree on campus ;(Photo by Randy Montoya) one or more kinds of dystrophy. healthy tissues togethe:r, and what Muscular dystrophy is not just might cause: a breakdown of those Even if Trotter's research proves one disease, but atleast six separate healthy bonds. that the catlst:s of muscular muscle conditions. Some dystrophy have nothing to do with dystrophies affect only boys, and •'Researchers have two ways of his studies, he said, "that wnl be an others affect both sexes. Translated approaching a disease," Trotter advance because we will have Saturday Strike in Poland from its Latin roots, muscular said. "Clinical research can invent eliminated an area where we have: to dystrophy means "something has ways to help the patient deal with look for the cause. We can transfer gone wrong With the muscles." the immediate problems associated the energy we've been spending in Shows New Union's·Power For example, in one type of With an illness. Basic research this area to other suspected muscular dystrophy, called shows us the nature of a disease, causes." WARSAW. Poland (UP I) - The was expanded by 10 minutes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, independent Solidarity union, its wide coverage of the action and something usually starts to go power proven in leading a crippling showed people .expressing both wrong when the victim, always a nationwide strike, will meet this support and opposition to boy, is about two years old. The week to plan new initiatives on talks Solidarity's stan~. first symptom maY be slowness in. with the government on the five­ The union expressed hope for learning to walk. 'By age five, Iran Frees Ambassador Duke! day work week issue. negotiations on the issue and a victims are noticeably awkward. lit the most serious action to spokesman said the Solidarity They tend to fall more often than America's prayers were "Over the last year and a half, press for a 40-hour work week, national commission will meet at other children. They may. need lrg answered last tuesday when 52 we've received an inordinate millions .of Polish workers heeded the movement's Gdansk braces by age . 1~. Most are m Americafis we:re released by the number of letters and phone the personal call of Solidarity headquarters Wednesday and· wheelcha1rs bytheu teens. Iranian government after 444 calls about the whereabouts of leader Lech Walesa and stayed. Thursday to select delegates and . Th~ • Muscular Dystrop~y days as hostages. Uncle Duke!'' said Lee Salem, home from their Jobs Saturday. discuss new initiatives for t··tks Assoc1atron . has .cooperat~d. w1!h For Doonesbury fans, the editorial director of Universal The government news agency a · the UNM School of Medtcme In hostage release triggered ad­ l'ress Syndicate, which PAP said the nationWide protest The unioQ leadership meeting providing clinics that slow the ditional joy, afid some different distributes· Doonesbury to fiSO cost about $70 million in lost also will to analyze the "current symptoms down with physical numbers: $3 and 507. daily newspapers and 300 production, situation" not only in the country, therapy and eJtercise. The current Yes, a 53.rd hostage! Sunday papers. the action showed Solidarity has but also in the union itself, which director is Dr. Russell Snyder of the In the comic strip world of ''Strangely enough, this the power to mobilize a major has witnessed clashes between neurolbgydepartment. Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, Irascible character has generated portion of Poland's 12-ntillion moderate and militantfactions. Snyder said that with regular revelation of a S3rd hostage a large following among strong labor force. One reason Walesa made a training and thetaJjy, patients learn being released - after 507 days Doonesbury fans/' Salem said. ln a television statement personal appeal for workers to stay to get all the use lltld enjoyment of bondage and disappearance Trudeau has declined to Saturday night, the government home Saturday was to prove to the they can out of the. strength they ~ is signaled in a sequence comment about Duke's return. thanked workers whO did go to goVernment that the organization have, but the weakening goes on. beginning Monday, Jan. 26. their jobs and said it was confident was united on the issue, and to No one yet knows hOW to stop Uncle Duke returns! Garry's position is he wants to thaf the hrtpasse .over the workweek prevent further splits on other the disease, partly because ()Ut Yes, Uncle Duke, a.k.a. devote full time to the comic strip," Salem said. "He has issue could be solved. matters. knowledge of normal muscle is Ambassador Duke1 last seen by 11 The solutiort of the problem Solidarity has declared Wed· 'incomplete, Doonesbury aficionados Sept.