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digest Artificial ear implan SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? A tiny artifi rtnfpnfial tr? h#?1r? nprppnt r?f thp nafinn'c planted in 20 people within a year, with th< to take place in three to four weeks, a Un surgeon says. Dr. James Parkin, acting chairman < department of surgery, told a news confert that he has already chosen the first candi plant of the INERAID ear. The U.S. Food and Drug Administratic implants Tuesday. PpCAQrrhorc t tKn finiF nli i I.VdVUlVUVia Itvpv IV IIUTW HIV till Jf VII which translates sounds into electronic sig interpreted by the brain, widely available It eventually could help 65 percent < 250,000 to 500,000 deaf who suffer from c disease of the snail-shaped part of the in said. Preliminary versions of the device have in four people during the past eight year: proval was required for the upcoming imp laws that hadn't been enacted at the time piams, t-arKin saiu. "We're very excited about this because o ed in patients that were implanted years a] College student reci THARI FSTON ? Ninn r.ri-o, memory of the night a man walked up to h< shot her in the ribs. Grego, a 21-year-old College of Chariest' in an interview from her hospital bed she nc proaching her cai. And then she saw a gui "Oh, my God," she said she thought, shoot me. He shot me. Oh, God, I've beei Grego remembers sitting up close to the trying to breathe and not being able to. believe the pain," she said. "What do you do," she asked during "when you have been shot?" urego aid try to arive to tne nearest n< conciousness before she could make it. "Fortunately," she said, "I hit a tree anyone." Police arrived at the accident scene and had been shot until she was hospitalized. An officer gave her a ticket for driving th a one-way street. But that was before poli< been shot. " i ne poor policeman gave me a ticket don't hold anything against him because I'd been shot." Grego was on her way home about 1 a.m Charleston night club when she was shot. Hitler medal citatio lAJNUUN (AP) ? A British striptcase-clu the equivalent of $29,000 for a medal ci Adolf Hitler and awarded to Nazi Germ; War II dive-bomber pilot. Club owner Paul Raymond outbid the waffe flying ace Ulrich Rudel for the cite among Nazi memorabilia on sale Wedm auction house in London, a Phillips spok The citation was presented to Rudel in the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the Rudel, the most highly decorated colc Reich, destroyed 519 Soviet tanks and sa cording to the German Munziger Atlas. F The Phillips spokesman said most of the ed during Hitler's rule carried only a facs man leader's signature. [use today FORUM - Central American forum from 9 a.r in room 203 of the Russell House will be titli and the Governed in Guatamale, Honduras and forum continues from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in Auditorium when the topic will be "The Enduri tral America/' THE SPUR - Grass Roots appear for two sto ; p.m. Admission is $4 for USC students. CULTURAL SERIES - Joffrev Ballet a Township at 8 p.m. RH HUM - "Bad Boys/' directed by Rick Ros ing Sean Perm, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody ai plays at 2;30 p.m. for ?1 and at 7 and 9:30 SWIMMING - Metro conference swimming ; Ipionships continue at Carolina Natatorium in tl Education Center, Daft I i its set < cial ear with the deaf will be ime first operation iversifv of I Itah 3f the school's ? ; :nce Wednesday date for an im- 1 >n approved the |jjj " "'** '** ectronic device, v ' '>; nals that can be ^ : in five years. - ? & \S^> , * 3f the nation's I". ^ ^ . / ochlear disease, )v - . if ner ear, Parkin ; Jr d e / ^ ^ ^ ^ )ticed a man ap- .. . - - i. Hanging out at t "He's going to This bear is one of many anim n shot." steering wheel, "You wouldn't ?110^1116 C 1 the interview, uspital, but lost WASHINGTON (AP) leaders of organized labor ar and didn't hurt fluential congressman are vc creased efforts to convince Co had no idea she override a new Supreme Coi that allows failing businesses union contract obligations by le wrong way on bankruptcy. ;e knew she had The court ruled, 9-0, Wi that a company need not pr ," she said. "I bankruptcy judge that hone he didn't know contract will force it to gc business. It is enough to show . Feb. 13 from a contract would be a burden tc ^ interests of the business, creditors and employees favo I . ing the contract, the court sai SOlu "We're disappointed in the and we will pursue a 1< remedy," said AFL-CIO 1 b owner has paid Lane Kirkland in Bal Harbour tation signed by a meeting of organized labor, anv's ton WnrlH widow of Luft- Qlapninn. ition, which was %JI B PU|JIBB ;sday at Phillips "atoig' with COLUMBIA (AP) - The spokesman said. ,ax llved up to ,ts name f1rly 5 ,nel in he Third f slat,e se"ators sl"' nk 70 boats, ae- fee' played gin r"Ty a"d 1 le died in 1982. ?nt? cou=hes lhe, face of a citations award- by Sen' Ryan Shealy' imile of the Ger- 0. , , ... Shealy, who warned his pj 1 I 1 _ uctu new uaueries, appearea his own as Sen. John Lindsa little verbal support. Lindsay the leading opponent of th* months. n. to 12:30 p.m. ed "Government 4 4 We have made no agreem Nicaragua." The this," said Lindsay, D-Marl i Gambrcll Hall didn't even know he was goi ng Crisis in Cen- up." > SEVERAL SENATORS concern because Shealy had ? tack in 1983. Sen. James Waddell, D-Be a major proponent of the sle ppears at Tha an(j sajd was concerned t< "It concerns me and I've t enthal and starr- to get down," said Wac nd Esai Moraiis, haven't pushed him. This i< p.m. for $1.75. personal choice." Shealy, a Lexington Re and diving Cham asked the Senate to offer $26, he Blatt Physical per county for those 24 cou would earn very little under I VI cent tax on vacation accom dinE v m If'"-' mv. Jk : X-' he zoo al attractions at the Riverbanks Zoo. Admission to the zoc ourt ruling angers - Angry REP. PETER Rodino, D-N.J., ici an in- chairman ot the House Judiciary Lomiwing in- mittee, announced he will sponsor ngress to legislation to reverse the court decision irt ruling which he called "a puzzling misreading to avoid of congressional intent." filing for "The bankruptcy laws were never intended as a device to let companies ednesday unilaterally break labor contracts," ove to a siad Rodino. >ring the By a 5-4 vote, the court also ruled > out of that a business may unilaterally cancel ' that the a union contract while awaiting a rul) the best ing from a bankruptcy judge on and its reorganization of the business, r cancel- "It's outrageous," said William id. Winpisinger, president of the Interna decision tional Association of Machinists and jgislative Aerospace Workers. "It is inconsistent Resident with the intent of the (bankruptcy) , Fla., at law. We just have to go to the Congress for relief." tax fillibuster cai 13,,? ? ~r LIUI ivia^ui L,I icrv i iv^rwi^u, pitMUim Ul yesterday the Municipal Association of South ped cof- Carolina said his group has com:ollapsed promised enough. filibuster AT 1:45 a.m. Sen. Rembert Dennis asked Shealy to allow senators to get acemaker some rest and "spare the membership to be on of the Senate an all-night ordeal." y offered A half-hour later, Sen. Peden has been McLeod asked for unanimous consent ; bill for to excuse ladies and lawmakers born before 1920. But Sen. Glenn McConnell objected. ent about Iboro. "I Shealy announced his intention to ing to get "explain the bill" some more. "Sen. Shealy, you don't need to explain anything at this time of the morexpressed ning," said Sen. Don Holland, Di heart at- Kershaw. "You just need to talk. We know your position on it." aufort, is :eping tax EARLIER IN the evening, Shealy >o. allowed senators to leave for almost two hours to eat dinner, while he kept isked him talking. idell. "I i his own At one point, early in the afternoon, an exasperated Dennis announced he ... was tired of listening to endless debate publican, & 000 more on the sleeping .ax. uiti. : - -i? i 11 < n nues inai 11 ^ nine 10 piay naruoan, uenms the 2 per* said. "The tail's been wagging the dog odations. for too long." =======^^ i U? / JfamMrar ll'j ' - ' * y /i<tiW^m ai *', ji^9HKm||? - - -r " - ~ -" Photo by Jennifer Wooten i is free every Friday during February. labor leaders GERALD MCENTEE, head ot the American Federation of" State, County Municipal Employees, said the ruling was "devastating" and "this means yve really have got to go out and work" for new legislation. The House is expected to soon take up DTODOsed revision in the bankrupt- / cy laws. But that would involve broader changes than the issue in Wednesday's ruling. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that a key portion of the current bankruptcy law in unconstitutional, and Congress has been wrestling unsuccessfully since then to come up with a solution. \ In Wednesday's case, the high court rillprl in favr>r nf q civioII Ki i ilHi r?r? cnrin. ly company, Bildisco Manufacturing Inc. of West Orange, N.J. uses yawns i Proponents came up with a compromise to appease opposition by maKing certain that all counties would get at least $50,000 from the $8 million to $10 million collected by the tax. THE MAJORITY of the tax would still be returned to the counties that collect it. The first $25,000 would go back to the general fund of the county f or city collecting it. The next 25 percent would go for tourism promotion and the rest would go for tourismrelated expenditures such as fighting beach erosion or expanding the community's water and sewer system. Advocates Waddell and Sen. William Doar. D-C iPfiroptnu/n haH thp issue close to a vote by late afternoon. But Shealy took the floor and wouldn't relinquish it. Horry County would benefit the most from the accomodations tax, earning more than $3 million a year. But under the compromise, $800,000 of ft that would be used to reimburse rural counties fhat Hrrn't h'jup mn^h trkiirict trade. Other counties that would make ! more than $500,000 arc Charleston, Beaufort and Greenville. i