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Pandas arrived, allowing a view of the rare animals. W: ith the unveiling of the Panda Exhibit at Busch Gardens on No- vember 17. thousands in the Tampa community were ini- tiated first-hand into the universal fascination that has surroun- ded pandas since the first glimpse the West had of them. Two pandas, a male and a female, arrived from the Bronx Zoo in New York for a stay in Tampa at Busch Gardens. Busch had a three-month contract to show the pandas and applied for a three- month extension, said Glenda Gilmore, head of public relations. Although Busch officials refused to say how much they paid to rent the pan- das from the Beijing Zoo in China, the Bronx Zoo paid more than $1 million for a six-month exhibit. Yong Yong. the female, whose name means forever and ever.” was found starving at the age of approxi- mately 11 months. She was rescued by a farmer near the mountains of Sichuan and turned over to a wildlife reserve. She was six years old when she arrived in Tampa, and weighed 187 pounds. In 1984 Yong Yong and another panda. Ying Xin. made her first visit to the United States for 3 Vi months in Los Angeles and two months in San Francis- co. Ling Ling, the male, whose name means ringing bell. was conceived through artificial insemination and born at the Beijing Zoo. He weighed 119 pounds and was 1 Vi years old upon ar- rival in Tampa. Busch officials had wanted to fly the pandas first class from New York, but no airline would touch it. said Gil- more. So the pandas flew to Orlando in an air-controlled hold of an Eastern Air- lines passenger jet. in wood and metal cages floored with straw and bamboo. The flight went to Orlando because no air-controlled cargo jets were flying into Tampa. It landed shortly after noon with a crowd of reporters and camera- men. six Chinese delegates, and a few state troopers waiting at the cargo build- ing off Bear Road to greet the pandas. The two mammals were transport- ed from Orlando to Tampa in a 15-pas- sengcr van with the scats removed in the back so the cages would fit. Two state trooper cars escorted the vans to Tampa to make sure there was no trouble. The pandas lived in a 120-foot, multi-million dollar exhibit area de- signed by an artificial landscape firm in Arizona. The structure, located in the bird section of the park, contained a spe- cially constructed people mover and ob- servation deck, and was kept at a con- stant 70 degrees. Bamboo, the staple of the panda’s diet, was placed in strategic areas to encourage foraging. Crowds at Busch Gardens were so large during the stay of the pandas that extra help was hired and longer hours es- tablished to handle all the visitors. PANDAS? AT THE DARK CONTINENT? YOU BET!!
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- 4 Tribune photograph by John Coffetn. It can be killed by a spot of house- hold bleach, yet it’s lethal once in- side the body. It attacks key com- ponents of the immune system, and cripples the very system which is sup- posed to destroy it. In this, the seventh year since it was diagnosed as '‘the cen- tury's greatest killer.” the AIDS virus has left conflicting images of advances and setbacks, fear and hope, and finally, life and death, in the minds of all the world. Many advances made this year were in the areas of genetic susceptibili- ty, vaccines, virus-slowing drugs, and detection methods. Researchers at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in Lon- don determined that some people may be more susceptible genetically than others to the AIDS virus, possibly due to the inherited shape of a protein called vitamin D-binding factor. At Johns Hop- kins Hospital in Baltimore, three asymptomatic men who had tested posi- tive for AIDS, suddenly retested nega- tive, and with no explanation were en- tirely free of AIDS antibodies. Other ad- vances included several vaccines devel- oped to successfully produce AIDS antibodies, but had yet to be tested on the live virus. Some researchers expressed doubts about whether an effective vaccine could be developed against AIDS be- cause the cause of the disease is a retro- virus that mutates five times faster than the influenza virus • formerly thought to hold the mutation speed record. This doubt caused a renewed push toward de- velopment of drugs to at least hold the AIDS virus off. By the end of the year, the FDA had ap- proved about forty drugs for testing and, in four months instead of the usual twenty four, approved Zidovudine (formerly known as Azido- thymidine. or AZT) which would pro- long lives by hampering the replication of the AIDS virus. In addition, a new antibody test, in which a few drops of blood serum placed on a paper blotter containing chemicals would detect HIV antibodies within five or ten minutes, was developed by the DuPont Company. Not only was the new test faster than previous HIV tests, but also did not require refrigeration, making its use much more widespread. Despite the new developments in medicine and education, a powerful mix of fear and ignorance persisted. Ex- amples included Clifford and Louise Ray who tried in vain to send their three AIDS positive sons to school in Arcadia, Florida. The situation abruptly ended when the Rays moved to nearby Saraso- — Tin pi Tribune pU rogriph ty Robert Burke. ta after their house was burned by an ar- sonist. While 120 of the 615 students stayed away from school upon the ar- rival of the Rays in Sarasota, only a doz- en remained withdrawn after a week of attendance by the brothers. Fear was also present in a small Indiana town, when a swimming pool was closed for cleaning after an AIDS-positive man was seen swimming there. Support for those suffering from the disease however, increased with awareness of the seriousness of the situ- ation. At the Gay Rights March in Washington D.C., a massive quilt, the size of two football fields, was spread out. The quilt was pieced together from nearly 2.000 squares. Each square, bear- ing the name of an AIDS victim, was stitched together by relatives and friends of the deceased. The most significant AIDS news in 1987, however, was tragically not news at all. Since the disease first appeared, the infection rate has continued to rise with 45,000 people suffering from AIDS in the U.S. alone. With this increase came the first AIDS-related death in Congress when Connecticut Congress- man Stewart McKinney died from the disease. Another startling fact was re- vealed when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stated that before blood screening began in 1984, as many as 12,000 Americans inay have been in- fected by blood transfusions contami- nated with the virus. 1987 left Americans struggling not only with a disease still unchecked, but also a series of unresolved social issues. Said Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center in New York, The AIDS crisis is revealing a lot about our- selves, our medical practices, our social values, our sexual morality, and finally, about the status of poor minority groups in this country.” Discover magazine may have sum- marized the situation best when they said, Among the tough questions Americans will continue to confront arc these: Who will absorb the high costs of treatment? Should AIDS testing be mandatory? Should insurance compa- nies be allowed to test for AIDS? Should children with AIDS be allowed in public schools? And how do we protect the pub- lic while preserving the civil rights and dignity of people with this devastating disease? Maybe next year these ques- tions will have answers. TOP LEFT: Demonstrators at gay rights march to protest lack of government funding for AIDS re- search. LEFT: The Ray brothers arc escorted to classes af- ter moving to Sarasota. Florida Although the chil- dren did not have AIDS, positive HIV status scared residents of Arcadia, Florida to the point where the family was forced to move. INSET: Researchers look at DNA for the answer to cure AIDS. STUDENT LIFE 23
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