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National Doctors say Mandia didn’t suffer stroke HERSHEY. Pa. (API — The recipient of the first Penn State heart suffered slowness of speech for 30 minutes Sun day, but doctors said the problem was not caused by a stroke like those that have plagued other artificial heart patients. Anthony Mandia, who received the pump Friday, underwent some sort of “neurologic event.** but did not suffer the brain damage and lack of physical mobili ty a stroke would cause, said Or. John W. Burnside, a Hershey Medical Center spokesman. Mandia's speech turned “slow and I thick" for about 30 minutes, but returned to normal over the following 30 minutes, Burnside said. ‘‘We‘re still uncertain what this event was,” he said. The episode could have been caused by an old gunshot wound to the head or from fluctuating blood levels of an anti-seizure drug Mandia has been receiving, Burnside said. He had no details about the shooting that the 44-year-old Mandia suffered as a teen-ager. The problem also could have been caus ed by a blood clot, which is a recognized clangor to haart Implant patients, but Burnside said that was unlikely because there was no other evidence of a clot Mandia’s slow speech occurred at about 7 a.m. and was immediately noticed, said Rosann Bozllla, one of the nurses atten ding him. Mandia was "just taking it as one of those things” and said he's going to "keep fighting." she said. Burnside said Mandia’s condition was generally good but he was having some problem taking deep breaths or coughing for doctors. Federal workers take 'extravagant' trips, study finds WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional investigation un covered “numerous examples of extravagant" trips on luxury liners by federal employees traveling at taxpayer expense to and from overseas assignments, a Mouse committee chair says. Rep. jack Brooks, O-Texas. head of the Government Opera tions Committee, said trips on ocean liners at prices several times the cost of equivalent airplane trips were turned up by a study begun last year by the General Accounting Office, the investigative wing of Congress. The chairman made the statements in a written an nouncement that his committe«» has called State Department and U.S. Information Agency of ficials to explain at a hearing W <i d n a s d a y why their employees "travel in the lap of „ luxury on cruise ships rather than on coach-fare airlines .” Brooks also said officials would be asked to-discuss n GAO finding that the two agen das "have‘been very lax in'ac counting for millions of dollars in travel advances provided their employees." Copies of- the GAO report have riot been- made public hy the committee, but a source . familiar with . the ; document cited two examples, found’by the GAO of oceap liner travel by State Department personnel , In onecase.'an official und his family.. returning to Buenos Aires. Argentina,, from : home leave in Los Angeles.'flew to Cartengerta, Colombia, and then took a ?S-day- cruise to Buenos . Aires, according to the source. . The source, who spoke on ; condition he hot be identified, quoted the .('.AO,as saying the ' voyage cost $18,156; compared to $;3.,360 had the trip been . made by air: ° . In the- other case, an e.mploy'ee and his six . dependents flew from -. New Delhi. India,, for home leave in Spokane. Wash., and began the return trip, by . flying to New York. There they; boarded the Queen Mlixabet.h II for a five-day crossing to Kngland. where they took-a flight back to" India. The cost of the ocean liner passage was $18,407. nearly four times the $4,732 for airfare from New York to Kngland. the GAO reportedly found. Creative Salon I I I I I L SYD S _ PERNS • 19.95 (long hair extra • good thru 10-31851 1122 Alder • 465 8597 ★ COPIES* Krazy Kats Try Us! 884 Eaat 13th at. Read Emerald Sports MINI STORAGE# Store bikes, furniture, autos etc. Inside or out. Reasonable rates, security. MINI-WAR EHOUSE»485-0011
