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Attack victims receive funding for abortions
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano said yesterday that the federal government would pay for abortions for needy victims of rape or incest if the attack was reported within 60 days.
The decision means a woman with low income may get a federally funded abortion if she, a doctor or a member of her signs a statement saying she was a victim of rape or incest and submits the document to a law enforcement agency. A government-backed public health service.
A woman does not need to sign an offer of wearing a scarf she was attacked and she is not in danger.
"We felt a victim of rape should not be subject to a cross examination," an HEW chairwoman said.
The decision was included in a set of regulations that HEW adopted to implement the abortion law passed by Congress late last year.
CONGRESS DECIDED the government should pay for abortions or other medical procedures designed to end pregnancy only if she had been unprotected. She was a victim of rape or incest and reported the attack promptly or if two doctors decided her pregnancy would result in long-term disability.
Since Congress did not define what it meant by a promptly reported case of rape or incest, HEW, the agency that handles federal abortion payments, interpreted the phrase to mean an attack reported within 60 days.
Califano, who personally opposes abortion, said he submitted the new regulations to Attorney General Griffin Bell to make changes that would intended of Congress. Berg approved them.
A woman cannot qualify for a federal abortion payment by reporting an attack to an abortion clinic or family planning agency. She must submit the report to either a law enforcement agency or to a government public health service.
"That was done to discourage fraud," the spokesman said. "We defined a public health service as an agency of the United States and provided that provides health or medical services."
In rural areas, he said, women may report to a clinic that requires federal health funds.
to the total number of serves federal trust funds.
The fund's funding of abortions for about five months last year before reaching a compromise on the issue.
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High radiation traced to fallen satellite
EDMONTON. Alberta (AP)-Defense Minister Barney Danson said yesterday that debris from a Soviet satellite that fell from orbit probably was on the ground in the Northwest Territories emitting extremely dangerous levels of radiation.
Canadian and American nuclear emergency specialists headed toward a remote trade park in Canada's far north, where airborne scanners found unusually high radioactivity, which experts said was from a Soviet satellite that fell from orbit.
Danson said there was a 90 percent chance that the radiation came from the disintegrated nuclear-powered Cosmos 654 with about 100 pounds of enriched uranium 235.
HE SAID debris from the satellite had been tentatively pinpointed in the Northwest Territories, about 200 miles west of Baker Lake, an outpost of 1,000 people in frozen tundra country 1,100 miles north of the U.S. border in Minnesota.
"We're sure there's something on the
dropped from outer space and fell apart in flames over northwest Canada early
Canadian officials said the area did not appear to be inhabited and the radiation posed no health hazard to the Baker Lake community.
Three members of a Canadian nuclear response team flew to Baker Lake by helicopter.
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ground and almost certain at this point that it's man-made," Danson said. "It's either a piece of debris or the greatest uranium mine in the world."
It was the first sign of unusual radio-activity since the crippled satellite
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Shampoos have substance said to be cancer-causing
WASHINGTON  (UPI)—Shampoos, lotions and other cosmetics have been found to contain substantial amounts of nitrosamine, the same cancer-causing agent detected in crispy bacon and other cremeed meals, a scientist testified yesterday.
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The scientist, David Fine, told the House Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and investigations that the amount of one particular type of nitrosamine, called NDELA, found in cosmetics was 50 to 100 percent of the human exposure would be through food.
Fine is the head of cancer research for the Thermo Electron Corp., Waltham, Mass., which is under contract to three government agencies to do research on nitrosamine.
"NDELA IS of concern because it has been shown to cause cancer in two animal species, rats and hamsters," Fine said. In a German study dating back to the mid-90s.
rats were fed high doses of NDELA, and liver tumors were produced.
"A recent study has shown that if hamsters were injected with NDELA under the skin, tumors were produced at sites far removed from the point of injection.
HE SAID THE association, which represents producers turning out 90 percent of the cosmetics sold in this country, recognized that nitrosamines served no function in cosmetics and was committed to reducing them by reducing them to the lowest possible level.
"In cosmetics, human poseure to NDELA would be by absorption through the skin." James Merritt, president of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, then coordinated and organized a program to determine the source of any nitrosamine contamination.
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