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University Daily Kansan, June 11, 1981
News Briefs Kansan Wire Services
$12 billion in budget cuts approved
WASHINGTON—The House Education and Labor Committee yesterday approved about $1 billion in budget cuts affecting such programs as student loan refinancing, unemployment benefits and job training.
The adopted plan would limit guaranteed student loans to families making about $200,000 a year. Funds for the Head Start program will be cut by
Democrats on the committee approved the cuts only to comply with Congress' preliminary budget resolution for fiscal 1982.
"We are meeting against our wills, and we are meeting with a gun pointed at our heads," said Rep. Carl Perkins, D-Kentucky, chairman of the com-
According to Perkins, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. had given him an "absolute guarantee" that Democrats would be allowed to reverse the vote on the lighthouse on the left in New York.
The budget cuts would also eliminate the Youth Conservation Corps and reduce money for child nutrition programs.
Continuing the foreign policy aims of three previous administrations, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. meets Sunday with China's leaders in an attempt to pursue normal relations.
Haig also hopes to gather support for the Reagan administration policies intended to block Soviet global expansion.
The talks with China are the first direct, high-level exchange between the Reagan administration and China leaders.
keagan administration int'l training. Hairi during his trip, Haig will also attend a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila. He will talk with the foreign ministers of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, and will try to rally their support.
In the course of his China visit, Haig is expected to invite China's prime minister, Zhao Yiang, to come to the United States later this year.
Company fined for radiation misuses
WICHTA, Kan.—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the Department of Transportation Company $18,000 for allegedly exposing employees to radioactive contamination.
Jeff Spahn, OSHA area director, said at a news conference yesterday that the case was one of the largest OSHA has ever handled in Kansas.
Specific allegations included the mishandling of radium-coated aircraft instrument dials, the storage of radioactive materials in unsecured areas, and the absence of protective clothing to protect workers transporting radioactive solvent materials.
The federal investigation was begun after five former AID employees filed lawsuits seeking more than £25 million for injuries they claim they suffered.
According to the OSHA report, the employees were not aware of the health hazards associated with exposure to the materials they handled.
Wheat yield expected high for '81
TOPEKA, Kan.—Despite a mid-May freeze, Kansas farmers expect to have more crop in history, the Crop and Livestock report forecasts a sideward shift.
Farmers took a loss of 83.4 million bushels in anticipated production as a result of the May 10th freeze.
Based on conditions existing on June 1, the reporting agency now estimates the 1981 crop at 329.4 million bushels.
According to M.E. Johnson, head of the reporting service, the good May rains only partly offset the disastrous effects of the freeze.
Nationally, the winter wheat crop is expected to reach a record 2.01 billion bushels, 6 percent higher than last year, Johnson said.
Shipment of fighters to Israel halted
WASHINGTON—The Reagan administration yesterday stopped shipment of four of the Iranian oil because the Iranian attack on an Iraqi plant may have caused harm.
"We are conducting a review of the entire matter," Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. wrote in a letter to Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The 1962 Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement assures Israel that U.S. military equipment will be used only for legitimate self-defense.
According to U.S. officials, two types of American aircrafts were used in the Sunday attack on the nuclear reactor.
the Sunny attack on the nuclear region.
Israel has insisted that the attack was necessary for the nation's defense.
SMU football placed on probation
MISSION, Kans.-For the third time in seven years the Southern Methodist University football program has violated National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, and yesterday was placed on two years probation because of recruiting violations.
The NCAA announced yesterday that SMU is also barred from televised
events from outside of its home court notices.
The university also banned one assistant coach from recruiting for one year.
According to Charles Wright, chairman of the NCAA Committee on Infractions, the committee was particularly concerned by the frequency of
Pete Rose ties league hitting record
The NCAA said the university did not plan to appeal the findings.
His 3,630th hit came on Nolan Ryan's fourth pitch, and fell in front of Astro's outfielder Tony Scott.
PHILADELPHIA—With a line drive to center field, Pete Rose tied Stan Musial's most important hits last night in the Philadelphia Phillies game with the Houston Astros.
Rose, 40, is the fourth player in the 105-year history of the National League to hold this record.
The Phillies defeated the Astros 5-4.
AMA won't divest its tobacco stock
CHICAGO—The American Medical Association declined yesterday to divest its pension fund of $1.4 million in tobacco stocks.
Many doctors had suggested that it was inappropriate for the AMA to profit from a leading cause of death.
The AMA's House of Delegates defeated the doctor's proposal in a close voice vote.
According to Dr. John J. Coury, vice-chairman of the AMA's board of trustees, the association cannot legally insist that its financial manager follow a particular investment plan.
FDA studies prescription drug pamphlets
The Food and Drug Administration has started a three-year-program to test the effectiveness of patient infusion leaflets for 10 prescription drugs.
By KARI ELLIOTT
Staff Reporter
The leaflets, known as patient package inserts, insert the drug's side effects in a single and safe effect.
THE FDA HAS published guidelines for three of the drugs' package inserts. All 10 PPs will be evaluated by the FDA in the next three years.
"The FDA wants to find the best way to give the consumer drug information," Tracy Warren of Consumer Affairs said, "and whether the drug is being used better because of the information."
based on their rink and side effects, how widely they were used, and whether they were effective.
One of the drugs is cimetidine, which is used to treat ulcers. One of its brand names is Tagamet. Another drug is the pain killer proproxepine, which is used to treat herpes. Another drug, clofibrate or Atromid-S, is used to treat elevated fats in the blood.
He said the FDA chose the 10 drugs
derstand, "the pharmacist said, 'but people could have a grieve with them.'
One of the advantages that PPIs are supposed to give the consumer is drug information in a readable form, said a local pharmacist.
Warren said that the three PPIs averaged 800 words.
"Who's going to take the time to read?
They're going to read," Also, they are written in small print.
"It's written for most people to un-
"Another problem is some of the most important information about one drug is at the end of the guideline. It should be at the top."
THE INSERTS will also increase the medicine's cost, Warren said.
"The manufacturer is required to supply the PIPs to the pharmacies, and they will have to pass the cost along to the patient." he said.
are required by the FDA for some drugs such as birth control pills, estrogens and progestins, and for some substances such as IUDs and hearring sids.
Currently, patient package inserts
Some of these inserts are not even read by the patient, the pharmacist $a$
THE PPIs MIGHT also confuse the patient as to the drugs' ail effects and their role in the treatment.
"People think drugs are totally safe," she said, "but no drug is. There are rare side effects."
The other drugs in the FDA's program are Ampicillins, a class of antibiotics; tranquilizers, including Valium, Librium, and Tranxene.
Middle class targeted for most tax relief
WASHINGTON-Taxpayers with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000 would receive the bulk of the relief of President Reagan's revised tax program, according to a Republican analysis released by the Reagan work on a new tax bill and the House Ways and Means Committee prepared its own version.
Those same taxpayers, who pay 51 percent of the taxes, would be 14.3 percent of the renter.
House Democrats, however, are likely to find other conclusions in the report. Pressing for a larger tax cut for lower- and middle-income families, the Democrats are expected to point out 50 percent of all tax returns in the 51.3 percent of all tax returns, but would get only 8.8 percent of the tax relief.
Although some Finance Committee members have said they will try to make changes in the plan, most members have expressed general support for the package, which includes a 25 percent across-the-board cut in personal tax rates over the next three years.
Also included in the bill is a provision that would give 16 million couples and individuals an average 31 percent tax. Seventeen million people with incomes of $20,000 to $30,000 could expect a 26.5 percent cut, and those earning more than $200,000 a year would get an average 19.1 percent cut.
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-LA, stated that the House Committee had decided that any reduction in the tax on capital gains will be retroactive to Wednesday.
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According to the Treasury Department, which offered an example of how the reductions could affect families, a two-earner family of four, making $25,000 in 1980, would realize a $1,414 tax cut in 1984.
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