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NATION AND WORLD
Panel defies Reagan,passes two bills
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University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1985
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee, delivering new blows to President Reagan's plans for cutting the budget, agreed to support the federal Export-import Tax to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Reagan had wanted to discontinue direct loans of the bank and scrap the oil reserve, which is oil stored as a carbon source, foreign oil embargos or interruptions.
But agreeing to Democratic proposals, the committee gave modified support to the bank and agreed to raise the interest rate to reserve, although at a reduced rate.
The trend toward proposals more generous than Reagan's continued later in the day when the committee passed a plan from Sen. Ernest Pollings, D.S.C., that would freeze resources and environmental programs.
Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., who proposed the oil reserve compromise, said the votes to spend more than the president wanted for the two programs didn't indicate the committee's position on budget cutting overall.
WITH THREE MEMBERS of the GOP majority joining the committee's 10 Democrats, the panel opted for the spending freeze instead of cutting programs such as the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration.
The votes came just one day after the committee agreed to freeze military spending in fiscal 1966, after allowing for inflation. Reagan had asked for a 6 percent increase beyond inflation.
"I THINK THE lynchpin is Social Security." Johnston told reporters after the vote, "So I think the president is the missing link."
Ragan has steadily refused to agree to a one-year freeze in Social Security cost-of-living increases, even though he been proposed by many Republicans.
Johnston also indicated that taxes — another off-limits topic for Reagan — eventually would be considered to help cut the current budget deficit of more than $200 billion.
Members voted 14-8, with four Republicans joining 10 Democrats, for Johnston's proposal to fill the oil reservoir at the rate of 50,000 barrels a day.
Now, 159,000 barrels a day go to the reserve. Spending on all other federal energy programs was frozen at current levels and the Rural Electrification Administration, another program Reagan wants to cut, was retained under the Johnston plan.
The GOP-led Budget Committee yesterday approved, 18-1, a Democratic plan that would preserve a form of the Export-Import Bank.
Thailand fight takes toll of more than 60
By United Press International
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand
Thai troops backed by warplanes yesterday killed more than 60 Vietnamese soldiers occupying the airport, as Hanoi's forces encircled the last main rebel camp in Cambodia.
Seven Thai soldiers were killed, and 34 soldiers were wounded in fighting that military officials said drove out the Vietnamese.
Thai military sources said that at least 40 guerrillas had been killed or wounded in the fighting at the Cambodian rebel base of Tatum, Unofficial estimates show that 250 Vietnamese have been killed fighting for the base, a rebel spokesman said.
About 30,000 Vietnamese troops have surrounded Tatum, which is perched at a 1,300-foot cliff 90 miles northeast of the Thai border and at Aranyapraat, according to guerrilla and Thai military sources.
TATUM IS THE last main
guerrilla base that has not fallen during Hanoi's offensive, which began in mid-November. It is the military headquarters for the forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of the Cambodian government-in-exile recognized by the United Nations.
The rebel government-in-exile has about 60,000 troops fighting an estimated 160,000 Vietnamese occupation forces. The rebels are armed and supplied by China. The enemy is backed by the Soviet Union.
China, which backs the Cambodian rebels, said yesterday that its border forces were prepared to punish Vietnam for armed intrusions along the Sino-Vietnamese frontier.
Maj. Narudun Dejpratythu, Thai army spokesman, said that 800 Vietnamese troops had seized the island inside Thailand on Tuesday.
Narudon said that Thai infantry supported by heavy artillery and jet fighters pushed the Vietnamese back.
Opposition growing against Lange's party
By United Press International
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — An opinion poll released yesterday showed increased opposition to Prime Minister Dave Lange's Labor government, whose controversial stance on a serious rift with the United States.
Lange led his Labor Party to victory in July's parliamentary elections with a promise to ban weapons and nuclear-carcenar warships.
But his refusal last month to allow a U.S. warship into port has threatened the ANZUS alliance, the 34-year-old defense pact between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
The American ship was barred because the United States, in keeping with its policy, refused to certify that no nuclear weapons were aboard.
In response, the United States withdrew from a planned ANZUS naval exercise. It also withdrew invitations for New Zealand to participate in other military exercises and curtailed the sharing of intelligence data.
A POLL BY the National Research Bureau published yesterday in the New Zealand Herald showed that 13 out of every 100 voters who supported Lange's party in July now would vote for another party. The opposition National Party ran just two points behind Labor in the poll.
Observers said the National Party's non-stop criticism of the government's handling of the ANZUS movement, fears for the future of the alliance.
Lange was in Singapore yesterday to defend the nuclear ban and reaffirm New Zealand's commitment to the Five-Power Defense Force which groups Malaysia, Singapore, Britain, New Zealand and Australia.
"New Zealand's position is constant. We do not withdraw from ANZUS. We don't intend to withdraw," he said.
"We choose to enhance our security by having the South Pacific free from a possibility of a nuclear confrontation," he said.
Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has stood behind the United States in the controversy.
Heart implant saves life but violates law
By United Press International
TUССОN, Ariz. — Surgeons desperate to save a dying 32-year-old man violated federal law by implanting an unapproved artificial heart yesterday to keep him alive while a human donor heart was found and flown to Tucson.
The Tucson patient, identified only as a 32-year-old divorced father of two, had rejected a human heart transplant earlier in the day. He received the blood pump designed by a Phoenix dentist in a highly experimental three-hour procedure that has not been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
Jack Copeland, head of the University of Arizona transplant team, said that he would do it again to save a patient's life and increase the success rate by implementing the device was experimenting on the patient, just saving him.
THE PATIENT, WHOSE family requested his identity be kept secret, remained in the operating room, which was turned into an unit after the surgery, while his souls sought another heart donor.
A hospital spokesman said a human donor heart was located last night and flown to Puccio. He was also contacted to arrive about midnight MEST.
The patient was reported in critical but stable condition, but doctors were uncertain how long he could survive with the pump, which in animal tests over the past 14 months was used in experiments that lasted no longer than 12 hours at a time.
But Copeland noted the desperately ill man's transplanted heart had stopped around 4 a.m. yesterday. The man was placed on a
FDA spokesman William Grigg said surgeons violated federal law by implanting the mechanical heart without FDA permission. The surgeons determined and determine what action is any, needs to be taken," he said.
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The Phoenix heart, designed by Kevin Cheng, a Phoenix dentist associated with St. Luke's Hospital, is a unit driven by a compressor. It differs from the federally approved Jarvik-7 device and the bladder inside the heart. Both are air-driven devices.
After the implant, Allan Beigel,
vice president of the University of
Arizona, said the patient was
stable and had doctors with him.
A St. Luke's spokesman said the surgery took Cheng by surprise. "We didn't expect to put it in a human for a while," he said.
The Jarvik-7 was designed at the University of Utah. It was implanted there in 1982 in Barney Clark, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, and more recently in two surviving patients at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky.
By the time the implant began at 4 p.m., Copeland was estimating that without medical assistance the patient had about two hours to live.
heart-lung machine that could keep him alive only for a matter of hours.
THE PHOENIX HEART arrived first, and doctors had already begun sewing it into the dying man's chest cavity by the time the heart and a team of consultants flew in from Salt Lake City.
As the hours passed and the patient neared death, doctors put out urgent requests to Phoenix and make City to send artificial hairs.
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