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President Reagan in the November election by espousing rotted planks from old party plat-
"We can't defeat the wrong policies of Ronald Reagan by offering failed policies of our own," he said. "As Democrats, we know we can't win if we merely re-run the 1980 election."
Standing in the shadow of a statue of Harry Truman near the Independence courthouse, Harlai handed the Democratic party and made a speech to Truman during the half-hour speech.
"With Harry Truman, I believe there is a decisive difference between prudent policy and political caution — and that the wrong kind of caution can be dangerous for America," he said.
He quoted words spoken by Truman during the campaign of 1948.
"We will win this election and make the Republicans like it," he said. "And don't you look at
"I AM A DEMOCRAT because we cannot tolerate an America where middle-aged workers are thrown onto the scrap heap of industrial failure.
"We cannot tolerate an America where the sons and daughters of the middle class cannot afford to go to college. We cannot tolerate an America where the homeless are forced to sleep in the streets — and where young couples cannot pay the interest rates to buy their first home."
Hart pushed his "new ideas" theme while indirectly criticizing his opponent. Walter McMullen
"To call for jobs and jobs without any specific plan may win a few votes, but it will not put a single worker back to work," he said.
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"Too Tall," a Simimental bull, gets a pat on the head from presidential hopeful Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo. Hart stopped at the Gordon Philip farm outside of Kansas City, Mo., yesterday while campaigning.
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seeking the special prosecutor or explaining why one is not needed.
Policy
THE 1784 NEUTRALITY Act makes it a criminal offense to furnish money or prepare for a military assault against a country at peace with the United States.
The congressmen said it had been reported that top Reagan officials approved a plan to provide "financial, technical and other support to paramilitary groups trained in camps in the United States for the purpose of attacking Nicaragua."
"In light of the serious nature of these allegations, which strike at the heart of the congressional power to declare war, we ... invoke the authority of (the law) to request that the United States be obliged to determine whether the Neutrality Act has been violated," the congressmen said.
LAST NOVEMBER, U.S. Judge Stanley Weigel in San Francisco ordered Smith to conduct a preliminary investigation of the charges that Reagan and other government officials violated the law by supporting the activities of paramilitary groups training in the United States to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
The Justice Department appealed that rul ing, maintaining that private citizens have no authority to file suit to trigger the Ethics in Government Act.
The congressmen say Reagan, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Secretary of State George Shultz, Defense Secretary Caspar Weingber and CIA chief William Casey are among those who may have endorsed a plan for U.S.-based paramilitary training.
House defeats plan limiting charges to Medicare patients
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday defeated a measure, opposed by the medical community, that would have limited what doctors could charge Medicare patients for hospital treatment.
By a voice vote, the House refused to attach the proposal to a deficit-cutting bill that would reduce federal spending by nearly $4 billion. In addition, the bill was passed 261-152 and sent to the Senate.
Foes of the Medicare amendment successfully argued that it was ill-conceived and would drive doctors from participating in the program, about 28 million elderly and disabled people.
The American Medical Association, somewhat embarrassed by the fact that doctor's fees have surpassed inflation by nearly 100 percent, does recommend a voluntary freeze earlier this year.
THE AMENDMENT, which was expected to save about $1 billion, would have placed a one-year freeze on Medicare fees for in-hospital services. It would also have prohibited physicians from charging hospital patients more than what Medicare would pay.
But it does oppose a provision that would prohibit doctors from billing patients more than what Medicare would pay. Medicare covers 80 percent of what it deems "reasonable" for
various services, with the patient paying the rest.
But about half of the Medicare patients are billed an average of 27 percent above the program's rate by doctors who complain that the Medicare level is unreasonably low.
Rep. Sam Hall, D-Texas, said he also favored a freeze, but called the second proposed restriction heavy-handed.
REP. DAN ROSTENKOWKI, D-Ill., whose House Ways and Means Committee offered the measure, unsuccessfully pleaded, "All we are here are you," for fair share of the burden" to rescue Medicare
Rep. Willis D. Gradison, R-Ohio, said Medicare reimbursement for doctors was a matter that needed to be examined, "but in my judgment this is the wrong fight at the wrong time."
Gradison the proposed remedy could lead to higher billing by physicians for non-hospital care and result in doctors making an increased investment in hospital visits to compensate for loss in fee rates.
Instead of acting now, Gradison argued, Congress should wait until it receives information already requested about Medicare and find a better solution.
The government issued a report last week that said the hospital coverage portion of Medicare could go bankrupt as early as 1989 unless reforms were imposed.
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