University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1984 Page 9 NATION AND WORLD Senators OK cuts in Medicare By United Press International WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee, frustrated by a presidential task force's inaction on reducing the budget deficit, voted yesterday for nearly $5 billion in health care cuts and agreed to look for $50 billion in new taxes. At Chairman Robert Dole's urging, the Senate committee began to work on about $100 billion in deficit-cutting possibilities, without waiting for action by President Reagan's bipartisan task for on the debt. The task force, which includes White House officials and members of Con- debt is now $1.3 billion. At the task force's first meeting, White House aides presented a list of $100 billion in savings that proved to be cuts Reagan already had asked for in his fiscal 1985 budget. gress, met yesterday afternoon. The meeting was the task force's second since Reagan's Jan. 25 call for an effort to find a three-year, $100 billion down payment against the national debt. The debt is now $1.5 trillion. The Finance Committee voted unanimously for a small package of new spending cuts spread over four years, mostly in Medicare, and underscored its endorsement of a package it sent to the Senate floor last year that would save $21.2 billion. On raising taxes, the Finance Committee disagreed on specifics and simply voted, 15-5, to try to find $50 billion in new taxes by its next meeting Tuesday as long as $50 billion in spending cuts were also found. Most of the $9 billion in the Senate committee's savings would come from changes in the Medicare program, such as requiring higher payments from Medicare recipients, up to $30.50 a month in 1988; delaying eligibility for Medicare to the next month following a person's 65th birthday; freezing doctors' fees or forcing them to accept only the amount Medicare will pay; and reducing federal payments for Medicare to states. 3 gunmen kill Salvadoran legislator By United Press. International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Three unidentified gunmen shot and killed a rightist Salvadoran lawmaker as he left his home yesterday in the second assassination of a Legislative Assembly member in a month, police said. Three men approached Roberto Ismael Ayala, 45, a founder of the new Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party, as he left his house in southern San Salvador. The gunmen shot Ayala once in the forehead and three times in the chest before escaping, police said. No group said they were responsible for killing Ayala, a representative in the Legislative Assembly from the province of Cabanas. In late January, unidentified gummen killed Ricardo Arnoldo Pohl, a deputy of the rightist Nationalist Revolutionary party, known as ARENA. Ayala recently broke away from the former official National Conciliation Party to help form the new party in anticipation of March 25 presidential elections. Guerrillas who have been battling the government for four years said they were not responsible for slaying Pohl. His killers have not been found. Also in El Salvador, rebels killed nine soldiers in a new incursion into the settlement of Masahuat in the western province of Santa Ana, army sources said. It was the fourth rebel attack in less than 15 days in Santa Ana, which has escaped most of the fighting in the country's civil war. Iran fears U.S. acts in Hormuz Strait By United Press International LONDON — Iran, warning that U.S. adventurism would endanger the Hormuz Strait oil route, said its forces penetrated 25 miles inside Iraq yesterday in a huge offensive that cut off the main highway between Baghdad and Al-Qaeda Gulf. But Iraq said it had routed the Iranian force, wiping out "human waves" of attackers in fighting near the southern Iraqi oil port of Basra. It denied that Iran had cut the highway from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to Basra. Independent confirmation of the conflicting claims was not possible. for the first time the Muslim troops of Iran penetrated 25 miles deep inside Iraqi territory," the Iranian News Agency, IRNA, said. Agency, Iran said its troops achieved one of the most important targets of the offensive when Muslim fighters overran the strategic Baghdad-Basra highway in several places. highway in several places "A great many vehicles were stuck on the 45-mile section of highway from Basra to Al Qurma, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers," IRNA said. Iranian jets bombed a strategic target on the highway in the afternoon, destroying some Iraqi armored and motorized columns, Iran said. 'IRNA said the 'Kheibar' (Battle Ag.inst Infidels) offensive lauched Wednesday had led to the capture of 26 Iraqi villages. It claimed that 2,500 Iraqis have been killed or wounded since Wednesday night. Iraiqi jets flew 94 missions and helicopter gunships operated 135 sorties against Iranian concentrations east of Basra, a war communique from Baghdad said. The communique estimated 3.348 Iranians had died on the Basra front alone. Iraq said 10 people were killed in Basra by Iranian artillery. "Adventuring by America or any other power will endanger all Western interests in the area," Tehran radio reported Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayat as saying. Shearer said David's death Wednesday night and the autopsy would be more important to medicine than David's life. His surgeon revealed an overgrowth of disease-fighting cells that at ate his lungs. "He said something to the effect that here we have all these tubes and all these tests, and nothing is working, and I'm tired," Shearer said. "Why don't we just pull all these tubes out and let me go home." Computerark SHEARER SAID, "He winked at me. That was the last thing he communicated." Shearer said the boy, who lived from his birth until 16 days ago in germ-free plastic bubbles, knew he was dying. HOUSTON David, America's "bubble" boy, joked and winked a goodbye before his death, his doctor said yesterday. William T. Shearer, David's doctor, speaking through tears during a news conference, said David was "slipping fast" by Wednesday morning and doctors had decided to give him a muscle relaxant to allow a respirator to take over his breathing. SHEARER SAID David's parents had not questioned the decision to authorize the experimental bone marrow transplant Oct. 21. David, 12, apparently died of complications from an experimental bone marrow transplant doctors hoped would cure him. KNOWLEDGE SERVICE EDUCATION CAMOODE MORROW BROTHER KAYPRO ORDATA 71.W 234.51 Mall Shopding Center 841-1094 'Bubble boy' said goodbye with a wink marrow transplant. During the transplant, doctors took two ounces of bone marrow cells from his 15-year-old sister Katherine and injected them into David's bloodstream, hoping they would migrate to David's bones and set up a disease-fighting defense. By United Press International THE CASTLE TEA ROOM 1307 Mass. phone 843-1151 set up a disease hospital. 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