NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 9. 1984
Page 10
Congressmen enjoy sand, surf
Taxes finance tropical visits
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of reports investigating overseas travel made by members of Congress.
By GREGORY GORDON United Press International
WASHINGTON — Bankrolled by taxpayers, Chairman James Howard, D.N.J., and colleagues on his House Public Works Committee last January spent a weekend in balmy Rio de Janeiro and the next three nights — courtesy of the Air Force — at a Virgin Islands beach resort.
In the same month, Chairman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery, D-Miss., of the House Veterans Affairs Committee led a 15-member delegation on a Far East trip that began and ended with stops in Hawaii. The Air Force, the group's escort on a military plane, paid $6,814 for the visit to Wakiki Beach.
A MONTH LATER, Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., and his wife, Kathryn, accepted a four-day Pentagon-financed trip to Bermuda, although the trip had taken just a morning — a speech at a Naval Atr Station prayer breakfast.
None of the Pentagon's paradise island lavishtment was fully disclosed in public statements on file with the House clerk and secretary of the Senate — legitimately — because of loopholes in reporting rules.
United Press International and the non-profit Better Government Association traced numerous similar island stopovers, most of them described as "travelling"; during a four-month investigation of congressional overseas travel.
Reviewing thousands of Pentagon and State Department travel vouchers for fiscal 1983 under the Freedom of Information Act, UPI and the BGA turned up at least 36 instances in which members of Congress or their staffs did not report all or parts of foreign trips. The investigation turned up $15.7 million in hidden costs of congressional overseas travel and a total taxpayer burden of at least $21.6 million in fiscal 1983.
ALTHOUGH HOWARD'S office mentioned the Virgin Islands trip in a brief news release before departure, only one member of his delegation, the CEO, invited to Speaker Thomas O'Neill, noted the visit in a report to the House clerk.
Nancy Blades, Howard's spokeswoman, said no report was necessary because the Virgin Islands is one of only foreign trips must be disclosed.
Air Force escorts paid $7,966 for lodging at the Frenchman's Reef Luxury Beach Resort on St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, and meals, refreshments and other services for the 20-member contingent, including eight wives and maids. The wives minimal expenses were covered by the congressmen.
MS. BLADES SAID the $83,000 trip on an Air Force plane was arranged so committee members could impact the airfield. They had a new airport extension at St. Cross.
Howard, who declined to be interviewed, said in a statement that the three-nation South American trip, including a stop in Rio, was set up to discuss 'aviation relations between Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay and the
United States" and other transportation systems.
During its stay in Brazil — mainly Rio — the delegation ran up car rental bills of $2,345 and bus rental charges of $2,915.
DENTON'S AIDES said that they were advised that congressional rules did not require public reporting of the $5,216 the Navy spent transporting the senator and his wife to Bermuda for a trip that included a speech to the Bermuda Council on International Affairs. Mike Wermuth, Denton's chief counsel, said that the secretary of the Senate's office informed him there was no requirement to report foreign trips financed by the military.
Returning from a Senate leadership-sponsored NATO study project in Europe last November, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, four other senators and seven staffers spent a weekend in Bermuda. Stevens aide Dwight Dyer said Max Bierdsorf, former consul general to Bermuda and a personal friend of Stevens, invited the group to the island colony. Dieserdsof is President Reagan's former congressional liaison.
Asked if any of the delegation members went to the beach during the visit, Dyer said, "I can say with some accuracy that if anybody went to the beach they did not enjoy themselves. They did local storm blowing the whole time."
Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, recalls he was invited on a European trip last year in which the delegation planned to "stop four days in Bermuda to rest on the way back." Garn said when he and several other senators complained, the trip was canceled.
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HOUSTON — Twelve-year-old David, born with so little immunity that a common cold could kill him, left his sterile "bubble" for the first time for an illness and received a first-ever mother's kiss, doctors said yesterday.
David, whose last name has been kept secret to protect his privacy, underwent a risky, experimental bone marrow transplant Oct. 21 in an effort to cure his ailment, known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency
Doctors hoped that the transplant of marrow taken from his 15-year-old sister would trigger production of disease-fighting cells normally produced by the bone marrow. The procedure involved intravenous infusion of marrow cells into his bloodstream so the cells would "migrate" to his bones.
BUT DAVID HAS suffered recurrent fever, diarrhea and vomiting since the transplant, symptoms which
"We are conducting tests to determine the cause of these symptoms," said Dr. William G. Shearer, head of the Baylor College of Medicine-Teachin's Hospital team, which has treated David since he was born.
Doctors previously had said they would not be able to tell for at least six months whether David was cured of SCID.
indicate that the bone marrow is not having the desired effect. Doctors indicated that they were not certain what was causing the illness.
"His mother kissed him for the first time" when he emerged, a Texas Children's Hospital spokeswoman said.
A spokeswoman said David's mother also touched him for the first time since his birth. He was moved into a sterile private room.
"Because these symptoms require close medical supervision, we could not effectively treat them while he was ill." (2017) "You cannot be not designed to treat an ill person."
"This is not considered a crisis, and David is not in imminent danger." Shearer said. "We continue to be optimistic and continue to conduct tests on the effect of the bone marrow transplant.
emergency in his surprise removal on Tuesday.
SHEARER ALSO HAD said he would not be taken out of his isolators — at home, in the hospital and in a van — until at least six months had passed. That would have been March 21, but officials denied there was any
Until the transplant, David had never been sick. Doctors always had said SCID left him defenseless to disease.
David is the longest living survivor of SCID.
THE BONE MARROW transplant for David was delayed for years because the procedure is risky and doctors were unable to find a perfect match. They gave up on the search for the graft, but David found to "cleanse" his sister's marrow. David's was the first unmatched marrow transplant for SCID.
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