University Daily Kansan, November 11. 1983 Page 1
NATION AND WORLD
Agencies may run out of money Abortion issue delays spending bill
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate failed yesterday to strip controversial abortion language from a house-passed money bill needed to keep numerous government agencies operating, and prospects for a filibuster loomed.
Six hours before the midnight deadline for new funds, it appeared some federal agencies technically would run out of money. But, because today is a Saturday, there is not expected to be an immediate impact on government services.
The Senate rejected, 44-43, an attempt to eliminate a House provision prohibiting federal employees from using government medical insurance for abortions, except when the life of the mother is in danger.
Sen. Bob Packwood, O-Roe, had begun a filibuster Wednesday against an identical abortion restriction proposed by Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala. Denton may launch a filibuster if the restriction is not passed.
"I HAVE THE CHOICE of a filibuster on one hand by Senator Denton and on the other by Senator Packwood," said Chairman Mack Hatfield, Chairman Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. after
the first vote. "I plead with the Senate to give me an opportunity to get on with the debate."
A filibuster could force Congress to stay in session during the long Veterans Day weekend to try to pass the legislation, which would continue financing agencies whose appropriations bills have not yet been enacted.
Earlier, the Senate — seeking to strip the House bill of controversial items to avert a presidential veto — voted S3-36 to authorize education and social-welfare programs.
The Senate began work on the measure only eight hours before the midnight yesterday deadline, and Hatfield immediately moved to eliminate the extra $1 billion the House had added to its bill.
"WE CAN rely upon the inevitability of the money is left in, Hatfield said.
The Democratic-dominated House passed the overall measure 224-189 earlier in the day, and both versions would have to be reconciled by a conference committee before the bill could be sent to the White House.
The stopgap measure is necessary because five of the 13 regular appropriations must be met.
been enacted. It would continue the government's spending authority, set to expire at midnight, until Feb. 29.
THE HOUSE, on a 235-181 vote,
attached amendments to restore $1 billion to education and social-welfare programs Congress had cut over the past two years under pressure from Senate Republican's 3.1 billion on foreign aid in 1984.
The House proposal also would bar federal employees from using their governmental health insurance benefits to nav for abortions.
The House had attached the identical education and foreign aid amendments to a similar bill Tuesday, but then defeated the entire measure 206-203 when Democratic freshmen revolted to protest large budget deficits.
THE FOREIGN aid package attached to the bill would increase military and economic aid to Israel and Egypt by about $400 million over levels and halt about $150 million in previously appropriated aid to Syria.
It also would withhold 30 percent of the U.S. aid to El Salvador until Salvadoran authorities reach a verdict in the trial of those responsible for the murder of four American church women in 1980.
Democrats confident phone-rate bill will pass
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives worked late into the night yesterday on legislation that would hold down local phone bills after the Jan. 1 divestiture of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Democratic supporters were confident that the legislation would pass.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo., said the Democrats, who are in the majority in the House. Republican support for the measure.
A vote was expected late yesterday or early this morning.
Republicans who opposed the bill had concentrated on a key amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Tauke, R-Jowa, that would guarantee univer-
sa telephone service but retain a watered-down form of controversial access charges. However, the amendment was defeated 264-142.
The Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act would primarily block parts of a Federal Communication Commission order allowing AT&T to charge customers a flat monthly rate for access to long-distance phone services after it breaks up next year.
IT WOULD cancel the planned $2 monthly access charge to residential customers and a $6 charge to small business customers with one phone line. It would also guarantee low-cost phone service to the poor and elderly all provide a fund for small and rural company companies with low revenues.
passed a similar measure. Leaders had agreed to try to get it to the full Senate for debate before the end of the session if the House passed its bill.
A Senate Committee has already
AT&T opposes the legislation and in the past week has increased its lobbying effort to defeat or substantially alter it. Consumer groups support the bill, saying the access charges and other new tolls relating to the AT&T divestiture could double or triple phone bills.
The Reagan administration Wednesday announced support for ATKT's request that the FCC, which had delayed imposition of the access until April 3, allowed the fees to go into effect on Jan. 1 as originally planned.
The FCC sent an letter to Congress yesterday urging the House not to pass
SPRINGFIELD. Mo. — Zoo keeper John Bradford keeps a tight grip on the jaws of an alligator at Dickerson Park Zoo. The zoo moved its reptiles into a warmer indoor climate for the winter. Colder weather moved into the Ozarks this week as temperatures dipped to the 30s.
Scientist says zinc is needed for pregnancies
By United Press International
Good sources of zinc, the department said, are oysters, crab, variety meats such as liver or beef heart, other kinds of beef and dark poultry meat.
BOSTON — An Agriculture Department scientist said yesterday that it might be prudent for pregnant women to eat foods rich in zinc because tests revealed memory and learning deficiencies in those that were fed diets deficient in zinc.
Edward S. Hala, research psychologist for the department's Agricultural Research Service, said that whether the zinc deficiency occurred in human fetuses and interfered with the brain's hippocampus during pregnancy and postnatal periods was not known, but he added that "may have implications for humans."
Halas said tests of rats showed that impaired learning of animals continued.
A report on the research done at the agency's Grand Forks, D.N., Human Nutrition Research Center. The report was written by Dr. J. Sullivan and the Society for Neuroscience in Boston.
"Diets mildly deficient in zinc caused memory and learning impairments in the offspring of laboratory rats fed the diets of laboratory mice and suckling," the department said.
Halas said a rat maze used to diagnose the impairments was the same kind that researchers at John Hopkins University developed to study effects of surgically imposed injuries in rats. The researchers, who searched had found that injuries to the brain's hippocampus area impaired short- and long-term memory.
Halas said the Grand Forks study had "found that the hippocampus areas were less-well developed in zinc-deficient rats with memory and learning impairments than they were in the rats on control diets."
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