NATION AND WORLD
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university Daily Kansan, October 21, 1983
Reagan orders movie income to be donated
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has ordered income from rumors of his old movies turned over to charity to avoid any conflict of interest in a fight over television program syndication, his chief spokesman said yesterday.
Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had taken the action "in the last couple days," amid signs of deepening personal in-formation with the $100 million-dollar battle between Hollywood producers and the major networks.
Speakes said the residual payments amounted to "less than $1,000" a year. He denied that the move indicated Reagan was preparing to come to the fore in opposition allowing the networks to own and syndicate their own shows.
The disclosure came as Reagan met with his Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade to discuss whether the administration should support a move towardselay a far-reaching rule change by the Federal Communications Commission.
NEW YORK — Alger Hiss said recently that he was turning to the public in his 33-year-old attempt to clear his name. Hiss, who was convicted of perjury in 1950 for telling a grand jury that he had not been a spy for the Soviet Union, was accused of stealing sensitive documents in the 1930s and giving them to a former Communist Party member, the late Whittaker Chambers. Hiss lost his final appeal to the Supreme Court last week.
EPA gives local areas second chance
WASHINGTON — Dozens of local areas that failed to meet federal air pollution standards will not suffer costly penalties until they have another chance to implement a clean air plan. the Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday.
By United Press International
In an important policy shift from the era of former Administrator Anne Burford, the EPA announced that it would defer punishment of states and
counties with dirty air until they had submitted new or revised cleanup plans approved by the agency.
The pollutants targeted under the law include sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides and particulates.
The announcement does not impose or lift any federal funding sanctions on any area.
"Instead, it provides states with the opportunity to correct the deficiencies in their state implementations before EPA proposes construction or funding
restrictions," the agency said in a statement.
Under the new policy, areas that did not have an approved clean air plan, or had a plan but failed to attain pollution standards by the end of last year, now have until February to submit new proposals.
The new policy eliminates the threat of punishment against 111 local areas in 31 states that had not met air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. Burford said that the agency has reduced dollars in federal highway and construction grants to those areas.
Physician explains new breast cancer treatment
By United Press International
VENICE, Italy — Radioactive implants are as successful in treating breast cancer as mastectomies and often with less scarring or other disfigurement, a leading U.S. breast cancer researcher said yesterday.
Samuel Hellman, physician-in-chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer center in New York, told an international symposium of cancer researchers that his recent studies showed that radioactive implants produce cure rates comparable to mastectomy while leaving the breast relatively intact and often with little scarring or other disfigurement.
Hellman is considered a pioneer in the use of radioactive breast implants, tiny plastic tubes filled with an irridium isotope that are inserted directly into the breast after a malignancy is removed.
He said his recent clinical trials of 357
breast cancer sufferers indicated that the new treatment matched cancer control and survival figures for mastectomy, long the standard U.S. medical practice to combat breast cancer
"My recommendation to women suffering from breast cancer and faced with the prospect of undergoing mastectomy is to consider the new treatment, which has been shown to uncertainty over long-term results (beyond five years)," he said.
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