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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 20, 1989
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Senate approves abortion bill
Congress ignores Bush's veto pledge
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate sent President Bush a bill yesterday that would permit federally financed abortions for poor women who are victims of rape or incest, ignoring the president's promise to the measure.
The bill, which has assumed symbolic importance in the larger political war over abortion, would ease an 8-year-old restriction on circumstances in which Medicaid would pay for a poor woman's abortion.
The Senate's 67-31 vote provided final congressional passage of a spending bill including the key provision on abortion, which the House approved in a surprise vote last week. The Senate previously had rejected federal funding for Abortion.
The measure would require that women who are victims of rape or incest report promptly to law enforcement or public health authorities to qualify for federal money for abortions.
Although the measure has become the object of intense effort by both sides of the abortion issue, there was little consensus on the abortion of asl它 came to the floor.
Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., said Bush's promise of a verb was "unconscionable" and would "cause enormous additional suffering" for victims of rape or incest who could not afford to have an abortion.
"The president has told us he will
veto this bill because he won't accept language that allows poor rape and incest victims access to abortions." he said. "I'm sorry the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, has chosen to veto this bill . . . and thereby cause enormous additional suffering for some of the world's most unfortunate and powerless victims."
Medicaid restrictions in the law since 1981 permit federal money for abortions only in cases where the life of the mother is endangered by her pregnancy. Medicaid financing for poor women's abortions has been restricted in one way or another since 1977.
The abortion provision is part of a $156.7 billion measure to finance labor, health and education programs for fiscal 1990, which began Oct. 1.
Senate to consider capital-gains cut
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A new plan to cut capital gains taxes and expand Individual Retirement Accounts was introduced yesterday with the support of a majority of senators and the Bush administration.
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., who wrote the bill with Sen. Bill Roth, R-Del., told reporters he expected it to become law this year.
A solid majority of the House already has voted for a capital-gains reduction that carried the endorsement of President Bush, but that proposal did not affect IRAs. The Senate version of that bill does not
include the capital-gains provision.
"The plan provides opportunities and incentives for all Americans," Roth said. "It's good for both savers and investors." And it's good for America."
The Roth-Packwood bill would:
Exclude from taxation up to 35 percent of individual capital gains, which are profits from the sale of stock and other investments.
Lower the tax rate on corporate capital gains, which is now 34 percent, to as low as 29 percent.
▶ Permit individuals to set aside as much as $2,000 a year in an IRA, increasing to $3,000 a year after five years. There would be no tax deduci-
tion on the contribution. Instead, the contribution and interest it earned could be withdrawn tax-free for retirement, paying for a college education, medical expenses or buying a first home.
The plan would permit workers who in the past have made tax-deductible contributions to an IRA to "roll over" those accounts into one of the new types in order to become eligible for tax-free withdrawals for education, medical expenses or homebuying.
However, that rollover would require the worker to pay tax on the original tax-free contributions for the next four years.
NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED:
Camilo Jose Cela, a Spanish writer whose violent, grotesque images sprang from the civil war that killed more than 1 million of his countrymen, won the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday.
The Swedish Academy cited Ciel, 73, for "rich and intensive press with restrained control" and vision of man's vulnerability.
It said his novel "The Family of Pascual Duarte," published in 1942, was the most popular work of fiction in Spanish since Miguel Cervantes' masterpiece "Don Quixote" was published nearly 400 years ago.
"I understand that this is the culmination of my literary career after many years of work," Cela told Swedish radio from his home in Gundalajara, 30 miles northeast of
Cela, a bon vivant known in Spain for his flamboyant lifestyle, told reporters at lunch in Madrid some name of tennis, and this time I wore
SUPERPUND CRITICIZED: The government's Superfund money has not been spent wisely, with only some 40 percent going to clean up toxic waste dumps, a congressional study said yesterday.
"Analysis breeds paralysis," a report from the Office of Technology Assessment said in noting that only about three dozen of the 1,200 priority cleanup sites have been declared completely clean.
During the last three years, 60 percent of the $4.4 billion spent by the Environmental Protection Agency on Superfund was used for
administration, management or site studies rather than cleanup, said the report.
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The EPA has estimated another 900 toxic waste sites likely will be added to its priority list in the next decade. However, the report concluded that the number could be 10 times greater with a better administered program.
The report, titled "Coming Clean," said while private Superfund contractors keep busy, "reports pile up, contamination spreads into soil and groundwater, many sites wait to get into the (cleanup) system."
Lew Crampton, EPA associate administrator for communications and public affairs, said that 60 to 70 percent of the money spent by the agency is related to cleanup. Mr. Crampton described this year, he said, when major construction work begins on a number of sites.
PRAVDA EDITOR REMOVED:
The conservative editor of the Communist Party daily Prava, the Soviet Union's most authoritative newspaper that has lagged behind glasnost, was removed yesterday by a coalition of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
The departure of Pravda chief editor Viktor G. Afanasyev, announced by the official news agency Tass and state-run television. Also marks a further attempt by Gorbachev to clean house of conservatives in high positions.
Last month, three conservatives on the ruling Politburo were retired.
The Pravda editorship is seen as an important position. Afanasyev
was allowed to sit in on closed meetings of the Politburee and is a member of the party's policy-makers and Ideological Commission and Ideological Commission.
Tass said Afanasey, who has headed the party newspaper since the era of former Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev.
would be moving to "scientific work."
PANAMAIAN WITHDRAWAL:
The Bush administration may speed up the planned withdrawal of U.S. military dependents from Panama, the White House said yesterday.
Afanaseyov's replacement is Ivan T. Frolov, a philosopher and former editor of the party's monthly journal Communist.
Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman, the newly appointed U.S. military commander in Panama, also has recommended shortening soldiers' tour of duty so that fewer bring their families to Panama, a Pentagon official said.
U. S. officials began evacuating military dependents in May, and as of July 1, some 6,300 Department of Defense personnel had either been sent home or relocated onto U.S. bases in Panama, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said.
The United States has 10,000 soldiers permanently assigned to Panama, 2,500 military personnel there on temporary duty, 7,700 civilians in the U.S. civilian Pentagon employees and 3,300 civilian dependents.
But there are still about 11,000 U.S. dependents in the country, Flitzwater said .
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