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Frustacis sue doctor in death of infants
LOS ANGELES — A woman who gave birth to septuplets after taking fertility drugs filed a multimillion dollar malpractice suit against her doctor and his clinic yesterday, blaming them for the "painful loss" of the four babies who died.
Patti Frustaci, whose pregnancy and delivery May 21 captured wide attention, filed suit with her husband, Sam, in Superior Court seeking at least $3.25 million from the Tyler Medical Clinic and Jarsolas Marika, a doctor and owner of the clinic.
Director sworn in
WASHINGTON - Conservative economist James Miller, a point man in President Reagan's 1981 war on government regulation, succeeded David Stockman yesterday as director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget.
President Reagan was among those on hand as Miller — confirmed by the Senate 90-2 Friday — was sworn in as his new budget director in a brief ceremony.
sauer, 43, had been chairman of the Federal Trade Commission since late 1981.
Rocker hurt in crash
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Little Richard, the flamboyant rock star, crashed into a telephone pole in his Nissan 300 ZX yesterday, seriously injuring himself. Authorities and witnesses told investigators the sports car was traveling 60 to 65 mph.
Richard, born Richard Penniman in Mecon, Ga., was hospitalized in serious but stable condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with a fractured leg, bruised ribs and head lacerations.
Ex-Soviet takes oath
WASHINGTON — Soviet-born Walter Polovehak, who at age 12 refused to return to his homeland, severed all legal ties with Moscow yesterday as he took the oath of U.S. citizenship at a Capitol Hill ceremony.
From staff and wire reports.
Budget debate keeps Senate late
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and Republicans jockeyed for political advantage early today, dragging the balanced budget debate into its sixth day and continuing to postpone a crucial increase in the federal debt ceiling.
An early-morning move to cut off debate failed — the second time in four days that an attempt to end a filibuster against the balanced budget rider to the debt ceiling bill was unsuccessful.
balance the budget by 1981 because it was tied to the debt ceiling increase, kept the Senate at work past midnight.
was uninformed
Senate GOP leader Robert Dole,
frustrated at being unable to act on a
Rebublican-backed measure to
individual.
Dole wanted a vote on the GOP plan and offered to pass a short-term extension of the debt limit.
But Democratic Senate leaders made a counterproposal to cut the deficit to zero by 1990, which they said was more specific and would begin the budget cutting process sooner. They began debate on that effort, but refused to allow it to be brought to a vote late yesterday.
Dole tried to move on numerous other amendments, but Democrats cut him off.
“It's a flat out stall.” Dole said. “That's all we've had. It's been one excuse after another.”
excuse the debt Dole maintained that Senate Democrats were trying to stall the balanced budget issue long enough so it would not pass as part of the debt ceiling bill — which was growing increasingly important to the government's finances.
Treasury business and military pay were among the items facing disruption this week without the induction of a borrowing authority, of officials said.
Each side blamed the other for holding up the bill to extend the government's credit line.
"If there's any problem it ought to rest on their (Republicans)' shoulders," said Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., a main sponsor of the Democratic amendment, saying the GOP was reluctant to separate the budget measure from the debt bill lest it lose momentum.
But it was a flipper by opponents of the GOP-leadership's balanced budget measure, mostly Democrats, that initially held up passage of the tax code. But voters attached to a bill to take the credit limit from $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion.
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 1985
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said Republican leaders wanted their balanced budget measure passed.
Three killed in new riots in S. Africa
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police said yesterday they shot 16 people, three fatally, in clashes with mobs hurling gasoline bombs and stones in a new outbreak of racial violence in 30 mixed-race and black townships.
Police also said they found the bodies of two blacks who were burned to death near New Brighton, a black area outside Port Elizabeth, 600 miles south of Johannesburg.
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Anglican bishop of Johannesburg and Nobel Peace laureate, said yesterday that he would not abandon his advocacy of peaceful protest even though he was frustrated by persisting violence.
Police battled riots around Johannesburg, Pretoria, near Cape Town and outside Port Elizabeth on the Indian Ocean coast.
Tutu spoke at a news conference after his return from Britain, where he met Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and leaders of the opposition Labor Party.
Exports are key to farm bill
Outside Cape Town, a wind-swept fire thought to have been started by a gas stove burned out of control for about three hours yesterday in the overcrowded Cross Roads squatter camp for blacks. No casualties were confirmed, but a rumor persisted that four children were unaccounted for.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday approved a 1985 farm bill that pins hopes for recovery of the U.S. agricultural economy on increased export sales.
In the meantime, the bill offers a safety net of farm income guarantees.
The five-year, $141 billion bill includes price support for principal crops such as wheat, corn, cotton, rice and soybeans; a new soil conservation package; money for agricultural extension and research; and new statutory authority for food stamps and overseas food aid.
The Senate is not scheduled to act on its version of the bill until next week at the earliest. Prolonged House-Senate negotiations appeared
likely before a final measure can be sent to President Reagan.
Votes by members of Kansas' congressional delegation fell along party lines.
Democrats Dan Glickman, 4th District, and Jim Slattery, 2nd District, voted for the bill.
Republicans Jan Meyers, 3rd District; Pat Roberts, 1st District; and Bob Whittaker, 5th District; voted against it.
Roberts, who serves on the House Agriculture Committee, said of the bill, "I think it will be of considerable help to some producers."
Glickman, also on the committee, said the measure was a "holding action" that, in effect, continued current commodity programs. But he said the bill contained new and positive provisions.
“It's not all bleak,” Glickman said. “Basically we did as good as we could have done, given all the complex circumstances surrounding this bill.”
The bill provides for a continuation of price support loans, although it ties the rate to market prices for crops in an attempt to make U.S. farm goods more competitive overseas. It also provides for a four-year freeze on income guarantees.
The bill made one change regarded as crucial by the Reagan administration, which sees increased farm exports as the only way to restore health to an alling rural economy.
In its key elements — crop price supports and farm income subsidies — the House bill retains the essential structure of current farm law.
Foreign student population rises
United Press International
NEW YORK - A record 342,113 foreign students were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities last year, the Institute of International Education said yesterday.
California attracted the most, 47,318; New York, with 31,064, was second; Texas was third with 29,425, according to a preliminary version of the annual IIE report "Open Doors."
The greatest growth, 8.6 percent,
was among South and East Asian
students who numbered 143,690 — 42
percent of the total.
the university of Wisconsin-Madison,
2,901; and Columbia University, Barnard,
and Teachers College, 2,773
Engineering continued to be the leading field of study, followed by business and management.
It was the second year in a row in which growth was less than 1 percent, a leveling off in the increase that contrasts sharply to the preceding decade when the foreign-student population spurred 10 percent or more each year, the report said.
Other highlights.
■Leading countries of origin: Taiwan, 22,590; Malaysia, 21,720; Nigeria, 18,370; Iran, 16,640; Republic of Korea, 16,430; Canada, 15,370; India, 14,610; Japan, 13,160; Venezuela, 10,290; Hong Kong, 10,130.
- **Fields of study:** Engineering, 73,87; business and management; 64,93; math and computer science; 35,63; physical and life sciences; 25,96; social sciences; 25,00; fine and applied arts; 15,900; health sciences; 13,410; humanities; 13,630; education; 12,140; agriculture; 7,540.
New storm threatens East Coast
From Kansan wires
MIAMI — Tropical storm Isabel, which caused floods and mudslides that killed as many as 200 people in Puerto Rico, strengthened yesterday and turned its 65-mph winds northward to the Florida and Georgia coasts.
A late report from a reconnaissance plane found the season's ninth tropical twister moving northwestward, packing sustained winds of 65 mph and 'hurricane-stress' gusts of 75 mph.
"If the present motion continues, a hurricane watch may be required later tonight and warnings tomorrow morning (today) for portions of the Georgia and Florida east coasts," an advisory said yesterday.
At 5 p.m. CDT, Isabel was centered 525 miles east-southeast of Daynaea Beach, Fla., near latitude 27.2 north; longitude 27.2 west. It was moving northwest between 15 and 20 mph.
The Bahamas government issued a storm watch for the Abaco Islands at the northeast corner of the island chain and small craft warnings were flying in the northern Bahamas and all along Florida's east coast.
Isabel was moving on a course similar to that of hurricane Gloria, which brushed North Carolina's Outer Banks and roared across New York's Long Island on Sept. 29.
As a tropical wave on Sunday and Monday, the storm system that developed into Isabel produced heavy thunderstorms and gusty winds over the islands of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and adjacent waters, forecasters said.
At Ponce, Puerto Rico, hundreds of residents of a devastated shantytown watched anxiously yesterday as National Guardsmen and U.S. Army engineers dug through tons of wood and mud in search of their relatives and neighbors missing in mudslides and flooding that destroyed 275 wood, and tin houses. About 66 people are, known to have been killed.
Puerto Rican Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon estimated between 150 and 200 people were thought trapped in the rubble
"It is almost impossible that anybody is alive," Hernandez Colon said.
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