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Thursday, September 8, 1994
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U.S. Marines prepare for possible invasion
The Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — U.S. Marines assigned to a potential Hawaii invasion force began training yesterday as Secretary of State Warren Christopher warned Haiti's army rulers that "their days are definitely numbered."
LA. Elizabeth Jones, spokeswoman for the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico said 1,800 Marines were practicing on a Puerto Rican island to evacuate the estimated 3,500 American civilians in Haiti.
Speaking in Washington, Christopher warned that Haiti's military leaders must step down voluntarily or be forced out by a U.S.-led invasion.
"One way or the other, the de facto government is going to be leaving," Christopher said.
In Haiti, a key supporter of the military warned the United States that Haitians would join together to fight U.S. troops.
"President Clinton must realize that an intervention will not be an invasion of army headquarters but of the entire country," Haitian Sen. Thomas Eddy Dupont told The Associated
Press in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital.
The Marines have been deployed on two U.S. combat ships in waters off Haiti since mid-August.
Many Republicans in Congress oppose military intervention, and many of the Americans in Haiti insist they do not want to be evacuated.
"I think it's the same old story—they're creating a situation whereby they're going to rescue Americans," said Don Weaver, 62, a Protestant minister whose wife left Hain in May at the U.S. government's suggestion. "My contention is, the house isn't on fire, don't throw the match."
Vieues residents have been protesting the U.S. military presence on their island for two decades. Two-thirds of the island belongs to the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and the Navy frequently uses the property for target practice.
Suit filed citing reverse discrimination
In another development, the United States postponed plans to send a group of Haitian refugees yesterday from a U.S. Navy base in Cuba to the South American nation of Suriname. It was unclear when the transfer would begin.
The Associated Press
The government helped Sharon
Taxamuse and win $144,000 in 1992.
But now the government has switched sides and is backing the Piscataway Board of Education in its appeal. The Clinton Justice Department contends the board had the right to retain Debra Williams for the sake of racial diversity.
Taxman's lawyer, Stephen E. Klaus
ner, called the switch "unethical and reprehensible" and said yesterday that he will fight it.
Deval L. Patrick, assistant attorney general for civil rights, said the government switched sides because the ruling was wrong.
Patrick said the case does not involve quotas, which the Clinton administration opposes, but affirmative action—"a different animal."
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, the Justice Department argued that workplace diversity can be taken into consideration in voluntary affirmative action plans.
NEW YORK — Many U.S. emergency rooms are staffed by doctors who were never taught how to treat a heart attack, resuscitate a child or treat bleeding, and patients may be dying as a result.
ER doctors not properly trained
The Associated Press
"It would be fair to say that lives could be saved ... if all emergency departments were staffed by appropriately trained individuals," said Dr. L. Thompson Bowles, president of the National Board of Medical Examiners and the chairman of a group of 38 health care authorities who studied the issue.
The panel, which convened in April, included a number of experts who were not emergency medicine
The report strongly condemns a practice in which medical residents supplement their modest incomes by working part time at night in emergency rooms.
specialists. Their report is to be released Monday.
"Many 'moonlighters' lack training and adequate experience in any aspect of primary health care," the report said.
Only about half the nation's 25,000 jobs in emergency medicine are filled by doctors certified to provide emergency care. In many hospitals, doctors don't need certification to work in the emergency room.
"When people ask if there's a doctor in the house, they have reason to expect that every physician can do
"When a young person finishes medical school, they might not know how to treat these things as well as a paramedic," Goldfrank, director of emergency medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, said in a telephone interview.
the minimum to save a person's life in an emergency. This is not the case today." Dr. Lewis Goldfrank said in a statement.
He said a better question might be,
"Is there a paramedic in the house?"
"I think the public would be shocked if they knew how few physicians are competent to provide CPR," said Dr. Thomas Mekle, president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York, which commissioned the report.
Health care reform still ailing
Session may end without resolution
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Five days into his presidency, Bill Clinton put his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in charge of making good on a bedrock campaign promise: send Congress a plan to reform health care within 100 days.
"If it were 101 days, I wouldn't have a heart attack," Clinton conceded good-natured. "But I want it done now."
The president and his health reform task missed the deadline, and it wasn't until late September before Clinton outlined his plan. The final White House product — a 1,342-page bill — was unveiled on Oct. 27.
tions, and the issue is what incremental changes Congress will make. If a bill is passed, Clinton will have to decide whether to abandon his veto threat and sign the legislation.
Looking back, friends and foes of Clinton's drive for major health reform agree that the battle was lost during months wasted on a widely ridiculed search for the perfect plan.
Last year's delay "was an enormous advantage to us," said John J. Motley, vice president for government affairs for the National Federation of Independent Business, which rallied opposition against forced employer contributions.
As the Clinton administration worked on its plan, the health industry and business groups launched a $100 million-plus lobbying effort against the president's reforms.
The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have barely a month before lawmakers break for elec-
The administration also decided that health reform had to take a back seat to winning congressional approval of its budget. But Clinton's slim budget victory in August 1993 made health reform even harder.
The financial plan tapped $55 billion of savings from Medicare and Medicaid over five years to reduce the deficit and stiffened Congress' resistance to any additional tax increases.
their health insurance went down.
That made it tougher for Clinton and his allies to convince middle-class Americans that their health benefits were not safe. Fifteen percent of Americans — almost 39 million people — are uninsured.
Back on Sept. 22, 1993, expectations were high for Clinton's health reform address to the nation.
And as the economy picked up,
Americans' anxieties about losing
reform issues in the background were genuine philosophical disagreements about what to do and major political obstacles," said Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit group.
The private health insurance industry poured $12 million into its "Harry and Louise" ads that showed a middle-class couple voicing their fears about bureaucrats restricting health choices and rationing care.
Ira C. Magazine, the senior White House adviser who oversaw the preparation of Clinton's plan, said, "Never in the history of this country have modern technology and scare tactics combined to produce the degree and tone of misinformation that was spewed out so quickly about health care reform."
Beach trash still a problem
Washington — More than 158,000 volunteers scouring 4,500 miles of shoreline collected 7.3 million pieces of trash in three hours, illustrating that beaches and waterways continue to be polluted despite the heightened concern about protecting the environment.
The Associated Press
A report released yesterday by the Center for Marine Conservation said a broad array of debris littered coastal America and the shores of its rivers and lakes.
Among the items collected in the 1993 cleanup: 1.7 million cigarette butts, 344,502 pieces of glass, 203,330 straws, 339,996 bottles, 210,554 cups, 134,547 cups, 40,508 balloons, 30,326 light bulbs and fluorescent tubes, 10,166 syringes, 55,470 plastic trash bags, and 6,636 condoms.
A volunteer in Louisiana found a $2 lottery ticket, and another one in Texas discovered a 5-pound bag of cocaine labeled "radioactive." A skeleton turned up on a Mississippi shoreline.
The cleanup crews at various times last September and October covered ocean beaches and inland shorelines in 32 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"This report," said Roger McManus, president of the Center for Marine Conservation, "is not about trash, it's about people. People are the ones who pollute the ocean waters."
There were fewer plastic items than in previous years, suggesting an impact from recycling and state bottle-deposit laws. Plastic items accounted, nevertheless, for 53 percent of the debris.
More significantly, said Kathy O'Hara, director of the collection program, is that less of the trash seems to be coming from boats and ships.
"Cruise ships and other offshore sources are no longer the major contributors to the problem," O'Hara said. She attributed the improvement to new treaties against waste being dumped overboard.
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