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Tuesday, February 3, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Federal officials plead for pay boost
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Federal judges and government officials begged Congress for pay raises yesterday that opponents charge are unnecessary and elitist, while the House took its turn in facing the politically sensitive matter.
The House of Representatives was tackling the issue, while retired Chief Justice Warren Burger and others with a House task force for the raises.
The increases, proposed in January by President Reagan, will go into effect unless the House and Senate vote to reject them and the president agrees by midnight Tuesday.
The Senate rejected the pay increases Thursday in an amendment attached to a House-passed bill
providing $50 million in emergency aid for the homeless.
The bill then returned to the House, where Speaker Jim Wright of Texas said the amended bill probably will be approved and the raises thereby rejected. Wright said he did not want to see emergency aid for the homeless delayed by a fight between the House and Senate.
The president could veto the measure, a move that would put the raises into effect while Congress battled over overriding the veto.
Nonetheless, those most affected by the pay proposal went to the Hill yesterday like employees trooping into a boss's office.
"A recent survey ... reveals that 80 of the 174 federal judges appointed by President Reagan since 1984 cannot live on a federal judge's take-home pay," said U.S. District Judge Spencer Williams of California, who makes $81,100 a year. His salary would jump to $89,500 under the president's proposal.
year and the deterioration of purchasing power over the years.
Burger said more judges have resigned since 1969 than in the previous 180 years.
"Along with this, we have seen repeated refusals of highly competent lawyers to serve on the federal bench, traditionally a singular honor," he said in testimony. "Some of the most promising prospective nominees who really wanted to serve were compelled to decline.
"I have also watched many judges virtually exhaust whatever accumulated savings they had to educate their children and provide medical care for their families."
Burger, who took senior status upon his retirement, will receive any pay raise authorized. He receives a bonus, which would increase to $115,000.
But consumer activist Ralph Nadar said "top federal officials now make more than 98 percent of earners in this country" and called the number of judges leaving an "exceedingly low attrition rate." He said the reasoning behind the pay raises is elitist.
The pay raises first were proposed in a December report by the Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries.
Center offers new home for 4 AIDS kids Boston care unit believed to be first of its kind in the U.S.
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BOSTON — A unique center providing "warm, tender care" for children who suffer from acquired immune deficiency syndrome and tips for their parents on coping with the fatal disease opened yesterday at Boston City Hospital.
The hospital center, believed to be the first of its kind in the country, provides around-the-clock care and regular medical attention for up to four children. One 2-year-old boy was already admitted to the unit.
infections.
"We feel this kind of warm, tender care is preferable to keep (children) in regular hospital rooms," said pediatrician Dr. George Lamb, noting children with AIDS are better off away from a hospital setting because of the risk of catching other
it is set up as a home, not as a medical care component." Lamb said. "It is temporary. The children will only stay until their parents are able to care for them."
Parents are encouraged to stay in a separate hospital ward for up to three weeks to learn how to cope with the disease. Lamb said.
Gov. Michael S. Dukakis pledged to earmark $1 million from the upcoming state budget to fight the deadly disease.
"These youngsters, who at best, as far as we know, are doomed," Dukakis said. "（AIDS） is a terrible thing to happen to a baby who is brought into this world.
"We've got to find a cure for this and find it fast. I hope in the not-too-distant future we're going to have a
cure for this thing."
The need for such a facility came to Lamb's attention about 18 months ago when he received a call from Boston's Children's Hospital about AIDS and AIDS-related complex (ARC), a form of the disease that may never develop into the full-blown illness.
"They told me about two kids with AIDS who had been in the hospital for 16 months and had no place to go," he said.
"The majority of children who have AIDS or ARC are infected by their mothers, who are often too sick to take care of them," Lamb said. "The social conditions are not necessarily good, either, because many of the mothers are intravenous drug users."
AIDS has been diagnosed in 18
children in Massachussetts since 1981, and only five remain alive, Lamb said. For each case of AIDS, he said that children with an AIDS-related complex
Officials said the AIDS center will have a kitchen, play area and bedrooms. A staff of six and a coordinator will work at the unit. A nurse practitioner will visit three times each week to educate the staff on medical conditions.
"We're probably experiencing the most severe public health problem in the history of our country." Mayor Raymond L. Flynn said of the deadly disease. "It is the most catastrophic disease that has taken place in our time.
"These children are brought into this world with three strikes against them." Flynn said.
Reagan could keep his papers secret, legal experts say
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan could keep his private papers secret, even from a special prosecutor, by convincing a court that they had internal security or sensitive foreign policy matters, legal experts said yesterday.
Any demand for Reagan's private notes made by Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel investigating the Iran arms-contra aid affair, or by congressional committees, most likely will finally be decided by a federal judge Michael Milleman, a law professor at the University of Maryland.
In 1974, the Supreme Court rejected Richard Nixon's claims that he should not have to surrender the White House tapes linked to Watergate because of his "executive privilege."
But Reagan could succeed in blocking disclosure by proving to a judge that such disclosures could jeopardize his administration's process of making foreign policy, Milleman said.
A White House spokesman said that releasing the personal papers would infringe on the privacy of the president and others — setting up the possibility of a protracted legal battle.
"It Reagan sticks to his position, a court is going to have to resolve it," said Milleman. "It boils down to a balancing test, and this is a significantly stronger case for non-disclosure than the White House tapes case."
A White House spokesman said
yesterday that Reagan was willing to give Congress "relevant excerts from his personal notes" on the Iran-contra scandal, if the material was needed to complete investigations of the affair.
Congress has even less chance of winning the papers than Wallace Mullen gets.
But Laurence Tribe, a leading constitutional lawyer at Harvard University, said. "The needs of the House and Senate in their oversight of the foreign policy process are at least as significant and weighty as a criminal probe such as Walsh's."
In the 1974 case, the Supreme Court signaled how a president could successfully block disclosure. The court said it could not uphold Richard Nixon's appeal "absent a claim of the need to protect military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets."
"If Nixon had argued that, the Watergate case would probably have come out a lot differently," Milleman said.
Other experts said there was no criminal trial underway, as was the case with Nixon's appeal, nor has it been revealed as a co-conspirator in any crime.
But Walsh still can make a strong case for access to the papers, especially with a grand jury now proceeding.
"Walsh's argument would be a weight claim when put up against the historical basis for executive privilege." Milleman said.
Justice Department officials said Reagan had a right to keep his notes confidential
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