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Letters tell health-care horrors
WASHINGTON — Brigitte Burdine was talking to the president of the United States, but her niece wasn't impressed. Two-year-old Chase was more interested in the swing flung over a huge tree near the Oval Office.
Therefore, Chase played quietly while her aunt told President Clinton and a Rose Garden audience of the girl's health-care horror story.
The Associated Press
Burdine said Chase had the AIDS virus, and her mother, Heather, had AIDS. The mother's insurance company has refused to pay claims until it can determine whether she contracted the virus before getting insurance.
Meanwhile, the bills are piling up. Heather's parents are adopting Chase in case the mother loses her insurance.
The family is worried that Heather's employer, threatened with high premiums, will fire her. The illness will soon make it impossible for her to work in any case.
"Myparents love Heather and Chase...and they would do anything to keep them alive, including being forced into poverty. This is not fair," Burdine wrote in a letter to Clinton. "No one should be refused topnotch health care in this country for financial reasons, and when someone becomes chronically ill, it should not be allowed to wipe out their entire family financially."
Burdine was one of 21 people the White House invited to help open Clinton's push for health care reform. Some read their letters out loud.
Some examples:
Cancer victim Suzy Somers of Menlo Park, Calif., wrote about how she lost her health insurance after her ex-husband went bankrupt. After reading the letter to the Clinton's, she shocked the audience by adding, "Last week, I found another lump on my breast."
■ Mable Piley of Iola also was invited to the ceremony. Her letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care reform task force talked about how her and her husband's monthly insurance premiums more than tripped between 1989 and 1992, from $243 a month to $900 a month.
Piley, 59, said she was impressed by the attitude of the Clinton administration and the members of the task force.
Panel suggests lifting Vietnam ban
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton should lift the 18-year trade embargo with Vietnam, six House members of a key trade panel said after returning from a visit to Hanoi.
"Lifting the trade embargo with Vietnam will enhance prospects for a final resolution of the POW-MIA issue by
Rep. Sam Gibbons, D-Fla., chair of the Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, joined five other members of the panel in telling Clinton that enduring trade sanctions will help resolve the issue of Americans missing from the Vietnam War.
actively involving more people, both Vietnamese and American, in the process,"the lawmakers said in a letter to Clinton dated Wednesday.
Bank and other international projects in Vietnam but were still barred from other commercial transactions.
Gibbons, in a speech to a business group Wednesday, said that Clinton was finding it difficult to move decisively on ending sanctions on Vietnam because of the political fallout from his efforts to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.
The lawmakers, who visited Vietnam and other Asian countries in August, said the American public had not been fully informed about joint U.S.-Vietnam efforts on POW-MIA matters and "such lack of information has inhibited our ability to restore public confidence in both the U.S. and Vietnamese governments on this issue."
The White House announced Monday that American businesses would be allowed to participate in World
The administration said it would not normalize trade and diplomatic relations until it confirmed that Hanoi is fully cooperating in the accounting of more than 2,200 Americans still missing from the war.
The Associated Press
China expands military; neighbors nervous
BELIING — While China's resurgent economy is grabbing headlines worldwide, nervous neighbors are paying even closer attention to its accelerating program to build a modern fighting machine.
Although the magazine failed to reveal any military secrets, it was an unusually frank account of Chinese
military goals.
China insists it has no expansionist ambitions. But an official magazine recently acknowledged that China has taken advantage of the end of the Cold War to expand its "military influence to the entire Asian region."
"We shouldn't think that because we're at peace now, we can let the horses out to pasture, put our knives and guns in storage," said Gin. Liu Huqing, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.
China has increased its official military budget an average 14 percent each of the past four years, more than the increase in overall government spending. It has come up with even more funds by aggressively selling weapons and civilian products made in military factories.
Gary Klintworth, an Asia specialist at Australia National University, said
economic development is driving the buildup with offshore interests such as oil, fisheries and shipping.
Gerald Segal, a senior fellow at the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies said Beijing seemed most interested in negotiating long-term co-production agreements that would give it access to Russian technology.
Some experts say China's military buildup still amounts to catching up with its neighbors.
Lee Ngok, a strategic affairs expert at Hong Kong University, said other Asian countries also have increased arms purchases recently.
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