Page 8 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1981
National
Demos avoid harsh plan jabs
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Democrats
in Congress — mindful of Presi
dent Reagan’s election mandate
— were careful to avoid a flat re
jection of his economic recovery
plan, but some strong objections
quickly emerged.
House Democratic Leader Jim
Wright, D-Texas, said “a substan
tial part” of Reagan’s package “will
be accommodated,” but he called
the tax-cut proposal “sort of a
blunderbuss approach” that
would lead to higher deficits and
higher inflation.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-
Mass., said there are major
budget cuts he can and will sup
port, “But I am not prepared to
see the social progress of a genera
tion swept aside in a few short
weeks.”
Senate Democratic Leader
Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said
Democrats would support a tax
cut, but not the 10 percent per
year across-the-board plan Reagan
proposed.
“We feel it is an inflationary tax
cut,” Byrd said. “We don’t think it
is equitable and fair across the
board. It favors the rich.”
Most Republicans enthusiastic
ally embraced the plan Reagan
outlined Wednesday night.
“As a matter of fact, I would be
willing to support more expendi
ture cuts than he is asking for,”
said Senate Banking Committee
Chairman Jake Gam, R-Utah.
Speaker Thomas O’Neill, the
top ranking Democrat in
Washington, said the House
would act on Reagan’s proposals
“expeditiously” but also “as cau
tiously and as fairly as we possibly
can.”
Senate Republican leader Ho
ward Baker stressed the need to
treat Reagan’s proposed budget
cuts as a single package, saying the
plan could be in “real trouble”
otherwise.
But even Baker said it would be
“foolish” to assume Reagan’s tax-
cut proposals would get quick con
gressional approval. He said there
is broad support for the cut, but
passage might be delayed until
next year.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,
described Reagan’s plan as “prob
ably the most dramatic redirection
of the fiscal policy of the federal
government since 1932.”
Assistant Senate Democratic
Leader Alan Cranston, D-Calif.,
said Reagan, “with the apparent
blessing of the electorate, is about
to launch an experiment with the
nation’s economy — and with the
well-being of millions of Amer
icans.”
“The experiment may work. It
may not,” Cranston said, adding,
Congress “has the constitutional
responsibility, however, to analy
ze carefully each of the specifics in
the president’s program.”
Shrink can’t be sued
for ‘allowing’ killing
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psychiatrist cannot be sued be
cause he failed to prevent a woman
from murdering her ex-husband,
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the 1977 shooting death of her ex-
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But Cole sued Taylor, saying
she went to him in May 1977 —
four months before her husband’s
murder — for treatment of a men
tal disorder. She said she told him
she had “violent inclinations and
was considering killing her former
husband.”
The suit charged Taylor, as a
psychiatrist, should have pre
vented the murder by committing
Cole or warning her husband of
impending danger.
Mt. St. Helens eruption
brings ‘ash baby" boom
United Press International
SPOKANE, Wash. — They’re calling them
“ash babies, ” and some hospitals in the Northwest
are having trouble finding room for all of the
expectant moms.
It just so happens Wednesday marked the
nine-month anniversary of the massive May 18,
1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens.
When the mountain blew its top that sunny
morning, it covered parts of three states with
volcanic ash, so much so, in some places, people
virtually were “ash-bound” for days, unable to
get out of their homes.
Now people are starting to talk about the erup
tion again, but for a different reason.
“I remember we were commenting to each
other after the ash fell we would have to keep
track of the period nine months later,” said Joe
Morris, administrator of Kootenai Memorial Hos
pital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
“At the current rate, we’ll be up to 107 babies
— our biggest month ever — and it would be a
February with only 28 days,” said Morris.
Nurses in the hospital’s maternity ward began
noticing an increasing number of births last week,
and it became apparent something was up when
19 babies were defivered the same day.
Morris said the hospital’s nursery unit can only
accommodate 12 new moms and babies, so nurses
began chasing all over the hospital looking for
rooms for the other seven.
“We had 4 inches of ash, so we were forcedli
stay inside,” said Cheryl Sieveke, a Teltoa,
Wash., mother who came to Coeur d’Alene to
have her baby.
“We weren’t planning on getting pregnant;!
just happened that way,” she said, but adding
“We’re happy about it.”
Morris said so far this month, there havebeei
65 births, and his prediction of 107 for themonll
will easily surpass the 92 babies bom duringFek
ruary of 1980.
In Spokane, Tom Heafey, a maternity wri
supervisor at Deaconess Hospital, said the 13!
babies delivered so far this month surpassestln
127 total for the entire month of February ayej
ago.
“We have been busy in the labor and deliven
departments, for whatever you can attributetk
to,” Heafey said with a chuckle.
At Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake, Wash,
which was among the hardest hit areas by tin
volcanic ash, an administrator said there hadni
been any deliveries for a few days. j-j
“We seem to have quite a few pre-natal cases,
she added. “It’s just that none of them have gives
birth yet.”
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potentially deadly lung infections
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A research group at the Medic
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50 percent of the smokers were
infected by fungi of the aspergillus
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Although the fungus is com
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ment corners, people who smoke
marijuana inhale large amounts of
fungal spores into their lungs,
chief investigator Dr. Steven
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New England Journal of Medi
cine.
“We have yet to find a sample of
marijuana that doesn’t have fungal
organisms in it,” he said.
Aspergillus fungi produce
spores that remain viable even in a
burning marijuana cigarette.
Once inhaled, Kagen said, the
organisms grow inside the body
and can cause a number of lung
diseases that range from asthma to
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may be a cough or fever,
might be mistaken for a flu.
However, in people with
immune defenses, such as lb u
undergoing treatment with la ideas ai
cancer drugs, the same infetti
could be fatal.
Since cancer patients«
smoke marijuana to lessen
nausea associated with theink
therapy, Kagen said they are
posing themselves to fun:
spores at a time they are unabltl
fight the infection.
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anti-emetic (anti-nausea dn
ought to be vigorously disca
aged,” Kagen said. “Theiis!
ought to be aware there are ana
her of lung diseases that can
caused by using that illegal
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tive ingredient, THC, in che®
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