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national Battalion/Page 7 March 3, 1982 Reagan claims no retreat from tax cuts or defense United Press International CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Presi dent Reagan said Tuesday there will be no retreat from the sche duled tax cuts due every Amer ican or from the military buil dup needed to keep the nation from becoming a “second-rate power.” In remarks prepared for de livery at a political fundraiser for Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R- Wyo., the president leveled another blast at critics of his au stere 1983 budget and its pro jected $91.5 billion deficit. The president repeated his position that he is open to sug gestions and alternatives from Congress. “But as the volume of voices rises in debate, there is one thing I want to make very plain: My commitment to cutting taxes and rebuilding our defenses is every bit as strong today as it was the day I took office,” Reagan said. “There must be no retreat in these areas.” His remarks came on the first day of a weeklong stay in Cali fornia. Reagan will divide his time between Los Angeles and his ranch in Santa Barbara. “Listening to the born- again budget balancers moan about deficits is kind of like hearing a .mugger in Central Park complain about crime in the streets, ” scoffed Reagan, who cam paigned with a promise to balance the budget by 1983. A brief stop lor another fun draiser, in Albuquerque, N.M., for Republican Sen. Harrison Schmitt, was to follow the Cheyenne stop. Reagan’s Cheyenne remarks were laden with tough-sounding talk aimed at critics on Capitol Hill who publicly fret over grow ing government red ink. “Listening to the born-again budget balancers moan about deficits is kind of like hearing a mugger in Central Park com plain about crime in the streets,” scoffed Reagan, who cam paigned with a promise to ba lance the budget by 1983. He said the nation “has turned away from the dizzying years of tax and spend, tax and spend,” but he insisted that spending for defense must be increased. “We dare not reduce our de fense budget,” Reagan said. “I don’t think Americans want their armed forces held together pr j va t e iy with chewing gum and baling sorT ^ wire, unable to move for want of spare parts. We must not resign ourselves to life as a second-rate power, tempting agression with our weakness.” As he has in the past, Reagan buttressed his call for higher de fense spending by explaining he is “practically the only one who has all the facts with regard to our national security.” Additionally, he said most of the money for defense is for basic essentials now in danger ously short supply, such things as manpower, maintenance and troop readiness. Critics have charged Reagan must accept reductions in de fense spending, propose new taxes or delay scheduled tax cuts to reduce the deficit. Although publicly Reagan is saying he’ll accept no changes, ately what he is saying may >e somewhat more flexible, however. Every time he meets with various congressional allies, they troop before reporters’ microphones to say that Reagan may yet accept some changes in the fiscal plan he deems so essential. e ■ ■ **r ? sailing staff photo by Eileen Manton ier aggie Kevin O’Connor, of ingsville, enjoys an outing with his ^tamaran on Lake Somerville. O’Con nor graduated last spring with a degree in architectural design and lives pre sently in Bryan. Senator asks U.S. pull out of NATO nq d. “Vd r will ■ elect! idney failure deaths nked to burn creams speaks I “a you p, booij my use r protcl •ral tlj sumer| men icdon vering »ucht 1 it in; king 1 te indj sad th| re tryi ice. Ft ure em. ien us panel! 30 coij 3Ut indicj 1 you ideal ore rj pie, : as said I jrnetf also i 3ple en to' open ords I lerst^ thatj xabu ngl inten ebecl ed tol ronal able I Id use ; tot ckinl romp oulo Fra| sou :er anf i uni United Press International lHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The Food and Drug Adminis- lon is reviewing a report that rn cream was a major factor ie kidney failure deaths of : burn patients, the Universi- f Virginia says. )r. Benjamin C. Sturgill said uday the patients, who died he university’s burn center I had burns over 15 to 64 per- of their bodies, suffered a : syndrome similar to that duced by drinking anti- r ze. fThe toxicity of Furacin Solu- IDressing was a major factor fhe deaths,” he said in re- fks prepared for delivery in kton before the United States- padian Division of the Inter- fonal Academy of Pathology. IThe dressing contains 99.8 |£ ent polyethylene glycol, a hly soluble alcohol that car- the active ingredient deep Now You Know United Press International lu wor ^ s largest hotel, the fldorf-Astoria in New York ' has 1,852 guest rooms and ■oys a staff of 1,700. into burned tissues, Sturgill said. The alcohol base, he said, is sus pect in the deaths. The deaths occurred between July 1978 and July 1980 after treatment with Furacin Soluble Dressing. The center no longer uses the dressing, Sturgill said. Autopsies showed the dead patients’ kidneys were damaged, blood-acid levels were high, and blood-serum tests showed the presence of an antifreeze, Stur gill said. No patients w r ho died at the cer five years before the ere vas used showed similar syrn^^/ns, he said. “It’s not uncommon for burn patients to develop (kidney) fai lure due to loss of fluids,” Stur gill said, “but it is very unusual for burn patients to develop this kind of established acute (kid ney) failure.” The National Center for Burn Medicine in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimated 4 percent of all burn patients are treated with Furacin Soluble Dressing. The Food and Drug Adminis tration is reviewing the school’s report, the university said in a news release. The manufacturer, Norwich- Eaton Pharmaceuticals of Nor wich, N.Y., has mailed a form letter to doctors with the warn ing, “Furacin Soluble Dressing should be used with caution in patients with known or sus pected (kidney) impairment.” William Kenney, public rela tions manager for Norwich- Eaton, said the findings were the same as those released by the university about a year ago. He said the company re sponded to the situation by writ ing burn-center administrators and changing the package warn ing. He described the cream as an effective product that should be available if people under stand the warnings. Kenney said he had not re viewed the latest report. United Press International WASHINGTON —A leading Republican senator Tuesday threatened to introduce a re solution to withdraw the nation’s 337,000 troops from Europe be cause of a West European deci sion to buy natural gas from the Soviet Union. “I might do it, I want you to know,” Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska, the assistant GOP lead er, told Defense Secretary Cas par Weinberger at a hearing. “It’s time to look after our in terests.” The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. David Jones, said. “Our troops are over there to defend the Un ited States. If we lost them, it would be a tragedy for the Un ited States. I’d much rather de fend in Europe than from some^ where back from Europe.” The administration opposes construction of a Soviet gas pipeline leading to Western Europe because it would make West Germany dependent on the Kremlin for what is esti mated to be 5 percent of Ger many’s natural gas needs. The valve for the pipeline would be in Soviet territory. Weinberger agreed with Stevens, but said the United States does not have the power to stop its allies from buying the gas and the 337,000 U.S. troops in Europe should not be with drawn. He said the defense costs to the American taxpayer would rise if American troops were brought home and “if we didn’t have the opportunity to defend from forward areas.” Stevens said Americans are paying in part for the defense of Western Europe while at the same time supporting the Soviet Union with the decision to buy Soviet natural gas. The pipeline is being built largely of materials made in the West. Mississippi Sen. 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