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Former PLO ambassador to speak
By ED CASSAVOY
Stul l Writer
Dr. Halem Hussaini, lonner Pal
estine Liberation Or^an i/at ion am
bassador to the L’nitecl Nations, will
sj)eak Luesclay on the role of Pales
tinians in a new Aral) world.
The program, sponsored by Me
morial Student (.'enter Political Fo
rum, will l)egin at H p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
John Dixon, program coordina
tor, said he decided on bringing
Hussaini to A&M Irecause “I thought
the PLO has been eclipsed with the
riseol the newer Shiite radicals.
‘The question I wanted raised Was
what is going to happen to the PLO
as the representative ol the Palestin
ian people?”
Hussaini was born in Jerusalem,
Palestine, in 1941. He lived as a rel’u-
gee in Lebanon and Egypt alter his
lamilv was forced to lease Palestine
in 1948.
Hussaini, who received his B.A.
from the American University in
Cairo and his Ph.l). in political sci
ence Irom the University of Massa
chusetts, has taught at four Ameri
can universities since I9f>9: Smith
College, the University of Maryland,
the University of Massachusetts, and
presently at Shaw University.
Hussaini has been an active rep
resentative of the Palestinian people
through such involvement as the
League of Arab States Office in
Washington, D.C. HuSsaini served
10 years in the office, becoming the
director in 1974.
He also served as the director of
the Palestine Information Office
f rom 1978-82 and he was the deputy
observer of the PLO to the U.N. in
1981-82.
, Hussaini is presently an associate
professor of international studies at
Shaw University.
Dixon said that Political Forum
was worried that the topic of the
PLO might be too sensitive to bring
on campus.
“I talked to Bob Wiatt (director of
security and traffic at A&M) just to
make sure," Dixon said. "Hussaini is
a member of the moderate faction
(of the PLO), but some Israeli stu
dents and the Jewish population
might l>e really incensed.
"We don’t know how sensitive a
subject it will be until we have it.”
Wiatt said there will be uniformed
University police present at Rudder
Theater during the speech.
“I think it might be a sensitive sub
ject, and I hope there are no prob
lems,” Wiatt said. “We just want to,
make sure to plan for every contin
gency."
Hussaini, a member of the Pales
tine National Council, the Palestine
Parliament in exile, has written a
number of articles and booklets on
the Arab-Jsraeli conflict and the
Middle East.
Changes in Medicare policy
are raising costs for elderly
AssocwXssi Press
WASHINGTON — Changes in
Medicare that were intended to con
trol medical inflation — successfully,
the Reagan administration says —
are having the unintended effect of
sharply boosting the amount old
people will pay out of their |>ockeis
tor hospital care next year.
The SI.I billion increase taking
effect Jan. I will affect every Medi
care recipient admitted to a hospital
after that date. It will cost each of
them an extra $92 per hospital stay,
on top of the $400 they pav now.
The increase also covers higher
fees for people hospitalized for
more than ()0 days and for people in
skilled-nursing homes. All told, an
estimated 8 million people will be hit
with higher fees.
The change in the Medicare hos
pitalization deductible payment was
ordered by the Department of
Health and Human Services under a
law intended to adjust the payment
level to reflect rising hospital costs.
The administration says it had no
choice under that law but to order
the increase.
Research into body defect
may aid heart disease fight
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Nobel
prize-winning research into a
rare defect in the body’s internal
control of cholesterol is opening
up new strategies f or understand
ing and defeating heart disease,
the nation’s biggest killer.
Drs. Michael S. Brown and Jo
seph L. Goldstein of the Univer
sity of Texas Health Science Cen
ter at Dallas, winners of the 1985
Nobel prize in medicine, unrav
eled a flaw in the bodies of people
who are struck by heart attacks at
unusually early ages.
One outgrowth of this research
is attempts to rid the blood of
dangerous amounts of choles
terol by tinkering with the built-in
machinery that ordinarly scours it
from the blood.
Cholesterol is a waxy alcohol
that dissolves in fat but not water.
To l)e carried in the blood, it
must be attached to a water-solu
ble protein, known as low-density
lipoprotein, or LDL, that is made
in the liver.
The body’s cells need choles
terol to make cell walls and pro
duce hormones. But when exces
sive amounts circulate in the
bloodstream, it clogs th6 arteries
and causes atherosclerosis, the
major underlying cause of heart
disease. ■ T T-T-
"The secretary has no discretion
in computing the inpatient hospital
deductible and co-insurance
amounts,’’ the administration said in
its notice of the increase.
But it also concedes that more
than half of the increase has nothing
to do with rising hospital costs, but
instead reflects shorter hospital stays
fostered by government payment _
|M)licies.
The shorter hospital stays have
had the effect of boosting the aver
age daily cost far beyond overall cost
increases. And the formula the gov
ernment is required to follow is
based on average daily costs, not
overall costs.
Jack Christy, a lobbyist for the
American Association of Retired
Persons, says the change is going to
mean tighter budgets for elderly
pensioners who can scrape together
the extra money — and less medical
care for those who can’t.
“We’re seeing, or we will see, tre
mendous access problems,” Christy
said. “Many people can barely af ford
$400; it's going to be very difficult
for them to afford $492. Certainly
it's time to re-evaluate the formula.”
Lawmakers involved in health
care already are beginning to brace
for protests.
The chairman of the Senate Spe
cial Committee on Aging, Sen. John
Heinz, R-Pa., has introduced legis
lation to change the formula. Heinz
says his bill would limit the increase
to $4 or less.
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