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Friday, June 13, 1986/The Battaiion/Paqe 9 World and Nation ‘GAO trying to discredit policy’ Schultz suggests political motives lie behind aid probe WASHINGTON <AP) — Secret S of State George P Shu hi said urtday a congressional report alleging widespread misuse of L .S. aid to Nk^i a^uan rebels was a politic ally-motivated effort to discredit the administration s Central America pohcv “1 think the track record on the funds we have had available is basical ly excellent.’* Shu hi said, responding to a General Accounting Office re port that millions of dollars in aid earmarked for the rebels has been diverted for ocher purpoqn*^ The GAO, Congress' investigative arm, said in the report released Wednesday that much of the money was diverted to offshore bans accounts, the Honduran military and individuals in the United States. Shuhi said the report was “de veloped and sprung** ov administra tion adversaries on Capitol Hill for the purpose of rallying opposition to the insurgents in advance of an ex pected House vote on additional aid later this month. He said the report did not reflect a careful investigation because the State Department was refused an opportunity to see the report in adv ance or to make a contribution to the mouiry. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Rep Michael Barnes. D-Md., chairman of the House Fore ign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, directed the GAO not to share its information with the administration Shultz said. “If somebody were really interested in digging into this thing and having our views, they wouldn't try to spring it as a kind of political surprise. Their methods, 1 think, disclose the nature of what's going on." He spoke to reporters after meet the State ~ mg at Dei department with the Lnited Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO), Adolfo Catero, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robeio Cruz said the rebels welcome con gressional efforts to determine whether there was any misallocation of the $27 million in non-lethal assist ance Officials of the GAO teatified Wednesday that its review of sub poenaed bank records showed only a small fraction of the money going to suppliers who sold food, medicine and clothing to the Contra rebels. Reagan speaks to pro-lifers DENVER (AP) — With Presi dent Reagan pledging to help stop abortion nere and abroad, the Na tional Right to Life Committee opened its 14th annual conven tion Thursday, a few blocks from where the National Organization for Women will begin its own meeting a day later. “This is the ultimate human rights issue,** Reagan said in a videotaped message to the nearly 2.000 delegates at the sun of a three-day meeting The mood at tne anti-abortion convention was upbeat, despite two Supreme Coun decisions this week that affirmed a woman's right to an abortion and parents rights to decide the level of care for severely handicapped chil dren. Nor did the nearby prsence of NOW. a bitter political foe of the NRLC, disrupt the pro-life con vention, although abonion activist Dr Bill Baird demonstrated brief ly outside the NRLC meeting Reagan topped a slate of GOP speakers that is to include Rep lack Kemp. R-N.Y., and Senate Majonty Leader Bob Dole In his taped message, Reagan called tor con^t rsasonal adoption of the Kemp Amendment, which would forbid use of U S. funds for birth-control efforts that include abortions forced on unwilling women. While Reagan did not mention China by name. Doug Johnson. NRLC legislative director, said. “There is no other nation against whom this allegation has been made.** AIDS virus may offer clue to vaccine development WASHINGTON (AP) — Infec tion with one strain of the AIDS virus appears to keep other variants from infecting the same person, indicating some unknown protective mechan ism that might be useful in develop ing protective vaccines, researchers say. New research on the action within the body of the virus which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn drome indicates that the viral variants seen in single patients are closely related mutations of the same strain that originally infected the per son. they say. Even infected, promiscuous, homosexual men — who may have had hundreds of exposures to ver sions of the AIDS virus from infected sex partners — appear to carry one strain of the virus or several highly related variants of that strain, scien- usts "The finding may im infected with one AID pro ibs iplv » VI that once virus, indi- bv other AIDS viruses, savs a report to be published Friday in the journal Science. # Beatrice H. Hahn, George M Shaw and Maria E. Taylor of the Uni versity of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, working with resear chers from three ocher institutions, said it is unlikely that this possible protection results from dassral viral immunity mechanisms Traditional ly, a cell infected with one virus loses its receptor, or gateway, for that or related viruses to enter. However, many people chronical ly infected with the AIDS virus, known as HTLV-S or LAV, still have normal numbers of the uninfected white blood cells that the virus targets These seemingly would be candidates for invasion by another strain of the virus. “We really can't explain why a per- Weed-killer is bleaching plants CHICAGO (AP) — A new herbi cide used to kill weeds m soybean fields is turning neighboring lawns and gardens white in seven Midwest states, but the manufacturer said Wednesday the bleaching is tempor ary and not toxic. The herbicide. Command, is manufactured by Chicago-based FMC Corp. and kills weeds by inhibit ing production of the chlorophvll that nourishes them. The U S. Environmental Protec tion Agency approved its use in Feb ruary and began getting reports of problems about a week ago. said agency spokesman Al Heier in Washington, D.C. “We have plants turning white,” Heier said “We don't know for sure if thev’ll return to normal. We have no indication it's going to be toxic to humans.” * There are no plans to take Com mand off the market, said FMC spokesman Jeff Jacoby There have been reports from seven soy bean-producing states — Iowa. Illinois. Ohio. Michigan. Min nesota, Wisconsin and Indiana —- that trees, lawns and gardens next to Command-treated fields are turning vellow or white, Jacoby said. Some problems also have been re ported in Oregon. Heier said Most untargeted plants that have changed color likely got low doses of the herbicide and will not die, Jacoby said, and color should return in 10 days to three weeks. He said there is no reason to be lieve it is unsafe to eat fruits or veget ables from plants that have been ex posed to Command residue. But the company recommends against eating such produce if the plant foliage is discolored, Jacoby said. 'It impacts plants temporarily, but there is no permanent effect,” he said. Chlorophvll. the green pigment found in plant cells, is used in photo synthesis — plants' production of nutrients through kgbt. Heier said the EPA will continue to study the situation. Baby Jesse's transplant is successful LOMA LI N DA. Calif (AP) — The transplanted heart that gave Baby Jesse a second chance to live was beat ing normally at 100 to 120 times a minute Thursday, and doctors said his recovery was progressing as ex pected. No significant complications had developed more than 36 hours after Jesse underwent transplant surgery , said Gus Cheatham, spokesman for Loma Linda University Medical Center. “He is in a phase of recovery from an operation of considerable magni tude. but has had no significant com plications.'' Cheatham said Two other infants who had earlier received bean transplants at Loma Linda were back in the hospital be cause their bodies were trying to re- ject their implanted hearts. Cheatham said while announcing Jesse’s condition A girl known only as Baby Rachel was in satisfactory condition, said Cheatham. She and the infant known as Babv James were being given im munosuppressive drugs, he said. Jesse Dean Sepulveda, whose case set qfff a furious debate over medical ethics, was born with a fatally defec tive heart and received the heart of a bra^n-dead Michigan child Tuesday um four-hour operation at the hos- j^nal, about 65 miles east of Los AMCfes. Chest X-rays taken Wednesday showed that fluid was clearing from jesses lungs — a good sign, accord ing to Dr. Bruce Branson, chairman of Loma Linda's surgery depart ment. The 26-year old father, Jesse Sepulveda, said the babv looked far better than he expected. Sepulveda said he visited the baby Tuesday night after surgery and again briefly Wednesday morning. “I was telling him how much I loved him when ne opened his eyes,” he said. “It was a real touching mo ment.'* The baby's mother. 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