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Page 12/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 8, 1986 Peres says U.S. acting as mediator in Israel, Jordan peace talks JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Shimon Peres told par liament on Tuesday that the United States was acting as go-be tween in peace talks between Is rael and Jordan to pave the way for face-to-face negotiations. In a final policy statement be fore swapping jobs next week with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Peres called on Shamir to maintain the momentum toward peace in the Middle East when he becomes prime minister. Peres made Middle East peace efforts the centerpiece of his two- year government and said repeat edly he will break up the coalition if Shamir fails to pursue efforts to start negotiations between Israel and the Arabs. Peres told parliament that al though he had not achieved his goal of talks with King Hussein, Jordan had agreed to direct ne gotiations. “Between Israel and Jordan, negotiations are under way, via the United States,” to prepare fu ture peace talks, he said. U.S. officials have gone back and forth between Israel and Jor dan in recent years in an effort to launch peace talks, but Peres’ speech was the first time he has publicly indicated the Americans were succeeding in bringing Is raeli and Jordanian officials to gether. Peres will step down Friday to clear the way for Shamir to be come prime minister Oct. 14. LaRouche issues response to charges against followers Hospital use in U.S. dropping, home care up WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospital use by Americans has plummeted to its lowest level in 15 years, as clinics and outpatient programs serve a growing number of people, accord ing to statistics released Tuesday. There were 148 hospital stays for every 1,000 Americans last year, the first time since 1971 that the rate has dropped below 150, the National Center for Health Statistics re ported. Growing use of outpatient serv ices and introduction of the Diag nosis Related Group method of pay ment were among the reasons for the decline, said health statistician Edmund Graves. Under the DRG program, federal payments to hospitals are set at a flat fee based on the patient’s illness rather than on the length of stay or services performed. The program is designed to encourage hospitals to control costs. In addition, the average length of stay for hospitalized patients is continuing to drop; the average stay in 1985 was 6.5 days compared with 7.7 days a decade ago. Warped by Scott McCullc 60 THIS /S THE FLVIA/G PI5K OF LOVE, HE'f? HOW POES IT YJORK? YJEUL. JPO TUT THROW IT TRUE AND IT RESPONDS JOU. PI5K OF LONE, . MM? NELL,T POyV'T... HAVE TOO MUCH...LUCK WITH ROMANCE, BUT |'M ALVJAVS WILUVfi TO TRJ... THIS Tiais' LIKE SOME ROTTEN, LESSON [ IV 5 XT Waldo by Kevin Thome OUR STORV SO FAR... WALDO IS STILL L05T OUT IfJ THE FISH LOF. (ACTUALLY, IT HASN'T BEEN MUCH OF A STORf, HUHl) iVff BEEN LOST IN THE FISH LOT FOR DAYS, AND I KEEP MEETING STRANGE PEOPLE! AND THEY ALL KEEP TELLING ME THAT THE TOW-DRAGON HAS TAKEN THEIR CM! SO TELL HE, WHAT IS A TOW-DRAGON T T<b WASHINGTON (AP) — Political extremist Lyndon LaRouche, his in ner circle penetrated by indictments and a sweeping federal fraud inves tigation, declared Tuesday that he has committed no crime and will not submit to an arrest. LaRouche, who was not indicted, responded to the charges against 10 of his followers and five of his orga nizations after a massive raid seeking records at his headquarters. “I will not submit passively to an arrest, but in such a scenario I will defend myself,” LaRouche said in a statement read by Warren Hamer- man, head of LaRouche’s National Democratic Policy Committee. LaRouche’s “personal message” to President Reagan included charges that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorba chev “demanded my head, as a price” for the Iceland summit with Reagan this weekend. LaRouche espouses bizarre the ories of global conspiracy involving the Queen of England, the Soviet KGB and prominent Americans. Judge claims innocence as trial continues WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne, saying he feels like “a piece of meat that is thrown out to a couple of dogs,” told his Senate impeachment trial Tues day he did not violate federal tax law. Offering perhaps the most impor tant summation of a legal career, the Nevada judge came alive at a lecturn in the Senate well, after listening for hours while others argued the case. The convicted tax evader de picted himself as the victim of a vendetta by vengeful prosecutors and vowed he would fight until his name was cleared. Claiborne said tax errors that led to his conviction were caused by hired tax preparers. “I have not defrauded my govern ment. I have not been corrupt in my office. As long as that is so, I could not walk away” and resign, Clai borne said. Responding to the House charges, Claiborne attorney Oscar Goodman said his client may have been “grossly negligent” about his tax re turns but was not foolish. He said it is unbelievable to suggest thatGi borne would deliberately try toit fraud the government. Goodman said the judge's uniti reporting of income was not wi and therefore not a criminal act. “You owe him the obligatioi judge him fairly and not rusk judgment,” Goodman said. Report: U.S. spy-catching improved, technology lags WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States hats improved at catch ing spies but has neglected defensive technology and personnel policies that could put more obstacles be tween spies and the nation’s secrets, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday. “The hostile intelligence threat is more serious than anyone in the government has yet acknowledged publicly,” the panel said in a 141- page staff report, “Meeting the Es pionage Challenge.” The product of 16 months of in vestigation, the report recom mended 95 changes to bolster the nation’s protection against spies. Among the top recommendations were: • Reducing the number of Soviet diplomats in this country. • Expensive encoding of govern ment and private telephone calls and data transmitted by satellite. • A new system for authorizing leaks of classified information by government officials who are not publicly named. • New secret warrants for FBI counterintelligence break-ins, for which no court review is now pro vided. • Clearing the backlog of reinves tigations of employees with access to secrets. • Establishing government-wide standards in a presidential executive order for protecting secret data and screening employees who handle it. Committee Chairman David Du- renberger, R-Minn., said spies have provided the Soviet Union and oth ers “billions of dollars in benefits.” The report estimated that the West’s lead over the Soviets in high technology had been whittled by spying from 10-12 years a decade ago to about half that today. Durenberger said the panel found “too many secrets, too much access to secrets, too many spies, too little accountability for securing national secrets and too little effort given to combating the very real threat.” Despite prodding from Congress, the administration is incapable of coming up with a budget for its secu rity programs, Durenberger said. “That’s more than an embarrass ment,” he said. “It’s a giant barrier to effective security.” The Intelligence Committee's vice chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said, “Complacency really existed in both Democratic and Republican ad ministrations. There was a feeling that people somehow would keep the secrets.” He said thespateofip cases in 1985 proved they wouldm The administration’s final prop sals are to be supplied in secreim week to Congress. Among a wide range of exami of defensive security lapses panel highlighted a little-publioa I incident which allowed the Soviti for the second time since 1978,! get access to electric typewmrl shipped to the U.S. EmbassyinMos cow and plant electronic I tiiem. Freshmen & Sophomores RE: YearBook Photos m freshmen >res will taken until Oct. 31 at AR Photography II at 707 Texas Ave. (across from the A&M Polo Field). it now and avoid the Hr