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Reagan proposes help
for elderly on Medicare
Navy secretary
will resign post
later in year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Navy
Secretary John F. Lehman Jr., the
hands-on executive who oversaw
a big peacetime buildup of the
fleet, has decided to resign his
post later this year, a Pentagon
spokesman said Thursday.
Robert Sims, the Pentagon’s
chief spokesman, said Lehman,
44, informed Defense Secretary
Caspar W. Weinberger of his de
cision last week.
Sims said he did not believe
Lehman had yet set a date for his
return to private life.
Lehman was out of town
Thursday on personal leave, but
Sims said he had discussed the
matter with the secretary by
phone this morning, “and he tells
me that he met with Secretary
Weinberger last Friday and told
the secretary that it is his desire to
return to private life later this
year.”
"He has not resigned (yet),”
Sims said. “Any announcement
about his plans should be made
by him, and we will leave that to
him.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan proposed Thursday
that Congress protect 30 million el
derly Americans “from the worst
fear of old age” by enacting insur
ance covering the devastating costs
of catastrophic illness.
Overruling conservative opposi
tion, Reagan recommended that the
government cover all hospital and
doctor expenses under Medicare af
ter a patient had paid $2,000 out of
his own pocket. The extra coverage
would add $4.92 a month — $59 an
nually — to Medicare recipients’
$ 17.90 monthly “Part B” premium.
The program, the result of more
than a year’s debate within the ad
ministration, would not cover long
term nursing home care or expenses
such as prescription drugs and eye
or dental care.
Reagan's announcement provided
momentum for an issye with wide
spread backing on Capitol Hill.
"I think there is a very good
chance of legislation,” said White
House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
“There will be a lively debate, but I
expect legislation to pass, and I think
the Reagan plan will be the basis for
that legislation.”
Sen. David Durenberger, R-
Minn., the ranking Republican on
the Senate Finance Committee’s
health subcommittee, said, “This is
by far a better way for people to pro
tect themselves from catastrophic
expenses. . . . The most serious crit
icism that can be offered of this pro
posal is that it is far too little.”
Conservatives, led by Attorney
General Edwin Meese and the bud
get director, James Miller, had
fought against the plan as it was be
ing developed, arguing that it relied
too much on the government and
not enough on the health industry.
In the end, Reagan sided with
Otis Bowen, the secretary of health
and human services and author of
the plan.
“The proposal I’m announcing to
day is a giant step forward in helping
those who before now would nave
had to make a choice between finan
cial ruin and death,” Reagan said.
“With the protection that this plan
would provide, senior citizens will
now be safe from the worst fear of
old age — having their life savings
taken away to pay the costs for an
acute care due to a catastrophic ill
ness,” he said.
In a separate, written statement,
Reagan said his proposal would
“help give Americans that last full
measure of security.”
Of the 30 million older Americans
covered by Medicare, only 1.4 mil
lion people have medical expenses
costing more than $2,000 a year, Bo
wen said.
“But it is a big worry to all of the
people,” Bowen said. “The older
people worry about two things: their
health and their finances, and which
one is going to run out first.”
He said many people had written
to him, saying, “For $5 a month — I
would be glad to pay that just so I
don’t worry.” The additional pre
mium — $4.92 — woyld increase an
nually, based on the inflation rate of
healtn costs.
Fitzwater maintained that the pro
posal would pay for itself through
the higher premiums. And Bowen
said, “The total cost to the govern
ment would be nothing.”
Marine embassy guards in Moscow
recalled on ‘good conduct’ violation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marine Corps
has recalled at least five of its U.S. Embassy
guards in Moscow in the two months since an
other guard was charged with spying for the So
viets, Pentagon sources said Thursday.
The transfers do not involve allegations of es
pionage, but rather charges that certain military
“good conduct” regulations were violated, offi-
I cials said.
One source, who demanded anonymity, said
the recalls had been prompted by allegations that
some of the guards had allowed an unauthorized
| visitor into their barracks.
That report could not be immediately con
firmed, however.
The sources were also unable to say precisely
how many Marines had been transferred, put
ting the number at between five and eight.
The sources said the Marines had been trans
ferred to the Quantico Marine Base in northern
Virginia pending completion of an “administra
tive inquiry” that bore no relation to the probe of
Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree, the former Marine
guard who is now being held at Quantico on es
pionage charges.
“The Marines are looking into some violations
of military regulations,” one official said. “No
charges have been filed against anyone yet and
nobody is being confined to quarters.”
Robert Sims, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman,
declined to discuss the transfers Thursday or say
how many men had been moved. But he said
none of the moves involved allegations of espio
nage.
U.S. Ambassador Arthur A. Hartman, in an
interview with the Washington Post, said the in
vestigation of Lonetree “had revealed that other
things were happening,” requiring that several
other Marines be sent to the United States.
The Marine Corps has charged that Lonetree,
while an embassy guard in 1985 and 1986, pro
vided Soviet agents with the identities of U.S. in-
Family awarded $7 million from (Clansmen
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A federal
jury Thursday night awarded $7
million in damages against the
United Klans of America and six
past and present Klansmen in the
1981 slaying of a black teen-ager
whose body was left hanging in a
tree.
The verdict was awarded to the
family of Michael Donald, 19, who
was beaten and strangled in Mobile
| in April 1981.
No decision has been made on
whether to appeal, Klan attorney
John Mays said.
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Earlier Thursday, Morris Dees, an
attorney for Donald’s family, com
pared Donald to martyrs of the civil
rights movement, such as the Rev.
Martin Luther Kingjr.
“They sacrificed a human being to
get some publicity for the Klan,”
Dees said.
“He died because the Klan killed
him,” Dees said of Donald. “He’ll go
down in civil rights history in the
fight for black rights. I hope your
verdict goes down in history right
beside him.”
In a summation that lasted more
than an hour, Dees told the jury the
Klan was not a group of “good old
boys” but a corporation that is “very
complex, highly financed,” and
should be held responsible for Don
ald’s death.
Mays said in his closing argument
that the murder was a “gross and
horrible atrocity,” but he said the
jury should not hold the organiza
tion responsible.
The lawsuit mainly sought mone
tary damages from the Tuscaloosa-
based United Klans of America Inc.
In addition to the organization,
the suit named six present or former
Klan members from the Mobile area
as defendants. All told the jury they
were not involved in any conspiracy
to kill Donald.
The United Klans of America, in
corporated in 1961, presented no
witnesses during the trial. Robert
Shelton, the organization’s chief of
ficer or Imperial Wizard, sat with
the defendants in the suit, but he
was not being held liable for Don
ald’s death.
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