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»ASHIN(;rON (y\P) — Rep.
Stewart B. McKinney, 56, a nine-
teim Republican congressman from
Connecticut, died Thursday from a
bacterial infection brought on by
AIDS contracted f rom a blood trans
fusion, his office said.
statement issued by bis office,
quoting McKinney’s personal physi-
djtn, Dr. Cesar Caceres, said the con-
gilssman contracted the disease
fipm blood transfusions he received
while undergoing heart-bypass sur
gery in 1979.
■The statement said: “Stewart Mc
Kinney died of pneumocystis pneu
monia, a bacterial infection brought
on by acquired immune deficiency
syndrome.”
■McKinney had suffered two heart
attacks. After one in 1977 he under
went double bypass heart surgery.
He also had bouts with pneumonia,
psoriasis, hepatitis and mononucleo
sis. In November 1985 he was hospi
talized for double pneumonia.
There was speculation that he
would not seek re-election last year
because of his health, but he vowed
to run again and win “the way it’s
been done, with an enormous
amount of vigor.”
“I love my job,” he said in an Oc
tober interview. “I’ve been asked to
run for senator, for governor, and I
don’t want to.
“I know every church, every syna
gogue, many of the people. I want to
represent Fairfield County.”
McKinney, a millionaire real es
tate developer who represented the
aflluent Fairfield County suburbs
north of New York City, was hospi
talized April 22 after suffering from
food poisoning irritated by a chronic
bronchitis condition.
Caceres, in the statement, said the
transfusion “was during the window
period between 1978 and the spring
of 1985 when no testing of blood
bank donors for ITTLV-III was
done.
“In recently reviewing his medical
charts, I found that when he first
came to see me in 1980 and 1981,
there was evidence of increased
globulin (blood levels important in
antibody production),” Caceres said.
“We now know this can be evidence
of AIDS-related activity.”
Caceres said McKinney had tested
positive for HLTV-III, the virus
which produces AIDS, some 18
months ago.
“However, he was not diagnosed
as having developed AIDS until af
ter he entered the hospital April 22,”
Caceres said. “The congressman said
he wanted the cause of his death
known after he passed away, in
hopes that this information might
help others deal with what is becom
ing a national crisis
“ However, he asked me not to re
lease any information until that time
so that he and his family could deal
with his passing privately.”
AIDS is a contagious disease that
attacks the body’s immune system,
rendering it incapable of resisting
other diseases and inf ections.
The incurable condition is be
lieved caused by an unusual virus,
now called human immunodefi
ciency virus or HIV, discovered in
France and the United States. The
virus, previously termed HTLV-III
or LAV, is spread through contact
with blood, semen and other bodily
fluids from infected persons.
McKinney concentrated on hous
ing, energy and banking issues dur
ing his more than 16 years on Capi
tol Hill, often breaking ranks with
the Reagan administration over top
ics ranging from foreign policy to
the homeless.
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I NEW YORK (AP) — Stock
prices fluctuated in a narrow
tiange Thursday as traders
■waited the outcome of the Trea
sury’s quarterly financing.
I The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, which had climbed
61.79 points in the week’s first
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t|> 2,334.66.
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telief from the recent upward
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Reserve’s credit policy.
Secord denies profiteering
under Senate questioning
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Iran-Contra hearings turned com
bative Thursday with leadoff witness
Richard V. Secord snapping, “I
didn’t come here voluntarily to be
badgered,” as he was peppered with
questions about profiteering in se
cret arms sales to Iran and to Nicara
guan rebels.
The nationally broadcast House-
Senate inquiry was transformed
from a relaxed proceeding to a con
frontational session as first Senate
chief counsel Arthur I. Liman
pressed Secord repeatedly on his fi
nancial interest in the deals. Secord
insisted he did not profit.
Secord also echoed statements he
made Wednesday about White
House involvement, saying, “It was
my belief that the president of the
United States was well aware of what
we were doing.”
But President Reagan reiterated
that he was unaware of any covert
airlift of arms to Nicaraguan rebels.
Secord testified on Wednesday
that fired White House national se
curity aide Lt. Col. Oliver North told
him the president knew of the diver
sion of Iran arms sales money for
that purpose.
“I did not know about it and I did
not know, and I am still waiting to
know, where did that money go,”
Reagan said in response to questions
from reporters.
Reagan said he knew that Secord,
“as a private citizen, was engaged
with other private citizens in trying
to get aid to the Contras.”
But, Reagan said there was noth
ing illegal in that, and he added,
concerning citizens making such ef
forts, “I’m very pleased that Ameri
can people felt that way.”
Under questioning on Capitol
Hill, Secord said Thursday he was
skeptical about the truth of a North
comment to the effect that North
had told Reagan it was ironic that
Iranian money was going to the
Contras.
While saying lie had no way of
knowing whether North had really
made that remark to Reagan, Secord
said, “It doesn’t sound like the kind
of story one would hear in the office
of the commander-in-chief.”
Secord said Thursday that North
once joked that if the secret Contra
supply activities were revealed, he
(North) would he pardoned.
“I laughed at him (North) and I
said, ‘That’s ridiculous. What are
you talking about? . . . No laws are
being broken. We’re doing every
thing we can to live within the law,’ ”
Secord said.
But Sen. David L. Boren, D-Okla.,
chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, pointedly asked Secord
about a private citizen carrying out
foreign policy activities with Iranian
officials.
“We’re in Lite bicentennial year of
the Constitution,” Boren said. “Do
you think it’s appropriate that im
portant foreign policy decisions of
this country should be made by Mr.
Richard Secord, private citizen, in
stead of by the Congress of the
United States, the secretary of state
and the president of the' United
States?”
Secord replied, “I must tell you,
sir, that I was doing the best 1 could
under the circumstances. And I
thought I was carrying out the presi
dent’s policy.”
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Wright sees no growth in ‘Star Wars’ spending
■ WASHINGT ON (AT) — House Speaker Jim
Wright predicted T hursday that next year’s “Star
Wars” budget will he frozen, but his chamber
abruptly delayed a decision on the issue to debate
alvariety of other programs in a $288 billion de
fense bill.
SI Instead, the House began trying to decide
Wliethet to approve a down payment on two air
craft carriers, costing $6.9 billion, the Navy says it
will need in the next decade.
|f House Majority Leader Tom Foley, D-Wash.,
said the Star Wars decision was suddenly pushed
back to next week because the debate was likely
til) be lengthy and Lake most of a full day.
■ Debate on the bill has been slower than ex
pected, and the House is likely to spend most of
the rest of May on it, Foley told his colleagues.
Shortly before the session began, Wright, D-
Texas, said the Democrat ic-controlled House was
sure to reject President Reagan’s proposal for a
steep increase in money for the Strategic Defense
Initiative, or Star Wars.
“We’re likely to adopt the $3.1 billion level”
that the House voted last summer for the current
fiscal year, Wright said. Reagan had sought $5.8
billion for the program in the next fiscal year,
which begins Oct. 1.
Although the House approved $3.1 billion last
summer, the final Star Wars budget was raised to
$3.5 billion by a House-Senate conference com
mittee that resolved discrepancies between the
differing Pentagon budget bills passed by the two
chambers.
A similar conference will be called later this
year to reconcile the bills that will be separately
enacted by the House and Senate. Even though
Democrats control both chambers, there are nu
merous differences and Reagan’s Pentagon bud
get request generally fared better in the Senate.
The SDI fight was one of a number of major
issues the House has to resolve among more than
200 proposed amendments. Still pending were
fights over the MX nuclear-tipped missile, nu
clear testing, the Stealth bomber and U.S. policy
toward Nicaragua’s leftist government.
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