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Dole accuses
Bush of attack
World Briefs
Scientists report drifting in flu strain
on his integrity
(AP)— Republican Bob Dole con-'
fronted chief opponent George
Bush on Thursday, accusing the vice
president of a campaign designed
“to impugn my integrity” and de
manding to know if Bush authorized
an aide’s harsh statement.
The two met face to face on the
Senate floor in a moment orches
trated by Dole following escalating
tensions between their two presi
dential campaigns.
Enjoying the GOP brawl, Demo
crat Bruce Babbitt ridiculed Dole
from afar for leaving his vision of
the future locked in a blind trust.
The Democratic presidential can
didates crowed over Wednesday’s
narrow House defeat of aid to the
Nicaraguan rebels.
Republican candidate Pat Rob
ertson looked to score a victory in
Hawaii’s re-scheduled GOP caucuses
and straw vote Thursday night. The
Bush and Dole campaigns acknowl
edged that Robertson — who nearly
doubled GOP membership in that
state since December — had the
numbers to win.
Dole, the Republican leader of the
Senate, handed the vice president a
copy of a statement by Bush’s Iowa
chairman.
“I wanted the vice president to tell
me man to man that he had autho
rized it,” Dole said. “He said he had
authorized it but hadn’t read it. So I
handed him a copy.”
Bush, the president of the Senate,
was presiding during a procedural
vote on aid to the Nicaraguan Gon-
tras.
Bush and Dole both broke off
campaigning four days before Io
wa’s crucial caucuses to return to
Washington where Senate Republi
cans hoped to breathe life back into
President Reagan’s Contra aid pro
posal.
“I know a Bush set-up when I see
it,” Dole said. “And this is Bush-
league operations, trying to impugn
my integrity.
“I told him he owed Elizabeth an
apology ... Iff were going to make a
very personal attack on a candidate
and his wife, I would want to read it
and not let some state chairman is
sue it and say later, ‘Well I’m on the
high road, I haven’t read it but I au
thorized it.’ ”
Only hours earlier, Dole and Bush
tangled from afar in Iowa over Bush
state chairman George Wittgrafs
written statement released the day
before which accused Dole of “a his
tory of mean-spiritedness” as well as
cronyism in helping a former aide
win a government contract.
Dole demanded an apology from
Bush and said Bush should lire Wit-
tgraf over the remarks. Bush re
sponded, “No, I don’t endorse them,
but I don’t reject them.”
“I’ve just stood there and taken a
pounding from other campaigns
and I’m going to continue to do
that.”
ATLANTA (AP) — Govern
ment scientists Thursday re
ported new evidence of a possible
“drift” in this season’s predomi
nant influenza strain, reducing
the effectiveness of the current
flu vaccine.
The national Centers for Dis
ease Control warned last week
that because the influenza virus
circulating most often in the
United States this winter ap
peared to he drifting toward a
somewhat different virus, this
year's flu vaccine may not provide
“optimal” protection.
Thursday, the GDG repotted
that more than 100 U.S. passen
gers aboard a cruise ship in Asia
last fall became ill with a flu-like
illness — later confirmed as in
fluenza in some cases — which
apparently was not affected by
this year’s flu vaccine.
Thirty-six of the tourists were
people over 04 — and thus at
nigh risk for more serious com
plications from flu — wholjj
ceived the 1987-88 fluvana
August or September. Olj
people, 30 percent becamj]
spite the vaccine, compart
37 percent among unvatt
travelers in the same
the GDG reported.
And vaccinated, ill pas#
were sick for an averaged
days, not much differem
the 22-day duration reports
older, unvaccinated pas^
who bec ame ill, theCDCsanil
The findings support labi
ies “that suggest thatthe
cine may not provide op
protection against the stt
virus recently identified ini
cifit Basin and nowpresenn
United States,” offictalsoft
lanta-hased GDC said.
The most common tvpe
seen in the United StatestU
ter has been the type reseat;]
know as Type A-H3N2,
three major types of flu.
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Debate about Mexico pollution build
Mobil workers strike
to get pension benefits
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Luis
Jaimez Ocampo is convinced the
air in this city won’t get cleaner
unless the government puts some
teeth into its anti-pollution cam
paigns.
•“The people will never re
spond until the government
forces them to,’ : he said. “They
won’t use public transportation
unless they have to. Until then,
the air’s only going to get worse.”
Suffering another winter’s se
ries of smog caps, many Mexico
City residents shrug off the finer
points of a debate between eco
logists and the envernmenf o*-er
the air quality here, geK
considered the world’s worst
The mountains that rini
metropolitan area ol mort
18 million normally hinder
circulation of the air, andi
the tons of noxious pr
emitted daily by the 3 milt
hides and 35,000 industn
the valley.
From December to
each year, frequent them
versions compound the
problem by trapping the
ion near the ground fork
a time.
Advisor shows support for starwarsli
I m<d
(AP)—More than 2,500 oil refin
ery workers were on strike Thursday
against Mobil Gorp. and units of BP
America Inc. in five states over a se
ries of issues ranging from union ju
risdiction to pension benefits.
Affected are Mobil operations in
Torrance, Calif., Ferndale, Wash.,
and Beaumont, Texas; BP Oil Inc.
in Marcus Hook, Pa.; and Sohio Oil
Co. in Toledo, Ohio.
BP Oil and Sohio are subsidiaries
of Standard Oil Co., which is a sub
sidiary of BP America, which is
wholly owned by British Petroleum
PEG of London.
The walkouts were called by locals
of the Denver-based Oil Chemical &
Atomic Workers International
Union, which represents about
40,000 workers in 300 contracts.
About 14,000 have settled, including
a tentative pact reached Sunday
night with Amoco Gorp. that is ex
pected to set the pattern for set
tlements in the industry.
The Amoco pact calls for raises of
2.1 percent this year and 3 percent
next year, raising the average wage
to $15.10 from $14.44 an hour. It
has yet to be ratified by members.
The strikes against Mobil, Sohio
and BP Oil began late Wednesday.
At Mobil, the walkout was called
because of company plans to use
managers in jobs the union believes
are within its jurisdiction and a dis
pute over staffing levels at the com
pany’s new centralized control cen
ter in Texas.
WASHINGTON (AP) — fid-
ward Rowny, a senior U.S. arms
control adviser, said Wednesday
night the United Slates should
work out an explicit agreement
with the Soviet Union to go ahead
with the star wars program and
not “kick the can down the road.”
Otherwise, Rowny said in an
interview, Congress would not
approve a treaty to cut strategic
nuclear weapons stockpiles in
half because the Soviets might
scrap the accord over the star
wars issue.
He said the Reagan adminis
tration has “every intention” of
going ahead with the anti-missile
program. "This has goi :|
made explicit, in niv vk
said.
“If we fuzz it up, the>|
can always invoke this kte
START (Strategic Arms
tion Treaty) is called offl
you guys violated it,” Roumt
“So we got to clear this up.'
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nology that might be deploi
space to shoot down Soviet
pnnp
ased i
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tic missiles upset the
power summit and threatent
cloud President Reagan's i
here last December with f
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break
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Secretary Mikhail S. GorbaclitB'p ra( |j )
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Bills will help doctors with premium^re,
Mecham denies hiding loan
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Gov.
Evan Mecham denied Thursday that
he had tried to hide a $350,000 cam
paign loan, during testimony before
a House panel considering whether
to impeach him.
The House could decide on Fri
day whether to impeach Mecham,
select committee Chairman Jim
Skelly said. He said he believes there
are enough votes for impeachment
“assuming no dramatic turnabouts.”
Mecham press secretary Ken
Smith and legislative liaison J. Ran
dall Thomas said Wednesday it was
their “gut instincts” that Mecham
will be impeached.
Mecham also faces a recall elec
tion May 17 and a March 9 criminal
trial on charges of concealing the
$350,000 loan.
The first-term Republican gover
nor’s temper flared when he accused
a committee member of insulting
him by including the names of crime
bosses in a hypothetical question.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —
The Legislature passed bills
Wednesday to establish voluntary
arbitration in malpractice cases
and limit damages for pain and
suffering, measures aimed at
slowing the explosion in doctors’
insurance premiums.
The measures also would pro
vide tougher discipline for doc
tors who repeatedly commit mal
practice. It also would give
physicians some immunity from
lawsuits when they treat unfamil
iar patients in emergency rooms.
The House and Senate ver
sions differed on several key
points, such as whether to roll
back insurance premiums and
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how much immunity to gAceinlx
doctors. 'They also differed Bony an
the issue of whether theresbB't Have
he a program of long-term»nts in
for babies horn brain damagtdBl seme
The two measures are log “The
submitted to a joint confei
committee Thursday, the
day of a special session
problems of medical maipi
insurance.
Fear of lawsuits and hij
miums have prompted
Florida trauma centers andei
gency rooms to curtail
Some doctors in high-risk s|
ties like obstetrics, neurosm
and cardiology have refit!
treat patients.
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