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he int cess, m. Wednesday, November 16,1988 The Battalion Page 5 World/Nation million immigrants apply or amnesty under program £23 [I )88. WASHINGTON (AP) — More an I million immigrants have ap- ied for amnesty under a special rm worker program that federal fidals say has been troubled by ex- nsive fraud. Under the special agricultural rker (SAW) program that expires ov. 30, aliens who can document at they worked in U.S. agriculture r 90 days between May 1985 and ay 1986 are eligible for temporary sidency. After waiting either one ol two years, they are then eligible tor permanent residency. | Duke Austin, a spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization irvice, said the government bears e burden of disproving an alien’s aim under SAW, unlike the gen- al amnesty program that required [documented aliens to compile ex- ustive evidence of having lived in e United States continuously since Under the general amnesty pro- am of the 1986 Immigration Re- rm Act, 1,765,000 aliens applied for legalization. The turnout for the SAW pro- am has been more than double hat most predicted, officials say, iththe majority of applicants from alifornia, Florida and Texas. “I don’t think anybody in govern- ient or the service anticipated this umber,” Austin said. Austin said the SAW program has suited in cases of gross fraud, artly because of its generous provi- ons, and fraud cartels have sprung up to provide false affidavits or other work documentation. In one of more than 100 cases of alleged fraud now under prosecu tion, a New Jersey woman with five acres attested to employing 1,000 applicants, Austin said. “There is extensive fraud in the program,” Austin said. “The prob lem is identifying the fraud and how you go about eliminating it. That is a serious concern of ours.” But Ron D’Aloisio, executive di rector of the Farmer Worker Justice Fund, said the great majority of ap plicants have valid claims and warned that if INS overreacts to questions of fraud that it could “chill the desires of people who do have valid applications to step forward and apply.” Beginning Dec. 1, farm employers will face sanctions for hiring undo cumented workers. They can, how ever, request a replenishment of their work force under the replace ment agricultural worker (RAW) program beginning Oct. 1, if ranks of workers are depleted. Soviet’s success with shuttle hailed by NASA, Gorbachev 30 ml. P- Hood? ie itlon -e.) SALE \ w A > oM iOFT £ ft ES 0 AR } MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviets broke the U.S. mo nopoly on reusable spacecraft Tuesday by launching their own space shuttle on a 3 and one-half -hour, un manned orbital flight that President Mikhail S. Gorba chev hailed as a major coup for his country. “The space plane has ushered in a new era in the his tory of Soviet space exploration,” state-run Radio Mos cow declared after the 100-ton Buran made two orbits, streaked earthward in a fireball and landed at a spe cially built runaway in Soviet Central Asia on its maiden mission. The pilotless flight of the Buran — “snowstorm” in Russian — was a major success for the Soviet space pro gram after a series of problems that included the near loss of cosmonauts on a joint Soviet-Afghan mission in September and loss of contact with a probe sent to Mars. The early morning launch of the Buran fastened to the back of the 198-foot-tall Energia booster rocket also ended a seven-year U.S. monopoly on reusable space craft inaugurated by the launch of the shuttle Columbia in April 1981. In Washington, NASA congratulated the Soviets on the mission. The Buran, as well as other shuttles still being devel oped, will have a central role in the Soviet space pro gram, the state-run media said. Radio Moscow said the Buran’s railway car-sized cargo bay can house an entire Salyut spate station. Tass said the Soviet shuttle was superior to its U.S. counterpart because of a bigger payload capacity and its ability to fly automatically. The official news agency also disclosed the shuttle’s dimensions: Buran, roughly the same size as a passen ger airliner, is 119 feet long, ISVa feet in diameter and has a wingspan of 79 feet. For years, the Soviets criticized the U.S. shuttle as wasteful and unreliable. But Western space specialists say the Soviets began planning their own space plane in 1982 at the latest. Study shows angioplasy often unneeded WASHINGTON (AP) — The expensive practice of using bal loon catheters to force open heart arteries immediately after heart attacks, now routinely done at many large hospitals, is unneces sary and should be abandoned, according to a major study re leased Tuesday. The study found that if heart attack victims quickly receive clot dissolving drugs, they usually don’t need the extra step of the common balloon procedure, known as angioplasty. Some experts said the results are good news, because they mean that most heart attack pa tients can be treated in commu nity hospitals, where angioplasty is not available. The study also has an impor tant financial message. Its au thors estimated that if angioplasty was widely adopted after heart at tacks, it could raise the nation’s annual medical bills by $704 mil lion. “This trial has settled one of the most important questions in modern-day cardiology,” com mented Dr. J. Ward Kennedy of the University of Washington, Seattle. The study is phase 2 of the Thrombolysis in Miocardial In farction Trial, or TIMI-II, di rected by Dr. Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women’s Hospi tal in Boston. The first phase of the study showed that giving people a clot dissolving drug called tissue plas minogen activator, or TPA, im mediately after heart attacks dra matically improved their chances of survival. The latest study, presented ati the annual meeting of the Ameri can Heart Association, was in tended to see whether people did better still if doctors tried to clear away any remaining blockages af ter giving TPA. Balloon angioplasty is also widely used to treat people with dogged heart arteries who have not suffered heart attacks. Estonia may consider separation from U.S.S.R TALLINN, U.S.S.R. (AP) — Esto nia’s parliament on Wednesday will consider a “declaration of sover eignty” that proclaims the Baltic re public’s independence from the So viet Union in all areas except defense and foreign policy. Its members also will weigh a re lated amendment to the Estonian constitution that would bar enforce ment of any new Soviet law unless it has been ratified by the Estonian parliament, Edgar Savisaar said. Sa- visaar is one of the leaders of the Es tonian People’s Front, the broad- based citizens’ group behind the proposal. Although the People’s Front claims the support of the leadership of the Estonian government and the Estonian Communist Party, passage of the proposals is by no means as sured. They require a two-thirds ma jority in the 285-member Supreme Soviet, or parliament; of Estonia. “I’m not sure they are united,” Sa visaar said in an interview Tuesday. Deputies are expected to divide approximately along ethnic lines, as many lawmakers who are ethnic Russians or members of other ethnic groups do not share the Estonians’ views. Ethnic Estonians hold 180 seats in the parliament, but need 189 for a two-thirds majority, according to the People’s Front. Deputies were being intensely lob bied Tuesday as proponents and op ponents of the amendments tried to win their votes, said Tarmu Tam- merk, a Tallinn journalist working with the People’s Front. Savisaar carefully avoided refer ence to any possibility of resistance to the move from Moscow, and claimed support in the national capi tal. But when asked directly if he was worried about the possible use of force to halt the Estonian reforms, he said, “We are very worried about our future. At the same time, we are very hopeful.” Savisaar said the declaration of sovereignty is not analogous to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, though the law professor responsi ble for writing the Estonian docu ment “spent several months in America and it’s very likely he got some ideas there.” Estonia’s declaration deals with political reality in the country, Savi saar noted. It essentially reminds the Soviet Union that it was originally constituted by Vladimir I. Lenin as a federation of independent repub lics, Savisaar said. The Estonian proposal calls for certain rights such as defense and foreign policy to be allocated to “all- union” or Soviet bodies, and every thing else to be left to Estonia, Savi saar said. Wednesday’s special session of the Estonian Supreme Soviet was called to consider unified opposition for a series of amendments to the Soviet Constitution that Estonians say shifts power to Moscow and eliminates the republics’ right to secede. There have been objections to the amendments in the other Baltic re publics of Latvia and Lithuania. Brady offered spot in Bush’s cabinet WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent-elect George Bush today asked Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to remain in his current post in the new administration. Brady is a former investment banker who served briefly as an ap pointed member of the Senate. He is a longtime friend of the president elect, and was a key member of a cir cle of advisers that Bush leaned on during his successful presidential campaign. The appointment marked the sec ond time that Bush has turned to a longtime confidante to fill a key post in his administration. Secretary of State-designate James A. Baker III was Bush’s first Cabinet appoint ment, announced the morning after his election to the presidency last week. Bush made the appointment out side the official vice president’s resi dence after meeting privately with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Brady’s appointment came as no surprise. President Reagan ap pointed Brady to his Cabinet post last summer, and it was long ex- ected that Bush would keep his old riend in the Cabinet if he won the presidential election, which then be came a reality. Frl Bush made the appointment in an uncertain international economic at mosphere. The value of the dollar fell sharply last week, dragging down stock prices as well because of investor fears over Bush’s economic policies. To calm jitters, Bush and Brady both acted in recent days to reassure investors that the new administra tion had no secret plan to drive down the value of the extremely high dollar. Bush said there would be no other administration appointments today because is not yet ready to release that information. However, speculation around Washington continues to run ram- pid as to who Bush will choose for various other Cabinet positions. I J « SALE >rs usfi to see tube. 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