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i e “Ab;! is, lit ^ I nsw: ■ icr k ' "ik I ha: I 'angt l init: : no(: I thi I fdltv t » : ?red. ban; 'S lh; 1 Iran lal k nyoiK irth. ■cun: uiltfi yeai i,” bu: allud ism Ct 1 Oil Gii-1 a re-1 ‘ ' vas 1 foni | ct isf 'nia- [. item [; orp | sen- nual I gh , '| orps I rent, the the! Na- was unts The red- r his | said 1 in. a I /hen for- , he will she The Battalion WORLD & NATION 11 Friday, May 5,1989 Koop ends 7-year career as U. S. Surgeon General Militia officials say German doctors kidnapped in Sidon WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop, the bearded surgeon general whose straight talk made him a lightning rod for critics, said Thursday he will resign after seven years as the nation’s top health offi cer. During his tenure, Koop lived up to his reputation as a tough-minded professional and made what had been a figurehead position into a pulpit from which he hammered at the ills of smoking and became the nation’s No. 1 promoter of condoms in the fight against AIDS. In a brief letter to President Bush delivered Thursday, Koop said he had told the president in February he would not serve out his full sec ond term, which ends in November. Koop told Bush he would leave the job July 13 and retire Oct. 1. The president credited Koop with “tackling some of the toughest pub lic health issues facing our country.” President Reagan’s 1981 nomination of Koop, then surgeon-in-chief of the Children’s Hospital of Philadel phia, set off a bitter, nine-month bat tle for Senate confirmation. A pediatric surgeon with an inter national reputation, Koop was strongly opposed by liberals who feared him as an anti-abortion cru- C. Everett Koop sader who lacked experience with public health issues. But he turned most of those critics around, many of them when he is sued a no-nonsense report on the AIDS crisis in October 1986 that ad vocated the use of condoms and ex plicit sex education about how the deadly virus is spread. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Two West German doctors doing human itarian work in Lebanon w'ere kid napped Thursday in the southern port city of Sidon, according to a Moslem militia official in the area. He said the two, a man and a woman, were seized “by unknown gunmen between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. just beyond the Sinique Bridge” on the southern edge of Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut, the capital. Police said they could not confirm the abduction. If the kidnappings are confirmed, they would raise the number of for eigners missing and believed held hostage in Lebanon to 17. The woman doctor would become the first woman hostage. The abduction came less than a week after the prosecution in West Germany demanded a life sentence for Mohammed Ali Hamadi, a Leb anese Shiite, for his role in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA plane and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver wTio was aboard. The official, of the Sunni Moslem Nasserite miltia that has been ruling Sidon since the outbreak of Leb anon’s civil war 14 years ago, de scribed both doctors as working for the French-based Doctors Without Borders. Speaking on condition of ano nymity, he said Mustafa Saad, head of the Nasserite militia, immediately called Shiite Moslem militia leader Nabih Berri in Beirut and asked him to act urgently to try to secure the Germans’ release. Berri’s Syrian-backed Amal militia controls most of south Lebanon. House, Senate OK budget of $1.2 trillion WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate approved on Thursday $1.2 trillion budgets which uphold a much-criticized agreement with President Bush to reduce the deficit w'ithout cutting spending or significantly raising taxes. The House approved its plan 263- 157 after budget committee chair man Leon Panetta, D-Calif., called it “the only choice for us to fulfill our budget responsibilities and avoid cri sis.” The Senate then passed its ver sion, 68-31. As laid out by the White House agreement, the budgets claim to shrink the federal deficit to just below $100 billion, as required by the Gramm-Rudman law. They would allow' federal programs to grow but, especially at the Pentagon, at less than the rate of inflation. The Senate then passed its ver.t sion, 68-31, after some minor tinker ing. Worker testifies against nuclear plant WASHINGTON (AP) — A former nuclear plant worker told Congress on T hursday he was “under du ress” when he accepted a secret labor settlement with the plant’s builder that rewarded him for not telling federal regulators about alleged safety flaws. In sworn testimony to a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee, Joseph J. Macktal said he now believes the agreement was illegal because it con tains clauses that restrict his right to testify to the Nu clear Regulatory Commission. “The agreement prevented me from talking to any body” about safety issues, Macktal said. He signed the agreement about 18 months before NRC licensing hearings on the Comanche Peak power plant ended. No final licensing decision has been made yet. The subcommittee is investigating how many such se cret deals have been made at the nation’s 110 licensed commercial nuclear power plants. Officials said earlier this week the panel knows of one other and is seeking details of a third. Louis Austin Jr., president of Brown & Root, the company that built the Comanche Peak plant, near Glen Rose told the subcommittee he believed the Mack tal deal was legal. But he added the company wished the law were cleared. Mark Augenblick, a Brown & Root lawyer, went fur ther, saying, “With the benefit of hindsight we should have” settled Macktal’s case without limiting his right to testify to the NRC. Macktal, who worked at Comanche Peak from Jan uary 1985 to January 1986, signed the agreement to settle his complaint with the Labor Department that Brown & Root had unfairly dismissed him as a result of his allegations about unsafe conditions. He said the deal gave him $15,000, and his lawyers got $20,000. FIRST AIRPLANE The Wright Brothers began experimenting with kites in the 1890’s and in 1903 became the first to sustain flight for 852 feet over the beach at Kitty Hawk. FIRST LOVE She was the only one who didn’t laugh when you fell off the jungle gym and broke your leg. She even let you win at checkers. What a woman! FIRST CAR The world’s first motor car, the Lenoir, named after its inventor, ran at an average speed of 4 miles per hour. 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