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Down to Earth Records The Newest pleasure for your ears has arrived! Last Chance For^bur Best Chance. The Battalion WORLD & NATION 6 Friday, August 4,1989 403-B Northgate (above Campus Photo) 846-9086 GRE Prep Course Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 £ STANLEY H. KAPLAN cSs Take Kaplan Or Take Your Chances Classes Forming Now Call 696-PREP $8.99 Large Pepperoni Pizza Available with Delivery, Pick-up or In-house (with coupon) offer expires 8-11-89 The best pizzj In town.■*•**-> 286-BEST House ignores president’s veto threats by approving $159 billion S&L bailout; deficit will increase $44 billion in 3 year 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday shrugged off a veto threat from Presi dent Bush and approved a $159 billion savings and loan bailout that would swell the federal def icit by $44 billion over the next three years. On a 221-199 vote, the House approved the biggest financial rescue package since the De pression, sending the legislation to the Senate floor for a showdown between Bush and Demo crats before Congress adjourns on Friday. Courtyard Apartments 600 University Oaks 696-3391 •LAUNDRY ROOM •24 HOUR MAINTENANCE •SHUTTLE BUS •VOLLEYBALL, TENNIS & BASKETBALL COURTS •SPACIOUS 1 & 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS (flat & studio) •SPECIAL MOVE IN RATES • SWIMMING POOL •HOT TUB •CLUB ROOM NEAR CORNER OF HARVEY RD & STALLINGS DR-BEHIND POST OAK BANK Hours before the vote, Bush threatened to veto the bill if Democrats rejected his demand to To raise the money for the bailout through 30-year private bonds in order to keep the costs from showing up in the federal deficit. The vote in the House was short of the two- thirds needed to override such a veto. Support ing the bill were 182 Democrats and 39 Republi cans; voting against it were 67 Democrats and 132 Republicans. “On budget tells the American people the truth about the costs they will be bearing rather than hiding it in some high-cost, off-budget mechanism,” Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, said. In a letter to congressional leaders, Bush said Thursday he was “prepared to work with Con gress” on a compromise but administration offi cials acknowledged there was little room for one. While members of both parties characterized the dispute over the bailout’s financing as incon sequential, Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, said Bush was only trying to preserve a focus on reducing the federal deficit each year. “Frankly, the president is not a spoiled child and all of us ought to understand that,” Leach said. “Congress has been caught with its hands in the cookie jar and the president is asking for nothing less than responsible discipline.” The legislation would close or merge between 350 and 500 S&Ls and protect savers whose fed erally insured deposits were lost through failed and often fraudulent loans. In addition to the rescue, the bill would insti tute a major overhaul of the government’s regu lation of the nation’s nearly 3,000 thrifts and re quire their owners to put billions of dollars more of their own money at risk. The dispute between Bush and Congress had little to do with the specifics of the far-ranging plan to reorganize the federal government’s reg ulation over the troubled industry. Instead, it centered on a seemingly arcane questionol the cost of the bailout would be countcda the federal deficit. The legislation would balloon the I cit, but the bailout cost would not beinduiitl calculations for automatic spending cuts J eral programs. Bush said that could setap dent that would undermine legislation i ing automatic spending cuts if the deficitene annual targets. Bush favors evading the cuts by simplyi ing the spending out of the deficit intlxl place, hut Senate Democratic Leader i Mitchell said that amounted to “fiscal; mickry.” Sponsors of the bill also said Bush’s plan- cost taxpayers another $150 million a yeat] the next three decades because private! raising the money would carry higher imej rates than if the money was borrowed! through the Treasury. “We’re not very interested in comprom; on the fundamental principle, which iswaaj Gramm-Rudman,” said assistant TreasunS tary David Mullins, referring to the 1 which prohibits a budget deficit above! lion in fiscal 1990. 1 far me pla pe< has dm anc pei on ten dav the Fuj dar Man tries to pass for doctor by using fraudulent diplomas BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — A man who has worked as a consulting physician since 1986 and served resi dencies at hospitals in Florida and Texas was charged with fraud after investigators found fake medical school diplomas in his office. Robert Francis Perry, 37, who owns and operates a medical re search firm in Boca Raton, rep resented himself as a medical doctor, although he neither attended medi cal school nor obtained a license to practice medicine, Glen Hughes, a Palm Beach County State Attorney investigator, said. Perry was free Thursday on $ 1,000 bail following his Tuesday ar rest. The Driscoll Foundation Chil dren’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, also confirmed Wednesday that Perry had been a resident at the hospital from July 1983 until June 1984, but was let go there as well af ter questions were raised about his credentials. Investigators who visited Perry’s office Tuesday seized framed certifi cates and diplomas indicating work in other states and countries. Among the items confiscated was a 60-page packet of blank diplomas, similar to a packet of typing paper, from the Universidad Centro de Estudios Tecnicos in Santo Domingo, the Do minican Republic. Also taken from the office were As president and sole officer of stencils with Old English-style letters tors and lawyers all over Florida, as well as from Alabama, Louisiana, Washington, D.C., California, Ne vada and Texas. A prominent Stuart law firm, which four years ago nego tiated a multimillion-dollar set tlement believed to be the largest ever in Florida, was one of Perry’s clients. The Stuart firm of Gary, Williams and Parenti had worked with Perry for a year. Robert Parenti said Wednesday that he knew nothing about the allegations against Perry and that they surprised him. Fort Lauderdale lawyer Timothy Hmielewski, who has known Perry for nearly three years, said he has given him tens of thousands of dol lars in business. Divers searcl for 6 workers on capsizedri ma anc gee 1 Arr Physician’s Research Associates Inc., Perry reviewed medical records for lawyers all over the country, advising them on medical malpractice cases. From June to December 1985 Perry worked as a pediatric resident at Miami Children’s Hospital, but was terminated when he could not come up with proper credentials, hospital spokesman Omar Montejo said. pasted-up diploma from the Is ‘ ' and a medical school. The Worcester, Mass., native, who charged his lawyer clients $500 for a preliminary case screening and $125 an hour after that, repeatedly misre presented himself as a doctor so he could earn a living, Hughes wrote in a summary of his four-month inves tigation. Perry’s list of clients included doc- “He’s no fraud. . . . I’ve yet to meet anybody who’s Bob’s peer in really reviewing the record. He does an outstanding job. He obviously learned some medicine somewhere.” KAL victims’ families awarded $50 million Perry is listed in the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Dr. Rod ney Dorand, a Montgomery, Ala., doctor and lawyer. That is how Do rand said he verified Perry’s creden tials two years ago. SCHULMAN 6 PLAZA 3 2002 E. 29th 775-2463‘ 226 Southwest Phwy. 693-2457 •LOCK UP LICENSE TO KILL WEEKEND AT BERNE’S pg TURNER AND HOOCH pg •DEAD POETS SOCIETY pg DOLBY •LETHAL WEAPON I r $ DOLLAR DAYS $ MANOR EAST 3 PETSEMETARY r 4:35 9:25 KARATE KID I MAJOR LEAGUE R PETER PAN g WHEN HARRY MET SALLY ■HONEY, I SHRUNK THE WPS PG DOLBY The Battalion WASHINGTON (AP) — A fed eral court jury Wednesday awarded $50 million to the families of 137 passengers killed when a Korean Air Lines plane strayed into Soviet terri tory and was shot down six years ago. All 269 people aboard were killed in the Sept. 1, 1983 disaster. The jury of three men and three women decided on punitive dam ages two hours after returning a ver dict that KAL had committed willful misconduct. The jury concluded that actions by KAL’s crew aboard Flight 007 were a cause of the aircraft’s destruc tion by a missile-firing Soviet fighter plane. Several family members clapped their hands when the finding of will ful misconduct was announced, and one woman in the front row wept. The $50 million punitive dam ages, if upheld, will be shared equally by the 137 families. Families of victims who did not sue get no share. Without the finding of willful mis conduct, the families would have been limited to compensation of $75,000 per passenger, a figure set by international treaty. With the finding, the families are free to seek individual damages for such things as lost earnings of a par ent or spouse in individual lawsuits in federal courts around the coun try. “If he isn’t practicing medicine, he hasn’t defrauded anybody,” Dorand said. “That’s not a great big crime, when you think about it.” Perry’s credentials are impressive, including boasts of work at the Uni versity of Massachusetts, Harvard and the University of Miami. In documents filed with the Edu cational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Perry said he went to medical school at the Uni versidad Valle Del Bravo in Mexico. MORGAN CITY, La. (API Divers Thursday searched submerged crew quarten i capsized oil rig for six men mil 1 ing since the structure on turned four days earlier and Coast Guard set an investigaw of the accident to begin na week. At least four people drowns in the accident. Three Wit were found in the crew quant; Wednesday and one more w discovered overnight. The investigation of the aco dent begins Tuesday with a lie hearing in Morgan City, sat Lt. Steven Hardy of the to Guard office there. “We’ll talk with the crew to viously and we’U probably talk to some of the people on beach who had communicatioi with the vessel,” Hardy said. Chevron leased the rig fronn Louisiana company and hired! vers to search tne rig for the miss ing men. The M “jackup rig,” with legstliai can be moved up while travel® or down while drilling, fellonic side in 30 feet of water Monda' while heading inland as Hum cane Chantal approached. Four other crewmen were res cued immediately after the aco dent. The search, delayed by roujli seas in the wake of Chantal, re sumed Wednesday. The identities of the dead met were being withheld pendingit tification of their families, Chet ron spokesman Jonathan Lift said. a By sii A mei the usei cien sple S mer vers whe sine Iran h Hurricane Dean moves away from Puerto Rico One hundred thirty-seven such lawsuits were consolidated into one case in Washington to determine only whether misconduct occured and whether punitive damages should be awarded. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Dean veered away from the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Thursday, carrying its 85 mph winds farther out to sea and re ducing the threat to the Florida coast, forecasters said. They said the season’s second hurricane would probably sweep 150 miles north of Puerto RicoM way up the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Ser" lifted hurricane warnings for all' islands of the eastern Caribbean eluding the Virgin Islands J Puerto Rico, where authorities! begun putting emergency measu into effect. Wait! Don't line the bird cage with that Battalion! There's a coupon in it that I want that's good for a free tongue depressor down at the pharmacy! Study will focus on AIDS education of migrant workers in 8-state region Ads that get action Campus and community news The Battalion 216 Reed McDonald 409-845-2611 STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Re searchers at Georgia Southern Col lege are coordinating an eight-state study aimed at educating migrant farm workers about the risks of ac quiring the deadly AIDS virus. David Foulk, director of the col lege’s Center for Rural Health, said Wednesday the purpose of the pro ject is to develop educational and prevention programs for migrants. A smaller study conducted in Georgia last year indicated that mi grant workers were ill-informed about the disease and how it is spread, he said. “What makes it critical is that they are a hard-to-reach population,” he said. “They don’t have the benefit of all the educational and preventive programs that are available to the rest of the population.” The AIDS Eastern Stream Pro ject, named for the annual flow of migrants from Florida to Delaware, is designed to assess the workers’ un derstanding of the disease. Foulk said it is not an attempt to determine how many workers might have the disease. The Georgia study showed that many migrants did not know AIDS could be transmitted through het erosexual intercourse or by sharing hypodermic needles. Thousands of migrants move up the East Coast each year to harvest crops ranging from tomatoes to to bacco. “We don’t know what the preva lence is in that population,” said Foulk. “But . . . they deserve the same treatment in terms of trying to do something about a deadly disease.” Foulk said many of the migrants don’t speak English and get their in formation from Spanish-language magazines and newspapers sent to them from their native countries. He said migrants will be surveyed at various sites along the East Coast to learn more about their sexual practices and travels. States taking part include Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Tennessee. “Findings from the new study could have a great deal of signifi cance on future approaches to AIDS education and prevention program ming in migrant populations,” Foulk said. The CSC center’s staff includes Jerry Lafferty, dean of the School of Health and Professional Studies; Re becca Ryan, coordinator of research projects; and Frank Radovich of the school’s Department of Health Sci ence Education. A flash-flood watch remained! effect for the U.S. Virgin Isla but it was lifted for Puerto Rico Puerto Rican National G» ; canceled plans to evacuate people from flood-prone areas. Bob Sheets, director of the tional Hurricane Center in Gables, Fla., said Puerto Rico the U.S. Virgin Islands could some heavy rain and gusting wi* “but no real problems.” “The biggest problem in th< lands is usually flash floods 2 j mudslides, so there is somepote» ;! for that,” he said, “but it’s notg® to be as if the core of the stor® coming across there.” Sheets said the storm, which been heading toward Florida, curving to the north, away fo land, and did not pose an immed 1 threat to the U.S. mainland. “It is not a problem for the! 11 I two to three days and probably 1 I not become a problem,” he $ | “There is still a chance it mighf | The study began about four months ago and will continue through October. blocked and turned back to the" 1 but that’s unlikely at this moment At noon EDT, the hurried center was at latitude 19.5 north 2 longitude 63.3 west, or 200 n 4 east-northeast of San Juan. Ri Ti te to