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House ignores president’s veto threats
by approving $159 billion S&L bailout;
deficit will increase $44 billion in 3 year
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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.
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Hours before the vote, Bush threatened to
veto the bill if Democrats rejected his demand to
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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of migrant workers in 8-state region
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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.
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not become a problem,” he $ |
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The study began about four
months ago and will continue
through October.
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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.
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