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President hopes Senate
will save bomber, SDI
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush prepared Wednesday to
defend his 1991 defense budget as
House Democrats savored the cuts
they inflicted on the B-2 bomber
program and the Strategic Defense
Initiative.
“I was out running at six this
morning just because I was exhila
rated,” Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif.,
told reporters a few hours after the
House Armed Services Committee
cut $24 billion from the $307 billion
the president had requested for de
fense spending in the fiscal year be
ginning Oct. 1.
The administration began lobby
ing Senate Republicans to restore
the cuts as the White House said
Bush would speak Thursday on
“how he perceives the U.S. defense
budget.”
On Tuesday, the House Armed
Services Committee voted to halt
production of the B-2 stealth
bomber at the 15 planes under con
struction, not the 75 Bush had asked
for. At nearly $865 million each, it is
the costliest airplane ever built.
The committee, on a bipartisan
vote of 40-12, also stripped nearly $2
billion from Bush’s request of $4.7
billion for SDI, or Star Wars; cut
military personnel by 129,500; and
scaled back on two nuclear missile
programs.
“There was an image that we
never met a weapons system we
didn’t like and that we would fund
anything that they would bring
over” from the Pentagon, Rep. Pat
ricia Schroeder, D-Colo., said.
Spokesman Roman Popadiuk said
the president will speak Thursday in
Aspen, Colo., where he will be meet
ing with British Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher.
Bush “will address how he per
ceives the U.S. defense budget and
U.S. force structure in meeting the
changing demands,” Popadiuk said.
The speech, to be delivered at the
Aspen Institute, will deal with “de
fense aspects of U.S. foreign policy,”
the spokesman said.
Acknowledging the House tradi
tion of wholesale cuts in the defense
budget, the administration looked to
the Senate to salvage its major weap
ons programs.
The Senate has approved a higher
Pentagon budget target for the new
fiscal year — $289 billion as com
pared to the House’s $283 billion.
The chamber moved late Wednes
day to bring to the floor the bill that
emerged from its Armed Services
Rivals Gorbachev, Yeltsin form
committee to revise economy
MOSCOW (AP) — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
and his main political rival, Boris N. Yeltsin, have
formed a joint committee to revamp the Soviet econ
omy, in a sign that Gorbachev is willing to move faster
toward market reforms.
The 12-member committee, which held its first meet
ing Wednesday, brought together moderate reformers
loyal to Gorbachev and more radical reformers sup
porting Yeltsin, the president of the huge Russian re
public who recently quit Gorbachev’s Communist Party.
A Western diplomat termed the move “rather impor
tant” because the national government was in danger of
falling far behind economic changes introduced in Rus
sia, the largest of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics.
“If they don’t do something like this, they are going
to be left behind,” the diplomat said, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity. “Russia is going to move ahead fast.”
More rapid reform of the Soviet economy also could
increase the chances for obtaining Western aid, which
Gorbachev says is necessary to reform the economy.
Gorbachev’s top economic adviser, Nikolai Y. Petra-
kov, said in an interview that the decision to form the
committee was “the most important information of
1990” in Soviet domestic politics. He said Gorbachev
and Yeltsin signed the agreement Saturday after seve
ral days of talks.
The economists appointed to it will develop a com
mon economic policy for the nation. Petrakov said it
was too early to say what they might recommend, but
their work should be done by Sept. 1, when the national
and Russian parliaments reconvene. Economic reforms
will be of top priority at the sessions.
The committee includes such proponents of reform
as Petrakov, Deputy Premier Leonid A. Abalkin, Presi
dential Council member Stanislav Shatalin, economist
and writer Nikolai Shmelev, Yeltsin deputy Grigory
Yavlinsky and Russian Finance Minister Boris Fyodo
rov.
The Interfax news service identifed Yavlinsky as the
author of Yeltsin’s “500 Days” economic program to
move Russia to a market economy.
Over Gorbachev’s objections, Yeltsin was elected in
May to head Russia, which contains three-fourths of the
Soviet Union’s land and more than half its people. Since
then, he has slowly outlined plans to overhaul the re
public’s economy.
He has shown tolerance toward private property and
in recent weeks indicated he intends to radically reform
land ownership and seize control of banking. That
brought a sharp response from Gorbachev, who on
Sunday urged Soviet republics not to try to break away
from the central money and banking system.
Gorbachev and his premier, Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, have
moved more slowly on the economy and are facing
sharp criticism for its failures. Yeltsin and other re
formers have urged Ryzhkov to resign.
Researchers discover hepatitis cure
Interferon relieves cancer-causing infection
BOSTON (AP) — Interferon is
the first treatment to relieve and
even cure lingering hepatitis B infec
tions, the leading cause of cirrhosis
and liver cancer and one of the
world’s biggest killers, researchers
have found.
A study found that injections of
the natural protein can stop the he
patitis B virus from destroying the
liver in almost half of the people
who are chronically infected. One in
10 is cured.
Until now, there has been no
treatment for the hepatitis B virus.
While interferon clearly does not
help everyone, having any therapy
at all is considered to be an impor
tant step in controlling this infection.
“This is an encouraging result. All
of us would feel a lot happier if we
had a better treatment. This spurs us
on to find that,” commented Dr.
Baruch S. Blumberg of the Fox
Chase Cancer Center in Philadel
phia. He won the Nobel prize in
medicine in 1976 for identifying the
hepatitis B virus.
The latest research, conducted on
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An
81-year-old man convicted in the
“mercy killing” of his wife will be
freed from prison Thursday for hu
manitarian reasons. Gov. Bob Marti
nez said Wednesday.
Roswell Gilbert, whose case fo
cused national attention on the kill
ing of an ailing loved one, suffers
from lung and heart disease, and
physicians say he could die at any
time.
“I think it’s in the best interest of
all parties concerned.” said Marti
nez, a law-and-order Republican
who has signed more than 120 death
warrants since taking office in 1987
and previously opposed clemency
for Gilbert.
The retired engineer was the sub
ject of a 1987 television movie that
dramatized his decision in 1985 to
kill his wife of 51 years, who suf
fered from Alzheimer’s disease and
osteoporosis.
“Mr. Gilbert’s declining health,
and the likelihood that his condition
will continue to deteriorate if he re
mains in prison, leads me to the con
clusion that he should be granted
encouraging result. All of
us would feel a lot happier
if we had a better
treatment. This spurs us on
to find that.”
—Dr. Baruch S.
Blumberg,
169 people at 12 hospitals, is the first
large-scale comparison study of in
terferon for hepatitis B. It confirms
several smaller studies suggesting
that the treatment works.
Other studies have also shown
that interferon works against hepati
tis C, another serious but less com
mon variety of the virus. On Tues
day, an advisory committee of the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
recommended that interferon be
marketed for hepatitis C.
clemency,” Martinez said.
Three of the six Cabinet members
— Comptroller Gerald Lewis, Edu
cation Commissioner Betty Castor
and Attorney General Bob Butter-
worth — signed the governor’s peti
tion, clearing the way for Gilbert’s
freedom.
“Oh Lord, it’s just such wonderful
news,” said Gilbert’s daughter, Mar
tha Moran, in Baltimore. “It’s just
wonderful.”
Moran said she would return to
Florida immediately to help her fa
ther resettle, probably back at a Fort
Lauderdale condominium where
many of his friends reside.
“I think the first thing we’re going
to do is go out and have a good meal,
and then let daddy have a little bour
bon and branch water — which he
hasn’t had in five-and-a-half years,”
she said.
Gilbert was examined in January
and a medical report showed he suf
fered from heart and lung disease
and was considered “at high risk of
death at any time,” because of his
age and physical condition.
Doctors said the latest study is big
enough so physicians can use the re-
— suits to predict how interferon will
affect their patients if — as seems
likely — it becomes the standard
medicine for hepatitis B.
“We can be relatively sure what
doctors will find in practice: Ten
percent will be cured and 40 or 50
percent will be made better and their
liver disease will be stopped in its
tracks,” said Dr. Robert P. Perrillo of
the St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medi
cal Center, the principal author of
the study.
The results were published in
Thursday’s New England Journal of
Medicine along with an editorial by
Dr. Jay H. Hoofnagle of the Na
tional Institute of Diabetes and Di
gestive and Kidney Diseases.
“For now, interferon alpha offers
the best hope” for treating chronic
hepatitis B, Hoofnagle wrote.
Experts cautioned that the treat
ment should be used only for those
with chronic infections who show
signs of liver damage.
Shooting
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bell said. “We have the proof.”
Campbell said he was on his way
to the club when the other two offi
cers radioed the description of two
cars that fled the scene and were
possibly involved in the incident.
He intercepted a car fitting the
description of one of the vehicles on
FM 60. The driver, a Texas A&M
student, was arrested and jailed for
driving while intoxicated, but was
not charged with any other offense
because there was no evidence the
driver was involved in the shooting.
A car fitting the description of the
second vehicle was pulled over on
campus near Crocker Hall and the
driver, also an A&M student, was
ticketed for failure to use a turn sig
nal to make a left turn, Campbell
said.
The driver and two passengers in
the car were handcuffed and held
for a short time and released when
CSPD officers could not find evi
dence linking them to the shooting
at the club, he added.
Campbell said CSPD is still investi
gating the incident.
“Something was definitely up
somewhere,” Campbell said. “We
have our ideas, but they’re just ideas
so I can’t talk about them.”
Florida governor
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Defense Secretary Dick Chene.;
with the chamber’s Republicans
Tuesday.
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lion the Pentagon had requested
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tants surrendered Wednesi
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tages they seized six daysagoio
bloody coup attempt, the govern
ment said.
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portedly left at least 20 peopl
dead, began Friday when arme
rebels stormed the state televis;
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session, because Gomez said he
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weren’t good enough.
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team was competing unfairly,
mez said no.
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there so these guys (his team) " l
lose their touch,” he said.
Gomez, who also coaches a co-n
reational softball team, plans to
ter the Sims team in a city leagu'
the spring. His co-rec team hast
scored opponents 40-6.
Dennis Corrington, director
the Intramural Sports Departntf
said some people are not
about their team’s abilities, butth 1
is no way to truly prevent this p* 1
lem.
“All we can do is try to influx
them, and maybe talk to the $
involved,” he said.
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now, which groups teams accord
to ability, has worked well, Cord
ton said.
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problems completely,” he said.
He said team sponsorship
nothing to do with the Intrant
Department.
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companies,” Corrington said
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