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ALLERGY STUDY FOR CHILDREN Children ages 6-11 with ragweed allergy wanted to participate in a 15- day, 4 visit research study using medication in syrup form. Free ragweed skin testing provided. $100 to $150 for those completing the study. Sinus Infection Study Individuals age 13 and older with a sinus infection to participate in a clinical research study for 3 to 5 weeks with an investigational antibiotic in capsule form. Minimum incentive of $150 paid to those who complete the study. BioLogica RESEARCH GROUP, INC. 776-0400 Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, September2i|5 f Congress earmarks $2.1 billion Health care Continued From Page 1 NASA space lab to receive funds THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON- A House- Senate conference committee Tuesday earmarked $2.1 billion for Space Station Freedom next year — giving the orbiting labo ratory a significant funding boost over what the House had ap proved. The conferees' action, which now goes to the House and Sen ate for a final vote, brings a near close to a turbulent year for the space station. "I'm very pleased," said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas. "This is another substantial victory for science and technology." Said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D- Texas: "This robust funding pro file will speed us on the way to ward the day when Freedom is launched into space." In July, the House brushed aside an effort to kill the $40 bil lion project, much of which is un der development at the Johnson Space Center near Houston. But House members did trim $525 million off President Bush's re quest, allocating $1.7 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The Senate proved more gen erous, earlier this month voting to allocate $2.1 billion for the space station and also rebuffing an attempt to kill the project. In rescuing the manned space laboratory. Congress rejected ar guments that the space station was of dubious scientific value and would drain badly needed money from other programs. Freedom supporters contend ed that killing the project would end America's dominance in space and smother future techno logical advances. NASA hopes to«begin con structing the space station in or bit in 1996 and to have it func tioning before the turn of the cen tury. The project is estimated to cost $100 million to operate over its lifetime. The space station money is in cluded in a measure providing $86.6 billion for veterans, hous ing, space and environmental programs. and providing better access to health care. "We can't force you to take it, but it would be available, if needed," he said. Health care for the un employed would be further enhanced by state pro grams, he said. Quayle said health care already is available for the poor and elderly through the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs. "It's the struggling, middle-income people who don't have health care," he said, adding that the pro posals are aimed at that group. Quayle said the Republican plan is different from a national health care program proposed by Democ ratic Presidential nominee Bill Clinton. He likened the Democratic plan to the Canadian health care plan, which he claimed does not provide quality call for all. Quayle was critical of lawsuits and the insurance industry for the high cost of malpractice coverage and strict regulations limiting personal coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. He said physi cians often do unnecessary procedures to protect themselves from malpractice claims. "Defensive medicine is costing us $20.7 billion a year. I define defensive medicine as medical or health care (done) only to protect a physician," lo if we took half that money and put it in prenatal carei;i| than give it to lawyers." He said curbing such excessive costsandti ming other expenses through electronic billiagt ■ provide funding for the new incentives. Quayle said the federal governmenthasiL $135 billion in the past five years for 1 uncompp^^ursda health care. He suggested using $100 to fund additional health care. During his trip to College Station Tuesday noon, some 7,500 Aggie students, manyofth® rying pro-Republican signs, greeted Quayleat‘; ; Rollie White coliseum. "Now I know why President Bush loves' A&M and Texas Aggies,” Quayle said. "Tkt; solutely no doubt in my mind, Texas is | George Bush one more time.” Bush has chosen A&M as the site for his pres: Quayle said. "Think what we could do tial library. During his 15-minute speech,(fc I was interrupted briefly by a handful of student I shouted "Clinton-Gore '92,” and heldupan* Quayle banner. The students were asked tofet The overwhelmingly pro-Republican & hissed at every mention of Clinton, and die when Quayle attacked the Arkansas govemore issues and when he talked about Hollywood. "I want the people to write the future of Au and I want Hollywood to start reflectingou ues,” Quayle said. Earlier, Quayle pronounced himself the vc his fight with Hollywood over "MurphyBro. Quayle had accused the show of "mockingBk portant of fathers," and the situation comedyaj back in its season premiere Monday night. Irish group travels "Trail of Tears' to repa\ Choctaw Indian tribe for 150-year-old de THE ASSOCIATED PRESS people had experienced the Trail of Tears idi AUSTIN — Nearly 150 years after the Great Potato Famine, a group of Irish people is retracing the "Trail of Tears" from Oklahoma to Mississippi to repay a longstanding debt to the Choctaw Indi an tribe. Eight people from Ireland began the 500-mile trek from Broken Bow, Okla., to Nanih Waiya, Miss. — roughly retracing, in reverse, the govern ment-forced relocation of the tribe in 1831 from its homeland to what was then Indian Territory wilderness. Tens of thousands were moved. Nearly half died. The Irish connection: In 1847, midway through the Irish famine, a group of Choctaws collected $710 and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children. The donation established a closeness between the Choctaws and the Irish. It is more than a historical footnote for many Choctaws in Texas. "Even though we're not directly involved, we're very close to it," said Boyd Tingle of Wimberiey, whose ancestors were Choctaw and Irish. His wife, Patricia, is of Irish descent "It was like a love collection at church," said Judy Allen, editor of the Choctaw Nation's news paper, "Bishinik,” based at the tribal headquarters in Durant, Okla. "It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw As thi gistrati nizatic to er they had faced starvation. . . It was an a: gesture. By today's standards, it might be a dollars." According to a written account at the "Traders, missionaries and (Indian) agency cials contributed, but the greater part of the was subscribed by the Indians themselves." ■*lonal Now, the Irish are returning the favor, by pul® ar< J m cizing the generosity' of the Choctaw and byn* Voter ing money for yet another famine relief effon able thr this one in Somalia, an East African nationra:t Voter P with anarchy and starvation. iBBaeue ( So far, Allen said Monday, the group has ras p j 3 , q about $18,000 of its $71,000 goal. r0Stai ^ Much of that has come from residents of■ arious ( land who sponsored the walkers and fromds bons sue tions given the group along the way. pns and In a prelude to the hike by the Irish visit?* The w Choctaw Chief Hollis Roberts recently visited t LI ding c. l an d. railing to On Monday, the walkers were in Arkar^ . ° where they were joined by 17 additional walkl , . Today, the group is scheduled to cross the Mi!^- anclals sippi River into Greenville, Miss. governn Two Brazilian Indians will join the final stay |raduati( of the trek Sept. 27 in Mississippi. Before the w che^k-bo is finished Oct. 3, participants will have stopped |qdes ci 30 cities in three states. The charity walk is being staged by ActionFro Ireland, a Dublin-based human rights group If. lists among its patrons Archbishop Desmondk' of South Africa 'fore Former priest pleads innocent to sex charges Prosecutor claims Roman Catholic clergyman molested 32 children. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW BEDFORD, Mass— With accusers looking on, a former Roman Catholic priest pleaded innocent Wednesday to molesting 32 children — some allegedly in church and after invoking God's name as a threat. At a bail hearing for James R. Porter, a pros ecutor also disclosed that the former clergy man is wanted in his home state of Minnesota on sexual misconduct charges involving his children's 15-year-old babysitter. Porter, 57, who is married and has four chil dren, pleaded innocent in a low, steady voice to 46 criminal charges. He was released after posting $20,000 bail and given 48 hours to re turn to Minnesota. In a statement this summer. Porter admit ted he had molested "a number of children" during the 1960s while he was a priest, but said he stopped after leaving the priesthood in the early 1970s. Porter, of Oakdale, Minn., also is charged in lawsuits in Minnesota'and New Mexico with abusing children while still a priest. Bristol County Assistant District Attorney Renee Dupuis said Porter sexually assaulted children "in the parish, in the sacristy, in their own homes, in his vehicle and in assorted oth er places." Porter threatened his victims by "telling The A approve Ivhich w the sup< lhareholc The A latest ex tastmen them that God would get them andtheirf* lies," Dupuis charged. "He also told then' what they had just done was wrong, aatl God would punish them." Kompann The prosecutor said the children were J Recenl from 10 to 14 and the assaults included f> masturbation, fellatio and forced sodomy Porter sat with his head bowed as & addressed the court. Nearby, more investors and sky : America? his accusers from the diocese of FallP pe ulti southern Massachusetts sat together. "There's a feeling of gratitude, to sef ; helpless like that," said one of them, Johnson, who is now 43 and lives ini dence, R.I. "I'll remember that fora 1 time." burners, luying. levitabl le Amei Yet Ja ■gest fc |d State LAST DAY TO REGISTER! for -THE INTERVIEW WORKSHOP” TODAY IN THE MSC TIL 4:00 P.M. ACROSS FROM POST OFFICE to be held SEPTEMBER 26, 1992 10-4 p.m. ** CLAYTON WILLIAMS JR. 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