thursday, april 13, 1978
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daily nebraskan
HEW to see if Medicare sex-change funding needed
WASHINGTON-The federal govern
ment will review whether Medicare should
pay for some sex-change operations, says
associated press
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the secretary of health, education and
welfare.
Joseph A. Califano Jr. has ordered his
health financing chief, Robert Derzon, to
set up a panel of experts to review whether
transsexual surgery is medically necessary
in certain cases.
At issue is whether such procedures
involve proven techniques. A spokeswoman
for HEW's Health Care Financing Admini
stration, Pat Schoeni, said the U.S. Public
Health Service has considered transsexual
surgery to be new and experimental and
its safety and effectiveness were not
proven. Medicare, run by the federal
government, does not pay for unproven
techniques.
Lost nuclear device
NEW YORK-An article in a new maga
zine published by Rolling Stone alleges
that a nuclear-powered device was lost in
1965 on a Himalayan mountainside by a
CIA expedition trying to set up a tracking
station to monitor Chinese activities.
According to the story in Outside, the
CIA group was trying to scale a 25,645
foot mountain called Nanda Devi and code
named Blue Mountain, but was forced by
bad weather to give up the attempt about
2,000 feet below the summit. The
climbers, hoping to return when the
weather improved, stored .the 'nuclear
SNAP generator, which was to power the
tracking station.
The story, by Howard Kohn, says the
CIA made an attempt in 1966 to retrieve
the generator, but was unsuccessful. It
says the fuel rods in the generator con
tained plutonium-238 "which remains dan
gerously radioactive for 300 to 500 years
and even if the SNAP generator had sur
vived the avalanche intact, its outer shell
would eventually corrode and release its
poisonous core."
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8:30 a.m. -Student Af
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243.
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Flights and Study Tours,
Nebraska Union 225 G.
9 a.m.-EUPC Arts and
Crafts Day, East Union
Great Plains Room.
10 a.m.-MASA Cultur
al Awareness Days speaker,
Nebraska Union 202.
10 a.m.-EUPC Tomlin
son Art Show, East Union
Sunflower Room.
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pus Bowling League, East
Union Goldenrod Room.
Noon -Food and Nutri
tion 470-870 class catering
project, East Union Cot
tonwood Room.
1 p.m.-MASA Cultural
Awareness Days panel dis
cussion, Nebraska Union
202.
f pjn. -Student Affairs
Mini University CPR train
ing, Nebraska Union 242.
1:30 p.m. -College of
Agriculture media work
shop, East Union Colum
bine Room.
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"Focus on Choice," Ne
braska Union 203.
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Learning Center Seminar,
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election, Nebraska
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Ember" dinner, Nebraska
Union Harvest . room A.
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ka Union 243.
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East Union Goldenrod
Room.
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Council seminar, Nebraska
Union 242.
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Association, Nebraska
Union South Conference
Room.
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Union, Nebraska Union
232.
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Program Council film, Ne
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grass Foundation, East
Union Cottonwood Room.
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eries and Wildlife, East
Union Student Organiza
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tural Awareness Days,
Women's Workshop,
Nebraska Union 202.
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selors, Nebraska Union
225 B-C.
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Society, Nebraska Union
203.
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