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Pago 2 Daily Nebraskan Thursday, September 12, 1985 Mews O Ag panel OKs farm Ml Reag&M threatens veto I ! PI : ; !f'1A' I . U id u iJ S U W y ; : : - . : WASHINGTON (Reuter) The House Agriculture Committee, after months of wrangling over how to help hard pressed farmers, Wednesday .approved a five-year agricultural bill that main tains subsidies for two years but allows cuts later. The measure, approved by voice vote, was immediately attacked by some farm-state congressmen as being too-little, too-late, while Reagan ad ministration officials complained it is too costly and includes ill-concerned schemes. "This bill will lower farm incomc.it doesn't solve anything," said Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan. While the committee Bill maintains government subsidies for two years, in an effort to reduce mounting commod ity surpluses, farmers must reduce wheat plantings by 30 percent and corn 20 percent to qualify for the payments. At the same time, the bill tries to boost slumping agricultural exports by allowing U.S. market prices to decline beginning next year for wheat, rice, cotton and corn. The hope is that lower prices will stimulate overseas buying. The measure now will be rushed to the House floor for debate. The Senate Agriculture Committee has yet to com plete work on its farm bill. President Reagan has warned Con gress that he would veto the bill if it exceeded the administration's budget limits. In a letter to Rep. Edward Madigan, R-Ill., Reagan reiterated earlier admo nitions that U.S. agricultural policies should not harm "overall fiscal policy." A copy of the letter was released by the Agriculture Department. Reagan said guidelines contained in a resolution already approved by the House and the Senate provided an "appropriate balance between the funding needs of farm programs and the need to reduce the (federal budget) deficit." "I am looking forward to signing a farm bill that provides hope, not mesured doses of despair," he said. "But I must note that I am prepared to disapprove legislation that repeats the mistakes of the past." Reagan said new farm programs should be aimed at making U.S. farm products become more competitive over seas, gradually reducing federal farm income support, and, among other measures, gear income benefits to "legi timate family farm operations." Doctors report hormone cure for some male infertility cases BOSTON (Reuter) Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania reported Wednesday they have found an effec tive way to cure some types of male infertility by using two hormones that have been on the market for more than two decades. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was an attempt to clear up conflicting infor mation about how the hormones can best be used for men left infertile by hormone deficiencies. enough hormones in their bodies to promote sperm production. The study team, led by Dr. David Finkel, treated 21 men with hormone problems. Initially, all 21 were given human chorionic gonadotropin, which is supposed to stimulate production of the male hormone testosterone, need ed to produce sperm. For all six men who became infertile after puberty, treatment with the single hormone was enough to bring their sperm counts up to normal. An estimated 14 percent of all cou- But the hormone worked in only one pies in the United States are infertile, of the 15 patients who had developed Men account for about one-third of the hormone problems before puberty. For cases. Some of those men do not have the remaining 14, the researchers added another drug, human menopausal gona dotropin. The drugs did not work in six out of seven men whose testicles had not properly descended from the abdomen into the scrotum, a condtion known as cryptorchidism. But for five of the remaining seven men without that problem, the drug produced a normal sperm count. The wives of eight of the 13 men who developed a normal sperm count later became pregnant. Finkel and his colleagues said their results show that some men with hor mone problems "have excellent chan ces of becoming fertile using their treatments." Break through may advance cold cure WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists said Wednesday they have finally mapped one of the tiny viruses that cause the common cold, raising hopes for vaccines or other drugs to fight any number of life-threatening or merely pesky viral ailments. The findings could lead to new progress against diseases ranging all the way from sniffles to multiple scle rosis to leukemia and perhaps even to the mysterious and deadly AIDS virus lead researcher Michael Rossmann, a professor at Purdue University, said at a news conference. The scientists have put together a three-dimensional map of a human virus the first time such a viral code has ever been cracked. The map makes it possible to study exquisitely tiny interactions within the body. However, he made it clear that drug-counter applications of his find ings still are hopes rather than realities. Rossmann, whose Purdue team worked in collaboration with a Uni versity of Wisconsin group headed by Roland Rueckert, said there actually may never be a one-shot vaccine for colds because they can be caused by more than 100 different viruses. In light of his group's findings, Rossman said "it may be a classic vaccine" a drug, for example, that would attack not the virus itself but would involve the site where the virus attaches to healthy cells. GwsmaEcers A roundup of the day's happening In interviews with half of the 51 women competing this week in the Miss America 1886 competition, some contestants admitted that although there were "no nude photos," there were some memories that made them blush. Miss Nebraska Julie Meusburger, 22, of Lincoln, revealed that as a sophomore in high school, she and another member of the junior varsity basketball team impulsively locked the closet door behind two referees. Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte on Wednesday called off his scheduled trip to the United States following the kidnapping of his daughter, Ines, 35. She was abducted Tuesday by unidentified gunmen who shot dead one of her bodyguards. Duarte was to have addressed the United Nation's General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24. In October, all 10,000 head of cattle on Hawaii's Molokai Island will be slaughtered in efforts to wipe out bovine tuberculosis, which can be transferred to humans through raw or undercooked meat. Island ranchers, who will be reimbursed $450 to $750 for each head of cattle, will not be allowed to raise new herds for one year. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is urgently trying to locate Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, amid reports that they have not been seen at their exile home in Gorky for the last three weeks. Chilean President Augusto Pinochet celebrated 12 years in power with a reaffirmation of his military government's determination to fight communism and his intention to stay in power until at least 1989. Meanwhile, police fired tear gas and made arrests during a mass pilgrimmage to the Santiago grave of leftist president Salvador Allende, who was overthrown and killed in the bloody coup that brought Pinochet to power. The United States Episcopal Church elected the Right Rev. Edmond Browning of Hawaii as its new primate and he immediately pledged to follow a liberal path to support blacks, women and homosexuals. Following the release of a report from the House Public Works and Transportation Subcommittee on Tues day, which questioned the safety of the U.S. air control system, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it is considering setting up an office to research and help boost passenger safety. At least 120 were killed and 140 injured in Portugal when an express train collided head-on with a local train. Troops were called in to help with flooding caused by heavy rain that has brought chaos to large parts of central Sweden, affecting as many as 10,000 people. Turkey launched a campaign to vaccinate 5 million children against various diseases in an effort to redjuce the nation's 11 percent infant mortality rate. The South African government has expelled British senior Newsweek correspondent Ray Wilkinson for an article he co-authored in this week's edition that South Africa claimed displayed "selective reporting, half-truths and false innuendo." Newsweek stands by its coverage. Two workmen dangling from ropes "dressed" a Manhattan skyscraper housing Spring Industries in a giant bikini top and bottom and then draped another side of the building with a pair of boxer shorts 45 feet wide. They were meant to symbolize the fabric company's ven ture into a "brighter, more contemporary" look. An 80-year-old woman has taken a full-time job at a resort to help pay off the $8,000 in legal debts her son racked tip after an unauthorized stroll he took through the White House in January. "I'm pretty old to be doing this kftid of stuff," Margaret Brock said Tuesday. "But I'd rather work to recoup the finances than ask for help." From News Wires Rose breaks Cobb's all-time hit mark CINCINNATI Tcts broke Ty Cctb's all-tima hit record with a 'first-inning single tni liter tripled and sccrcJtath Cincinnati runs to lead the Reds to an cmcticn-filled 2-0 victory Wednocd:y r;iht over the Saa Diego Padres. Eoss, the Eeds'4i-yea:-eld playcr-nanasar, l.sd a 2-1 pitch from right-hander Eric Show into left -center field for his 4,lCnd career hit, moving hiin ahead of Cobb. The single, exactly 57 years to the day after Cobb's last at-bnt, sent a sellout crowd of 47,237 into a seven-minute ovation for Rose, a native Cincinnatian who wiped away tears as he stood at first base. Record crops, low prices predicted WASHINGTON Record U.S. grain crops that will mean even lower prices for growers already suffering from a depressed farm economy were forecast Wednesday by the Apiculture Department. In its monthly crop report, the agency predicted an unprecedented 9.5-bill ion-bushel corn crop, up from 8.3 billion forecast last month and dwarfing last year's 7.5 billion bushels which had already created a surplus of grain th3t has depressed prices.' . . The surplus comes at a time when U.S. grain exports are steadily . declining because of the strength of the dollar against other currencies, and C.TC3 price competition ten ether grain producers, such as Erazil, Ar;:cr,t!r.. Australia ar:d Canada. The agency alao forecast near-record harvests Lr ether U.S. crop, such as soybeans, ccttca and wheat. Kerrey has plan to cut spending LINCOLN Ccv. Ccb Kerrey, alarmed ty shsisj tax receipts early thij fiscal year, sM Wednesday ha has instructed his stall to assemble a pkn f jt possible voluntary pending rcduttier i by state a.rncies. At f:'3 weekly news conference, the governor i J i a 4 percent shortfall lu tcJ;:2 net rcc?irls during tl.3 firit two mc:.th cf fiscal 1HS5-23 has trif '..Ted a S3 r.UIicn revests ehorifj.il. i' !t.j the state Rcvcr.us Department's latest round cf dour economic r.cv.-j, Kerrey iv..li there's m rcaaca to ::-:'e. L . rrcy sr. i j czillU state t :r.ey cuts, v;hi:h rauli tt: t to avoid a r l;;::!:ths series tcs Czd v.lih tzed p.xl !:;:. reuU a.Tect rr:y ti I hz crrcaC3 tz-'j tr.t tztts ta tti:Z:i tha re I c:;:l j i; Z'ti ncro Cz-.z on Kelrad-ia's c::;-t !:,! eccnory. In ether car.rr.ar.ts, Kmty said he wou'd r.r 2 ri z:::r:lica en o to u:2 r;-::y r.':xi ty the Farm Aid concert e .::. lly country Eir.g:r Willi 2 K.b:?.. Kerrey, uho met with & Kelson alia Sunday during the Nebraska State Fair, said he recommended that Kelson stay away from politicians when deciding hew to spend the mchcy to acsist beleaguered farmers. Senate votes 57-41 against sanctions WASHINGTON The Senate on Wednesday refused for the second time this week to end a filibuster blocking congressional passage of economic sanctions against white-ruled South Africa. The Senate's 57-41 vote continued to uphold President Reagan's posi tion that the bill amounted to an unneccessary.congressional intrusion into the formation of foreign policy. . Earlier, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole accused the Democrats of seeking partisan political advantage by forcing a vote on the sanctions bill after Reagan's executive order. Tax plan to lower electricity prices WASHINGTON Tax cuts in President Reagan's massive reform proposal would likely result in 3 percent lower electricity prices, an Energy Department study released Wednesday concluded. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingwell, a Michigan Democrat who released the report, said that among energy industries, investor-owned utilities would benefit most from the lower tax rates. Such utilities would see their taxes cut by about half, or $32.5 billicn, during the next decada U.S. satellite intercepts comet GREENEELT, Md. A hardy little satellite glided ur.scathered through the tail of a comet and temperatures of one-half million degrees Wednesday, in the Erst on-the-spct sampling cf a comet in human history. It found turbulent electrical activity but surprtir-sV little dust. The satellite, called the International Ccmetary Explorer, intercepted the comet Glacobini-Zinner 44 million miles above Earth and spent 20 minutes traveling through a tail 14.CC0 miles wide. Its mission was to sample space plasma, the electrically charged matter that occupies most cf the limitless void. Fears that dust might cloud the spacecraft's electricity-producing solar cells and reduce its ability to transmit data proved ground! ass. So did worries that even a gravel-sized particle could change the direction cf the satellite's antenna away from Earth. Li Ship could have rescued victim WASHINGTON The man who led the expedition that found the sunken liner Titanic Sept. 1 said Wednesday he has "no doubt" the big loss of life could have been averted if another ship, the Californian, had moved to resuce the passengers. Robert Ballard, chief sci er.tist cf the U.S.-French team, said the Califor nian was "inside of 10 miles, perhaps as close as 4 miles," when the Titanic began foundering after striking an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and "there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people." The captain of the California, Stanley Lord, reported he was too far from the doomed liner to help. Another ship, the Carpathia, did steam to the area and helped rescue about 700 of the Titanic's survivors. More than 1,500 perished. From News Wires