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Wednesday, March 11, 1937
By The Associated Press
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Counsel wants at least 90 days
before Congress grants immunity
WASHINGTON - Lawrence E.
Walsh, the independent counsel in
vestigating the Iran Contra affair,
asked Congress on Tuesday to wait
at least 90 days before granting
limited immunity to key witnesses.
He vowed to challenge in court
any attempt to act sooner.
"The danger is substantial," Walsh
said, that his probe would be com
proni sed by any effort to move
quickly to grant immunity to former
National Security Adviser John M.
I'oim 'Xi ; his fired aide, Lt.Col.
Olive, Nn':i..
Kin lawmakers in the House and
Sena! have said in recent days they
topeti to move quickly to grant
limited immunity from prosecution
to Poindexter and North in order to
compel their testimony.
But Walsh, speaking with repor
ters after a two-hour session with
the House panel, said if Congress
moves before 90 days, "we would
then have to do whatever we could
to get ourselves as much time as
possible to perfect our case" against
anyone who might be indicted.
Walsh said he will deliver a sim
ilar message when he meets with
the Senate investigating committee
on Wednesday.
Under federal law, Walsh would
be able to delay a grant of immunity
for roughly :0 days. Any court chal
lenge by him would create a conflict
with congressional investigators that
both sides have carefully sought to
avoid.
Earlier Tuesday, Senate commit
tee chairman Daniel Inouye,
D Hawaii, said, "We should not wait
until July" to arrange immunity to
force testimony by North and Poin
dexter and perhaps others. "If you
want the full story, there's no ques
tion" that immunity will have to be
granted to key figures, he said.
Rep. Dick Cheney, K-Wyo., the
senior Republican on the House
panel, said he was keeping an open
mind on the immunity issue. But he
has expressed reservations about
going forward with immunity for
high-ranking officials before lower
level witnesses are interviewed.
Vatican against artifical creation
VATICAN CITY The Vatican warned against "unfore
si eable damaging" consequences of artificial procreation
Tuesday, condemning surrogate motherhood, test-tube
births, cloning and experiments on living embryos.
In setting out the Roman Catholic church's position on
rapidly developing techniques of fertilization, the Vatican
also called for laws against embryo banks, attempts to
fashion animal-human hybrids and the planting of human
embryos in artificial and animal uteruses.
It left the door open to research on helping sterile
couples conceive and withheld judgment on fertilization
techniques in use or development that neither substitute
for marital intercourse nor result in deaths of "spare"
embryos.
"We encourage sc ientific resear ch . . . but science is not
absolute, to which everything must be subordinated and
e entually sacrificed, including the dignity of man," Cardinal'
Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith, told a news conference.
The church position is contained in a 40-page document
written by the Congregat ion, the guardian and promoter of
Roman Catholic orthodoxy, and approved by Pope John Paul
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Vatican officials said the Pope was consulted at every
stage about the document, titled "Instruction on Respect
for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of
Procreation Replies to Certain Questions of the Day."
Some Vatican officials described it as the most important
pronouncement on human procreation since the 1968
"Humane Vitae" encyclical of Pope Paul VI, which banned
artificial birth control.
Any Catholic who "willingly and knowingly" violates the
directives will be committing a sin, Vatican officials said.
The document asks all church run hospitals and Catholic
doctors and scientists to follow the directives.
Ratzinger said the document was a response to requests
and queries from national bishops' conferences, individual
prelates, doctors and scientists. He described it as the
result of "vast consultations" with experts and church
officials.
Central to Vatican reasoning are two time-honored
church principles: t hat every human life must be respected
from the moment of conception, and that the only accepta
ble way to give birth to a child is through sexual intercourse
between married spouses.
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Former Arizona governor
to run on Democratic ticket
MANCIIETER, N.H. - Former Gov.
Bruce E. Babbitt of Arizona, drawing
applause when he criticized "amateurs
in charge of the White House," declared
his candidacy Tuesday for the 1988
Democratic presidential nomination.
Moving quickly to try to separate
himself from his rivals for the nomina
tion, Babbitt proposed increasing the
tax on Social Security benefits for
higher-income Americans, capping the
mortgage interest deduction, and writ
ing new rules for world trade.
The 48-year-old former governor also
pledged he would "never trade any
thing of value for a hostage,' even if it
meant some would be killed.
With his wife and two sons on the
platform, Babitt declared his candi
dacy before about 200 supporters at
Science Enrichment Encounters, a dis
play of science and industrial exhibits
geared to children.
His speech contained several allu
sions to the Iran-Contra affair although
he never referred directly to the inves
tigations that are bedeviling the Rea
gan WTtite House.
Babbitt drew his loudest applause
when he said:
"America does not have to leave
arms merchants in charge of our diplo
macy, terrorists in charge of our secur
ity, soldiers of fortune in charge of our
Central America desk, Japanese trad
ers in charge of our markets, embezzlers
in charge of Wall Street, bigots in
charge of our social agenda, pollsters
in charge of our politics, and ameteurs
in charge of the White House."
He said Reagan has run a "govern
ment by TelePrompTer in which words
and deeds seem to have lost all logical
connection."
He added, "For years we've heard
courageous words about terrorists from
a president who sends them missiles
for ransom and then he pleads amnesia
when he's called to account."
Heart balloon use swelling
NEW ORLEANS The use of tiny
balloons to unclog heart arteries is
growing dramatically, but it seems to
have done little to cut into the high
prevalence of expensive coronary by
pass surgery, a study has found.
The non-surgical procedure, known
as angioplasty, is being done on in
creasingly sicker patients with better
results, researchers found.
However, the researchers say that
while angioplasty was used on 150,000
Americans last year, bypass surgery
was performed on 250,000 Americans in
the same period.
The first angioplasty was performed
10 years ago.
In several papers presented this
week at the annual meeting of the
American College of Cardiology, re
searchers described the results of a
large followup of angioplasty sponsored
by the National Heart, Lung and Bloos
Institute that examined differences in
angioplasty between 1980 and 1985.
Dr. Katherine Detre of the University
of Pittsburgh said the statistics show
that angioplasty is being performed on
people with far more advanced heart
disease than it was in the early days,
and that results continue to improve.
The procedure was successful 87
percent of the time in 1985, compared
with 67 percent five years earlier.
Despite the more complicated cases,
the death rate is the same about 1
percent. And the need for emergency
bypass operations to rescue patients
from unsuccessful angioplasty fell from
6 percent of cases to 4 percent.
In Brief
Morning caffeine jolt good for extroverts
CHICAGO That jolt of caffeine in a morning cup of coffee or tea
improves an impulsive, extroverted person's work on complex reasoning
tasks, but does the opposite for thoughtful introverts, two pshychology
profesors said Tuesday. Caffeine in doses eqivalent to one to three cups of
coffee helps both types of people perform simple mental jobs, the psy
chologists said they have found in research over seven years. "
Waitress receives tips to visit sister
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. The no-tipping policy at a doughnut shop
was loosened to give 80 customers the chance to give waitress Isabelle
Dillon $1,000 so she can visit a sister she hasn't seen in 60 years.
Mrs. Dillon, 70, was surprised with the gift Saturday at the Dunkin
Donuts shop where she has worked for 25 years.
A relative recently discovered that her 86-year-old sister, Grace Gates,
was living in Edmonton, Alberta.
Mrs. Dillon said she may use the money to bring Mrs. Gates from Canada
to Idaho, where another sister, Ina Low, 77, is hospitalied. The three
sisters are the living siblings of 10 children.
Another Soviet dissident released
MOSCOW Dissident scientist Andrei Sakharov said that a human
rights activist whose freedom Sakharov had sought was released from a
prison in the Ukraine. Sakharov told The Associated Press by telephone
that he received a call Monday night from Genrikn Altunyan, who said he
had been released earlier in the day and was at his home in Kharkov.
Altunyan, 53, was among the founders of the Initiative Group for the
Defense of Human Rights, one of the first Soviet dissident networks
established to monitor the government's compliance with international
accords on personal freedoms.
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