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NT OTA7 C F) 1 O’ O Associated Press X ^1 f ? ^ aS lcLv^ t Edited by Roger Price Buchanan shifts attacks to Congress, Democrats WASHINGTON — Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan shifted the focus of his attacks away from President Bush on Monday and aimed his venom at Congress, calling it “a swamp that must be drained.” Proclaiming himself “tanned, rested and ready” after a short vacation in Florida, the conservative commenta tor said he is still in the GOP race. “We do intend to direct a lot of our fire at that other political establish ment, the Con gress of the United States, which is desperately in need of being dumped over,” Buchanan said. After 17 straight losses to Bush, Buchanan gave up the personal attacks on the presi dent that had been a trademark of his earlier campaigning. Buchanan told a rally and news conference on Capitol Hill that his campaign was entering a new, gen tler-toward-the president phase as he headed for a week of campaigning in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Califor nia. “We could never be as colorful as Mr. Buchanan but we do share his disappointment with Congress as an institution,” said Tone Clarke, spokes woman for the Bush campaign. She said that Buchanan's decision to focus on Congress instead of Bush “is largely irrelevant. We arc going to continue doing what we’ve been doing all year long: campaigning hard in all the stales and wining all the prima ries.” Paul Erickson, a senior Buchanan adviser, said money continues to come into the campaign despite the insur gent challenger’s drubbing at the polls. “The campaign has raised and spent just under $7 million and wc will raise another $4 million,” he said. Erickson said, Buchanan will be “picking our targets more effectively than we have been” in the coming primaries. Buchanan would not comment on Democratic front-runner Bill Clin ton’s disclosure that he had used marijuana as a student at Oxford. Asked if he had ever used mari juana, Buchanan said, “no.” He said Bush now has a golden opportunity to press his agenda be fore Congress, with lawmakers “reel ing and staggering” under scandals involving the House bank and the House post office. Fed unlikely to cut rates on interest to boost economy WASHINGTON — The Fed eral Reserve, which hasn’t cut inter est rates since December, will hold to that course in meetings this week despite pressure from the Bush ad ministration to do more to bolster the economy, private analysts pre dicted Monday. The central bank last cut inter est rates on Dec. 20 when it slashed its dis count rate, the interest it charges for di rect bank loans, to a 27-year low of 3.5 percent and reduced its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, to 4 percent. The Commerce Department re ported Monday that sales of new single-family homes fell 2.7 per cent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 613,000. Most analysts were unfazed by the slight downturn, however, contend ing that there was enough underly ing strength to allow the housing industry to perform its traditional role of leading the economy out of recession. A group of prominent econo mists, including several former Nobel Prize winners, released an open letter Monday in which they called for further interest rate cuts. They also urged Congress and President Bush to support tax cred its for business investment and increased federal payments to state and local governments in the areas of education and infrastructure improvements. Congressmen question administration’s abortion rules WASHINGTON — The official who wrote the guidelines for w'hat can and can't be said about abortion in federally supported family plan ning clinics spent hours Monday trying to explain. The congressmen listen ing weren't satisfied. “It’s deceptive, it’s a hoax and you’re not playing straight with the women of this country,” said Rep. Ron Wydcn, D-Ore. Dr. William R. Archer III, a dep uty assistant health secretary, was peppered with sometimes hostile questions by Democrats who wanted to pin him down on whether people who work in family planning clinics that receive federal money can coun sel women on abortion. At issue was a regulation that re stricts whai people in the clinics can say. On March 20, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out guidelines that were supposed to explain how the rules governing this are to be applied. The guidance can be confusing. In one paragraph, it says a preg nant woman at one of these clinics can be sent lor medical care else where that may result in "the termina tion of her pregnancy.” In the next sentence, it says: “This referral seeks to prov ide a pregnant woman w ith the best medical management of her preg nancy and to ensure both her health and the health of her unborn child.” “1 just think, Doctor, with one sentence, you could clear this up,” Wydcn said. There was no onc-scntcncc expla nation. Archer said the administration was not trying to restrict what a doctor could tell a patient, leaving that up to the physician's medical judgment. Whatever was said, it had to be done in person and it had to be done by a doctor. CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT ONGOING CHALLENGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST LIED CENTER Thursday, April 2, 1992 3:30 p.m. NO ADMISSION CHARGE S| Dying baby stirs ethics debate By the Associated Press She lived only nine days, but a girl bom without a full brain was at the center of a debate about the nation’s definition of death. Her parents fought for the right to donate her or gans. Ethic ists worried about the morality of killing the living to save the dying. Theresa Ann Campo Pearson died Monday afternoon, said Dr. Brian Udell. In an imperfect world where their child was bom with the fatal condition ancnccphaly, Laura Campo and Justin Pearson wanted the spirit of 9-day-old Theresa Ann Campo Pearson to live on in another chi Id who could be helped by her kidney, liver, heart, eyes or lung. It is a compelling sentiment shared by some doctors and cihicisls, but others warn that al lowing the harvesting of Theresa’s organs would fundamentally change the distinction between life and death in the United States. “What the parents arc really asking for is: Kill this dying baby so that its organs may be used for someone else. Well, that’s really a horrendous proposition,” said John J. Paris, a bioethics professor at Boston College. Baby Theresa was bom March 21 with most of her skull missing and only a brain stem, the part of the body that controls reflexes such as breathing and heartbeat. Theresa is already considered dead by her 30-year-old parents. But a county judge said Thursday that be cause the baby’s brain stem was functioning, she could not be declared brain-dead and her vital organs could not be taken. Counseling helps cancer patients St. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Skin cancer patients in a short-term psychological program showed better coping and mood five years later, as well as an unexplained reduction in cancer recurrence, a researcher said Monday. Scientists arc now reviewing the data to seek an explanation for the reduced recurrence, said Dr. Faw/.y Fawzy. Perhaps participants simply had a better working relationship with their doctors, said Fawzy, a professor in the department of psy chiatry and biobchavioral sciences at the Uni versity of California, Los Angeles. Fawzy, who presented his research at the American Cancer Society’s annual science writers seminar, stressed the psychological program was done in addition to standard treat ment, rather than in place of it. The study also found evidence that the pro gram helped patients’ immune systems by some measures, but Fawzy cautioned that the signifi cance of that was not clear. Those changes were not seen after one year following the program. The study involved 66 people who had undergone surgery for the skin cancer mela noma. __ — NetfraSkan __^n. 472-17M General Manager Dan ShellII Managing Editor Kara Wells Production Manager Katherine PoMckv Diversjons Editor Dionne Seercey Pubkcations Board Chairman BUI Vobejda, 472-2SM Photo Chief Michelle Paulman Professional Adviser Don Walton. 473-7301 „ FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily N?braskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board. Nebraska Union 34.1400 R St . Lincoln. NE, Monday through Friday during the academic yew; weekly during summer sessions o V10 *KyX^ea8Jfrxl corTvn*ntt to the DaHyNebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between |JVobejda 472-2588** Fnday ”» P^ 3,80 h“8 access to the Pubkcations Board For information, contact Subscription price is $50 for one yew. Postmaster : Send address changes to tie Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska union 34,1400 R St Lincoln. 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