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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
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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.
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