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U.S. votes against
WHOforrmul baan
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World
Health Organization voted 95-1 today to
endorse a code of conduct framed to
restrict marketing of baby formula and
to encourage infant health by breast-
feeding. The United States, as expec-
ted, voted against the code, and nine
members abstained.
The non-binding eight-page code
urges a global ban on promotion and
advertising of baby formula, on
distribution of free product samples,
and on gifts for promoting the use of
formula as a substitute for breast milk.
PROPONENTS OF the 'approved
marketing code say manufacturers'
high-powered sales tactics discourage
breaat-feeding - universally regarded
aa the healthiest infant nouriahment.
They say formula is dangerously
misused in the Third World where it is
mixed with polluted water under poor
health conditions.
The Reagan administration, which
said it endorses efforts to promote
breast-feeding, took its controversial
stand on grounds the United Nations
organization should not be in the
business of issuing international
regulations.
The U.S. ambassador to U.N.
organizations in Geneva, Gerald
Helman, said American opposition was
based on the code's "overall effect of
prescribing a rigid set of rules ap-
plicable to companies, health workers
and health care systems in all parts of
the world."
HE SAID THE code also "contains
provisions that will cause serious legal
and constitutional problems for the
United States itself."
UNICEF, which worked with WHO in
framing the code, has said "it is likely
that at least one million children in the
developing world die each year from
inadequate artificial feeding."
Senator Edward Kennedy (D-
Mass.), opened a day-long public forum
on Capitol Hill with an attack on the
Reagan administration for ignoring the
"human tragedy" that prompted the
WHO to propose the formula
regulation.
Milliken order -may
free risoners
(Continued from Pagel) The governor then has 15 days after
ministrative steps have "failed to the commission's overcrowding cer-
reduce the prisons to the designed tification to issue a sentence-cutting or-
capacity," and urged he invoke the new der.
law..
5 THE MICHIGAN Supreme Court last
week upheld the law as constitutional.
It calls for the minimum sentences of
nearly all inmates to be reduced by 90 - g..
days when the prison population is overt
capacity for 30 days. -
Under tie law, all prisoners within 90"
days of the end of their original senten- iE ai1t
ces would immediately be eligible for
release through the normal parole is preserved on
process. -OS.
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In Brief.
Compiledfrom Associated Press and
United Press International reports
House overwhelmingly
approves Reagan budget
WASHINGTON - The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday for
President Reagan's slightly reworked budget blueprint approved last week
by House-Senate conferees.
On a 244-155 vote, the House endorsed the plan for $695.4 billion in spen-
ding with a $37.6 billion deficit in fiscal192, which begins Oct. 1.
The House acted qoickly, taking about 30 minutes for discussion of the
measure which sets targets for congressional committees to follow as they
make their spending-decisions.
In addition, the package accommodates the three-year, 30 percent
reduction in personal income tax rates that Reagan has called for.
In a related development, a proposed constitutional amendment
requiring a balanced federal budget, advocated as an anti-inflation tool but
opposed by the president, has passed its first major congressional test.
Pope improves; will resume
travels as soon as possible
ROME - Pope John Paul II was up and walking around his hospital
room yesterday a week after he was shot and wounded, and a Vatican
diplomat said the pontiff would resume his international travels as soon as
possible.
Doctors said half of the 26 stitches used to sew up the pope's abdomen af-.
ter emergency surgery had been removed and that John Paul had eaten his
first solid food since being shot - a bowl of minestroni soup and a piece of
cooked fruit.
Dr. Luigi Candia, director of Rome's Gemelli Policlinico Hospital where
the pope is being treated, said he hoped that by Thursday the doctors could
lift the "guarded prognosis" with which they have characterized their
assessment of the pontiff's condition so far.
Meanwhile, police sources said Mehmet Ali Agca would probably be
moved from Rome police headquarters to a military jail in the next few days
because inmates of the capital's two main civilian jails have threatened to
kill him if he is sent among them.
McCreesh dies as
violence continues.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland-IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh
died at the Maze Prison near Belfast last night in the 61st day of a hunger
strike for political prisoner status. He was the third hunger striker to die at
the prison in just over two weeks.
Earlier yesterday, British troops shot two suspected car thieves as
security was stepped up for local elections expected to show tle extent of
support for Catholic and Protestant militants.
Troops and police guarding polling stations became targets for stone-
throwing youths in mainly Catholic West Belfast where new outbursts of
mob violence were anticipated with the impending death of a fourth IRA
hunger striker.
PatrickO'Hara suffered "cardiac arrest": yesterday in the 60th day of
his fast and his family was summoned to his bedside, IRA officials said.
AFL-CIO president rejects
Reagan's tax-cut plan
WASHINGTON - AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, demanding
great'er tax relief for lower- and middle-income Americans, said yesterday
that President Reagan's tax-cut plan would encourage luxury-buying and
speculation that would drive up the price of necessities.
Testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Kirkland rejected the
economic theory on which Reagan's three-year tax plan is based. He urged a
one-year tax cut with additional reductions to follow after the course of the
economy becomes clear.
The plan supported by the AFL-CIO would refund to taxpayers 20 per-
cent of their Social Security payments during the year even if they paid no
income tax, with equivalent reductions to those not covered by Social
Security.
Bomb explodes in California;
none hurt in office blast
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A bomb apparently planted in a trash can ex-
ploded at a downtown office building, tearing through a rear wall, and police
said yesterday they were seeking a man who fled the building shortly before
the blast.
No one was injured Tuesday night when the bomb rocked the two-story
building across the street from the Sacramento County Courthouse.
Earlier in the day, the courthouse was evacuated after an anonymous
bomb threat. Police found a fake bomb containing two live shotgun shells but
no detonator.
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