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'U'Health Service
closes down infirma
By THOMAS MILLER year-is not enough to justify the cost of
When the University Health Service running the unit, Briefer said.
Infirmary closed its doors for the sum- THE INFIRMARY was used to care for
mer last Saturday, it was for the last students who weren't sick enough to he
time. Few patients and the high cost of hospitalized. Most infirmary patients
maintaining the infirmary in recent had mononucleosis or sore throats,
years prompted Health Service of- Briefer said.
ficials to eliminate the service. Of the 94 people who were admitted to.
The closing won't have a big impact the infirmary this year, only 20 to 25
on students because so few have used really needed to stay there, Briefer
the infimary in the past, said Health said. "The infirmary provides large
Service Director Caesar Briefer. benefits for a small number of people.
BUT THOSE students who could for-- Briefer said that health service will
merly spend a free night in the infir- try to persuade all students to have
mary will have to pay for a hospital some form of health insurance to cover
bed. The closing was a necessary any possible medical bills.
financial move for the Health Service, .ToREPLACE the unit health service is a
Briefer said, because "it cost (the visiting nurse program to check on
University) more to hospitalize patients at their homes. "The visiting
someone in the infirmary than it does in nurse system will be a better service
University Hospital." than we had before. We will be able to
The small number of students who reach more people," Briefer said.
use the infirmary-only 94 students this See 'U', Page 22
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Shultz pushes withdrawal plan
JERUSALEM - Secretary of State George Shultz returned to Israel
yesterday with what Lebanon called its "final position" on Israeli troop
withdrawals. Israel said it would convene an emergency cabinet session to
decide whether to accept.
Shultz told reporters on arriving in Israel after a third round of talks in
Beirut that he was "prepared to go all night if necessary," to reach
agreement on the withdrawal of some 30,000 Israeli soldiers from Lebanon.
The Syrians, who have some 40,000 troops in Lebanon, and the
Palestinians, with an estimated 10,000, have said they will remain in
Lebanon until Israel withdraws.
Isreali Prime Minister Menachem Begin said after meeting with Shultz
that he would call his cabinet into emergency session to decide whether to
endorse the American-mediated accord.
Dioxin-Cancer link questioned
MIDLAND - An "excessive" rate of a relatively rare cancer among
Midland County women is cause for concern, but cannot yet be linked to
dioxin at the nearby Dow Chemical co., Michigan health officials said yesterday.
"We do not believe that excessive rate can be easily explained away," said
Lee Jager, an expert in environmental health and toxic materials for the
health department.
"When we look at the probability of that happening in two decades, the
likelihood is there is a connective link between these cases."
State health officials also reported that there review of cancer and birth
defect records for the county of 73,000 failed to turn up any other unusual
levels of health problems. The county's overall cancer rate was below the
state average
Senate rejets budget proposals
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday voted down proposals by Sen. Er-
nest Hollings (D-S.C.) to freeze almost all domestic and military spending
and by conservative Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to balance the budget by
1989.
The votes came as Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.)
worked quietly trying to gather enough support for passage of a Republican
budget plan for fiscal 1984, which begins Oct. 1. President Reagan endorsed
the general outline of the plan yesterday.
The vote against the Hollings plan was 82-16; Hatch's proposal to balance
the budget by virtually freezing non-military spending was defeated75-23.
Hollings, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, argued
that a drastic spending freeze and raising $30 billion in new taxes next year
by eliminating the tax cut is needed to reduce skyrocketing deficits ap-
proaching $200 billiona year.
Hatch's plan would have balanced the budget by 1989 byvirtually freezing
non-military spending and setting about 7 percent annual increases in defen-
se spending but not raising taxes.
EPA nominee promises change
WASHINGTON - William Ruckelshaus promised a Senate committee
yesterday he will make sweeping changes in the way the Environmental
Protection Agency operates.
"There will be no hits lists ... no sweetheart deals," he said.
Ruckelshaus, President Reagan's nominee to be EPA administrator,
testified to a confirmation hearing held by the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee. He will make a return appearance tomorrow.
His repeated assurances that the troubled agency will be run with ironclad
integrity butressed the likelihood the committee will unanimously recom-
mend his confirmation.
Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-N.Y.) predicted the full Senate will confirm
Ruckelshaus without dissent.
Reagan questions legitimacy
of Nicaraguan governments
WASHINGTON - President Reagan branded Nicaragua's leaders "a
government out of the barrel of a gun" yesterday and warned that a
congressional ban on covert aid to rebel groups would be "a very dangerous
precedent."
In an interview with a group of reporters, Reagan raised the stakes in his
campaign against Nicaragua by questioning the legitimacy of the
revolutionary government in Managua.
"What makes them any more a legitimate government than the people of
Nicaragua who are asking for a chance to vote for the kind of government
they want?" the president asked.
At the same time, he pledged to work against a restriction on CIA aid to in-
surgents in Nicaragua, approved yesterday by the House Intelligence Com-
mittee, which hopes of stopping it in the Senate if not the House.
With a key element of his Central America strategy at stake, Reagan war-
ned Congress would be "very irresponsible" to ban aid for covert operations
against Nicaragua, which he described as a base for violence and terrorism.