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Lawmakers attack federally funded research
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Dr. Stanton A.
Glantz's friends tell him he should be
flattered: Not every researcher has his
work singled out for extinction by Con-
gress.
But Glantz, a professor in the cardi-
ology department of the University of
California, San Francisco, is not flat-
tered. He is not even mildly amused.
If House lawmakers succeed, Glantz
- who has been studying how the
tobacco industry fights cigarette regu-
lation - will lose what remains of a
three-year, $600,000 grant awarded
by the federal government's National
Cancer Institute. Meanwhile, he said,
"the work has ground to a halt be-
cause I'm running around trying to
save it."
The spending measure that carries
the Glantz provision would also ban
federally funded embryo research. Al-
though an unsuccessful attempt was
made within the House Appropriations
Committee to change that provision,
the full House ultimately approved it
without a whimper of protest.
Political involvement in the scientific
research process is nothing new, nor has
it always been partisan in origin.
The past two Republican presidents
maintained a ban on federally funded
research using fetal tissue. President
Clinton hasprohibited federal funds for
one narrow aspect of embryo studies,
the creation of human embryos solely
for research purposes. And Rep. John
D. Dingell (D-Mich.) rattled the bio-
medical research community by initiat-
ing a series of scientific fraud-and-abuse
probes when he chaired the Energy and
Commerce subcommittee on oversight
and investigations.
But friction between politicians and
researchers seems to have accelerated
with the Republican takeover of Con-
gress. Lawmakers are taking aim at
whatever individual projects raise their
ire-and with little resistance from the
traditional defenders of research free-
doms.
"We're fighting on so many fronts,"
said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Ca-
lif.), the former chairman of a subcom-
mittee that dealt with health issues.
"We have to pick our fights.
"We have to give these (research)
issues - as important as they are - a
lower priority."
The situation has placed the National
Institutes of Health in a particularly
awkward position.
Unlike most domestic government
agencies, the NIH - which funds most
of the nation's biomedical research -
has so far escaped the House budget
slashers, and even won a modest in-
crease. But in these austere times, when
other agencies are fighting for their
lives, a modest increase amounts to a
significant triumph.
"We are enormously appreciative of
the support we have from Congress...
(although) we do have concerns about
specific directions from Congress, about
specific areas of science that are put out
of our reach, as well as concerns about
Congress earmarking certain projects,"
said NIH spokeswoman Anne Thomas.
"But the most important thing at this
juncture is to get an NIH budget for
fiscal '96 soon."
Paradoxically, the NIH and its sup-
porters must swallow their protests
when the very same lawmakers who
champion the NIHbudgettakepotshots
at individual projects.
"We don't like all the garbage that
goes with it, but we'll accept the gar-
bage to have the budget increase," said
an NIH source who requested ano-
nymity.
Rep. John Porter (R-1ll.), for ex-
ample, chairman of the House Appro-
priations subcommittee with jurisdic-
tion over the NI H budget, is one of the
institutes' most vocal supporters. Yet
he is also the one who targeted
Glantz's grant.
Penry criticizes Russia's Bosnia role
WASHINGTON - Russia's unwillingness to serve under
NATO command in Bosnia is a "major hangup" to plans for
the proposed peacekeeping mission there, Defense Secretary
William Perry said yesterday.
The United States and its NATO allies want Russian partici-
pation in any effort to help enforce a peace agreement in
Bosnia, but not as an independent military force, Perry said on
NBC's "Meet the Press."
"There is a major hangup. I don't want to minimize this at
all," he said.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin said in a speech to the
United Nations in New York yesterday that it was "inadmis- Yeltsin
sible" for NATO to supersede the U.N. in deciding the
international response in Bosnia. Russia was ready to provide troops to help
enforce a peace agreement, he said, "but only under a strict mandate of the U.N.
Security Council.",.
Yeltsin, who will discuss the issue with President Clinton when they meet in
Hyde Park, N.Y., today, earlier expressed optimism that Russia and NATO coukd
coordinate their missions.
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In the past week, both the Senate
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GOP attacks Great
Society programs
WASHINGTON - Rep. John
Dingell (D-Mich.), dean of House
Democrats, was once a powerful and
feared committee chairman who helped
foster the explosive growth of Medi-
care and Medicaid when the Democrats
controlled Congress.
Last week, as the House debated slic-
ing $270 billion from Medicare spend-
ing, he was reduced to holding aloft the
gavel he used when he presided over
the House as it passed Medicare 30
years ago. This time, the 40-year vet-
eran of Congress was powerless to stop
the Republican drive to radically re-
shape the program that may best sym-
bolize the heyday of Great Society lib-
eralism.
But Medicare was just the beginning.
This week, both the House and Senate
will debate - and likely pass - mas-
sive bills to balance the budget that will
affect just about every federal program
except Social Security. The scope and
ambition of both bills are unprec-
edented, and the impact on the nation
Officials accuse
Serbs of atrocities
against Muslims
ZAGREB, Croatia - The Bosnian
cease-fire has finally quieted guns in
the most combative parts of the coun-
try, U.N. officials said yesterday. But
the humanitarian end of the agreement
remains unfulfilled amid reports of ex-
ecutions, atrocities and continued re-
strictions on the movement of civilians.
U.S. and U.N. officials have accused
the Bosnian Serbs of systematic, "hor-
rendous" abuses against Muslims -
including possiblesummary executions
- that may have been going on as
recently as last week.
The cease-fire agreement signed by
the Serbs and the Muslim-led but secu-
lar Bosnian government, which went
into effect Oct. 12, is intended to lay the
groundwork for a comprehensive peace
agreement that the warring parties will
negotiate in U.S.-sponsored talks be-
ginning next week in Ohio.
In addition to the military side of the
truce, there are provisions for the hu-
mane treatment ofcivilians and the "free
passage and unimpeded access" of all
non-military traffic on roads between
the besieged Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
and the country's last eastern enclave,
Gorazde, as well as "freedom of move-
incalculable.
The Senate bill will include its ver-
sion of Medicare overhaul. Both bills,
would change everything from, farm
programs to student loans, from wel-
fare to taxes, from health care for the
poor to health care for the wealthy.
Maxene Andrews of
singing trio dies
HYANNIS, Mass. - Maxene
Andrews, one third of the Andrew Sis-
ters trio that sang "Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy" and a string of other swing
hits, has died. She was 79.
Andrews, of Auburn, Calif., died at
Cape Cod Hospital at 4:20 a.m. Satura
day after suffering a heart attack while
vacationing on Cape Cod.
Andrews and her sisters, Patty and
Laverne, were one of the most sucdess-
ful women's singing groups, with 19
gold records and sales of nearly 100
million copies.
In addition to "Boogie Woogie"Bugle
Boy," their best-known songs included
"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" and
"Rum and Coca Cola."
ment" for "all persons." These provi-
sions have been largely ignored, accord-
ing to diplomats and U.N. officials.
"There have been many agreements
and many accords, and the humanitar-
ian side is always the weakest and least
observed," said Kris Janowski, an offi-
cial with the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees.
Madrid trafic halted
as sheep travel south
MADRID, Spain - Madrid's cha-
otic traffic was halted briefly yesterday
to allow thousands of bleating sheep to
pass through town on their way from
northern to southern Spain.
The parade was part of the secsend
annual demonstration by sheep farmers
and ecologists hoping to save the an-
cient herding paths, or Royal Tracks,
that criss-cross Spain.
The Royal Tracks were established by
King Alfonso VIII in 1158. In recent
decades, however, they have been se-
verelydamagedby construction projects.
In yesterday's march, about -2,500
sheep were herded down Madrid' scen-
tral Alcala Street-which once forhed
part of one of the routes - as.they
continued their 450-mile journey from
the Picos de Europa mountain range in
the north to southwestern Extremadura.
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