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finals and Moulton In tile " Borew IIld. ~ playa \leU '--~ It's Rolng 10 ~ for sure." I ~ SUII. dime Q 1e79 Student Publlcetione Inc. Americans evacuated Carter health June 12, 1979 from plan attacked Nicaragua MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) - Silty· ooe Americans were flown out of by Kennedy Nicaragua Tuesday in what officials indicated was the first phase of a general WASffiNGTON (UPI) - President However, the Carter fonnula was evacuation as fighting raged in Managua Carter urged Congress Tuesday to grasp welcomed by some other Democrats, for a fourth day between national guard a "precious opportunity for progress" including chainnan Russell Long of the troops and Sandinlsta guelTlllas. toward a comprehensive national health Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. U.S. Marines anned with shotguns and plan by accepting hIs $2S billion first step James Connan of California, who will c0- wearing flak jackets and Nicaraguan program. sponsor the president's prODOSBlalthough combat troops escorted the Americans at The Carter flrst·phue plan would he has favored Kennedy's bl'08der ap­ dawn from the embassy residence to an guard against the costs of major illness, proach in the past. airfield northwest of Managua in a 13- ensure care for pregnant women and Kennedy, at a Capitol Hill news con· vehicle convoy. their infants, and refonn programs for ference, said Carter's $24 billion first Embassy officials said the Americans the poor, disabled and elderly. phase was not only too costly for the were "urged to leave" because of the "The American people have waited taxpayer but unfair to the poor and increasing danger in the capital. long enough," said the president. "The elderly. An einbassy source said a least 100 plan I am proposing today creates both "The bottom line on the president's other Americans were on evacuation Ilsts the framework and the momentum" for program is that we can't afford it," he for the near future and it was understood eventual comprehensive national health said. "It is too inflationary and too that several more evacuation flights will insurance, still at least a decade away in inequitable." be organized in the next few days. adrpinistratlon planning. Kennedy said Carter's proposal was Both Carter and HEW Secretary "well motivated" but unworkable IN WASHINGTON, the State Depart· Joseph Califano asserted the first ph~e because of inadequate cost controls, and 5% ment said additional U.S. mllitary air· plan - to take effect in 1983 - is the only "if I had to vote today, I'd have to vote craft are standing by in the Panama legislation Congress will accept now. 'no.'" Canal Zone to evacuate more Americans Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has "By faUing to set a national budget, by - should it become necessary. proposed a considerably more expensive inadequately controlling hospital costs, Off But State Department Spokesman plan to implement universal coverage in by failing to control doctors' fees in the Hodding Carter stressed there are no a single step. ' private sector, by creating two separate ' .....Inl'" plans to fly U.S. officials out of Indirectly refelTing to the Kennedy and unequal systems of care, the Nicaragua at this time. proposal, Carter said, "I urge the president's plan may well become the shlrtl Congress not to lose thIs precious op­ straw that breaks the back of the In HUGE PAW OF smoke still covered portunity for progress. The real needs of American health care system," Kennedy parts of the capital ' where Sandinistas our people are not served by waiting and said. stock and national guard troops continued hoping for a better tomolTow." fighting . Reporters touring the eastern PRESIDENT Carter's national WHITE HOUSE press secretary Jody sector along the road to Las Mercedes Price ' go~ging health care plan was denounced as "too Powell told reporters Kennedy's airport confinned that fire had razed the inflationary and too inequitable" statement is "riddled with errors and building of the major opposition newspa· Bo.ton ga ••tatlon owner Glenn F. Heller, who hal p .... charged TuelClay with ..Iling galOline In ellc... of the mall' Tuesday by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D­ mistakes." He said the senator's ob­ per La Prensa. .Iltently charged the highe.t gaa price. In the nation, wa. Imum price anowable. If convicted, Hener 'ace. a mallimum Mass., who is pushing a program of his servation on the "absence of cost con· penlHy of one ,ear In prison and a $10,000 fine. The evacuation group travelled at own. trois is the most absurd aspect." dawn through the deserted streets of Managua to the airfield belonging to President Anastasio Somoza. Once there they were put on board a U.S. Air Force Agent Orange .haunts Vietna,m veterans (',1:.1 Hercules transport airplane that was waiting with its four turboprop namese women exposed to the herbicide. OFFICIAUl SAY the main problem which was related to a case of chloracne, examination. Veterans who believe that engines running . ByTOM SEERY Staff Writer involved in detennining the effects of said the spokesman who asked not to be possible exposure has caused a disability Less than 20 minutes after alTiving at BUT OFFICIAUl of the Veterans Agent Orange is that health symptoms identified. are urged to file a disability claim with a the airport the Americans - mostly Administration have maintained that the may not become apparent until years Vietnam veteran Brad Meyers of Iowa VA regional office. wives and children of embassy personnel WhUe Americans flock to the cUITent only established effect of Agent Orange is after exposure to the herbicide. City says that he was exposed to Agent The regional office nearest Iowa City is and some businessmen - had taken off batch of Vietnam War films, veterans of chloracne, a skin rash which develops One theory that has been advanced by Orange and that it caused a temporary at 210 Walnut Street, Des Moines. Its toll· for what Nicaraguan military sources that war may be more interested in a shortly after exposure. scientists is that dioxin may accumulate numbness of the skin in his legs and free number is !KJO..362-2222. said was Howard Air Force Base in the study cUlTently being conducted by the The VA, in conjunction with the in human body fat, where it my hann· feet. "But proving that it was Agent No Agent Orange compensation claims Panama Canal Zone. U.S. Air Force. Department of Health, Education and lessly remain for years. But when the Orange is impossible," he admits. are denied by regional offices until they The villain in the Air Force saga is Welfare and the Environmental fat breaks down, the theory says, the have been defelTed to the central office As they drove through the countryside Agent Orange, a defoliant used ex· Protection Agency, has been researching dioxin may be released into the blood­ Meyers says that the VA has a "pre-set in Washington. with the headlights off, the American tensively in Vietnam from 1963 to 1971. the effects of Agent Orange for more than stream and the symptoms may oc­ bias" when it performs medical evacuees could see peasants til1lng the Agent Orange is a mixture of herbicides a year, but the study recently announced cur. The VA is cUlTently conducting a checkups on veterans filing Agent IN ADDITION, any Vietnam veteran green fields in an unrealistic atmosphere which contains from three to 50 parts per by the Air Force is the most ambitious study to try to come up with a clinical Orange disabillty claims. "If they find who is treated at a VA hospital for any rJ. peacefulness. The gunfire of the city million of dioxin, one of the most toxic project to date. procedure to determine the presence of that the symptoms are caused by Agent reason is asked whether he or she was echoed in the distance as the convoy I.eft man·made substances known . n will involve six years of testing and dioxin in human body fat. That study is Orange, it's going to cost the government exposed to Agent Orange. Twenty·three Managua. Since the end of the war, many observation of 1,200 veterans who were expected to be completed this summer. billions," Meyers says. "Almost veterans treated at the VA hospitsl in veterans have attributed several directly exposed to Agent Orange while everyone who went to Vietnam would Iowa City have reported exposure to THE LAST TIME Americans were maladies to Agent Orange exposure - handling the herbicide and flying A VA SPOKESMAN in Washington have to be tested." Agent Orange, but no disability claims evacuated from Managua was after the kidney and liver disorders, impotence spraying missions in the Air Force's said that the VA has received about 500 have resulted. 1972 earthquake that devastated the city and nervousness. "Operation Ranch Hand" in Vietnam. disability claims related to Agent Orange SO, HE SA YS, VA officials are inclined "The VA does not set up an adversary and killed at least 10,000 people. And Dr. Ton That Tung, a Vietnamese The study is designed to detennine "if exposure, with a large number of them to attribute symptoms to other causes. relationship with the vet," the VA The Americans had tried to leave physician, has visited the United States any causal relationship can be coming from the Chicago area, where a The VA has attempted to calm spokesman in Washington said. "There Monday through the regular airport but and told of his studies that report in· established between herbicide exposure documentary on the herbicide was veterans' protests by urging any veteran just has not been any evidence to tie beavy fighting broke out on the road to creased incidence of miscarriage and and long·tenn health status," according broadcast last year.

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