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Testimony heard on health costs WASHINGTON (UP)) - A widow with Audubon Park,'N.J. KeMedy said he said he recently paid "After a year, I would either have to serious digestive problems told Congress A number of canadians summoned by $1,600 for a new false leg for his son put him back In the hospital, or go on Monday that doctor· and hospital bills KeMedy's subcommittee praised their Teddy, who lost a leg to cancer, and "I welfare," said Wall. "The doctors say he have left her with little but "a shoe box country's national health Insurance am fortunate to have the financial can probably come off of. the respirator full of. duns and harassments" con­ program, saying their major medical security to be able to afford It." within four years. Meanwhile, I don't cerning her debts. bills are paid by tax dollars and em- In his testimony, Wall saId his son was want to InstitutioqaUze him." Inc. "It's a harsh existence for a proud woman," said Elizabeth Wolf, 69, of Wolfe told the panel she is a financial Cincinnati. "I think It's a sad com­ consultant but is simply overwhelmed by mentary that, after my husband and I 'It's a harsh existence for a proud woman. I medical expenses. saved our money, I am now sentenced to "I had estimated that I would have live in extreme poverty." think it's a sad commentary that, atter my hus­ income of $750 a month on Investm~ts In It was part of a litany of medical cost band and I saved our money, I am now senten­ addition to my earning capacity," she woes cited by a half dozen American said. "Now, I am fortunate If I can familles as Sen. Edward KeMedy's ced to live in extreme poverty.' maintain a $30 balance in my senJor health subcommittee opened hearings on citizen's checking account." his national health Insurance proposal. 4 A young father testified 80me form of The subcommittee today will hear national health insurance would allow ployer-supported private'lnsurance. born with his heart outside the body and AFlrCIO President George Meany and him to bring his 3-year-old son home "No one in Canada has to bear the must spend a great deal of time on a American Medical Association official from the hospital, where treatment for a mental strain and fear of massive respirator. He said private insurance has James Sammons. The heari~8 'are rare heart disorder has cost $600,000. medical expenses," commented Ken­ paid $600,000 In hospital bills for three merely preliminary, since there is no Such a move would save $150,000 a year nedy. "We must do something in the years but such Insurance would pay the chance of. any legislative action on heaith in medical bills and bring his famlly UnJted States to relieve the burden and Kennedy By United Press International $50,000 aMual cost of home care for only insurance In the waning days of this together, said Christopher Wall, 26, of. worry abOut rising medical ~08ts." one year. Congress. The October 10, 1978 Vol. 111 No. 69 © 1978 Student Publications, Inc. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper 10 cents ,T Parietal rule forum scheduled By TERRY IRWIN public since they (the regents) now have Staff Writer a document before them." A site for the forum has not yet been A student-government-sponsored secured. forum on the UI parietal rule has been Hubbard and Brodbeck will present the scheduled for Oct. 16 despite a recom­ administration's views on the parietal mendation by UI administrators that the rule at the forum; Student Senate forum not take place before the Oct. 18 President Donn Stanley, Collegiate state Board of Regents meeting. Associations Council President Niel VI administrators had suggested that Ritchie and Associated Residence Halls the forum, proposed by the VI Student acting President Steve Sabin are ten­ Senate Housing Committee, take place tatively scheduled to present views the following week. Phili» Hubbard, vice shared by student government members. president for student services, said MCAndrew said, "1 think they (U1 Monday that becauSe the parietal rule admillistrators) are seriously worried question has been formally submitted to about how we are doing this the regents, the UI believes that it would procedurally. They want to make sure not be "proper" to discuss the matter that we don't get the regents angry." without giving the board a chance to Stanley told the committee that the consider the Issue. forum could be an important in­ "We just gave them (the senate) some formational device for students. "We've advice, and they turned It down," he been very open In advancing our copy of said. the report, and so if it (the forum) lets us StUdent government leaders have know their justification (for the rule), submitted a report on the parietal rule to then it's all the better to get as much the regents and to the UI administration, Information as possible," he said. and they will attend the Oct. 18 meeting to urge the regents to eliminate the rule, which requires nearly all unmarried freshmen and sophomores to live in the dorms. The housing committee Monday voted unanimously not to change the date of the forum. Chairman Paul McAndrew sai~ Iowa's showplace the committee had approached members of the administration .hoping that the Cold ...Iher, mid-Iarllla end long hou ... wera no dlKouragemenl 10 th_ lIltla FMt drecl peopIa had gathered lor an Mrly crack at the tlck.t. that w.nt on ...1. Monday at 11 forum might be scheduled before Oct. 13, lana. Till crowd ,tarted forming Saturda, around 5 p.m. At mklnlght Sunday .."eral hun- a.m. The Oct. 18 conc.rt .11 IOId out Monday att,moon. • but the Oct. 16 date was later agreed upon. The administration apparently agreed to the forum date, thinking that the Cardinals order Pope's death clarified student government leaders would not submit their report In time to have it VATICAN CITY (UPI) - Roman The cardinals were particularly angry, to comment on the reports at this time. Italian newspapers, the Vatican decided placed on the regents' docket. Catholic cardinals, upset over Stampa Sera said, about the very brief Father Jim Roach of. Chicago, the not Wconduct an autopsy on the pontiff's "We didn't realize that they would get burgeoning rumors of foul play, repor­ official announcement the Curia released Vatican's English language briefer, said body. The Vatican said such post­ the formal request in before the Oct. 6 tedly ordered the Vatican Monday to after the death and over the fact no he had been told the story "is without mortems were not contemplated by date," Hubbard said, adding that the publicly clarify the clrcwnstances sur­ medical certificate was obtained pin­ foundation. " Church law . administration prefers to submit Its rounding the sudden death of Pope John pointing the exact cause of death. Several cardinals have privately Asearch of Vatican archives, however, . reports and findings and then allow the Paull. Stampa Sera said the Curia had been criticized the Curia for allowing shows that an autopsy was performed on regents to consider the Issue. Like the Shoshone With the conclave to choose a new pope ordered to rectify the situation and an· suspiclolll over John Paul's death to at least one pontiff, Plus VIII, who met He said the regents might wonder .why lilly five cloys away, the moderate turin swer all "questions aroused In public reach such a peak. an untimely death In 1830. information-gathering, such as the making smoke signals daily Stampa Sera said the cardinals opinion" before the start of the conciave Pope John Paul died of. an apparent Some Italians have expressed forum, continues after a report is sub­ were deeply displeased with the way the of cardinals begins Saturday to elect the heart attack alone in his bedroom Sept. suspicions that John Paul was "done in" mitted. Vatican's secretive bureaucracy, the next pontiff. 28 - after only 34 days on the papal by CUria officials who feared his warm, May Brodbeck, vice president for at the Sioux Curia, had handled John Paul's sudden Father Romeo Panclroli, the official throne. informal style threatened the loftiness of acad~mlc affairs, said, "It's just a death. Vatican spokesman, said he was unable Despite the urging of most major the Vatican. matter of preferring not to discuss this In Page 4 details were available. With a large baMer headline saying Children during last month's civil war. people were killed and 20 wounded In the peace conference this week. Briefly RIOtin~ erupted Monday again in "the mediation Is advanCing," the opo "Bowdler called me later in the day to firing, centered on two bridges linking ~' We're really going this time not just Amol, 11 miles northeast of Tehran, as position newspaper La Pren,a appeared reassure me that the president had East Beirut with northern Lebanon. to blah blah," Israeli Defense Minister tens of thousands of people marched in Monday for the first time since It stopped removed the ban. We are sure happy to Witnesses said most of the sniping came Ezer Welzman told reporters at Ben Iranian civilian the streets to accompany the burial publication Sept. 13 w~n the govern- be back in circulation," said Chamorro, from the Syrians, but It appeared both Gurlon AIrport. "We're going to sit down procession for All AzimI, shot dead In ment clamped on a news ban. One week brother of slain opposition publisher sides were firing.

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