Pressure to cut defense budget grows in Washington
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger faces mounting pressure to deepen Pentagon cuts as White House discusses a 6 billion dollar reduction plan while preserving MX missile work. President Reagan signals defense budget restraint amid congressional resistance and a goal of 42 billion in cuts over four years.
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Caspar Weinberger
Pentagon
Weinberger
Reagan
White House
Larry Speakes
Treasury
Donald Regan
Congress
David A. Stuckman
Robert Sims
Dent
Wae
ED Bennettta
Regan
William A. Niskanen
Defense
Debates Grow Over Rationing Medical Care Costs
Boston experts split on whether to rein in the nation’s 400 billion annual medical bill by letting doctors withhold care. Stanford economist Victor Fuchs urges limits while Dr. Norman Levinsky argues physicians must prioritise individual patients. Thurow calls for standards to end costly but marginal benefits and for policy reform to align incentives with economical care.
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Stanford University
Victor R. Fuchs
New England Journal of Mediine
Fuchs
Norman G. Levinsky
Boston University Medical Center
Lester C. Thurow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thurow
Levinsky
Americans freed from hijacked plane depart Frankfurt for New York
Two U S citizens freed from a Tehran hijacking and treated in Frankfurt for injuries left for the United States aboard Pan American Flight 67 bound for New York. John Costa and Charles Kapar, aged 50 and 57, were released from a U S Army hospital and asked for no press conference. Costa said he felt very well and looked forward to going home.
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West Germany
Tehran
United States
U.S. Army Hospital
Wolfgang Schwarn
John Costa
Charles Kapar
New York
Washington
Pan American
Costa
Kapar
U.S. Agency For
U.S. Army
Thomas
Johnson
U.S
California man goes home 16 days after heart transplant in Houston
Vince Balsinger of Santa Ana California, 55, was released from St Luke's Episcopal Hospital 16 days after receiving a donor heart on November 25. He had diagnosed cardiomyopathy and moved to Houston on November 19. The transplant program at St Luke's began in 1982 under Drs Denton Cooley and C Howard Frazier.
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California
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
Vince Balsinger
Santa Anna
Calif
St. Luke’s
Balsinger
Orange County
Denton A. Cooley
C. Howard Frazier
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