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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 02, 1985

Page

3

Medicare cuts OK'd and eye exams funded by House panel

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved 150 million in additional Medicare and Medicaid cuts over three years while expanding payments for elderly eye exams and prenatal care for poor women. Negotiators agreed to a 968 billion 1986 budget plan. changes await after the August recess. In Indianapolis three workers died when gasoline spilled into Fishback Creek ignited by a flash fire. 16 homes were evacuated and a two inch gasoline layer covered the creek for about a quarter mile.

Washington House House Energy and Commerce Committee Senate

Workforce steady as unemployment holds at 7.3 percent

Washington AP reports civilian unemployment remained at 7.3 percent in July for the sixth straight month while the economy added 245,000 jobs. Employment rose 492,000 to 106.8 million with teen job seekers driving labor-force growth. Layoffs rose by 200,000 signaling potential trouble if the trend continues amid slow manufacturing gains.

Washington Department

White House Keeps Silence On Reagan Nose Bump

The White House offered little detail on a small bump removed from President Reagan’s nose by a dermatologist. Press secretary Speakes declined to identify the lesion, say if it was cancer or biopsied, while Dr. Smith called it a “little pimple type of thing” and said it was not malignant.

Washington Reagan White House Larry Speakes T. Burton Smith Smith

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