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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle Wednesday, May 3, 1995 Foster from page S Run for the health of it! 1 chair with a pledge to "set the record straight" He conceded earlier understating the number of abortions he performed in four decades as an obstetrician, but said it was an "honest mistake" made without a complete review ' of the records. "There was never any intent to deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." With all seven Democrats on the FWIyOUCPKUPARFNDiNC RmUEnAPPUCAI10NIMRO0Ail4SOLPIH UkOOaiHEAPnXUOIOHrimESREVIEWED AKDAPPROVDD By PUUJKATKW COUNCIL AMDOR A AJfECOAiMrTTEE. Saturday, May 6 Race begins at 9 a.m. . $10 ($12 day of race) though. (includes registration fee and a In a nomination caught up in presidential politics, Sen. Phil Gramm has threatened a filibuster, and Majority Leader Bob Dole a rival for the GOP nomination for the White House has said he might keep the nomination off the floor altogether, citing questions about Foster's credibility rather than - MONIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR STUDENT The 1995 University Hospital 5K Classic RunLeisure Walk Labor and Human Resources Committee expected to support the nomination, Clinton administration officials pinned their hope for approval on three uncommitted. Republicans, including the chairwoman, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas. That would former medonly move the ical school dean over the first hurdle, Pre-regist- er - long-sleev- ed rt) THI DEADLINE FOB APPLICATION If MONDAY, MAY 8TH AT 9tOO A.M. at the Cashier's Office in University Hospital's Lobby. For more information or an entry form, call581-738- LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL MOT BE ACCEPTED. 7. abortion. Win or lose, some Democrats believe they will benefit politically if the Senate can be Republican-controlle- d depicted as rejecting a nominee for performing abortions only sparingly, and always legally. Easter strode into the committee room accompanied by his wife, St Clair, and White House aides working to salvage his nomination. The audi- ence included several members of the "I Have a Future" program he founded in Nashville, Term., to reduce teen pregnancy. Outside in the rain, about a n demonstrators cardozen ried signs objecting to the nomination. University of Utah Department of Modern Dance i. -- ! 1 anti-abortio- Kassebaum and Sen. r Edward Kennedy, senior Democrat, stepped off the dais to greet him, and Foster bowed ' lightly as he . shook' . hands with Kassebaum, a supporter of abortion rights. Foster, she said later after gaveling the hearing to order, "has been made a pawn in our abortion debates. I believe he deserves to be judged on his whole record, his life experience and his current views." later For his part, Kennedy, held up a framed copy of a letter President Bush had sent Foster bestowing a "Point of Light" citation on the Performing Dance Company Ford Evans, Artistic Director program. Foster choked back tears as he recalled how his Grandma Hattie had worked as a domestic in Arkansas to make sure her two children would Australian Tour Bori jVoyage Concert attend college. Under prodding from Kennedy, he recalled conditions in the Tuskegee, Ala., area where he practiced as a young obstetrician. "I have worked 40 hours straight and got not one wink of sleep," he said. Busy doctors in some locations might deliver 250 babies a May 5, 6, 12,13, 1995 ? Coreographers: Ford Evans, Abby Fiat, Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Rob Scoggins, and Lynne Wimmer year, he added, but he was responsible for the delivery of many times more in rural Alabama. service that I ran in Tuskegee we delivered 2,300 babies a year, and I'was the only obstetrician," he said. Records were a problem, so he began using carbon paper, and handing the patient a copy to give to the hospital when she arrived. Transportation until he perwas a problem, as well suaded the local funeral homes to lend their hearses to women needing rides to The - Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance $7 General Admission $4 Students, Senior Citizens, and UofU FacultyStaff Present your U student ID. in the ASUU office, 234 Union, and recieve two free tickets to the May 5th performance at 7:30pm - the hospital. "Their patients could wait," he said to laughter. As surgeon general, he said, "I will on the full range of health challenges facing this nation," including AIDS, heart disease, mental health, agine and other concerns. BY DAVID ESPO focus Associated Press C3IC3CEC3 For Ticket information call 581 DANS 3267 -- Sponsored by ASUU |