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Show 3 AX nBHMIMUH'.WI'l! .SnESSEEE6BKEXSBIK! National Tuesday, September 25, !))() The Daily Herald, I'rovo, Utah Panel calls for universal health ensure nee system Briefs - WASHINGTON Bush urges Senate to OK unity treaty - PresiWASHINGTON (AP) dent Bush today asked the Senate to swiftly approve an historic treaty ending the division of Germany and relinquishing all rights and responsibilities of the four victorious powers from World War II. Bush called the accord "the culmination of more than four decades of Western resolve and deter- mination, from the darkest hours of the Cold War to the bright new horizons that stretch before us." At a ceremony in the Rose Garden, Bush signed a letter formally transmitting the treaty to the Senate. Secretary of State James A. Hakor III and West German Ambassador Juergen Ruhfus witnessed the signing. The treaty was signed in Moscow on Sept. 12 by the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France after six months of negotiations. The four powers will formally retain their rights over Germany until they all have ratified the treaty. However, the four countries agreed to "suspend" their rights Oct. 1, two days before Germany becomes unified through the merging of East and West Germany. A bi(AP) partisan commission today called for creation of a $70 billion, public-privauniversal health insurance system, but aides saw little likelihood that legislation to implement it will soon reach Congress. The panel, known as the Pepper Commission in honor of its late chairman, provided supporting details and possible options for tax increases to pay for its plans as it released the final report of its two-yestudy. "The gap is widening between the majority of Americans who can take advantage of the best medical services in the world, and the rest, te ar hard to get even basic needed care," the report said. "The president and the Congress now have a choice," said Sen. Jay who find it the commisRockefeller, sion chairman, who replaced Rep. Claude Pepper, upon his death. Pepper was a longtime champion of the elderly. "We can continue to duck our heads and hope this issue won't bring the nation to its knees; or we can use the commission recommendations as the rallying point for a., D-Fl- building the political consensus that can make universal health and care coverage a reality," long-ter- m Rockefeller said. But one dissenter on the panel said the proposal was so costly as to be unrealistic. Commission staff members who briefed reporters on the report in advance acknowledged there was little likelihood Congress would tackle the full recommendations this year. Edward F. Howard, commission general counsel, said bills to implement the findings have not been drafted and would at earliest be ready for this Congress if it holds a n special session, and likely not until January. The U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care was post-electio- . .. W: v, f H '.oi ... t I MM - f.. Uf M is fe . mr Sr mm mm Autono makers are showing little or gain in fuel economy for the fifth 1991 model cars having on average as much thirst at the gas pumps as they did in 'J87, the government reported today. The Environmental Protection Agency released the new fuel economy figures as the Senate considered legislation that would require sharp improvements in automobile fuel efficiency over the next dec- straight year, with ft .Si..-- AP Laserpboto A suspect is seen inside a McDonald's restaurant early today shortly before deputies nabbed him. ide. According to the EPA's annual economy statistics covering about 1,000 cars, the 1991 models both domestics and imports show ;nn overall average of 28.1 miles per gallon, slightly better than last ear and identical to the fleet fuel average in 1987. While the most miserly cars such as the minicompact Geo Metro attain more than 50 mpg, more than half of the cars on the list achieved no better than 22 mpg. The increasingly popular passenger vans and specialty vehicles could on average do no better than the high teens. Flans for aiding refugees outlined - WASHINGTON World (AP) Bank President Barber Conable outlined today emergency plans to help resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Iraq and Kuwait. "Superpower rivalry has dissipated, but the gulf crisis poses an obvious threat to world peace," Conable said in opening the first public session of the annual meetings of the bank and the International Monetary Fund. Top finance officials from 152 member nations and, for the first time, an invited delegation from the Soviet Union, are attending the meetings. Soviet representative-swer- e not in earlier closed-doo- r, policy-makin- g sessions, but sat toward the back of the hall in the plenary session today. Soviet officials have said informally they want to join all major international lending institutions, but the United States has always opposed Soviet membership in the World Bank or the IMF. Owing votes say they favor Souter - All three WASHINGTON (AP) swing votes on the Senate Judi- ciary Committee say they favor - SherLA VERNE, Calif. (AP) iff's deputies lobbed "flash-bang- " grenades into a McDonald's to divert a gunman and stormed the restaurant early today, rescuing the last of 20 people held hostage up to seven hours, authorities said. None of the hostages was injured, authorities said. The suspect was taken into custody. The Los Angeles County sheriff's SWAT team, which never made contact with the gunman, got help from an assistant manager of the restaurant who hid in the kitchen. Ramiro Gironas spied on the gunman, reporting his movements by telephone throughout the standoff, authorities said. "All I know was to take care of my people, my crew," Gironas said. "I'm glad I'm safe and that com-mittee- most moderate Repu lican, Sen. Arlen Specter, ail came out against President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert Bork, who went on to defeat. Now all three are supporting Souter. Specter announced his support last week. In voicing his approval on Monday. Heflin said he saw in Souter an "endearing quality of being willing to listen, to be fair and R-P- impartial." He made clear Souter left a far different impression than that made by Bork, who was seen by imny as too dogmatically conservative. "Judge Souter will not bring a scorched-eart- h philosophy to the court, but he will bring a sense of historic perspective and a clearheaded approach to the analysis of legal issues," said Heflin. all my people are safe. I'm not a hero. I just did what I had to." Some hostages, including a girl and an woman, had been forced to lie on the floor under tables at the after-schohangout, authorities said. Several children were among the hostages, La Verne police Lt. Jim Crawford said. The gunman had fled to the McDonald's from a holdup at a nearby clothing store and took the hostages about 5:30 p.m. Monday. A second participant in the earlier robbery was arrested outside the McDonald's as the standoff began, authorities said. Six hours later, SWAT officers rescued 12 hostages from the restaurant basement, authorities said. Shortly after midnight, they said, ol "flash-bang- " grenades intended to disorient with a burst of light and noise were used to divert the gunman. Then, a deputy seized him and rescued the last eight hostages. "They were able to get inside without being detected," sheriff's Deputy Bill Wehner said. "A deputy leaped over the counter and took the suspect into custody." Some of the freed hostages and onlookers broke into applause as authorities took the suspect Douglas Girard, to a command post. The freed hostages were taken to nearby Lutheran says he won'i wn on Iran - WASHINGTON Presi(AP) dent Bush says he's "not going to yield one inch" to Saddam Hussein and won't be distracted by the Iraqi leader's efforts to link the Persian Gulf crisis with the conflict. Bush said he appreciates concerns of U.S. partners in the region over economic hardships, shortages and the continuing the official said, adding, "I think we're very satisfied with the role the Turks have played." The Turkish government put its economic cost at $4 billion or more annually, including millions of dollars in construction contracts. About 6,000 Turkish workers have lost jobs as a result of the pipeline closure, the government says. Bush encountered some sharp questioning on Monday after he finished prepared remarks to about 150 representatives of including one from a groups participant who told him that "as Moslems, we object to Saudi Arabia inviting the foreign troops to our land." "The objective is to see that naked aggression does not pay off, sir," Bush replied. Asked by another participant why he would not talk directly with Saddam, the president said the United States would not negotiate until Iraq pulled out of Kuwait, the former Kuwaiti leadership was restored and the safety of Americans was assured. "We're not going to yield one inch on those provisions," he said. Bush also said "I am not going to be distracted" by Saddam's suggestions that the atmosphere for a settlement would be improved if Israel withdrew from occupied territories. "We are going to resist his attempts to justify what he did based on other regional concerns. So I think these are merely, on his part, an effort to create additional pretexts so that he can stay in Kuwait," Bush said. the pipeline shutdown, an food Israeli-Palesti- conflict. But he told a group of business leaders at the White House on Monday there will be "no, no, no negotiation" with Iraq until it fully withdraws from Kuwait. Bush planned to meet today with one of his first allies in his effort to isolate Saddam, Turkish President Turgut Ozal. Turkey agreed soon after Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait to shut down a pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to Turkey even though the decision posed a big economic hardship. Bush planned to discuss his "burden-sharing" plan for paying the cost of the Persian Gulf operation later today in an address to the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. The gulf crisis also was expected to be on the agenda at Bush's meeting today with Portuguese Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. An administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Bush had no plan to offer any increase in direct U.S. assistance to Turkey. The United States is depending m other nations to help compensate Turkey for lost revenue from - WASHINGTON (AP) This is a quiz to see how you stack up against 1,139 other people who were surveyed about their survival skills as consumers. Question: Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien lease for an apartsign a one-yement at $400 a month but change their minds and never move in. Legally, they owe the landlord: $400, $800, $1,200 or $4,800? If you said $4,800, you are among the 52 percent who answered the question correctly. The discouraging thing about this, according to the Consumer Federation of America, is the 48 percent who didn't have the right answer. The Consumer Federation of America said Monday that it put this and 249 other questions to 1,139 people in shopping centers in seven states and found only 54 percent of its questions were answered correctly. Five tests were given, each with 50 questions. "Many consumers are not equipped to function competently in ar the marketplace," said Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the federation. The questions asked about defini tions, the most efficient way to buy goods and services, the use of household products and drugs and solving problems related to products. The test results send "a clear and acutely troubling message," said Michael Van Buskirk of TRW Foundation, which paid for the study conducted by the Educational Testing Service. "The test shows that those in the lower rungs of the economic ladder are further disadvantaged in their attempts to climb up because of their consumer skills," he said. "The public and private sectors have expended extraordinary resources in the name of consumer protection and education but those tests give those efforts a failing High School, - WASHINGTON Soviet (AP) military spending and arms production fell last year, and the Kremlin leadership is developing a military strategy with more emphasis on defending the homeland and less on "external adventurism," the Pentagon said today. The Defense Department's annual report on the Soviet military, entitled "Soviet Military Power 1990," described the Soviet Union as a nation so entangled in internal unrest that its military capabilities are hard to assess. "Much that was once certain about the Soviet military is now open to debate," Defense Secretary Tick Cheney wrote in the publication's introductory essay. "It is not clear how that debate will be resolved " Cheney said U.S. intelligence an- alysts believe Soviet military spending fell percent to 5 percent last year compared with 1989, and that it cut back on some arms output. The most pronounced cuts in 4 insurance. Consumers were more knowledgeable about drugs and housing rental. For instance, 87 percent knew the significance of a loan; 78 percent knew the relation of salt consumption to high blood pressure; 79 percent the relationship between use of antihistamines and drowsiness; and 76 percent knew the meaning of a full warranty. Brobeck said the less educated, the poor, the young and minorities all scored less than 50 percent on the test, even though a person could answer about 25 percent correctly just by guessing. Tank production, for example, was cut in half, to about 1,700 tanks in 1989. Smaller but significant cuts occurred in artillery and multiple rocket launcher output. The Soviets produced strategic, offensive missile or long-rangsystems in 1989 at about the same pace as the year before, the report said. Production of bombers, fightdeclined ers and fighter-bombeby an unspecified amount, while production of surface warships and submarines rose to 21 from 18 the year before. Cheney, in his essay, cautioned that despite some signs of a less threatening Soviet military stance, the nation still has its nuclear d , d CHRIS RADIO & AS 510 So. State 373-536- t 398 LOW liS .MH. COMMUNICATIONS We bring good things to life. Provo GENERAL ELECTRIC 8 1 100 COPIES OF TWO ORIGINALS SORTED AND STAPLED TOTAL COSTS AS OF JUNE, 1990 Scores were low on housing purchases, checking and savings programs, food purchases and life arms production were in ground forces materiel, the report said. If you've been looking for a portable radio that isn't high in price, General Electric has the radio for you. It's the MPP Hand-helradio. 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Cost of the package was estimated at $24 billion for recommendations involving people under age 65. Arab-Americ- economy gains (AP) new public plan for all employees and their dependents. Smaller employers would be given financial incentives to provide their employees coverage. If, after five years, such coverage is not m nian EPA finds few fuel WASHINGTON m ices. People needing long-tercare would be able to protect some assets and would not be required to Israeli-Palestini- .?. plan. The commission also would improve Medicare coverage for the elderly and would establish a procare servgram to cover long-ter- employers to provide private health insurance or contribute to a 1 Jf federal public health insurance m .1 ' "'it widespread, those employers would be required to provide private insurance or participate in a new out of concerns about the nation's health care system, in which more than 30 million Americans have no health Insurance and millions more face impoverishment care. by long-terThe commission's main recommendations were released earlier this year. They call for requiring all businesses with more than 100 established D O L L A R 14 14 13 13 12 12 11 11 10 10 9 F S e, rs missiles aimed at the United States. "All evidence indicates that this fact will not change," Cheney wrote. 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