Show V Page 2 —The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday July 21 1998 IWorldr&lNitioHI Politicians gain from health war In brio! Western heat HMOs opponents make Average high temperatures from July 13 to 19 The tearing heel in toe west and souttmrsat is expactod to oortbiue far at beat another weak A luge tree of high preeeure In the upper atmosphere wee much atranger and larger than ueuaL With high preeeure there l a general eWdng motion ot air When air elnhe I waime and prevents doude from touring offset allowing sunshine to take WASHINGTON (AP) — As Coogreu prepares to debate new rales on health plans insurance companies doctors and die lawyers who sue them are lavishing campaign contributions on the political parties in hopes rtf helping Itiwf patfcnlf fm The Blue Cross snd Blue Shield Association of America and its affiliated health plans have so far contributed $65250 — the most of any special interest’s political action committees this year — to leadership accounts to hi help congressional candidates in this fall’s elections according to a study by the Center for Responsive Politics a Washington-base- d rr government watchdog group All but $1500 of the Blues’ contributions went to Republican accounts such as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott’s New Republican Majority Fund which got $10000 The study looked at campaign giving by i°-i-oo E2t interest groups embroiled in a lobbying fight between labor andconsumer noupson one side — who want federal man-dates to protect patients from health plan — anainsurance companies and new employers on the other who argue would make health benefits unafford- big-moni- ed Me "This issue is attracting money’’ said Gen ter for Responsive Politics researcher Jen Shecter Total campaign giving by the Blues the Health Insurance Association of America and fiMllli nainlwmvn rnjamwrtinra Hm election million for the 1997-9- 8 $18 topped cycle according to the study released Monday which included contributions made as recently as May Seven dollars out of every $10 the health contributed went to Republican can-- Meanwhile trial lawyers whowould repre- sent patients in lawsuit gave 89 percent of their $1-- Bullion in cootributiotu to Democ-restrictio- ns 4 rats acwwdfo to tte ranter sstufly The American Medical Assocubotv a doc-ral- es made a lKshowof ton group that hasHouse-baded legislation support for White nevertheless has given 70 percent of its $12 million in political contributions to fM The entire House and a third of die Senate this fall and polls indiare up for cate health care is a priority for voters i President Clinton has helped Democratic lawmakers make a proposed “patients bill of tights’’ a hot issue on Capitol Hill this summer Republicans responded last week by hmwifcicMig their own bills and debate could begin as soon as this week UAW chief: GM union in ‘all out war’ High! twnporaturo for th wfc nuaiiMi AWriwnw 'Take bid to sway public Congress big-mori- ey FLINT Mich (AP) — United Auto Workers President Stephen Yokich says his union and General Motors Corp are in “an all-owar” reminiscent of the battle the ANCaXFMi a break': Words ut of wisdom union won for recognition in as heat bakes the country suffered 1937 Union leaders meeting in Flint As much of the country through unrelenting heat the mantra of the midsummer meltdown became a command: Slow it down Texas officials urged people to check up on the sick and the elderly while deputies ventured into remote neighborhoods with water and deaths Today's forecast fans in an effort to prevent mote in Dallas called for the 16th straight day of temperatures above 100 deaths were confirmed Monday in Dallas Two mote heat-relattwinging the total to 22 The searing heat has also contributed to at least 22 deaths in Louisiana 1 1 in Oklahoma and one each in California Arizona and Missouri In addition 43 illegal immigrants have died this year from heat-relatcauses crossing the border from Mexico into Texas The deadly heat was forcing nearly everyone to take it easy In Lawton Okie Army trainees at Fort Sill must rest for 30 minutes every hour Road work was at a standstill in Nebraska where temperatures reached 107 in some parts on Monday “You can't work yourself too hard" said James Harris a highway supervisor working south of Nashville Term “You take a break and get in the truck awhile and get some air conditioning Taking a long lunch helps too” devices ran foil Mast at In eastern Oklahoma flans and “When the birds cool houses to temperature reaches 90 poultry keep degrees the birds begin to stress” poultry fanner Marinell Strain said “When it reaches above 95 degrees they begin to die" In humid Illinois where temperatures were expected to be in the mid-9today Illinois Power asked its 550000 customers to conserve thermostats to 80 degrees or electricity by setting higher or turning the units off 7 heat-relat- warned GM that the UAW remains prepared to continue its strikes to wm the war of attrition between the world's largest automaker and its biggest union Yokich speaking to reporters after a pair of rallies Monday said GM’s recent financial suc- ed ed cess has emboldened its top executives to return to the company's old ways of fighting die union ed GM has lost more than mist-sprayi- ng 0s on Lewinsky visit Agents face queries — As WASHINGTON $12 billion worth of production because of strikes at a pair of Flint parts plants The strikes have led to the shutdown of 25 assembly plants and partial or foil shutdowns of more than 100 parts plants across North America About 185000 workers have been idled in addition to the 9200 strikers “The company’s got to get its culture back to where it belongs" Yokich said “This is 1998 They have a 1937 culture running right now” A strike in Flint in 1937 led GM to recognize the sit-do- ' UAW afits workers’ bargaining agent UAW Vice President Richard Shoemaker who seemed unduly pessimistic last month when he Whitewater prosecutors conducted (AP) interviews in the Monica Lewinsky investigation they asked Secret Service officers about die farmer intern’s Dec 28 visit to the White House a lawyer for several agents says said the strikes could last into Prosecutors may ask those questions of the officers again starting today — this time in front of the grand jury lawyer Mike Leibig said Seven Secret Service personnel were asked to appear for testimony Tsunamis: this week Leibig said including one officer who was not previously ' subpoenaed Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is interested in Ms Lewinsky’s A wave Dec 28 visit because it might have been the last time the former intern met with President Clinton in die White House propound by a magnftudt-- 7 undersea earthquake Shortly before the visit Ms Lewinsky was subpoenaed in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against die president She and Clinton destroyed a stretch of both denied in that case that they had a sexual relationship Papua New Guinea's northwestern coast Friday “Some of them were on duty Leibig said of the officers “Some of them know about” Ms Lewinsky’s Dec 28 visit night it la believed that at least 3000 people dwd Leibig who represents four Secret Service officers commented “I don’t dunk any of them have seen any evidence of a crime I don’t Hundreds were Murad think they saw the president in an embarrassing compromising or offOthers are believed to have color situation” fled to higher ground An Those summoned back this week include Larry Cockell who has eetbnated 6000 people are been temporarily relieved as head of Clinton’s protective detail left homeless ng August said Monday that the strikes could even go into Sep- tember “The longer this goes Labor' Day looks more and more like q possibility" tie said ' GM spokesman Gerry Holmes said the company was disappointed with the union leaders out- look “We’d like to have this resolved as soon as possible and mated the resolve of Flint workwe’ve said that all ers ' Flint native son and filmmaker “I think jt’s a meltdown for Michael Modre attended a rally at ”GM" be said before addressing fbe Delphi Flint JEast pads ram:1 plex IBs 1989 film “Roger A Me” was a darkly humorous look People here saved their money at how GM’s plant closures devThey can hold out a long time” astated Flint in the 1980s Holmes responded: “Michael Moore said GM had underesti should stick to filmmaking" akg" Tsunami-hi- t villages now a land of death killersea waves 23-fo- ot VANIMO Papua New Guinea (AP) — The once idyllic villages that dotted the white sand coast of this tropical island are now a land of death with crocodiles tearing at corpses and rotting bodies clogging the mangrove swamps and lagoons The death toU from three New Guinea’s northwestern coast climbed again today: On a tour of the devastation Prime Minister BiU Skate said at least 1200 people had been killed and 6000 Northern Ireland (AP) A man appeared in court today on charges of murdering three young brothers in a firebomb attack during sectarian violence set off when Protestant marchers were stopped from parading through a Catholic neighborhood were missing 18-m- ile the corpses are so rotten that they fall apart when recovery teams try to pull them from the water sud Julian Yohrin a district relief The waves move a wmnu mviii ONp The destructive waves can travel at more tian 435 mph ocean to shalow walec growing toigac Approaching e coast the waves slow down bunch up and rise poseMy as high as a tO atory bufcSng IndMduali mty occur at Mantis oils minutes or 125 uni The breaking pmfi fluffy TDlAMtauNbifli CkrtMMEBit coordinator The dead now threaten the 15 the Japanese government reported the flnt death of a man who had taken Viagra Counterfeit Viagra has been found in Tai- wan and smuggled pills are flooding through its customs bureaus Indian pharmaceutical companies meanwhile are racing to manufacture their own cheaper version of the drag According to US statistical models about 1 million men oo this island of 21 million suffer from impotence said Chen Kuang-kn-o chief of the urology department at Veterans the new US drug is the General HospitaL Doctors trained in Western hottest thing going Opinion is dividaL howmethods doubt whether traditional cores do ever on whether it will replace traditional anytiiingrialL cures Traditional doctors who jealously guard Japanese men are forking out large amounts their secret formulas for cures such as the Big of money for trips to Hawaii to get checkup Hero Pill or Essence of Tyrant dismiss Viagra and prescriptions and the Malaysian office of as a quick fix They claim their remedies teat cy - liv- ing: Yohrin and other rescue workers fear outbreaks of diseases spawned by decomposing bodies may kill hundreds more among the weakened survivors “There’s still a lot of bodies floating in the wster” Yohrin Said “They are contaminating Asian love potions face Viagra challenge Pfizer Viagra's manufacturer has received so many inquiries tint it has lost count On July the water” More than 700 of the dead had been identified and buried and 500 bodies were float- ing in the sea and the Sissano lagoon So far 2JSX1 people have bran found alive Skate said Most of the confirmed dead and the many missing ire children victims of furious water that nearly wiped out the' next generation of local residents in the seconds it took to toss people into trees hurl them into a lagoon or nek diem back into die ocean “What chance would a or Four days after the tsunami roared in without waning over an stretch of the coast Thomas Robert Garfield Gilmour of Ballymoney denied the TAIPEI Taiwan (AP) — Potions like the Big Hero Pill and Essence of Tyrant are facing a challenge for the loyalty of Asian mem It’s a little blue pill called Viagra Tonics claiming to distill 5000 years of Chinese medicine and cure all kinds of problems including impotence have a faithful following in Asia Some remedies depend on body parts trf endangered animals a trade driven deep underground by intmHnni pressure Tradition now is being challenged again — this time by modem medicine Viagra is not even legal yet in many Asian countries but dead- ly waves that swept over Papua Man faces murder arson charges — BELFAST earthquakes end are common In the Pacific t UnHsd WSSV Workers Preaidant Stephen Yokich moats with suoooitois outsMt th Delphi Flnt East parts nlanl in Hint Mich on Monday Th UAW president attended two ratios in support of ft workers who walked out of two General Motors parts plants In early June the charges police said during a hearing in Belfast Magistrates Court Gilmour had no criminal record and denied being a member of any paramilitary organization police said The Quinn brothers — Richard 11 Mark 10 and Jason 9 — were killed in a July 12 arson attack on their home in Ballymoney 40 miles northwest of Belfast A number of other people are being held for questioning in the case but police declined today to say how many were being detained Gilmour was ordered jailed pending a court appearance Aug 12 Police investigating the Quinn slayings have said the attack was linked to a rise in tensions in Northern Ireland caused by a violent standoff outside Portadown 25 miles southwest of Belfast between Protestant marchers and the armed authorities blocking them from parading through the Catholic neighborhood AP photo ' child have?” Qapp “It wipes out everything destroys everything bounces people off tees off obstacles bowls them into the lagoon before it tuns rashing back out to sea" “The children may be hiding somewhere we hope so But the fear is that they have drowned" asked the Rev Austen die priest said Most children were home on vacation when the waves struck rather than in religious mission schools farther inland where they may have been safe So many children died that some schools were not expected to reopen' -- - r ' 'i-- sJ vT? vv the whole person “Maybe it will work the first second third time” said Wang Wen-chiaTV doctor of traditional medicine who takes call-i- n queries pertaining to sexual dysfunctions five nights a week "But it will eventually faff and then patients will come looking for ns” Traditional doctors say their cures are slow but sure A prescription takes into consideration the nervous system major organs and chi — or electronic body impulses Wang said ng But Western-traine- d experts doubt such cures And many men prefer instant gratifica- tion to slow awl rare A highly publicized case in which a prostitute stabbed to death a client on Viagra only increased the medicine’s profile in Taiwan Pharmacists are importing boxes of the pills AP photo illegally declaring them as aspirin On the A man inspects heibal meefldnes In e Taipei shop that traditional Chinese black market they retail for up to five times medicine practitionera claim are effective cures for impotence and the substantial U5 price of $8 a dose Increase mala virility ra it v i&v 4 4 ld MsVdJ ft- ' fo jrowngwR |