European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 lawmaker clash Over funding for aids research Washington up the doctor leading the governments Battle against aids said sunday that enough tax Money is being spent to fight the deadly but a congressional Leader charged that the administration has shortchanged the of the revelation last week that actor Rock Hudson is a victim focused new attention on aids acquired immune deficiency nearly half of the americans disa Gnosca As having aids have James assistant Secretary of health and head of the National centers for disease defended the Reagan administrations response to the first identified in and cited Progress against it during an interview on Cess face the aids is a devastating it is our first Mason Money has not in any Way incapacitated or slowed us Down in moving Henry the chairman of a House subcommittee on however the Reagan administration has shortchanged Cut refused to Deal with this he said All the Public health officials in the administration last year pleaded with health and human services Secretary Margaret heckler for More Money and she turned them the administration has refused to treat this disease with the urgency with which it should be Waxman but Mason said heckler has been absolutely supportive of the ant aids Effort weve taken funds and put them where they need to be to get the Job the government has set aside about million for research on aids this budget three fourths of the victims Are homosexual or bisexual but the disease also strikes other groups such As Intra Venus drug users in smaller haitians and shows signs of spreading to the general while noting the administration last week asked for a 50 percent in crease in aids funds for fiscal a boost of there has to be More he even now when there asking for More there asking to take away from cancer the Indi an health the Rural programs for they have shortchanged the amount of Money that should have gone into re As Mason noted the isolation of the aids which destroys the body natural disease fighting As Well As determining High risk groups and the development of tests to screen the nations blood in addition to sexual aids can be transmitted through blood some experts say perhaps a million Ameri cans now have the aids virus in their even though they do not suffer from the up photo just a matter of balance Kelly teetering on a receives some help from her friends Cortney Strickler left and Jennifer Wien get As she tries to ride her first two Wheeler in the Bike was a pre sent for her sixth College students Aid sources report says Washington a students from Low income families must get jobs or find other sources of Money to finance a significant part of their College sex according to a study released Sun Day by a higher education the american Council on education said its review of Studen Taid records found Low income families must expect to pay at least on half of the costs of the report defined Low income families As earning less than at Public colleges their real costs average about while at Independent colleges their real costs typically exceed per most Middle income families Between and income pay at least two thirds of the real costs of the Council guaranteed student Loans Are the most common source of Aid for the Middle and the Low income students Are increasingly being forced to go into As to get a College the Council sixty percent of the Low income students at private colleges and universities take out Loans averaging a while More Marshall islands head toward Independence Washington a Micronesia and the Marshall islands have moved a step closer to self government with the House of representatives overwhelming approval of a new political arrangement for the Pacific Island the passed creates a so called compact of free association which gives the islands Independence but maintains their defense and foreign policy ties to the United the compact would end 38 years of american trusteeship Over the and than a Quarter of the Low income students at Public colleges borrow an average of a it among the Middle 56 percent of those who got Aid took out guaranteed Stu Dent almost three quarters of those at private colleges borrowed More than while 43 percent of the pub Lic collegians borrowed the Studen Taid records were surveyed in 198384 by four National associations rep resenting Public and private colleges and Community Trie councils Scott Miller and Holly Hexter Analysed the re cords in a project financed by the Teagle foundation of new five out of six Low income students were getting Federal Pell Grants of up to the average Grant was for needy students at private colleges and at Public relatively few no matter How get a maximum Pell but no matter where they most Lowin come students can expect to receive More than the report Best Sellers Secretary of education William Ben Nett said thursday that some institutions Are simply he expressed con Cern that the widespread availability of fed eral Aid May be encouraging some institutions to raise their the Reagan administration sought to sharply restrict the guaranteed student loan program earlier this but con Gress Bennett said he is studying ways to overhaul the Federal Studen Taid programs to require students who Are relatively Well off to shoulder a greater Bur the councils analyses noted that an undergraduate who borrows to help pay for the costs of a private College faces repaying per month for 10 while a student who borrows to get a degree at a Public College will owe a month for 10 poor minority students Are less Likely that Low income Whites to go into debt to pay for the study the Council gave this example As typical of the financial Aid package for a student with a family income of attending a private College that charges tuition and costs a total of including books and personal expenses Pell Grant of supplemental Federal Grant of College work study earnings of guaranteed student loan of family contribution of assistance from the College or other sources of by Here is the typical budget for a student from a family earning who attends a private College that charges tuition and costs a total of no Pell a supplemental Grant of guaranteed student loan of National direct student loan of College work study earnings of family contribution of that would still leave the student to come up with several Hundred dollars which the parents might also give or Bor the Council compiled by the new York times fiction Crew by Stephen Kino fourth deadly sin by Lawrence Sanders Hunt for red october by Tom Clancy cider House rules by John Irving 5lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry 6jubal Sackett by Louis Lamour the dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon from Grace by Larry Collins 10a Catskill Eagle by Robert Parker nonfiction an autobiography by Chuck 1yeager Yeager and Leo Janos an autobiography by 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