European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday. May 20, 1989 Marcos in very critical condition Honolulu a former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos was in very critical condition thursday suffering from kidney cardiac and pulmonary failure Hospital officials said. Marcos. 71. Suffered acute renal failure and was taken to St. Francis medical Center s operating room for vascular Access surgery according to Gene Tiwa Nak. The Hospital s assistant administrator. Marcos also suffered cardiac and pulmonary failure Tiwanak  prognosis is very poor and his condition is very critical Iwanck said. Marcos who was under going kidney dialysis suffered severe infection including pneumonia according to or. A acc a Ignacio his personal physician and an internist Al St. Francis. Ignacio said Marcos was being treated with antibiotics and a heart medication which she refused to name. Sonic medications Are working some arc not she House oks $1.2 billion for veterans Washington Al the House ended weeks of partisan stalemate on thursday and approved $ 1.2 billion for this car s veterans programs. Al the same time the Senate finished unusually Early congressional action on the $1.17 trillion Federal budget for 1990. The Senate approved next year s Bud get 63-37. Following House approval by a Day. La was the earliest completion Date for an Overall spending plan in 11 years. The House sent the veterans legis lation to the Senate. The veterans Money had been contained in a Mulli billion measure that had been bogged Down because of fights Over ss22 million for anti drug pro Grams. Democrats said the drug spending was needed because Law enforcement Agen cies nationwide were running out of Money but republicans said the authorities already had More Money than they could handle the Bill contains Money for this year for medical care compensation pay ments and Oiler benefits for veterans. With Congress memorial Day recess coming up in several Days lawmakers admittedly dreaded the Prospect of de livering speeches to veterans groups with the Money still stalled.  Marcos family was informed of his worsening condition and that he was conscious before surgery and had been conscious on and off since she said. In the procedure his veins were prepared for Hemo dialysis. Or the removal of body wastes from his blood by machine Iwanck said. Following  hours of surgery Marcos was receiving postoperative cat and remained in critical condition a reliable source said. The deposed philippine president who also is suf Fering from pneumonia was to be placed on dialysis in the Hospital s intensive care unit. Iwanek said. Earlier Marcos spokesman Gummo Trinidad had said Marcos had Only a 2 percent Chance of surviving the operation but Iwanck refused to comment on Marcos prospects. Marcos wife Imelda was praying in the Hospital Chapel with son Ferdinand jr., Trinidad said. Asked if the Marcos family had Given up Hope. Trin Idad said no we have always thought he would live. The thought of him dying has never entered our  Marcos has been hospitalized for heart kidney and respiratory ailments since Jan. 15. He was moved to the Hospital s intensive care unit monday and lapsed into critical condition the following Day. Before that he had spent a month in the telemetry Ward which monitors heart patients. The former president and his wife arc under . Indictment on charges of diverting More than $100 million from the Philippines during Marcos 20-year reign. Marcos has been separated from the Case be cause of heal problems but the Case against his wife continues. The Marcoss have lived in exile in Hawaii since he was toppled in a popular uprising in february 1986. Dod from Page 1 soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and wife. Raisa wave unit Obyc in Shanghai ending sin Suvil Summit. Summit from Page 1 state of  took a Tough line in talks with student leaders of the Mas Sive pro democracy demonstrations As throngs of workers poured out of their factories to join the estimated i Mil lion protesters. Later in a dramatic move before Dawn Friday. I and communist party chief Zhao Vivang went to Tiana men Square to visit with hunger striking students who form the Core of the pro test. State run chinese radio said govern ment leaders asked the students to sus Pend their protest and told them the government would meet with them to discuss their demands. There was no immediate indication How the protes ters would respond. As tensions were mounting betwee the government and demonstrators the communist superpowers issued an 18-Point communique formally listing the results of the Summit. The two sides pledged to work toward Demilita Riding their 4,000-Milc Border to seek expanded Trade and cultural exchanges and to restore the Long Sev ered relations Between their two communist parties. The communique documented the two sides failure to agree on the future government in Cambodia where soviet backed vietnamese forces arc expected to Complete a pullout in the fall. But it said both countries want to pre vent a civil War there and want that Long suffering country to be Independent peaceful Neutral and non align  employ All the facilities fully but we will use much of  because some of those activities relate to wartime missions or still Are being reviewed within nato details Are classified and Woodworth said he could give them to the subcommittee Only in a closed session. Woodworth assured the panel that those potential missions will not be make Wink designed to keep the Haws open Ireland said since the military will move a Sling Fri unions to the Mivle bases missions and activities at Solhui bases should be reduced proportionately. Woodworth agreed and said he had suggestions for reductions at other Haws. But again could not give details in open session. Two hours into the hearing the sub committee s chairwoman. Rep. Pat sen Rocker. A Colo. Cleared the room to receive tin classified information. Nato from Page 1 a Range of 300 to 3,400 Miles and  Shev said the ss-23s were included in the Accord by soviet request. Updating Short Range nuclear missiles in Europe is expected to draw healed debate at the nato Summit scheduled for late May. West Germany where the missiles arc based opposes the Upp 1-ing and insists that negotiations with the soviet Union be held soon to reduce the Arsenal. The United slates which is against Early negotiations and wants to proceed with modernization has accused the so Viets of already having upgraded their Short Range systems. Lusher said the Western Alliance is trying to justify the need for its nuclear weapons by invoking the Warsaw pact s superiority in conventional  tactical nuclear weapons Are closely interwoven with conventional armed Fortes. Without the reduction and subsequent elimination of tactical nuclear weapons it is hardly possible to speak seriously about the elimination of the threat of  he said. If the fast West falks that began March 9 in Vienna Austria succeed in negotiating deep Cut in conventional forces the threat posed by tactical nuclear weapons will be growing Lusher said. It is Well known that nato envisages the possibility Ofearl use of nuclear weapons and the level at Whah that decision Mav be taken in a situation of crisis can be considerably  referring to the recent changes in Doc Trine within the Warsaw pact Lusher said the soviet bloc countries arc deter mined to continue pursuing a policy aimed at a Radical improvement of the situation in Europe on the basis of Road and mutually beneficial Cooper  what is new and most important Here is that the previous military Doc Trine was defined As a system of views of How to prepare for War and How to fight it. The key Point in the definition today is How to prevent it Lusher said. The task of preventing War is becom ing the highest goal the nucleus of the military doctrine of our country s and joint armed  Lusher said the whole Structure in the Security system in. Europe must be changed and that Radical Steps in the Field of disarmament Are needed. These involve Mutual reductions in arms and armed forces the elimination of tactical nuclear weapons the reduction of nato forces and their armaments and the Elim Imti on and Banning of chemical Wear