European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 4, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 hit and Yawn seven year old Phillip Snowbarger of Des Moines Iowa finds duty in left Field a bit slow. His team participates in the Beaverdale tee wee league. Former Hud official links Bush to 1985 Grant to Developer Washington apr a former housing official said wednesday that Samuel. Pierce or. Was deeply involved in steering Federal Grants to friends while Hud Secretary. He said that one 1985 Grant was arranged after a Developer appealed to then vice president George Bush. Dubois l. Gilliam once Deputy assistant Secretary of the department of housing and Urban development and now serving a Federal sentence for corruption linked Bush to a $500,000 Federal Grant for a hispanic Trade Center in Kansas City to. Gilliam who admits taking bribes testified for a second Day before a congressional panel investigating Hud during the Reagan presidency. Speaking with a Grant of immunity from further prosecution Gilliam detailed How he and others manipulated programs to direct lucrative subsidies to friends including members of Congress a sometimes before any formal applications were made. Gilliam said he arranged to profit himself and secretly removed incriminating documents from the Agency in a Medicine bag and destroyed them. When he left the Agency under a Cloud in 1987, Gilliam said he asked for and was Given approval from Pierce through an aide to receive Grants for Low income housing renovations a in effect a Severance payment Worth $1 million or More in resale value to developers. He ultimately did not receive the Grants. A a in a touching upon the truth a Gilliam said when his credibility was challenged. A i have no reason to  Gilliam a mention of Bush was Dis closed beforehand by the chairman of the panel rep. Tom Lantos a Calif. The panel has spent More than a year investigating the Hud scandals. Gilliam did not accuse Bush of directly ordering that the Grant go to a political ally. But Gilliam said he took unusual Steps to award the Grant after Hector Barreto then president of the . Hispanic chamber of Commerce and a supporter of Bush and president Reagan met with the vice president. Gilliam said he told Barreto that his proposal for a feasibility study was not eligible for funding by Hud under the Secretary a discretion program. Barreto he said left saying he would meet with the vice president. Later that same afternoon Gilliam said he was told by pierces executive assistant Deborah Gore Dean that Barreto met with Bush. A she indicated to me that she had received a Call from the vice presidents staff people indicating their support and wanted to get the project funded a he said. Gilliam said he then persuaded a Kansas City assistant City manager James i. Threatt to provide the Grant from the City a Community development Block Grant funds provided by Hud. In turn Gilliam said he arranged to have a special Grant from the Secretary a discretionary fund go to Kansas City to replace that Money. Gilliam said he was unsure of the connection but that Dean had also mentioned a something about Hector being on the vice presidents  before the testimony Lantos charged the project was funded a in order to get a hispanic Leader to accompany the then vice president on a puerto Rico trip. Oregon to limit medical services payments Portland Ore. Not a Oregon says it can no longer afford to pay the costly Miracle of Modem Medicine. So state officials wednesday announced the Centrepiece of a plan to begin limiting medical services for people whose health care is paid for by the government. After months of Public debate the Oregon health services commission made Public the main tool for their program a list of 1,600 medical procedures ranked by computer according to a formula that balances their costs against now Many people would Benefit. Proponents describe the plan As a pioneering Effort to balance limited government Money against the potential for nearly unlimited High Cost High technology medical care. But critics say the state is entering the realm of judgments Best left to patients and their doctors. Oregon is poised to become the first state to make decisions on health care in a Way that gives priority to preventive care. Later this year the Oregon legislature will decide where to draw a line across the computer list. Those ailments and injuries below the line will not be covered by the medicaid program which is jointly financed by the state and Federal governments. Conditions above the line will be fully covered. It is unclear where the line might be drawn. The Oregon plan would not reduce coverage for the aged disabled or Blind. By eliminating a handful of expensive operations Oregon officials say they May be Able to nearly double the number of people receiving some coverage under medicaid. About 130,000 people receive some care now. A the Miracle of Medicine has outstripped our ability to pay for it a said Richard Lamm former governor of Colorado and a longtime critic of the current National medical payment system. A somebody has to have the guts to say what policy brings the most Good to the most people. Oregon is the first state to face up to  ranking near the top of the Oregon list of ailments and injuries were such things As bacterial meningitis Bone cancer multiple sclerosis and acute headaches. But the list does not necessarily reflect the suffering that a particular disease can inflict on a human being. Thus several other ailments a thumb sucking for instance a Are High on the list not because they Are the most painful or serious but because they Are easily treated at a relatively Low Cost and affect a Large number of people. Before Oregon can proceed with changes in its medicaid coverage the state must get a waiver from the Federal  lady defends right to privacy motherhood by the los Angeles times Washington a first lady Barbara Bush offered a Strong defense of private lives including her own wednesday. She said she sympathizes with Wellesley mass College students who do not want her to speak at their graduation but thinks they do not understand where i am coming  a a that Sall right a Bush said. A i chose to live the life in be lived and i think it has been a fabulously exciting interesting involved life. I Hope some of them will choose the  at a lunch with seven reporters in the re quarters Bush said president Bush was More upset than she was when 150 of Wellesley a 600 seniors signed a petition protesting her selection As commencement speaker. The students did not ask for the invitation to be withdrawn but complained that Bush a Only qualification As a commencement speaker was her husbands political Success. Bush said that in the More than 40 years since she dropped out of Smith College in Northampton mass., to get married she had changed her views markedly. A a lot of water goes Over that dam in those years. But i Hope the Wellesley students wont opt not to have families and i Hope they wont opt not to be great parents i done to care who you Are the Best Job in life you do is to raise your  the Wellesley protest was a rare pub Jim criticism of the first lady who Well into her second White House year has scored highly in Public approval ratings. Bush grew most impassioned during lunch when the talk turned to people who seek to Force homosexuals to publicly acknowledge their sexual orientation a practice dubbed  she had been asked about her husbands recent mention that two family friends had died of aids. A actually i think one of our friends was out and one of our friends Wasny to she said. A a in a not one who believes in Outing. I really done to like that at  she said that Peoples sexual orientation should be a private matter. Bush said that if asked she would appear in a Public service announcement to help children with aids. A but i was never asked a she said adding she was surprised when los Angeles aids activist Elizabeth Glaser told reporters that the first lady had not responded to a request to do such a spot. She denied that there had been any tension Between her and former first lady Nancy Reagan Over an invitation to return to the White House where the reagans attended a ceremony last year. A a there a a certain class thing about her not coming a Bush said. A i remember when we were the ambassador to the u.n., Well you done to go Back for a Little