European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 18, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 7_a Senate oks abortion advice at clinics setting stage for showdown with Bush Washington apr in a move that pushes Congress closer to a veto showdown with president Bush the Senate approved legislation wednesday to allow federally financed family planning centers to provide advice on abortion. The Bill was approved on a voice vote. The House has passed similar legislation. Republicans expressed Confidence that Bush would veto the legislation if it reached his desk and that the veto would be upheld. The Bill is aimed at voiding rules issued by the department of health and human services in 1988 that forbid federally assisted clinics from offering advice on abortion even if a woman requests such information. Lawsuits against the regulations were filed immediately and the rules were not carried out. But on May 23, the supreme court upheld the counselling ban on a 5-4 vote. The Senate vote to void the rules was the latest in a string of victories in Congress for abortion rights advocates. The House and Senate have approved several other provisions that would expand a woman a Access to abortion although none of the measures has yet reached the presidents desk. A the Senate has sent an extraordinarily powerful message a sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., a sponsor of the Effort to void the regulations said after the vote. A doctors ought to be Able to practice Medicine and Congress  dictate policy.�?�. Sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., and sen. Orrin g. Hatch a Utah indicated that White House officials agreed they would to drop their opposition on the Senate floor wednesday because they Nad enough votes to sustain a later veto. Critics have dubbed the regulations the a gag Rule a claiming they stifle a woman s right to know her options. About 4.5 million women most of them poor get advice at federally assisted family planning centers each year. A the question is whether we believe that Low income women Are entitled to the same Quality of care As those who can afford private care a said sen. John h. Cha fee . A Vancl i think the answer is  opponents argued however that the $144 million the government distributes each year for family planning is not supposed to be for abortion services. A this Bill is about one and Only one thing and that is writing abortion into the Law that governs family planning programs a Hatch said. In an Effort to find a Compromise sen. Dave Duren Berger r-minn., proposed barring clinics from offering abortion counselling but allowing them to guide women to hospitals or other places where abortion advice is available. It was Defeated 64-35. The House overwhelmingly approved legislation june 26 eliminating the counselling ban. Bush said last week he might be willing to Compromise on the Issue. But in a letter to Senate leaders dated monday the office of management and budget wrote of Bush a this intention is to ensure that no Federal funds Are used to support  the letter said that if the Bill voiding the regulations a is presented to the president in its current form he will veto  overriding a veto would take a two thirds vote in both the House and Senate. Nancy Kinder awaits patients at Detroit a doctors Hospital where the emergency room must treat patients within 20 minutes of their  vows care will be fast a or free Detroit a dominoes effect. A Hospital is promising to see its emergency room patients in 20 minutes or the care will be free. The offer was inspired by the Michigan based pizza company a claim of delivery within 30 minutes. During the first three weeks of the offer no patients at doctors Hospital have been stitched bandaged a Rayed or splinter free of charge. But a few came close. A a it a been Down to within five minutes a director of ambulatory care Nancy Kinder said last week. Administrators say doctors Hospital was already treating patients quickly. The reason for the promotion was that the 101-bed Hospital about a mile from downtown is suffering financially and is searching for ways to Call it the boost revenues. The emergency department which treats 8,000 to 10,000 patients a year is an untapped resource said Lynn Kelley chief operating officer. A if you walked in right now you a wait just As Long As it took to Register you a Kinder said. The Hospital has its Busy spells Kelley said. But projections show that an increased patient Load brought on by the free care offer would generate revenues greater than what would be lost during Busy time she said. Kelley declined to give figures. The Hospital which specializes in Industrial Medicine lost about $1.2 million last year and has a $2.75 million loan up for renewal in August from the Detroit fire and police retirement system. Eastern states . Consider California clean air program by the new York times representatives of All the states from Maine to Virginia agreed tuesday to explore adopting californians strict standards on automobile pollution. Meeting in Boston the representatives from 12 states and the District of Columbia said they supported the standards. The six new England states new York and new Jersey Lead previously pledged to adopt the California standards and the action tuesday signifies an even broader agreement. Adoption of the standards would bind the Region to whatever actions California imposes on itself. That state has already approved rules that will require extra equipment on gasoline powered cars. California regulators have estimated the Cost of that action at less than $200 per car but automakers argue the Cost May be higher and could Hurt the cards performance. By 1999, 2 percent of cars sold in areas adhering to the California rules will have to be Battery powered. The figure will Rise to 5 percent in 2001 and 10 percent in 2003. Thomas c. Jorling new Yorkus commissioner of environmental Protection and a signer of tuesdays agreement said no group of states had Ever joined before to consider pollution restrictions. A these 12 states and the District of Columbia concluded that the California motor vehicle control program is the Best vehicle to achieve healthful air for their people and that a a major accomplishment a he said. The clean air act of 1990 allows California with the nations worst smog to adopt its own rules on vehicles and it gives the 49 other states a Choice of adopting the California program or the Federal standards. The six new England states a Maine new Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut a and new York new Jersey and California represent about 30 percent of the car Market. With the addition of Virginia Delaware Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia the total would Rise to nearly 50 percent with a population of about 100 million people. According to pollution experts who work for the member states Virginia and Pennsylvania argued tuesday for a study instead of an outright commitment to the California program. The clean air act gives the states until november 1994 to submit a plan showing How they will comply with the act. Swaggart described As jealous liar at trial new Orleans a televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is a jealous liar who spread rumours to destroy a competing preachers growing ministry the rivals lawyer charged tuesday. In response Swaggart a lawyer Phillip Wittmann tried to portray evangelist Marvin Gorman As a longtime Womanizer who sued Swaggart for $90 million in damages because his ministry was in financial trouble. Gorman 58, filed the defamation lawsuit in 1987, claiming Swaggart and others conspired to destroy his new Orleans based television ministry in 1986 by falsely accusing him of adulterous affairs. The accusations Gorman claimed led to his ministry a bankruptcy. At the time the lawsuit was filed Gorman admitted to a single a immoral act with a woman Lynda Savage. But the first witness tuesday Michael Indest an assemblies of god minister testified that Savage told him that she had sex Many times Over a period of years with Gorman. The trial pits one fallen televangelist against another. In 1988, Gorman helped topple Swaggart 56,.by having photographs made of the Baton Rouge evangelist with a prostitute