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Pope speaks out about education, fidelity

MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) Pope John Paul 11, emphasizing discipline and fidelity to church teaching on his tour of Latin America, heads for the university town of Merida today after an overnight stop in this oil center. Hundreds of people began arriving Sunday night in Merida, a town of 100,000 in the Andes highlands. Many planned to camp by the steep, red-carpeted altar set up for the pontiff’s morning Mass. The Vatican describes Merida, the home of the University of the Andes, as one of the most religious areas in Venezuela. It has been the seat of a bishop since 1778. John Paul II also planned to attend a youth gathering tonight at a stadium in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, and to

Hoosier farmers' misery has plenty of company

DES MOINES, lowa (AP) - Indiana farmers join the ranks of more than 42 percent of farmers in 12 states who are in financial trouble, according to a survey by Farm Journal Magazine. The survey, conducted last December, indicates half of those farmers could go out of business this year. Farmers in Indiana and the other states are in tougher financial straits than farmers anywhere else in the nation, the survey said. The other states include North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, lowa, Ohio and Michigan. In the Farm Journal survey, 8,000 readers in the 12 states were asked to categorize the size of their total debt as a percentage of their assets. The survey indicated about 31.5 percent had little or no debt; 26 percent had moderate debt but were in good shape; 21.5 percent had high debts and were in troubled condition; and 21 percent were extremely leveraged

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meet with members of the Latin American Ecclesiastic Conference, which includes archbishops Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, El Salvador, and Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua. The pontiff welcomed them during a Mass celebrated Sunday night. John Paul has offered to mediate the Central American conflicts, and Obando y Bravo has held frequent talks with him about the tense church-state relations in Nicaragua and the four priests in the leftist government. The church recently suspended the four after they refused appeals to resign their posts. More than 1 million people turned out for papal Masses on Sunday in Caracas and on a muggy evening in Maracaibo, whose of-

and running a high risk of failure. John Marten, the staff economist at the Philadelphia-based magazine, said the results were “pretty scary.” “It’s pretty obvious that what we’ve seen so far in terms of farm foreclosures and rural bank failures are minor compared to what we’ll see in the next 24 months,” Marten said. The Farm Journal study found the percentage of farmers running the risk of failure nationally was about 12 percent. In the West, the figure is 10 percent and just 6 percent in the East. It also found most of the nation’s total farm debt is held by farmers in the troubled or high-risk categories, with 30.2 percent of the debt in the hands of high-risk farmers, 34.9 percent held by financially troubled farmers, 32.2 percent held by farmers with moderate debt and 2.7 percent held by farmers with very little debt. The results of the magazine survey support findings of a recent farm credit survey conducted by the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

fshore oil production has brought Venezuela one of the highest standards of living in South America. Since arriving in this nation of 16 million people on Saturday to start a 12-day, fournation tour, the pontiff has restated traditional teaching on family issues and told the country’s Roman Catholic bishops to discipline theologians who deviate from church doctrine. In a Mass on the theme of the family, celebrated near a poor Caracas neighborhood, the pope condemned contraception, abortion, euthanasia and divorce. He said the “plague of divorce” ruins families and told the huge throng: “Remember, it is never legal to end a

Healthy rise

Although the rate of health care costs has slowed, it stays well ahead of prices in general

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The rise in the cost of health care slowed last year, but medical costs still climbed much faster than prices in general. The Consumer Price Index for all items rose 4 percent in 1984, while the cost of medical care rose 6.1 percent, according to data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that 6.1 percent represented the third consecutive yearly decline in the rate of medical inflation. Daniel H. Ginsburg, an economist at the bureau, said there had been “a substantial drop in the rate of increase” for doctors’ fees. He attributed this, in part, to the fact that many doctors froze their fees last March at the suggestion of the American Medical Association. Payment rates for doctors treating patients under Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, were frozen by a law that took effect last October. But the Consumer Price Index, while it is a leading measure of inflation, is not designed to pick up these charges. The price of prescription drugs rose 9.9 percent last year. That was more than the increase for any other category under medical care. Inflation in the cost of hospital services has been slowing for several years. The increase in hospital room rates of 7.4

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Did Nicaraguan rebels really fool CIA 'gringos' by shifting Lau?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Honduran allegations linking Nicaraguan rebels to the murders of political dissidents in Honduras have brought to light apparent discrepancies on when an implicated rebel officer left the insurgent movement. Reagan administration officials, who insisted on anonymity, said rebel leaders assured the CIA that the officer allegedly involved in the abuses had been expelled two years ago from the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force, known by its Spanish initials FDN. The U.S. officials expressed surprise this past week when informed that according to statements by two rebel leaders, the supposedly purged officer, Col. Ricardo “Chino” Lau, was still with the FDN at least until last year. “If Lau was there after January 1983, it was clearly deceptive,” said one official familiar with U.S. efforts to rid the FDN of Lau and other National Guard officers who fought for longtime dictator Anastasio Somoza before his overthrow in 1979. The official said FDN leaders, opposed to the purge, apparently decided to “fool the gringos” by shifting Lau from a public to a secret position. Another official said the incident showed that while the CIA had direct command and control over certain operations, such as the mining of Nicaragua’s harbors, the agency had only limited influence over the

human life with abortion or euthanasia. ” In Maracaibo, John Paul, the first pope ever to visit Venezuela, stressed the importance of Catholic education. On the eve of his departure from the Vatican, the pontiff announced that an extraordinary meeting of the world’s bishops would be held in Rome in November to examine the changes in the church in the 20 years since the Second Vatican Council. John Paul gave an insight into his thinking on Sunday when, responding to the greeting of a rabbi at an ecumenical meeting in Caracas, he said, “Doctrine is not just on paper, but is an expression of faith, an inspiration of the spirit, a law to follow.”

percent in 1984 was the smallest annual increase since 1973. The rates rose 17 percent in 1981, 13.3 percent in 1982, and 9.3 percent in 1983. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said this trend reflected cost-control activities by state governments, as well as changes in the federal system of paying hospitals for the treatment of Medicare patients. The difference in the rate of increase for medical care and for other consumer prices has narrowed dramatically since 1982, when the cost of health care rose almost three times as much as the Consumer Price Index. In 1981, when the overall index rose 8.9 percent, the cost of medical care increased 12.5 percent, the biggest such increase since the federal government began reporting on medical costs in 1935. In 1982, the overall Consumer Price Index rose 3.9 percent, and the medical component rose 11 percent. In 1983, the overall index rose 3.8 percent, as against 6.4 percent for medical care. The 6 percent increase in charges for doctors’ services last year was the smallest since 1973, when they rose just 4 percent. Jeffrey C. Warren, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, said the increases in prescription drug prices were “attributable to rapidly increasing research costs, to

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FDN’s inner workings. In an interview with The Associated Press, Edgar Chamorro, former FDN propaganda chief, said Lau was never ousted from the rebel group, as the CIA was told, but was simply moved from his post as the FDN’s intelligence officer to head of the rebels’ counterintelligence unit. Chamorro said Lau’s new job was a “more obscure position” but gave him broad power within the FDN as he and his team of 20 to 40 men sought out infiltrators suspected of working for Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government. Chamorro said he believed Lau’s continued presence was known to some CIA personnel in the field, despite claims from administration officials in Washington that they thought Lau had been purged. Lau’s current whereabouts could not be ascertained, and CIA spokesman George

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POPE JOHN PAUL II Touring South America

heavy foreign exchange losses by an industry doing a substantial fraction of its business abroad, and, in some cases, to increases in the cost of raw materials and production.” John P. Curran, who follows drug industry stocks for L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, a Wall Street brokerage concern, said: “There was only 1 percent growth in the number of prescriptions being written last year, so companies raise revenue by raising prices or trying to gain market share by introducing new products. Most of the new products have not gained a substantial markershare.” Margaret M. Heckler, the secretary of health and human services, asserted last July that the Reagan administration had “broken the back of the health-care inflation monster.” Groups representing the elderly challenged her assertion as premature. The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which came last week, shows that, in the last three years, health costs have risen slightly more than twice as much as the Consumer Price Index. From December 1981 to December 1984, the overall index rose 12.1 percent, while the cost of medical care rose 25.2 percent. Since 1967, the overall index has tripled, while the cost of medical services has gone up by a factor of four.

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Lauder refused to discuss the matter. Lau’s name surfaced inside the administration this month in connection with a Honduran military investigation of the killings and disappearances of about 250 opponents of the pro-American Honduran government. Honduran sources close to the investigation have told the AP and other news organizations that since 1980, Nicaraguan rebels had killed 15 to 18 dissidents on behalf of the Honduran military. One source said Lau was involved in some of those actions. State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb said last week the administration had “no information which would substantiate” the Honduran charges. Last Wednesday, the CIA circulated a secret report disputing the press accounts. FDN spokesman Bosco Matamoros also denied the allegations.

Success in secret for Discovery CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four more shuttle flights can proceed as scheduled this year after the success of Discovery’s secrecy-cloaked military mission in lifting a spy satellite into orbit with a once-troubled booster, space officials said. The mysterious mission ended Sunday afternoon with a perfect landing just three miles from the launch pad where the flight began Thursday. Left behind in orbit 22,300 miles above the equator, south of the Soviet Union, was a S3OO million satellite sources say is capable of monitoring Soviet missile tests and eavesdropping on selected military and diplomatic communications in much of Europe, Asia and Africa. The five astronauts, all military officers, flew back to their training base in Houston Sunday night for debriefing sessions today. In keeping with the secrecy imposed by the Air Force on much of the mission, they did not make the usual public departure statements. The commander, Navy Capt. Thomas K. Mattingly, is hanging up his flight suit after three space missions to become space program director with the Naval Electronic Systems Command. The other crew members were Air Force Lt. Col. Loren Shriver, Marine Lt. Col. James Buchli and Air Force majors Ellison Onizuka and Gary Payton. Throughout the flight, the astronauts’ voices were not heard on the space-to-ground circuit normally opened for the news media. Their transmissions from space were encoded to prevent anyone from listening in. Discovery was towed into a processing hangar to be prepared for its next mission in March in which one satellite is to be deployed and a second recovered. And because of the success of the justcompleted flight, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration can proceed with hunching Challenger on Feb. 20 with two communications satellites and a crew of seven that includes a French astronaut and U.S. Sen. Jake Garn of Utah. One of Challenger’s satellites is a NASA tracking and data-relay satellite to be boosted to high orbit by the same type of rocket stage that pushed Discovery’s spy satellite to its lofty outpost. A total of four space shuttle missions this year would have been jeopardized if the rocket, called an inertial upper stage or lUS, had failed like its predecessor. In its only previous shuttle assignment in April 1983, an lUS propelled a communications payload into the wrong orbit. The trouble was traced to overheating in a second-stage motor that collapsed a flexible seal in the steering mechanism. Major modifications were made and extensive testing was done before officials felt confident in flying an lUS on the secret mission. Because both NASA and the Air Force plan to use the stage many times, the Air Force removed its performance from the secrecy list and reported it “successfully met its mission objectives.” NASA now can return to its open information policy until the next military mission, scheduled in September. Fullscale briefings with flight directors, the astronaut crew and payload experts are scheduled this week for Challenger’s February flight. That was not done before the Discovery launch.