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Reagan, lawmakers reach pact on deficit

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan and congressional leaders of both parties, finally agreeing on a $76 billion, two-year deficit-reduction pact, now face the difficult task of persuading a suspicious Congress to enact it * Making his first selling point Friday, Reagan signed an order putting $23 billion in automatic federal spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman law into effect. If the negotiated package becomes law, the deeper GrammRudman cutbacks will be largely negated. AT A WHITE HOUSE announcement of the deficit-reduction

Pentagon’s arms control advisor out

WASHINGTON (AP) ming Pentagon chief Frank Carlucci has ousted Frank Gaffney, a hardliner toward the Soviet Union, as the Defense Department’s top adviser on arms-control policy, administration officials said Friday. “Gaffney was cross-wise with Carlucci and the administration on arms control,” said one official, insisting on anonymity. “He is a real hard-liher and his views are not popular.” Another official, who also declined to be named, said, “That’s the kind of job where the incumbent has got to have the complete confidence of the secretary. Carlucci would prefer to have someone else in the job.” IN ANOTHER change, the nomination of Fred S. Hoffman to become the Pentagon’s chief spokesman also has been scratched at Carlucci’s request, a Pentagon source said. He will be replaced by Dan Howard, a White House deputy

OSHA calls for reducing formaldehyde exposure

WASHINGTON (AP) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday ordered a two-thirds reduction in the amount of formaldehyde that workers can be exposed to on the job. The Labor Department agency said the lowered exposure limit will reduce the number of formal-dehyde-induced cancers among the 13,810 workers now exposed to levels exceeding it by 48 cases over the next 45 years. BUT THE LOWER exposure limit is expected to have a much larger effect on curtailing less serious diseases among workers in industries that use the chemical in a wide variety of manufacturing processes. Terry Mikelson, an OSHA spokesman, said the new standard is expected to reduce the number of cases of respiratory irritation among workers exposed to formaldehyde by 6,000 a year and cut dermatitis cases by 11,000 annually.

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accord, Reagan expressed confidence that he would be able to win over Republicans reluctant to vote for a package that includes $23 billion in new taxes, including $9 billion this year. “Let’s wait and see what they say ... after we’ve had a chance to visit,” the president said. At a Capitol news conference, House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-111., also conceded that hard work was ahead. “Today, if you had that vote out on the floor of the House, it would go down,” he said. The deficit-reduction plan announced Friday came after 20 days

press secretary who has worked as Carlucci’s spokesman for the National Security Council, the source added. Hoffman, the principal deputy spokesman for the past three years, was nominated to be assistant defense secretary for public affairs following the resignation of Robert Sims. It was unclear whether Hoffman would continue to serve as the principal deputy. “I rather doubt it, because Howard will probably want to bring in his own people, but that hasn’t been decided,” the source said. “Carlucci is giving Hoffman a little time to lode around.” The changes became known within hours of Carlucci winning Senate approval, 91-1, to be the nation’s 16th secretary of defense. Since January, Carlucci had been President Reagan’s national security adviser. Carlucci is expected to be sworn in Monday as the Pentagon’s new chief, succeeding Caspar Weinberger.

Altogether, the reduced exposure limit is expected to reduce the medical and associated costs of formaldeyde-related occupational illnesses by $5.7 million to $35.5 million a year, he said. The new standard lowers the permissible exposure limit from the current 3 parts formaldehyde per million parts of air to 1 part per million over an eight-hour day. It would become effective 60 days after it is published in the Federal Register, expected in the first two weeks of December, OSHA officials said. BUT THE NEW regulation also sets an “action level” of one-half part per million. If employers achieve that kind of reduction, they can discontinue compliance with strict medical monitoring and employee training requirements imposed by the new regulations. In addition, the new regulation establishes a short-term exposure .limit of 2 parts per million for any 15-minute period.

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of closed-door bargaining by White House and congressional officials that began in the shadow of Wall Street’s Black Monday. The talks

SIOO,OOO cold research nothing to sneeze about

WASHINGTON (AP) Twenty University of Virginia students will sniffle their way through Thanksgiving to help researchers determine if that most common of medicines, aspirin, can prevent the common cold. The students, all enrolled in the school of medicine, will be paid $275 each to contract colds and then be tested to see if aspirin can affect the course or severity of the illness. Financed by the Aspirin Foundation of America, the SIOO,OOO experiment is to determine if aspirin can trigger an effective natural immune response to the common cold. Dr. Judy Hsia, a George Washington University researcher, says earlier studies have shown that aspirin can cause white blood cells to produce interferon, a natural and potent anti-virus agent. She said two aspirin a day double or triple interferon production, but scientists don’t know why. The cold study, she said, may give support to a legendary piece of medical advice. “The old saw of ‘take two aspirin and you'll feel better’ may be exactly right,” she said. For the experiment, a controlled amount of rhinovirus, which causes colds, will be sprayed into the noses of the 20 students. “Most people will catch colds from the amount of virus they are given,” Mrs. Hsia said. Half of the test subjects will receive two aspirin daily, a total of 650 milligrams. The others will receive placebos, or phony aspirin. The students will be isolated during the five days of the experiment, each living alone in a Charlottesville, Va. hotel room. Contact will be so limited that food trays will be left outside

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the room doors instead of delivered with the usual room service formality. Mrs. Hsia said the isolation is to assure that the test subjects are not exposed to any other cold virus. The isolation will include Thanksgiving and end next Saturday. Mrs. Hsia said the students probably will receive turkey dinners to observe the holiday. But some may already be sick with colds by then. Blood tests taken before, during and after the experiment will determine the amount of interferon and other natural immunity cells produced in the bloodstreams of the students. The subjects, said Mrs. Hsia, have been screened to assure they were not exposed recently to the virus used in the experiment The students will keep diaries on symptoms, count the tissues used and take measurements of the production of nasal mucous. “These help determine how bad a person’s cold is,” said Mrs. Hsia. If the results from the studies are promising, there may be more ambitious experiments later. “Giving people rhinovirus that they inhaled is really just a model,” said Mrs. Hsia. “What really counts is, ‘Can the cold your kid picks up at a day-care center be protected against?’ If the data are encouraging, then we’ll do a community-acquired cold study.” Other researchers participating in the study are Dr. Allan Goldstein of George Washington University and Dr. Fred Hayden of the University of Virginia.

economic crisis. THE ACCORD would shrink the deficit in the 1988 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, by $30.2 billion to about $l5O billion. An additional reduction of $46 billion would be made in fiscal 1989. By agreement, Social Security and other federal pension programs will not be touched. But the plan would hold defense spending to $285.4 billion this year, about sl2 billion less than Reagan originally wanted. Medicare would be cut by $2 billion, agriculture support programs by S9OO million and a range of domestic programs from education to the environment

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