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Stroke leaves man with rare syndrome and a Scandinavian accent

NEW YORK (AP) An American with no knowledge of foreign languages began speaking with a Scandinavian accent after a stroke, a researcher reports. The man had foreign accent syndrome, a rare condition that scientists say may shed light on how different parts of the brain contribute to spoken language. “HE WAS PRETTY clear. Everyone who heard him said he sounded Scandinavian or Nordic,” said Dr. Dean Tippett, a neurophysiology fellow at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. In foreign accent syndrome, a brain malfunction produces speech alterations that sound like a foreign accent. Other reported cases in Americans have involved apparent German, Spanish, Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Italian accents. The syndrome is triggered by bleeding in the brain, head injuries or strokes. A stroke is a blockage of blood supply to an area of the brain. TIPPETT SPOKE IN A telephone interview before describing the case Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in Atlanta. Immediately after the stroke, the man’s speech was slurred for a day or two. His accent appeared as he recovered, Tippett said. The man, a 32-year-old from Baltimore, enjoyed the accent at first and said he hoped it would help attract women, Tippett said. But by the time his accent had largely faded, six weeks after the stroke, he said he was happy to be speaking like an American again. His speech was normal by about 3Vi months after the stroke. WHILE HE HAD THE syndrome, he typically added extra vowel sounds as he spoke, saying such things as, “How are you today-ah?” Tippett said. His voice also rose in pitch at the

SDI, Stealth cuts before conferees

WASHINGTON (AP) Lawmakers crafting a compromise defense bill are weighing a nearly $2 billion cut in President Bush’s budget request for the Strategic Defense Initiative and continued production of the B-2 stealth bomber. House and Senate bargainers, meeting behind closed doors on a military blueprint for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, remained at odds Tuesday on major differences between their respective authorization bills. Among the outstanding issues were the fate of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, proposed cuts in the National Guard and reserves, closing of military bases, and the B-2 bomber. “There are so many big things on the table that are still not resolved,” said Rep. Buddy Darden, DGa. “It could break up the agreement to this point.” Congressional sources, who requested anonymity, said bargainers were nearing agreement on a cut of 100,000 troops, including 50,000 in Europe, from the 2.1-million-mem-ber armed forces; and about $2.8 billion for SDI, far less than Bush’s $4.7 billion proposal. Overall, the bill calls for $289 billion in defense spending, $lB billion less than the president sought in January. In its defense bill, the House voted to stop production of the radar-evading B-2 bomber at the 15 planes under construction. The batwinged aircraft is the costliest in history at nearly $865 million a copy. The Senate, in its legislation, approved the administration’s request for $5.1 billion this fiscal year to buy two planes for a total of 17 and parts for aircraft in fiscal 1992. A compromise being discussed by conferees would eliminate the House’s termination provision as well as the Senate provision for two more planes. Instead, $4.1 billion would be earmarked for the program and the Air Force could spend the money as it deemed fit. In July, Air Force Secretary Donald B. Rice notified the House Armed Services Committee it needed another $1.4 billion to acquire two B-2 bombers on schedule. Rice said that without the money, acquisition of the two bombers will

end of sentences, as if asking a question. Some vowel sounds were also substituted, making “hill” come out as “heel” and “quite” as “quiet.” “That” was pronounced “dat.” Other language features made him sound foreign, such as putting the accent on the wrong syllable, generally avoiding contractions and saying such things as “I come back” instead of “I came back,” Tippett said. ARNOLD ARONSON, A Mayo Clinic speech pathologist who has evaluated about 20 people with the syndrome, said he knew of only about a dozen other cases in the scientific literature. Other cases have produced a French accent in a British person and a Polish accent in a young Czech, he said. Some 40 percent of cases he knew of produced German, Swedish or Norwegian accents, he said. A person’s native tongue has no bearing on which accent appears, he said. THE ACQUIRED ACCENT may become “rather permanent,” depending on where the brain is injured, said Dr. Elliott D. Ross, director of the clinical research program at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, N.D. Aronson said many people with the disorder are misdiagnosed as having a psychological disturbance. Most patients he has seen were welladjusted, he said. The best known case of the syndrome dates from World War 11. A 30-year-old Norwegian who was struck in the head by shrapnel from a Nazi air raid began speaking with a German accent. “Because people in her town hated Germans, this was particularly troublesome for her,” Tippett said. “She would go into shops and stores, and people refused to wait on her.”

have to be delayed until 1997. The two B-2s are among 15 bombers intended to be bought through 1990 at a cost of $27 billion. The compromise would allow the Air Force to cover the program’s shortfall. During meetings Tuesday, lawmakers also considered an overall total for the antimissile SDI

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Budget battle moves to the Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate is taking up a bipartisan deficit-reduction bill that doubles gasoline taxes and differs sharply from a hit-the-rich version passed by the House but opposed by President Bush. Two Democrats want the Senate to reshape its bill to look more like the House plan, hoping to bring Bush along by tacking on part of his long-sought capital gains tax cut. CONGRESSIONAL leaders are trying to complete action on the tax increase the second largest in history before the government runs out of money at midnight Friday. Bush has vowed to let the government shut down if Congress does not approve a deficit-reduction plan he can accept. The House vot?d 227-203 Tuesday night for a plan that would raise taxes for all but the poorest Americans. Wealthy people would fare worst. Middle- and lower-income families would face income tax increases totaling $36 billion because they would lose next year’s automatic inflation adjustments in tax brackets and personal exemptions. “ALL AMERICA IS looking at us today and they are expecting action,” said Rep. JJ. Pickle, DTexas. “A no vote means no budget They are going to be madder than an old wet hen if we don’t do something today.” But House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois criticized Democrats for “economic McCarthyism the savage cry of class warfare. No (GOP) member ... could even consider voting for this plan.” During the rancorous, sevenhour House debate, Republicans said reduced spending was the only way to cut the deficit while Democrats blamed 10 years of GOP presidents for the red ink. “THE STATUTE OF limitations on blaming Jimmy Carter has run out but it hasn’t run out on Ronald Reagan,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Rep. James Traficant D-Ohio, was one of 40 Democrats who bucked their leadership and opposed the plan. “I will not support any plan ... that does not take one

program that is midway between $2.3 billion approved by the House and the approximately $3.7 billion set by the Senate. Lawmakers also sought to modify language adopted by the Senate that imposes restrictions on the way the administration can spend money on the various aspects of SDI.

cent from foreign aid and picks on Mom and Dad,” he said. Only 10 Republicans joined 217 Democrats in voting for the bill; 163 Republicans voted no. THE HOUSE BILL WOULD raise taxes by $149 billion over five years and require those with incomes over $50,000 to pick up well over half the tab. It would raise the 28 percent top income tax rate paid by the wealthy to 33 percent; impose a 10 percent surtax on those with incomes over $1 million; and raise to SIOO,OOO the present $51,300 limit on the amount of wages subject to the 1.45 percent Medicare tax. Like the Senate bill, the House plan would raise taxes on cigarettes by 8 cents a pack; boost taxes on wine and liquor and double the tax on a six-pack of beer to 32 cents. A new 10 percent luxury tax would hit part of the price of expensive cars, boats, planes, furs and jewelry. THE HOUSE VOTED TO require Medicare beneficiaries to pay more for insurance to cover doctors’ bills, up from $28.60 this year to $29.90 next year and $35.40 by 1995. The $75-a-year deductible they pay doctors before Medicare kicks in would be raised to SIOO for the next five years. Medicare reimbursements to doctors and hospitals would be reduced by $23 billion over the five years. Other parts of the deficit-cut-

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night in Glen Ellyn, 111., said that if the House bill reaches his desk, “I will veto it because it raises the income taxes of the working men and women in this country, and I am not going to do that.”

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