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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 23,1992

Disagreements flair on how to aid CIS members

WASHINGTON (AP) The world’s wealthiest nations agree on the need to provide massive help to the states struggling to emerge from the wreckage of the former Soviet Union. But clear differences emerged after a day of closed meetings. A final conference session today is expected to focus primarily on coordinating the international effort to provide humanitarian assistance and set the former Soviet republics firmly on the path to democracy and free market economies. AT A NEWS conference Wednesday, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher made clear his country’s disagreement with Japan’s insistence that Russia return the Kurile Islands occupied at the end of World War 11. “These questions are very important for Japan,” he said. “But the downfall of the Soviet Union is also important.” Japanese Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe told Genscher during a private meeting that Japan was “not in a position at the moment to embark on larger-scale assistance to the republics of the former Soviet Union.” - JAPANESE government spokesman Seiji Morimoto said Watanabe’s position was based on •the territorial dispute and the fact that the Soviet Union never signed a peace treaty with Japan after World •War 11. * “As long as this issue dispute • is not solved, we see some differences in the political situation ■compared with that in Germany,” ‘said Morimoto. : During the meeting Japan said it was prepared to offer an additional SSO million in aid. Japan announced in October it would provide $2.5 billion worth of fuel and medical supplies, and a SSOO million export loan. SEVERAL governments paripating in the conference came forward later in the day with offers of new assistance, said U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. The prospective donors

House kills living wills legislation

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) After an emotional debate, the Indiana House has defeated a bill to allow people who have living wills to authorize an end to life-sustaining artificially supplied feedings when

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PRESIDENT BUSH Announces $645 million In aid and amounts weren’t disclosed. At a luncheon, Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 singled out oilrich Saudi Arabia, Australia and New Zealand for private consultations. Meanwhile, U.S. sources disclosed that Richard Armitage, a veteran Pentagon and State Department official, would be named coordinator of the American aid program. APPOINTMENT of the internationally known Armitage was seen as part of the U.S. effort to underscore its commitment to the relief effort. President Bush told the 47-nation meeting the United States would pledge an additional $645 million in aid, a move obviously designed to encourage other nations to increase their pledges. According to figures put out by the European Community, more than S7B billion in aid has already gone to the former Soviet republics. Nearly $45 billion of that came from Germany, its total including $lO billion paid to help relocate Soviet troops stationed in East Germany. THE GERMAN foreign minister

the people are terminally ill. After a reflective debate that House Speaker Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, called one of the finest in the chamber’s recent history, representatives voted 55-43

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said the opening day was “a great conference” but warned that it “runs the risk of drowning itself in beautiful words and nice sounds. But we had a serious debate, a substantial debate, the result so far is a good one, and the perspective is a positive one.” Genscher also restated his disagreement with the U.S. decision to exclude the former Soviet republics from the conference. They had no presence at the meeting although they clearly were watching it from afar. “Humanitarian and other forms of assistance by the international community will no doubt help alleviate the difficulties our population is facing as we move to a market economy,” Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said in a statement to the participants. GENSCHER SAID the successor states of the Soviet Union should be briefed “as soon as possible” on the discussions at the Washington meeting. Major nations also agreed that another conference on large-scale aid to the former Soviet republics should be held in Lisbon, Portugal, probably in May, said Elizabeth Guigou, French minister for European Affairs. By then, she said, the problem of immediate help may be less important “There is a problem infinitely more vast the total reconstruction of these countries’ economies,” she said. YELTSIN WILL come to the United States for a Jan. 31 summit of the leaders of the 15 U.N. Security Council members. Bush and Yeltsin will meet Feb. 1 at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. The sense of urgency also was conveyed in a parallel two-day conference here of about 200 non-profit organizations sponsored by Citizens Democracy Corps, a group initiated by Bush in 1990 to mobilize assistance by American corporations.

against House Bill 1001. MEMBERS OF the family of Sue Ann Lawrance, an Indianapolis woman who died while her family tried to have her feedings slopped last year, watched from the House balcony as representatives debated the issue. Several lawmakers recounted personal and poignant stories of the deaths of close relatives, including two former representatives, during the debate. Rep. Robert E. Hayes, a Columbus Democrat who sponsored the measure, said he believed terminally ill or injured people should have the option to die with dignity rather than have their lives prolonged by artificial feedings. HE POINTED out that both the U.S. Supreme Court, in the publicized case of Nancy Cruzan of Missouri, and the Indiana Supreme Court, in last year’s Lawrance case, had held that artificially supplied food and nutrition was the same as medical treatment that could be withheld under living will statutes. Hayes’ bill would have specified that the artificial supply of food and water through feeding tubes could be cut off, just as extraordinary medical steps can be under existing law. “This legislation puts the decisions about health care where they should belong with the individual and the family,” said Hayes. REP. VERNON G. Smith, DGary, recounted the death of his mother, the Rev. Julia E. Smith, last summer. He said after she died of kidney problems, he said he decided to write a living will to order the cessation of extraordinary

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Vera Fedulova, who lives in a Moscow apartment with her elderly sister, Anna, displays the meager supplies of cabbage, onions, eggs, potatoes and meat the pair have stashed away because of economic reforms that have in-

Moscow residents are crying over sparse milk

MOSCOW (AP) Like many adults, Valentina Zhukova has been desperately searching Moscow’s stores for milk, if only for the children in the family. But Zhukova’s experience was typical. ATTRACTED BY a window display of blue-and-white milk cartons, she dragged her 4-year-old grandson into Milk Store No. 29 on Wednesday. She was a week late. “He only gets tea to drink,” Zhukova said, angry at finding another store out of milk. “I don’t even remember the last time I bought milk!” Milk has all but disappeared from the Russian capital in recent

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REP. RICHARD DELLINGER Now is not the time

life-prolonging procedures if he became terminally ill. “If it comes to the point I’m going to be in a vegetative state, let me pass,” he said, holding up his living will. “That is my decision. That is not something imposed on me.” Rep. Vanessa Summers Barnes, D-Indianapolis, said her father, former Rep. Joseph Summers, had made it clear he didn’t want extraordinary life-prolonging procedures before he died of cancer last year. “HE LET US KNOW he would rather die than have a quality of life he didn’t know anything about,” she said. But others told similar stories but gave them different interpretations.

creased some food prices 10 times. Missing - from the Fedulova’s stock is milk, which has become an increasingly difficult commodity to obtain in the Russian capital. Transporation woes are cited as the problem. (AP photo)

weeks, creating despair among parents worried about their children’s health. THE PRICE OF milk has tripled since President Boris N. Yeltsin lifted price controls in Russia on Jan. 2, but other food items are as much as 10 times higher. Milk is one of the few goods whose price remains under state control. Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs, who is advising the government on its transition to a free market economy, said last week that state stores had refused shipments of milk because they could not charge their customers as much as they had to pay distributors. He said price controls on milk should be lifted.

Here’s how they voted on the living will bill:

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Here is the roll call by which the Indiana House defeated on Wednesday a bill allowing people with living wills to authorize withdrawal of life-prolonging artificial feedings: VOTING YES (43) DEMOCRATS (29) Avery, Barnes, Boatwright, Bodiker, Bottorff, Bowser, Brown, Cochran, Crawford, Crosby, Day, Eddy, Fry, Goodall, Harris, R. Hayes, J. Hays, Howard, Kearns, Kinser, Klinkcr, Kruzan, Leuck, Matonovich, Robertson, Smith, Tincher, Webber, Wolf. REPUBLICANS (14) Bales, Bayliff, Becker, Bray, Budak, Conlon, Davis, Engle, Fcsko, Hoover, Keeler, Musselman, Pond, Scholer.

Rep. Gary L. Cook, D-Plymouth, said he and his family “were doing anything we could to keep my father (former Rep. Edward Cook) alive” before his death two years ago. He said he feared the bill would lead Indiana down the road toward euthanasia or assisted suicide. OTHER OPPONENTS of the measure criticized it as 100 vague. Rep. Frank Newkirk Jr., RSalcm, said current law allowed termination of medical procedures if death was to occur within a short period of time. He claimed H.B. 1001 lengthened the time frame by permitting cessation of care in cases “for which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, the provision of the life-prolonging procedures will artificially prolong the dying process.” There could be cases in which care was cut off, for example, for a terminally ill person who could live for years but who was temporarily unconscious, he said. OTHER LAWMAKERS said they feared the Legislature was rushing to a judgment on a perplexing and complex issue. “This is something a lot of people in Indiana want,” said Rep. Richard M. Dellinger, R-Nobles-ville. “Ils time will come. But I don’t think this is something we should do now.” The House vote comes after a year in which the right-to-die

MUNICIPAL authorities say the shortage stems from transportation problems. The Interfax news agency said the city produces enough milk for its people, but more trucks are needed to haul the milk in from dairies. Angry Muscovites held up traffic by blocking a bridge near the Russian government building earlier this month to protest the lack of milk. The European Community has donated tons of powdered milk to sell in state stores, but those supplies will not meet the demand. • “Last Thursday was the last time we had milk,” said a cashier, Nina Valeyeva.

VOTING NO (55) DEMOCRATS (21) Bailey, Bauer, Beck, Bischoff, Cheatham, Cook, Denbo, Dobis, Dvorak, GiaQuinta, Goble, Gregg, Grubb, Heeke, Hric, Hume, Kromkowski, Larry Lutz, McConnell, Villalpando, Wilson. REPUBLICANS (34) Adams, Aiderman, Ayres, Bosma, Brinkman, Buell, Bulen, Burton, Cottey, Dellinger, Donaldson, Espich, Fox, Gabet, Gocglein, Jones, Kruse, Linder, Jack Lutz, Mangus, Mannweiler, Mock, Nelson, Newkirk, Pool, Robbins, Roorda, Ruckelshaus, Schmid, Stephan, Turpin, Warner, Wolkins, Young. NOT VOTING (2) DEMOCRATS Phillips, Sabatini.

debate has commanded headlines in Indiana and elsewhere. Last year, Hayes sponsored a similar bill that passed both the House and the Senate. HOWEVER, A compromise version of the measure was defeated late in last year’s session after conservative religious groups, including the Citizens Concerned for the Constitution, rallied opposition to the measure. Last summer, Dr. William and Bonita Lawrancc of Indianapolis became embroiled in a long legal dispute when they went to court to seek affirmation of their decision to stop artificial feedings to Sue Ann Lawrance, a 42-year-old woman in a persistent vegetative state who could not make the decision for herself. Hayes’ bill would have specified that artificial feedings could be cut off to people in vegetative states. DR. LAWRANCE and his daughter-in-law, Jan, watched Wednesday’s debate from the House gallery. The state Supreme Court held last year, after Miss Lawrance had died, that her family had the right to order the feedings withheld without seeking judicial review of their decision. Hayes’ bill would have made it clear that people who were competent to make decisions about their own care could also opt not to have life-sustaining artificial feedings.