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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1969 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- Key Senate ABM Vote Houston Heart Surgeons Under Medicare Probe Concluded From Page I sistent with her position all along. PAGE 9 it was through Kennedy's initiative that top scientists brought their opposition out in the open. Kennedy early this year commissioned a lengthy study of the ABM which led to a book-sized report that has formed the basis for much of the debate. Opponents of the ABM, meantime, appeared to be holding their own in the tight contest which many had expected to end in a last-minute rally of support for President Nixon. to spend billions constructing an ineffective defense around missiles which may themselves soon be obsolete." He declared that Safeguard's complex network of missiles, computers and radars would become "idle monuments" with no meaning in the realities of strategic planning.

Afterward, Kennedy was roundly praised by ABM opponents of both parties, including Hart and Cooper. Hart called the speech a "hallmark of his entire distinguished career" in the Senate and said Anderson and John Williams They have been trying for days without success to determine who the Republicans were counting as their 51st vote. Kennedy pulled no punches in urging the Senate to support an amendment to the $20 billion defense procurement bill that would bar ABM deployment for another year. A vote was set for 4 p.m. today with the outcome rated a toss-im.

HE SAID IT would be "folly Mrs. Smith is the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. She voted against the ABM in the committee and has opposed any money at all for it. A headcount taken for the White House showed the Cooper-Hart amendment losing 51-49. ABM opponents, however, contend they have 50 votes for their amendment, with 48 opposed and two undecided Senators Clinton 'A ah, 4 'v if I i) ft Jzl 0S LVt Washington (AP) Two Houston heart surgeons, ranked among the best in the world, are getting a special government checkup of their Medicare payments after receiving approximately $200,000 each last year.

Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and Dr. Denton A. Cooley, both famous for human heart transplants, are apparently the highest paid doctors in the nation under the Federal program of health care for the elderly.

Investigators have found no irregularities in the payments, which covered more than 1,000 difficult heart and circulatory system operations. They said the money went mostly into a Shop Wasson't Downtown 9:30 to All Other Stores Open 10 to 9 P.M. Viet War Concluded From Page 1 strength attained earlier this year.) Withdrawal of 125,000 men this year would fulfill Nixon's expressed desire to exceed Former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford's announced hope that 100 000 troops could be brought home in 1969. It would also mean a sizable reduction in U.S.

strength in South Vietnam, which now totals 536,000 men. AT THE OUTSET of his recent round-the-world trip, Mr. Nixon said in Guam he was reviewing the possibility of further troop withdrawals and would make his position clear in late August. It has been learned that he is considering a nation-wide broadcast from Los Angeles at that time on the next pullout of U.S. troops in his campaign li Hp (AP Wirephoto) DR.

DeBAKEY paid physicians in the state. At least seven other Texas doctors are also being covered by the same checkup. The Medicare amounts for DeBakey and Cooley are the highest sums made public to date across the nation. The previous Medicare high was listed at $191,000 annuallv for Dr. Morry S.

Fox, a Miami, osteopath, in a government report that was compiled before 1968 records were DR. COOLfeV whole range of cardiovascular operations and open heart surgery." Efforts to contact Cooley were unsuccessful. His Houston office said he was not available for comment. THE investigation, being handled by Blue Shield, which runs the Medicare program in Texas for the government, was begun routinely when the two doitors showed up on a list of the top- to "Vietnamese" the war. college fund.

COOLEY received $193,124, according to the records. The names of both doctors appear in the files of a Senate committee which has been probing high payments to doctors under Medicare as well as Medicaid, the companion program of health care for the poor. A congressional investigator stressed, "DeBakey is an honorable man and so Is Dr. Cooley. They are not cheatiucc the government in any way." Officials said the Medicare payments went mainly into the general fund of the Baylor College of MpHiraro in Senate Republican Leader Everett M.

Dirksen told newsmen after attending a White House breakfast meeting Mon day there is "evident belief" in the administration that more men could be removed from the war and that such Multiple Warheads On Polaris Revealed an announcement was forth coming later this month. But Dirksen said he had no idea how many men would be in volved. DeBakey is president of the medical school and Cooley was on the faculty until this spring. DeBakey said the payments covered operations by a team of doctors, rather than himself alone. MEDICARE records listed payments for 642 operations by DeBakey's group and 408 under Cooley's name last year.

An official in the treasurer's office at the Baylor medical school said most nf tha'no. Southport Concluded From Page 1 islation. Inriiananolis Citv Council President Thomas C. Hasbrook said last night he was not aware of Southport's annexa tion proposal. "Althouch Southport would ments were kept by the fund.

althminl. nort have a certain amount of autonomy from metropolitan trnvernment as provided for by pan ui we money was paid to DeBakey and Cooley under a fee arrangement. He would not give other details. DeBakey, in a telephone interview, said his staff is checking now to make certain lL-1. the Uni-Gov bill, the city would not fall into the same category as Speedway, Beech Grove and Lawrence wnicn are exempt from the metropolitan government," Hasbrook said.

uiai ine payments ail went into the Baylor fund. The operations were performed at a number of different hospitals, he said, and involved "the tiple re-entry vehicles on operational missiles. This was at the time, he said, when it became evident Russia was developing ABM technology and appeared to be fielding an anti-ballistic missile. Foster also noted that the Soviets have deployed ABM radars and missiles in the Moscow area plus large numbers of another defensive system around Tallinn which, he said, could be converted into an effective ABM defense of Soviet urban-industrial areas. "Soviet defense, in other words, could achieve the potential to intercept and destroy a significant percentage of the American deterrent missile warheads and therefore could 'hrpaten the credibility and effectiveness of our deterrent," Foster said.

"WE NEED a more reliable method of delivering our deception devices and ourx warheads. We need, essentially, to be able to spread them out in space so that one Soviet defensive nuclear burst cannot destroy several American war heads or a whole cloud of decoys." Foster said the United States did not want to solve this problem by adding to the number of offensive missile launchers which would insure penetration of Soviet city defenses, but also would carry "an un-acceptably high risk of stimulating the arms race which we would like to avoid if at all possible." Instead, Foster said, a turn was made to Minuteman and Polaris improvements which could produce individually directed multiple warhead Gray said Southport city officials have drafted "a compre Washington (AP) The United States has submarine-' carried missiles which are equipped with multiple warheads, the Defense Department said yesterday. The first public acknowledgement of this fact came from John S. Foster director of the department's research and engineering. He appeared before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee inquiry into the MIRV multiple independently a te reentry vehicles question.

Foster testified behind closed doors but his statement was released by the panel. IN IT, Foster said that multiple re-entry vehicles are deployed on the existing Polaris A-3 missile. "However," he added, "both the Polaris multiples and our other early penetration aids were deployed in a way which placed them relatively close to one another when they arrived near the target." The subcommittee has been holding a series of hearings on the advisability of a mutual moratorium with the Soviet Union on the flight testing of multiple war head missiles. Foster said he felt that an arms control agreement involving a mutual ban on MIRVs was possible. "In fact," Foster said, "there are many reasons why such an agreement would be desirable the context of ABM controls and other restrictions." FOSTER told the panel the United States since the early 1960s has deployed both deceptive or dummy and mul hensive plan which will ade ACCENT ON YOUTH-MISS ARIS LITTLE LEATHER GLOVES Complete Today's look with these sporty, shorty deerskin gloves accented with hand-stitched seams.

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