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METRO EDITION 25c Louisville, Tuesday morning, March 1, 1983 32 Pages Vol 256. No. 60 Copyright 1983, The Courier-Journal More U.S. advisers being considered for El Salvador For the last 11 years, millions of television viewers have followed the lives of the doctors and soldiers stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Last night, viewers joined together for a final fQ3 i i planned $60 million increase in military aid to El Salvador was crucial because the guerrillas are "dedicated to tearing the country up." Shultz rejected the notion of negotiations between guerrillas and the Salvadoran government, saying the insurgents are seeking "to shoot their way" into power and not lay down their arms and enter into elections and the democratic process.

White House officials said the review of Central American policy began four weeks ago on Reagan's orders. Also, Reagan, Shultz, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and other key administration officials have met in recent days to study the increased intensity of guerrilla attacks against Salvadoran government bridges, power lines and villages. The spokesman aboard Air Force One said the policy review on El Salvador and Central America "is far broader than just funding," men-See EL SALVADOR Back page, col.

1, this section By BERNARD WEINRAUB Mm Ver Tlmw Mm Unfit WASHINGTON President Reagan is considering increasing the 55-man limit on the number of U.S. military advisers for El Salvador, a senior White House official said yesterday. The official, who met reporters aboard Air Force One as Reagan flew to California, said no decision has been on a possible Increase. He said the option of increasing the number of advisers is being considered as part of an overall review of policy in Central America. The disclosure came hours after Reagan and Secretary of State George P.

Shultz expressed anxiety to congressional officials about what they called the declining situation-in El Salvador. Reagan told a bipartisan congressional group at the White House that El Salvador "faces a difficult situation" because of "arms supplies coming into the guerrillas." Shultz, in Senate testimony, said a -y-M1HJW MMMtMWHIMMlM MlaiMMiMHMM nr. JJD Deficit resolution may put governors in opposing camps y- i 4 1 Vs5- I i 3l 4 1 i. arf I 1" A ft W8 By JOHN A. MacDONALD Ceorier-Jeuntal Natlenal Editor WASHINGTON A resolution calling for restraint in defense spending and for a deferral of federal income tax cuts threatened yesterday to add a bitter partisan squabble to the agenda for the final day of the winter meeting of the National Governors' Association.

The toughly worded resolution was presented yesterday afternoon by Wisconsin Gov. Anthony Earl, a Democrat, who said it will be offered today as a substitute for a policy statement on the federal budget that the association's executive committee endorsed Sunday. President Reagan, who met with the governors at the White House early yesterday, rejected the milder policy statement because it calls for limiting future increases in defense spending. Several governors who met with Reagan said he strenuously objected to the executive committee's proposal, which urges a 3 percent to 5 per A Staff pKata by DuraN MaM Sharon Clark shed a few tears at the "M'A'S'H Bash" at The Louisville Inn last night. By ELINOR J.

BRECHER and DAVID GOETZ Caurtar-Jawnal StaH Wrltar Father John Mulcahy was there in a clerical collar; he said he'd be hearing confession at 10. Cpl. Maxwell Klinger was there in a toga, with earrings and a purse; he said be didnt want to get arrested. Maj. H.

R. Mayer was there In regulation crew cut and camouflage fatigues; he said Maj. H. R. Mayer? You're right; he isn't a "M'A'SH" character.

He's the real thing, one of several bona fide military types who showed up at last night's "MASH Bash" at The Louisville Inn. "MASH" in case you've been on Mars for the past few weeks aired Its final episode last night at 8:30. Based on a 1970 movie about life in a Army field hospital during the Korean War, the CBS television show has won 14 Emmy Awards and has been on the air since Sept. 17, 1972. Thousands of loyal fans in the Louisville area commemorated the grand finale by dressing as characters in the show and gathering to watch it on big-screen televisions at restaurants and bars around town.

Louisville Inn employees decided to add a little authenticity to the ballroom setting. Inside a candle-lighted tent made of sheets, a partly dismembered mannequin, her gown and bandages smeared with ketchup, lay on an operating table. An inverted liquor bottle served as an intravenous bottle. "We call It 'Hawkeye's explained Max McElhaney, the hotel's director of sales. Hawkeye is, of course, Capt.

Benjamin Franklin Pierce, the surgeon played by Alan Alda. About 300 revelers at the bash, sponsored by KJ100 Radio, were treated to the original "MASH" movie before the television show began. "Mashers" were Invited to partake of a complimentary MASH Mess, featuring green eggs, greasy bacon, SOS (you-know-what on a shingle), and lumpy mashed potatoes. Typical military fare, according to McElhaney. Maj.

Mayer, who processes recruits in Louisville, wasn't interested. "Let people who have never had to, eat it," he said. Mayer, 32, is what you might call hard-core. "I used to enjoy the program before Hawkeye got serious and moral," said Mayer, an 11 -year Marine. "He made a jackass out of himself the last year or two, throwing little tantrums about how bad war is.

Nobody needs to be told war is stupid, but the only way to stay out of war is to be so big that no one will want to pick on you." Seeing the film prompted serious thoughts from Vicent Rodgers. Dressed in the Army uniform he hadn't worn since the Vietnam War era, Rodgers, a former private first class, said the movie "did more to make people accept Vietnam veterans than any memorial could." Rodgers, a shipping clerk at Cela-nese Plastics, said the movie may ostensibly have been about Korea, but it is really about Vietnam. "It's amazing the influence that Hollywood has over people's opinions," said Rodgers, 36. 'MASH' made people understand that some See 'M'A'S'H Bashes' Back page, col. 4, this section inside Staff PtMt by M.ima Farlow Sharon Sizemore showed off her combat at Jewish Hospital yesterday on "MAS'H boots to Freda Manion and Margaret McGinty Day," in honor of the show's finale.

Child-abuse case leaves few answers but many victims nr riv: StaH Phot by Dur.ll Hall interferon States that are conducting an interferon study on patients who suffer from a group of cancers collectively called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The centers will combine the information on the patients they treat, so the study will be large enough to be statistically valid. About 40 patients will be treated, including five to 10 in Louisville. About 20 cancer specialists in Louisville and Western Kentucky received letters from the Louisville cancer center recently, informing See CANCER Back page, col. 1, this section cent limit on increases in defense spending over the next five years.

That's about half as much as the White House has proposed. The policy statement Is part of a six-point plan designed to reduce the size of the federal deficit to $90 billion by 1988. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the 1988 deficit will be about three times that large. The governors are concerned that high federal budget deficits will kill the economic recovery that the White House says is under way. They are trying for the first time to adopt a comprehensive statement on federal budget priorities.

Earl's resolution contends that the defense budget "has not been critically examined." In one especially tough section, it claims that, "Some increases in defense spending, particularly those aimed at putting in place exotic new weapons systems, may simply add See GOVERNORS Back page, col. 1, this section The prosecutor, Ernie Jasmin, describes it as a "a rather frustrating case to me" because of a botched police investigation, confusing medical records and insufficient evidence to prove the original charge. The parents, Charles Madrey, 35, and his wife, Michelle, 25, hav been "victimized," Ms. Osterholt said. She said people have thrown bricks at their house, frienas have shunned them, and they've been followed in the streets.

But "they were not abusing their children as has been implied all along" She said they are guilty only of not knowing how to care for two children with serious health problems. The Madreys have limited intelligence, Ms. Osterholt said. They were hard-pressed to deal with the twins, a boy and a who were See TWINS' Back page, col. 1, this section Louisville By ROBERT L.

PEIRCE Ceurler-Jeurnat Staff Writer Interferon, an experimental anticancer drug that has been the object of intense worldwide scientific investigation, will be tested on a group of Kentucky patients in the next several months. A supply of the drug arrived last week at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Louisville. Physicians will use it on patients who suffer from a family of cancers that attack the body's lymphatic system. Dr. Joseph Allegra, a cancer specialist who is acting chairman of the University of Louisville's Depart ri 5 Tom Ballard dressed as By CAROLYN COLWLLL Ceurler-Journal Staff Writer A dramatic child-abuse case that has stretched over almost two years came to an end yesterday.

It came to light in March 1981 when the parents of 15-month-old twins were indicted for first-degree assault that allegedly led to the blindness of one child and the other child's loss of fiight in one eye. The case concluded in Jefferson Circuit Court yesterday when the parents were placed on probation after pleading guilty to fourthdegree assault in connection with the bruising of one child and the spanking of another. The couple also relinquished their parental rights. How this case changed from a serious felony to a misdemeanor is a story about how two parents "Just got caught up in a kind of horrible machinery that literally just ground them up and spit them out," one of their attorneys, Lynne Osterholt, said last night. March on, sun Klinger while he served as bartender at The Louisville Inn.

cancer clinic to test Natlanal Waathar Sarvlca LOUISVILLE area Partly sunny today. Mostly sunny and warm tomorrow. High today, near 60; tomorrow, low 60s. Low tonight, low 40s. KENTUCKY Sunny west, becoming partly cloudy east today.

Mostly sunny and warm tomorrow. Highs today, mid-50s to near 60; tomorrow, low to mid-60s. lows tonight, low to mid-40s. High yesterday, 59; low, 32. Year ago yesterday: High, 57; low, 28.

Sun: Rises, 7:15 EST; sets, 6:36. Moon: Rises, 9:27 p.m.; sets, 8:54 a.m. Weather map and details, Page 4. President Reagan sends Congress a plan to control medical costs by changing the health-in- surance system A 2 Accent Section Classified ads 7-11 Comics 12 Deaths 4y Dimension page A 5 Marketplace 5-8 Opinion page A People A Zv Racing entries 5V Show clock 4y Sports 1-6 TV, radio C2y said. However, the American Cancer Society has spent more money on interferon a natural substance found in small quantities in the body than it has on any other single research effort.

Private companies also have spent nearly $500 million to produce interferon and conduct research on it, according to a recent cancer-society report. Experimental trials with cancer patients have begun in several parts of the country. And the Louisville cancer center is one of seven iristitu-tions in the Southeastern United. ment of Medicine, says the drug has never before been used on cancer patients in the Louisville area. "Potentially, it is a very exciting drug," said Dr.

Thomas T. Kubota, a former researcher at the National Cancer Institute who will direct the Louisville study. About 66 million Americans now living will eventually get cancer, according to cancer-society statistics. This year, about 440,000 cancer victims will die, including 7,000 in Kentucky and 10,400 in Indiana. There's no clear proof that interferon attacks the disease more effectively than existing Kubota.