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4. Friday, May 5, 1995 The Greenville News 8A Conference on Aging seeks assurances on Social Security i Father to limit Baby Richard's visits to his adoptive parents The Associated Press CHICAGO The biological father of a child known as Baby Richard says he won't let the 4-year-old visit the adoptive parents who raised him since shortly after birth unless the boy specifically asks. Otakar Kirchner's attorney said today, however, his client may have spoken out of anger and realizes the child ultimately will have contact with adoptive parents Kimberly and Robert Warburton. The Warburtons, known in court papers as John and Jane Doe, surrendered Richard on Sunday. Wednesday, he said he would take Richard for visits only if he asked.

"He hasn't asked to see the Does or his brother," Kirchner told the Chicago Tribune. "He's saying he loves this house better than the other one. He's telling me his room is nicer, his clothes are nicer, his toys are nicer. Why should he see them if he's not asking?" Kirchner's attorney, Loren Heinemann, said Thursday that Kirchner may have misspoken. "If he had his he'd just as soon never see or hear from (the Warburtons) again," Heinemann said.

"But I think he agrees and recognizes that they will probably be seeing or dealing with each other." amples of government that works" and have lifted millions of seniors out of poverty, the first lady said. Any proposal must be judged on whether it goes "forwards or backwards" and makes care unafford-able for older Americans. The delegates were preparing a raft of resolutions demanding the federal government renew its commitment to Social Security, Medicare and other programs. "We need our Social Security," a California delegate said Wednesday. "They made a commitment back in 1934 (when it was created), and they should stick by it." More than 2,250 delegates have gathered in Washington to take part in the three-day conference, the fourth of its kind since 1961.

Recommendations from previous conferences led to major policy changes for the elderly, including the creation of Medicare, Medicaid and the Meals on Wheels program. After the 1971 conference, Congress increased Social Security benefits by 20 percent and began yearly cost-of-living increases. At Wednesday's workshops, delegates discussed 60 draft resolu- By Cassandra Burrell Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham Clinton, calling Medicare and Medicaid "examples of government that works," exhorted delegates to the White House Conference on Aging today to help keep Congress from taking backwards steps on health reform. The first lady joined a chorus of top Democrats accusing the Republicans of trying to cut the health lifeline for the elderly and poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich. "We need to address the growth in federal health-care costs, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do that," said Mrs.

Clinton, echoing points President Clinton himself made in kicking off the conference Wednesday. The Republicans' still incomplete plans to seek savings of up to $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid over seven years have re-invigorated the Clintons' voice about the need for health reforms, and they found a receptive audience at the Conference on Aging. "Medicare and Medicaid are ex LmiiifciimJi "a ft: i Ml DENIS PAQUINThe Associated Press Conference on Aging chat: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, flanked by Cecilia Paulie of Manassas, left, and Jane Burton of Midland Park, N.J., talks about the Medicare program at the White House Conference on Aging Thursday in Washington. tions on such issues as Social Security, Medicare, medical research on aging, elder abuse, retirement, employment and discrimination. They will take a final vote Friday least 260 delegates, or 10 percent, on which recommendations will be Many delegates seemed less sent to Congress and the adminis- concerned with seeking changes tration.

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Steven Nerem, a NASA scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said two years of mea surements from a satellite called To-pex-Poseidon have detected an average annual sea-level rise of 3.9 millimeters. Nerem said this is about double the increase detected worldwide by tidal gauges over the last century, raising concerns the general landward creep of the oceans has suddenly accelerated. "We're pretty sure that part of the rise we see is due to El Nino (a periodic weather pattern), and part of it is due to climate change," said Nerem. "We really can't separate the two right now." A report on the study by Nerem is to be published Friday in the journal Science. Bob Cheney, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, said the satellite measurements could give important warning of a global expansion of the sea but that more years of data are needed.

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"I'm disappointed the two states were unable to reach an acceptable compromise," Thurmond said in a statement released after the meeting. Joining Thurmond for the meeting in his office were Sens. Ernest F. Hollings, and Jesse Helms, Garland Garrett, North Carolina's deputy transportation secretary; and Buck Limehouse, chairman of the South Carolina Transportation Commission. Limehouse said, "Sen.

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