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i I inn I 1 Hoof prints Harry Sargent' is considered to be one of the best equine photographers in the business. BayLBfa Friday IJLIJEj Metro March 8, 1985 91st Year No. 58 Tampa, Florida Seven Sections 122 Pages 25 Cents TAMPATEIB Panel deadlocked on Social Security Senate Budget Committee members were unable to agree on several plans for handling the qiant retirement system. I next year. 1 On a vote of 20-0, the committee rejected President Reagan's recommendations to raise costs to Medicare patients.

1 The vote on Medicare mirrored earlier votes in which the committee chose to freeze spending on dozens of domestic programs in defiance of Reagan's recommendation to eliminate some, such as the subsidy for Amtrak, or cut sharply a few others, such as the student loan program. But the pattern was broken when Social Security was considered. The panel voted 12-9 against a proposal by Domenici to freeze So cial Security benefits in 1986. and then allow the usual cost-of-living adjustments in subsequent years. Also defeated, 18-3, was a move by Sen.

Ernest F. Hollings, that would have frozen benefits next year for all Social Security recipients except those at the poverty level. In subsequent years, his plan would have held cost-of-living adjustments to 2 percentage points below the rate of inflation. However, the panel also voted 13-8 and 12-9 against preserving the status quo, as pressed by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Domenici argued that he was seeking to freeze all benefit payments the government makes to individuals in order to gain acceptance of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan.

"No one will get a cut, everyone will get a check," Domenici said. But Moynihan argued that Social Security already had taken its share of cuts when Congress passed legislation in 1983 to reform it "Social Security is stable, it is not broke," Moynihan said. Sen. Don Riegle, said freezing Social Security benefits See BUDGET, Page 8A Domenici said another vote this week was unlikely. was unable to muster a majority vote on any of several plans for handling the giant retirement system.

"We have to vote again, but not this week," said Sen. Pete V. Domenici, the committee chairman. Earlier, the committee agreed to deny both hospitals and doctors any increase in Medicare payment rates fx. Transplant 1 Patient critical after 'desperate' search for second donor heart I By ARTHUR H.

ROTSTEIN Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. A 33-year-old auto mechanic, kept alive 11 hours with a new artificial heart during a "desperate" search for a donor, Improved slightly Thursday but remained in critical condition with a "less than 25 percent" chance of recovery, doctors said. Meanwhile, the medical community debated the ethics of using the unapproved experimental pump for the patient, Thomas Crelghton of Tucson. Crelghton on Wednesday received the Phoenix Heart, which was never before used on a human, and was replaced with a human heart in an operation that ended at 3:15 a.m. Thursday at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center.

The Phoenix Heart was implanted after Creighton's body rejected a first human donor heart, transplanted Tuesday. Dr. Jack Copeland, head of the university's heart transplant program, said it was "a long shot to have him survive." At an evening news briefing, however, he said: By DAVID ESPO Associated Press WASHINGTON The Senate Budget Committee moved methodically Thursday toward sculpting a budget freeze for 1986, but deadlocked over the politically explosive issue of Social Security. The Republican-controlled panel "There is a trend toward Improvement that we have seen today." Creighton's lungs remained full of fluid but his blood pressure was stable and he had returned to a normal level and the operation of his kidney was improving, Copeland said. "It remains to be seen how much more recovery he will make," Copeland said.

"We are still looking at an unlikely event that he should make a full recovery The chances are probably less than 25 percent." Asked how long Creighton could continue In the same condition, Copeland said, "I don't know." Earlier, Copeland and Dr. Cecil Vaughn, who conducted animal research with the Phoenix Heart, said their decision to use the device was simply a matter of life vs. death. And, critics said, whether Creighton lives or dies probably would determine the response of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, whose officials expressed concern that regulations on artificial heart Implants were not followed.

"I don't anticipate them (the See PATIENT, Page 8Ai gans division. Kolff was instrumental In the development of the Jarvlk-7 artificial heart first implanted Into the chest of Barney Clark in Salt Lake City In 1982. "The patient was doomed to die within an hour or so. Doctors could let the patient die, or do something unorthodox," Kolff said. "From a scientific point of view, the Arizona case was an Idea: Indication for the use of an artificial heart" Clark lived 112 days with the Jar-vik-7 Heart.

Two men have since received the device, and both are living in a Louisville, Ky hospital. If the Tucson patient survives, Kolff said, hts case would "enormously advance the cause of the artificial heart." The mechanical pump sustained See SURGEONS, Page 8A Doctor says it was a decision to save life, not experiment O'Neill: MX foes i stand firm A leading GOP senator foresees at least 55 Senate votes for the MX. By LAWRENCE L. KNUTSON Associated Press WASHINGTON House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.

said Thursday that despite an Intensive lobbying campaign by President Reagan, at least 200 House Democrats are prepared to kill the MX missile. In the Senate, Assistant Republican leader Ted Stevens of Alaska said he believes at least 55 of 100 senators eventually will vote Tor continuing MX production. While sources said House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin is prepared to vote for continued MX financing later this month, O'Neill said he met with Aspin and had not yet given up hope that he could be persuaded to vote against the missile. "He left me clouded, to the extent that I am still working on It," O'Neill told reporters. Aspin, from Wisconsin, was persuaded by arguments that killing the powerful, long-range nuclear missile just after U.S.-Soviet arms control talks convene March 12 in Geneva would undermine the American negotiating position, the sources said.

The Reagan administration has been lobbying heavily for continued MX funding, with Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Secretary of State George P. Shultz appearing before congressional committees Thursday to urge support for the weapons system. But O'Neill called the Democratic vote against the MX a "solid block," and House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, while saying he would make his own position known later, added, "You haven't often heard me dispute the speaker." O'Neill said "the White House is using tremendous pressure" on members of Congress to endorse See MISSILES, Page 8A Chrysler favors foreign purchases OC Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A.

lacocca said Thursday his company Is abandoning plans for hundreds of millions of dollars in domestic expansion in favor of foreign purchases. Landers 5D Movie Times friday extral Newsmakers 16A News of 12B Sports 1C Television 40 Town Topics 30 Troubleshooter 3D i i I' fcrrim-t-31 1 1 -j By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. Surgeons who implanted an unapproved artificial heart after a man rejected one human donor heart and before a second became available said Thursday they were saving a life, not experimenting. "All this falderal is nothing more than a group of doctors faced with a patient who would have been dead unless we used this (artificial) heart," said Dr.

Cecil Vaughn, reacting to the controversy which surfaced after the first use of the Phoenix Heart in a human Wednesday. "It was a situation where the alternative Is death," said Dr. Wlllem Kolff, director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and head of the University of Utah's artlfical or -v the courtroom, Coe advised Duboise not to make further outbursts. But the judge said he understood Duboise was in a "tough" situation. "You don't know how tough it Is," Duboise shot back.

Coe admitted that he didn't He tried to soothe Duboise, saying the young man had many appeals in front of him. "This Is not the last step," the judge said. "It Is the last step," Duboise sobbed aloud. But when the jury returned, Duboise was more subdued as the attorneys tried to persuade the jury as to why Duboise should or should not die. Assistant State Attorney Mark A.

Ober told the Jury Duboise's case contained four of the nine reasons allowed under state law for Imposing the death penalty. Duboise has another violent conviction, the attemped sexual battery, Ober said. The death came In connection with a robbery. The victim was killed because she could Iden- See DUBOISE, Page 8A lating to the troupes 10:30 a.m. Renaissance Festival John Malloery practices his Juggling recently In preparation for Largo's Renaissance Festival.

The festival will feature activities re- Tribuno photo by DAN McDUFFIE Middle Ages, such as street-theater and magicians. The gates open at Saturday. See story, friday extral Duboise guilty; sentenced to death Inside Coffee linked with cholesterol A A A study of tr sedentary, middle-aged men has linked drinking more than two cups of coffee a day with higher levels of cholesterol and a protein associated with heart disease, researchers said. Index Astrology Bridge 7D Business 1-8E Classified 10C Comics Crossword 7D Deaths. 11 Editorial 18.19A Grams was walking home from work down North Boulevard.

The state's key evidence during the eight-day trial was the word of a dental expert. Dr. Richard Souvlron of Coral Gables, who said he had matched a bite mark on the victim's cheek to models of Duboise's teeth. A cellmate also testified that Duboise had confessed to him In jail. "F-k this s-t!" the 20-year-old Duboise exclaimed to bailiffs after he was found guilty.

He kicked his chair and slammed Into the courtroom door as he was escorted out by bailiffs. Adam and Shirley Grams, who had watted for the trial one year and 19 weeks, hugged each other in their front-row courtroom seats when the verdicts were announced at 3:13 p.m. "Justice," Shirley Grams said, tears streaming down her face. "We're a third of the way there," she said, referring to Duboise's two alleged companions, who have not been charged for lack of evidence. Before the sentencing portion of the trial, while the jury was out of The judge overrode the jury's 12-0 recommendation for a life sentence.

i By HOWARD TROXLER Tribune Staff Writer After swearing, kicking a chair and exchanging words with the judge, Robert Earl Duboise was sentenced Thursday to die In Florida's electric chair after a Hillsborough Jury took 14 hours to convict him of first-degree murder. Although the jury recommended by a 12-0 vote that Duboise be given life In prison, Circuit Judge Harry Lee Coe III overrode the Jury and imposed the death sentence. Duboise also was convicted of attempted sexual battery for his role on the night of Aug. 18, 1983. The state had charged that Duboise raped 19-year-old Barbara Grams, and two companions killed her, as Chuckle You can't believe everything you hear, but you might as well repeat it Just to be on the safe side.

Duboise was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted sexual battery for his role In the death of a 19-year-old woman. I.