Bush squashes Oregon Medicaid plan NATIONAL VV A S H I N G T O N (AP) — The Rush ad ministration on Mon day rejected Oregon's plan to extend Medi caid health coverage to more people by ra Honing services lor mu pour, »mymg n would violalo a now federal law protecting the disabled. However, Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan indicated that the administration wanted to approve some thing similar to what Oregon had proposed and invited the state to ask again once it worked out the legal wrinkles "I urge Oregon to submit a revised appli cation which addresses these concerns, and I look forward to approving such a demon stration," Sullivan said in a letter Monday to Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts. The decision brought outcries from Sen Bob Packwood, K-Ore , and others, with Pad wood saying it would hurt President Bush's re-election chances in Oregon The stale planned to bring 120.0(H) more poor people under the health coverage of Medicaid But to do that, it would limit what services would Ik1 paid for with public money Medicaid would cover only S7H of 700 medical procedures on a list estab lished by the state Conditions that would not have been cov ered under the plan Include those which generally get better on their own. where home treatment is more effective and where there is little or no hope. They include ex pensive treatments for incurable cancer, liv er transplants for alcoholics, the final stages of AIDS and premature babies who have virtually no i banco of survival. Oregon's proposal — for which (he state legislature had approved spending an esti mated S:«> million was an experiment which would have required the federal gov ernment to grant the slate an exemption from other legal requirements. The Medi caid program provides health cure for the poor and is administered by tho stales un der rules set down by the federal govern ment Tho federal and state governments share the costs Other states looking for ways to deal with their own soaring Medicaid t osts were watching the Oregon experiment to see if It would get approval, and, if so. how well in worked. In his letter to the governor. Sullivan said that "given the real possibility that Oregon's general approach will serve as a model for other states, it is critically important that It go forward only with strict adherence to the legal protections that President Hush has worked so hard to enact ” I’ackwood, who faces a tough ro-elecllon race this year, said he was "outraged and disappointed" at the decision, and com plained bitterly that the state had been "stabbed in the h.u k LSD guru eyes new drug — CD-ROM BLVIiRLY HILLS. Calif. (AH) — Psssst. Timothy Leary is concocting u new psychedelic experience "And it's still legal. So don't toll anybody,” he whispers conspiratorily. But Leary will tell you he’s never been more serious than ho is about this new psychedelic experience, the one called CD-ROM. "Those letters are more important than LSD — and oven CIA," ho continues good-naturedly. "CD-ROM is going to be just as revolu tionary as the invention of the pencil and paper for democratizing and empow ering the people.” CD-ROM, for those who haven't heard, is the latest computer rage, merging compact disc-created sights and sounds with personal databases. The result is a computer ized audio-visual program so all-encompassing that a per son could store on a single computer disc an encylopedia, dictionaries containing all the words of a dozen languages, an Atlas and a film library — and still have room to include a col lection of favorite records. Gore raps ‘hypocritical president’ NEWARK, Calif (AP) Son Al Coro on Monday rekindled Ins attacks on Prosidont Bush's environmental record .is Gore’s role of chief spokesman on en vironmental issues lor the Dem ocratic presidential ticket con tinues to evolve. While visiting a plant that turns used oil into automobile brake fluid. Industrial lu bricants and other products. Gore mockcxl Bush's 1 ‘JHH cam paign pledge to lie the "envi ronmental president," saying Bush instead was "the hypo critical president," Campaign aides said Gore's stop at the Evergreen Oil Go., located in this San Francisco Bay-area community, was de signed to point to what they culled "the ultimate example of Bush's hypocrisy on the envi ronmortt." The president visited tho 10O-worker oil recycling facili ty in Juno, evoking cries of pro lest from environmentalists, who churned tho White House had not supported tho oil re cycling Industry. The Tennessee senator has taken tho lead In criticizing White House environmental policies since he accepted a spot on the Democratic ticket with Arkansas Gov Dill ('Un ion Gore was outspoken on the issue during tho Democratic National Convention, but had said little about it since He told reporters traveling on his campaign Jet that the ad ministration has refused to en force a federal requirement for companies that either bum or dump oil to remove lead and Report on AIDS ends with suspended staff BOSTON {AI’J Two now* staff member* of Monitor Radio, a broadcast service of the Christian Set once Church, worn placed on paid loave after refusing to air an apology for a report on AIDS Monitor Radio executives said they received many calls front of fender! church members after the nationally broadcast report on AIDS prevention in Thailand. It described male prostitutes' attire and mentioned that AIDS workers used cucumber* to demonstrate how to put on condoms Ken Bader, producer of Early Edition, and Dale Willmnn. its host, defended the report as appropriate for its early-morning lime slot. Broadcast editor David Cook said Bader and Wlllman, who are not Christian Scientists, wore suspended last week for insubordina tion. not for disagreeing with the decision to air the apology Wlllman said Monitor editors told him Wednesday he could take a reporting job in Chicago with a S10.000 cut In pay. resign or be dismissed. Senate moves closer to nuke-test ban WASHINGTON (AP) — Tho Senate headed Monday toward sharply restricting — and eventu ally ending — U.S. testing of nuclear weapons, defying President Bush and culminating a four decade struggle by testing opponents. "Surely there has to be some kind of un end to this activity," said Son. Mark Hatfield. K-()re. "Are wc really locked Into tho proposition that testing goes on m perpetuity?" A provision pushed by Hatfield, Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., und Majority Loader George Mitch ell, D-Maino, would impose a nine-month mora torium on nuclear weapons tests, then permit limited safety testing for three years, losting would bo halted altogether in 19*10. The moratorium was attached to a $22 billion measure financing federal water projects and en ergy programs for fiscal 1993. which starts Oct. 1. A version of the bill already passed by the House contains a one-year moratorium on testing, ensur ing that some test limits will lie in the final bill. Bush is expected to veto the measure. Defense Secretary Oick Cheney told a hearing last week that continued lusting is "absolutely vital” to en suro safety and reliability of the U S. arsenal Bush maintains that a certain number of tests oach your — now set at six — is needed to ensure warheads will explode when they're supposed to, and won't whim they are not. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton favors an immediate reduction in the number of nuclear tests, followed quickly by a comprehen sive ban on testing. A lWi.'t treaty twinned nuclear test explosions atxive ground, but underground tests at the Ne vada test site have continued. They are used to develop new weapons designs, to test safety sys tems, to ensure that weapons work and produce desired yiolds, and to test other weapons and sys tems in the environment of a nuclear explosion. other pollutants Evergreen ofTit iaIs welcomed flush, hut have themselves crit ic i/ed tin! administration fur not lucking a t)