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Congress made sure that Medicare patients will feel the pinch as well. Those enrolled in Medicare's voluntary physician-services program, which covers doctor and outpatient care, will pay $21.30 in monthly premiums by 1987 instead of the $18.60 they would have paid under previous law. Additional health-cost savings will come from two other measures: the elimination of a Government allowance used by hospitals for the purchase of high-tech equipment and the establishment of a schedule for laboratory fees...
Sunday at noon it was Harvard's Charlie Marchese against Maine reliever John Kowalski and it was almost over right at the start. Bill Reynolds led off the Maine 10th with a single, and Dave Gonyar came in to pinch run. Rick Bernardo bunted Gonyar to second, and Rob Roy got what should have been the game-winning hit. But Gonyar tripped over third base and had to hold. Marchese got the second out on a come backer to the mound, and Harvard escaped the inning when Weller caught Mike Bonlick's fly ball to center...
...Salvador's sake, to help cut the Salvadoran rebels' supply lines. Most Democrats in Congress, however, believe U.S. sponsorship of the insurgency is wrong, more trouble than it is worth, or both. Just an hour after the House approved the Salvadoran arms money, it voted to pinch off all funding for the contras...
According to the Administration, the Soviets are screaming because they feel the pinch of a tougher, more resolute American policy. They miss the palmy days when they could get their way against Reagan's gullible, accommodating predecessors; they realize that they are up against a new American leadership that will cooperate with them only on its own terms, that will compete with them vigorously and that will penalize them for their misdeeds. For that reason, Washington maintains, the Soviets' howls of protest, insofar as they are sincere, should be music to American and Western ears...
...report, however, is not likely to settle the fairness debate. At his press conference, Reagan argued that the report does not weigh the favorable impact of lower inflation on the poor, who have little discretionary income and thus feel more acutely the pinch of rising prices. The CBO confined its analysis to the direct effects of tax and budget cuts. Similarly, the CBO did not try to measure the impact of increases in Social Security taxes paid by wage earners, since the hikes were enacted, although not fully put into effect, before Reagan took office. Those increases reduced the take...