House passes mental health care bill HARRISBURG (AP) After months of clamor for health care cov erage for mental illness, the state House yesterday passed legislation to require it for the most serious cases. However, the measure would only cover businesses with more than 50 employees, drawing criticism that it did not go far enough. The amended bill, which passed 193-4, now goes to the Senate. If passed into law, it would affect 2.7 million Pennsylvanians, according to the state Insurance Department. "This is not all the advocates want. But it is much more than what we now have, much more than the employer and insurance communities have accepted to date, and it guarantees that any future expansion will be done in a reasoned, Pennsylvania-specific way," said Rep. Nicholas Micozzie, R-Delaware. Mental health advocates have long argued that insurance companies have discriminated against patients by refusing to offer the same type of coverage they do for physical ailments. Last month, about 200 men tal health advocates rallied at the Capitol for a bill to be passed before the end of this year. Democrats said the bill was nothing more than a "pilot program," because it covered only about one-quarter of the employers in the state. Mental health advocates wanted the legislation to cover compa nies with at least 20 employees, they said. Internet sweethearts undergo kidney transplant PHILADELPHIA (AP) A couple who met on the Internet and mar ried in September underwent successful kidney transplant surgery yesterday. Their story attracted attention from around the world. lan Fleming gave a kidney to his new wife, Teresa, who has been plagued with health problems for 18 years and had been on a trans plant waiting list for the last six. The Flemings were resting comfortably last night in Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson Hospital. lan Fleming is expected to leave the hospi tal in five or six days, while Teresa will about stay a week. The couple's improbable journey to the operating room began in early fall 1997, when Teresa met her future husband in a chat room on America Online. They began exchanging e-mail, then trans-Atlantic phone calls. lan proposed on New Year's Eve and moved to York from Manchester, England, this summer. Fleming, 29, and 36-year-old Teresa attracted international interest via the Internet, of course. A Jefferson site monitored the surgeries throughout the day and posted messages from well-wishers in Eng land, Iceland, Ireland, Kenya, Spain and the United States. Vietnam Memorial wall lines up on Internet WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) The 58,196 names etched on the pol ished black granite of the Vietnam Memorial wall will be posted on the Internet together with the spoken memories of their families, Vice President Al Gore said yesterday. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Web site will be up and running at midnight on Veterans Day," Gore told a gathering of veterans in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. "For 15 years, people have come to the Vietnam Wall to run their hands across the names and remember those who never came home," Gore said. "Now, anybody who can run their hands across a computer keyboard will be able to make contact with those names and learn that they belong to brothers and sons, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters." Beginning now, users will be able to call up the Web site, click onto a deceased veteran's name and in many cases hear audio remembrances from family members or friends. In January, Web site visitors will be able to experience a "virtual wall," a recreation of the look of the Vietnam Memorial wall at its loca tion near the national mall. The audio memories will be preserved and expanded. The Vietnam Memorial Web site can be found at www.thevirtual wall.org. Republicans hand out memo defending Starr WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Expecting fierce Democratic attacks on Kenneth Starr when he testifies next week, House Judiciary Com mittee Republicans were going over a memo yesterday that empha sizes the prosecutor's "positive points." "Judge Starr is one of the country's premier lawyers," begins the two-part memo. The second part of the document, prepared by com mittee staff, focused on "response to recent attacks" on the indepen dent counsel by Democrats. The memo was handed out during a meeting yesterday with Chair man Henry Hyde, R-111., in which GOP members were apprised of the latest plans for impeachment hearings against President Clinton set to begin in nine days. Members who attended the meeting said Hyde laid out the same schedule as he did last week, which begins with Starr on Nov. 19 and includes only one other witness. But they added the committee is still discussing whether to call additional witnesses, such as Clinton confi dant Bruce Lindsey. Starr's appearance before the committee will mark the first time he has been publicly quizzed about the details of his four-year-plus probe. Serb police accused of violating cease fire STROVCE, Yugoslavia (AP) Mourners buried victims of the latest violence in Kosovo yesterday in a pair of funerals that symbolized the passions engulfing the Serbian province. The funerals, for an ethnic Albanian guerrilla whose family voiced pride in his separatist cause and a Serb policeman apparently killed in revenge, took place amid fresh outbreaks of violence. A Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla was killed and a policeman wounded in a clash yesterday in the central village of Negrovac. Several hundred people, mostly ethnic Albanians, have been killed and as many as 300,000 driven from their homes since Serb forces began cracking down on ethnic Albanian separatists last February. Ethnic Albanians comprise 90 percent of the 2 million populace in Kosovo, a province of Yugoslavia's dominant republic. Violence has intensified during the past week, after a lull resulting from NATO threats to strike at Serb targets unless authorities removed police and army units involved in the crackdown. Israel's Cabinet to reconvene for peace accord TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday he would convene his Cabinet to ratify the Mideast peace accord signed in Washington last month, indicating he is now satisfied with Palestinian security assurances. Netanyahu has postponed the Cabinet debate three times, saying he needed more clarifications from the Palestinians about their campaign against Islamic militants. Last Friday, the ministers had just begun their second day of debate when the militant Islamic Jihad group car ried out a suicide-bombing in Jerusalem's market, killing the two bombers and wounding 21 Israelis. In response, Netanyahu broke off the Cabinet meeting and said he would not reconvene until the Pales tinian Authority outlined its attack prevention against Israelis. Gamma Phi Beta would like tt :ongratulate its newest initiati Alexandrowicz Shannon Ma, Berrier Tina Mir Como irano Lauren Pi lan Creedon Jenn Pitcl . alie Glinka Erin R( la Gonzales Chrissie Ri 'en Houp Emily 5( .garet Howe Valerie Si n Infantino Eleina TI n Jacobson Kristin Ti ison Killian Kristen V " mug Sate! $lO.OO earl an week • I* : • P ,e•"f je \ • \ Bctie e &dim anemia 220 C S. Alta St. State Ca/lege (are We tent abut= Ifigktand Meg) 238-2966 Tare-Sat 12-7pmt • Information is a moving target. 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