The Nation - News from Oct. 4, 1985

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to earmark $221 million for AIDS research, model treatment programs and a special hot line for victims of the disease. The Senate bill expands the $189 million approved by the House on Wednesday for AIDS. The measure includes $203 million for AIDS research, adds $16 million to develop model treatment programs in areas of the country with the highest concentration of AIDS victims, and sets aside $2 million for a national, toll-free AIDS hot line. The funding increase for research on AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--was proposed by Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-Conn.) as part of a $105-billion fiscal 1986 spending bill.