European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1977 prof says author of roots copied bestseller from her new York up a Mississippi col lege professor Friday sued roots author Alex charging his bestselling work was largely copied from a Book she published a decade reached in by denied he had read the Book by Margaret Walker director of the Black studies department at Jackson state her which she wrote under the name Margaret Walker and published in tells the talc of negro life in Eugi denied any benefits for leukaemia a a former i who says the leukaemia he is dying of was contracted during nuclear warfare training in the Nevada desert 20 years ago has been told he is ineligible for service related disability i feel that they owe me find my family a Livin since i cant work any i served my i served As Best i Paul said from his Home at Monroe county Turkey neck of is a former member of the 504th airborne inf regt of the 82nd airborne he was among hundreds of soldiers chosen in 1957 for the desert which included watch ing atomic bomb Coe first became ill last diagnosed As a leukaemia he checked into the veterans administration Hospital in Nashville just after while in the Coe it just nil me that the blasts and the leukaemia might be he said he told Doc tors about his desert then they really got hot after said his Coe believes the tests caused the no official connection has been made Between cues disease and the expo Coe says the government should take care of his wife and seven and he has refiled for service related disability he said the benefits would provide a month and allow him to get a loan to build a Home for his family before he lie rents the Homes he lives in i just cant help believe  come through one Way or the said the National Center for Dis ease control in Atlanta has appealed to members of the 504th to identify them selves so they can be studied for radiation effects As part of an important study of leu the Rusler of the 504lh was lost in an army records fire in the cacs interest in the army Volun Teers was sparked by the disclosure that Cue and another member of the Donald Cooper in Salt Lake have jordanian is sentenced to hang Jordan a a jordanian criminal court has sentenced a Young woman to death by hanging for murdering her Mother inlaw and burning the the government the convicted Haya Mahmoud hacked the victim with an a before burning the body with the announcement Date for the hanging was not Georgia during and after the civil for which Haley was Given a special pulitzer prize and numerous other awards since it rocketed to the top of the bestseller was written after a 12 year search of his ancestry Back several generations to the suit filed in new York by Alexander asked the court to enjoin further Sale of roots and to provide her with an unspecified percentage of the Doubleday publisher of also was named a defendant in the com reached in said he was aware of Alexander and her Book but never read i guess the first thing to Tell you is in simply of course i know Walker and i have High esteem for i have heard of i have never read i am really very curious to see on what basis the allegations she makes arc James general counsel for also denied the asked if Haley took any part of roots from Mcgrath of its not surprising that people who write blockbuster books Are accused of this Type of thing because other people can have the same but i dont see any problem with this the suit at Mcgrath alexanders attorney and Alex said in a Telephone interview from his office that he had been instructed not to discuss the he also refused to elaborate on the plagiarism Claudine Longet sits behind a Fence enclosing the exercise Yard of Pitkin county jail in the Singer serving her sentence actress is serving a 30day sentence for the negligent homicide of her skier Vladimir spider a step toward National health insurance Carter asks limit on Hospital costs Washington up attacking a 000 per cent increase in spending on health care since president Carter will Send to Congress monday a proposal to limit jumps in Hospital costs to about 9 per cent a the proposal carries the twin goals of slowing inflation in one of the most Over heated parts of the Economy and laying the foundation or taking the first step toward National health White House Domestic affairs assistant Stuart Eizenstat discussed the plan in an interview saturday and estimated savings to the Public at billion Over the next two Al Salvador negotiating for captive official san Al Salvador Uphiel Salvador under Secretary of foreign affairs indicated saturday that the govern ment was negotiating with left Wing guerrillas for the life of foreign minister Mauricio Borgonovo the government is making and will make every Effort within its reach to save his under Secretary Ricardo Castaneda armed members of the Faramundo Marti popular liberation forces seized a Borgonovo from his Home last they demanded the release of 37 political prisoners and a plane to Fly them out of the country in Exchange for the 38yearold Borgonovo he acknowledged that medical groups Are opposed to the but suggested their opposition would be offset by support from private insurance the limit would not apply to governmental hos president Carter held a working session with diplomatic and military aides on arms he met with vice president Walter Secretary of state Cyrus defense Secretary Harold arms negotiator Paul Warnke and National Security adviser Zbigniew the administration has cited figures placing the increase in health care costs at per cent since Eizenstat said the proposal is the first step toward meeting Carters Campaign promises on National health be cause any such plan would require some kind of Cost Eizenstat said the proposal would save billion in fiscal 1978 800 million in Federal 400 million in state and local taxes and billion in private insurance savings for fiscal 1979 were placed at 5 prospects of passage in Congress were pretty Eizenstat Dan chairman of the House ways and Means health sub commit will introduce the one result of the proposal would be to keep hospitals in Small communities from duplicating themselves by buying the same expensive medical weve never Given hospitals an incentive to Mondale said in a speech in Atlanta March if they want to build a new or if several hospitals in the same Community All want to buy the same piece of expensive new the costs Are just automatically passed onto the were not going to Tell hospitals How to run their business or set their he but we have proposed a reasonable upper limit be placed on the rate Hospital its can increase each temperatures l h 59 re Albany it Albuquerque 11 61 Amarillo is Anchorage s9 t4 Ashe me 61 j3 Atlanta 56 m City is 1 Austin w u Baltimore u 70 Birmingham 47 71 Bismarck 41 Bono Batton 57 61 by Tofalo 67 Burlington in in Casper u n 6i 74 is u Char loll 31 m Cheyenne 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