European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A medicaid kickbacks july 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 would give owners two options settlement Fife s i Washington up kickbacks Are rampant under us governments Medl Cald program for the poor and come in the form of television Green cars and vacations in Hawaii and a Senate committee report charged r nursing Homes Are the chief the report although increasing Evi Dence Points to medical Pratti clinical laboratories and other Hie based on eight Yean of investigation and More than so hearings by the Senate aging said there la significant Ana convincing evidence that kickbacks Are widespread in it concluded the practice is and a 1972 Law to make them illegal a not being tie committee urged passage of Legisla Tion making medicare and medical kick backs a felony instead of a Misdemeanour and called for a crackdown by the Justice department and the internal Revenue the evidence overwhelming thai Many pharmacists Are required to pay kickbacks to nursing Home operators As a precondition of obtaining a nursing the report pharmacists also must pay rebates to practitioners or other owners of medical the Small health care facilities which checker the ghettos of Bur major there is increasing evidence that the sesame payments Are being made to some hospitals which specialize in Wel fare in the report it is Evi Dent that kickbacks Are frequently required from clinical laboratories if they Hope to obtain the business of bout Medl Cald Mills and nursing in response to committee pharmacists said the kickbacks can Lake the form of a percentage of charges or Flat unpaid Bills or the rental of a closet in the mining Home for f a Cleveland api William on behalf of 3d has proposed a settlement to Gen eral motors to compensate owners of 1977 Oman whaites who didst know their cars had Chevrolet under terms of the Ohio and 37 other slates would drop suits already filed or in the process of being filed that Char Gem with deceptive the proposal from who is chair Man Rotthe consumer Protection association of gives two options to owners of the Oldsmobile and of some bulks and Pool macs which also had Chevy about can Are Brown under thu proposal the owners May return the automobile for the full Purchase minus 5 cents for each mile the car has been with that mileage Deduc Tion not to exceed the other option would be for the owners to keep the cars and receive pm in Cash plus a warranty on the drive pm officials would not immediately comment on the the company earlier offered to Settle the Chevy Mobile matter by having owners return the car to the dealer for credit on a new car of the same that was for the original Purchase Price minus s cents per with no limit on the mileage Brown said uk138 states have agreed to Settle pending cases or forgo planned Liti gation it pm accepts Ute settlement we Are not asking pm to admit guilt or Brown said in we their customers did not get what they paid we Hope pm will tee that Only the con Sumer being Hurt and the consumer de serves a fair he added that judging from his conversation with Many of the car they would accept the proposed in a tuft Nied april is in Brown charged Ihk beginning try septem Ber 1975 pm began substituting 3socubic Inch Chevrolet engines in Many of the 1877 he charged that although the retail Cost of both engines is the their performance and prestige is j Brown urged pm to accept toe Settle ment offer Way to Deal collectively with the 38 tie said us alternative would be to go to trial or negotiate i divid he said he Hopes pm will accept the offer i think they know we Are going to beat them in mediator says private landowners in Maine could Settle Indian claims Maine api owners of Large amounts of private property might be Able to resolve Maines Indian land claims dispute by giving acres or 000 acres apiece1 to the president Carters special representative on the matter said saturday William out or in a television interview taped Friday in Washington and broadcast Here saturday that if the state rejects his proposal to give the Indi ans acres of Public there Are a l Aln uld said that private property owners who own Large tracts of land could put in acres apiece or acres they could provide All the land he has recommended be turned Over to the appointed by Carter to propose a solution to the has recommended that the Federal government give the a lot of private properly owners who uld be interested in the Nutter being Penobscot and Passamaquoddy indians is million and that the state of Maine turn Over acres of Public lands within the claims As part of the Congress would extinguish All the indians claims to private land the the indians have claimed u million which would amount to 60 per cent of the Stales land and billion in Back rent and damages Hiey Dalm it is their land because it was ceded to the state without congressional As required by a 17m they Haye declined comment on Gunt ers Gunter did not elaborate on the which was not contained in his official report to but he was apparently re Ferring to a number of paper companies which own vast tracts of land in stale Joseph inter viewed separately on the same television said he had had no discussions whatsoever with the paper companies the borne with the u Roi ight san dome style domicile Tyrone and norms Thompson Hud Domestic Tranquility a the new Bouse with it dome per the do Mains Walla Are also about making a contribution of land toward a As far As the slate contributing any in very Gunter said Carter called his proposals Good solution to the but the president was still studying his schoolkids May refuse to Salute the Flag san up ii California schoolchildren May refuse to Salute the Flag without according to a hand Book approved by the stale Board of Edu students May remain silent during the pledge of allegiance but May not disrupt the handbook about to including school students and adm Nistra contributed to the 28page Booklet which will be distributed to state school districts sow first of in ii was adopted without debate Al the Board meeting Here and without comment by state superintendent of Public instruction Wilson who was no censorship the Booklet also provides for the distribution of student with neither censorship nor the threat of suspension from school without it says students must pursue the required course of study and submit to the authority of the teachers of the state Board counsel Thomas Griffin said the handbook is in intended Asad Vocaty of student rights teacher rights administration Griffin explained thai the handbooks sections discuss Corporal classroom sex hair dress code and search and Sei Zure in the Light of rights guaranteed to the students by the and California the handbook is intended primarily for High school age students but also applies to younger according to Nancy a lawyer far the Board in Sacra Neo nazis bomb Paris office Paris a Neo nazis set off a bomb outside the Paris office of three lawyers who work for a jewish the bomb caused damage but no police said