European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse A files Washington not the Veteran administration makes information on Mil Lions of its beneficiaries available to Doz eos of outside sources including i Dividu courts License and title bureaus map Active employers and in certain ases foreign agencies according to Ayen government report. What the Agency terms routine uses if records in its files was disclosed by the general accounting office an investigative of Congress in a report to two House democrats John e. Moss of califor Nia and Charles Rose of North Carolina. La its report the Gao did not comment on what is apparently the ready availability of personal data from a files to outside sources. The Agency merely listed the 30 routine uses of veterans records. Instead the inquiry focused Only on whether the Agency s proposed data com Puter system currently in the Pilot stage will protect personal information on Bene fit claimants. The Agency concluded that it has the potential if properly designed Tod implemented for providing a High lev Dot Protection of personal however the investigative Agency added that since the system had not been fully carried out it could not make a com plete evaluation. The finding on the proposed a computer system was in contrast to a report that it made earlier this month in which it said that the social Security administration s financial and medical files on millions of americans Are not properly safeguarded from potential loss destruction abuse while not critical of either the a s prent file keeping or the proposed computer in Stem the report by listing widespread liability of data on veterans would seem to Point up possible loopholes in the privacy of 1974, which is designed to of guard personal information collected on individuals by Federal agencies. Moss a co author of the privacy wednesday called the a s list of routine ims of information available to outside urges too Broad and said it should be narrowed considerably spokesman or the a said wednesday that the Agency did not feel it was in anyway trying to circumvent the privacy Law. Under a separate but Little known Law my individual can obtain from the Agency records the amount of pension compensation dependency compensation educational assistance allowance retirement pay or subsistence allowance of any Veter employers also Are entitled to obtain what the Agency lists As Neces sary information on any Veteran. Courts top Are entitled to information on veterans roved in matters of guardianship in Vita and of the a s routine uses of and Hole data were included in 1975 at Theja quest of the attorney general at that one Edward r Levi according to Anancy spokesman. One of these makes available data on rowans suspected of civil or criminal violations to Federal local or for in agencies investigating or prosecute second routine use included at Levi s Friday july 21, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 Agency provides dozens of outside sources Whf information on millions of its beneficiaries request states that records can be Dos 5j feral. Ate or Lai by those agencies concerning the "�8.ot retention of employees the issuance of a Security clearance the letting of a contract or issuance of a License or Grant charges Bias Brian Weber wean hardhat with an american of at he stand outside the Kaiser Alam Nam Aad chemical co. Plant in Gramercy la., where be works. He Hopes the . Supreme court will Rule in his favor in Hii re verse Mai Case against be company. He says the it permit Blacks in training programs while he was rejected. A fumes kill two on fishing boat new Orleans up two sout Carolina men were found dead on a fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico wednesday Anda third was rushed to a Hospital seriously ill from the inhalation of poisonous fumes the coast guard said. The men were aboard the swashbuckler a 68-foot fishing and shrimp boat out of bayous Labarre names were withheld until rela Tives could be notified. All three were from Frogmore . The Captain was airlifted to Public health service Hospital in new Orleans about 7 . The boat was 25 Miles South West of grand Isle la., in the Gulf when the bodies were discovered by a Fisherman on another boat. The Captain was vomiting and bleeding from the Mouth when found. Coast guard spokesman . Wolf said. The Hospital re ported later his condition was unproved. Or other third routine use permits disclosure of information to requesting Federal agencies concerning the hiring or retention of employees issuance of a License or issuance of a Security clearance. Certain information also is made Avail Able from veterans files to schools and training establishments state unemployment compensation agencies state mental hospitals state and county and City health departments. Doctor in test tube Case says ethics led him to deep-freeze7 embryo new York up or. Raymon Vande Wiele the obstetrician who stopped a test tube baby Experiment Here five years ago said in a statement submitted in court wednesday that he did so for ethical reasons and had the test tube put in the deep freeze for future contentions were made by Vande Wiele in a statement made in december1975 and read in . District court in Manhattan wednesday at his trial on charges he maliciously and arbitrarily destroyed the sperm and eggs of or. An mrs. John Del Zio of fort Lauderdale Fla. Vande Wiele also said he believed the two doctors involved in the Experiment which if successful would have produce the world s first test tube baby were not qualified to see it Del bios Are seeking $1.5 million in damages from Columbia presbyterian medical Center and Vande Wiele a graduate of Catholic University medical schooling Louvain Belgium who is the Center s chief of obstetrics and Wiele said he Learned of the Experiment in september 1973 just two Day before the culture was to be implanted in the womb of mrs. Del Rio who was a patient at new York Hospital. After consulting with his. Superiors he said he ordered the test tube brought to him from the Laboratory incubator because he considered the Experiment unethical and in violation of the Hospital s human Experiment regulations. The test tube was on his desk for about two hours the physician said before i had it put in the deep freeze to preserve Itas a document at the Columbia University medical school where it was t going to throw this away be cause this was an important procedure that was carried out and i wanted to pre serve it he wednesday mrs. Doris Del Zio appeared near exhaustion when she completed her testimony. Mrs. Del Zio 34. Insisted during her Day and a half on the witness stand often under intensive Cross examination that she suffered physical mental and emotional injury As the result of that action in sep tember 1973 at the medical Center please Don t brainwash me anymore she pleaded As she neared the end of her Cross examination by three defense Law yers. Judge Charles Stewart declared a re Cess to allow the witness time to regain he composure. Government fears modification plans inadequate new Pinto tests needed Ford told a Detroit modifications which jew motor co. Proposes to make on fuel in in 1.5 million pintos and bobcats not solve a serious fire Hazard prob the Federal government letter to Ford the National High y traffic safety administration said company has not adequately tested Wlsh the proposed further tests Are made an Agen 9 Murce told the Detroit free press. There could be a court Battle Over the prob Are not being to terminate this mat Ter until we Are convinced that the fix inadequate the newspaper quoted the source As Ford spokesman meanwhile said the automaker is satisfied that the Modifica Tion program will solve the alleged safety Hazard but he added. Our Guys Are look ing at the Nitsa letter. Last May the Agency said its tests had shown that fuel tanks on All 1971-76 Ford pintos and 1975-76 Mercury bobcats except station wagons were designed so that they consistently ruptured when the cars were hit from behind at Low to Moder ate june 9, Days before a Public hearing schedule by Nitsa on the matter. Foresaid it would recall the cars but did not concede there was a safety problem. Lawyers for the defendants said in their opening remarks monday that Vande Wiele had no Choice but to Stop the Experiment to safeguard the woman s life. The Experiment conducted by or. Wil Liam j. Sweeney of new York Hospital and or. Landrum b. Shettles of Columbia presbyterian was crude and scientifically in sound by today s standards and had no Chance of Success the lawyers said. Sweeney who had previously tried unsuccessfully to reopen mrs. Del Zio s blocked fallopian tubes which made Natu ral Conception impossible will testify for the Del bios. The trial in . District court before a jury of four women and two men now three Days old is expected to continue for about three weeks. Mrs. Del Zio was questioned at length about the surgery she underwent in june 1972, a so called dry run for the Experiment a year later in which the Laboratory fertilized embryo was to be implanted inner womb. The questions under Cross examination suggested a belief on the part of the de sense lawyers that the 1972 trial run never occurred. Another National est seller at you stars & stripes bookstores
