European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday july 22, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 pane continues probe of hew fraud by medical school teachers suspected Washington up teachers at Many medical schools May be fraudulently tilling the government for patient care rendered by interns and residents. Hew inspector general Thomas Morris testified thursday. There has been an increasing tendency for the teaching physician to charge for patient care when he in fact has performed to service at All Morris said. He appeared before a Senate investigations subcommittee looking into More than j5.5 billion a year in fraud abuse and bureaucratic error which plagues the department of health education and Wel fare. An area that has become a matter of concern to our office in recent months the practice of Billing by teaching Hospital staffs for patient services involving medi care and medicaid Morris testified. Sen. Jacob javits r-., said he will the committee on human resources to investigate the problem also warned medical colleges that his auditing team looking closely at the situation but declined to predict whether criminal charges would result. Mitchell granted parole Washington api John n. I Mitchell the last watergate criminal to go i to prison was granted a parole thursday effective Jan. 19. He will have served 19 i months of his one to four year sentence counting five months Freedom on medical furlough. The . Parole commission apparently accorded Little weight to Mitchellage and eur myties since the length of his sentence in similar to that of his two . Haldeman and John d. Ehrlichman i those time in prison was set at 18 months each. The decision interview with Mitchell by commission investigators on july. Goal pipeline dead but buried Washington a the House has de a hard fought Coal slurry pipeline but the companies pushing it say they u try again next year. W. Pat Jennings president of slurry " t transport association promised bid after the House rejected the y pipeline Bill on a 246-161 vote. I always said we would win the american consumer realizes much his electric Bill goes for Coal spoliation Jennings said. Backers of the legislation based much of in ease on Price Competition but in the 1 the allies of the Railroad Industry and y Western state congressmen Corn d to defeat maintain they can haul All the l needed to meet the demands of utile twitching Over from Oil and natural i and refused the pipelines permission to "1 across their track networks. The i would have carried a mixture of a Rind crushed pipeline backers went to Congress w the Bill which would have armed them a the Power of eminent Domain tentative plans have been made for toes inking the Coal Fields of Wyom i and Colorado with utilities in Texas jibe Colorado and Wyoming Congress were in the forefront of the opposition Ling the pipelines would carry away r needed for agriculture and comm y development. He said the salaries of interns and Resi dents at teaching hospitals who Are medical school graduates but Are still serving apprenticeships Are paid by hos did not cite monetary figures involved in the problem and noted that " he line Between abusive and fraudulent con duct May sometimes be a thin but existing rules make it Clear that a physician who has general supervisory responsibility Over a resident May not for example Bill medicare for surgery that the resident performs when the physician not present in me operating room. Nor May a physician charge for medi Cal care such visits to the patient when the resident or intern actually sees the a Morris also charged that medical col Leges May be guilty of another abuse there some indication that Post residency Fellows Are being retained for additional training with their salaries paid out of Money received through medi care and medicaid claims for their serv ices and the excess tunnelled into either institutional or private president of Harvard complains to Congress about Cia recruiting Good footwork Southpaw Caroline Kennedy wearing a Long dress and no shoes makes a Good forehand return in a Tennis doubles con test at Forest Hills . The daughter of the late president John f. Kennedy was partner of author George Plim tonin a match against her aunt Ethel Ken Nedy and new York gov. Hugh Carey. The event was arranged to publicize the upcoming aug. 26 Robert f. Kennedy Tennis tournament. A Washington up1 Harvard presi Dent Derek Bok complained to Congress thursday that the Cia plans to recruit professors and students for Covert intelligence gathering despite a University ban. Bok told the Senate intelligence com Mittee Harvard has drafted internal rules that Block its students faculty and administrators from either recruiting candidates for the Cia or engaging in operational activities for it. But Cia officials make it Clear that the Cia plans to ignore these two Central ele ments of our guidelines he a May 15 letter to Bok Cia director Stansfield Turner said the Cia will not rebound by rules that unfairly single out the Cia the object of special restrictions and unjustifiably interfere with the free Dom of individual professors and employees to offer their also said they impair the ciaability to Avail itself of a willing valuable resource to assist the government in the performance of legitimate endeavours in furtherance of the Nationforeign policy Bok called on Congress to make it Clear that these activities cannot continue and that the Cia should Honor the internal rules of the University. Bok said if such an extraordinary missing paper could Snag sen. Brookefinance defense step interfering with the rules of a University and its employee relations to be taken. Congress not the Cia should make that Congress finds that the National Security requires its agencies to act in disregard of our rules we must of course sub Mit to such 11 Bok recruiting involves the Ciasecret of faculty administrators and pos Sibly students to spot individuals usually foreign nationals studying at the University _ who would be potential candidates for Cia said Covert recruiting highly in appropriate since it undermines the Trust and Candor necessary in a University environment to encourage inquiry learning and the free Exchange of views. The operational of academics abroad involves a professor who uses his or her academic status a cover to engage in such activities intelligence Gath ering on Cia instructions or involvement in Covert said this raises equally serious questions since it can cast doubt on the integrity of every american academic apprehension of one professor for engaging in an illegal activity in a foreign country May Well result in the total exclusion of other Bok said. The Boston a a missing document regarding a business arrangement be tween sen. Edward w. Brooke and a to Ronto businessman could Snag the Sena Tordefense before the Senate committee investigating his finances the Boston Globe reported thursday. The agreement reportedly confirms Brookestatement to the Senate that he owns Only 39 percent of Stock in a land corporation Rem win n.v., with the remain ing 61 percent owned by Toronto business executive Norman Cohen. But Brooke has acknowledged that All the Companystock listed in his name the newspaper said. Brookeattorney John s. Bottomly. Said the agreement was signed when the two men agreed to Purchase 32 acres of prime undeveloped land on the Caribbean Island of. Martin in 1970 for $126,000. With Cohen putting up 61 percent and Brooke the Senate ethics committee which investigating the accuracy of Brookei Nancian disclosures has requested proof of the Documentexistence the Globe said. Without evidence of the agreement the Massachusetts Republican technically sole owner of an asset he concedes Worth about $154,000. On his Senate disclosure form Brooke stated his interest in the land corporation Between $50,000 and $100. 000, the newspaper said. Brooke a Republican who running Forre election this year also having state ments about his financial holdings re viewed by a Public investigator in Boston to determine whether possible perjury charges should be brought against him. That inquiry stems from statements Brooke made while seeking a divorce agreement with his wife remigia. The Ini tial agreement was scrapped but a later divorce settlement was approved by a Massachusetts court. The Globe said that the Caribbean prop Ertycurrent estimated Market value Between $175,000 and $300.000. Bottomly says there other evidence to support Brookestatement regarding ownership of the land a photocopy of the front of a Check Cohen made out to Brooke for his part of the land Purchase. He said the written Purchase agreement stated that Brooke held Cohenshare of the Stock in his name for Cohenfinancial Benefit. Of time july to ims the armed forces opened their ranks for 1s1jjsi american to year Olds to Volunteer for a special one year hitch and thus avoid a two year draft later. After their one Yearservice in the Branch of their Choice to be confined to the coot ennui i .s., the 11-year-Olds were to spend from four to six Yean in u Organ tied Reserve unit. July 22, iks sen. Wayne mane d-ore., called Tor thorough overhauling of the . Intelligence system which he did had done a Lousy Job in the Mideast and elsewhere. Mane called for a reorganization of the Cia and said its performance was just Plain july n. Ins Ruth Denis regarded the founder at much that Basic to american modern dancing died in the Netherlands. She was is. St. Deals was remembered most for her dance number
