European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday july 30, 1978 66 firms get initial of to Fly Charters Washington Dpi citing a Conli suing need for More and cheaper charter air service the civil aeronautics boar Friday gave preliminary approval to 66 companies to operate Charters All Over the world. The Board sent the applications to administrative Law judges who will set hear ing cab spokesman indicated that to was unlikely the process would be completed and that the companies would get final approval to operate before the Middle of next year. The cab said All supplemental air carriers who have applied for charter certificates could receive them providing the can prove their fitness and their entry would not impair the obligations of incumbent air the Board said there is a continuing need for additional entry into the charter airline Industry and encouraging Freer entry into the Field should serve As a prod toward Price Competition and bring of the firms that filed applications. 21would be new air transportation Compa Nies while the other 45 already Are in exis tence or at one time provided some similar Type cab said each applicant will have to pass or fail fitness requirements independently and their applications to oper ate will not depend on How they stack up toothed applicants. Conceivably All 66 could moving in for the Rescue police move in As a Man identified As pose on the Manhattan Tower of new was rescued Friday by police after two Ramon Gonzalez strikes a hazardous York s Tri Borough Bridge. Gonzalez hours Orit Hybridge Appolo fired doctor Calls negligence widespread military medical exams criticized by Fred a _ a civilian doctor fired by the army on grounds he failed to examine enough patients says there is widespread negligence and Mal practice in military medical examinations. Or. Ellis n. Zuckerman of Petersburg,va., said recruits As Well As career enlisted personnel officers and National guardsmen have been affected by carelessness haste and examinations or grossly altered ones Are common Zuckerman wrote in a letter to rep. Robin Beard r Tenn. The doctor also spoke of flaws by rapidity and the army called Zuckerman s allegations Gross Zuckerman mailed his accusations to Beard on june 22, a week before two army recruits died at fort Jackson s.c., after strenuous exercise on their first Day of training. The deaths which have been attribute to heat stroke have raised new questions about army recruiting practices including whether Corners Are being Cut to fill enlist ment quotas. Full examinations Are almost Neverdone though signed and attested to Zuckerman said in his letter which was obtained by the associated press. Grossly fraudulent histories Are Given and no questioned. Recruiters pressed to produce Tell enlistees to falsify problem areas and the examination Are so carelessly done often that Gross unilateral blindness near total deafness extreme limitations of motion absent digits structural defects obvious heart and lung variants. All Are of Teri missed entirely Zuckerman 49-year-old Zuckerman said in Tele phone interviews he has collected vol Umes of documents that Back up his allegations largely from his recent 13months in the physical examination Tion at fort Lee s Kenner army Hospital i Virginia. He said he provided examples to the army health services come to at fort Sam Houston Texas of what he called to tally inadequate they were not the least bit interested Zuckerman said. Fired from his $36,000-a-year Job effective june 9 on grounds of inefficiency he is appealing through the civil service system. An army official said Zuckerman did not handle enough Zuckerman said he was required to com plete 25 physicals a Day which he called absolutely about 10 might be Runac Nnami Viaroni � properly and he s absolutely army statement spoke of Zuckor Man s apparent Lack of understanding of army medical procedures. All army medical examinations Are not the same it said. The thoroughness of the particular examination depends on what the physical is being used for each physical examination is not necessarily supposed to be a completely comprehensive army statement did not address Zuckerman s detailed allegations. In his letter to Beard Zuckerman said the National guard is the most flawed and it is rampant policy to apply a lower Standard improperly to this better is the Active duly pop and mental physical drug and interrelated problems Are often so obvious As to allow a mediocre examiner to detect these problems. But even then they Are often bypassed. ?,l1 Fly enlisted men have problems of which some Are aware and hide and others Don t know until som better exam detects the problems late in training or after years on duty " reasonable he said. Thad Murray an aide to rep. Robert 4, coffins lost in fire Daniel r-va., who also has taken an inter est in Zuckerman s Case said they re quire 25 physicals a Day. Or. Zuckerman contended he could t do that number be licensed. Noting that in recent years Theof charter airlines has decreased amount of service the demand of the a Blic for air travel cannot be seriously d. It is our View that new entry Are the most eff encourage efficient air thereby preserve and e cities for Low Cost air travel j a crones residents o Constitution Honolulu a a Constitution to twill Grant self government and Ltd centuries of Rule by foreign Powen been approved by residents of the i Trust territory of the constitutional referendum we Feu july 12, but final tallying took. A weeks because ballots had to be co Fleck by air and ship from the far which Span 4,000 Miles. At least four of the six District a Trust territory had to approve the pm tuition in order for the Federated sutly Micronesia to come into existence wll4 one year. The districts of Palau and the min islands turned Down the idea. Opponent if the Constitution say those two Duria have the economic Power to stand tin i and not be tied to the other four a Truk Ponape and Kosrae. Palau and the marshalls will bold in own constitutional conventions and a Goti ate separately with the . To . Trusteeship. A 2.u5 islands the 2.12s islands of the Trust Tenta with a population of about 1u.o& been administered by the .Itei United nations trusteeship Stow War if. The year 1981 is the prota1-52 for ending the then portions of the cobs he that do not conflict with the Natof will take effect according to Robert i Trust territory Liaison officer to Hod these areas have not been my yet Law said. We know there of some areas of conflict and Stout pm Gray area.". Flthe four districts that will make Federated states approved the by wide margins. Palau rejected to 44 percent while the Marshall bit Down 61 to 38 percent. Unique baby Elep Harim Chester England api Amphanh bred from an Indian female african male and said to be the Only its kind in the world has died Here c zoo reported. Temperatures Milan a _ More than 2,000 coffins ready for shipment were destroyed by a n"8e fire which broke out in the storehouse of a Milan company police reported 90 81 6 89 8t 61 100 95 90n in 81 84 it � 91i
