European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes january 1981 Reagan team scraps nursing Home legs Washington up the Reagan administration wednesday scrapped a controversial set of nursing Home regulations that Patricia Harris issued two Days ago during her final hours As Secretary of health and human the regulations would have guaranteed visiting Access to medical records and other rights to nursing Home patients in facilities that receive medicare or medicaid they would have affected about nursing Homes and similar at an estimated annual Cost of department officials said the regulations Are being shelved because the potential Impact on both providers and Consumers of health care needs to be assessed a spokesman said the action was taken with the approval and concurrence of Richard president reagans nominee for has Secretary who was con Over 800 pages of text and pictures now at most  i shopping Center bookstores firmed by the Senate the order withdrawing the regulations was issued by Donald head of the National Institute of mental appointed by Harris to be acting has Sec on the eve of reagans Harris said the which she is sued in final would provide Funda mental protections to promote the health and safety of nursing Home wednesdays notice withdrawing the regulations stated that Harris illegally ignored a congressional order that has consult a general accounting office study on the Impact of the regulations before making a final but Harris claimed monday that comp troller general Elmer Staats refused to give her a final version of the Gao his she ranged from assertions of High Cost of the regulations to assertions that has failed to allow Gao to car takes Mississippi dip use certain to the assertion that an agreement had been made As Tjart of the transition not to go Forward with the Regula she said none of those reasons was factually accurate and none constituted a valid reason for delay in releasing the residents of nursing Homes need and deserve these regulations and i will leave it to the Public to judge the propriety of the methods by which publications of these regulations has been Harris the regulations would have guaranteed at least 10 hours of visiting time to nursing Home patients and 48 hours Advance notice prior to any intr facility the regulations also would have Given patients Access to their medical the right to choose a full and accurate information about their medical free association with other patients and Var ious other 2 men were on thin ice in Shorf Cut across River harpers Iowa up men had the scare of their life trying to take a Short Cut across the Mississippi their car crashed through thin ice on the main Channel of the River Early 75 hospitals get pot pills7 to ease cancer a about 75 hospitals nationwide have begun receiving pills to help cancer patients Cope with gut wrenching nausea that can accompany officials at the National cancer Institute said wednesday that the con Taining synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol the Active ingredient in marijuana Are being made available to the hospitals at no Cost through a new federally funded pro about 500 have been approved for the program by said David Abraham of the institutes drug regulatory affairs need Dea authorization Abraham that once the Institute approves a the facility must still be licensed by the Federal drug enforcement More than 20 including new have approved the legalized therapeutic use of marijuana in some be sides easing marijuana smoking is believed to be helpful in treating Glauco an Eye disease the which have been shipped out for about two contain either milligrams or 5 milligrams of the according to Martin an associate chemist at the new York state police is the approximate amount of the contained in five or 10 marijuana but Paul head of the institutes pharmaceutical said inhaling is a More effective Means of getting the drug into the blood Stream than taking Veteran actor Joslyn Dies los Angeles a actor Allyn Morgan whose career spanned radio and has died at the age of both men escaped serious the two decided to Cut across the ice because the 18 Bridge linking North East Iowa with Prairie do had been closed and the nearest Bridge was 35 Miles if that darned Bridge haunt been wed never have tried Alla Makee sheriffs deputies quoted one Man As a sheriffs spokesman said Ken Gallo of and Robert of Prairie do attempted to drive across the ice covered River from a Point near harpers ferry to the Wisconsin the incident occurred about 15 Miles upriver from the 18 Bridge Between Marquette and Prairie do which was closed last week when engineers discovered structural the spokesman said the car made it about Halfway across the main Channel when it broke through the ice and began to both occupants climbed out of the car and onto solid Galloway made his Way Back to Iowa for after a lengthy rescuers found Boss sitting on the neither Man required medical hundreds ordered held to Avert Indian protest new India a hundreds of opposition party activists who threatened to blockade the Punjab state legislature were ordered detained by the state govern which is controlled by prime minister Indira Gandhi Congress the protest was planned to demand higher payments to Farmers and withdrawal of a recent order increasing bus the five parties coordinating the protest included the righting Kali dal and the communist egyptian minister reports 1980 israeli Oil imports Cairo up Israel imported two million tons of egyptian Worth during the past year and paid in Petroleum minister Ahmed Hilal an Hilal said the jewish state was expected to import a similar amount this year due to rising will have to pay million for