European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes May hospitals prone to resist report says stateside new York up mistakes in hospitals Are made at the rate of one per patient a usually involving but facilities have been stubbornly reluctant to change a report the report is based on studies by drug error specialist Kenneth the head of Auburn University depart ment of pharmacy care it will appear sunday in Parade a newspaper the released said mistakes Are made at the rate of one error per patient per in nursing Barker the error rate is hospitals arc reluctant to adopt safer procedures be cause of a natural resistance to said William pc Lucr of the american society of Hospital according to the two systems could substantially reduce the number of errors a unit dose in which each patients medications arc individually and the use of while the unit dose system was developed 20 years 40 percent of hospitals have not adopted James a pharmacologist at the University of Texas who wrote the Parade report with the help of his brother said hospitals generally use their computers Only for the last place they Are used is in the patient care Barker the report noted there is no Agency that keeps track of damage caused by drug in a mistake injection the new York health department has cleared doctors who erroneously gave an injection to Lillian in a cancer patient at Albany medical was left co the health department said thursday that there was no Gross incompetence or Gross negligence it said problems with procedures at the Hospital created a Situa Tion that allowed the error to jobless rate stays at percent More than million out of work Washington a civilian joblessness stayed stuck at percent in the government said Fri with the Pool of unemployed americans holding steady at More than it is the first time in a year that the rate has been unchanged for three consecutive a Survey of businesses showed that the Economy Cre ated new jobs last with significant in creases in service jobs and but a household on which the unemployment rate calculation is said civilian employment was Little changed from the business Survey showed that manufacturing employment continued its dismal falling by jobs in service industries Rose by and construction employment was up the High technology sector was especially hard with Large Job losses in electrical and electronic equip ment employment in that sector has now fallen to the level of last about in addition to manufacturing Job the length of the average factory workweek also despite the business Survey finding that More than jobs were created in civilian unemployment has been at million since commenting on the the commissioner of labor Janet told a congressional com Mittee that not Only was the Overall unemployment rate steady in but there were no significant move ments among the major worker the report showed these unemployment rates adult up from adult up from Down from up from up from up from an alternate unemployment combining the million member civilian labor Force with the roughly million members of the armed forces stationed in the United also was at total civilian employment fell the household Survey to Over the last 12 civilian employment has risen just almost half the previous 12month figure of in Advance of fridays analyst Audrey free Man said the trend this year Likely would be that growth in the labor Force those employed or actively looking for work would outstrip the creation of new causing a stagnant or slowly rising jobless reagans civil rights policies blasted Washington a House judiciary committee chairman Peter Rodino joined by four other democrats on the accused the Reagan administration Friday of increasing tensions by attacking court orders that give women and members of racial minorities preference in government the in an angry letter to attorney general Edwin Melesc absent a Clear repudiation by Congress or the consent and court decrees which include the use of race and gender conscious remedies should remain the letter is part of a stepped up Campaign by civil rights groups and their supporters against the administrations civil rights policies especially its vehement opposition to numerical on introduced legislation designed to Stop the Justice department from seeking judicial reconsideration of court approved the provision was attached to the Bill which authorizes the Justice department to on the National association for the advancement of coloured people filed a lawsuit in District court contending that the administrations at tempt to change the court orders was during the past few the Justice department has contacted some 50 jurisdictions and asked these cities and school districts to reopen employment discrimination in Buffalo and the department asked fed eral courts to modify consent the dispute centers on differing interpretations of a supreme court ruling last june involving the Memphis fire by a 63 the court said first fired seniority plans May not be scrapped during Layoff periods in order to protect affirmative action the Justice department contends the drive to modify the decrees is necessary because of that court we reviewed All these decrees in Light of the spokesman John Wilson we determined that the decrees contained quotas or preferences based on race or sex that were in conflict with the decision and would have to be modified to conform to the but the legislators who wrote to Meese said the application of the ruling should be limited to cases of conflict Between affirmative action plans and Bona fide seniority systems because that was All the court the court did not consider or outlaw the use of race or gender As a Factor in the hiring or promotion selection the court did not discuss or overrule its prior approval of race conscious we believe that reopening these cases will have the undesired effect of increasing tensions in communities All across the country by disrupting programs which have been the lawmakers since the Memphis the two courts of appeals that reviewed the supreme court decision rejected the Justice departments the letter the letter to Meese was signed by Rodino Don Edwards of the chairman of the subcommittee on civil rights and judiciary committee members Robert Kastenmeier of Patricia Schroeder of Colorado and John Conyers of Rodinos legislation would require the Justice depart ment to certify before going to court that appellate court precedent existed for reopening the consent out of this world up photo Robert Hodges of who claims to be Prince Mongo of the planet blows a kiss to Friendly spirits after a charge of Utility meter tampering was Hodges wears a sprays his body Gold and carries Bones and skulls to court appearances to Ward off evil Novice 2 passengers walk away from Colorado crash up a Frenchman who had held a pilots License for Only five months eased his failing private plane into the tall Pines atop Monarch and he and the two passengers walked away from the wreckage without a it was pretty said Luc of Mon one of the i thought i was going to Patrick did a real Good Patrick of was piloting the rented Cessna the third person on Board was Bruno also of the three Learned to Fly together in Georgia and received their licenses in said Mark a flight Man took Nap in woke in Back of garbage truck up a Kentucky Man was nearly crushed when a garbage truck picked up the dumpster in which he was sleeping and tossed him into the Back of the Douglas of was sleeping inside the dumpster behind a building in downtown Charleston when he woke up and found himself being dumped into the garbage David a Security guard at a said he heard Hicks screaming As the truck passed the hospitals parking Raines said he hopped in his car and Pur sued the truck to Alert the Driver before the crushing device was Hicks was treated at a Charleston Hospital for a puncture which he suffered when the lid of the truck closed on his worlds fair marketing director pleads innocent to mail fraud new Orleans a a former marketing director of the 1984 worlds fair has pleaded innocent to a on count mail fraud Frank Kennedy trial was set for june now living in remains free on Bond after entering the he was indicted april along with East coast jewel by and specially manufacturing a subsidiary of Ace Novelty headquartered in the indictment alleges that another Ace affiliated Busi Ness worlds fair paid to Kennedy in order to gain his favor in approving contracts for East on april East coast pleaded guilty to a on count mail fraud the company also agreed to pay Back in profits to the which closed on 11 More than million in