European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes june 1985 taxpayers vent frustration on collectors Washington a irate taxpayers Are turning surly and sometimes throwing punches at Federal tax col the internal Revenue service irs commissioner Roscoe Eggers told the tax writing House ways and Means committee last week there were 789 threats and assaults against the services Revenue officers last up from 531 in irs spokesman Larry Batdorf says the number has been climbing every year and Eggers blamed anger and frustration at an image of unfairness in the tax code for the while Only a tiny number of taxpayers get violent when world today chinese doctors reportedly find gallstone cure with acupuncture peking a chinese doctors have developed a Way to remove gallstones by attaching seeds to acupuncture Points on the the official Xinhua news Agency doctors in the City of banking attach seeds of the Herb semen Vaccara to acupuncture Points on the ears of patients to squeeze several times a the report the gallstones Are generally discharged within a Xinhua it said one old woman who had gallstones for More than 10 years discharged 530 of them within two months of the Start of her president of Italy unaware leftist he pardoned was terrorist Rome up italian president Sandro Certini was quoted As saying he had not know a woman member of a left Wing subversive organization was a terrorist when he pardoned her from a jail if i had known she was a terrorist i would not have the 88yearold socialist head of state said in an interview with the conservative la Stampa of Turin and most other italian a scandal has erupted since Certini signed a clemency order for Fiora Pirn former wife of Franco a Leader of the left Wing workers autonomy organization who is on the run in under the Ardizzone had her sentence reduced by two years and was released from jail 5 Mediterranean countries join forces to fight natural disasters Italy up Portu Gal and Greece have agreed to join forces to fight Earth volcanoes and other natural disasters and help their the civil Protection ministers of the five Mediterranean meeting at a Hilltop resort on the Amalfi drive approved plans to link their offices hot lines and to hold joint exercises in disaster Europe has taken another step in the direction of tech scientific and operational collaboration on strategies of operations in Case of natural italian min ister Giuseppe Zamberletti the tax Man comes to the problem has been an in creasing worry to the training of agents now includes classes in Sel defense and How to spot trouble before it in Michael of became the first irs Revenue officer to be shot and killed in the line of he was sitting at a Kitchen trying to collect a tax Bill from James Bradley of Cheek Tonga when he was shot three times at close Range with a is awaiting sentencing after being convicted by a jury May 25 of first degree Over the Bradley had worked As a guidance parole officer and irs Revenue Batdorf says most incidents happen when Revenue offi cers show up to collect overdue he that taxpayers have been known to voice threats or even throw punches in irs offices while their returns Are being when taxpayers do threaten or get the irs internal Security service moves in to investigate if to recommend prosecution to the actor most dynamics gifts were Rickover says Washington up retired Hyman reacting to a letter of censure from the Navy for accepting in gratuities from general dynamics says All the gifts except two pieces of jewelry were trinkets he gave in a letter to Navy Secretary John Rickover said i can state unequivocally that i was never influenced in the recommendation to award or Amend any contract or in the making of any determination with re Spect to the performance of any by any item or service provided me by general responding bitterly to the tarnish the censure put on his of praised 64year said his conscience is Clear and stressed that in building the nuclear Navy he was consistently tougher on defense contractors than any government official at any a copy of Rickover eight Page letter dated june 7 was Given to United press International on in a related it was disclosed monday that a member of the Threeman gratuities Board that reviewed the allegations against Rickover and general dynamics resigned in March because he was a guest of the company at a military gala in while serving As a staff member of the Senate armed services Wayne Arny accepted a company invitation to attend the annual carabao Wallow sponsored by the military order of the according to Navy spokesman Max Allen said that although now a Deputy assistant important to our investigation Navy did nothing he asked last March to be relieved of his duties on the gratuities Board to avoid any potential on May Lehman announced he was fining general dynamics the maximum penalty of 10 times the alleged value of the gifts to Rickover Between 1961 and the company has paid the in his letter to Rickover questioned the value of Many of the gifts from general dynamics citing mint Julip lunch boxes and most of the items noting the commis Sioning of a particular ship and food and other provisions made for a ships sea with the exception of two pieces of which were Given to my wife and were valued by the gratuities Board at All of the items with which i was presented were Given he Rickover said he gave the gifts to members of Congress and their aides whose support and enthusiasm for our nuclear program were and remain to dedicated and hardworking Crews of the vessels commemorated and even to in in Large the so called gratuities which i received would be classified As if one were judging their intrinsic Rickover the True value of these trinkets was in their reminder when Given to others that yet another Milestone in the development of the nuclear Navy has been germans seek witness to Casino theft Germany German police Are still searching for an american who witnessed a theft at the Spiel Bank Casino in at about on april authorities an american watched two foreigners in the Casino As they were taking Money from a Slot according to the two had covered a Coin with Nylon and jammed it into the which allowed them to keep playing without putting new coins in until the machine paid the american brought the matter to the attention of the game room attendant and then this witness would be very important to our i Vestiga a police spokesman the american was 45 to 50 years about 6 feet and had Short Black hair and was wearing a Brown it is assumed that he was attending a Confer ence taking place at anyone with information on the Case should Call an Dreas Herzog at the Polisei inspection Garmisch Parten Muenchen Strasse 81 the Telephone number is civilian insurance costs forcing doctor to give up practice a Over nearly 11 Joseph Billock delivered More than 400 babies in South Ern Illinois but Hes giving up his practice to become a military physician because of the rising trend of malpractice it takes All the fun out of Billock you tend to think of your patients As family Over the but now youve got to Start looking everyone in the Eye and wondering which one is going to stick you with a no one has Ever filed a malpractice lawsuit against he Over the the family practice physician has driven As far As 60 Miles to deliver he says that to the Best of his knowledge no other physician in South Ern Illinois handles Home one former patient said monday be will be were done having but i feel sorry for other said Colleen of in sure there Are others who would want to do it give birth at Home and they wont have anybody Santori delivered three of her four children at Home under Bollocks care and said he supervised the Hospital birth of her oldest Billock acknowledges some patients Are unhappy about his there were some who were we did have one patient who was very she was crying Here in the office when she found out i was he is closing his Marion office at the end of the week to become an air Force Captain largely because of the High Cost of malpractice insurance and the threat of he said he will leave the Issue behind july 24 when he becomes a family practitioner at Mountain Home fab in because military physicians have few malpractice insurance he also anticipates no demand for Home deliveries on base and said most deliveries of any sort Likely will be handled by ill miss Billock its always been one of the things i liked seeing a new baby is always a he said Home deliveries made up on fourth to one third of his practice around a City of people in the Southern tip of it looks when we get Well have delivered 420 babies at Home in almost 11 years Billock and out of the whole Ive Only had one experience where we had a bad that was a Mother that didst want to go to the Hospital when i suggested but he said As he saw the last of his that he is paying a probably 6 percent of my taxable for malpractice insurance premi while that is relatively Low for this Day and its gotten to the Point if you carry what you you cant charge enough to your patients to make your
