European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Mengele still israeli sources 2 d Anchorage to bid for 1992 26 d military tax change still being 28 the 61 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces june 1985 of Olav Ond sunday Foj 8693 a hijacked Jet returns to Beirut hostages make Appeal to Reagan by the associated press a hijacked Twa jetliner returned to Beirut its third Stop in the Leb anese capital since the drama began three Days As officials launched a new round of diplomatic efforts to free the american hostages being held aboard the plane by shiite the state department said in related stories and pages As far As efforts to free i cant provide any said department spokesman Tom in a petition purporting to come from 32 but signed by Only american passengers pleaded with president Reagan not to mount a military operation against the hijackers and called on him to persuade Israel to free lebanese the hostages appealed to president Reagan to negotiate quickly our immedi ate release and refrain from any direct military action on our the asking Reagan to convince the israelis to release the 800 lebanese As was brought from the plane by Bassam an offi Cial of the dominant shiite amal after the hijackers radioed the control Tower that the hostages had written shortly after the petition was sent a Hijacker called the control Tower and demanded an ambulance be sent to take one sick very an elder a photo freed Airliner hostage Laura Bergman chicagoan in bus taking released passengers to Algiers Airport we Haven got any medicines the Hijacker said in please Send an ambulance at 1 am releasing him just because Hes an ambulance raced to the brought out the identified As Robert of and drove him to the american University Hospital in moslem West told reporters that he had Bro Ken his ribs while on a sailing Holiday in Ive been on that damned plane for three he asked about the situation he its Tough As in Reagan had said for their own the hijackers should free the remaining Passen Reagan Cut Short his weekend stay at the presidential Retreat in Camp to return to the White House and Confer with advisers about the Robert Deputy White House press Secretary for foreign said Reagan cancelled afternoon plans to attend a fathers Day picnic in with members of big an of men who befriend fatherless the state departments task Force of Middle East and terrorism experts watched developments through the morn ing and consulted with the families of those held task Force spokeswoman Diane Kelly said the embassy in Beirut was work see Hijack on Page 28 Reform prescribed for Dod health care Washington a angered by horror stories of bungling Mil lion Dollar negligence awards and an unresponsive officials in the Pentagon and Congress Are prescribing heavy doses of Reform to cure the Mili Tarys ailing health care obvious like checking the credentials of doctors being and revolutionary proposals like letting gis sue for Are bubbling Forth at a rapid rate to fix a system that is supposed to care for million people but does t though he asserts it is not a William the assistant de sense Secretary for health acknowledges that important changes Are needed to help restore the Confidence of military personnel and their families in their level of complaints about military health care Are As old As armies according to a Pentagon question Naire sent to users of the military care comes out second Best to civilian treatment in every including the thoroughness of the adequacy of hospitals and the Supply of Doc evidence of chronic problems began surfacing last Vear with a dramatic Rise in the number of negligence suits and fault finding internal audits that cast doubts on the qualifications of some of the defense departments from 689 malpractice claims filed in fiscal year the number Rose 24 per cent to 854 in during the same the amount of Money won each year by claimants jumped from Mil lion to air Force and Navy audits also turned up cases in which unqualified and unsupervised doctors were operating in military re Quiring investigations and just last a Federal judge awarded million to an army wife whose brain damaged baby was born at Madigan army medical lawyers submitted evidence even though the woman was bleeding when she arrived at the maternity she was told to walk around for several hours be fore being admitted to a labor and no measurement of fetal heartbeat was taken for 70 in other recent developments the chief heart and Chest doctor at Bethesda naval Hospital the Hospital of presidents was ousted from Surgi Cal practice last month after the Navy said he had demonstrated professional behaviour contrary to medical staff by the defense department found that nearly 5 percent of the doctors they see Reform on Page 28 army to retain family priority placement program by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington the army test program to keep family members in army jobs when they move from one duty Sta Tion to another within the states has been made a spokesman for the Mil itary personnel Center the begun about two years was successful 72 percent of the time in placing family members with civil service status in jobs at the next duty the spokesman when the test ended last More than 300 peo ple had been when it was made the pro Gram was extended so members of Soldier and civilian employee families could be placed in jobs in Alaska and Hawaii As Well As in the Continental United he under the family member priority placement members can take a copy of the sponsors permanent change of station orders to the civilian personnel of fice and begin the process of registering for the the rest of the paper work is completed at the civilian personnel office at the new duty the paper work is forwarded to the defense departments data sup port Center in where the data is entered into a with the computers family Mem Bers Are referred for jobs that they qualify for and that Are within commuting Dis Tance of their new duty