European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes june 1986 military tax changes still under study by Cunt Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington a decision on whether military members will get to keep their Homeowner tax deductions probably wont emerge until at least this experts in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill Treasury Hast and dont expect to hear anything before the tax re form proposal has been worked they have a lot of work to said a tax specialist in the office of the assistant Secretary of defense for installations and he referred to the tax Reform proposal put Forward last month by president a staff member on the House ways and Means where tax Bills arc noted that the presidents proposal did not recommend taxing military members housing As the Treasury department tax proposal did last he said the Issue was were not going after military fringe benefits in any he an officer in defense department legislative Liaison said the Issue want so were drafting legislation to As part of the tax the previous treatment of the military he he said the Pentagon probably would seek a sym pathetic sponsor on the ways and Means a member of the staff of William said no legislation is pending in the Senate to protect the last year Armstrong Success fully offered a  Resolution that the Treasury proposal should not be the income tax deduction was called into question last summer by the Treasury departments internal Revenue a Revenue ruling said members of the clergy could not continue to claim a full real estate deduction if they received a Parson age or housing allowance the irs reasoned that it was a double deduction if the clergy got the Money tax free and then deducted from their taxes the mortgage interest they paid with the housing allowances for Mili tary members Arent and the question arose whether service members also would be barred from taking the de the Treasury departments position has been that it is still studying the after a meeting Between former trea sury Secretary Donald Regan and defense Secretary Caspar it was announced even if the ruling were extended to it would Only be applied to income received after the defense department Hast taken an official position the Pentagon tax specialist but the Dod has pointed out to the Treasury and Congress the Impact the ruling would have on Mili tary about military homeowners would be according to Pentagon each Homeowner could lose to in deductions and pay to More in that amounts to a pay Cut of 4 percent to 6 officials Reform from Page 1 checked in a recent audit were involved in such irregularities and misconduct As moonlighting at other jobs during duty armed services audits indicated that Many military hospitals failed to Check the credentials of allowing some physicians who had lost their state medical licenses to treat military women delivering babies at air Force hospitals in 1982 suffered severe cuts and tears at a rate twice the National according to defense department who took Over As head of the system in 1984 after a 20year career As a military doctor and a top Job in health administration in said in an inter View that he is taking decisive action to Correct the he said a major recruiting drive to get the Best medical school graduates into the military is expected to eliminate a doctor shortage that he said was partly responsible for the horror in a Blitz of Mayer has or dered the military to require state licenses of any new doctors coming into the the services also will be required to set standards for a Long list of medical proce dures and hold their doctors to they must ensure that nurses and interns Are More closely supervised by experienced and they must constantly review doctors credentials to perform tasks to which they Are Mayer also is working to strengthen his offices control Over the surgeons the uniformed chiefs of the Navy and air Force medical services who have traditionally enjoyed huge measures of autonomy in running their Mayer said he will soon be forming medical strike forces composed of investigators reporting directly to him within hours or Days of incidents that May indicate a major problem in the such teams would be used in highly publicized like the death of a 6yearold boy who entered Madigan for treatment of a Cut lip earlier this year and died of a heart attack apparently caused by an improperly administered that was a terrible Mayer i want to satisfy myself that i have All the facts in such cases in no directive is Ever going to guarantee that an incident like that wont happen Mayer also is planning a study of obstetrics and gynaecology care and is looking into the possibility of major improvements in military medical including the possible use of a compute strip id card that each patient would have with him at All James whose interest in the military health system was prompted by a series of complaints by said Lack of a Good record system is a major since soldiers and their families Are transferred from Post to they need the Best records possible to make sure chronic conditions Are treated unless the current system is the military will continue to be plagued by horror stories that have recently been re ported and will not be Able to determine if the Quality of care is being Sasser also praised Mayers new direct but As audits conducted by the department of defense Steps have been in place previously to properly credential doctors and other health care these directives have simply been and he said unless civilian control Over the military services is the current system of everyone being in but no one will another idea sponsored by Sasser and Barney is to repeal rules forbidding sailors and airmen from bringing malpractice suits in civilian dependents can but military personnel must Appeal to their services to redress malpractice Frank a civilian attorney who has won several lawsuits brought by dependents at Madigan said such a Law would make military doctors More careful about the Way treat patients in Mayer denounced the saying that its based on an absolutely false perception that the fear of lawsuit is the major motivator for providing Good if that the were in a lot of trouble in this he that he would like to change the current disability system that pegs compensation for disabling injuries to a Serviceman there Are real tragedies As a result of the Low level of disability payments that some servicemen Mayer Mayer also supports the thrust of a re cent general accounting office report Sug Gesting that the military should close some of the outmoded hospitals in its 168hospital citing several studies that showed the most efficient hospitals have Between 200 and 300 the Gao questioned the de sense departments need to operate 69 hospitals that were admitting 50 people or Mayer also supports experiments to test improvements in the billion system that permits dependents to occasionally seek care in nonmilitary despite the important differences will always remain Between military and civilian the highest salary a doctor can earn in the military is about compared to a average among civilian military hospitals Are supported by tax and budgets Are in the military health system for peacetime care of servicemen and their families operates in the Shadow of the de sense departments traditional medical mis Sion treating the casualties of in an All bets Are Mayer we have to worry about med ical readiness for War All the Hijack from Page 1 ing to make Contact with a number of Leb anese seeking information about some hostages who were reported to have been forced from the plane during an ear Lier Stop in Twa officials in new York reported that As Many As 12 passengers on the Athen torome flight had been removed while the plane was in Beirut on we believe they were taken off in Bei said Sally director of corporate communications for As negotiations with the terrorists con the army Antiterrorist Delta Force based at fort was sent to the according to an informed source in the Fol lowing established refused to con firm or deny the reported state department spokesman Tom Kra Jeski said that diplomats were working closely with algerian officials and that the algerian Mohamed came to the building for a meeting with Secretary of state George state department officials tried to keep track of the number of americans left on the but their figures fluctuated throughout the spokesman Pete Martinez said it was believed there were about 50 hostages still on the but Twa officials said the number was closer to the hijackers said the Man they shot and killed and dumped on the Tarmac during the planes second Stop in Beirut on Friday was a but military officials said there were no marines on the body of the slain Man was turned Over to officials and was flown to Tor Rejon air base in Spain for a base spokeswoman said the body arrived sunday evening aboard an air Force c130 and was immediately taken to the base family and friends of the americans held hostage were calling the state seeking information and task Force spokeswoman Nancy Johnson she theres not much we can 34 hospitalized during Springsteen show Frankfurt a thirty four people suffering from alcohol and drug abuse were hospitalized during a Bruce Springsteen concert in Frankfurt this week police said medics treated another 28 people for re lated problems at the scene of the american Rock stars concert saturday at Frankfurt police spokesman Wolfgang Nebelung attendance was of those 19 were germans and 15 were he i suppose it sounds like a but its not so bad when you consider How Many people were he he said there were no violent incidents reported at the a Hamburg published Bild am said a woman was injured when the fans stormed into the stadium at the Start of the but Nebelung said police had no report of the he said several thousand fans ran into the stadium when a Gate near the main Entrance came unlatched several hours be fore the concert but no one was Bild am sonntag said Springsteen was accompanied by his wife of three and that he was enthusiastically received by the the policemen even waved with their the newspaper Tell Shultz was briefed by Telephone at he arrived at the state department around 7 saturday and spoke with the temperatures l h 53 72 65 82 62 72 56 72 57 74 56 72 70 92 57 88 56 70 72 88 70 92 65 83 80 108 Albany Atlanta Atlantic City Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Kansas City Las vegas june 16 l h 60 84 76 88 58 76 71 88 74 88 80 110 60 78 57 71 54 78 58 90 55 76 77 91 64 80 los Angeles Miami Beach Minneapolis new Orleans Orlando Phoenix Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Salt Lake City san Francisco san Juan Washington european weather forecast for monday partly Cloudy skies with Light variable High temperatures in the Low to old 60s lows in the mid to upper Sunset monday Sunrise tuesday Outlook for tuesday Cloudy with an increasing Chance of rain in Northwest parts o Germany skies will be partly Cloudy in Southern temperatures recorded sunday p p p r m p p 4am 4pm m 50 59 4am 4pm 72 84 41 55 72 53 48 48 43 Pearlly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a Cloudy by det 7th weather 70 55 59 61 p cd m p p p 41 55 43 52 66 61 63 84 61 63 82