European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 health benefits adviser cuts red tape Schauf takes the people and their problems first by Dan Wollam Stuttgart Bureau chief Stuttgart if death and taxes Are lifes top two red tape must come in a close part of Bridget Scheffs Job is to help service Mem ers plow through red Shes the health benefits adviser at the army Hospital in bad this year Schaff was selected As the outstanding health benefits adviser for the the presented this month in recognizes her efforts to help their families and defense department civilians get the Type of health benefits they need As easily As much of her time is spent smoothing out problems associated with paying Bills from civilian Schaff said Many of those problems Stem from misunderstandings about the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed she estimates that 90 percent of the forms americans fill out per Taining to the program Are incorrect if the person Hast first talked to a benefits Here in we not Only have an education she we also have the language bar Schaff said the easiest Way for service members or civilians to overcome those problems is to take advantage of an advisers before going to a civilian Hospital for elective you need to consult with a health benefits she for emergency you need to see an adviser immediately after you leave the a native of has worked for army hospitals in Germany since Shes been a health benefits adviser for three educating service members and Hospital administrators about health benefits and paperwork is another of Scheffs she spends a lot of time travelling to the German and american hospitals surrounding trying to help other i try to help them set up a system internally so they can do the she she also conducts workshops for military units to inform them about their health Joseph Gardner Scheffs Boss and the chief of the patient administration division at the said one reason Schaff won the award is her humanistic it would be very easy to say we have a program with a lot of rules and and the people problems have to somehow fit within those Gardner Bridget takes the opposite she takes the people and their problems and lets the rules work for one example of her approach is in the arrangements she makes for service members to pay civilian most civilian hospitals want the entire payment up theres not Many e4s and below who can afford to do Gardner Schaff has been Able to work out arrangements with the hospitals so the service member pays a Small initial then the Hospital files the claim for the remainder of the Gardner was Quick to applaud the efforts of his award winning adviser for her work with German hos doctors and doctors can get Gardner but if administrators dont get along with and the whole thing Doest Ethiopia agrees to increase food dispersion Addis Ethiopia not United nations officials in Ethiopia have advised Western nations not to Send new shipments of food until More of the supplies now in ports and warehouses have been moved to Relief at the same officials they have reached an agreement with the ethiopian Mengistu Haile Man aimed at sharply increasing the flow of Grain to millions of starving Kurt the assistant Secre tary general for emergency operations in and Maurice executive coordinator of the office for Emer gency operations in said after a meeting with Mengistu on saturday that there Are enough food supplies in the coun try to meet the immediate needs of most of the nearly 8 million people estimated at risk As a result of drought and Only about half that Many Are being largely because of a shortage of they Aid officials say As much As 60 percent of the food Aid that has arrived in Ethiopia since de Cember has yet to be the two men said Mengistu assured them that Over the next three Ethiopia government will increase the distribution of food from the present level of metric tons a month to they said that to accomplish this the government would need to allocate at least 400 More commercial and military trucks to the Relief in return for that the officials promised to press the Western nations taking part in the Relief Effort to donate about 800 More trucks later this several Western diplomats said the agreement appeared to resolve a dispute Over who is responsible for moving Grain from Ethiopia overcrowded ports and warehouses to Relief Camps and distribution the United states and a number of other donor nations have been calling on Ethiopia to commit More resources to Clearing the spokesmen for the ethiopian government have argued that those contributing the food should also provide the Means to deliver the ethiopian military is fight ing insurgent groups in the North and other parts of the what Jansson is saying is that if the ethiopians do Well do said one Western embassy but its got to be a two Way Summit Gorbachev Hammer Moscow up soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev will not attend a United nations session in but is in touch with Washington about a Summit with president industrialist Armand Hammer told reporters after a 90minute meeting with Gorba Chev at the Hammer told a news conference that the Summit is being negotiated right he said Gorbachev told him that the so Viets Are in Contact with Washington on this but it has not been decided where or the 87yearold chairman of Occidental Petroleum said he did not discuss the United nations trip with but Anat oly the soviet ambassador to the United told him before his Depar Ture for Moscow that the soviet Leader would not i know Hes not Hammer a soviet official had indicated that Gorbachev would go to new York for the open ing of the general leading to speculation that the two leaders would use the Opportunity to Hammer said he and Gorbachev also Dis cussed the Sale of Arctic drilling rigs and other american equipment to the Sovi who Are building a Coal slurry pipeline in and of increasing the supplies of super phosphoric acid to the soviets in Exchange for Potash and used in making the Tass news Agency reported that Hammer presented Gorbachev with a hand written note from Vladimir whom Hammer met in 1921 when he first visited the soviet 7monfh Safe of siege lifted by Chiles military Chile up the Mili tary government sunday night announced an end to a 7monthold state of and said it was lifting censorship on the opposition the decision was announced by Interior minister Ricardo Garcia in a nationwide broadcast on television and radio and was to go into effect Garcia said the state of siege was being lifted because of a marked drop in terrorist activity in the country and to restore greater Freedom of information and Opin Ion in the president Augusto Pinochet reinstated the state of siege 6 to crack Down on a mounting wave of opposition protests and terrorist attacks on his 11yearold military Garcia said the government had witnessed an appreciable drop in the systematic subversion that had required the implanting of the state of siege in the immediate effect of the lifting of the state of siege will be the reappearance of six opposition publications banned in novem Ber and an end to censorship on one other weekly according to the Catholic Church human rights More than government opponents and labor leaders were arrested under the state of under the broadened Powers granted by the state of troops were used to carry out mass detentions in militant shanty towns of Santiago last Garcia reminded the country that a state of a Milder form of restriction of civil continues in effect throughout the under the state of authorities can continue to enforce a nightly curfew in the country main we know there Are groups that Are not interested in a orderly and peace Ful return to a solid and stable Garcia 12 nations to participate in Kiels annual regatta by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau chief Kiel a dozen nations will be sending ships to the Baltic seaport of Kiel this year to participate in its 102 year old annual the begun in runs from saturday evening until june Nineteen vessels will be on display in addition to the yachts competing in the we Klong the event began in 1883 and has been held each year except for years during the two world regatta week festivities were expanded after world War ii to include military according to Hubertus von this years re Gatta the United states is among the nations sending and the ships Are expected to be open for Public View on the sunday afternoons of june 23 and group visits can be arranged by contacting the regatta of fice at the Dee sea regatta is the Cen Ter piece of the weeks offset on Shore by hundreds of festivities sponsored by various boating visitors who want to View the regatta can go out on commercial boats that operate out of the Kiel von Bre Dow he estimated that the num Ber of visitors could reach several Hun dred sponsors of the event Are the Ger Man the City of the state of Schleswig Holstein and the German army and Kiel is about 50 Miles North of Ham it is accessible from the a7 Auto