European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 Reagan pins Hope on Assad Washington up president Reagan believes syrian president Hafez Assad can help win the release of seven kidnapped americans in Lebanon and plans to work with him again to secure their re a top White House official said Fri National Security affairs adviser Robert Mcfarlane i thought he Assad acted constructively in the hostage Situa Tion in which 39 americans on Board Twa flight 847 were held for 17 Days by shiite Mcfarlane made the remarks to United press International before a Quick huddle with Reagan As the president and first lady departed for Camp for a relaxed weekend and Celebration saturday of her 64th the administration has insisted it is Mak ing every Effort to secure the release of seven americans still being held in who were taken before the Twa Reagan is under increasing pressure to produce results in the Wake of the hijacking and subsequent release of the 39 Ameri he is expected to try to work closely again with Assad despite differences be tween the two governments approaches to some Middle East problems and the syrian leaders desire to extend his influence in the something to Grin about up photo new York City police officials laugh along with mayor de Koch As he tells a joke during commencement exercises at the police the Rookie class of 1985 was the second largest since the cites financial crisis of the medical Home care costs affected further restricts medicare spending Washington a the Reagan administration Friday announced More restrictions on medicare this time for medical education and Home health and said the changes will save More than the health and human services depart ment published final regulations freezing 1986 payments to hospitals for medical education costs at their 1985 saving million next and imposing new limits on Home health saving More than million Over a period of three the medical education freeze primarily will affect the nations teaching hos where medical school graduates pro vide supervised care and receive training while working As interns and in medicare paid billion in direct medical education costs salaries for interns and residents and classroom costs to almost All of them Large Urban the assistance is paid in addition to pay ments that Are made for medicare patients but the Cost is going even though the nation faces a surplus of the department has said at present growth the United states will have surplus physicians by 1990 and surplus physicians by our nation has a growing surplus of physicians in nearly every area of Medicine and the demands on medicare for medi Cal education support should reflect that has Secretary Margaret heckler said in a freezing the medical education pay ments would save about million while still providing some billion in heckler the Home health regulation affects pay ments that Are made to specialists in such Fields As skilled nursing physical ther speech pathology and occupational therapy by putting limits on How much such specialists can Bill medicare for their serv the department said in the limits were based on aggregate costs for All the new regulations put limits on each Type of allowing More precise Cost figures to be and Caps payments a Little above the mean charge for providing the i want to emphasize that these rules do not impose any new costs for nor do they affect the number of visits an Agency May furnish to medicare heckler but they will indeed apply needed pres sure on the higher Cost Home health Agen cies to bring their costs into heckler the Home health regulations will affect some Home healthcare agencies participating in the number of organizations includes Hospital based air Force puts off test of ant satellite missile Washington not the air Force has said that its first test of an ant satellite missile against an object in space will be delayed because of technical problems with the an air Force confirming information provided by congressional and no government said the air Force cancelled the launching of two tar get devices into sending them in Stead to the manufacturer for the launching had been set for june a congressional source said air Force officials told Congress that the repairs Are expected to delay the launching of the targets by two or three the air Force James declined to confirm the cause of the problem is under investigation and the delay is Uncertain until we know More about the he one of the orbiting targets was to have been used for a test firing in late in that a 13inch homing boosted by a two stage rocket from an f 15 fighter was to attempt to collide with the orbiting congressional aides said it int Clear whether the technical malfunction will influence efforts in Congress to Force a moratorium on tests of the the House last week approved an amendment to the military programs Bill Banning tests of ant satellite weapons against targets in space As Long As the soviet Union refrains from similar test the Senate has voted to permit the testing As Long As president Reagan certifies that he is trying to negotiate a treaty prohibiting ant satellite the scheduled delay in the tests would put them close to meeting dates set be tween Reagan and Mikhail Gorba the soviet they Are scheduled to meet in Geneva on 19 and John associate director of the federation of american said the political sensitivity of the ant sat elite testing might convince the administration to postpone the tests even the soviets announced a testing moratorium on ant satellite weapons two years ago and have called on Reagan to follow critics of the ant satellite devices say that if testing is continued until the weapons Are perfected it will be impossible to achieve a permanent they say development of reliable ant satellite weapons will jeopardize the satellites the military depends on for Early warning of an surveillance and Communia the Pentagon argues that the soviets have a crude but workable ant satellite weapon and that the air Force tests will induce the russians to negotiate a treaty Banning All such Pike said the target is believed to be equipped with a device that can heat Gas to mimic the Thermal signatures of various with monitors to record the Success or failure of test shots and with radios to transmit the results to Pike said he has been told by usually reliable sources that the technical prob lems involve the radio that would be used to transmit the test