European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1985 report assails wasteful Cataract surgery Washington up the Federal government will waste billion on cat tract surgery this a House subcommittee reported citing kickbacks to Eye unnecessary operations and the panel cited numerous instances in which doctors overcharged the govern ments medicare program for the lenses they implanted in received kickbacks from Lens salesmen for placing their orders with particular the report is the result of a two year investigation by the health and Lon term care subcommittee of the House select committee on the inspector Gener als office of the health and human serv ices department assisted the this surgical from the tax payers is an unmitigated discs the subcommittee Claude said in a preface to the the investigation found that some Eye doctors were offered free trips to Cash deposits in Caribbean Banks for each Lens purchased and free Stock in Lens com others were offered surgical equip and the use of cars and resort the report about million americans will under go the 20minute Cataract surgery this the operation is the most common proce Dure paid by a Federal health care program for disabled and elderly per this subject is of immense concern to the people of this nation because a person living a Normal lifespan is More Likely to undergo a Cataract operation than any other major surgical Pepper said As the panel opened its hearing on the during the a Needle is inserted in the Eye to remove Cloudy cataracts and a plastic Lens is the procedure is considered one of the most successful recent advances in Medicine and vision usually is but the subcommittee said its investigation found the surgery was performed on elderly patients who already had perfect 2020 million Worth of unnecessary surgery was performed on medi care patients this the report according to the Many doctors who perform the procedure outside of hospitals charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars More than the that the government will pay when it is performed in a the government has been billed for up to for a which costs about to Jet probably broke apart before says expert who Analysed air India tapes new Delhi a a expert investigating the air India crash said sat urday an analysis of recordings of control Tower communications indicates the jumbo Jet broke apart before crashing last killing All 329 people on Paul Turner of the National transportation safety Board said the tapes re corded at Shannon International Airport in Ireland show the planes transmitter sent out radio impulses intermittently for five or six seconds after the inboard digital flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder had speaking by Telephone from said he was flying to London Early sunday to review the findings with British aviation the air plane was breaking i and what happened was the Power Supply to the inboard recorders went causing those to he intermittent Short circuits May have caused the transmitter to come then go off and come on air India flight bound for India from Montreal and plunged into the Atlantic about 120 Miles Southwest of the Irish coast on june 23 without the Pilot Radi oing a distress India and some India aviation and government have speculated that the plane exploded in the possibly because of a terrorist Turner said the findings need further study before experts can determine conclusively that the plane broke up in flight if for what air India officials have said repeatedly they doubt that the aircraft crashed be cause of structural they cite the Good safety record of Boeing 747s and a major technical inspection of the plane a few weeks before the Turner said analysis of the data which is being performed at Airi Dias computer Center in indicated a Normal he said Indian experts planned further analysis on the but he was not optimistic that any startling new findings would Secretary to an Indian government commission of told reporters that the conversation on the cockpit voice recorder was Normal until the tape came to an abrupt and sudden the voice recorder monitors cockpit con while the data recorder Mea sures various aspects of flight such As Alti Speed and electronic on an Indian news the United news of said experts had concluded that the two inboard flight re corders As Well As the transponder used in navigation and the planes computer All failed Indian officials involved in the inquiry refused to speak for the record on findings so the government commission plans to begin hearings on the crash in Sailor denied bail in part theft Case san Diego a a Sailor charged with stealing parts for f14 fighter jets and shipping them to Iran was denied bail Fri while authorities said the soviets May have seen sensitive missile equipment also involved in the the Primitivo Baluyut was the fourth of six people charged in the Case to be denied bail by Magis trate Roger the los Angeles times quoted unidentified sources As saying that military and intelligence officials have launched a High level probe into damage to National Security caused by the the review could Lead to modifications of missiles used by the f14s to protect air Craft carriers and other ships from the newspaper it said Federal officials believe the soviet Union got a look at the navys latest ver Sion of the Phoenix missile system because of the components for the Phoenix were among parts diverted to Iran by the International theft which included an iranian National under arrest in an aviation storekeeper on the aircraft Carrier Kitty was specifically implicated in Federal affidavits with stealing parts for f14 fighters and arranging with others to ship them to Federal prosecutors say the four people arrested in san Diego All Are flight Cayabyas said he would Appeal the refusal to Grant his client a Federal grand jury is weighing Evi Dence in the Case and further court appear ances will be set if indictments Are re assistant attorney Phillip Halpern the United states imposed an arms embargo on Iran following the takeover of the country by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in before Iran was shipped about 80 of the f14s equipped with Phoe Nix systems enabling them to fire missiles simultaneously at As Many As six according to intelligence sources unidentified by the 284 of 714 Phoenix missiles ordered by Iran had been delivered before the United states imposed the arms embargo in even though Iran has no formal relations with the soviet it is Only reason Able that we have to assume that soviet agents could have gotten a look at the Sto Len missile said John a retired Marine Pilot and logistics officer who is a senior research analyst at the Cen Ter for defense a private Washington based military study South Africa de dares state of emergency South Africa a president Botha declared a state of emergency saturday in 36 Rio torn cities and giving police Broad new Powers to quell it is the first emergency proclaimed in 25 the declaration empowers police to make arrests without warrants and impose cur fews and detain suspects indefinitely for it is aimed at curbing grow ing anti apartheid rioting that has left More than 450 Blacks dead in 10 it was the first declaration of an Emer gency in South Africa since March when unrest followed the police shootings of 69 Black protesters at South of police arrested peo ple during that 156day cover ing 83 of what were then 265 magisterial not even in the extended 1976 riots was there a state of although More Blacks were killed then 575 than in the current some analysts contend that while there have been fewer the scope of the unrest exceeds that in 1976 because it has swept up Community groups Korea gets mig23s Washington up state department spokesman Bob Smalley says the soviet Union has begun to Supply mig23 aircraft to North and the United states is examining the implications for the military balance in and Black Trade unions As Well As Young the emergency covers the cities of Johannesburg and port Elizabeth As Well As smaller most of them near Johannes Burg and in the Eastern Cape Many of the nations most influential anti apartheid campaigners were in Cra an Eastern Cape town also covered by the for the funeral of four Black activists slain last month in mysterious there was Broad condemnation of the emergency by speakers at the the government wants to hide some they Are in a state of said Stone a Leader of the United demo cratic front news update guilty plea entered Philadelphia up a former manager for general electric has pleaded and three other executives have pleaded inno cent to charges of overfilling the fed eral government on defense con Richard of pleaded guilty in District court to two counts of making false statements to the air Force on his role in a military contract the largest military contractor Ever convicted of criminal charges of defrauding the was fined million and ordered to repay the in pleading innocent were Thomas of a for merge general manager Forrest of Newtown manager of programs engineering and Joseph of King of chief million settlement a general electric the last defendant in a civil suit in the fatal Beverly Hills supper club has reached a million they wanted us to keep the amount i said no said Stanley an attorney for the families of the 165 people killed by the fire and for 81 people who were the settlement of the which claimed that electrical manufacturers were liable in the 1977 blocked a string of appeals that might have taken two said District judge Henry Wil Hoit be did not admit liability or con firm the amount of the company lawyers had con tended there was no proof that be products were used in the Southgate convicted in slayings new York a a 35year old Man has been convicted of Man Slaughter in the deaths of eight Chil Dren and two one of the worst mass killings in the cites Histo the state supreme court jury found Christopher Thomas guilty of 10 counts of intentional which it then reduced to first degree manslaughter because of extreme emotional he faces a maximum of 18and on third years to 25 years in prison on each of the manslaughter convictions when he is sentenced the women and children were killed at the Brooklyn Home of convicted cocaine dealer Enrique Ber Bermudez pregnant girl Friend and two daughters were among the