European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes August 1985 w Washington a the armed services were formally directed Friday to prepare for unprecedented Quality Assur Ance reviews of their hospitals no later than said a Pentagon official who spoke Only on condition of the source said William assistant Secretary of defense for health of announced his decision to the surgeons general of the Navy and air Force during a of his defense health Council on he said he expected a new system of civilian peer review organizations to be established in each state by the end of this Reagan Calls budget plan a beginning Washington a president Reagan offered spare Praise to Congress saturday for passing a budget calling it a goo Faith beginning toward tackling the nations billowing but the in his saturday radio address from his Camp warned again that taxes Are not the Way he wants to fight Federal red expected to reach nearly billion in coining the budget Resolution finally agreed to by the Congress this week represents a goo Faith beginning to tackle the deficit the right Way by reducing what government can rather than simply taking More of what you Reagan we still face a great Challenge in reducing the but those who insist that spending cannot be Cut any and that we must increase your taxes to reduce the Are Fiat out Reagan after weeks of and despite reagans refusal to accept Senate Republican plans for key deficit cutting Congress passed a Compromise 1986 budget plan last week that claims deficit reductions of billion next the plan schedules nearly billion in reductions Over the next three through even lawmakers in both houses have expressed scepticism that such savings will be chances for larger reductions were lost when the president rejected tax increases offered by members of his own party in the Senate and when both House democrats and republicans refused to make any changes in costo living increases for so Cial Security the president said he intends to keep a close watch on Congress this fall As it passes the Bills setting out government spending he vowed to draw the line on tax increases if lets All recognize that spending has not been Cut to the and that a tax in crease would Only reduce our incentives to save and weaken our Economy and make deficits far Reagan sometimes its difficult to you didst Send us to Washington to feed the you sent us to Drain the we didst come to raise your but to lower the president Mayer reportedly told the military health leaders while such a system of civilian review will be the program is needed to ensure that Only the Best of care is dispensed to military personnel and their Mayer disclosed that the plan will Cost the defense department an estimated million in 1986 and about million a year the source the military health system has been buffeted in recent months by reports of sub Standard in one a Navy heart surgeon recruited despite questions on Hospital ble qualifications is facing a court martial on charges he bungled operations that resulted in the deaths of four a week the associated press Dis closed details of Mayers based on the contents of a letter he sent to the health care financing an Agency of the department of health and human Mayer subsequently confirmed the saying that All 168 military hospitals around the world will be subjected to systematic external peer review by civil ians for the first according to Mayers earlier the new Pentagon system will be modelled after one now administered by the health care financing administration for Hospi tals treating medicare it As described by one abruptly end the process of Only military doctors reviewing the medical decisions of other military contracts will be let with a group of civil Ian physicians in each who will be responsible for monitoring the admission and treatment records for patients at Mili tary monthly reports will be expected on each military Hospital in the dense Black smoke rises from the wreckage of two freight trains which collided near a photo 5 crewmen killed As freight trains collide a the collision of two freight trains triggered a fireball and explosion that one witness said was like an atomic and authorities said five crewmen were the collision occurred Friday night under an overpass of the Boulder which connects Denver and and flames shot 100 feet into the putting off heat so intense that the viaduct just looks like it just melted said Westminster police spokesman Steve a massive column of Black smoke could be seen 60 Miles away in fort three crewmen were in the locomotive of the northbound and two were in the southbound officials Ron who saw the crash with a said the collision sounded like an atomic it was just a huge a huge fireball with a mushroom at the he our first reaction it was a the two trains were just a big mass of my Friend and i went to Check for but you  see the they were smashed underneath the via investigators from the Railroad and the National transportation safety Board Are working to determine the cause of the spectacular All i can say at this Point is that both trains were on the same Burlington Northern spokesman Bill Joplin i cant speculate on Why that Well have to do quite a bit of i Vestiga the Accident occurred about and firefighters were not Able to extinguish the Blaze until 11 even the heat from the soldering ruins prevented Rescue Crews from removing the bodies of the Vic officials said diesel Oil from the two engines fuelled the intense at least a dozen rail cars were reported derailed by the the Accident caused one Lane of the Over pass on 36 to collapse from the heat of the and it also set off several Brush Jefferson county sheriffs officers said the Accident was within a few Hundred feet of some Homes in the sparsely populated officials had planned to evacuate Resi dents within a half mile radius of the Acci Dent As a but they called off the evacuation after firefighters began to bring the Blaze under court exempts Amish Farmers from traffic sign Law a Amish farm ers have a constitutional right not to put Bright Orange warning signs on their Plain Black buggies because their conservative re Ligion prohibits such a judge ruled the first amendment compels Tolera Tion of sincerely held beliefs of minority religious Barren District judge Ben Dickinson wrote in dismissing a traffic ticket issued to an Amish Man for not carrying a sign on his horse drawn Carriage marking it As a slow moving Herman claimed Community should be exempted from the state Law requiring the signs because its religion for bids display of Bright colors and symbols of government Zook is among 67 members of an Ultra conservative Amish order called the Swartzentruber who settled in Rural Barren county last Winter after moving across the Border from Northwestern members of the Community Wear hand sewn Black suits and Long sleeved dresses even in the summer and they work their Fields without Benefit of electricity or Gas they have no modern plumb Zook testified at a hearing june 20 that his the Only one of its kind in would have to leave the state rather than submit to a Law members con Sider a Zook said he was pleased with the courts decision but would not comment deferring to the Community religious Lead Moses its Good Yoder we didst have any idea which Way it might but we were prepared to the Amish were uncomfortable finding themselves in conflict with he but they Felt they could not