European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 a needs More chief says Dallas a the veterans administration has improved the Way it dispenses health but it will have to do a better Job As the medical needs of the nations aging War veterans the Agency head vets often encounter delays when apply ing for benefits because Many a offices still process applications rather than by Harry the Agency said at a news con Ference we Are pursuing Agency wide data processing and telecommunications mod which will provide better service to veterans through the increased use of modern Walters War veterans have reached the age when they require increased medical dramatic increase from 198284 Walters told delegates of the 86th National veterans of foreign wars we have accomplished a great Deal in the last four years to help assure delivery of High Quality health care and benefits to americas said he was appointed administrator by president Reagan in we have not always done everything but we will continue to said although Walters said obsolete information systems Are responsible for most of the delay in providing veterans with the a must shoulder part of the he one of the major when we dont do is we dont have the they dont like to and they he drug witness new York City leads population gain gunned Down in Florida new York not Between 1982 and new York City gained More people than any other City in the reversing a decline in the 1970s in which 5 its recorded population fell by nearly according i to a study by the Federal Bureau of the the dramatic in itself after a decade of Popula Tion also will bring the City More Federal be cause payments for Many kinds of Aid Are based on the City estimates that it gets in Federal Aid for every person counted by the census the census study estimates that from july 1982 to july the City grew by to City officials and observers of the local Economy said the increase indicated the renewed strength of the cites Economy and its attraction to the latest wave of Immi Grants to while generally agreeing that the City had grown in pop Many demographers and other cautioned that the findings could be subject to a Large margin of error because they were based on complicated statistical project rather than actual population a Federal court has yet to Rule on a suit the City filed several years ago contending that the census Bureau grossly under counted the cites population in the 1980 it was put at the new Survey estimates population by using a variety of highly technical projections from Federal tax re birth and death and immigration data to determine what Are known As migration rates in and out of the the study is one of several done periodically that help determine allocations of Federal the Only City with a gain that approached new Yorks was los it was estimated to have grown by to in the same two year the nations three other largest cities Houston and Philadelphia All were estimated to have lost the most vibrant Sun Belt while growing at a faster had smaller total increases than new York in Dallas and in san Herbert chairman of the new York City planning said most of the growth had come from new its not Only an economic Revita its a human revitalization that makes the City he you go into schools in the Borough of Queens and 34 languages Are entrepreneurs making a killing with Bee fashions a Afri Canizer killer bees May not be Good for the Honey but Quick thinking retailers Are buzzing about their fad More than shirts designed by Louis Chavez depict a giant Bee eating an Oil Derrick to commemorate the discovery in june of the first Colony of Africani Zed bees in an Oil Field near Rural lost Kossie Dethloff is distributing a Bee bearing shirt that proclaims genuine imported killer bees 1st he sold 800 in four Days at an intersection near the infestation 140 Miles North of los this will stay hot As Long As it is in the said Chuck his company offers Caps with a snarling Bee built like Sylvester Stallone in the rambo movies and the words Kern county Home of the killer Kraft revels in the business but realizes it will deflate this is a he when it goes it will go Stone Tribune sour census North Redington a a Man whose testimony in a co Cain smuggling trial sent five men to Pris on was shot and killed near his the Fri Luis was gunned Down around Midnight said Robert Spe Cial agent in charge of the Tampa Fri of there were no he Federal officials in Kentucky said Pinto was a key figure in an International ring that distributed cocaine and laundered Money for shipment to Pinto moved about million for the ring Over a period of two they on Federal authorities in coving said Pinto had won Early release from Federal prison after his testimony last april in a cocaine conspiracy trial in which five men were Colombia lawmaker who once served As an alternate senator in was not living under any kind of witness Protection Butler Pinto pleaded guilty in october 1983 to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and fail ure to file currency transaction he was sentenced in february 1984 to 10 years and fined Pinto was released in june and his Fine was reduced to said Louis de attorney in Amador Marco Betan Alvaro Guillermo de Jesus Zapata and Carlos All of were convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine and interstate travel to promote a racketeering they were sentenced to four years in jail and fined suits seeking million after leak at Union carbides West Virginia Plant a Law suits seeking a total of million have been filed against Union Carbide on behalf of people exposed to Poison Gas after it leaked the two filed tuesday in District court in new York City and Kanawha county circuit accuse Carbide of negligence and wilful and Wanton con duct in the leak of Aldi carb oxime and methylene Chloride at the company Institute the leak of the suspected carcinogens resulted in the hospitalization of 135 peo lawyers handling the cases also Are involved in suits that have been filed against the company in connection with a 3 chemical leak in that killed More than the suits name 30 plaintiffs who claim injuries from the 11 which occurred when gaskets on a storage tank the substances settled on nearby the suits May be combined with Bhopal litigation being handled in District court in new said attorney John he filed the new York which asks for million for eight and is working on some Bhopal others involved in the Institute suit Are attorneys Melvin Belli and Stanley who also Are working on a billion Bho pal Coates suit claims that Union Carbide negligently stored the chemicals that failed to inform its employees of proper safeguards to use in the event of 2 officers indicted for illegal f4 parts sales Salt Lake City up a Utah company and two of its officers have been indicted on Federal charges of exporting f4 phantom parts to arms dealers and aviation consulting firms in England and Germany without obtaining a required named in the 46count indictment were the Elgie and Fred Williams and Dennis failed to program its computer to Deal with such and failed to notify the Community promptly when the leak of the Kanawha county suit makes similar and seeks million on behalf of 22 Carbide spokesman Thad Epps said the company will not comment on the Union Carbide has attributed a 20min Ute reporting which allowed the Gas Cloud to Settle on Homes before Community warning sirens on faulty computer predictions and an initial concern for six workers injured in the Union Carbide chairman Warren an Derson on Friday said the company has now instructed Plant personnel to notify Emer gency authorities immediately of any significant the company has offered to pay All medical expenses of those Carbide is conducting its own investigation of the Accident and on tuesday named former environmental Protection Agency chief William Ruckelshaus to head the