European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday october 9, 1985 House oks malpractice suits in military Washington a the House on monday passed and sent to the Senate legislation to give Active duty military personnel the right to sue the government for medical malpractice. Overseas treatment and Field treatment will not be subject to malpractice claims under the Bill. The Home rare was 3i7-9q. A Backer of the Bill rep. Dan Glickman d-kan., said Active duty military personnel arc the Only . Citizens who Lack the right to recover damages if they suffer harm from negligent medical care. The legislation followed recent accounts of poor medi Cal care at military medical facilities. The measure s primary sponsor. Rep. Barney Frank d-mass., called it a Compromise that had been carefully drawn to restrict claims to medical treatment rendered at permanent Domestic medical facilities. Rep. J. Roy Rowland d-ga., spoke against the legis lation warning that it would open up the government to a whole new class of claims and that the Bill would overturn a 35-year-old Legal precedent. Rowland said Congress would do better to address the problems of getting More competent personnel into the military medical system and strengthening oversight of the system. Ship from Page 1 kill 12 additional hostages. Later Israel radio said two people were killed aboard the ship by the hijackers. One victim was an american and the other was of undisclosed nationality it said. Mickey Gurdus Israel s Best known radio Monitor said that information came from his own very Good sources but declined to elaborate. There is no official confirmation Gurdus said. Israel army radio said in its initial account that its information came from the Christian voice of Lebanon radio station in Beirut. Israel army radio said the american was killed because of a delay in opening negotiations with the hijackers. The voice of Lebanon said that in Addi Tion to demanding the release of so prison ers in Israel the hijackers also arc demand ing the release of an unspecified number of palestinians from italian jails. Italian news agencies quoted the italian foreign ministry As saying the hijackers arc armed and have a Large Supply of explosives. The voice of Lebanon said they threatened to blow up the liner if any boats carrying armed men approach. The station said a boat with envoys of the Palestine liberation organization was approaching the ship tuesday. In Tunis Tunisia the Plo earlier tues Day vigorously condemned and denounced the hijacking and demanded that the hostages be freed. A maritime radio pickup by san Sebastian radio in Spain said the hijackers numbered 12, according to spokeswoman Trudy Hill who said she monitored a conversation Between the Captain of an italian ship and a warship from a nation which she refused to name. Hill said the conversation indicated that a 40-year-old american Man had been killed by the hijackers. She said the Rodin pickup indicated that the passengers included people from Vene Zuela Brazil Argentina Peru and Spain. A spokesman for 67 american Passen Gers who had been aboard the ship earlier but got off in Alexandria Egypt said ii americans still were on the ship. Various sources reported that those aboard included possibly six or seven Brit ish women among the ship s Crew two israelis perhaps four French citizens up to 30 West germans and 26 Swiss. Most of the rest of those aboard consisting mainly of a Crew of about 350, Wen italian. Israel radio said initially that the ship was heading Northeast apparently toward Beirut. A maritime radio station in san Sebastian also reported that the Captain of the cruise ship told a nearby warship that it was heading for Beirut. Search from Page 1 Beach on the Caribbean and the jewel River said District attorney Edgardo Del Gado. A . Coast guard helicopter rescued 16 people from a Bluff just before it was flooded on the Island s Western tip coast guard spokesman Steve Eddy said. The coast guard participated in at least nine rescues using its two puerto Rico based helicopters he said. Police also used helicopters to Rescue trapped people. Authorities said tuesday 51 bodies of victims had been brought to the regional medical Center and police said at least nine other people died in nearby Santa Isabel and Coamo. The director of the red Cross in puerto Rico Luz Cuadrado Pitterson said 4,149 people spent the night in 33 shelters. She reported 522 families said their Homes were damaged beyond repair. Authorities urged people with missing relatives to notify police or to come to the medical Center in Ponce in an Effort to identify bodies. The National weather service said a tropical front that began moving slowly across the 100-Inilc-Long Island last Friday finally passed the Western tip late monday. At 6 30 . Monday the storm was located 600 Miles East Southeast of Miami and was expected to reach Southern Florida if it continued on the same course possibly wednesday. In Juana Dias a City of nearly 30,000 just East of Ponce most residents were without water electricity and Telephone service. Mayor Angel Leon Martinez said late monday. He said 1,600 people left their Homes and took shelter in schools. Civil defense officials said More than 2,000 people were evacuated from their Homes in other areas and dozens of people were Hospi Tali cd with flood related injuries. The department of transportation said 32 highways were closed including much of the Island s major Turnpike connecting puerto Rico s Caribbean coast with san Juan on the Northern Atlantic coast. At least six Bridges were washed out. Checks from Page 1 Richard Darman told Dole on monday. Dole met tuesday with gop senators and democratic leaders seeking an agreement to untangle the Senate logjam before the week is Over. I d like to do it Loday he old reporters. President Reagan personally kept up the pressure monday. The Senate wrangling was pulling the Federal government in an emergency Situa Tion Reagan said. The business of our nation must go Forward. We need the debt ceiling increase  the administration has asked for a new debt ceiling of s2.078 trillion to last through the fiscal year which started oct. 1. Congress could approve a smaller debt increase to cover a Shorter time period. But the Senate remained trapped in the parliamentary knot tied by backers and foes of an amendment offered by Sens. Phil Gramm a Texas Warren Rudman r n.h.,and Ernest Hollings . The Gramm Rudman Hollings Amend ment would Force Congress and the presi Dent to obey strict limits on annual deficits and gradually reduce the allowable red Ink each year until the budget became balanced in fiscal 1991. If the lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on a spending plan to meet those targets automatic Cut backs would take effect. The sponsors say the plan is simple and would Force politicians to make hard choices. The deficits could be Cut by either reducing Federal spending or raising taxes or both to contain deficits which now Are run Ning at $200 billion a year. But opponents say the automatic Cut backs although billed As being across the Board May turn out to be unevenly applied by the president because of rules in the amendment and the government s Peculiar spending system. Their argument was fun eled by Reagan s remarks Over the weekend that he considered the defense buildup immune from the cuts. To stall for time to study the proposal and offer alternatives or perhaps to kill the Effort for now the opponents led by Senate minority Leader Robert c. Byrd have re fused to allow Dole the unanimous consent needed under Senate rules to bring the mat Ter to a vote. Dole in two Roll Calls sunday demonstrated that the majority of the Senate sup ports the amendment but he fell Short of the two thirds vote needed to choke off the opposition and require a vote. The amendment s supporters have re fused to approve a Short term debt Exten Sion or. The grounds that it would take the pressure off Congress to act. Better a congressionally induced crisis than an economically induced crisis said Rudman warning of the perils of continued Federal deficits. The House has approved extending the debt ceiling. However any amendments would have to return to that democratic led chamber and leaders there have been readying a critical reception. The More we study it the More prob lems we have with the specifics said rep. Thomas s. Foley the House majority whip and chairman of the democratic task Force reviewing the amendment. Foley said the democrats Are not going to be forced to act under the pressure of a contrived  still he conceded the amendment s idea of forcing the president and Congress to confront the deficits was appealing. A very substantial number of members support such an approach he said. Temperatures firebomb attack damages Hamburg Bank Hamburg up a firebomb hurled in a closed Bank Early tuesday caused damage of about 13,700, police said. It was the third Day of firebomb attacks related to protests against the death of a Man run Over by a police water Cannon truck during Street rioting in Frankfurt last month. In the new predawn attack in Hamburg the firebomb was thrown through a ventilator in the roof of a one Story Branch of the commery Bank one of the country s big Gest Banks. Firemen put out the Blaze quickly. Police believed the attack like two others in Cologne monday was the work of left Wing terrorists. In what police Call an ominous move terrorists have joined demonstrators pro testing the death in Frankfurt sept. 28 of Center Sare 36, during a demonstration protesting a meeting of the extreme right Wing National democratic party. Sare s death caused violent demonstrations in 16 German cities and led to at least 652 arrests. The revolutionary cells a left Wing terrorist group look responsibility for the two Cologne bombings monday. One bomb wrecked the showroom of the Rhineland City s main Mercedes dealer causing damage estimated at $56,000. The other caused $11,500 damage to the Entrance Hal at the Cologne University botanical Institute. In two other incidents firebombs were found in stores in Hamburg monday morn ing. One caused a Small fire. The other was defused. On sunday delayed action incendiary bombs set off fires in six big department stores in Hamburg causing millions of Dol Lars in damage to goods ruined by water from automatic sprinkler systems. 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