European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 19, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 changes in . Workers health benefits vetoed Washington a president Reagan on Friday a clock a. Bill that would have revised health benefits for Federal employees saying in would have increased the Defi Cit by eliminating a 75 percent ceiling on the government s share of health care premiums Reagan said the Bill contained desirable features including a provision allowing retired Federal workers like those still working to be paid anticipated rebates in health insurance premiums by their insurance carriers. Bui the president said eliminating the ceiling on the government s share of premiums would add to govern ment costs and increase the Federal deficit at the same time there is a critical need for fiscal  Reagan said spending Tor most government programs will have to be Cut to comply with the balanced Budge Bill passed by Congress last year. Under those circumstances this is not he time to raise the government s personnel costs he said. The president said the office of management and Bud get estimated that the Bill by shifting a portion of the Cost of premiums from employees to the government would add 190 million to he deficit in the current fiscal year and j173 million in the year beginning oct. I. From 1986 through 1991, the period during which the balanced budget Bill Aims to eliminate the Federal deficit the health care Bill would increase the deficit by an Esti mated is .2 billion he said. The Bill proposed by the administration also would Hove eliminated the Selling but combined this with changes lit the Way the government s contribution is established. Rea Gan said that would have saved Money for both employees and the government. The Bill passed by Congress he said ignores that essential linkage by simply lifting the Cap without program Reform resulting in an unacceptable shift m costs from employees to the  i look Forward to working with the Congress Early in the session la develop a suitable package of structural reforms that would include lifting the Cap " i 1 Bap is Leader condemns homosexuality aids a sign of god s displeasure san Jose Calif. A the lethal disease aids is an expression of god s Dis pleasure with homosexuals the head of the nation s largest protestant denomination says. It is a sinful lifestyle according to scripture the Rev. Charles Stanley presi Dent of the 14.3 million member Southern Baptist convention told the san Francisco examiner on Friday. Homosexuals declared Stanley must be helped to be delivered from the bondage of Trier lifestyle Jack Pantaleo co director of san fran Cisco s aids interfaith network said he was appalled at Stanley s remarks and called them a device to condone hatred of homosexuals. I believe that aids ii god indicating his displeasure and his attitude toward that form of lifestyle which we in this country Are about to accept said Stanley. To can glut Stanley 52, a fundamentalist television evangelist and pastor of Atlanta s pint Baptist Church was in san Jose to attend u state evangelism meeting. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by a virus that destroys the body s ability to fight off disease. It has most often struck male homosexuals intravenous drug abusers and patients who have received blood transfusions. In his remarks Stanley expressed Dis May at the response to the death of actor Rock Hudson fron aids. It s almost As if he s become More he Roic dying of aids with All the publicity he s gotten he said it s like there was nothing bad about  Stanley said it was interesting. What s happening As homosexuality has How disease travelled from 1975-1 become an acceptable lifestyle in the minds of Many people. Why not aids so years ago 100 years ago said Fantale what s frightening is that people who say aids is god s Wrath Are using it to condone hate and to keep Gay men at a distance. Aids has nothing to do with sexuality politics or morality. Aids has everything to do with biology. There s a Nasty Bug around the Southern Baptist convention has been involved in a Long struggle Between moderates and a rising fundamentalist Wing led by Stanley Nathine Bao about it us la jew Jujic Uruu War Llo lava Una main us la .tw��4 a iambso1 " Stanyev said it s interesting. A t moderates n Risin fundamental whats happening a homosexuality has Gay men a. S Wing be by Stanley Florida county will pay Jailer bitten by Ohi Ando Fla a an Orange Cial say amount of Money yet said o Brien because in Init migrations officer who was bitten tests on the Jailer who hos remained it s not certain How much medical and Psi Knoll nov  let  1.l,n it a  in Mann us us ,.",� ,r4l Mem ,11,11 Finci Orlando. Fla. A a Orange county corrections officer who was bitten by a prisoner later found to be an aids Cirrie will be compensated by the county despite negative result in Testa for the deadly Sims officials said. Teats on the inmate who was serving a 57-Day sentence on Ruttjr theft and Prosku Tion charges showed he had aids Nybo Dies in his system which Means he Hai been exposed to the disease county health officials say test a remaine Anonymous and who filed suit claiming he contracted aids on the Job have shown no sign of the disease. Even though doctors Aren t sure the guard has acquired immune deficiency syn drome the county agreed to give us every thing we wanted the officer s attorney Michael o Brien said. The parties Haven t agreed on a specific amount of because it t Certai l psychiatric treatment will Cost. Legal experts say the settlement Marks the first Lime an employer has agreed to compensate a worker who claimed he got aids on the Job. The officer is seeking Money for treatment of the disease and for psychiatric counselling. This is the first aids Case in the coun try that an employer has paid off said " he said. Joe Kennedy says dividends paid him $190 Boston up Joseph p. Kennedy ii says he received Only ji90 in dividends from investments in firms doing business in racially torn South Africa in the past two years not the s835.qoo claimed in a front Page Story in the bos Ion Herald. Kennedy said he and his wife Sheila actually made $88,000, but said virtually All of the Money is held in family Trust funds Over which they have no control. He sold his personal income from the investments was $190 in dividends from International business machines. Sold the securities Kennedy 33, who announced last month that he is seeking the democratic congressional nomination in Massachusetts rth District also said he and his wife had sold the securities nearly a year before he entered the congressional race he said All securities were of Compa Nies that adhere to the Sullivani principles a set of suggested fair labor guidelines for . Companies to fallow in South Africa to counter its policy of apartheid. He said candidates arc required to file two forms with the Federal elections commission one showing asset Range and the other showing income Range. The Herald used the schedule for As sets when it determined the amount of income in each of the categories mentioned in the Story he said. Had the Herald used the proper schedule the one for income the figures would be far lower and far More  aids Carrier Robin walled of the International association of Accident boards and commissions. Insurance companies and employers were expected to fight such cases because the current Law makes it difficult to gain Bene fit for diseases contracted on the Job said Gerald Towne of the stale workers compensation division but the Case will not set a Legal Prece Dent Towne said because in was settled before an Appeal. Sued swede who said holocaust never happened Auscho Wiz survivor wins $5.25 i lion libel award los Angeles Cap a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration Camp during wort dwar ii has won a ski  award from a Man who claimed the Holo Caust never occurred. Telderer made the statement in filers he distributed denying the existence of the holocaust. At n teen Ager Mermelstein saw his Mother and sister being marched off to the Gas chamber at Auschwitz. He testified during the trial that his father died of exhaustion at the nazi Camp and his brother was shot by guards. In All the nazis killed 6 million jews historians say. Telderer never replied to the lawsuit and was not represented during the Superior court trial. He received Noti of the suit when he was in Chicago to give a speech hut he ignored in said Mermelstein s attorney Gloria Allred. Mermelstein was very deeply moved and very very thankful,1 when he heard the verdict Allred said. He s very Happy that Justice has  we will Register the judgment in swe Den. We plan to collect it she said. Mermelstein had challenged the Institute for historical review and Liberty lobby two groups that claimed the holocaust never occurred and offered it $50,000 re Ward to anyone who could prove it did. Mermelstein claimed the Reward and sued both groups along with Telderer. In 1981 when he was t paid. The two organizations agreed last july to pay Mermelstein 590,000 in damages and sign a letter apologizing to him