European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes Friday february 28.1986 better health care promised for Remote assignments by Judy Sarasohn medical writer Stuttgart the Pentagon s top health care offi Cial closed out a 10-Day tour of Europe pledging to improve medical services to  and their fam Ilies in Remote assignments. People that Are outside the us. Have every right to believe that we will totally take care of them to the Best of our ability said or. William Mayer assistant Secre tary of defense for health affairs. Mayer old reporters he wants the services to increase the use of travelling specialists to Remote Sites and other areas that Don t have a Broad enough Range of doctors. Me said he will direct the surgeons general of the army air Force and Navy to ensure that the services share their Active duty specialists More. Mayer said the comments he heard from military families during his european visit depended on where they lived. In Germany families expressed concern about proposals to revise the Way some family members receive health care from civilian sources he said. But he said the concerns were totally different in Italy and Spain where there Are fewer . Medical resources than in Germany. Typical of concerns in those areas Mayer said is that of a pregnant wife of a  assigned to Sicily Mayer said she must be flown to the Navy Hospital in Naples. Italy for the last two weeks of her pregnancy and then deliver in a Hospital that s in bad need of  although the services need More nurses medics and technicians to support physicians Mayer said congressional limits on Overall Active duty personnel overseas and budgetary restraints make it difficult to hire More Active duty medical staffers. He said joint medical plan Ning which has improved would help. The Secretary of defense and i Are absolutely committed to a continuation and hopefully a real improvement in the provision of health care to our families and retirees and their families Mayer said. In addition Mayer said with few exceptions the care available in our military medical treatment facilities on this Side of the Atlantic is of High Quality and comparable to that provided elsewhere in the Dod sys tem. He said the focus of his trip was to clarify Ood thinking on proposals to revise family health care in the United states and to Clear up misconceptions about them. He stressed that no plan has been formed. Any plan that is developed Mayer said will protect families free Dom to decide whether to go to military facilities a civilian doctor of their choosing or to some Type of con tract facility that might be offered by Dod. In addition he Aid any new program would reduce the hassle and costs associated with the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services champs and would ensure better Access to Pri Mary health care. Mayer has proposed seeking National insurers or con tractors to provide health care for family members and retirees now served by champs. He said he expects to seek formal proposals from civilian health care providers in the fall. Judge concludes air India crash off Ireland was caused by bomb new Delhi India up a judge ruled that a bomb blast caused an air India Jet to crash off the Irish coast last june lulling All 329 people aboard the press Trust of India reported thursday. Justice . Kirpal who headed the commission that investigated the crash issued his finding in a 200-Page report submitted wednesday to the aviation ministry the news Agency said. The Agency quoting sources in the ministry said Kirpal upheld the testimony of several experts that the june 23, 1985, crash was caused by a bomb stowed in the front cargo bold of the Boeing 747. The findings have not been made Public and Kirpal declined comment when asked to confirm the report. Kirpal concluded the bomb exploded when the plane was at 31,000 feet Over the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Toronto to Bombay via Montreal London and new Delhi the press Trust said. Most of the 329 victims were indians or canadians of Indian descent. The news Agency did not say whether the report contained any comment on who planted the device although Canadian investigators have focused heir investigation on sikh dissidents living in Canada. Several experts believe the blast was related to an explosion about one hour later at Tokyo s Narita Airport in baggage off loaded from a Canadian Pacific airlines flight from Vancouver British Columbia. The baggage was to have been transferred to an air India flight to Bangkok Thailand. Two baggage handlers were killed in the Tokyo blast. Canadian police Are looking for two men believed to be sikhs who booked seats on the two flights on the same Day giving the same address. Neither of the men l. Singh and m. Singh boarded their flights although their Luggage was checked in. An Indian government attorney testified earlier this month that he believed the Singh suitcases contained bombs. Three Radical groups including two sikh terrorist organizations claimed responsibility for the crash in Tele phone Calls to news organizations. Sikh extremists Are fighting for an Independent nation in the predominantly sikh state of Punjab in Northern India. Kirpal s report apparently supports findings submitted by experts from the Boeing co., the Canadian air safety Board the Baba atomic research Center in Bombay and the Indian government. As evidence the experts cited the sudden interruption of Power to the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder the presence of tiny holes in the Metal casing of the cargo hold and the wide distribution of the wreckage. Minister of state for civil aviation Jagdish Tytler told parliament thursday that India spent $2.3 million on the search for bodies and in raising the wreckage from the sea floor. Another $2.6 million was paid in compensation to the victims families. Right Wing Bookstore in Paris extensively damaged by bomb Paris Upo a bomb exploded thursday morning in latin Quarter Bookstore specializing in Anli comm unlit works raising extensive damage but no injuries police  Jean Gilles Malliarakis a d the explosion fire and blew out the windows in he store Aid the shop was closed at the time of the 6 15 . Wait. Authorities said no claim of responsibility was received for the blast at the store which a linked to the Ultra right National front party headed by Jean mane be pea no one has claimed responsibility but i raped u extreme left group planted the  Maui Anu  bomb and the fire seriously damaged the buildup and destroyed shelves of books the store owner  explosion came a Day after a bomb in Central Parli damaged a building housing the executive restaurant of the National Bank of Paris and a military insurance fund. . Lawmaker suggests death instead of jail for drug dealers London up a member of the House of lords has suggested that drug dealers be injected with heroin and allowed to die in the streets instead of being jailed 11 taxpayers expense. Lord Attlee speaking in a debate on serious crime said someone passed him joint while he was at a party i suddenly realized that i was on a High he said. I hated this and i sat there and fought  Allee so son of Britain s postwar prime minister Clement Attlee asked Why taxpayers should pay to keep drug Barons in prison. Why not mainline him with heroin and give him a taste of the living death be has been pushing and put him on the Street and let him die Attlee said. Widow of penicillin discoverer Dies in Athens of heart attack Athens up lady Amalia Fleming who was mar ried to the late discoverer of penicillin. Sir Alexander Flem heart attack the state run Athens news Agency  died of a heart attack As a result of a kidney deficiency the Agency  graduating from Athens University s medical school Fleming continued her studies at the Wright Flem ing Institute in London where she met her husband the late sir Alexander  was a member of the resistance against the Nul occupation during world War ii. 37,000 sentenced since 1983 to forced labor in chinese Camps peking up some 37,000 men have been Tea tended to forced labor at Camps in the Remote Northwestern Region of Xin Jiang since chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping launched a sweeping anti crime Campaign in 1983, toe official Xinhua news Agency  influx of prisoners to the Large isolated amps known in China As Reform through labor farms is on of the major offshoots of Deng s nationwide drive to crack Down harshly and swiftly on serious crime launched in August 1983. The farms have received about 37,000 prisoners Al males from 15 provinces and cities since China intensified criminal prosecutions in 1983," Xinhua  said an additional 900 prisoners 400 of them women have been sentenced to the prison Camps by local courts in Xin Jiang. Sentences Range from three years imprisonment to life imprisonment to death sentences suspended for two Yean while prisoners Are Given the Opportunity to Reform it said. . Seeks dialogue with soviets on test  Issue Geneva Switzerland up the United states invited the soviet Union thursday to begin a dialogue on ways to Monitor any eventual  on All nuclear testing. The United states repeated its position however that a test  As such could be realized Only if there Are deep cuts in exist ing nuclear arsenals. It also again refused to join the current unilateral soviet moratorium on testing be cause the soviet Union could resume explosions at any time. The . Stand on the test  Issue was spelled out by Donald Lowitz american Delegate to the 40-nation Geneva disarmament conference. Lowitz welcomed As hopeful the stated readiness of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorba Chev to accept on site inspections to ensure compliance with a . The United states has Long advocated a dialogue with the soviet Union to arrive at the improved verification procedures Nec Essary for any nuclear testing limitation he said. To the extent that or. Gorbachev s statement May reflect the development of common ground on this crucial Issue it is hopeful Lowitz told the conference. We would Welcome any dialogue wit the soviet Union that would narrow differences on this Issue Lowitz  of test  verification meth ods should take place within a special and hoc conference committee he said. But the negotiation of a comprehensive  remains a future objective based on factors additional to the verification Issue Lowitz said. It would have to be accompanied by significant reductions in existing nuclear weapons and correction of the East West United states lacks the political will for total  on nuclear tests. The question of nuclear testing is directly related to our Security and that of the Western Alliance through the Rote testing plays in the maintenance of a reliable no Clear deterrent.  same consideration applies to our unwillingness to enter a moratorium on a Clear testing Lowitz said. S our experience with simple unverified declarative cessation of nuclear Kali a Lowitz rejected soviet charges that the abrupt soviet after a 1958-1961 moratorium