European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 21, 198b the stars and stripes Ann Landers dear Ann Landers you have print doveral letters about crazy lawsuits. Plant print what Malcolm s. Forbes has to say in his Magazine of the same name our liability Giulta and awards Are now so insane that liability ii Gratice i increasingly Uno Blai. Feh Vukob Nab Leor Knafl Brable. More and Mare Lino of reinsurance cannot be had at any Price from Lloyd Jor anywhere Date. How could ii be otherwise when you look at such utterly mad awards As these scan Sells a Lawn Mower. The fat Roan with a hear condition who bought it has a heart Anacle starting the Mower and is awardedsi.8 million. In new York a Man who wanted to com Mit suicide threw himself in front of a sub Way train. He was severely injured and wed the transit company on the grounds that the conductor had not exercised sufficient Cau Tion. Recollected 1630,000. From doctors and hospitals to ban and restaurants from immunization programs to child care centers liability insurance u out of Light. But there to a remedy and in had better be applied quickly on Federal and mate level. These personal liability suits have to have ceilings set both As to awards and lawyers1 cuts. With lawyers predominating in Legislatures it la be rough sledding Bui unless it is done it will be catastrophic for everyone the insured who longer can afford coverage the insurers who longer can carry the Burden and the injured who Are knee deep in litigation White lawyers get Rich on award overkill. Twinned in thought with Forbes dear twinned make it triplets. For Long Lime i the been of the same mind. The Eore Ramrat must slap Selling on malpractice awards before the medical profession loses ill Best and its brightest dear Ann Landers recognizing an alcoholic has to be the hardest part of the problem because there Are so Many different kinds of drinkers. Will you phase print some guidelines that might prove helpful in identifying those who have the problem. I Celebration drinkers who gel drunk Only at parties but manage to go Loas Many parties As possible. They Are the first to arrive and the last to leave 2. Binge drinkers who Are sober for sever Al Days running then go off on periodic benders 3. Those who Don t drink a drop during the Day but get Stino gered every night after work. 4. Those who Don l drink All week but gel bombed every weekend. 5. Solitary drinkers who try to hide their drinking. 6. Morning drinkers who drink their breakfast nip during he Day Ana pass out at night 7. Flar hoppers who do heir drinking mainly Al the local pub. 8. Skid Row winos whose Only interest in life is staying drunk constantly. 9. In betwee ners who Don t fall into any special category. I Hope i have provided some clues As to How w recognize a Tona fide alcoholic. The kind of booze or Beer they drink is of importance. Eventually in gets pm. California Reader bar Render you re done an tweak Job of categorizing alcoholics. Ten a of pos -T0 ule course. Page 11 letters Louisiana s race classification Law called ridiculous in it recent edition you ran a photo along with a Short caption about a woman in Louisiana who is Irving 10 change her race classification from Black to i have a couple of things i want to say about it. First of All i would like to ask the woman Are you fighting this thing be cause you Are ashamed of being classed. As being Black or because the Law a a Covert Means of discrimination against yourself and any other person whose heritage contains Black ancestors if your reason is the latter i applaud you for bringing such a Law to the Public s Atten Tion. However if your reason is he former i must ask you what arc you ashamed of you re still the same human being you always were regardless of what color a piece of paper says you arc. Show a Little self Pride and Pride in your heritage. Secondly to the Louisiana legislature Don t you think this is a Little ridiculous Louisiana Law stale that people shall tie classified As Black if their Bloodline shows As Little As i /32 Black blood. I f that s the Rule you want to fallow then it should be obvious thai anybody who is 1/32 White should be classified As while and so on a Don l you think that a number Tuch ass r percent dispensary complaints answered once again i be taken my wife to the dispensary and once again we waited for 3w hours. She had a very bad flu or infection of some sort and was in a lot of pain. The people working there do not have the motivation to care for the sick. The medics walking around look Josi or Are talking to each other or flirting with each other. The five doctors i assume the officers Are doctors seemed to also be walking around lost White we Sal there for 3tt hours. While waiting to see a doctor your medical file is put on the Bottom or the stack and the one on top is next to see the doctor. At one Point there were seven or eight records under my wife a when the was finally seen Only two records were under hers. Why either the doctors or the medics were moving records. We watched As they looked at different re cords. This is not he Fibril Lime i be seen this situation at the dispensary. But this should t bother us because it s free med ical service one of our benefits being in the service i expect wailing or Long lines but should my family be subject to this poor medical service i d rather pay How is this allowed to happen name withheld Karlsruhe Germany editor s note sic. William p. Spree deer5 project coordinator Toh medical come replies the complain presented in ibis letter to the editor is one that is voiced unfortunately All Loo often in our medical treatment facilities. Long wailing periods have been identified As one or the problem areas we lab the army medical department u miking Ery Effort to Correct. Wheymer Possi ble Steps Are being taken to alleviate Long waiting periods described in he letter however in some circumstances due to Ucic of sufficient staff or physical constraint of the treatment area a dents May not be seen u quickly As we would like to Nave them seen. The question concerning it order to which patients Are seen is Many times � frustrating Issue for our beneficiaries who Are not familiar wild the screening or triage process. Pal tails Are always seen on a first come first erred basis. The reason for this to to ensure that the More critically 111 receive treatment tint. The procedure for determining who will be seen first is accomplished by the medical stiff who screen the medical records of incoming patients. This is Why the Soldier saw his wife s records being rearranged within the stack. An afternoon she will remember on april 24,1 had the Opportunity to go on a refuelling run for f-15s and of Luis. I was ecstatic about the idea. Thank you to inc Phoenix air quart for the generous gift. All the people on the run had such a Good time. I urge everyone who has a Chance to experience it. At one Point i was Lucky enough to be in the Middle Boom scat and got to lower the Boom before the lighters came to refuel. Each of the 20 passengers had time to try out the Boom seat and actually move the Boom. Then when the fighters came the expert took Over. It was a thrill to see such precision in the air. Everyone had the Chance to watch at least one fighter refuel. I just wish to publicly thank the Phoenix air guard for their time and patience. I sincerely Hope everyone spouses and Mili tary personnel Lake the Opportunity to go if they can. It was an afternoon we a nem forget Valerie h. Braun Pitburg a Germany leadership school often required if an individual has attended Basic combat training but successfully completed and acquired the ribbon medal 2is it necessary for the service member to attend primary leadership development course Plo which is a lower school set. Leopoldo Kurai Nuernberg editor s note a spokesman for the office of the assistant Deputy chief of staff he usar eur replies any Corporal specialist four user Geant or Ilaff sergeant who meets the pre requisites for Ploc and has not attended primary tend leadership course is eligible to attend Ploc. Ploc is the Only South that leaches Basic Ita Denhup therefore if a Soldier thu attended inc of or Etc but not Ploc the commander can require the Soldier to attend Ploc. Budget cuts paint gloomy picture would everyone please picture this american troops Landing Al the beaches in Normandy. The troops Are dispersing from wooden sailboats and they Are armed with muskets. The enemy is armed with state of the Art weapons and is massacring the american soldiers. Now Back to reality the russians Are ready for War. We Are ready but for How Long the Tramm Rudman budget cuts Are going to severely Hurt America s defences. Will we All be speaking russian before we realize that the military is going to suf Fer from budget cuts spec 4 Douglas Johnson Augsburg Germany would be a belter number to use As a guide line in determining race let s look a an can Mulc. The Way the Law reads now if applied to dogs far the Sake of example 1 could buy a dog from someone who has proof that All of its sires and dams were beagles for the last four generations but that a poodle Hod sired the Pup s great great great Gand a ther. Now the dog looks like a Beagle chases rabbits like a Beagle and howls like a Beagle but by Louisiana Law he dog must be classified As a poodle. I admin that that is a rather ridiculous example but we re talking about a rather ridiculous Law. By keeping this Law in effect the legislators who make the Laws and the judicial system that upholds and Vali dates these Laws Are Only showing How Little they care about eliminating All forms of discrimination in our country. I pro not from Louisiana and whether i m Black or White does t Mailer. Ail that docs Mailer is thai Here is a Law that insults me and everybody else by the sheer stupidity of it and by the fact that it is allowed to exist. It is a Law that is very Covert in its intentions. Not being from Louisiana i Don t know exactly what the Law says it s supposed to be for but in seems to me that this Luw is intended to allow discrimination on not Only the individual involved but on that person s ancestors As Well. Such a Law should be stricken from the books. Set. John Greece thes european Momoh Art Max it Russon us editor by cw4i com be Fry 1 1akem, Uin a pull Edillor in Cim , . 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