European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday october 30, 1969 nr-t.ii4.-Al hrs is 14 doctors in Illinois charged in fraud cases ch1ca43o a authorities have arrested 4 doctors on charges that they defrauded the slate through false medicaid claims or accepted kick backs to steer their slate business to a Laboratory. The indictments of the doctors and of the Gran Cal clinical Laboratory were announced tuesday. All 14 physicians were taken into Cus Tody said Al Manning spokesman for Illinois attorney general Neil  Laboratory was paying off the doctors to get their business said James Zagel director of the Illinois slate police. The Laboratory then inflated ils medicaid Billings to make up Tor the Money it paid out to the  Gran Cal is charged in a business indictment with submitting $200,000 in false charges to the state. Hartigan said an unrelated scheme by a Highland Park doctor Cost the state an add Lionas 100,000. More Federal study research on aids urged Washington a Federal efforts to educate the Public about aids have been inadequate and the government must spearhead a Bil lion Dollar research and information program to prevent a National health catastrophe says a major study released wednesday. The National Academy of sciences in what it termed the most comprehensive study of the aids crisis to Date said the urgency of the epidemic requires perhaps the most wide ranging and intensive efforts Ever made against an infectious Dis  a report entitled confronting aids an expert panel assembled by the Academy said a coordinated program against acquired immune deficiency syndrome would Cost 52 billion annually by the end of the decade. Half of this Money most of which should come from Federal coffers should be devoted lore search into understanding preventing and treating the disease and tie test to Public health and education programs aimed at containing the spread of the fatal condition it said. New flu Strain reported headed to . From Asia Washington up a new flu called Taiwan a that has caused epidemics in Asia and Australia is headed for the United states prompting Public health officials to urge vaccination of the elderly and everyone underage 35. This year influenza will be a particularly difficult problem because of Taiwan a or. Richard Duma president of the National foundation for infectious diseases said at e symposium. Assistant health Secretary or. Robert wind of joined other physicians in saving people under age 35 should be vaccinated against Tai wan a because they May not be old enough to have been exposed to the virus and o have developed immunity during the last outbreaks of a similar asian flu in the 1950s.and although the prime targets of the Taiwan virus Are Young people those Over age 65 also should be inoculated against in in addition to receiving a regular flu shot and pneumonia vac Cine the doctors said. Doctor says drinkers suffer More strokes Boston a heavy drinkers who con sume the equivalent of a quart or More of Beer a Day Are four times More Likely than con drinkers to suffer strokes a new study concludes. The study conducted in England is the Sec Ond in recent months to end a link Between heavy alcohol use and stroke one of the leading causes of death. Unlike the previous work How Ever this one suggests that Light drinking might actually lower the risk of . Jaswinder s. Gill who directed the latest study Laid he would like to see the result duplicated by other researchers before he makes any recommendations Ahour Opte i drinking habits. We want the data to be reasonably certain before actually trying to alter what people Are doing he said. But weve seen people who Are heavy drinkers come in with strokes. In our minds we do believe that heavy alcohol con Tump Nam Doea precipitate  Dod probing charges Navy kept refunds due 2 countries by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the defense department s in Spector general is investigating the Navy s handling of two foreign military sales agreements to determine whether the service used for ils own Benefit refunds due the two countries a Pentagon spokesman con firmed tuesday night. At Issue is a 1985 Deal overseen by the Navy consolidating requests by Canada and Turkey to Purchase 268 torpedoes from Honeywell inc. Internal Navy and Honeywell documents indicate the Navy applied a $14.3 million reduction negotiated in the original contract Price to one of ils own con tracts for similar torpedoes instead of reducing the payments by Canada and Turkey. The contractual agreements used by the Pentagon in such foreign military sales make in Clear any  should be resumed to the foreign govern ment. The applicable clause states the government of the United states shall refund to the purchaser any payments received hereunder which prove to be in excess of the final total Cost of delivery and performance of this offer and keep  the allegations and confirmation that in invest if Tion had been launched came to Light tuesday with release of the internal documents by the project on military procurement a private defense watchdog group based in  Cald cd a Pentagon spokesman declined to discuss the matter beyond confirming the Penta gon s office of inspector general bad launched an investigation. Caldwell said the defense department would not discuss the probe while it was under Way. The Navy meantime acknowledged that questions had been raised about the sales agreements but b k Wise refused to discuss he matter. The allegations recently came to the attention of the Navy and an investigation has been initiated the service said in a prepared statement. It u inappropriate to comment until the investigation is Complete the Navy declined to say whether it was referring to the inspector general s investigation or a separate in Temal Navy probe. . To limit soviet scientists stay to 1 week private group says new York up five soviet scientists who will arrive in the United states nov. 9 to discuss Sites in Nevada and California that have been proposed for monitoring american nuclear tests will be limited to a stay of one week a private environmental group announced tuesday. A spokesman for the group the natural resources defense Council which is based in new York said the state department Hud set the limit and had forbidden the scientists to visit the proposed Sites themselves three monitoring stations installed by the Council have already begun collecting seismic data from the principal soviet test Lite in Kazakhstan and the soviet Union has accredited two american scientists to staff them permanently. The soviet Union which has declared a unilateral moratorium on testing has Noi conducted any nuclear tests since the americans arrived though. The customary stances of the soviet Union and the United Stales Are now reversed " or. Thomas Coch ran the natural resources defense Council s senior scientist said. American scientists have been granted More Freedom to work in the .s.r, than soviet scientists now have in the United  Cochran said his group reached seven important agreements with soviet counterparts on a trip to mos cow thai he concluded last week. He said the soviets had agreed to the creation of the Grei computer net work linking the United Stales and the soviet Union an arrangement for an automatic Exchange of seismic data. It is dear however Cochran said that the Rea Gan administration has no intention of being party to a comprehensive nuclear left Baa treaty even if a Relia ble verification system can be  Cochran said he was disappointed with the while House attitude but one of the great advantage we have Over the soviet Union is Fiat we gel to elect a new president every four  student s reported death was hoax Milwaukee a officials at a High school mistakenly announced Over the Public address system thai one of its most popular students had overdosed on drugs and died. After classes were out for the Day officials at Washington High Learned that the girl was alive and Well but it was four Days before they could Lell the student body the Milwaukee journal reported tuesday. Officials said they were investigating what they called an elaborate hoax. The girl whose name was not released reportedly skipped school thursday to look for a Job. She did not return Home until More hum an hour after school had closed for the Day the journal said. A Call reporting the Jarl 9 death came that morning from what school officials called a legitimate source the newspaper said. In was not made Public until rumours began spreading through the school we took it very seriously said an administrator who would not let his name be used. However police Slid the Call to the school was Anonymous. A Short Lime after the first announcement school officials announced that the probable cause of death was a drug overdose the journal said. That afternoon principal Jerome bran who had been away from school during the morning told Stu dents that he had been unable to verify facts surround ing the girl s death. It we s . Before officials Learned that the fill bad no died and by that time classes had been ail missed until monday became Parent teacher conferences were scheduled for Friday. By monday Brandl had written a letter explaining what had happened and wed teachers to read it to Al of their students Omraam missile successfully tested Washington a the air Force i am Raam air to air do fighting missile was successfully tested last week against a drone that tried to evade the missile with radar jamming equipment the Pentagon said wednesday. The test conducted Friday at the White Sandi Mit ule Range in the Western United states  Omraam s ability to identify and Cope with the target drone s electronic counter Mcatur i acquire the Low Altitude mane vering target and intercept it the Pentagon previous tests sea Siut Jet drone bad been conducted without the use of any radar Jinun Ingger. The Tot of the new missile was the 16th roomful trial out of 19 attempt. It was also fac Ribald a the first of a scheduled Genet of trials to test the Mittini an operational environment. The Omraam was find Friday from a Fli Tat fighter after reserving urgent information from the plane s on braid systems. After launch it us gait the target with its own in Board Active Mytr and guided to the Burget for intercept the Pentagon Milton test we the pc Oil Coom Cutie Tucceri fit to following failure on sept 30 when on of the fired from a Navy Jet weal out of control after and dammed into the ground. The a Saam advanced medium g to air missile hat been under develop191