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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, November 18, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes tuesday november 1b, 1986 Survey shows it pays to shop around for drugs Chicago up a Survey of nearly900,000 prescription found that generic drug Are not always cheaper than their Brand Nam equivalent even though pharmacies pay lets for the  fact the Survey determined that two com Mon drag one used to treat menopause an the Ole High Wood pressure generally Are More expensive in generic form said Bernard loom of the University of Pennsylvania. Bloom an economist said he could not explain the reason for the Price difference but he said the implications Are  Best advice to the consumer is just Damn it shop around he  and his colleagues reporting in the journal of the american medical association examined 892,000 prescriptions written in 1984 for 21 Brand name drugs and their generic equivalents it 1,400 pharmacies in 39 states. The researchers found that on average bran name drugs Are slightly More expensive than gentries. Many Hospital admissions unnecessary study finds Boston a forty percent of Hospital admissions reviewed in a Nano wide study were unnecessary because the care could have Bee Given just As Well in doctors offices or out patient surgical centers researchers  study also found wide variations from place to place in the amount of needless Hospital  researchers judged that 23 percent of the Hospital admissions they reviewed were inappropriate because the patients could have been taken care of in a doctor s office or an outpatient Ray lab. An additional it percent Wen said to be avoidable because they were for minor operations that could have been performed in an outpatient surgical Center. Among these were he mar Rhoid and hernia operations and dilation and Curetta. The study was based on a review of 1,132  Between 1971 and 1982 in six areas with the share determined to be inappropriate ranging from 10 percent to 35 percent the researchers were unsure Why this variation existed saying it could not be explained by differences in the age sex health status race in come or education of the local  study was directed by or Albert i so of the Rand corp. In Santa Monica Calif. Vitamin c May protect drinkers from cirrhosis new York a daily doses of Vitamin might help protect some alcohol users from the liver damage that years of drinking can cause a researcher says. Them resist fat buildups in their livers that can lead10 cirrhosis said Vincent Zannoni professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University  school in Ann Arbor. An Experiment in humans suggests the Sam effect might be at work he said after describing the research Al an International conference on Vitamin c. The results suggest relatively Large doses or Vitamin c Surfas 500 milligrams per Day More than eight times the recommended dietary allowance for adults Over a Long period May help protect people who drink up to the equivalent of about three been a Day Zannoni said. 12% of patients say hospitals discharged them too Early new York up about 12 percent of americans hospitalized last year believe they were sent Home too Early As a Cost culling Mea sure and that it May have complicated their medical conditions a recent Harris poll  percentage redrew Gledj Sharp mouse. Compared to a 1985___ i in which 7 percent of he previous year s Hospital patients Felt they were discharged too  patients we percentage who Felt they were discharged too quickly Rose from 4 percent to 27 percent in one year. Justices agree to re examine world War ii internment Washington a the supreme court 42years after it condoned the government s mass detention of japanese americans in world War 11 Camps monday agreed to re examine that episode in Ameri can history. The court said it will consider the Reagan administration attempt to kill a 1983 lawsuit stemming from thegovernment1 taking 120.000 . Citizens and resident aliens from their Homes and placing them in the  the court took no action on a separate Appeal aimed Al broadening the lawsuit s scope. In other cases the court gave the government broader Powers to Deport illegal aliens. The justices in a 7-2 ruling said officials Supra nil need not consider the possible hardship of a Deporta Tion on relatives other than the immediate family of the Deportee. Let stand a lower court ruling that the display. Of an illuminated Cross above an Illinois firehouse during the Christmas season is an impermissible government endorsement of christianity. Refused to free Pennsylvania welfare officials from paying the costs of a Community Home for woman wrongly confined to a mental institution for 28 run tip in the internment Case s Federal appeals court ruled Jan. 21 that the government must defend itself at trial against claims seeking compensation for property losses suffered by Thoie interned. Those losses Are Esti mated in the billions of dollars. But the appeals court dismissed claims seeking monetary damages for alleged constitutional violations and seeking to have the government admit it fraudulently declared the internment a military  both sides appealed to the supreme  the Wake of the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the Federal government forcibly removed from their Homes japanese americans and japanese citizens Liv ing in California and parts of Oregon Washington an Arizona. They were in the internment Camps for As Long As four years. .,.,-such action was authorized by president Franklin a Roosevelt at the urging Oft. Gen. John a Dewitt head of the Western defense come who said Japa Nese americans were  a letter. Dewitt said the very fact that no sabotage has taken place to Date is a disturbing and con firming indication that such action will be taken those removed from their Homes wer=h1ed_"Camps surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by Mil itary police. The Roosevelt administration decided to Elfline internment program in late 1944, but the supreme court earlier thai Vear bid upheld the program ruling that it was a constitutionally acceptable military Nece gov emment documents discovered since 1980,however, indicate thai there was. In fact no military necessity and that government lawyers knew this woe offering that justification to the supreme court. In 198j, 19 people Camp survivors and descendants of those interned sued the government the lawsuit was thrown out by a Federal judge but a partially reinstated by the . Circuit court of appeals Here last  19 Are seeking Tower court authority to rep resent All who were Lent to the Camps and the descendants of internees who have died. But the appeals court said that some 26,000 people who received Bene fits under a 1948 Law the american japanese evacuation claims act cannot join the  appeals court said the government May Hayto pay just compensation for property losses suffered by those interned who did Noi receive benefits under the 1948 Law but it is immune from being sued for alleged violations of constitutional rights. In asking the justices to allow jute allegations of constitutional wrongdoing logo to Ontl lawyers for the 19 plaintiffs called the Case one of unprecedented Mas racial  they said the 1944 supreme court ruling had be stowed on the government s outrageous actions the highest stamp  this i apparently the first time in american Legal history that govern soul fraud has been perpetrated against this court the Appeal said. There is much at stake redress for. Loyal americans constitutional precedent and the integrity of this  Reagan administration said the lawsuit is plainly without Merit and was filed Loo late. Congress earlier this year considered Bui did no enact a Bill that would establish a $1.2 billion fund to pay s20.000 each to the 66,000 internment Camp pin scale hot i is. U.s., 86-298. And is. Is. Hohri 86-510. Lockheed bars Union workers Seattle up hundreds of Lockheed ship building co. Employees were locked out of the company s West Seattle shipyard monday because of a Union refusal to put the company s latest contract offer to a Vole of the  of the several Hundred Union workers repeat edly showed their Security cards to guards saying the had families to take care of and holidays coming up Only to be told that no Union members would be Al Lowed to  employees including clerks and manag ers were allowed to enter the facility. None of the non Union workers were new hires. When the planned lockout was announced saturday Leaden of the Union pm tinting team promptly accused the company of co us a pupa a v a  wiring to action would Hurt the Industry and create bad will Between workers and management i personally believe it s a True indication on to heed s part that the company never intended to Lewalta Ciment Lee cute Bead of face Metal Tad it bargaining team on the West coast told United press International in a Telephone interview from Oakland Calif it s Union busting on their pan and on that of their labor relations consultant Franklin said adding that the Union will file charges against Lockheed with the National labor relations Board. John p. Hayes vice president of administration a Lockheed denied the Union busting charge. That s nol the Issue Tor us. We Haven t had Whf stoppage in 20 year at this Plant he said. The real Issue is Competition Iran other  .,.Lockheed called for � 2i percent Cut in the $13.jo an Bour average wage pud to 0� Worken m la Ofiero oct. 10 and agreed it extend current labor Rue until March 31, 1987, if contract were approved by company officials contend the higher labor rate paid on the we coast ire putting Lockheed Al competitive disadvantage to Yards on the East coastland in the South the company also wants changes in the Union seniority system As Well a health and pension Benefit. Moose taken affair draws thousands 40,000 people have come to View Ibe unlike and the courtship shows no signs of ending in to pasture oct 24, if Isiah through the Hunting season nov. 30 became be fear for its safety. We kind of would like to see him stick around he said. He could get into trouble with All the Hunters out  season began saturday in Vermont. My whole family and my wife have grown pretty attached to  the Moose which apparently jumped the Fence to reach the pasture seems to be enamoured of car ranks cow Jessica. Jessica has rejected the Moose s romantic advances but does How signs she accepts its presence he  he s gone any length of Lime feeding in the Woods she Ugo out to meet  said Carrara. "after24dayt, they must have formed some kind of a rela  the courtship Hai drawn t Stream of tourists to the Central Vermont Community Cebina avg la huh vw1hipim""j a emf  Camus said report  
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