European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 update the stars and stripes wednesday. November 19,1936 bankruptcy avoided Newark n j. A people express inc. On monday announced it had satisfied a major condition of its acquisition by Texas air corp. The company said holders of88.3 percent of the debt securities of its principal subsidiary people express airlines bad agreed to Swap the securities for ones with lower interest rates. People express had said that unless at least 85 percent of the debt Hodera agreed to the concessions by the close of business monday i could have been forced to file for bankruptcy Protection. Texas air had threatened to falloff the merger and withhold a badly needed is million loan i people express failed to reduce Deb Holder interest. Base tightens Security Washington a the commander of a Marine corps base where More than $1 million Worth of equipment was stolen by marines and sold to military sur plus dealers said monday he is implementing tighter controls to pre vent further thefts. Maj. Gen. Robert e. Haebel commander of Camp Pendleton calif., told the Senate armed serv ice committee s inventory task Force that he had ordered More frequent accounting checks of the base s equipment inventory an tighter storage area Security. Temperatures l 37 n Butiro Ugnit Jug a is bum17 ii Ben 4t u 4 Bunko is 47 3 49 w is cum Isbutt a 61 conors , 17 41 dub omit 64 a nil 47 i bpna4 r Fly menu � a Jess 4 7m its Irmah a St Kamciy a 47 h utitobv54 St uhf Lacoc u 72 Lix Angim to rope an weal he the re cml in Moil Driy to due with Wilwy Init and wind Wity mos n to fit Etta Fth nor two two Twa i bin War. South a 49 u. .49 4t Pim. N a k45 h noun is � w Plaum by do 11. M Wumer so. Anttn 79 94 month new air Force policy will allow More husbands to attend births Kiber Batem Btu Ramstein a Germany change in air Force medical policy win make it easier for couples at isolated locations in Europe to be together during childbirth. The change allows husbands at som locations to be defined As non medical attendants for their pregnant wives. The husbands Are eligible for permissive temporary duty of three to Low Dayi before the delivery Date and no to m Days after the baby ii bom. The policy also entitles the fathers to space required status on military air Craft said maj. Larry Mam with the Safe command surgeon office. Mam said the reason for this waste High Cost of air travel in Europe and the fact that it s the younger folks who Are having babies and cant afford the new policy is intended for air Force members with families in Tom locations in Italy Greece and Turkey Mam said. Women expecting children at themore isolated Bates travel to one of three designated medial fac frito dabbed Start s nests by the air Force to deliver their babies. While expectant Mother travel at the military1 expense no Wen provision benefited the fathers under theold policy. It was up to the husband to make their Way however they could Mam said. That entailed taking leave and paying for commercial air travel m waiting for a All needed to escort patients Bone i treatment. 9ft commander of isolated a flue Jonal medical Center at Wiesbaden Germany. The air Force previously bad reserved non medical attendant status for in stances when a patient s health or Wel mar snid requests for the special tit tit a temporary duty must be approved by m individual Squadron Nam under with Onkin iacued by the Load Mettol Taitt to Mam said. The Coata of the Terboo or duty Are borne by the local medic tract is available Only within the european theater. Air Rocc ref Fithen of unaccompanied Tours at Remote me Obj nut be to attend in the United states. The program will affect bout 125couplet per year. Those people interested in the program should Check wits their local attending physician Mam said. Court s ruling May remove barriers to filing malpractice suits in military san Francisco a a Federal appeals court ruling allowing a Soldier to sue the government Over medical car during her pregnancy May signal the end of a Rule barring malpractice suits in the military her lawyer said monday. But a government lawyer said the rut ing which reinstated a $500,000 suit by a Hawaii based Soldier May be Appe Aledas far As the supreme court because of a potentially serious effect on military discipline. We Don t want our military people wondering if they re in a life and death situation whether they re going to Nav somebody suing said assistant . At Torney Mark Bennett of Honolulu. We want them doing their Job and serving their the woman s lawyer Allan Haley said the medical judgments in question were made in a fully equipped military Hospital. We re not talking about judgments made on a Battlefield or in a troop ship Haley said. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals in its decision Friday said the basis for the former ironclad ban on malpractice suits by military personnel had been re moved by a 1985 supreme court ruling. The supreme court s 1950 feres Rul ing held that the government could not be sued for injuries to military personnel involving activities incident to serv but last year the High court ruled that the feres doctrine prohibited lawsuits Only in cases that would require judges to second Eudeis military decisions or directly harm military discipline. The ruling requires that in each Case. We determine the effect of a Brit on Moi lady decisions or discipline said judge Dorothy Nelson writing for a Omarb Mous three member appellate panel. The court reinstated a suit by Joyc Atkinson stemming from her treatment at Tripler army medical Center in Hawaii during her pregnancy in 1982. Atkinson said she reported twice to Tripler within four Days complaining of blurred vision hypertension and other problems and was sent Home without treatment two weeks liter she mid the was hospitalized in severe pain with m life threatening condition caned Damp Gia an attack of convulsion. She later delivered a stillborn child. In reversing us. District judge Harold Fang s ruling dimming the Cue the appear court said the malpractice suit would have no effect on Estber Mili tary orders or discipline. Horowitz s wife loses jewelry in theft Frankfurt a thieves broke into a room of the posh Frankfurter Hof hotel and stole about $50,000 Worth of jewelry belonging to the wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz police said tuesday. Police spokesman Kaii Heinz Wagner said investigators were tilt probing the theft in the couple s hotel room. He said police suspect the jewels were stolen late Friday or Early saturday morning while the couple was away. We dont have All the Deta flt on this because the investigation is still going on Wagner told the associated press. Wanda Horowitz 78, is the daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini. Horowitz arrived in Nuu nirl on thursday on i second concert trip lowest Germany in five months. He played to a sellout crowd at Frankfurt Sal Leoper on sunday. In May Horowitz returned to German toil for the first time in 54 Yon in performed in West Berlin and Hamburg the 83-year-old russian born virtuoso who of cd Germany in 1932 to avoid the Nuit and later became us. A to Moscow and be that trip marked the first time m 60years that he bad visited the soviet Union where he was born oct 1,1903. Commissary shoppers i can still get free beef Kaiserslautern is customers who missed the free Bee monday thou dirt be concerned that they won t get their ration. Army commissary officials said tuesday. Some commissaries distributed All the beef that bad been processed Dur Mannheim Germany two boy scouts in Europe have earned the rank ofe Agte scout a Cordum tothe transatlantic Council in Mannheim. Mike Perry 18, of troop 502, Augsburg coordinated an Augsburg children s fingerprint ing Day for no project Perry and fellow Toom feb Ger printed More than 400 children. Agency european Boirun irjary Region. But the beef is being shipped every eight Days until 8 million pounds Haw been delivered Denise Gomes said. If a store runs out of the free beef customers should ask the comm tary manager or the local Community Public Flain officer when the next shipment is expected conies said then is no need to Ruib out the said. We Are Miert Liefl that people up to the con unitary at the tame time they normally would and pick up the beef then the first distribution Cyde for the beef lasts through december. S h people go i Al son of Dave and Betty Perry. Jacob Godfrey. 13, la Corkham a Good organized the collection and repair of toys for tended at St. James Parish Church in be mrs croat. Earland. He also supervised the building of play Road equipment and wooden toy boxes. Attends the american school land in Thorpe England. He u the son of j
