European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday May 21, 1987 of.  to ,7.a i to. To 5 a .1 Vij Sefc to is visits a i. 5 cd. \. A a., really Cookin in Chicago a. Than of West German chefs choir their pleasure in and Singapore on tuesday to claim the trophy. Fro winning the of rerun excellence category in the first left we Hans Hertel Alex Ruhmann a Jsmrd St if Tau culinary Cla a in Chicago. The get or Werner wisc new Al Gerhard Dammert an Defeated gourmet Cooks front the United Stales Matthias  a hospitals often Don t report patients1 injuries Gao says Washington a a congressional Survey tuesday said veterans administration hospitals have failed id report or investigate scr Ioui patient injuries including unexpected deaths and surgical accidents. The general accounting office the  of Congress said in found 613 patients or 86 percent of 714 cases it selected for review had sustained injuries that were not reported by Hospital officials for investigation. The Gao study looked at the a s patient injury control program which was established to track injuries and unanticipated deaths and to identify causes of Mich incident. A medical Center personnel were no reporting All appropriate incidents through the patient injury control programs Ai required the report said. While medical centers reported 85,357 incident during fiscal year 1985, More serious incidents such As surgical complication or unexpected deaths generally were not reported said the report which was formally released wednesday by sen. Frank Murkowski r Valaau. Murkowski ranking minority member of the Veter an affair committee requested the study. The cases selected As warranting review were from nine of he a i 172 hospitals during 19s5, t said. The report the Gao said the a s system Tor reporting injuries to patients had built in disincentives for reporting relying on doctors nurses and Ourien to report on them serves Peers and superiors. And in recommended Steps to improve reporting and to clarify what kind of incidents should be investigated. Thomas k. To Mac a administrator acknowledged in a written response to the report that the Vas hould improve its injury control program he said the a is moving to put into effect the recommendations bul Turnage disputed the conclusion implicit in the report s title a s patient injury control program not effective.". We suggest thai a More accurate description of the program and title for Gao s report would be improvement needed in the a s patient injury control program " Turnage said. The Gao countered a patient injury control pro Gram based of incident reporting that does not identify 86 percent of serious incidents in our opinion is nol  Cobalt machine Section Falls kills cancer patient Columbus ind. A a cancer patient who was being treated As a Hospital outpatient was killed tuesday when part of a Cabal machine fell on her officials said sheriff Rick Hill identified the victim As Alice Fleet Wood 59, of Seymour. Bartholomew county Hospital spokesman Wally Glover said a technician was using a hand held control about 12 inches away to bring Down the Arm of the Cobalt machine. When the equipment was about 18inches above u to patient the Arm suddenly gave Way. Glover said. The woman suffered a fractured Skull and died be fore emergency personnel could offer treatment. Glover said. Cobalt is a radioactive source used to hop the Divi Sion of cancer cells. Glover said the Accident caused no radioactive leak. He said the machine which was purchased in 1984, is used Ai Many As 14  Day and is inspected every morning. Kian turns Over building to woman to Settle claim Montgomery Ala. A the United Klara of America has Given ils 1250,000 Headquarters to a Black woman to Settle a $7 million verdict against reorganization in the beating death of her son her lawyer said  were rather shocked that they settled/1 said Morris Dees who represented Beulah Mie Donal during the Federal rial in Mobile. Donald s 19-year-old son Michael Donald was slain by two United Klaus member in 1981, Jii Corpse hanged Lynch Stylc in a tree. A former clans Man testified during the trial that Donald was abducted Ai random and killed to show Kjan strength in  . District court jury returned the $7 Rai lion judgment on feb. 12 against he 2,500-Mcmber corporate klan and six present or former members decs said the deed to the 7,2qo-sc, building on Lake Tuscaloosa about 50 Miles West of birding Ham was Given to another attorney for Donald state sen. Michael figures a Mobile. 17.4 million visited . During 1986, report says new York a the City was Host to 17.4million visitors who spent More than $2.5 bit tit doing business and seeking pleasure in new York Dur ing 1986, the convention and visitors Bureau said tuesday in its annual report. All the statistical indicator for Lourin were up in 19b6 compared to 1985, and Early figures this year in better than last the Bureau s chairman Allan k. Pafco son  collected from tourism Rose to $265 million $41 million More than in 1985.a key measure hotel occupancy a 76 percent. Tour Point above 1985 and 10 Points better than the National average the Bureau  billion dollars of the Overall visitor spending was generated by 971 Conven Lions that Drew 4.5 Mil lion delegates. Government ends 2nd probe of Genera dynamics Washington up the Justice department said tuesday it closed a Sec Ond investigation of general dynamics corp. Because there is no reasonable Prospect of successful prosecution de spite some evidence of fraud by the giant defense contractor. The department announcing it had shut Down a 3-year-old probe of the com Pany said it reviewed a set of tape recordings turned Over by a top former company official that showed general dynamics May have falsified information about delivery schedules and Cost overruns for nuclear attack submarines. The Justice department concluded that the evidence developed did no met the prosecution Standard set Forth in department of Justice guidelines which requires a determination that admissible evidence will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a convict  the evidence Given investigators by p. Talus Violis the former executive vice president of general dynamics Anil general manager of the electric boat division in Gro Lon conn., included recordings of Telephone conversations in 1977 and 1981 Between Veliotis and general dynamics chairman and chief executive officer David Lewis Gorden Macdonald a vice president and others the department Sandl Deputy assistant attorney general Victoria Tonsing said the recorded conversations suggested two possible in stances of falsification of financial and other data by the company misstating in 1977 the delivery Dale of the first Tri Dent submarine and misstating in 1531 the magnitude of Cost overruns the company expected to incur in the 688 class submarine construction program. Toensing concluding that Hin each Case the general dynamics estimate was Noi totally lacking in support said investigator were unable to prove that general dynamics published the data knowingly and with unlawful purpose. The government reviewed More than 45,000 documents and interviewed More than 120 present and former employees of general dynamics the Navy and other . Agencies. The investigation looked for alteration Back dating or destruction of documents creation of false documents multiple sets of books. Or instruction to employees to lie or with hold  none of these badges of fraud was found Tonsing said. The decision to drop the Case was sup ported by nine department prosecutors because of the absence of any reason Able Prospect of a successful prosecution the department said. The Navy also slated it did not rely on delivery Dale or Cost overrun Dala published by the company the depart ment said. The decision to end the investigation Marks the second time the department has declined to prosecute the company which received $8 billion in military con tracts last year and has been under Feder Al scrutiny for much of a decade. The probe of the submarine Cost Over runs began in 1979 and examined the company s attempt to get the govern ment to pay $544 million. It was close Din 1981. The investigation Wes reopened in 1984 on the basis of new allegation by Velivlis who led to Greece to avoid prosecution on charges of splitting $2.7 million in kickbacks from general dynamics suppliers. Veliotis refused to testify against the company unless prosecutors dropped the Case Aga it him officials said. In a last ditch attempt to Salvage the Case prosecutors recently granted Ufa immunity to two company official but neither Man s testimony could sustain an indictment officials said