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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday june 2,1937 Faa chief emphasizes system s safety Washington a the . Commercial Avi Alion system is Safe despite reports of increasing num Bers of  misses in he sky the Federal official in charge of inc system said. There Are too Many air planes for the facilities available Al which to land and we do need More air ports Donald Engin head of the Federal aviation administration acknowledged on Abc to s this week with David Brinkley on sunday. Very basically we need More major  but until those Are built the current system is Safe As Long As it is closely watched he said. The nation began the summer lying season Mon Day and there have been increasing complaints about delays along with fears about safely. You Don t want to mix up service with safely he said. We Are operating the system safely we truly Are. The reason for delays to Day is so thai you will  the Faa wants to improve service Bill i will not allow the system to become unsafe Engin said. James Burnett chairman of the separate National transportation safety Board repeated his criticism of the Faa and warned of the system s safety problems. Burnett appearing on lbs tvs face the nation said at this Lime there is cause for alarm. Now the Faa is looking at this problem through different glasses. They Are approaching the problem and trying to maximize the efficiency of the air traffic system. They Are Irving to get a maximum Landing arrange ment at the airports Burnett said. That helps expedite travel and helps alleviate some of these problems that arc frustrating travellers Al the airports. But we have to recognize that there is a Trade off betwee doing that and maintaining an adequate margin of  Engin said i dont know what or. Burnett is relat ing to but i want to assure you that we have Mon i no o Ariay look Ina win fun gun said i Flom rela  in mor firm plans sole of 104 hospitals to employee owned company Nashville Tenn. A i of 7 1 Alabama Arizona Idaho in Hospital corporation of America 199 of whim of top missis inn Missouri. On plans to sell 104 smaller hospitals to an employee owned company As part of a $1.9 billion restructuring but services will not change a com Pany spokeswoman said. Cha has always been very de centralized and has allowed Hospi tals to operate on their own said Mela Gaertnier. Cha will continue to have minority interest in the company so we arc not leaving those Hospi tals or communities behind under the plan detailed sunday Cha the world s largest publicly held Hospital management company would retain control of about 75 general hospitals and 50 psychiatric hospitals officials said. The restructuring which docs not require shareholder approval should be composed during the third Quarter said Victor l. Camp Bell vice president of investor relations for Cha. The hospitals to be sold were being Nolif iwo and a list was to be made Public by tuesday Canni Essaid. Cha is moving completely out of 1984 revenues of Pink motor Onrod firms in Bow of doors Hospital corp. Of America american it Anaoona 11human Alabama Idaho Indiana Mississippi Oregon Utah Washington and  Stales account for 25 of the hospitals to be sold Campbell said. Cha will retain hospitals in the Southeast and the new company will be spread Over a wider area. This is a Way to allow the com Pany we believe to operate More efficiently Gaertnier said. Each company will have a group of Hospi tals that arc More homogeneous in size Market and geographic  the restructuring plan first announced May 15, awaited financing commitments made Public Fol lowing the Board s approval of them Friday. Drexel Burnham Lambert group inc. Provided a financing commitment to the new company of up to $956 million while Wells Fargo Bank n.a., will provide financing of up to $940 million Campbell said. Cha had revenues last year of$5 billion Gaertnier said. The employee owned company which has not been named would be based in Nashville said he chairman Thomas f. Frist or. Bakker says he s in need of Cash new York a evangelist Jim Bakker says heis so broke that he May have to borrow Money from his daughter and he. Is calling for a cease fire in the Bat Lewith the new leaders of the pal ministry. I have about $50,000 Cash to my name and my daughter has s50,000 saved from her music work which Shell probably loan me if i need it Bakker said in an interview published in the june 8 edition of time Magazine. While reports persist Hal he and his wife were paid nearly s2 million Las year by the pal ministry Bak Ker told the Magazine in an interview Al his Palm Springs Calif Home that Money was his most pressing problem. Bakker also said he regretted making Public com ments about the controversy that has embroiled his troubled pal television ministry. I made a mistake by Ever stepping out and trying to Lell our Side of the Story he said. If this be a holy War i am declaring a cease fire and a truce he told the Magazine. Among his recent Public appearances Bakker was seen twice last week on Abc s nigh Olinc program once in a taped interview and once live. Bakter estimated his 1986 salary at  million while pal officials say he received $1.6 million last year and his wife. Tammy Faye received $300,000,not including Perks. The bakkers lavish lifestyle has been an Issue in the scandal that has rocked the pal. Bakker stepped Down in March from the organize Jim Balter Tion he founded after admitting to a one night sexual encounter in 1980 with Church Secretary Jessica Hahn he agreed 10 pay her $265,000 to keep the incident Quiel. He turned pal Over to the Rev. Jerry Falwell who said the ministry needed to raise $7 million by the end of May to remain in business. The results of the fund raising Effort were not expected to be released until tuesday. Ito Rcd. The system Over the last three years on a real Lime basis we re doing it every Day. And i do know what or. Burnett is talking  on the Abc program Henry Duffy president of the airline pilots association criticized the air traffic control system and said his Union is worried about safely. We polled All of our 40,000 pilots and they came Back and said that their no. 1 concern was the threat of a  midair collision Duffy said. Now that tells me that they think the air traffic control system is breaking Down too often and the secret to curing that is new technology More control lers and we be simply got to control the number of air planes going into the system to make sure that it slays below system capacity Duffy said. The system s not As Safe As it should and could  need apolitical commitment for More funding of the air traffic control system and Airport improvement to increase capacity he said. Stateside coast guard transports ailing soviet Crew member Juneau. Alaska up the coast guard transported an ill female Crew member from a 400-foot soviet freighter to Atli in the Aleutian islands and then airlifted her to Anchorage for treatment a spokesman said. Coast guard spokesman Lance Jones said the soviet vessel Grigoriy Aleksandrov radioed that Crew member Valentina Prudnikovs 29, appeared to be ill with appendicitis and was not responding. Rescue coordinators in Juneau consulted with or. Edward Rapolz a flight surgeon at the coast guard station in Zodiac who determined the woman required prompt medical treatment. A c-i30 transport plane from the station Atko Diac flew Rapatz and a corps Nan to Attu. The two look a Small rubber Rescue Craft several Miles out to the waiting ship and brought prud Nikova Back o the plane for transport loan chorale Jones said. Tests fail to determine egyptian Mummy s sex Tucson Ariz. Up scientists running hours of extensive tests on an egyptian Mummy have Learned its age but were unable to determine its sex. The Battery of tests were performed at the University of Arizona medical Center in an Effort to icam More about the Mummy Nametta Kirtus for its upcoming display at an egyptian astronomy show. Experts speculated the Mummy believed to be some 2,500 years old was a male because its name is male. But several hours of cat scans and magnetic resonance imaging readings  reveal the gender. Unfortunately the hands Are folded Over tie Pelvic area and it s impossible to Tell the sex said or. Tim Hunter associate professor of radiology Al the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Skokie Iii., Monument honors holocaust victims Skokie Iii. A a holocaust Monument honouring 6 million jews and others kilted by nazis during world War it was unveiled in this City where Neo nazis tried to March in 197b several Hundred people attended the ceremony sunday at the 12-fool-High Bronze sculpture of a Freedom fighter guarding a Mother her murdered infant a rabbi and a child clinging to the rabbi Knees. The Monument designed by Edward chs Ney was built after a 3�-year fund raising Effort by a special committee of inc holocaust survivors of metropolitan Chicago. Nine years ago Skokie whose 69,000 rest dents include 23,000 jews gained attention when a Neo nazi group threatened to March through the City. The March was called off after lawsuits and Community pressure  
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