European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and St Lopes sunday. July 19,1987 avoid optimism on mias Shultz says Washington a Secretary of slate George p. Shultz saturday told families Slilo seeking word on servicemen mining torn the Indochina War 10 face he possibility of continued disappointment despite vietnamese agreement 10 be helpful. Shultz in a speech prepared for delivery to a convention of the . League of families of the missing servicemen said the administration is pleased that the vietnamese government agreed to hold talks with a delegation appointed by president Reagan to seek an accounting for the estimated 2,400 missing american the Mia delegation it to be headed by retired Gen. John w. Cesscy a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Hanoi agreed earlier this month to Greet ves Scy and accepted a . Condition for the talks that they Deal Only with humanitarian issues such As the missing servicemen and not with Vietnam s desire to discuss Overall political issues nevertheless in Spile of these agreements we must face the possibility that we will not be Able to move the Issue Forward Shultz said. He noted that recent reports from Hanoi indicate that vietnamese leaders consider humanitarian issues to include assistance for their crumbling Economy. Humanitarian reciprocity is one thing but any attempt to Trade information on our missing men for economic Aid is another Shultz said. We can not agree to  Shutlz repeated the . View that normalization of relations with Vietnam can begin Only after Hanoi orders a withdrawal of its forces from neigh Boring Cambodia i think it is important and necessary to say that the american people Bear no animus toward the Vietnam Ese people Shutlz wid. We look Forward to re engagement on a political level As we do to the cambodian settlement which must precede  in a related development the state department announced Friday that Vietnam has agreed to permit . Authorities to resume interviews with vietnamese citizens seeking to emigrate to America under the or Derly departure program. The vietnamese decision revealed to american diplomats at a private meeting monday and tuesday lifts a january 1986 suspension of the program. Interviews Are now expected to resume in the not too Distant future said Deborah Cavin a state department spokeswoman. On the Down Side was vietnamese refusal to permit processing of political prisoners and Erncr asians mostly the children of . Servicemen in the Vietnam War. The United states has been asking Vietnam for months to resume the orderly departure program which was set up in 979 Anil has resulted in the Safe emigration of 58,000 Vietnam citizens with relatives in the United states. The program seemed to do the Job because the num Ber of boat people declined but since the january 1986 freeze on orderly departure interviews figure on boat escapes have arc Cpd upward. In May the United nations reported the arrival of 1,326 Boa people in Thailand alone the highest monthly total since june 1981. When the program resumes teams of . Officials drawn from the slate department and the immigration and naturalization service will interview applicants on a list of 19,000 vietnamese who already Nave received exit permits from their government. Schroeder s Gross roots support called overwhelming by now chief Philadelphia api cheering delegates at the National organization for women annual meeting saturday chanted run Pat run As the urged rep. Patricia Schroeder to jump into the race for president of the United suites. The grass roots support in the women s movement for Patricia Schroeder is overwhelming. We want her to run for the presidency said Eleanor pineal the outgoing president of now. Schroeder a 15-year democratic congresswoman from Colorado has for Medan exploratory committee and is raising Money for a possible Campaign. She said she would make a decision in september. There s still spirit in the troops and they arc ready to take the Hill. I Hope i have the heart and mind and Energy of everybody in the whole place Schroud or said before addressing 2,400 now delegates. We re going to look at it very hard to Sec if we can do some major House clean ing in government she said. Later saturday delegates were to vote on the new now Leader who will set the Pace for the organization As it Heads into the 1988 campaigns. Delegates at the 21st annual Conven Tion of the nation s largest women s organization will decide Between smears chosen successor now political director Molly Vard and Noreen Connell president of new York now and a one Lime Union activist. The Winner is to be announced sunday. Both candidates agric that passage of the equal rights amendment child Urc pay equity arid parental leave Are major issues in the women s movement. I Don t believe there s a difference in goals but there s a difference in emphasis said pineal 47, who has headed up Fotto rep. Patricia Schroeder the  now for seven of he past 10 years. Smeal is stepping aside to work for the fund for a feminist majority encouraging More women to run for office. Yard who declines to give her age but is in her Rnid-"7 k has pledged to continue smears tactics of keeping now Visi ble with marches and demonstrations. We intend to be very a Vily involved in the 1983 Campaign said Yard of Ligonier a. We re going to work at gelling More women to run. We would like to change a lot  Smeal said her colleague is a dynamic charismatic Leader and would be a spark to keep the feminist movement moving Forward. Connell 40, said now has become preoccupied fighting the right there s a sense among some now members that we Are losing ground be cause we re so consumed with How evil the right Wing is thai we Haven t been putting pressure on the major institutions of our society said Connell. We be left a lot of people off the Hook said Connell. We have to speak out wherever we see sexism Connell notes that now has lost 75,000 members in the past five years. Now is at a Crossroads said Betty Friedan now s first president and a Connell Backer. We can t just continue with the same old rhetoric and the same old slogans when we have a generation of younger women who Are taking for granted rights we fought for that arc now in  on Friday Simcal gave the Conven Tion s opening address. Before and after she spoke delegates chanting Era Era Era gave her ovations. The women s movement suffered a setback in 1982 when the Era fell three Stales shy of the 38 needed for ratification every once in a while they ask us arc we dead and we say feminism lives " said Simcal. The fight goes on and on and on and on until Justice is  now will play a significant role in the 1988 presidential election and will push for a female candidate Smeal said. "1 believe we should elect a woman presi Dent. What ii More we would shirk our duty if we did t try Shosa id. We arc determined to fight from the top of the ticket to the Bottom of the ticket to change the direction of our country to be much More concerned with human services and Modem problems Simcal said. You will hear from us Reagan asks renewed Contra Aid Washington a president Reagan called saturday for a new round of Aid to inc Nican Fuan rebels contend ing that the american people Are tired Ottic off again on again policy in Cen trial  Cagan. Unhul mentioning the tur Moil surrounding hit presidency brought on by the Iran Centra hearings look advantage of the increased attention give the Contra Aid Issue on Capitol Hill. Some Tell me thai it people in Ihu country just Don t care about the free Dom fighters. Bui i Don t think that s True. The Ruric pvt pc know about the sandinista communists the More they support the Freedom fighters Reagan said in his weekly radio address. Nothing less is 11 slake than i soviet domination of Central America Reagan charged. Although the president cited no Fig ures the while House Hui contended thai its private polling has shown in creased up porn for Aid to the contras following the testimony of la. Col Oliver North and his impassioned Pica for Aid to the rebels. A new York tuna lbs news poll published saturday revealed a inc change in american Genii met Lowa a providing Mili tary and other Aid to the nicaraguan rebels. The poll showed in percent of Thov responding As being opposed 10 such a Simla acc and 5 percent in favor. In the democratic response to Rea Gan s i dorm Kip. Lindy Boguts of Loui Siana accused the administration of an unwillingness. To negotiate 0 com run ii and to meet Halfway on the important issues that Divide us. She Ltd she was referring 10 Itic administration s dealings Wilh Congress on the budget deficit Trade and foreign policy matters. Surgery performed on big Bill West Palm Beach Fla a a judge has thrown out an outrageous Hospital Bill that included markups of 2,000 percent for a suture removal kit and 1,000 percent for soap and a disposable razor. The ruling came in a suit by a North Palm Beach couple who challenged $ 1, sfi9 of Floc wife s 1983 hos Pital Bill at Palm Beach gardens medical Center. Theodore and Barbara Mcanlis said they fell the Hospital was Over charging Tor routine items and they got figures from Hospital Supply companies to prove their Point. I just thought some of the item were a Little excessive Mcanlis said last week county judge Kath Leen Krall upheld their suit calling some of the charges outrageous and telling medical Center official Ito forget about collecting the balance. The patient s relationship to the Hospital is analogous to David meets Goliath the judge wrote. A person incarcerated in a Hospital is at the mercy of an unregulated fee system she wrote. The judge dismissed the argue menu of Hospital lawyers who con tended that costs arc High because of the additional staff needed to order Stock and use items like suture kits and paper gowns. The Hospital charged ii7 for a suture removal kit consisting of plastic tweezers and scissors. Hospital buy the kits in bulk for roughly 78 cents each. Thus the Bill was a markup of More than 2,000 percent. Patients pay s15.50 for a disposable razor and soap kit. 11 goes whole Sale for about 11.37, a markup of 1,131 percent. Noling the Hospital s 11004-Day room fee inc judge said most hotels charging this Rale Hac disposable a air and loan included in the  a h l to paper gowns and drapes Cost ihi1 pal enl s62. Hospi tals Block them it s3 a set so he Bill Coit ii Lucid a markup of 1,140 per cent. Mcanlis. Who designs Golf courses fur a living said he reviewed nil u if i Billi because they have no bos Pill Ilion i surant