European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. September 10, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 aids . Doctors warned Albany . Of gov. Mario Cuomo said tuesday that surgeons have Legal and Ethi Cal obligations to handle aids cases and that those who refuse should be punished. Any doctor who refuses to live up to his obligation should be penalized for it he said. You can t pick and choose the patients you wan to take care of and Mark Alt the others with a Crimson letter and leave open the possibility that no doctor would even operate on them. That s the same As sentencing that person Loreath Cuomo s comments stemmed from a report Las week by new York Magazine that doctors at Mon Leforc medical Center in new York City had objected to performing heart surgery on patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Teacher loses bid los Angeles a an aids stricken teacher lost a bid tuesday of return la the class room when a judge ruled that a full trial was needed an the health and safety issues of the Case. Vincent Chalk 42, of Long Beach could Winthe right to return to teaching through a trial . District judge William p. Gray said. But Gray refused to Issue a preliminary in Junction ordering Orange county school officials to let him go Back to work before that the problem is thai we simply do not know enough about aids to be completely certain Chalk s students would be Safe. Gray said. Chalk had taught hearing impaired student sat Venado Middle school and University High school in Irvine for six years. He then was old the Only Post available for him this year would be in the department office writing vocational education Gram proposals. Chalk argued that officials were violating his rights by not allowing him to continue to teach. Physician reinstated Chicago a a physician with aids was restored to full duly at Cook county Hospi Tal on tuesday eight months after the county tried to remove him from his Post because of his illness. The unidentified doctor who is party to civil rights lawsuit was restored to Normal duties after a 9-2 Vole by the county Board of com missioners. The vote came one Day before a schedule Federal court hearing on the $1 million lawsuit seeking he doctor s full reinstatement. The Board voted in january to suspend the doctor but relented after the Hospital s peer re View committee and executive staff disagreed. The Board voted a month later to allow the Doc Tor to continue working at the Hospital but limited his duties to consultant and diagnostic work research teaching and administrative duties. In july the Board voted to allow the doctor to resume some patient care duties except for procedures that involve puncturing the skin or direct Contact with body fluids. Trial opens in suit to void Law limiting a Legal fees san Francisco not testimony began her tuesday in the rial of a Federal suit brought by Veter ans trying to overturn a civil War la thai All bul prevents them from hiring lawyers 10 help file claims with the veterans administration. The 1864 Law prohibits veterans from paying Law yers More than Jio for representing them in dealings with the a. The purpose of the Law was to protect civil War veterans from exploitation by lawyers at tempting to charge Eno Philant fees to file simple pen Sion form. As a result of the Law veterans arc represented in a non judicial proceeding by unpaid representatives provided by veterans organizations. Although the govern ment allows administrative appeals of a decision that deny benefits the Agency s final decision May not be appealed to the Federal courts. The plaintiff the Berkeley based National association of radiation survivors represents some 5,000 veterans and their survivors who have filed claims with the a for exposure to radiation in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and in nuclear testing after world War 11. Gordon esp Amer a lawyer for the association said 220,000 veterans were exposed to radiation and Man suffered serious health effects including leukaemia and cancer. But of 7,787 radiation claims decided since 198i, he said Only 41 have resulted in $ i Iod a Moni disability benefits or 1300 death benefits from the a. The plaintiffs first witness tuesday Keith d. Snyder director of the National veterans Legal services project a lawyer for Vietnam veterans of America said it is critical for veterans or their survivors to be Able to hire attorneys because the process of filing disability and death claims is to complicated to be handled by the volunteers who now assist in such matters. Theodore Hirt a a lawyer referred reporters to a government Brief that says the a system was de signed to help veterans file the claims through an informal non adversarial process. The suit being heard without a jury by judge Mari Lyn Hall patrol of . District court was originally filed in april 1983. In june 1984, pall issued an injunction barring the government from enforcing the Taw ruling that it de Nied veterans due process because it discouraged them from appealing denial of benefits to which they might be legally entitled. Thai decision was overturned by the . Supreme court in june 1985. However the court left open the possibility that veterans with Complex or unusual casts might be Able to show that their constitutional rights were being Vio lated because of a Lack of Legal assistance that the Law made unobtainable. This narrowed Issue was then re turned 10 pail. In a series of orders handed Down this year Patr has imposed fines of  against the veterans administration for destroying thousands of documents it had been ordered to produce in the suit and formatting misleading statements about Why those documents had not been turned Over. Top s London predicts Lively race for party presidential nomination Topeka Kan. Api Alum. Landon who turned 100 wednesday predicts a Lively race for the 1988gop presidential nomination saying the Campaign is an event i Don t want to  l in tort whose own while House bid in 1936 ended in an overwhelming defeat by Franklin Roosevelt said i think it s Loo Early to pick a Winner bul i predict it s going to be  the former Kansas governor and the oldest of Hegop s elder statesmen was to spend his birthday More quietly than he spent sunday when president and mrs. Reagan came to Topeka to pay tribute and help him blow out a single Candle on cake shaped like an elephant the Symbol of the Republican party. Landon was expected to receive a Telephone Call from vice president George Bush on wednes Day As we As a visit from an old political antagonist former new York congressman Hamilton fish. Fish who opposed Landan s bid for the gop Nomi nation in 1936, will be 99 years old in december. Landon s daughter sen. Nancy l. Kassebaum r Kan., was to deliver a Landon lecture at Kansas stale University on wednesday and a video tape of her speech was to be brought to Landon to watch. Landon the Only Public event planned on his birthday was midday party featuring free ice Cream cake and punch in nearby Gage Park sponsored by local and state Republican officials. On tuesday. Landon sat in the Cool Shade of the porch of his Large colonial style Home reflecting on sunday s events and his life and times. "1 just want people to know what a real country behave Here and that so much of it is still undeveloped. There is still great Opportunity Here for  land on said. Since losing the presidency Landon said he has devoted his life to speaking out to stimulate debate on issues to meant no personal Benefit to me but i be tried to Call attention to problems and sometimes offer possible solutions. Yes i m proud of the role i refilled he said. Gazing through blurred eyes onto the Large Jawn i front of the Home he built after losing the presidential bid. Landon said Reagan did a swell Job with Sun Day s birthday party. He said he also has High regard for the Job Reagan has done As president. "1 Don t see How he could have dealt with All the problems he s had to handle any belter and he inherited some of them he said. For years Landon has Given his assessment of world conditions in his annual interview with a. This year for the first time he declined saying he s just no informed  he did say he anticipates a pretty Lively race be tween Bush and Kansas sen. Bob Dole in the Iowa gop caucuses in january. I Don t want to miss it he said. Prison to treat Young felons like military recruits Albany . A new York state is opening a new kind of prison designed to use a military Boot Camp atmosphere to Shock Young criminals into turning their lives around. Forty two inmates were 10 arrive thursday at Camp Monterey in Schuyler county the first Shock incarceration ramp established by stale prison officials. Camp Summit in Schoharie county also is being readied As a Shock Camp and is to open later this year the Camps previously minimum Security prisons eventually will House 250 inmates each for an intensive six month program of exercise work counselling and High school equivalency classes build around a schedule of military like Rou Tine and discipline with Marine style haircuts. They will have to get up at 5 . Every Day except saturdays prison spokesman James plateau said. On saturdays Well let them sleep until 6 . The will have id Wear Pris on greens. They won t be allowed person Al clothing they won t be allowed packages fro Home. They won t be allowed any Visi tors except sunday and if they Don t have any visitors they la work sundays too. Their Telephone privileges will be strictly  inmates who stick it out for is months will gel a certificate making them eligible for immediate consideration for parole. Plateau said that incentive will make the program attractive to some  will mean More inmates leaving the system sooner and helping the state re Duce prison overcrowding. Inmates will be eligible for the pro Gram if they Are 16 to 24, serving a sen tence for a non violent felony serving three years or less and arc physically an mentally fit. The program will be open Only id males. Prisoners can be kicked out of the Camp for breaches of conduct and can drop out and return to a More traditional prison. In some Southern states Shock Camps have been successful with Young offend ers. Bateau said studies by stale prison officials have shown that the chances of inmates resuming to prison arc reduced if they Complete substance abuse pro Grams and gel their diplomas