European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes monday january 4,1966 Torrejon Fly a Doc program saves Zaragoza time Money by Jan it d Agostin medical writer Zaragoza a. Spain they Don t exactly make House alls but specialist from the . Air Force Hospital at Torrejon a Are flying to appoint or. Maj atty hut performs redial Check plane used in he Fly a Doc pngntin.64s Faa try mrm Marhta meals with their patients in Zaragoza instead of requiring the patients to come to them. The Fly a Doc program which started in sep tember 1986, flies specialists in general surgery dermatology orthopaedic surgery  Gneco logy internal Medicine and psychiatry to Zaragoz Aab twice a month. The program saves patients a four hour bus Ripon the Windy Road to Torr Jon which is Southwest of Zaragoza. The a Scenic mule at Stark dry land scape made a Long and tiring Day Tor someone not feeling Well traditionally those patients have gotten on a bus at 6 o clock in the morning. And generally arrived Here Al 10 or 10 to to be seen at our Hospi Lal and then hopped Back on the bus at 3 in the afternoon said or. Col Paul Carllon commander of the Torrejon medical facility. It was tiring and inconvenient and for an Active duty Guy i was a full duty Day of  under the Fly a Doc program patients schedule appointments through the Zaragoza clinic. In the Lisl year of the program the Torrejon doctors saws i patients 299 of them were on Active duty. The Fly a Doc program saved Zaragoza 314 to668 Man Days and at least 17,501 because people did no have to be sent to Torr Jon. Scricc Mcmo in family members and civilian who needed Toi Ravel to Torrejon were paid about 131 to $35 per person in try funds. In Cost Torrejon 54,000 to sly physicians in air Craft rented from Torr Jon s Aero club to Zaragoza. Car Jon who has a Pilot s License alien flits the plane himself and when he cannot an instructor Alloi is hired. The 1 Vij hour rip to Zaragoza and the return trip arc sometime delayed by bid weather said Cap. Donald Perm administrator of the Zaragoza clinic. The big Factor we have to consider is the weather Reno said. We be had cases where they the doctors have gotten stuck  Balmy weather Snow Ess slopes still frustrating skiers in Europe Bonn api Frusti rated skiers headed Home fro the Alps on saturday after abandoning Hopes that their favorite ski slopes would change in color fro Green to while. Balmy weather persisted in much of Western Europe for More than two weeks and has continued into the new year disappointing Many who had planned along new year s weekend of skiing in West Germany France Austria or Switzerland. Highways in Southern Bavaria and on the West Ger Man austrian Border were jammed with northbound traffic saturday As skiers gave up their plans an began the Long ride Home. There s no Snow i look out the window and All isec is Green complained Thomas sch cuber an in slur Cir at a ski school in the bavarian resort of Gar Misch Parl Skirchen. In a Telephone interview with the associated press Scheuber said that of the four ski areas near car Misch  Only two were open. One of them was the bugs pile West Germany s highest Peak at 9,775 feet. It s very crowded on the bugs Pilic said sch cuber thai s very discouraging for  the 1987-88 season is Losi the  in Zurich quoted a Swiss tourist official As saying. Swiss Tourtel aul to relics say the Rule of thumb is thai he Snow season should last at least 100 Days with 120 Days needed to bring in Good profits. In France s Chamonix Mon Blanc Region Only about 20 of 50 slopes were open and conditions were not very Good icy and lots of stones said woman who answered the phone Al the Chamouni tourist office she declined to identify herself. Weekend skiing plans also evaporated in Austria where daytime temperatures in some resort areas have been ranging Between 30 and 55 degrees fahrenheit. There was no Snow in the picturesque austrian Lake tide town of Halls set. Bat i hotel owner said Touri Sii were spending their Money in restaurants rather Elhanon ski lifts. The situation was Noi As desperate in Alpine North pm Italy where Snow covers the ground at the 3,300 foot level. Bui in mountainous regions of Central and Southern Italy lower Levels arc Bare. During the past Holiday week vacationers in such Apennine ski towns As Ovin Doli Rode horses and hiked across Fields that normally would have been filled with Cross country skiers. Hotel owners say the Snow shortage did not harm their new year s business. We re fully booked about 500 people Anne grel Remagen receptionist at the forint spor Tholl in Garmisch Parton Kirchon told the  is no Snow and the temperature is about 9 degrees 48 degrees fahrenheit during the Day an about 2 degrees 36 degrees fahrenheit at night. But there arc a lot of other entertainments besides skiing Here Mountain climbing hiking Riding and things like this she said. Outdoor Tennis courts and Golf courses were open Inman regions where skiing is the usual attraction for this Lime of the year. Temperature in the sunny afternoons Rose to 59fahrenheit this past week in Chamonix. Warm weather forced the postponement of Man International skiing competitions such As the nordic combined event that had been scheduled for Saivii Rayin Schenach in West Germany s Black Forest Region. Snow had to be trucked in from higher Elevation for Friday s world cup ski jumping Competition at Garni sch Parte Kirc Hen. A women s world cup downhill race slated at the Swiss Valais resort of us Diable Reu for Jan 9 is being rescheduled because of the Snow  of warm weather in Austria s Salzburg province numerous Winter sports events such As in slalom and giant slalom races a nordic combined event and a horse drawn Sleigh race were circled Many Are pessimistic about France poll says Paris a the French have � dismal Outlook on the coming year according to a poll published Sun Day that showed thai majority of the people Are Pessi mistic about the social political and economic Situa Tion in their country. With presidential elections scheduled for Spring 56percent of those questioned said they re Sobi what pessimistic about the political Outlook far  percent said they Are somewhat optimistic and 13 percent did not  poll conducted by the private polling firm Insp was published in the journal do Dimanche. The National sampling questioned 900 people is Yean of age or older Between dec. 15-22. No margin of error was Given. Those polled were even less optimistic about the economic Outlook than the political one. Sixty five percent said they Are somewhat pessimistic about in economic situation in France compared o 25 percent who arc somewhat optimistic. The rest had no Opin Ion. 70% of chinese in College May lose free education Beijing a China which currently finance almost ail its University students educations May make up to 70 percent of hem pay tuition within five years a stale run daily newspaper Aid saturday. In addition the students would have to find jobs on their own rather than rely on being plated by the stale if the proposal by the education ministry u put int effect according to the China youth news Zhon Mio qing Nian Bao. The newspaper quoted unidentified ministry officials As saying that by 1993, the government will finance and find jobs for Only 30 percent of  other 70 percent will be on their own. The new system could Start on an experimental basis at four school As Early As 1989, they said. Major soviet conference to be held this summer Moscow up the soviet Union announce saturday that a vital All Union party conference Gorbachev to try to change Central committee membership which would strengthen his position As soviet  soviet Eremya to news show announced that the conference would begin june 18 and would be Oneo the most important events of the year. Eremya also announced As a major event the sum Mil visit by president Reagan to the soviet Union in 1988. The soviet Union will celebrate 70lh anniversaries of the founding of the soviet Amy the first Constitution of the country and the Komsomol the Youn communist league the news show said. 25,000 taiwanese seek permission to visit China Taipei Taiwan a More than 25,000 Taiwan Ese about half of them business people and retired servicemen have sought permission to visit Chin since their government related a travel ban oct. 31, newspaper said  has compiled a confidential report that 10,000 people Nave already journeyed to reported quoting unidentified sources. The government said last year that in approved the visits for humanitarian reasons to allow res Ujcik who led to Taiwan in 1949 la return to their Hometown son the Mainland for family reunions. The communists Defeated the nationalists in 1949. Hungary plans program to halt growth of debt Budapest Hungary a Premier Karol Grosz says that Hungary s s9.3 billion foreign debt should Slop growing by 1991 under an austerity pro Gram being implemented his year in a television interview Grosz said the annual growth of the debt should be reduced by half this year to $500  1989, in should be reduced by half again to a maximum growth of $150 million he said. The goal isto close out 1990 with a Zero debt growth he Saidt