European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday. May 13,1988 hotel rooms projected a to in 1986 in Dolk fib p4r night i new York to ton Sanfra Eidsen waa Ringlon Ina pies of Ruff Jane bowl Philadelphia 79.19 i us an flame _t5.00j panel oks Short term Bonus for some military physicians to i n . Vacationers expected to set travel records Washington a americans will set records in travel this summer with the majority taking a car truck or camper to a vacation spot iks than Iso Miles from Home a travel group predicted. The . Travel data Center in it annual projection of summer vacation said the South East Wilt remain the Moll popular destination while the Midwest and great lakes regions will general the biggest increase in . The data Center said will Edge out oceans and beaches this year As the preferred Economy this Spring is much belter than we expected after the Stock Market crash Tai Suzanne Cook director of the data Center and we re finding that summer vacation intention Are stronger than last sprint Cook said the traditional summer vacation where the parents take the kids on Athree week summer vacation is no longer the Model Formant american households where More women work and have less Lime to take Long trips. We re finding thai people Are web More Shorter trips throughout the year and not just one Long summer vacation Cook Ald. It estimated that americans will take 136 Mil lion vacation trips during june. July and August up 3 percent from the 132 million trips last sum Mer. Cook Aid the 1987 travel rate is a record. The average trip will list six Mehls and an estimated 83 percent of travellers will use a car truck or camper to get to their destination the Center said. Another .13 percent will go by plane while the rest will Lake a bus or Irwin or had i decided How they will travel Center projects that 51 percent of the summer vacation trips will total Sou Miles or less round trip 23 percent 500 to 1.000 Mil Sand 26 percent More than 1,000 Miles. The aver age round trip distance the Center said is expected to be 870 Miles. Cook said the figures do not Lake into account International travel data Center a private Nan profit group developed its forecast from the results of monthly Telephone interviews of 1,500 adults. Cook said the margin of error in the Survey is plus or minus i percentage Points. The Center affiliated with the travel Industry association of America has been conducting summer Vaca Tion surveys for seven Survey showed about 40 percent of the sum Mer travellers will slay with friends and relatives and another 40 percent in hotels or motels. The rest will stay in a camper or vacation Homes. The Center found that nearly a third of those responding to its Survey 31 percent said obey planned to visit a City while 26 percent said they would go loan Ocean or Beach. Thai is the opposite of the results for the 1987 Survey. One explanation for the popularity of cd tits this year is that people from the Midwest tended to favor cities Over beaches As vacation spot and that Region is projected to Lake nearly 9 percent More vacation trips this year than last. By Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington senior military physicians with at least eight years of service would be eligible for one time increase of up to 48 percent in three of four cat Goric of special medical pay under a proposal approved by the Senate armed service committee. The measure contained in the committee report on its version of the defense is mean to be a positive signal that lawmakers Are aware of the differences in compensation Between Mil diary doctors and their counterpart in the private Sec the total number of doctor on Active duly docs Rel indicate a dramatic decline there seem to be an exodus of senior specialists from the Mili tary the report stated. The provision leaves it up to the Pentagon to decide which specialities would qualify for the Short term Bonus and How much fan increase they would get defense department health care officials would not comment on the Senate proposal since the House armed services committee also would have to agree Loil when the two committees meet in conference lore solve differences in their respective defense authorization Senate report said the measure is not a change to the ensling program but is a Stopgap designed to address an immediate problem the Comminey warned the Pentagon to use the Anthonty for the extra pay Only for specific problem three of four special pay categories . Itary doctor variable additional and Board Eert fire would be affected. The fourth category incentive pay is Given to physicians in Specia Luei designated As critical in wartime. Funding for incentive pay already has been almost tripled by the defense department for fiscal 1989.ffom ji2 million to $34 million which is Why Iti at addressed by the Senate report. The total bin for All four special pay cat Gorle would be about s233 million for the next fiks year. Said col. Jack Cleary who oversees the medical Spe Dalpay program for or. William Mayer assistant Secre tary of defense for health affairs. Variable pedal pay currently ranges from $s,000 to Jio,000 a year depending on length of Emce Cleary said. Additional i Perial pay of 19,000 to 110,000 Given to physician for each year they stay on Active 3uiy. Board certified special Payfor physic int who become certified in their spec Inetie Range from 12 Odd to s5.000 a year. Most physicians Are eligible for All three special pay categories. Incentive payments planned in special medical categories. ,ut1i.i i Kiri no Martim Al Fillod irs will be eligible for ii 0.000 to to us a year in incentive pay beginning in fiscal 1989, when they Are added to the Pentagon s list or critical wartime medical specialities. The action was recently approved by or. Ami Mmayer assistant Secretary of Defonse for health affair. Following a request from the army. Mayer turned Down a proposal to put obstetricians and gynaecologists on the same list. Incentive pay. Depending on their future years. Others including obstetricians andd�7hn Wjk � up Obstet is add tool posts j?js5 id Kite 3Ti a a _ Joti Duci a we a memo. Moreover me projected staffing in Tai specially u now some 250 percent of wartime require Yeats Filey agree to receive additional training an stay current in a critical wartime specially according Mayer s of a vibe a a Ani i Hwy cans in the Pavale sector. Of cd Lue thai Pic aug u4v in i special medical pay groups scientist wants to use nazi data to further hypothermia research Minneapolis a a scientist is planning to use nazi studies of concentration Camp prisoners deliberately Frozen to death to further hit research about but some scientists and jewish leaders have sharply criticized his intention to use data obtained during the holocaust. Or Robert Pozos director of the brio thennia re search Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Duluth says he plans to Analyse and rep Bush the we snout under no circus Usu re at a " Marion it was gained in an immoral Way said Callahan. Director of the Hastings Center a medical ethics think Lank in Barcliff Manor . "1 think it goes to legitimizing the evil done i Simk the findings Are tainted by the horror and misery said Abraham h. Foxman National director of the anti defamation league. Because mammals differ widely in their physiological response to cold hypothermia research is uniquely dependent on human lest subjects says Pozos. A specialist in the Field for 12 years. It could Advance my work in that it lakes human subjects farther than we re willing he said. Several medical Eli Pius contend study of the nazi research could save lives and if published with a condemnation of the methods Call attention to the plight of the jews pole and gypsies killed in the expend because the egyptians used slave labor does that mean we should never gaze at the pyramids ask Eddy. Thomas Murray director of the Center for biomedical ethics at Case Western Reserve University in of nazi science by Post world War ii research ers is rare but not unprecedented. After facing a Simi Lar quandary this year the Federal environmental pro. Toction Agency deleted references to nazi research in its own draft report on a toxic Gas. Pozos 45. Says be decided to use the nazi hypothermia dam after seeing a resurgence of Public and scientific curiosity about it. He says copies of a 1945 English translation of the Dachau Siudy have been available in about a dozen libraries around the United in part by the loss of Pilot in the frigid North sea the germans used 100 to 300 prisoner to lest the body s response to extreme cold Pozos said How Many died is unclear
