European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 14, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 7 acc reveals interstate phone change Washington api the Federal Communia Lioni commission on thursday proposed a new Mcleod of regulating interstate Telephone Rales and Esti mated the plan could save consumer sl.6 billion Over four Yean. The acc ii proposing to  current limits on the profits american Telephone & Telegraph co. And local phone companies can urn on the interstate portion of their businesses and instead set Caps on prices the companies can charge. The companies could Opl for Price Caps or for cur rent regulation. The new method he fact three tilling commit Sonen agreed would give the companies incentive to Cut costs invest in More efficient technology and be More innovative in order to maximize their earnings. At to said it a encouraged by the proposal Faul expressed some initial concerns saying some of the proposed changes would be More burdensome than current regulation. The company which As the Indus try Leader is he Only Long distance company under government regulation has been posing the acc forbore latitude in Selling prices. Current regulation restricts Taftt from earning More than 12.2 percent and the local Bell phone companies from earning More than 12 percent on their in Enlace business. The companies determine their prices under these earnings constraints. Although at to lung distance rivals Are not regu lated hey set in if Rales at Levels competitive with the Industry Leader under the proposal rates would be cupped begin Ning april i 1989, and companies opting for Price Caps would be required to Cut rates 10 reflect a projected productivity increase of 3 percent each year. After four Yean the plan would be reviewed. Most of the seven regional Bell companies while supporting the Price Cap concept said the productivity Factor was Loo ambitious. For the local Exchange carriers to break even under Price Caps the commission s plan would require carriers to almost double their recent productivity level Bel South said in a statement. Pregnant May Day Queen stirs protest at High school d won Ore. A school officials allowed pregnant 17-year-old senior to be crowned May Day Queen thursday night but suspended 45 students who objected to limits placed an her Royal duties. Annamaria Devries was elected by students at Day ton Junior senior High school last month. She is sin Gle and nearly six months pregnant and says she plan Lomany. The Coronation was held in the school gymnasium in Ihu farm town of 1,470. The May Day Queen who is crowned when the weather is favourable not necessarily on May traditionally visits Dayton crude school the Day after her Coronation. However after receiving complaints the visit was cancelled by Tom Gallagher the High school principal. We got quite a few phone coils from local patrons parents ministers whatever just a Gamut of different people from he Community that were upset that the school would allow a pregnant Young lady to be elected Gallagher said parents of Grade schooners worried that do Vries pregnancy could Force them to answer questions from children who see her at the May Day event he said. My stance was docs the Grade school need to be put in thai position be said. That s their May Day their fun Day. It could have put a Damper on their  friends of Devries asked the school Board to Over turn Gallagher s decision but the Board unanimously supported the principal. About 7s of the school s 330 students responded Wilh a sit in that ended when Many of the protesters including Devries left the Campus without permission for a March through town Gallagher said. Those Stu dents were suspended effective Friday. Devries an honors student who played on school softball and basketball teams said she initially went along with Gallagher s decision but changed her mind after talking with friends. Her Mother Shirley Martin said she supports her daughter even though she docs not condone her preg Nancy. Mall Yaskovic a senior and organizer of the pro test said the school was Selling a poor example. They if us All the Lime you re adults and have to act like one and they get us with All these kiddy rules Hesnia. Philadelphia Hospital closed harr1sburg. A. A the mate health department closed All but two units of a targe Phila Delphia Hospital thursday saying inadequate can might have caused 12 deaths in the past year. The slate stopped Short of the most severe punish ment revoking the License of the Jama o. Giul tre medical Center. The Hospital serves a predominantly poor area of North Philadelphia. An investigation focusing on 66 cases since May i9j7 found 124 deficiencies including 29 instances of unnecessary surgery and 55 cases of Post operative complication said department spokesman Gary fro sch. In 12 cases the patients died. In one instance a doctor s untrained son assisted Inan operation Frash said. Scrutiny in Miny cases fell on the Hospital s namesake. Or. James g. Giuffro Umil recently the Hospital s executive director and the Board of directors. The Hospital will remain closed until they submit a plan of corrections and we determine those areas cited As deficient have been corrected Froseth said. He said no deadline was Sci. In a statement Hospital officials said that Many problems already bad been addressed and that they hoped to receive permission to reopen All units soon. The order allows the Hospital s clinic and its drug and alcohol a patient services to continue operating. Ii. Closes All in patient acute care including surgical services the emergency room and the podiatric  already at the Hospital will continue receiving treatment in Nell  an agreement out try and stale officials signed thursday the Hospital s Board will be replaced by May 25, Froseth said. Rynex called the productivity goal potentially unrealistic while Bell Atlantic Aid the plan shows the commission is clearly serious about ensuring tha Consumers receive resulting Benefit by issuing a very challenging productivity commitment. Sci  corp. The nation s second target Long distance Carrier said Price Caps should nol extend to the Bell companies at All. Sci said uie companies control the local phone networks and so should continue under the current monopoly regulation of their profit. Acc chairman Dennis Patrick said the plan would ensure that rates would be no higher and most Likely would be lower under Price Caps than they would be under traditional prom regulation. Over four years he said Consumers would pay in estimated sl.6 billion less than they otherwise would pay under Raic of re Tum regulation. The acc predicted that Long distance Rales would decline april 1 because of the effects of the proposal and other factors. However a sleep inflation rate could temper the effect of he productivity increase. Story suggests Anderson May be freed Washington a the sister of it . Hostage says she Learned from released French hostages Hinl her brother the longest held Cap live in Lebanon Wujs told to pack a hag far his release just before three frenchmen were set free. Peggy say resuming from a trip to franc and Switzerland said thursday she was give greater Access to French officials than she hat had with . Of Isiah since the beginning of the Iran Centra scan Oil. Her brother associated press Middle East correspondent Terry Anderson 40, was seized in West Bei rut March 16,1983. Soy met with Interior minister Charles pay qua who negotiated the say French hostages release. She also gave a representative of president Francois Mitterrand a let Ter from a group of journalists working for an Derson s release urging the French to use their contacts to seek Freedom for 18 other foreign hostages including nine americans still held Bypro iranian groups in Lebanon. They told Terry he was going Home she said describing Diplomat Marcel Fontaine s last moments with her brother after they had shared a room for several months. Anderton packed and was Ted away she said but it was Fontaine 45, who was released along with Diplomat mar cel Carton. �4, and journalist Jean Paul Krauft Mann 44. The frenchmen gave her other details about the . Hostages say said but she said they did not want them made Public unless hostage rela Tives agree. There s always a danger. The families have to decide if talking about in is Worth the ask she said. Students Tell irs to please1 revise tax forms Washington a the internal Revenue service is about to get some free advice from a group of College Stu dents on Bow to reduce the confusion and unpleasantness that go hand in hand with paying Federal income taxes. Some highlights give the taxpayer a simple checklist in the lax form instructions As a final guard against errors. Get rid of the jaw breaking words. And please use he word please More often Twenty students at the University of Akron s Center for Tauti Ion studies accepted a Challenge earlier this year to prove their argument thai tax forms and printed instructions can be made Sim Pler. The students planned to present a interim report to the irs Friday spelling out How they think instructions for form i to and form 1040a should read. Our revision of the instruction makes filing taxes easier said Nicholas Creme director of the University s la Center and an overseer of the project i also to designed to generate patriotism and positive feelings about the concept of Federal taxation by gently reminding taxpayers that it s the american thing to fart of that Good feeling would be generated presumably by replacing la drab cover Page of the Irr a full color landmarks Ai the new York City. The instructions wit map pointing out such or " Brand Canyon and the project grew out of an appearance at March before a Senate finance sub committee by Creme and several us Center students who testified about problems encountered while helping Low income taxpayer who had been penalized by the irs. During that testimony the students cited a readability study thai found More than half of americans cannot under stand the instructions for the simplest tax form the single Page form i040ez. Only 11 percent of people with less thana High school education can understand the instruction the Law Center says