European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 27, 1983 the stars and stripes Page 7 millions of elderly americans regularly Given wrong medication paper reports Phoenix Ariz. A two million elderly americans become ill or die each year because or reactions to drugs often prescribed unnecessarily and sometimes taken in potentially deadly doses a newspaper reported sunday. The Arizona Republic said it found through a five month investigation in 13 states that Many institutionalized elderly arc Given mind altering drugs hat thou Sands have died after getting wrong do sages and that others were used As Guinea pigs in drug experiments. The newspaper said in the first install ment of a seven pan series hat it had found Hal about one in every seven doses of Medicine the elderly receive Are in error. Or the 19 billion people Over 65 spend annually on prescription drugs about $2 billion is considered unnecessary he Republic said citing Federal records. Officials have estimated the total health care Bill for wrongly medicating inc elderly at $21 billion a year the newspaper said. Rep. Claude Pepper d-fla., chairman of Fth House committee on aging called the problem a National outrage. Those figures Are staggering Pepper said. It shows How callous some people Are regarding the elderly. All they want to do is placate them until they pass  health care costs for the elderly who pays for what under the Federal medicare program in percent of total costs in each category in the . Asol 1983 Hospital care physicians services prescription drugs patient or private insurance patient or private insurance except 30% of certain Organ transplant drugs covered by medicare for one year Dilca Flo Tri Liuro chant Eure Hullih pm Uranea  and Csc ago Tribune non report some Arizona nursing Homes have made medication errors More than half the time they give drugs the Republic said. The National health care finance administration considers a s percent error Rale acceptable. The newspaper said it also found that some doctors and drug companies around the country used elderly patients As test subjects for experiments some times involving new unlicensed drugs without obtaining the Psi Unis informed consent. Numerous medical studies con ducted since the mid-1970s show the aged have been improperly Given Tran quilt zen hypnotic drugs and potent Antipsychotic drugs that left thousands severely ill hospitalized or dead. Many thousands of elderly who Are  fall suffering debilitating or fatal injuries. Most medical schools have not adequately trained doctors in geriatric pharmacology and geriatrics. Many doctors do not want to treat the elderly nor do they find it financially desirable to care for them in nursing Homes because of strict Federal limitations on medicare reimbursements. Despite congressional orders five years ago to do so Many drug manufacturers still have not tested most of i hair drugs on the elderly to determine effects and have failed to recognize the need for a category specifying geriatric doses in Labelling and package inserts. The Republic also said doctors Are ignorant of the extent of medication re lated deaths partly because autopsies Are rarely performed on the elderly leaving physicians often to guess the cause Don Goddard of Sun cily who founded the senior citizens segment of the St. Luke s medical Center chemical dependency unil in Phoenix in 1974, estimated thai 30 percent of the patients he Sci in 10 years directing the program were addicted to prescription medications. Most were women. That is the drug problem with older people said Goddard 84. We Dan l take heroin or cocaine. It would be a news Story if we  California City to repeal wartime japanese ban Knight Ridder newspapers Sunnyvale Calif. For 44 years in official policy of the self anointed heart of Silicon Valley has been to distrust the japanese and permanently exclude them from the state of  but on tuesday an embarrassed Sunnyvale cily Council is expected to repeal that Resolution adopted during the hysteria of world War ii. City officials decided 10 turn the mistake into a living history lesson after the Resolution calling for Banning All japanese people from California was brought in their attention by a resident bom in a japanese internment Camp during the War. Before a gathering of experts on japanese Ameri can history the Council is expected to adopt a new Resolution Hal would repeal the old policy and accept All japanese with open arms. I am sickened really sickened said Judy Niizawa the 44-year-old woman who brought the earlier Resolution to the attention of mayor Larry Stone Las month. Twenty minutes after Sploric read the left or an official found the Resolution in the cily archives. Slonic called it frightening and  Many other California cities would find similar resolutions if they searched their archives said Gary Okihiro a history professor at Santa Clara univer sity. Santa Clara county san Jose and Morgan Hill adopted similar resolutions in 1943. During the War some Sunnyvale residents consid ered their cily to be a potential target by the Japa Nese. In the City s Joshua Hendy Iron works mechanics were building engines for Navy ships around the clock. And army recruits were raining on the Fields of Fremont High school and in former Cherry Orchards where Washington Park now stands. We were in a Tough area said . Corby co Bolme who was a Sunnyvale councilman at the Lime. Now 80, he still lives in town. We were afraid of an attack along the coast Here Corboline remembers that the idea for the Resolution came from the Federal government not from locals. It was passed unanimously. I Don t think we had any Choice at that Lime he said. In 1941 the nation s population included about 41,000 japanese aliens and about 71,484 Nisei or second generation japanese. In 942, two years be fore the Sunnyvale Resolution was adopted the fed eral government moved All people of japanese de scent from the Pacific coast to relocation Camps in California Arkansas. Colorado Utah and older slates. In the Santa Clara Val icy thousands of japanese were working in the Cherry prune and Apricot Orchards before they were uprooted from their Homes. Most of those whom Corboline knew never returned he said. Although Congress never adopted the ban the resolutions Are still an outrage said Okihiro a third generation japanese american. These resolutions had no bearing on military Security said Okihiro. By that Lime in was Clear Japan was losing the War. The Only reason was racial hatred to prohibit japanese americans from Velum ing to their former  Niu Awa who has lived in Santa Clara county since 1951, said her own family did not return to i hair Hometown of Turlock in the san Joaquin Val Ley after inc internment. Instead the family wan dered the slate As grape pickers. Four months before she was born in a Colorado interment Camp the Sunnyvale cily Council adopted the Resolution. Forty four years later As she was Reading a Book in her Sunnyvale Home she Learned of the Resolution. The Book the unlikely liberators was written by Masayo Duus. Who lives on the Stanford univer sity Campus. The Book details the heroics of Nisei men who volunteered to fight for the . Army. Duus is expected to attend the City Council meeting tuesday. Niizawa Hopes the new Resolution will bring the Issue to the attention of other cities whose current policies arc to distrust an entire race whether they know it or not. $7.5 million awarded Man dismembered in crash Corpus Christ Texas a a judge has awarded s7.s million to a Man who was seriously Hurt in a collision with a Drunken Driver after ruling that padre Island National seashore rangers were negligent in failing to arrest the Driver earlier . District judge Spencer Williams granted the award to Randy William Crider 33, of Corpus Christi a motor cyclist who lost an Arm and a leg in the 1981 collision with a car driven by John Lee Landry 23. The Interior department which Over sees Federal Parks and the . Attorney s office will decide whether to Appeal the decision within go Days said assist ant . Attorney Wayne Campbell. We think that the $7.5 million is fair but no amount of Money can compensate for what Randy Crider has suffered said his attorney Ben Sley. This however will give him the Chance at a meaningful  Crider said Park rangers Larry Couser and James f. Copeland had stopped Landry 10 hours before the Accident for driving 40 Mph in a 15-Mph zone on a Public Road on padre Island. The rangers ticketed Landry and allowed him to continue. Williams who was brought from san Jose Calif., to Corpus Christi to hear the Case ruled March 17 that nol arresting Landry to an act of negligence and Hal As a consequence an Accident  evidence at the trial showed that Landry had consumed 7 or 8 ounces of liquor and had smoked several marijuana cigarettes in the Ihrcke or four hours before he was stopped for speeding. Sley had argued that the marijuana could have impaired Landry s actions for 12 to 24 hours and thai the alcohol intensified the effects of the marijuana. Landry who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the Accident was sentenced to eight Yean in prison. Sley who had sought $73 million said the Case could Lead authorities around the nation to lighten enforcement of Drunken driving Laws. I think