European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday november 19.198b at the head of a feminist March american bom Margaret Papati Reou the estranged wife of Premier Andreas Papandreou joins a group of Creek feminists marching on the , embassy. Some 100,000 demonstrators in Athens took part in thursday s rally commemoration the Isih anniversary of a bloody student uprising Gal so the military dictatorship. Many creeks blame the United Stales for railing to Slop Ibe 1967 military coup. Navy begins major overhaul of its medical care system by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington without fanfare the Navy has launched a major overhaul of its health care system designed 19 rebuild morale treat More patients at is own facilities and attract and train More doctors. Among other moves responsibility for the medical system is being shifted from the Navy medical come to Fleet commanders. The service is betting thai some of its lop admirals who normally concentrate on the readiness of warships will have More Success lobbying for Money and manpower for Medicine than the stand alone medical come. The ambitious fix for Navy Medicine was recommended by a Blue ribbon panel after six months of study and approved on nov. 10 by Navy Secretary William l Ball Iii according lot. Brian Cullin Anavy Ujj ocsman.,. It is designed to attack what Navy officials acknowledge is a medical system approaching a Point of crisis one in which doctors Are leaving the service because heir skills Aren t being used at a time when thousands of insured patients Are being told to go to civilian physicians because Navy hospitals Don t have is and corpsmen to support the doctors. Navy Medicine is in trouble vice adm. Leon a. Ency the Navy s second ranking officer and the Chairo Luvot the Blue ribbon panel said earlier this month in outlining the coming changes. The ills troubling Navy Medicine Are very Complex and the ills did t arrive overnight. They have been building Over Many years. There is no easy or Quick " ,. The overhaul approved by Ball while still being fleshed out. Includes Steps ranging from higher salaries and bonuses to More intensive training for corpsmen to hiring More civilian support staff. It also include such moves As slashing the frequency of routine physical cams and increasing uie number of medical recruiters to Cullin More than 80 percent of the initiatives can be implemented for Little or no Addi tonal the remaining changes however arc no cheap j175 million Over the next three years Money the service still has to find probably by raiding other budget accounts. The overhaul plan also Calls for an additional 1,031 military and civilian workers to be hired Over the next three years 16 expand Hospital capacity. By placing control of Navy medical facilities under he Fleet commanders some of the service s top Admi rals will be the ones asking for Money and manpower for the medical department. The difference is Between a two Star Admiral asking for something and a four Star asking for something says vice adm. James a. Zimble the Navy s surgeon general. The chief of the Navy medical come is a two Star rear Admiral while the commanders of the Atlantic an Pacific fleets Are four Star admirals. The change in organization conforms to practices at sea. For example an aircraft Carrier has a medical department and a dental department but each reports to the skipper of the ship the Navy medical system now has 33 hospitals including four major leaching hospitals 200 clinics and 172 dental clinics. It is currently responsible for s14,000 Active duty people and almost 1.7 million do Pendents and other beneficiaries. The panel found that Over the past four years the number of dependents and other beneficiaries treated at Navy facilities declined precipitously. It said hey were driven away because the Navy had to concentration serving a larger Active duty Force Cope with new requirements such As squared immune deficiency syn drome testing and improve the Quality of care after several malpractice horror stories. One result of that decline in patient Load however has been hat Navy doctors Are having More difficulty learning specialities like surgery. The shift in workload from in House to outside limits the number and variety of cases referred to the teaching facilities thus reducing the Range of training experienced by the physicians under instruction the panel wrote. The inability of Navy Medicine to provide a House care to its beneficiaries has affected morale and retention within the Navy in general and the Navy medical department in world today Ireland to Issue stamp marking Kennedy s death Dublin a the Irish Post office announced Friday it will Issue a stamp commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of president Kennedy. The 28-Pcncc 43-Ccnl stamp to be issued nov. 24, shows a portrait of John f. Kennedy by american artist James Wylli which is displayed in the Kenned museum in Doston. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on nov. 22,1963. Monument to Honor marines killed on Tarawa Tarawa Kiribati a . Marines who fought in the Battle of Tarawa 45 years ago have begun arriving in this South Pacific nation to dedicate a Monument to their fallen comrades radio Kiribati said Friday. It said the Monument commemorates the Landing on nov. 20, 1943, of a Force of marines who wrested control of the Island from japanese forces in a three Day Battle. The japanese refused to surrender and some 4,700 were killed. . Fatalities numbered almost 1,000. And about 1,000 p 3,000 were wounded or missing. Radio Kiribati said More than 50 veterans and their wives were expected for ceremonies on sunday he anniversary of the Battle. Kiribati pronounced Kir Bassnorth Casl of austra Lia was formerly the Gilbert and Ellice islands a Brit ish protectorate from 1892, they achieved self Rule in1971. Britain reveals expulsion of 3 iraqis for spying London a the foreign office thursday night said three members of the iraqi embassy in Lon Don have been expelled from Britain for activities in compatible with their status a diplomatic . A foreign office spokesman said he three were Toldon oct. 18 that they must leave and were Given two weeks in which to do so. I believe they have left he said thursday night. The spokesman who in accordance with British practice declined to be named said Iraq had responded by expelling three members of the British embassy in Iraq in retaliation and that the three britons had already returned Home. Mexican legislators begin strike in election protest Mexico City a a dozen opposition legislators on thursday began a hunger strike at the legislative Palace to demand punishment for officials they say illegally detained. 32 poll watchers during the nov. 9 elections in Tabasco slate. We re going to stay Here until the first of december if we have to said National democratic front presi Dent Rafael Aguilar Tala manics referring o the Day president elect Carlos Salinas de Gortari will be inaugurated. ". ". A and if we Are still Here when the change of Power occurs Well have the Best seats to see everything he said. -.-"., ". Aguilar and ii other National democratic front deputies plunked themselves Down on the Steps of the congressional chamber to begin their fast a Cal to the great Seal of Mexico on a building facade. Shipwrecked crewmen owe lives to dolphins Jakarta Indonesia Jupi dolphins nudged to Shore two exhausted survivors of a Shipwreck allowing them to raise the alarm for rescuers who plucked an other nine indonesian sailors from the rough seas of the Indian Ocean officials said. So -.,One of the 13-rocmber Crew of the Elpina 111 was found dead and another is still missing tuna i Amin ending spokesman for the per Tamina National Oil company that owned he boat said Tui Day the Elpina i a 545-ton Lique Icid Petroleum Gas Carrier capsized monday in heavy seas off the coast of West Java. -.--. A school of dolphins helped keep two of the survivors afloat throughout a Stomy night nudging and bumping them toward the tiny Island of. Deli about j15s Miles Southwest of Jakarta. Radio operator rus Mendi Situmorang and cargo specialist Victor Soreng reached Shore in the morning. And alerted the lifeguard i
