European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 21. 1989 the St trs and stripes Page 5 plan Calls for drafting doctors nurses Washington not the selective service system under orders from Congress is studying reviving he doctors draft As Well As beginning conscription of nurses and other medical personnel of armillary emergencies officials said. The officials said the plan to he presented shortly to various medical associations and then sent to Congress for legislation also Calls for drafting medical personnel within 10 Days rather thin the several months it look in thedr afis Between 1950 and 1973. Defense department officials estimate thai medical specialists and Field facilities for wounded soldiers Al though improved in recent years became so depleted Afler Vietnam that today Only half of those wounded in Hall in could be cared for immediately. The draft would Call up 110,000 doctors nurses technicians and where. A medical draft though would raise new Legal a its Lions because As planned now in would apply to Doc tors nurses and technicians who arc women the supreme court has upheld a Law passed by Congress exempting women from the draft. Women comprise 83 percent of All americans in the health care professions. Selective service officials said. About 95 percent of the nurses arc women and one third of the those in medical school training to be doctors arc women draft registration today makes men Between is and 26 liable far conscription. But Many medical people will have passed their -6th birthdays before completing to licit training and i he Selec Tive service plan thus makes men and women Between the Ages of 20 and a liable fora medical draft. After the United states withdrew from Vietnam in 973. The draft was allowed to lapse and . Filled the ranks of the armed forces. The conscription of doctors ended at the same time. The soviet Union sent forces into Afghanistan in .-197 a and a year Bier president Carter got Congress to revive draft registration but not the draft itself. In a ruling in 1981. The supreme court  fact thai the act applied to men Only on ground thai statutes and policy prohibited the employment of women in com Bat since then however the definition of combat has been narrowed to bring women closer to Buttle. Under the Reagan administration s military build up Money will devoted to rebuilding the combat Nice. Ical , the apparatus for combat medical Cane Joseph Jenkins snarls Lilu a pouring into the mail rank Utho supreme court Amtrak  hmm turn Quill or in record numbers to express views on a nation As the court prepares Tei hear a ease Frt i Mishnun Rul week. Plo necessary participant in peace talks Hussein says by the los Angeles Lnu i Washington King Hussein of Jordan ignore negotiated nor achieved without Plo participation Hussein praised Bush As the right Lender in the right office at the right Lime to bring a settlement to inc troubled Region. Hut he did not Budge from his Long established Posi Tion that negotiations can be held Only through a . Sponsored conference in which inc Pale Sune liberation org tin Alion should play a prominent role. The forum for a negotiated comprehensive settlement is a peace conference under the auspices of the United  Hussein said. And apparently implying that the election plan is a distraction the King added any Steps taken should Lead to such a Confer ence if our a foam to Arrix at a comprehensive settlement Are not to be  Hussion s failure to support inc Clellion plan in principle As hush has done is a setback for has been rebuilt according to defense department officials. But it still remains far Short of what would be needed in full mobilisation. Thus Congress in late 1987 instructed the selective service to develop a Structure for registration and classification of persons qualified for practice or employment in a health care occupation essential to the maintenance of the armed forces in wartime. In pursuing those instructions. Selective service officials said the defense department has determined that the armed forces Lack 6.000 doctors or nearly 20 percent of their wartime needs. .-.-. Similarly the shortage of nurses Tor wartime is 3  nearly half the need. Licy Ond that almost All of the 73.000 medical Lech Nicias. Including medics who treat the wounded on the Battlefield or assist in running Field hospitals would be  drafting those medical people would take Only two Percy no of the medical population of the United states selective service officials said. Rut they would not be drawn even 1 from that Reser voir because More surgeons than dermatologists for instance would be needed. 5overnpr vetoes abortion Concord. .  nov Judd Gregg of wednesday vetoed a Bill that would repeal three 19th Century slate taws making abortion a crime. The veto came one Day after the stale Senate voted 13-11 to repeal the Laws which were written in 1848, the House passed the Bill March 23.the Laws have not been enforced since the 1973 . Supreme court ruling legalizing abortion. Gregg a conservative Republican has said he personally opposes abortion but strongly believes govern ment should slay out people s private business. He had no immediate statement on his veto. The decisive vote in the Senate was Democrat James St. Jean who said abortion is a decision for a. Woman to make in accordance with her own religious beliefs. -. It wits considered unlikely the House or Senate would be Able to overturn the Feto. Fourteen other Stales have old anti abortion is on the books that Are unenforceable because of the us a Prem court s 1973 decision but there has been de Bale Over whether they could Lake effect in the High i Nuri overturned the ruling the Hijii court plans to hear arguments april 26 in a a key abortion rights Case from Missouri in which the justices arc being asked to overturn or substantially limit their 1973 decision in Roe is. Wade. 1 the slides with old anti abortion Laws Are Alabama Arizona Arkansas Connecticut delaware., Idaho Illi Nois Louisiana. Michigan Mississippi Oklahoma South Dak Lii West Virginia and Wisconsin. Washington s strategy of giving Israel the minimum possible Lali Ludo to demonstrate the merits of us peace proposal. . Officials have made Clear that the administration wants to give the parties in the Region a Chance to try out their ideas for a settlement before Edvun Imga plan of its own. Flush standing next to Hussein in the White House Rose Garden Aicra meeting thru ran 10 minutes a Jond is scheduled one hour said a to Perl designed and mutually acceptable elections could As an initial Slep con tribute to a political process leading to no Gjuul ions on the final status of the West Hank and Oata. Hul Hussein asserted that Israel Musi negotiate with the Plo a Slep that could be taken without holding pc . Lin the past both Israel and the United slates had looked to Jordan to represent inc purest inns it the negotiating table. However Hussein whose kingdom con trolled the West Bank from 1948 until Israel captured it to the l%7 Middle East War has renounced any aim on the territory or any right to speak Foric palestinians. However inc United Stales still considers Jordan to be an important participant in the peace process because of us geographic position on Israel s Eastern Bonier. Sands 6f time a the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 21. 1949 fighting Between chinese communists arid nationalists broke out along  River within sight of Nanjing after the nationalists rejected demands that they surrender immediately. 30 years ago toe a. April ii 1959 president Eisenhower asked Congress for a supplemental appropriation of s45 Mil lion for the National aeronautics and space administration to Speed the program for the first manned flight into space. 20 years ago foday. April 21, 1969 Secretary of defense Mclvin Laird Suid there would be no . Troop withdrawal from South Vietnam unless the South vietnamese be came Strong enough to contain the North vietnamese and Viet Cong. 0 years ago today. April 21. 1979 gasoline broke through the is Barrier in Honolulu where a service Marion so sled charging $1,02 a gallon for Premium leaded la High est pump Price in the nation