European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. August 12. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Cost of treating aids poses threat Chicago Al l the Burden of caring for the nation s aids patients is falling mostly to big City Public hospitals where costs Are threatening the Quality of care for All patients researchers said thursday less than 5 percent of . Hospitals treat More than 50 percent of known aids cases according to a study published in this week s journal of the american medical association. Scientists from the National Public health and Hospital Institute in Washington surveyed 623 hospitals nation wide in 1987 and found the average Cost for in patient care of an aids victim was $681 a Day. But the average Revenue the Hospital received for such care was just $545 a Day they said. These hospitals Are losing Large amounts of Money. It s eating into thei Bottom  said Virginia Wislowski. One of the researchers. This will overwhelm the Hospital Sand Hurt the Quality of care for the other patients she said. The researchers urged the government to distribute the costs of treating aids patients equally among All hospitals to Aid those with a disproportionate share who face an economic crisis and to increase medicaid support so More fed eral health care funds arc available. But they acknowledged it May Bemore difficult to draw broader political and Community support for increased re sources from areas and providers not influenced by the epidemic Public hospitals arc especially hard hit by the deadly disease because they at tract heavy concentrations of poor Vic Tims Many of them inner City drug anus ers. Weslowski said. On the average Public Hospital treated More than twice As Many aids patients As private hospitals researcher found. They also treated the largest pro portions of Low income aids patients across All regions. Ina lint treatment of aids patient averages $17.910 a year the study  Middle or upper Middle class aids patients can end up in Public hospitals when they arc unable to work have depleted or lost insurance benefits or have used up their financial resources trying to cover medical costs Wislowski said. Anne Scitovsky. Chief of the economics division of the i Alq Alto medical foundation in California blamed the problem on the nation s inadequate health insurance  an estimated 37 million americans have no health insurance she said. In the past hospitals charged patients with insurance More Money to compensate for those patients who had none said Scitovsky who also has studied the Impact of aids on the nation s health care system. But insurance companies Are making it harder for hospitals to do that she said. The crunch on Public hospitals is get Ling worse and worse Scitovsky said. Private hospitals will not take anyone especially aids victims with no insure  june 30, aids had stricken More than 99,936 people in the United states since 1979 and killed More than 58.014of them according to the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. California postman kills wife 2 others then self by the los Angeles time Escondido Calif. A disgruntled mailman shot his wife dead thursday then drove to a nearby Post office Here and opened fire on fellow employees killing two and wounding one before putting the gun to his head and shooting  rampage which began at 7 30 . In the North Ern san Diego county City left postal workers scram bling for safety. When the gunfire subsided survivors exchanged hugs and cried  said the gunman John Merlin Taylor 52. Of Escondido apparently was prepared for a siege of in postal facility but there was no indication that he was looking for a specific  fired Well Over a dozen rounds and there Are expended cases All Over the floor there Escondido police . Earl Callander said. There is also a Box of about 100 rounds that apparently was going to be used for  was taken to a nearby Hospital where he was placed on a life support system and declared brain dead shortly after 10 .. Postal service spokesman Ken Boyd said Tay Lor had been a letter Carrier for 27 years and was near ing retirement. Taylor s Boss described him As a Model employee As Mellow and Nice As could  police said they knew of no motive for the shootings. Two Days ago co worker Johnny Sims recalled hav ing a discussion with Taylor in which the mailman mentioned the 1986 shooting rampage at the Post of fice in Edmond  Edmond shootings which stunned the nation and is still much talked about by postal workers who feel that the . Postal service is insensitive to its employees occurred when part time mail Carrier pal Rick Sherrill massacred 14 co workers wounded six people and then committed suicide. Sherrill apparently had been seeking revenge on his  co worker who declined to he identified said he saw Taylor leave work wednesday night. He said Taylor seemed upset at the huge volume of mail he was supposed to  same co worker called Taylor an easygoing Guy who would routinely get to work n half hour Early and join two other employees at a picnic table next to the loading Dock for  Day however Taylor arrived at work and approached the same picnic table and shot the two co workers with a ,22-caliber semiautomatic handgun killing both police  then entered the Back of the Post office and began shooting hitting a co worker in the . Heathen walked to the end of the building and shot him self. Radical jewish Leader arrested new York up the Leader of a Radical jewish organization surrendered to police thurs Day after a gunman fired several shots from the Roo of his building in downtown Manhattan slightly wounding on person officials said. Mordachai Levy head of the jewish defens organization surrendered about 3 . And was taken to the la precinct for questioning. He has not been charged police said. Police blocked off streets around the townhouse near the bowery after shots from an Auto Matic weapon were fired from the roof said detective Joseph Mcconville a police spokesman. One pedestrian was shot in the knee about12 30 . And taken to St. Vincent s Hospital in Good condition Mcconville said. Levy broke from the jewish defense league several years ago forming his own organization. Levy reportedly called police wednesday night claiming someone was trying to kill him. Recently Levy began a crusade against there. Al Sharpton. Claiming the preacher had made anti semitic statements. A message on Telephone answering machine at the group s Headquarters said  s do All we can to de stroy the  Sands of times in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 12, 1949 during a speech at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Calif., former president Hoover said that the great increase in government spending could end Only in socialism or racism. 30 years ago today. Aug. 12. 1959 in a detailed re port the state department accused the communist bloc of deliberately stirring up tension in Southeast Asia and rejected attempts to place the blame on the United states for the fighting in Laos. 20 years ago today. ,. Aug. 12, 1969 Twenty one Days after flying to the Moon and Back apollo11 astronauts Neil Armstrong Buzz Al Drin and Michael Collins were release from quarantine at Houston s manned space Center and headed Home. 10 years ago today. Aug. 12, 1979 three new Forest fires erupted in Idaho and Montana As 4,000 firefighters struggled 10 contain fires raging through 80,000 acres of Timber and Brush in four Western states. Embryos should be inside womb not in Freezer physician testifies Maryville Tenn a seven fro zen embryos at Issue in an unprecedented divorce trial should be in their Mother s womb in their Normal shelter not in the fridge a doctor testified tuesday. Jerome Jcj Cunt director of research atthe French National Center of scientific research testified in the divorce trial of Junior Lewis Davis and Mary sue Davis. Davis sued for divorce in february and raised an Issue without Legal Prece Dent in this country by asking the court to prevent any use of the of Calili de egg without his consent. Mrs. Davis has had five tubal pregnancies and wanted embryos fertilized in a Laboratory implanted directly in her womb. Jcj Cunt who discovered the genetic cause of Down s syndrome in 1959, said storing the embryos at 180 degrees below Zero centigrade slows the movement of their molecules in effect stopping the flow of time for them putting tiny human beings in a very cold space deprived of Liberty deprived even of time they arc suspended As it were in a concentration Camp he said. It is not As hospitable a place As the secret Temple Ofa woman s  Jcj Cunt said he travelled to Maryville or. Jerome Lejeune at his own expense to testify because he heard mrs. Davis wanted to Rescue these Early human beings from that concentration Camp and offer them the hospitality the shelter of her  Davis testified tuesday he does not want the embryos pcs Lroya. Only that he consent to their use. He has said the embryos should be considered property to be administered jointly by him and mrs.  embryos had been fertilized for less than two Days and developed to fewer than eight cells each when they were Frozen. Earlier witnesses said the cells at that stage Are identical and do not begin to take on differing characteristics for 12 to 14 Days after fertilization. Mrs. Davis testified tuesday she con siders the embryos life. I am the Mother of these embryos she said. They arc the beginning of life. They Are More than just celts that mean  she said leaving the embryos in col storage As her. Estranged husband pro poses would be killing  Davis testified that he docs not con Sider the cells As life. He said he opposes abortion but notes these embryos Are not inside any woman s body