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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes sunday june 10,1990 Mickey mouse gets a kiss on the nose from the calf born to Mickey Moo Disneyland s famous Bovine with the Mickey mouse marking on her left  baby for Mickey Moo a the baby calf bom last week at the amusement Park in Anaheim calif., has not been named. She does t have any markings that resemble Disney  medical boards May get help to Weed out bad doctors Washington apr rep. Ron Wyden said Friday he will ask Congress to help in disciplining and removing bad physicians by making doctors More accountable to their state licensing boards. A too Many incompetent physicians can slip through the disciplinary net and continue to inflict bad medical care on patients for extended periods of time a said Wyden an Oregon Democrat. He endorsed the recommendations of an inspector general a report saying hell introduce legislation to Force federally supported peer review groups to give state medical boards information about their investigations of doctors. The peer review organizations study complaints about physicians who receive Money from medicare. But Little of that information is passed along to boards that License doctors and investigate complaints about their practices witnesses told the House Small business subcommittee on regulation. Richard Kusserow inspector general for the department of health and human services said the review organizations have lots of information about bad doctors but arc unwilling to share much of it because they fear Legal retribution. A until they re protected by the Law they re just not going to overcome their fear a Kusserow said. That Protection said a representative of the federation of state medical boards of the United states would help state boards with limited financial backing gather information so they can keep up with a growing number of complaints. A focus the Energy and resources we have available on the problem physician a said James r. Winn executive vice president of the group. Two women told Wydenes subcommittee they were disfigured in surgery by physicians who had continued practising despite complaints about their methods that had gone unheeded. A we share the very unfortunate experience of witnessing firsthand a system that does virtually nothing to protect the Public from incompetent and dangerous doctors a said Laura Witt Ken a new York City woman representing a group called Stop Hospital and medical errors. Kusserow a study said the system of licensing and disciplining doctors has improved since a 1986 study of the state boards. But he said backlogs of complaints a remain a serious problem and a significant staff shortages continue to impede the boards disciplinary  stateside lost handicapped girl 3, found by aging police do Manitowoc wis. A _ a retired a ice do it who had helped save six people and arrest More a 100, returned his nose to service Long enough to s3 find a missing 3-year-old handicapped girl p �?o5 tears to my eyes to get that kid a a Sain night she would have succumbed to exposure a Angela Bolle who is Blind and deaf and has Down syndrome wandered away from her family a Yard while playing with friends. About 100 deputies and volunteers were in Succes Ful searching nearby Woods with two other dogs. As Daylight faded searchers summoned Duke an s year old German Shepherd that retired two years Ani because of waning stamina. 6 after sniffing for 40 minutes he caught the girls scent and found her lying face Down and crying in a Hayfield 600 feet from the House Bushman said a the dog caught wind of her about 100 feet away i did no to see her until i was standing Over the top of her a a he said. A the went right in and started Licking her face his Tail was wagging about a mile a minute. He likes kids a lot a juror excused after seeing defendant was her son Media a. Apr a woman was excused from jury duty because she knew the defendant. From birth in fact. Fannie Dimarco filed into a Delaware county courtroom with 43 other potential jurors Only to find that her 34 year old son Ronald Bull was the defendant in a drug Case. A when she came into the courtroom she immediately panicked and reported to a court officer that she was his Mother a assistant District attorney James Mattera said. A we had a conference with the judge and of course she was excused. Its a strange occurrence. I never heard of it happening before a he said. The jury that was selected convicted Bull of Possession Kwh intent to distribute 29 Grams of phencyclidine or6 hours of sunbathing kills woman in Tucson Tucson apr a Tucson woman has died after lying out in the Sun for at least six hours Hospital officials said. The 37-year-old woman was unconscious when she was admitted to Tucson medical Center. Her identity was withheld. The woman who suffered Sun poisoning had a body temperature of 107 degrees and badly burned flesh officials said. The temperature in Tucson had reached 107. A she was packed in ice immediately but she was already into severe sunstroke and had lapsed into a coma a said medical Center spokesman Tom Reavis. A she never regained  doctors believe she fell asleep while  governor primary gets a gop latecomer Cheyenne Wyo. Apr state rep. Nyla Murphy has filed for the gop gubernatorial nomination saying she believed republicans should have a Choice in the primary. The Field of Republican candidates has dwindled from More than half a dozen to just rancher Mary Mead. That brought accusations that gop a Power brokers were behind Mead a Campaign and had successfully discouraged All other contenders for the nomination. A i Call them Kingmaker. I guess i should say Qucen makers a said  to Post nutrition contents of foods Chicago apr fast food customers will soon learn the real Cost of a Burger and Fries when Mcdonald a begins posting Complete nutrition information a including fat and sodium Content a for its products this summer. Terri Capatosto a spokeswoman for Mcdonald a corp., the nations biggest fast food Chain said Friday the move is a convenience for customers rather than a response to a recent and Campaign attacking the nutritional value of the company a food. A a we be been providing Complete nutrition information since j 973,�?� she said. A a we be provided nutrition information in Booklet form since 1986. A what we re trying to do now is make it As easy As possible for customers to get information before they make a Purchase at  but Omaha industrialist Phil Sokolof who has used advertising and the news Media to pressure a number of food companies to reduce or remove saturated fats criticized the move As a window  Sokolof a who blames a bad diet for a heart attack he suffered years ago a took out full Page ads in newspapers across the country on april 4, calling on Mcdonald a to Cut the amount of saturated fat on its menu. Mcdonald a said Sokoloff add headlined a the poisoning of american a was malicious and contained inaccurate and misleading information. At the end of july the company will place nutritional information posters on the Quot customer Side of its More than 8,200 restaurants Capatosto said. The posters will include nutrient values and Complete ingredient listings she said. But Sokolof insisted that reducing the saturated fat Content of Mcdonald a food is More important. A a Mcdonald a affects the lives of millions of people a Day a he said. A one simple step a eliminating beef tallow from their French Fries a could reduce the incidence of heart attacks in our  in recent years Mcdonald a has developed a menu that includes salads 2 percent milk and bran muffins. The company also says it is experimenting with using pure vegetable Oil a rather than the current beef shortening vegetable on mixture a for frying its French Fries Ana hash Browns  
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