European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes Friday january 11,1991up for auction Leslie Hindman president of a Chicago auction House Points out thursday the a  signature on the newly discovered painting by Vincent Van Gogh while her operations director Gary Piattoni holds the artwork. A real estate agent recognized the painting hanging in the Home of a Milwaukee Coupler it was sent to the Netherlands to be authenticated and will be auctioned soon. Health care Reform to be top priority for new Congress Washington up congressional leaders chiding the Bush administration for a apparent indifference to the health care crisis said thursday health care Reform will be the highest item on the 102nd Congress Domestic Agenda. The Senate labor and human resources committee plans to hold a series of hearings on the major Domestic chair Lenges facing the nation including health care education unemployment and childrens welfare. At a hearing thursday House democratic Leader Richard Gephardt d-mo., charged president Bush with allowing his administration a to remain suspended for two years in a state of inaction and apparent indifference to the. Health care crisis that is threatening our  because of the apparent void Gephardt said Congress is about to take action. A a. A a a a. A a a a a. A Quot a a a within the next few weeks the House speaker will announce that health care legislation will be our highest priority on the Domestic Agenda for the 102nd Congress. I expect that we will begin work in Earnest on major health care legislation in the Early months of the first session a Gephardt said. Senate democratic Leader George Mitchell of Maine who provided written testimony to the committee also promised health care will be a top Senate Issue. A each year the Congress is faced with recommendations for deep cuts in the medicare program and a growing demand for medicaid coverage Tor the poor a Mitchell said. A we must look beyond the immediate crisis of budget cuts in health care programs toward restructuring our health care system in a Way which will provide services to All who need them while controlling the rapidly escalating costs of health  health Secretary Louis Sullivan has said he a a won to be rushed into presenting his set of recommendations on healthcare Reform. He is awaiting the completion of at least two More studies. There have been a variety of Reform proposals including one by the National association of social workers offered this week to scrap the current health care delivery system and Start fresh. A i personally believe that it would be Best to build on what we have rather than starting anew with an entirely changed and different system a Gephardt said noting that any plan must continue with Cost containment efforts already under Way. A a a a a /  a. A Sullivan also has said he wants to work within the present system. Sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., is expected to propose some form of National health insurance during this  really cooking with Low fat meat recipe Boston apr a chemist experimenting on his Kitchen stove has whipped up a formula for healthier hamburger a a Way of cooking ground meat that takes out three quarters of the saturated fat and replaces it with healthy vegetable Oil. Or. Donald m. Small said typical americans could lower their cholesterol Levels by nearly 10 Points if they used his method to Cook one third of their red meat. Best of All he claims food cooked with his recipe tastes just Fine. Frying hamburger Small a Way requires several extra Steps. The secret is cooking the meat first in vegetable Oil and then rinsing it with boiling water. Any Amateur chef willing to take the time can easily do it. Small is a physical chemist and physician at Boston University school of Medicine with a Long interest in heart disease and fats and a yen for cooking. A i like red meat and i done to like eating Tofu a he said. A i thought if there was a Way of removing saturated fat and cholesterol from meat and it still tasted of it would be worthwhile playing  so Smith set to work with his Skillet. The results of his dabbling were published in thursdays new England journal of Medicine in an article entitled a chemistry in the  Here a his recipe heat a pint of vegetable Oil to about 175 degrees. Add two pounds of ground beef pork or Lamb and stir until the meat juice begins to boil. Cook and stir with the juice barely bubbling for 10 More minutes while Brcak ing up the meat. Put the meat and Oil into a Strainer and save the liquid. Then pour a cup or two of boiling water Over the meat in the Strainer and save the water with the rest of the liquid. Put the liquid in the refrigerator for an hour and then skim off the hardened fat. Pour the rest of the fat free liquid Back onto the meat. The meat is then ready for use in any dish that requires ground meat such As Spaghetti sauce tacos soup meat loaf and casseroles or. Scott Grundy an authority on diet and heart disease at the University of Texas said some Cooks who try to follow Small a method might be put off by the expense of using vegetable Oil and the extra work needed to fix dinner. A but in theory a he added a it sounds like a Nice idea that could get rid of the saturated fat in  with his method Small said 72 percent to 87 percent of saturated fat is removed from raw ground beef or pork As Well As nearly half of the cholesterol. Meat cooked Small s Way is also leaner Overall. It removes 68 percent of the total fat compared with 59 percent during Ordinary cooking. However the major difference is the composition of the fat that is left behind. Small a Way replaces about two thirds of the fat that remains in conventional cooking with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated. A a we use the technique at Home and serve it to friends a said  can to Tell the difference. There is no oily fat floating on the top of your Spaghetti sauce and no grease on tacos. So its actually  Many health experts believe that saturated fat in the diet raises blood Levels of cholesterol which in turn causes heart disease. Dietary guidelines recommend limiting saturated fat to 10 percent of the Days total calories. A to inspection on Detroit up the Federal aviation administration will order . Airlines to Check Tail Cone emergency escape handles on All 1,805 Mcdonnell Douglas dc-9, and md-80 jets in service reports said thursday. The National transportation safety Board discovered a possible defect during its investigation into the dec. 3-runway crash at Detroit metropolitan Airport the crash claimed eight lives. Two of the victims aboard the Northwest airlines dc-9 that burst into flames after being struck by a larger Jet were found near a broken Tail Cone handle. Investigators believe they Quot May have be ii unable to open the Tail exit. Northwest airlines anticipating new Federal safety directives for dc-9s, said it already has begun inspecting the Tail Cone escape systems on its jets. Northwest also plans to update Crew training with instructions on releasing the Tail Cone airline spokeswoman Christy Clapp said. However a Mcdonnell Douglas spokesman said the company a engineers Are still evaluating the release by slim to determine if it needs redesigning. Faa spokesman Fred Farr in Washington said the directive is in response to the its by a report that found a serious deficiencies in the design and maintenance of the release handle that broke in Detroit the Detroit free press and the news reported. Quot an airworthiness directive should be out in a matter of Days a Farrar said. Study ties passive smoke to 53,000 deaths annually Dallas apr the nations third leading preventable cause of death is passive cigarette smoke killing nearly 53,000 non smoking americans each year researchers said thursday. The link Between passive smoking and the development of heart disease was reported by researchers at the University of California san Francisco , a journal published by the american heart association. A this is the first Clear statement that passive smoking causes heart disease a said or. Stanton Glantz author of the article. Glantz is an associate member of the cardiovascular research Institute at the University. ,. Thomas Lauria a spokesman for the tobacco Institute in Washington d.c., said the study lacks scientific credibility. Or. William Parmley the University a chief of cardiology and Glantz said they reached their conclusions by reviewing 10 studies of smokers nonsmoking spouses. They concluded that 37,000 people die annually from heart disease contracted from passive smoke another 3,700 die from lung cancer and 12,000 die of other forms of cancer caused by passive smoke