European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday january 17,1991 Bush to give Elsa funds after 60-Day delay Washington apr president Bush is authorizing a $42.5 million military Aid payment to Al Salvador a government but is setting the Money aside for 60 Days to give peace talks a every possible Chance to  Bush notified Congress on tuesday that he decided to release the Frozen funds because of human rights and arms violations by leftist salvadoran rebels. But he said he would delay chop Fansing the Money until elections in March for the salvadoran National Assembly. A  a a the president would strongly prefer not to have to use these funds for military purposes but rather to help Monitor a cease fire and assist m de mobilizing combatants and returning them to civilian life a a White House statement said. The statement said Bush might a release military assistance sooner than 60 Days in Case of a compelling Security  the presidents decision was communicated to gon Gress As part of a status report on Al Salvador a peace process and the salvadoran governments investigation of the november 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests their housekeeper and her teen age daughter. Under the 1991 foreign Aid Law,.half the $85 million in military Aid for Al Salvador was Frozen in an Effort to encourage the government to reach a negotiated peace settlement with the rebels of the Faramundo Martina Tiona liberation front known by its Spanish initials Feln. A / a. As a warning to the rebels the Law said the Money could be restored by the president if the Feln failed to negotiate in Good Faith or continued to rely on violence to achieve its goals. Bush cited what he called a intransigence in  by the Feln and a a Clear violation of the standards set by Congress. A. His statement said the rebels had been a engaging in acts of violence directed at civilian targets arid acquiring a significant shipments of lethal military assistance from outside Al  that was an apparent reference to the acquisition of soviet made anti aircraft missiles from the sandinista controlled nicaraguan army. A we must give the peace negotiations under u n. Mediation every possible Chance to succeed a Bush a statement said. A the time for War in Al Salvador is Over. T he time for a peace settlement is now Quot it said. Death rates found higher there Are people who have argued that everybody who needs care in life threatening situations gets it. This study questions that Point of View n Chicago a uninsured Hospital patients Are up to three times More Likely to die than those with coverage according to a study that gives weight to suspicions that people unable to pay for health care get inferior treatment. A was the debate about National health insurance heats up. This study suggests there May be real health consequences to not being insured a said researcher Jack Hadley whose team Analysed bos a a a a pita records of almost 600,000 patients. In 11 of 16 groups matched for diagnosis age sex and race the death rates were 1.2 to 3.2 limes higher among uninsured patients the researchers reported in tuesdays journal of the american medical association. Hadley co director  Center for health policy studies at Georgetown University school of Medicine cautioned that the disparity was not Necic scarily due to differences in Quality of care. Patients with private insurance could have been discharged to nursing Homes or hospices to die while the uninsured remained in hospitals he said. The uninsured also May have waited too Long to seek treatment he said. A a a. Quot still a there Are people who have argued that Evauna body who needs care in life threatening situations gets it. This study questions that Point of View a Hadley said lie called the results a very  a the findings arc largely consistent with previous research indicating the poor minorities and people with out insurance Are less Likely to get medical care and that when they Are treated they undergo fewer procedures and have Shorter Hospital Hadley a group Analysed the records of 592,598 Pep pie hospitalized nationwide in 1987 and compared uninsured and privately insured patients excluding medicaid patients because of varying payment policies from state. A a to state /. A a a in rec her Llev u patient a nips the i uninsured were sicker when a a a a a a a they arrived at hospitals As. Evidenced by their 44 per cent to 124 percent greater likelihood of dying at that time the study said. Even after leveling these differences statistically the in Hospital death Rales were 1.2 to 3.2 times higher among uninsured patients in 11 of the 16 groups it said. In four of the five other groups the relative death rate was higher for the uninsured but was not statistically significant Hadley said. Once in the Hospital the uninsured also were 29 percent to 75. Percent less Likely to undergo each of five medical procedures that were costly or that allowed a wide degree of discretion in. Determining whether they were necessary the study found that finding suggests doctors Are less Likely to order expensive procedures for patients who can to pay and Are More Likely to forgo procedures that could be considered optional it said. Researchers also found that the uninsured were 50 percent less Likely to have Normal test results in five of seven Biopsy procedures. A. Address goof lets poor reap Fruitcake Bonanza St. Paul Minn. Apr needy twin cities families benefited when a mix up sent 28.000 pounds of Fruitcake to salvation army offices. A we ended up with Fruitcake All Over the building a said Joseph Clubb director of social services. A a a a a a the shipment a 9,500 cakes packed in Decora live tins a was supposed to go to the St. Paul Post office Lor mailing throughout the Region for the holidays a a a a a a Quot. A a a. A a a quo but a truck Driver delivered the cakes to the salvation army which has the same address in St. Paul As the bakery in Corsicana Texas where the fruitcakes were made 401 w. 7th St. Nancy Philo office manager for the Collin Street bakery in Corsicana said this week that the mix up was discovered when customers began calling to ask what happened to their Christmas fruitcakes. Quot a  were too late. The salvation army had Given them away. A a 1 feel badly for the bakery a the salvation army spokesman said. A but the needy people a. Predated  a Philo said the Bery is sending replacement a a cakes. A. A a a we Only Hope the other fruitcakes went to people who enjoyed it a Philo said. Tentative pact reached Between Union Abc new York apr a Abc and a major technical Union say they have reached tentative agreement on a new four year contract covering 2,300workers. A. John Krieger spokesman for the National association of broadcast employees and technicians said the proposed contract provides for a 3 percent pay hike retroactive to Jan. 5 a 3 percent boost in August a third year Lump sum Bonus of 5 percent and a 4 percent increase in the final year. The contract would expire in March 1994, the technicians Union said officials of the in tar National Union and new York and Washington locals recommended approval but locals in Chicago and Burbank calif., urged rejection. Results from a vote by Union members will be announced Jan.31. 4 fined for impeding nuclear test in Nevada Las vegas Nev. Kupij a three British women and a Colorado peace activist were fined $1,000 each tuesday for interfering with a British underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert. The protesters members of the Rocky Moun lain peace Centre said they would not pay the fines a for reasons of  the four who testified they hiked across the desert for three Days last november to reach ground Zero were convicted monday by . Magistrate Lawrenc Leavitt. Lorna Richardson 25 Juley Howard 23 Jane Gregory 27 and Michael Terry 28, reached the Center of the test area six minutes before the detonation. A assistant . Attorney Thomas of Connell said monitoring devices detected the four a running around and waving their  the test explosion was delayed the four were arrested and the test was conducted later the Day. Albany . Not new York states highest court ruled tuesday that a a letters to the editor anti Oiler forms of commentary deserve substantial Protection from libel suits because the context in which they appear makes it Clear that they tend to represent. Opinions not statements of fact. Although it did so in polite respectful language the court of appeals appeared to show considerable disagreement with the approach set out last summer by the . Supreme court which said that libel standards should be substantially the same regardless of where a statement appeared in a newspaper or on a news broadcast. Several experts on first amendment issues said the new York court reacting to the supreme court ruling had been intent on narrowing the grounds for libel judgments and thus in their View expanding free speech protections. In tuesdays decision the court of appeals ruled against a medical company seeking damages Over a letter to a scientific journal that criticized its treatment of research animals. A rather than forcing tie court to Toms Only o the question of whether assertions in he letter were True or false. Judge Judith s. Rave wrote the state s Constitution would give it leeway to consider the manner in which these abortions were presented. A we believe that an analysis that begins by looking at the context of the whole communication its tone and apparent purpose a Kaye wrote a better balances the values at stake than an analysis that first examines the shall ended statements for expressed and implied factual  a Quot. Describing the opinion pages of newspapers As a a marketplace of ideas a in which people were tree to rebut assertions they disagreed with Kaye concluded that  of a possible a fact from its Plain context of a opinion loses sight of the objective of the entire  lawyers who frequently defend newspaper and television interests in first amendment cases hailed the decision