European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday february 9 1991 by Spencer Rich the Washington Post Washington a the most dramatic proposal in president Bush a $525 billion budget for the health and human services. Department would introduce an Clement of Means testing into medicare by tripling the Premium for High income people on the programs doctor insurance portion. = instead of $31.80 a month next year those with at least $125,000 income would  $95/ proponents of changing med cares a part by program say it is heavily subsidized by the Treasury and the Rich done to need a subsidy. The budget proposal involving the most Money however is a plan to Cut $25 billion Over the next five years from anticipated medicare payments to hospitals and doctors. The proposal has been condemned by medical groups and some members of Congress. Under medicare no Premium is charged j or Hospital benefits known As part a which arc financed through the social Security payroll tax. As a result said Merton Bernstein of Washington University Law school a a $50,000 earner pays a five times higher medicare payroll tax than a $10,000  under medicare a person can opt out of part b coverage without losing part a. The part b Premium is $29.90 a month but will Rise to $31.80 next year. It covers 25 percent of the programs Cost and the Treasury pays the other 75 percent from general tax  the 1992 part b subsidy provided by the Treasury will come to about $40 billion., the administration wants Congress to Cut that subsidy by tripling the part b Premium for people with adjusted Gross income Over $125,000 $150,000 for a Cou pie. This would raise their Premium to 75 percent of the Cost or $95 a month a about $1,140 a year. Those below the cutoff would continue to  $31.80. About 600,000 people would be affected the first year officials said this past week. The proposal would save the Treasury $1.2 billion Over five years. Bigger than life Toni Passantio a teacher at the Davis Ellis elementary the City a National Center of afro american artists. The school in Boston buttons up the coat of schoolgirl Sha occasion was a big picnic for schoolchildren in the met Kina Frazier in front of an imposing sculpture outside Rop Olitan area. A a amp Soldier who escaped in Europe discovered in Pennsylvania jail by Gary Pomeroy and Chuck Vinch staff writers a 3rd army div Soldier who escaped from military police three times in Europe has turned up in a Pennsylvania jail. Michael yarn sentenced in absent a last March by the army to a 15-year prison term for assault and attempted kidnapping now is awaiting trial m a rape Case. It is unclear when military authorities earned of yarns whereabouts. He has been in custody in the Thornton pa., jail since oct. 26. The former staff sergeant was arrested under the name Andre Campbell. Details weren to Avail Abler Quot about his months of Freedom. Michael yarn yarn 38, was sentenced by the military in connection with an attack on a woman bicyclist on sept. 28, 1989, near Hanau Germany. The woman said she was pulled from her bicycle beaten and threatened. The attack was interrupted by a cab Driver who came upon the scene. Yarn was arrested the next Day but almost immediately escaped from the Fatiau military police station. He turned himself in two Days later. A he was then transferred to the army confinement facility but on feb. 6 he escaped in Frankfurt while being transported to a meeting with an attorney two hours later he was spotted in the main train station but attacked the maps who tried to apprehend him. A a a. A a yarn previously assigned to he co 5th in 18th inf in Friedberg Germany subsequently was convicted of attempted kidnapping assault communicating a threat and escape. His 17-year military career ended with the prison term a dishonourable discharge forfeiture of All  and allowances and reduction to the lowest enlisted Grade. A a a Quot a a -. Currently he is being held in the Delawari county pa., jail pending trial said Day Mattera assistant District attorney for Delaware county pa., in the town of Media a. A Mattera said a woman told police in Chester pa., that Quot she had been raped by a Man named Andre Campbell. She said she and Campbell had had a platonic relationship for about a month before he allegedly raped and hit her in his apartment. She said she had helped him get a Job at  nursing to m Tow he re she a 1 so worke d7 Mattera expects the pase to go to trial probably in late March. If yarn is convicted Mattera said it is up to the judge to decide whether his sentence should run concurrently or consecutively to his military sentence. The prosecutor said the woman has been Little help in providing details about yarn. A a she a proving to be a reluctant witness and Isnit being very Ydo operative at All a Mattera said. Controller says she made error before crash by the los Angeles times los Angeles a an air traffic controller told Federal investigators that the fatal los Angeles Airport disaster occurred after she mistook a commuter plane on a taxiway for a similar sky West plane that was sitting on a runway officials reported thursday the unidentified controller also told investigators in a three hour interview wednesday that she cleared a us air Boeing 737 for Landing on the same runway because she did not see the sky West plane. In the first Public account of the controllers version of events Federal investigators said that missing paperwork also May have contributed to the collision that claimed 34 lives last Friday at los Angeles International Airport. The controller said she did not realize that that sgt sky West metro liner had moved onto runway 24-left because she had confused it with a similar plane belonging to wings West airlines. The wings West plane was stuck on a taxiway behind a larger aircraft about 2,000 feet to the East. Evea though the controller recalled Clearing the sky West plane to move onto the runway she thought it had not moved so she cleared the us air Jet to Landys officials said. A a a. A. 00 a she said she never saw the sky West plane either Oil the taxiway or after it moved into the path of the larger us air plane swooping in to land at More than 130 Mph. The disaster on runway 24-left killed All 12 people aboard the sky West plane including an Faa employee As Well As 22 people on the larger us air Jet. Although the sandwiched planes erupted in flames and Slid into an empty Airport fire station 67 us air passengers survived. A. A  a. Quot a soviets suspend  a by the new York times. Berlin a soviet officials have agreed to suspend training flights by their military aircraft stationed in Eastern Germany after an armed Mig-27 fighter crashed near Berlin. The measure which is expected to remain in effect pending an investigation will Stop All exercises by soviet planes Over Eastern Germany. The exercises already had been sharply curtailed. German officials said soviet commanders agreed to halt the flights after the germans protested. The aircraft apparently experienced engine failure feb. 7 and smashed into a Field about 100 Yards from the Village of Schoendorf on the Southern Edge of Berlin. A 38-year-old farm worker was reported to have been hospitalized with serious injuries. Two soviet pilots parachuted to safety. Soviet commanders a Iso assured Germany officials that they would look into allegations that soviet military aircraft regularly violated strict flight regulations by Fly ing missions on saturdays and by carrying out Low level a training flights at altitudes less than the minimum of 1,000 feet. The withdrawal deadline for the remaining 350,000 soviet troops in Eastern Germany is the end of 1994, giving Moscow time to prepare bases and housing for them in the soviet Union. A a