European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germany edition vol. 50, no. 85 sunday july 7,1991 b authorized unofficial publication for . Armed forces 50c d 8693 a Lori Mehmandoust shows a picture of her three  s Iran venture gets children Back Godfrey 111. Apr a woman whose husband fled to Iran with the couple s three children after she filed for divorce was reunited with her children and the Man was arrested in the United states after a risky ruse in his Homeland. Mehrzade a Martin Mehmandoust agreed to return to the United states after his wife Lori Mehmandoust followed him to Iran and spent three months convincing him All charges had been dropped and she wanted to reconcile. Her husband was arrested by Federal agents monday As he stepped off an air plane with the children in Atlanta. The couples 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old twin sons were returned to their Mother. He violated a court order and took the children to Iran during the thanksgiving Holiday to pressure his see venture on Page 10 merger urged for services health systems by Brent Mitchell the Washington Post Washington a the military health care system needs to be centralized if it is to survive upcoming budget cuts without lowering Quality of service according to a report prepared for the  report suggests that a single authority oversee the activities of the Navy army and air Force medical branches and the insurance program that covers Active duty personnel retirees and their families. A while the current medical readiness posture is Good for most of the last 30 years the services preferred spending their limited budgets on combat equipment rather than support medical equipment. The report said. A based on the past Many observers conclude that the present divided health care system will be unable to protect medical readiness during declining budgets Quot it continued. Currently the three branches and the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services champs have individual budget and command structures. The Navy provides medical services for the Marine corps. The study proposes that the military could save Money and improve crisis response if it either gave increased Power to the assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs or created a new bureaucracy such As a . Medical command or a a defense health Agency the report was prepared in March by David o. Cooke the Pentagon a director of administration and management for Deputy defense Secretary Donald j. Atwood. James b. Turner a Pentagon spokesman said he could not comment on the report because it is being reviewed the present divided health care system will be unable to protect medical readiness during declining budgets a Pentagon study by a key department of defense  the uniformed services have resisted plans to centralize military Medicine for More than a decade. Critics argue that the branches unique combat roles require separate medical corps. The report notes that assistant defense Secretary for health affairs Enrique Mendez or. And the Heads of the three medical branches oppose consolidation. In 1989, the medical system including military hospitals and champs recorded about 1.2 million Hospital admissions and almost 56 million Dut patient visits according to the study. The system serves 9.2 million people almost half of whom arc retired personnel their dependents or their survivors. The report also suggests that the military guarantee a minimum level of services for current and former service Mem ers and a minimum level of Access to hospitals. Currently these standards vary in different areas of the world. The proposed Central military organization would be patterned after the . Trans come a join service group created in 1988 to oversee land sea and air deployment won Praise for its perform see merger on Page 10americans injured when bus overturns by the stars and stripes seventeen people most of them americans were injured saturday when the Paris bound tour bus they were Riding in left the Highway and overturned near Metz France forty three . Soldiers and their dependents from Germany were on a one Day fourth of july trip aboard the bus which was filled nearly to capacity. The bus is owned by enjoy Tours a German company that caters to americans. Eight people were hospitalized including the German bus Driver. He reportedly told officials the bus flipped after he swerved to miss something on autoroute a4 outside the City. The Accident occurred about 3 . A spokeswoman at Bon Secours Hospital in Metz said privacy Laws forbid her from releasing the names and conditions of injured people. Two americans however agreed to speak from their Hospital Beds. Suzanne Chicks a resident of Vancouver wash., said she was sleeping across the aisle from her son Robert Ludahl a specialist with the 16th engr in in Firth when she was awakened by the sound of wheels on gravel. Suddenly the bus overturned. A the bus went on its Side quite a ways a she said a someone broke out a Back window. We were in it probably about 20 minutes before we got  Chicks said she received injuries to her neck. Quot Ludahl who was at his mothers Side in the Hospital said he did no to feel the Driver swerve. A it \5as a gradual Drift off the Road. He said. A i just Felt myself flying through the  Ludahl said no one panicked. Passengers located children in the darkness by their cries and pulled them from the bus he said. None of the children appeared to be seriously Hurt he said. Ludahl said the Metz fire department took care of passengers who were not taken to the Hospital. A the French were outstanding a he said. A they had no Way to communicate but they brought in cots croissants sodas and the mayor came Down to make sure everything was taken care  nine hours later another tour bus picked up most of the americans and returned them to Germany. Six americans were put up in a hotel in Metz. Sgt. 1st class Eleanor Thomson he 1st personnel come in Schwet Zingen suffered a broken rib. A it happened very fast a she said. Thomson said she was sitting in a front seat near the Driver. When the bus turned Over the other passengers fell on her. She said some of the passengers retrieved their video cameras from the bus and photographed the Accident scene. A Thomson said the bus had been on the Road Only five hours. The Driver s assistant and a tour guide were German she said. The tour originated in Kaiserslautern