European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 30, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5aids care Cost estimated at $5.8 billion new York apr treating the nations aids patients will Cost $4.4 billion this year while medical care for people infected with the aids virus will reach $1.4 billion a study estimates. The combined totals could reach $7.2 billion in 1992, $8.7 billion in 1993 and $10.4 billion in 1994, the study said. By comparison the annual Cost of treating cancer was recently estimated at $35.3 billion said study author Fred Hellinger. Hellinger said his figures Are underestimates because they exclude several expensive medications approved since he did the calculations As Well As unapproved drugs and services such As counselling thut Are not covered by insurance or medicaid. Hellinger is director of the division of Cost and financing at the Federal Agency for health care policy and research. He presents his estimates in the fall Issue of the journal inquiry. Hellinger based his estimates on information from a variety of sources including medicaid studies in several states and research at treatment centers. The calculated Cost this year of $4.4 billion for treatment of aids was based on an annual treatment Cost of $32,000 per patient. The estimate assumes averages of 1.6 Hospital stays per year at 15 Days per stay and $1,000 a Day for time in the  estimate also assumes that outpatient costs comprise 25 percent of the total calculated Cost of care for an aids patient an Assumption Hellinger called conservative. The $1.4 billion figure for treating people who have his but have yet to develop aids covers Only people receiving treatment rather than the Cost of treating every infected person. An estimated 1 million americans Are infected. Hellinger estimated that two people with his receive medical care for every aids patient under care. He set the average annual Cost of his treatment this year at $5,150 per patient. That assumes that at any one time 30 percent of such patients Are receiving the drug at to suppress the virus and 30 percent Are taking aerosol pent Maidine to forestall a potentially lethal pneumonia. The Cost of at was estimated at $2,700 a year and aerosol pent Maidine at $3,000 a year. The estimate also includes annual costs of $500 a year for other drugs $700 for visits to medical offices and clinics. $800 for Laboratory tests $200 for other outpatient expenses and $1,240 for inpatient Hospital care. Hellinger said the costs could go higher. Depending on approval of new treatments and the Success of efforts to encourage people to find out whether they Are infected with his. The latter could bring More people into treatment he said. Anne Scitovsky chief of the health economies division at the research Institute of the Palo Alto medical foundation said Hellinger s estimate on aids treatment Quot makes very much sense to me based on past research. The estimate on his without aids Quot makes sense to me but it s not based on As hard data As the aids estimate Quot she said. It is much harder to get data on the Cost of treating his infection without aids she  s death in 81 still draped in mystery los Angeles apr homicide investigators ruled that Natalie Wood s drowning in the Chilly Pacific Ocean on thanksgiving a decade ago was an Accident and the Case was closed. But the intrigue persists. The actress drowned nov 29, 1981, after a night of partying with husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken on the couple s yacht anchored off Santa Catalina Island. A the Only people who want to make it a mystery is the Media a said sgt. Frank Salerno of the los Angeles county sheriff department s homicide Bureau. A it was a tragic Accident. That s All it  the Only inquiries he has had Over the years have come from reporters trying to sensationalize the Case Salerno said. A those tabloid to shows Call and want to make it a murder and there was a tabloid in new York that wanted to make something of it. There s nothing to it Quot he said. The actress has t been forgotten. Fresh Flowers Are left on her grave weekly at Westwood Village cemetery where the remains of Marilyn Monroe Donna Reed Truman capote Darryl f. Zanuck and Armand Hammer also Are buried. There were no plans for a Public graveside memorial and Wagner spokesman Alan Nierob said the family had no comment on the anniversary. A they address it privately Quot Nierob said. Wood was 43 when she slipped from Wagner s 60-foot yacht a splendour Quot and drowned. Her death stunned Hollywood where she had grown from Natasha Gurdin 4-year-old Star of Happy land to a dramatic adult actress and three time Oscar nominee for performances in rebel without a cause. Splendor in the grass and love with a proper 5/ranger. She is probably Best remembered however for her roles As Maria in the movie version of  Side Story and As a 9-year-old scene stealer in Miracle on Mth Street. The drowning is often discussed among yacht owners at Doug s Harbor reef resort at Santa Catalina s isthmus 25 Miles off the los Angeles Harbor breakwater said a resort operator who  give her name. A nobody Here on the Island has any comment to make Quot was the response from Randy bombard whose father runs Doug Sharbor reef. In his Book Coroner then los Angeles county chief medical examiner Thomas Noguchi described Wood s final hours. Slightly intoxicated and angry Over an argument Between her husband and Walken she apparently fell off the yacht and drowned while trying to Board a Dinghy Noguchi wrote. Wagner and Walken who had just co starred in brainstorm with Wood Wood denied there had been an argument. The Book Natalie written by sister Laura Wood dismissed rumours about mysterious circumstances surrounding the drowning. A what happened is that Natalie drank Loo much that night,.�?� Laura Wood wrote. After her death Wagner gave the yacht to the sea scouts and sold the couple s Beverly Hills Home. In the stars and stripes10 years ago nov. 30, 1981 a fourth ranked Alabama Defeated Auburn to make coach Bear Bryant the winning est coach in College football history in his 37th year As a head coach. The Victory a no. 315 a put him one Victory ahead of Amos Alonzo Stagg. 20 years ago nov. 30, 1971 a fighting Between Indian and pakistani troops raged for the third Day while a government spokesman said there were Quot Clear indications that All outside attempts to ease the Border trouble have failed.30 year Sago nov. 30,1961 the United states rocketed a Chimpanzee named Enos into orbit and twice around the Globe before technical difficulties forced the space Cabin Back to Earth. 40years ago nov. 30, 1951 a . Infantrymen along the korean front were told the War is still on As both sides made it Clear that there was no Quot de Facto Quot cease fire. Gen. James a. Van Fleet 8th army commander said his instructions had been misinterpreted As a cease fire order. Landlords win right to cite religion As reason to reject unwed couples los Angeles up1 a state appeals court has ruled that a Catholic couple properly exercised their constitutionally protected religious rights in refusing to rent an apartment to an unmarried couple. The state court of Appeal ruled 2-1 wednesday that landlords John and Agnes Donahue were entitled to an exemption of state discrimination Laws because of their Quot sincerely held religious belief that fornication and its facilitation Are  the Donahue argued that As devout catholics they would be committing a a mortal sin Quot if they facilitated sex out of Wedlock by renting to unmarried couples. The majority opinion written by judges Roger w. Boren and Paul Turner said the states a interest in protecting unmarried cohabiting couples from discrimination is not such a Paramount and com Pelling stale interest As to outweigh the Donahue legitimate assertion of their right to the free exercise of religion under the California stale  in dissent. Judge Margaret m. Grignon criticized the majority for not applying the Standard set by the . Supreme court. Under that Standard she wrote a the Donahue Are clearly not entitled to a religious exemption Quot lion stale ant discrimination Laws. The appeals court overturned a ruling by the California employment and fair i housing commission. The commission ruled that the Donahue had violated two state Laws in refusing to rent to Verna Terry and Robert Wilder. The couple were awarded $7,480 in damages in 1988, the Case was watched by groups advocating conservative family values and by fair housing advocates who feared that a Victory for the Donahue could Lead to other forms of discrimination. Deputy attorney general Kathleen Mikkelson said the stale is Likely to Appeal. Thomas f. Coleman a lawyer with the family diversity project in los Angeles said the ease would Aleci thousands of people. Nearly 8 percent of the state s residents Are unrelated adults living together according to the most recent census figures. In cities such As los Angeles san Diego and san Francisco the percentages Are higher. Coleman said the decision would have the most severe Impact on homosexuals. A for Gay couples there is no Legal Way to get married Quot he said. A therefore they Are locked out by this decision. It is a Clear Calch-22.&Quot 4 die when medical helicopter crashes Bridgeport Calif. A a helicopter carrying a patient to a Hospital crashed in the sierras late wednesday killing the patient and All three Crew members. The Pilot radioed a mayday it a dispatcher in Reno nev., just before the crash said Debbie Rupp a Mono county Public service officer. At the same time a Motorist reported seeing a helicopter spinning out of control near . 395 about 15 Miles North of Bridgeport Rupp said. It dropped out of sight and the Driver saw a hash. Snow during the night forced rescuers to temporarily Call Oil a search Lor the chopper. A Navy helicopter spotted the wreckage thursday morning Rupp said. Another helicopter landed near the crash site to recover the bodies. T he helicopter belonged to Are flight a program operated by the regional emergency medical services authority. It was taking the Accident victim from a Mono county Hospital to one in Reno said care i Light spokeswoman Stephanie Kruse. Kruse identified the flight Crew victims As Alan Larson care flight s Lead Pilot flight nurse Kathy Ohran and flight emergency medical technician Donnie mat Lanm. Tile patient was identified As Bobby Franco 33, of arson try. Kruse said Larson had t had time to say what went wrong when he radioed the dispatcher. She said the Accident was the 10-year-old service s first helicopter crash. An air plane used Lor Hospital transportation crashed some years ago killing a nurse Ami a Pilot she said