European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes wednesday. December is. 1991 examination for radiation exposure or. Jim Bluhm an Oregon health sciences University paediatrician encourages 10-year-old soviet Aleksey Panchenko to open wide Duran a a checkup at a Portland ore., Hospital last week. About 100 ukrainian by then Law York times Washington a the Bush administration has devised new rules intended to Speed social Security benefits to people disabled by infections with the virus that causes aids even if they do not suffer the full effects of the disease. Lawyers for people infected with his expressed disappointment saying the proposed rules would not sufficiently increase the number of patients who get assistance. The rules skirt the Long running debate Over the government s official definition of aids permitting the social Security administration to award benefits regardless of whether the applicant has received a confirmed diagnosis of aids. The rules were written in response to pressure from Congress doctors and people infected with his who say the government has been improperly delaying decisions on applications for disability benefits. Disability benefits often enable people with his infection to qualify for medicaid or medicare and to buy expensive drugs needed to treat their ailments. Under the rules a person who is infected with the virus but has not developed symptoms of the disease May qualify for disability benefits if he or she is unable emergency food from wire reports Washington a emergency food requests jumped 26 percent in the nations major cities this year while requests for emergency shelter Rose 13 percent the . Conference of mayors said monday. The figures Are based on a Survey of officials in 28 cities who Monitor activities by government agencies and private charitable groups. A something is very wrong in America Quot said Boston mayor Raymond j. Flynn the president of the mayors conference. If it is a Good policy to feed hungry people in the Ukraine Quot and other parts of the former soviet Union Quot then Why Isnit it Good to feed hungry people Here in the United states Quot the conference s Survey asked officials of 28 cities to estimate increases in requests for overnight shelter and food at Public and private shelters food kitchens and other emergency food assistance installations. All but two of the 28 cities a which included Boston Chicago new York new Orleans Minneapolis Phila children who have exhibited possible symptoms of radiation exposure from the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant explosion in the soviet Union in 1986 Are travelling to Oregon for treatment. To perform a any substantial gainful activity the decision would be based on medical factors and on an assessment of the person s a functional capacity a including the ability to perform household chores grooming Hygiene and other activities of daily living. Aids is a manifestation of infection with his the human immunodeficiency virus. But in new York City and some other places More than one third of the people hospitalized with his infection do not meet the strict . Government definition of aids. The proposed rules would permit social Security officials to pay benefits immediately to a person with his infection if preliminary medical evidence shows a High probability that the person was disabled. A person with his infection May receive such a presumptive disability payments for up to six months before the government makes a determination on whether the person is disabled. A diagnosis of aids is not. Required. Disability Benefit payments Are often crucial to the treatment of people infected with his. A these medications commonly Cost $10,000 to $15,000 a year for each patient and May Cost More a said Thomas Stoddard executive director of the Lambda Legal defense and education fund a non profit group that specializes in aids  soar something is very wrong in America a mayor Raymond j. Flynn Delphia and Seattle a said emergency food requests increased. About one in six requests for emergency food Aid went unmet the Survey found. All but three of the 28 cities reported that requests for emergency shelter increased and the report said an average of 15 percent of them were unmet. In a related report a group said poverty and poor health housing Are hitting Rural children As hard As their City cousins he study by the children s defense fund said 22.9 percent of Rural children were poor compared with 20 percent of non Rural children in 1990.Omaha police ease ban on pursuing suspects from wire reports Omaha neb. A the City a police chief has lifted his Blanket ban on police chases saying officers now May pursue suspects involved in murder assault sexual assault robbery and abduction. On monday Omaha police chief James Skinner called his new order a a a clarification of the policy he announced last tuesday. He had said he adopted that policy because of lawsuits seeking about $10 million from the City resulting from chases that killed or injured people. His original policy said Omaha police officers would not engage in police pursuits for any reason. T Skinner said he did no to explain himself clearly last  rescues children Aurora Colo. A a woman saved the lives of her two children by breaking into a bedroom engulfed in flames and throwing them out a window to safety. A if it was t for the Mother entering that bedroom we would have undoubtedly had two dead children a said fire it. Marty la Russo. Samantha Engelhardt 23, was awakened from a Nap in her suburban Denver Home sunday afternoon by the screams of her 3-year-old son Jamie and 18-month-old daughter Kyra. After pushing Down the burning bedroom door she threw a chair through the first floor window and tossed the children out. Neighbors pulled them away to safety la Russo said. Engelhardt  escape through the window because it was too High so she ran Back through the burning apartment and out the door. Engelhardt was in serious condition monday at Denver a University Hospital with Burns. Jamie was in fair condition and Kyra in Good condition at children s Hospital in  charges dropped Farmville . A prosecutors dropped More charges monday against a Man accused of abusing children at the Day care Center he formerly operated. Six charges were eliminated during arguments before Superior court judge d. Marsh Mclelland. Robert f. Kelly or. Still faces 122 charges involving 13 children. He originally faced 183 counts involving 22 children. Kelly is accused of abusing children at his Little rascals Day care Center in Edenton 120 Miles East of Raleigh. Kelly s lawyers filed motions to have All the remaining charges  squirrels used Sacramento Calif. A Man who hit his wife with some Frozen squirrels was jailed on suspicion of spousal abuse. Kao Khae Saephan 26, had been arguing with his wife Early monday when he walked into the Kitchen and took several Frozen squirrels from the Freezer police spokeswoman Betsy Braziel said. The woman told police that when she walked in the room her husband swung the squirrels at her and struck her in the head. She fell against a table and received a 1-Inch Cut above her Eye Braziel  Veteran named Washington a Leonard s. Nicholson a 28-year Nasa Veteran was named monday to be director of the space shuttle program. Nicholson succeeds former astronaut Robert l. Crippen whose appointment As director of the Kennedy space Center in Florida was announced recently. Nicholson 53, will be the first director to run the shuttle program from the Florida launch site instead of nasal a Washington Headquarters. Nasa is dissolving the shuttle program office in Washington and moving some 30 civil service employees to other duties in line with recommendations made recently by outgoing Deputy administrator . Thompson. Crippen succeeds Gen. Forrest Mccartney who is retiring. The management changes Are effective Jan. 1. Rules for disability benefits relaxed for people with his