European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 22, 1992 the stars and stripes a Pago 7 american legion campaigns to halt health plan for poor Indianapolis up the american legion said thursday that it has started a letter writing Campaign calling on president Bush to order a halt to a Pilot program that would provide a health care to non veterans. The legion called the idea and its author Secretary of veterans affairs Edward j. Derwinski a insensitive and indifferent to in a message to the legions nearly 16,000 posts nationwide National commander Dominic d. Difran Cesco urged the 3.1 million members of his organization to write to the president and demand that he order Derwinski to abandon a proposal for a so called a Rural health care the program conceived by Derwinski and Secretary of health and human services Louis w. Sullivan would make a hospitals and health systems available to non Veteran indigent poor in Remote or Rural areas where health care resources Are scarce. The three year Pilot project is scheduled to Start in Tuskegee ala., and Salem va., in March. A the american legion is not opposed to providing health care for the nations Rural poor a Difrancsco said. A but there Are thousands of veterans in that very segment of society who have been denied medical care in a hospitals for a number of reasons. A the a health care system has been constrained by a serious Lack of funding due to the budget crisis. The result is scores of documented cases of veterans being turned away due to a Lack of sufficient doctors and nurses postponement of the Purchase of vital modern equipment and the imposition of eligibility regulations based on service connection of their health problems or having to submit to a Means missing grandson turns up Patrick Wayne son of the late actor John Wayne holds a poster with pictures of his son 15-year-old Anthony at his Home in los Angeles on thursday morning. The teen Ager who had been missing since tuesday turned up Safe hours later. He was found in his fathers neigh boyhood but the family had no immediate explanation for his disappearance. They said foul play was not involved. Patrick Wayne had asked for the Public a help in the search and offered a $5,000 Reward for his songs return. Teachers suspected of making guns Taylor Mich. Apr some teachers in this de Roit suburb Are being investigated for allegedly making Lachine guns in a High school workshop. Unidentified police sources told the Detroit news hat they believe As Many amps three teachers May be a olved. The sources said the guns were being sold on he Street for at least $500 apiece. Last week agents looking for weapons raided the lome of a vocational High school teaching assistant at he Taylor career Center. The 10-year teaching assist it is a licensed gun dealer. Jenni Haynes a Secretary with the Federal Bureau of Cohol tobacco and firearms in Detroit declined to comment on the investigation thursday. She would t a whether any weapons were seized in the raid. A being that it is an ongoing investigation we will Nake no comment at this time a said Ellen Coppins a spokeswoman for Bernard Laforest special agent in Harge of the at a a Detroit office. The at the Michigan state police and Taylor police Are handling the 2-month-old investigation. A obviously this is a very sensitive Case and the investigation has not been completed yet a Taylor police chief Tom Bonner said. No arrests had been made As of thursday. A we Are aware that there is an investigation going on and we Are cooperating 100 percent a school superintendent Roger Craig said. A we have been asked not to discuss John Pantalone the schools principal refused to discuss details of the Case and said he did no to know whether students were involved. Several students said they did no to know about the investigation but had noticed police on school grounds in recent weeks. A a there a been talk rumours about this an investigation a welding shop teacher Dennis Depuis said. A a that a about All i upholds award to mugger shot by police from wire reports new York a a state appeals court on thursday upheld a $4.3 million award to a Man who was shot by police and paralysed while mugging an elderly Man in a subway station. The state supreme courts appellate division upheld a july a a finding that Bernard Mccummings was the victim of excessive police Force. The damages would be paid by the City and the new York City transit authority. Mccummings served 2vi years in prison for the 1984 mugging. Wallace Gossett a transit authority attorney said his office would seek permission to s owner bankrupt Houston a the owner of the hotel that president Bush Calls Home has filed for Federal bankruptcy Protection. Houstonian properties ltd., which owns the 18-acre Campus that has Long term leases with the houstonian hotel and the houstonian club filed for reorganization tuesday company attorney Daniel h. Johnston or. Said. Bush has Long listed a suite at the houstonian hotel As his Home address. A the hotel club and spa operations arc not involved in the reorganization filing a Johnston said. A this action will not affect these operations or their guests members suppliers or the company is saddled with a debt of about $28.5 can t be separated Philadelphia a siamese twins joined at the head and facing the opposite direction share a Large amount of brain tissue and can to be separated doctors said thursday. The male twins weighing 12 pounds 14 ounces were born tuesday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The twins who appear otherwise to be healthy also share a Large portion of the brains blood vessels said or. Alan Spitzer a neonatologist at Thomas Jefferson. Doctors will follow the twins neurological development to determine the extent of shared brain function but done to expect other health problems he said. A How much thought they will share in the future How the brain will develop. Is not known a Spitzer said. A a they re acting like Normal issues apology san Francisco a the examiner on thursday apologized to readers for supporting the internment of japanese americans during world War ii. The san Francisco papers apology came almost exactly 50 years after the signing of executive order 9066, which sent 120,000 people of japanese ancestry to internment Camps. A this newspaper too along with others advocated internment a the newspaper said in an editorial promoted on the front Page under the header a utne examiner apologizes. A newspapers Are products of human beings a reflecting a their shortcomings As Well As their talents their myopia As Well As their broader vision a the editorial said. A the lesson from this chapter in american history is to remind ourselves every Day that the Constitution applies to All. We must make sure it always plans theme Park Enfield Conn. A Lego systems inc., the maker of Lego toy blocks is considering seven Sites for a $ 100 million Lego world theme Park a spokesman said. The Sites Are in Boston the Washington Balti More area and san Diego As Well As four m Western Europe said spokesman David Lafrennie. He declined to say where the european Sites Are. Lego systems based in the Northern Connecticut town of Enfield is the american manufacturing and sales Arm of the Lego group which owns a Lego land theme Park next to its Headquarters in Bil Lund Denmark. The company estimates More than a million people a year will visit Lego world which will feature rides exhibitions and other attractions
