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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 22, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7 american legion campaigns to halt health plan for poor Indianapolis up a 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 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 father s neigh Sarasota Fla. Upil a an anti drug Public service announcement produced by pee wee Herman actor Paul Reubens has fulfilled requirements of a plea bargain on an indecent exposure charge authorities said Friday. Assistant state attorney Don Hartery said that Reubens co produced the 30-second spot that was released wednesday and that it fulfilled the requirement he perform 75 hours of Community service. The video features the animated character a a Penny who appeared on Reubens television show pee weeks playhouse. The video was released through partnership for a drug free America and the organization said it hoped to get the announcement on television. Reubens 38, pleaded no contest nov. 7 in Sarasota county circuit court to a charge of indecent exposure. He was arrested july 26, 1991, at a local adult theater after sheriffs deputies claimed they saw him masturbate. Reubens a graduate of Sarasota High school had 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  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 s help in the search and loitered a $5,000 Reward for his son s return. Been in town to visit his parents Milton and Judy Rubenfeld. Reubens denied the charge and said the no contest plea was not an admission of guilt. His defense attorney Richard Gerstein said a time coded videotape showed Reubens was in the lobby of the theater at the time the deputies claimed he was inside masturbating. Gerstein said the agreement was a simply a plea of convenience a which allowed Reubens to get on with his life and career. Under the plea agreement with prosecutors Reubens paid a $50 Fine and $85 in court costs. After six months supervision by the salvation army and the production or the video the agreement called for Reuy Bens Case to be sealed and he would have no criminal record. The arrest forced lbs to cancel its scheduled runs of his television show but the actor continued work on films including Nightmare before Christmas.  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 jury 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. Jonnston 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 bom 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 Dunn 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 editor a promoted on the front Page under the header a utne examiner apologizes. A newspapers Are products of human beings a reflecting All 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 in 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. A missing grandson turns up to spot completes pee wee s Deal  
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