European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 8, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5sdi director planning to shift funds a file sen. Sam Nunn mans n mgt t s10 years ago May 8,1982 a Britain extended its War zone around the disputed Falkland islands by declaring that any Argentine warship or military aircraft found More thin 12 nautical Miles from the Argentine Mainland will be Quot regarded As hostile."20 years ago May 8,1972 a Joseph Biroc s production of Briana a song for the Abc movie of the week received an emmy As televisions Best feature length program in 1971-72.30 years ago May 8,1962 a a few dozen mourners stood in a drizzle at Frankfurt cemetery to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the destruction of the Zeppelin Hinden Burg which burst into flames Over Lakehurst n.j., in 1937 after a trans Atlantic crossing.40 years ago May 8,1952 a . Negotiators refused the communist demand that All prisoners of War be returned As part of a korean armistice saying that Only those prisoners who want to go Back should be required to return. World War 50 years ago today 8 May 1-9 4 2 american and japanese Carrier planes Batter each others fleets in the Coral sea the first naval Battle in which warships never see each other the aircraft Carrier Lexington is fatally wounded and the Carrier Yorktown also butlers damage but the Carrier Shikaku is seriously damaged Many irreplaceable japanese pilots Are lost and the invasion of port moresby in new Guinea is called Oft. From wire reports Washington a the director of the strategic defense initiative said wednesday that he is scaling Back spending on space based weapons in response to accusations that he was defying Congress. Henry Cooper said ski funding will be used instead to develop a $27 billion ground based defensive system to be deployed by 1997. The government has already invested about $25 billion in ski. Cooper told a House armed services panel that the Pentagon will spend $2 billion less than planned on Brilliant pebbles while trimming the budget for Brilliant eyes by $600 million. The Money was to be spent Over five years. Brilliant pebbles is a system of space based interceptors to seek and destroy enemy weapons. Brilliant eyes would be a series of satellites designed to detect and track missiles in flight. Coopers decision is seen As a Victory for sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee. Nunn has accused Cooper of ignoring the wishes of Congress by spending millions on space based weapons at the expense of a ground based system. The ski director did not state what the original budget was for the space based weapons. Last month however Cooper told Nunns panel that the budget for Brilliant pebbles would be $2.6 billion and total spending on ski is expected to average about $7 billion a year. He said last month that he would reprogram about $4 billion from space based weapons and other ski research and earmark the Money for ground based defences. The change in ski comes As the House armed services committee appeared to embrace the highest amount it has Ever approved for ski. Rep. Ronald Dellums d-calif., and congressional sources said the committee will Likely approve $4.3 billion for ski in the fiscal 1993 budget a conservative Cut of about $1 billion from the $5.4 billion that president Bush is seeking. Also on Capitol Hill the Senate on wednesday approved a Bill to slash the b-2 bomber and ski but Rescue two sea Wolf submarines that Bush wants scrapped. Senators approved the legislation on a 61-38 vote. But with the cuts unlikely to be enacted into Law the action showed once again the gridlock Between Bush and Congress Over How to pare the Pentagon a $290 billion budget with the cold War ended. The action now shifts to the House which is to vote on its version of the legislation today. The House Bill saves one so Wolf from Bush a budget a but leaves the b-2 and the anti missile programs alone. Overall the Senate measure would Cut $8.3 billion from this years budget including $7.2 billion from defense. Bush has called for $7.9 billion in cuts including $7.1 billion in defense reductions. But he has said he will veto the Senate measure because of its cuts of $1 billion in the b-2 and $1.3 billion in ski  care fraud on Rise report says a 2194 Days of War w h Smith ters inc a from wire reports Washington a fraud in the nations health care system is growing unchecked and will reach $100 billion by 1995, congressional investigators say. No one is certain of the full extent but it May amount to 10 percent of the nations More than $700 billion a year spending on health care the investigators concluded. Quot the size of the health care sector and the sheer volume of Money involved make it an attractive and relatively easy target for fraudulent and abusive providers a a said Janet l. Shikles director of health financing and policy for the general accounting office. The Gao an investigative Arm of Congress described the fraud in a report to a House government operations subcommittee headed by rep. Ted Weiss  witnesses Tell by the new York times Washington a occupational injuries carry High human and economic costs witnesses told a Senate committee wednesday. One woman described in a halting emotion Laden voice How her 20-year-old brother and two other workers in a meatpacking Plant in Liberal kan., died in a vat of blood after they were overcome by the fumes the vat gave off. An editor talked of having to clean her bathroom tub with her feet because her arms had been disabled by a Job related repetitive motion injury by working on a computer a an affliction not yet recognized As an occupational health Issue. And Union insurance and experts on the workplace compared the growing Cost of occupational injuries with the savings from regulations and prevention. Quot it is Clear that the occupational safety and health act needs to be overhauled a said sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., chairman of the Senate labor and human resources committee which is conducting the hearings. Kennedy is sponsoring legislation to Amend the occupational health and safety act of 1970 to give it More Power. Kennedy noted that 10,000 americans or 40 people each working Day died each the report projects that health spending will reach $1 trillion by 1995 and that annual fraud could grow to $100 billion. Public programs including medicare and medicaid amount to 40 percent of those costs. A health care fraud and abuse left uncured will make the savings and loan crisis look like a Penny Ante scandal by the year 2000,�?� Weiss said. The report said the health insurance system was vulnerable to fraud for a variety of reasons. Among them a thousands of insurers process some 4 billion claims a year. Hundreds of thousands of medical providers use a variety of payment methods and administrative rules. A the vast number of insurers makes Billing patterns hard to identify. Thus a doctor who Bills for More than 24 hour injuries costly Senate panel year from occupational injuries. He said 100,000 More or 400 a Day died from occupational related diseases. The hearings come in the Wake of arguments made by the Bush administrations budget office that workplace regulations were hazardous to workers health because the increased Cost of regulations to employers would result in wage cuts or layoffs. At wednesdays hearings witness Diann Clodfelter said that if regulations on working in confined spaces had been in effect her brother Homar Stull and two other workers might be alive. Clodfelter said her brother succumbed to fumes from decomposing blood in the vat at the National beef packing Plant As did two workers who tried to Rescue him. A How Many More workers must die before the government finally lives up to its responsibility to protect workers a she said. The labor department has been considering a regulation on confined spaces for 17 years. Joan Lichterman an editor at the University of California described the pain in her hands resulting from writing on computers As the a disease of the �?T90s.�?� labor department statistics indicate that in 1990, repetitive trauma disorders accounted for 60 percent of the 6.8 million reported Job related injuries. Worth of visits on a single Day might not be discovered when claims arc split among so Many insurers. A the Cost of detection efforts can be burdensome for insurers. In a related development the Senate finance committee was told that Federal intervention will Likely be needed to control rising health care costs. A effective Cost containment will probably require extensive government intervention in the health care Market and will probably adversely affect some parts of the present system that people regard As desirable a such As free Choice of health care plans said Robert Reischauer director of the congressional budget office. If costs continue to Rise at current rates health care will consume 20 percent of the Federal budget by 1997, Reischauer noted. High court refuses to Holt Bonk probe Washington a chief Justice William h. Rennquist on wednesday refused to halt a special counsels review of records from the now closed House Bank. Rehnquist without comment denied an emergency request by rep. Henry b. Gonzalez a Texas to Block special counsel Malcolm Wilkey from examining the extensive records pending further court action. In papers filed with the High court Gonzalez said the Case is not moot even though House officials complied this week with a Federal grand jury subpoena and turned Over the records. Gonzalez said placing the records in Wilkey a hands threatens the Independence of Congress. The full House voted last week to turn Over the records which include 41 Rolls of microfilm showing every Check processed by the Bank Over a 39-month period ending dec. 31,1991. The House ethics committee has said the Bank permitted 325 past and present members to write 24,000 overdrafts Over 39 months. No financial penalty was charged for the House members overdrafts