European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes i . Monday november 23, 1992 score card rates surgeons by How Many patients die by Aaron Watson the associated press Harrisburg pay Pennsylvania has released a consumer oriented report rating doctors who perform heart bypass surgery based on How Many of their patients die. Some medical experts said Consumers should use the score card to pick the Best doctors and hospitals and to Force others to improve and lower prices. But others said variables in heart operations Are Many and any comparison of doctors should be viewed with scepticism. Quot patients Are not baseballs and these Are not batting averages Quot said Pat Wood spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania medical society. The Pennsylvania health care Cost containment Council a quasi Govch mental Agency compared 1990 patient death rates at 35 Pennsylvania hospitals and for 170 surgeons who performed at least 30 operations each. It also compared charges showing a disparity of As much As $63,000, depending on where surgery was performed. Quot this is the basis for an educational Opportunity that will change physicians behaviour like never before a or. Robert e. Mcafee an american medical association Jungle refugees to make Homes in n. Carolina Charlotte . A the first of a group of montagnard  former . Allies who have hidden in the Jungles of Cambodia since South Vietnam fell arrived Friday in North Carolina where they will make new Homes. A they re coming out of one Jungle and into a different kind of Jungle a said Pat priest of the lutheran family services in the Carolinas one of several agencies assisting the refugees. The first Small group of the 398 men women and children who were brought out of the Jungle last month by United nations peacekeeping forces landed Friday at John f. Kennedy International Airport in new York and then flew to North Carolina. They and the rest of the group Are being settled in Raleigh Greensboro and Charlotte. Some of them have friends or relatives in a group of 200 montagnard who settled in North Carolina in 1986. A i saw some of my friends and in a so Happy 1 can to think of anything right now a said one of the arrivals a 29-year-Otd father of three who goes by the name Theo his wife stood nearby holding their 1-year-old daughter. A greeting ceremony also was held Friday night in Raleigh for a Lone arrival. Charlotte and Greensboro each had expected 11 refugees Friday night but the group headed for Greensboro missed its connection in Washington. Put Mlod Tondu one of the montagnard who settled in Charlotte earlier helped Greet the new arrivals. Quot i worry about them. They just came from the Jungle and Here they Are in the United states a he said. Veterans of the Vietnam War were among those who wanted to Greet the newcomers. Quot a lot of the veterans will say they Are alive today because a montagnard gave his life to save them Quot said Kay Reibold director of the Vietnam Highlands assistance project for lutheran family services in Raleigh. Quot we be got veterans flying in from All parts of the country trustee said Friday. The report was the first of its kind released voluntarily by any state said Peter archly director of administration for the Cost containment Council. A similar report was released last year for new York state but Only after new York new Day went to court to Force its release. The Pennsylvania report released thursday found that two hospitals that charged the most had Quot More deaths than expected Quot for the procedure while some that charged the least had fewer deaths than expected. A it is very Clear. This data does not predict outcome. It can be very misleading Quot said Samuel h. Steinberg president of graduate Hospital in Philadelphia an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania. Graduate topped the list charging an average $83,851 each for 287 operations but having a greater than expected 20 deaths the report found. At the other end Reading Hospital and medical Center in Reading performed 526 operations with an average charge of 121,063 and a lower than expected 12 deaths. The expected Range was calculated by taking the number of patients treated and their gender age and condition. The Range was then compared with actual deaths. George Linker greets prom a and her son car 5 Friday night at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte . The a family is part of a group of vietnamese montagnard that arrived from Cambodia after years of fighting the communists. To meet these  in Vietnam the montagnard or a Hill people a had been among tribes who rebelled for hundreds of years against the Lowland vietnamese. Relegated to second class status in their own land the christianize minorities welcomed american intervention in Vietnam and fought with . Troops. After seizing All of Vietnam in 1975, the communists launched offensives against the insurgents in the Central Highlands forcing Many to flee into Cambodia. In june the montagnard most of them suffering from malaria or other diseases contacted . Peacekeepers and asked to be resettled in the United states. Use of guards for Malcolm x assailed Albuquerque a the local chapter of the a act threatened saturday to Boycott two United artists Heaters if they Don t remove Security guards hired to patrol during showings of the film Malcolm x. A a we re upset that every time something comes out in the movies or on to that shows the True treatment of Black people in America that White people think they need to be afraid a said Alice Hoppes local president of the National association for the advancement of coloured people. She said the Boycott including a picket line would begin today if the guards remain. The order to increase Security at Heaters nationwide came from United artists Headquarters in Denver because of violence at other Black oriented films including Boyz n the Hood according to John Neal a marketing executive. Quot we done to feel that Malcolm x should be compared with Boyz n the Hood Quot Hoppes said. Quot this movie shares and talks about a historical Black Leader of  Neal said no problems have been reported from a Heaters showing the movie. He apologized to Blacks in Albuquerque and said the Chain would re evaluate the policy after the weekend. Quot i understand their concern and their Contention too Quot Neal said. Quot at the same time if anything were to happen what kind of criticism would we receive if we did no to have extra Security a a prankster gets co worker in trouble at . Bank from wire reports Evesham . A a Man  understand Why the Teller at a Bank drive in window gave him $1,575 when All he asked for was a Deposit slip. He was really shocked when police arrested him a few minutes later it turned out that William Baitinger 29, of Wenonah was the victim of a practical joke by a co worker Alvin a. Blome 37, of Sewell police it. Jon Wainwright said. Blome was charged with disorderly conduct. Blome was in front of Baitinger at a Bank a drive in line Friday. Before leaving Blome placed a note in the Cash drawer saying he had a bomb and was demanding Money Wainwright said. Blome thought Baitinger would open the drawer and see the note before it got to the Teller but Baitinger asked the Teller for a Deposit slip without opening the drawer Wainwright said. When the Teller went to place the Deposit slip in the drawer she saw the note and handed Over the Money the Teller also called police who arrested Baitinger. Quot we did no to believe him at first since they found the Money on him a Wainwright said. Finally Blome called the police station. A the told us he was the stupid one and explained it a Wainwright said. Quot this created a lot of confusion and action that did no to have to  May be Mother los Angeles a police said they had arrested a 13-year-Otd los Angeles girl As the Mother of a Newborn abandoned naked on a Concrete driveway just hours after its birth. The Newborn was found nov. 15 and was taken to the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in critical condition As police began a search for the Mother. Or. Ramanathan Rangasamy said Friday that tests showed there was no blood flow to the baby a brain and the child was basically brain dead. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Tombrello said physicians cannot pronounce the Newborn legally dead until today when she becomes seven Days old. A but she is non responsive and comatose on a Respirator a Tombrello said. Rangasamy said the baby suffered a fractured Skuri. Attorney loaned handgun san Diego a a san Diego attorney said he had loaned a handgun to a purported spy found dead soon after his wife Ana three children were discovered fatally shot in their Home. Attorney James Street who described Ian Stuart Spiro As a client and personal Friend said Spiro asked to borrow the gun after saying he had received threatening phone Calls. Sheriffs investigators have said they suspect Spiro a British native murdered his wife and children then committed suicide by swallowing cyanide. Friends and relatives have speculated that Spiro and his family May have been killed because of his alleged connections to Cia and British intelligence operations in the Middle East. Street said Spiro told him the threats came after he met with Hollywood producers about a possible feature film based on his role in attempts to free american hostages held in  re enacted Madison wis. Although it was a painful reminder a woman re enacted the murder of her daughter for television cameras hoping her efforts will help find the Young woman a killer. The to re enactment was scheduled to be broadcast several times on Madison television stations Over the past weekend As part of the police departments Madison area crime stoppers program or x4eubtf-jwagner�?~cars0n 28. Was abducted March 27,1987, from her guard Post at the Styberg engineering co., where she was working the 7 . To 7 . Shift. Amp Bot a Wasfy und several hours later stunted m the trunk of her car which was parked in an Alley near the company. Her Throat Ana wrists had been slashed. D t e we Man looked very much like her Mother Kuth Wagner a correctional institution guard. V Agner said she Hopes her stand in role in the rime mappers reports w ill produce a response