European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday december 20, 1992 at a glance the legend of St. Nicholas has grown Over the centuries spurred on recently by american to programs but he is seen in Dilt Crint ways in different cultures. See stories and photos in sunday  cuts urged president elect Clinton s economic advisers Are recommending he trim the deficit More than he had proposed in the election Campaign. A Page 5proclamation exhibited the fragile original of the emancipation proclamation was removed from its darkened vault in preparation for a rare five Day exhibition. A Page 8changing presidents South koreans elected Kim Young Sam an sex dissident to be their next president. A Page 11no Holiday cheer despite signs o an improving Economy companies Are pressing ahead into the new year with staff cutbacks to try to solve their problems. A Page 17 c Index Abby Ann Landers .16 classifieds.20-24 commentary.15 faces in places.16 letters.14 Money matters.17 Mutual. 17-19 sports.25-32 weather .13 to our readers 2 Liis week s spider Man and i and  comic strips did t reach us in time to appear in today s color comics Section. In their place we re running both this weeks and next week s panels of . And Henry. We plan to set things straight next sunday by printing the missing strips in place of . And Henry. So fans will get a double dose of spider Man and i and Lois. We Apo Logue for any inconvenience. The strips arc mailed to us from new York and apparently spider and his pals were Dola cd in the Christmas mail Rush. Bomb Alert disrupts shopping on London s busiest streets London up a a bomb Alert brought chaos to the Center of London on saturday Clearing thousands of Christmas shoppers from packed streets on what retailers had hoped would be the busiest Day of their year. A the warning Telephone Call that there was a bomb somewhere in Regent Street in the heart of the West end came just three Days after the Irish Republican army detonated two Small bombs in a department store and nearby Glass recycling bin. Four people were injured in the blasts. No bomb was found saturday but the search kept surrounding streets including part of Busy Oxford Street closed for three hours until shortly after midday. The warning was believed to be part of the iras annual terror Campaign to disrupt the Christmas season in Britain. A we lost three hours of trading this morning. It is very disrupting a Gavin Brewer the manager of Ham lays toy store in Regent Street told United press International. On an average trading saturday the store would expect 40,000 people to pass through its doors. Brewer estimated the Street closures had Cost his store $78,000 alone. A life is Back to Normal now with customers Back in the store so people Are obviously wanting to get Back to their shopping. The British Public Are not going to be put off by these bomb scares. A but our staff Are obviously disappointed because a lot of them earn on commission so if they Are not making sales it affects them personally a Brewer said. Another Regent Street trader Richard Stewart Liberty of the Liberty department store said shoppers were a a determined to carry on despite the threat and inconvenience of bombings and hoax Calls. Between 60,000 and 70,000 customers had been expected to shop in the store saturday he said. A they were ready to come into the store before we were ready to let them in a he said. Earlier this month two explosions outside the Wood Green shopping City in North London injured 11 people and two bombs in the City of Manchester injured 58 people. Firm to pay $111 million in medicare fraud Case san Diego apr a major medical testing company has agreed to pay $111 million in the largest civil settlement of a medicare fraud Case Tai . History officials said. Prosecutors said National health laboratories inc. Of la Jolla duped doctors into ordering a a free unnecessary blood tests that actually Cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The company agreed Friday to Settle the Case. . Attorney William Braniff said the company a fraudulent Billing scheme was similar to others still in practice throughout the Industry and that other medical labs were being investigated. A marketing schemes like the one exposed today Are a primary reason for these escalating health care costs Quot he said. The company one of the nations largest blood testing labs agreed to pay $100 million to the Federal government and $10 million to 33 state governments for fraudulent charges to medicare medicaid and a health care program for military families. T he company also will pay a $1 million criminal Fine. It is the largest civil settlement of a medicare fraud Case in . History jus Tice department officials said. Company president Robert e. Draper pleaded guilty to two counts of submitting false claims and faces up to 10 years in prison. Draper was freed on $50,000 Bond. Telephone messages left at his Home Friday weren to returned. A if Robert Draper has broken the Law or nil has broken the Law then the number of lawbreakers in this Industry is legion because there is absolutely nothing that was done that is not Industry wide practice a said drapers attorney Michael Pancer. Draper and vice president Randy White resigned from the company As part of the agreement. Prosecutors said the company told doctors its labs would perform two additional blood tests for Little or no Cost whenever doctors ordered a Basic blood test known As a sequential Multi analysis computer or Mac nil which has 16 labs throughout the country billed doctors directly but did no to charge them for the additional tests Braniff said. But when nil billed medicaid or medicare for the tests that doctors ordered it charged the full Price of $16 or $18 per  discovered under hotel floor London up an investigation is under Way to try to identify the body of a woman that May have been lying under the floor of a Nottingham hotel for nine years a police spokesman said saturday. The body was found in a 2-foot-wide, airtight service duct beneath the Concrete floor of the toilets in the musters hotel in West Bridge Ford Nottingham 110 Miles North of London. A maintenance Man checking wiring in the hotel which is Home to More than 200 mainly unemployed and homeless residents found the body wednesday said detective sgt. Ian Walker. A the body had been covered in a Blanket in an area of the hotel where people would not go Quot he said. The woman who was about 20 years old had died during the past nine years according to a pathologists report. Police have been unable to establish the cause of death but there was no evidence of injury or foul  from Page 1 care were intercepted by bandits. Five of the trucks sold off the food and All but two were looted. Only four of the 21 Ever returned to Mogadishu. An ongoing Airlift to Bairoa from Kenya has been hugely expensive. A if we have a great Day we can move Only half As much by air As Well nun tomorrow a a Peck said saturday. The next objective appeared to be taking control of Kismay where american forces have been surveying the Airport and gathering intelligence. On saturday . Envoy Robert b. Oakley visited the City and talked with authorities. He visited Bairoa on tuesday a Day before that City was secured by foreign troops. Peck told reporters saturday that the forces would be moving South but he would not say where. Wholesale looting and fighting Between clan factions has All but halted Relief efforts in Kismay recently. One american officer estimated the number of armed clansmen in the City at 1,600. In other parts of Somalia secured by the marines gunmen generally have avoided the troops while continuing to wreak havoc beyond their View. Still gangs that had been Active at Mogadishu sport in the past returned there Friday said Patrice Franceshi the head of French humanitarian action. A they were going aboard the boats and causing problems yesterday and the Dav before yesterday a Franceshi said. He said gang members would claim the vaccination papers of the Crew were not in order or that the ships Kitchen Wasny to $30 1 1 11&Quot a Llam and $-<>.000 or \ esterday we threw them out and they provoked a strike of longshoremen Anceschi said. He said he went directly to Oakley who promised to take action a this morning they the longshoremen started working again a fran pcs Chisato. A ,. Mogadishu the capital was relatively peaceful saturday. Franceshi said there Are four ships two French one red c Ross and one of the world food program m the port with 19,000 tons of food Somalia has been rent by civil War since january 1991, when president Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted. The country disintegrated into chaos terrorized by armed looters and clan fighting. A . Official speaking on condition of anonymity said an agreement reported late Friday Between rival warlords Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Gen. Mohamed Farrah aided to remove their forces from Mogadishu does t amount to much the agreement reported by Ali Mah Dies radio station said the militias would Start leaving Mogadishu on saturday for Camps outside the City. But the . Official said most of their armed vehicles already had left town and that the gesture was largely symbolic. The International committee of there Cross said it was beginning to distribute food to Rural areas around the capital. Red Cross spokesman Horst Hamborg said the Harvest in some areas set to begin at the end of the month appeared Bountiful and Aid workers were hopeful that feeding kitchens would not be necessary next year. The red Cross has been distributing seed and tools so somali Farmers can begin providing for themselves again