European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday november 20,1993 champs lists 29 Sites getting blood plasma Heidelberg Germany is officials with the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services in Europe have identified 29 hospitals in Germany that received plasma products from the firm Haem Oplas. The company in Osterode closed last week be cause of concerns about its blood testing proce dures for his and other infectious diseases. More than 60 hospitals purchased products from Haem Oplas the second of two German companies closed As a result of suspect testing. The other German company that was closed was us hrs a of Koblenz. The German hospitals listed below Are those for which champs claims have been filed since 1989. For some with seemingly incomplete names no further information was available Friday afternoon. The medical facilities Are Aachen med. Ein . West is Altstadt Kreis Krank Enhaus. Ansbach staff und. Kreis Krank Enhaus. Aschaffenbur a Linimum. Bad Neustadt Kreis Krank Enhaus. Bad Tolz Stadt Krank Enhaus. Bamberg a Linimum. Ebersbach Kreis Krank Enhaus. Or Langon Friederich Alex of gyn. Or Langon Friederich Alex. Esslinger Stadt Krank Enhaus. Frankfurt Burger Hospital. Fussed Kreis Krank Enhaus. Got Tingin Georg August u. Gunzin Hauson Kreis Krank Enhaus.  Kreis Krank Enhaus. Kauf Bucuren by Dirks Krank Enhaus. Kempten Krank Enhaus Zweck Herband. Lindau Kreis Krank Enhaus. Ludwigshafen . Unfall Klinick. Mar Heidfeld Kreis Krank Enhaus. Memminger Stadt Krank Enhaus. Turnau . Unfall Klinick. Passau a Linimum. Sic gun Kreis Krank Enhaus. Traunstein Kreis Krank Enhaus. Tub Ingen . Unfall Klinick. Wiesbaden or. Horst Schmidt Klinick Worms Stadt Krank Enhaus. Seventh medical come officials also reported that its statement included in the Stan and stripes thursday erroneously identified a recipient of us plasma products. It should have said the Stadt Krank Enhaus in Hanau. Champs claims Are filed Only when civilian facilities provide medical treatment to an Active duty family member a military Retiree or military Retiree family member. Thus the champs information does not reflect Active duty members who May have been treated at a civilian facility in Germany. It also does not reflect department of defense civilian employees and their family members who use civilian facilities and file claims for treatment with their insurance company. Officials at 7th medical come Are trying to get clarification on some of the other local National facility identifications and will release a list of those facilities receiving Haem Oplas products a statement said Friday. Members of the . Forces in Europe Are re minded that the risk to them of having received tainted blood plasma in a German Hospital is considered very Low. Plasma is transferred Only after someone has had a massive blood loss requiring eight to 10 or More transfusions of packed red blood cell units. Because packed red blood cells Lack clotting fac tors transfusion of a unit of plasma which is Rich in clotting factors and protein would be documented in a person s medical records. Sen ate o is c i m e by 11, debates waiting period Washington a the Senate on Friday passed a $22.3 billion Bill designed to win Back the streets from violent criminals who. Have left Man americans fearful of leaving their Homes. The 95-4 vote will Send the crime busting Bill to conference committee next year where it must be reconciled with scaled Down anti crime legislation passerby the House. After finishing the Bill the Senate headed into bruising debate Over separate legislation for a five Day waiting period for handgun  measure would expand potential use of the death penalty increase prison time for dozens of of lenses authorize thousands of new police officers finance new prisons and compensate local government for an expected surge in new cases. Nineteen specified assault weapons would be banned although no current guns would do taken away. Voting against the legislation were Sens. Dave Durenberger . Russ Feingold a wis. Mark o. Hatfield a Ore. And Paul Simon Diu. Sen. Byron , d-n.d., did not vote. After the Senate passed the crime measure the ver Sion of the waiting period favored by former presiden tial press Secretary James Brady whom the Bill misnamed after survived its first test. The Senate voted 54-45 to allow states and cities with longer waiting periods to retain them. The National Rifle association and other gun control opponents sought to wipe out any longer state and local waiting periods the Era language was in the Bill and the vote removed it. Majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Maine argued that More restrictive state and local Laws should stay in Force because to eliminate them would Tel Many americans their decisions Don t  but sen. Larry e. Craig a Idaho countered that virtually All states have considered waiting periods and that it was unfair to Only exempt from Federal Law those areas that chose a longer wait. We re saying it s unfair to Tell those who said Wedon t want a waiting period that you be got to have one " he  then debated another provision favored by gun control opponents a five year time limit on the Brady Bill s waiting period whether or not a planned system of computerized instant checks was operating. The Overall anti crime Bill would authorize 100,000 new local police officers additional Federal agents and a beefed up prosecution Force. In addition the measure would authorize $100 million year from fiscal 1994 through 1998, to help state and local governments increase their crime fighting resources. Tainted chocolate milk recalled Amsterdam Netherlands a for the Sec Ond time in a week the Netherlands has been hit witha food scare involving products consumed mostly by  of Cartons of chocolate milk were recalled from schools in the South on Friday after traces of disinfectant were found in some Cartons. Earlier this week disinfectant was discovered in jars of dutch made baby food. The discovery forced the re Call of More than 1.5 million jars of the product in the Netherlands Belgium Portugal and  tainted chocolate milk came to Light after a number of children at schools in Eindhoven Veldhoven and ought complained thursday of stomachaches. A subsequent investigation showed that about 200 car tons of Campina milk contained Hydrogen peroxide which is used to disinfect the company s pipes. Company spokesman Rutger Van Der weird said Fri Day that because of a mechanical malfunction a Small amount of rinse water containing the disinfectant came into Contact with the chocolate milk. Health ministry spokeswoman Nicole Stolk said the cleaning agent can cause mild stomach problems but snot life threatening. About 68,000 Cartons of chocolate milk had been re called As of Friday. Meanwhile the dutch agriculture ministry is continuing to investigate the tainted Babyhood sold under the Olva Rit Label. One government offi Cial has said the High Levels of disinfectant found in the jars suggest that the tampering was intentional. Heidelberg personnel supervisor Dies Heidelberg Germany is a supervisor in the Heidelberg regional civilian personnel office died wednesday of heart failure at a German Hospital in Mannheim. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 . Monday for Kenneth Catling 44, who had worked in the Region Al office s recruitment and services division for three years. The Murfreesboro ., native had been a government employee for almost 25 years including two years in Hanau. A Friend described Catling who came from a family of 10 children As adept at getting along with other people. He was very personal and willing to do anything for any one at anytime said Shirley n. Jimmerson Howard Friend and colleague. He was a wonderful Friend a great human being and we re All going to miss  the memorial service Wilt be in the Patton Chapel across from Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg. Catling is survived by his Mother Una Catling six Sisters Shirley Gloria Donnie Maratha Cynthia and Angela and three Brothers Oris Robert and Chester. Burial will be in  family requests that Flowers not be sent. Charita ble contributions can be made in the name of Kennet Catling brother of Shirley Johnson to Roanoke Cho wan hospice p o. Box 272, Ahoskie 27910. Nominee denies he identified agents Washington a embattled Pentagon Nom Inee Morton h. Halperin confronting Republican assertions that he is unfit for a sensitive government Post denied Friday that he Ever assisted a renegade Cia Fig ure in publicly identifying . Undercover agents. That is false Halperin said at the outset of his confirmation hearing. I never assisted Philip Agee i these efforts and i have condemned these efforts. Halperin had been criticized for travelling to London in 1975 to testify at the deportation hearing of Agee a for Mer Cia official who wrote a Book revealing the names of . Agents. One agent Richard Welch the station chief in Athens Greece was assassinated in 1977. Halperin s supporters say he did not discuss Agee s conduct but urged those at the hearing to come up with better argument than simply asserting that British nation Al Security required that the former agent be deported. In 1981, Halperin also endorsed legislation that would prosecute Agee. Halperin had his say not Long after the ranking Republican on the armed services committee sen. Stro Thurmond of South Carolina said he Felt that the Nomi Nee was unsuited for any position at the Pentagon Halperin former director of the Washington office of the american civil liberties Union is president Clin ton s Choice for the new Post of assistant Secretary of de sense for democracy and  republicans had been waiting eagerly to interrogate Halperin about his Liberal ideology and his dovish stance on the Vietnam War and the former soviet Union. His confirmation hearings come so late in the legislative calender that action on his nomination is unlikely until next  committee chairman sen. Sam Nunn. D-ga., promised Halperin a fair and thorough  Halperin said he wanted to set the record straight / about a number of allegations that Are simply  he said that he regretted the controversy but that he was determined to demonstrate that opposition to his Nomi nation is not  "1 have been accused of advising the Secretary of de sense not to Send Armor to Somalia. That is false he said. Halperin also denied that he espoused views that would subordinate . Interests to the United nations