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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-21-1993 The BG News September 21, 1993 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News September 21, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5572. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5572 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. G The BG News Tuesday, September 22, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 20 c Briefs Health-care reform seeks aid °upie The Associated Press what's right if we fix what's wrong." Everett Koop to organize a series of forums Weather But he insisted that real change is needed. designed to give doctors input and informa- sues for Let the sun shine: "We can do better than this." tion about the reform plan. Urging doctors to Decreasing clouds Tues- WASHINGTON ~ President Clinton Mon- The comments came as Clinton's yet-to-be- support health-care reforms, Koop said day with a high 65 to 70. day asked prominent doctors to support his released plan was drawing early fire. problems with one or two details in Clinton's Northwest winds 5 to 10 health-care overhaul, promising malpractice Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, chairman of the plan "cannot give us the excuse to oppose alleged mph. Tuesday night, mostly reform, less paperwork, fewer hassles with Senate Finance Committee, chose the word everything." clear. Low in the upper 40s. government regulations and no reductions in "fantasy" to describe the $238 billion Clinton Koop, who served under Republican Wednesday, variable clou- pay. wants to save over five years by restricting presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, neglect diness. High in the mid-70s. Wooing a key health-care interest group, growth in Medicare and Medicaid spending. said Clinton has already "accomplished the president told more than 100 doctors in "It's fantasy, but accurate fantasy," Moyn- more in health-care reform ... than all of his Outside campus the East Room, "We clearly must preserve by Sharl L. Veleba ihan said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "These living predecessors put together." courts reporter what is right with our health care system." numbers all come out of their computer in Mrs. Clinton, the president's point person Top Gun: He ticked off a list of what must not suffer that way. They won't last, they mustn't last." on health-care reform, said the administra- in health-care reforms: "The close patient- Among those in the audience Monday were tion's plan will "give opportunities, again, to A Perrysburg couple is suing a AUGUSTA . Maine an doctor relationship, the best doctors and adventurous sixth-grader Clinton's personal doctor, Andrew Kumpuris physicians and nurses and those on the front muffler shop for $1 million, took off at the controls of a nurses, the best academic research, the best of Little Rock, Ark., and his daughter's phy- line of health care to make the decisions charging its employees small plane Monday on the advanced technology in the world. sician, Dr. Betty A. Lowe, also of Arkansas. about what needs to be done for the patients "severely crushed" the hus- first leg of a2.900-miii- "We can do that and still fix what's Hillary Rodham Clinton, who opened the band's foot under a mechanical fliKhi that would make her wrong," he said. "In fact, we can enhance meeting, named former Surgeon General C. See Clinton, page four. lift two years ago. the youngest girl to fly Mohammed-Nazih Hammond across the United States. Tht BG Nrwi/Cr*i Pallcnlk and his wife, Catherine, charge Victoria Van Meter, 11, that employees of My-Tee Muf- guided the single-engine Cessna 172 into the air fler, 25561 N. Dixie Highway, while her parents and a lowered Hammond's car onto his small group of well-wishers foot Sept. 20,1991. huddled in the cold below. The two have filed a complaint "I really don't think anyth- in the Wood County Court of Ing's scary about it," Vic- Common Pleas, claiming the shop toria said moments before was negligent and guilty of using takeoff as she tried to get defective equipment. warm in the pilots' lounge at Hammond has asked for a the tiny Augusta airport. judgment of $750,000 for alleged Victoria, of Meadville, Pa., physical injury. was accompanied on the His wife has asked for $250,000 flight by her instructor, Bob in the same incident. The com- Baumgartner. But she plaint claims she has been "den- planned to handle all the fly- ied the society, services, love, ing and navigating, as well advice, companionship and con- as most of the radio commu- sortium" of her husband. lon, the instructor said. In addition to the muffler shop, They hoped to reach San six "John Does" - currently un- Diego by Thursday, with known manufacturers of the me- several stops along the way. chanical lift or employees of the They landed Monday night muffler shop - are named as de- at Port Columbus Interna- fendants in the complaint. tional Airport for a stopover The suit alleges the accident in Columbus, Ohio. caused Mohammed-Nazih Ham- Victoria, who cannot get a mond "severe physical injury" pilot's license until she is 16, and that he sustained "perman- said she was impressed by ent injury" due to the alleged the view of different land negligence of the business. forms. "We've been study- Mark L. Schumacher, attorney ing the things I've been see- for the Hammonds', said Mo- ing, so it's pretty neat," she hammed-Nazih Hammond's foot said. was "severely crushed" during During an afternoon stop the incident. at an airport outside Harris- He said the type of lift used burg, Pa., Victoria said the was not a good one. flying weather had been "The better engineered lifts good and she had had no don't come right down to the problems. floor," Schumacher said. If all goes according to Bob Bemhoft of My-Tee Muf- plan, she will become the fler said the matter has been youngest female pilot to fly turned over to an insurance com- cross-country and the pany. youngest person to complete Nature Calls "We're obviously not in an east-to-west cross- agreement with [the complaint] country flight, Baumgartner Using the weather to their advantage, freshman graphic design to come sit outside," Shields said. Today the weather will be clear at all," he said. said. major Joanna Shields, right, and freshman Rachel Harner sit out- and cool with a high of 68. Schumacher said the $1 million "We're going against the side the Technology Building. "It was such a beautiful day we had winds, going this way," he Set Suit, page four. said. Tattoo this: CHICAGO - A white- Women's clinic Demjanjuk set to return to U.S. haired woman displayed her peacock. A stockbroker showed off her irises. No, Death threats, fight for citizenship will dampen homecoming they weren't county fair ex- hosts reception hibits. It was the Tattoo Art- The Associated Press ists Convention and the buzz York-based Coalition for Jewish Concerns-Amcha, of needles filled the air. by Melissa Lipowskl said Monday the group will protest Demjanjuk's The convention, which ran health reporter "The 1990s have CLEVELAND - John Demjanjuk's relatives return. Friday through Sunday, fea- boarded a plane for Israel Monday, hoping the trip "We will be at his home in Cleveland when he re- brought about much would be the last they will have to make in pursuit turns to a hero's welcome to declare that this man tured the works of 51 stu- In honor of Women's Health confusion. There are so of Demjanjuk's freedom. is not a hero but a Nazi," Weiss said. dios from as far afield as Month, the Student Health Ser- The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday announced Tokyo, Brussels and Am- vices, in cooperation with the many different forms of that the 73-year-old former autoworker was free to Martin Plax, Cleveland director of the American sterdam. Women's Clinic, will be hosting a contraception available leave the Israeli prison where he has been held Jewish Committee, urged Weiss to stay away. It also attracted several women's health reception on and so many choices to since before the court overturned his conviction of "We're really very concerned ... that this has the thousand conventioneers, Wednesday to discuss different being a sadistic Nazi guard who helped kill potential of getting very violent," Plax said. ranging from bikers and contraceptive alternatives. be made that women thousands of Jews during World War II. Demjanjuk, who lived in the quiet, middle-class skinheads to a fellow tat- The event will include a per- "I hope this is our last trip to Israel. We're hop- suburb of Seven Hills, was stripped of his citi- tooed from neck to ankles, need to be better sonal tour of the women's clinic ing this ends on a positive note," Ed Nishnic, Dem- zenship in 1981 and extradited to Israel in 1986. who waggled a gold ring as well as the feature presen- informed." janjuk's son-in-law, said before he boarded the piercing his lower lip.