Tuesday, Sept. 17, 1985
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Military looks to shift care
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday that the Pentagon is considering eliminating health care at military hospitals for military dependents and retirees to improve the wartime readiness of the medical system.
"I see no need to perpetuate any system that produces an oversupply of physicians whose specialties are not relevant for our fighting forces in their time of greatest need," he told military medical officers meeting in nearby Springfield, Va.
Weinberger's assistant defense secretary for health affairs, Dr. William Mayer, told the group he was beginning to examine ways to provide health care to retirees and dependents at civilian hospitals, potentially saving both taxpayers and military beneficiears."
Medical care for dependents of military personnel and retired military personnel and their families
Under the proposed switch to a civilian system, the taxpayer still would pay for medical care but it would be administered by civilian organizations under contract to the Defense Department.
Weinberger indicated civilian use of the system strains the facilities and detracts from training for care of the wounded in wartime.
generally is administered at military hospitals and is paid for by the taxpayer.
"I do not believe that we can afford such luxuries as fully staffing a military obstetrics unit for 10 deliveries a month or maintaining expensive training programs for medical specialties that are of little or no use in war." Weinberger said.
"Our first priority is to obtain the surgical specialties needed in a wartime theater. I expect Dr. Mayer to redirect and change the composition of our medical force structure to ensure that it reflects medical readiness as the top priority for personnel authorization and training programs."
Officials ask for counseling Teenage pregnancy rate soars
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MADISON, Wis. — Soaring teenage pregnancy rates have forced Wisconsin officials to look seriously at establishing in-school clinics to counsel students on birth control and prescribe contraceptives.
The state is poised to begin a pilot program in Milwaukee, where teenage pregnancy rates are the highest in Wisconsin.
Barbara Barnard, adolescent pregnancy-prevention planner for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services, said yesterday that people could no longer be naive
about the amount of teenage sexual activity.
"We have 12- and 13-year-olds getting pregnant, getting sexually transmitted diseases," she said. "It's horrifying, but it's there."
The program was inspired by the school-based clinics in St. Paul, Minn., which have been copied in 25 other cities, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
In St. Paul, the clinics offer birth control counseling and prescriptions for contraceptives, but they do not dispense contraceptives because of the controversy that could be raised,
said Aim Ricketts, administrator of the St. Paul program.
Rickets said the staff people at the clinics encouraged teenagers to abstain from sex and did not make referrals for abortions.
The clinics also offer broader services, such as immunizations and counseling in nutrition and weight control, she said. The other programs help make students comfortable using the clinics.
The Wisconsin Legislative Council's Committee on Pregnancy Options has recommended a $350,000-year grant program.
Bags of coke found in tree on mountain
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Authorities said yesterday that three duffie bags containing $56 million worth of cocaine and that were similar to one found on the body of a skydiving drug smuggler were discovered in a north Georgia mountain range.
"The packagings and markings on the zipper bags and the green army duffle bags and the individually wrapped kilos are identical to those found on the person of Thornton," said Fran Wiley, GBI drug enforcement assistant special agent.
Three large black nylon bags — each containing a duffle bag — were discovered Saturday at 4:30 p.m. EDT by two U.S. Forest Service rangers after they noticed a white parachute hanging from a tree. The rangers notified the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
The bags, packed with 218 pounds of high-grade cocaine, were thought to have been air-dropped in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Fannin County, Ga., Tuesday night — before Andrew Thornton jumped from his plane and plunged to his death at Knoville, Tenn., after his parachute failed.
The drugs were believed to have originated from a flight out of South America, authorities said.
Federal and local drug agents began an aerial and ground search Friday in Knoxville after receiving information that Thornton was carrying additional cocaine.
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