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Features THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1981 ire Russians link Atlanta killings to Nazis, poor, jogging United Press International Post oft! VIENNA, Austria — Depend- •tisintkine on which communist report the :t. l0ssibl y-i » - , - . . e not direr |ren in Atlanta show the rise ot the you read, the killings of black chil- an ch, buti Nazi Party in the United States •uprenie Co the Reagan Administration s lack at. of concern for the poor or Amer- PostalSeni ica s preoccupation with jogging. ' The Atlanta killings have be- tention to ve ^° ine i m P ortant .V eWS — anc ! •-paganda — in the communist ntries of East Europe, discus- in the state-run newspapers, tgazines or wire services of East ws it is woijl is considerri nine-i’ implement 4 itary basis. l5 3 million bylii dly operatios Jlder national health care atients get poorer care puter list. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Roma nia, Hungary and the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo, in a broad-stroked article March 21, linked te killings, shootings of black children in the South Afri can township of Soweto, immigra tion policies of Britain and Adolf Hitler’s dream of a master race. “Are the racist murders of black children in Atlanta in the U.S. any less gruesome than the massacre of schoolchildren in South Africa’s Soweto?” it asked. “Discrimination against the non-white population of Great Britain and the unequal position of foreign workers in France are also to be condemned. We all still have in fresh memory the Hitler theory of racial supremacy and what it led to.” In Hungary, the newspaper of the state-run trade union Neps- zava began a March 29 article ob jectively, noting there was no thing yet to prove the Atlanta kill- United Press International JRVING — A study released it week indicates older patients teive worse health care in coun ts with national health insur- ce programs than do the elderly tave found na tj ons with no comprehensive the abanda alth plan. ing where Eos report, authored by two ast Thursday; pfe SS ors from the Center for it the printn Policy Studies at the Uni- erebyvagrai) r S jty of Dallas, concludes that dio entered t untries with national health in- Rogers bodp rance discriminate against the nerly in the treatment of most aid the FBift^ eaS gs John Goodman, director of the nter and co-author of the report, jd in the 15 countries studied, one gave preferential treat- nt to younger patients. With- |t exception, Goodman said, the given a person under social- d programs decreases as a per- d Monday son gets older. er Lee Jack{|"The elderly were supposed to the beneficiaries of the new item,” Goodman said. “In fact, have been the biggest lers.” Goodman, an economist and ithor of two books on national lalth programs, said the study (mpared the programs of 15 inntries with socialized medi- ie; 13 non-communist Euro- an nations plus Australia and (pan, with the medical plans of e countries without socialized ledicine. The non-socialized inntries were the United States, jrael, Spain, Greece and Switzer- ;ents assignee force and ak ; considerable own—felt ill ’ in the 121 eves conn vestigation ry ” th missing i is grandmol case had not he task force ersons invesli e was a ruirai While not denying that patients are refused certain treatments in the United States, the director noted a further difference be tween the two systems. “The United States has more of a market for medical care,” Good man said. “A patient can shop around for a doctor and for a hos pital, which isn’t the case in coun tries with national health insur ance.” Goodman believes that only competition will improve the quality of medical care in the countries studied. The biggest tip-off as to what constitutes a country with national health care is the percentage of money spent by the government on health care. The study’s findings show that in the 15 countries with socialized medicine, 84 percent of the money used in the health industry is spent by the government. The average government expenditure for the five non-socialized prog rams was 54 percent. Goodman sees a lesson for the United States coming from the study. He said the U.S. currently is experiencing “creeping nation- alism” and noted the percentage of money spent by the govern ment has doubled in the last twen ty years. Goodman said the government expenditures include the Medi care and Medicaid programs, as well as funds spent by state and local governments on health care. get t the nation b it the NAAI ing, Hooks agan adminiiirj conomic pol» ; group’s altffl! -ogram. uts in federaldf : social progra — represen! acceptable stt obey.” l Goodman said where the elder ly get short-changed is in the use ^expensive medical technology, adding that foreign hospitals are sprvices-nl! “ WeU ^PPed as their l . ,i:. Amencan counterparts, boon to theft. « Much of the for ^ cat scan machine was done in Bri- Wn, but I bet there are more cat sms in, Dallas than there are in pain, Goodman said. “In this country, every major hospital has he. Because access to the expen- r e yet necessary technology is I Ned, Goodman said some of r Entries studied would not pHit the elderly to use them. In country, persons over 60- tos-okl are not allowed to use ftmey dialysis machines, Good- ®an said.” They just tell the patients ore is nothing that can be done |p r j em anc ^ sen d them away,” Goodman said. The fact that the elderly are s 16 treatment is revealed in a Nparison of mortality rates be- ( y e s en the systems, Goodman •I H l j^ 0n ' sot ' abze d countries, ex- “J V ' 0 ^ ent deaths, have a ^ C m ? 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But it went on to accuse investi gators of racism and to blame the Reagan administration for escalat ing racial tensions by cutting social welfare budgets and showing a lack of concern for the poor. “If white children had been kil led, they would have found the criminals,” the Hungarian article said. “There is a great danger of ra cial clashes, which can spread rapidly in the U.S.A. especially because social funds have been cut by the government. The atmos phere in all black ghettos in the U.S.A. is militantly unquiet.” The Soviet news agency Tass has been straightforward over the killings, but made a point of speak ing up for the freedom of Amer icans on March 22 after two men were arrested in Atlanta for orga nizing vigilante groups. “Authorities in Atlanta have provoked an incident which might even more aggravate the tense situation,” Tass said. East Germany’s Communist LUNCH I SPECIAL I I ": .11:30 AM-4:30 PM ■ 693-2335 1 846-8861 I I I Party newspaper Neues Deutsch land and the state-run news agen cy ADN both recently lamented the killings of “Afro-American children” in Atlanta. In its March 3 report from Washington, ADN managed link them to an increased military budget and military buildup under Reagan. “More than a dozen vicars in (Atlanta) have appealed to the gov ernment in Washington to help the people living in fear and catch the murderers instead of arming to the teeth against an alleged enemy outside,” ADN said. Romania’s foreign policy maga zine Lumea made an even stran ger tie. In its March 6-12, a column entitled “Substance and Shape” began: “Physical exercise is indis pensable for human health.” It said Americans, burdened with daily work routines, have become “ever more keen on being in shape.” It said Americans use health clubs, heated swimming pools and Jacuzzis to stay in shape and said without qualification that “all Americans practice jogging. ” Only after this elaborate buil dup did Lumea get to the point of the article — racism in the United States. Its last paragraphs mentioned that two black men were shot while jogging with two white women in Cincinnati, then jumped to Atlanta. “In Atlanta, the police are after a tall, fair man who is supposed to have killed 20 black children in the past 19 months,” the foreign policy magazine wrote. “Long live the sporting shape.” NO MATTER WHAT LIFE STYLE YOU CHOOSE, THERE IS ONLY ONE REAL CHOICE FOR HAIRSTYLING... Simply Great Mexican Food. THE WEDNESDAY BPECIAI. MONTEREY DINNER Ji I Q/REG. JL«7/ $4.75 FIESTA. 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