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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER MGite Etas Tue.day, April 23, 1991 A-9 Study: Youths lack good health care Id sits 11 Mps Health Insurance coverage For youths aged 10 to 18 Mi 'fan ASSOCIATED PRESS Lockheed's YF-22 was one of two designs for the new weapons system. Lockheed wins huge fighter jet contract Research suggests school centers could provide aid By Deborah Mesce ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Many adolescents cannot get needed health services because they lack health insurance or face other barriers to care, a congressional research agency said Monday. A study by the Office of Technology Assessment found that youths aged 10 to 18 are not as healthy as they are presumed to be and need more effective and accessible health care. The OTA report suggested "a more sympathetic, supportive approach to adolescents," and said development of school-based health centers may be one way to provide better health care for this age group. OTA researchers found that one in seven youths aged 10 to 18 has no health insurance, and one-third of poor adolescents are not covered by Medicaid.

Minorities are the least served, the report said. Half of all black, Hispanic, American Indian and native Alaskan adolescents live in families who are at or below the poverty level. Seventeen percent of white, non-Hispanic adolescents live in families who are poor or near poor. The poverty level was $12,675 for a four-member family in 1989. Adolescents face other barriers, including health insurance benefits that don't entirely cover needed services, such as mental health care, the report said.

Requirements that they have parental consent or notification are Not covered: 4.6 million Annual visit to private physicians Average annual to office-based physicians In 1985 p- SOURCE: U.S. OfflM of Teohnok AtMMfmnt ASSOCIATED PRESS also obstacles to health care, including abortion and contraceptive services, it said. I Covered by hearth Insurance; million 86.2 By W.Dale Nelson ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Air Force Tuesday chose a team led by Lockheed Corp. to build its fighter plane of the future, the Advanced Tactical Fighter. Lockheed's team defeated one led by Northrop Corp.

for the $95 billion project, the richest aerospace contract in history, in a 54-month competition. The announcement was seen as a blow to California's economy and its aerospace industry. Had the contract gone to Northrop, the plane would have been built in Southern California, providing employment for an estimated 21,000 people. Lockheed, whose corporate 'Shipwreck survivor7 arrested in 7 82 case tensive use of military jets for private and political purposes. The White House documents said Sununu's "personal" use of' government jets included two visits to a dentist in Boston, a trip to Newark, NJ.

for a football game and a visit to his parents in Key Largo, Fla. Among the political trips was the April 1 visit to Columbia, S.C., to attend the funeral of former National Republican Committee Chairman Lee Atwater. The Republican National Committee was billed $17,568 for the trip, which included 31 guests, but the amount has not yet been paid, the records showed. Included among the Sununu trips the White House deemed to be "official" business were two skiing jaunts a 1989 trip to Salt Lake City and Vail, and a 1990 trip to Aspen, Colo. On the 1989 Vail trip, where Sununu was listed as a "Ski Magazine speaker," the records also show that the chief of staff brought his wife, and reimbursed the Treasury $1,220 for her air fare.

On the 1990 Aspen trip, at, which Sununu gave another Ski Magazine address and also addressed the "American Ski Foundation," the chief of staff travelled at taxpayers' expense but reimbursed the government $1,524 for Nancy Sununu's fare. Scowcroft took government aircraft on 23 trips between March 7, 1989, and Oct. 26, 1990. All of the trips were listed as official except one a ski vacation with his' daughter to Utah on March 10, 1990. He reimbursed the govern- ment $1,052, the White House' said.

Scowcroft took other trips that were not listed by the White House in the documents released to reporters for national security reasons, said Fitzwater. For example, Scowcroft's two trips to China in the summer of 1989 were not listed on the forms. The White House report consisted of three pages each for Sununu and Scowcroft, listing only "itinerary;" the "purpose" of each flight; whether it was official, polit- ical or personal; and the amount of reimbursement for non-official; trips. There was no further elaboration. The White House almost never releases details on the cost of presidential and staff travel.

The administration has said that Sununu and Scowcroft the i top two staff members in the White House travelled on mili- i tary jets under a 1987 policy direc-! tive authorizing, but not requiring, them to do so. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that Sununu helped prepare the list of his own trips, which he also authorized. For home delivery call 1-800-345-EXAM headquarters is in Los Angeles, will build the plane in Marietta, Ga. Air Force Secretary Donald Rice announced the selection. He said the new plane was designed to give American pilots of the future "first look and first kill" in aerial combat and ensure "American air superiority well into the next cen-, tury." Lockheed, Boeing and General Dynamics will develop and build 650 of the radar-evading jets over the next 20 years.

The ATF is designed to replace the F-15 Eagle, a star of the gulf war, starting in the year 2005. Air Force specifications called for the new plane to have about double the range of the F-15, be more maneuverable and be harder for enemy radar to detect. to the show's hot line. Dozier faces extradition to California where he faces other charges related to the alleged insurance fraud involving the boat. He had been living in Hawaii under the name Bob Johnson, the spokesman said.

An FDIC INSURED TO $100,000 rr (LI Offer Other bonus rates Military jets used for 24 'political' jaunts; 4 journeys termed 'personal' By Tom Raurn ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON White House Chief of Staff John Sununu took 77 trips on military jets over the past 27 months, with 24 classified as political and just four as personal, the White House said Tuesday. The remaining 49 were deemed to be "official trips." Those included a December 1989 trip to Vail, and frequent trips to Sunu-nu's home state of New Hampshire, according to a list released by the White House. The government was reimbursed a total of $47,044 for the trips, White House records showed. The tabulation provided by the administration did not show the true cost of any of the trips. Some of the reimbursements were paid by the Republican Party and some by Sununu, either for himself or for his wife, Nancy, the list indicated.

The White House released a list of trips taken by both Sununu and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft after news accounts disclosed that Sununu had made ex- Documents released by the White House Tuesday detailed these personal trips aboard military jets by Chief of Staff John Sununu: A January 1990 trip to Newark for a football game, for which Sununu reimbursed the government $200. An April 1990 trip to Boston to the dentist, $460. An April 1990 trip to West Palm Beach, from Key Largo, Fla to see parents, $167. A December 1990 trip to Boston for another visit to the dentist, $420. Sununu reimbursed the government at commercial air-fare rates for the personal trips.

The records did not show the true cost of the trips. Official trips, for which the government was not reimbursed, included: A December 1989 ski trip to Salt Lake City and Vail, Colo. Sununu was listed as a Ski Magazine speaker. A Dec. 1990 ski trip to Aspen, Colo.

Sununu gave another Ski Magazine speech and addressed the American Ski Foundation. Frequent trips to Suriunu's home state of New Hampshire. EXAMINER GRAPHICS Georgian gold pan ASSOCIATED PRESS UAriL.UJNHiiiA, ua. ine gold-panning pride of the South has been saved. Although the nation's first major gold rush occurred in 1828 in the hills surrounding this northern Georgia town, the gold panning circuit has been dominated by Westerners for more than 30 years.

But on Sunday, a local man won the World Championship Gold Panning Competition, sifting eight nuggets from a pan of sand in 8.57 seconds. "It's about time," said Johnny Parker, the 20-year-old champion. Parker runs a gold-panning concession on Dahlonega's historic courthouse square. Because the town in recent years has fashioned a popular tourist lure out of its gold mining past, he gets lots of practice. Contestants dip a pan full of sand and eight tiny gold nuggets into a trough of water, then slosh the pan's contents around, using heavy body English.

The winner is the person who washes the sand off jS'' M' iff o-c rf jjatisKjigmiiiaa One of pair seized after telling about collision at sea; fraud suspected in unsolved mystery By Lon Daniels OF THE EXAMINER STAFF On Nov. 13, 1982, two men said they had washed ashore in a cove near Stinson Beach after the wreck at sea of their 51-foot yacht. They said two female companions had been lost. Within two weeks, as suspicion about the boat's registration and the men's names grew, the pair dropped from sight. One of the men, Robert Dozier, was arrested last Thursday by FBI agents in Paauhau, Hawaii, following a phone tip received after the case was aired on a segment of the NBC-TV series "Unsolved Mysteries," spokesmen for the series said.

i Dozier, then 35, and his alleged: partner, John Russell, then 45, are wanted for questioning in the purported sinking of the boat, "Freedom II." The men had claimed that the vessel had sunk after being hit by a freighter. But no trace of the boat was ever found. And there were allega tions that the Freedom II might i have been the same boat reported stolen nine months earlier from one of Russell's acquaintances. There were also Nevada mar riage records indicating that Rus-' sell and Dozier were married to the same woman reported missing twice under different names Suzanne Russell and Cherie Anne Dozier. That woman and Kristen Tom-lin, 19, were reported missing when the vessel sank.

Dozier was being held on a warrant for grand theft that was issued in Los Angeles in 1979, the spokes-. man said. The segment featuring Dozier was originally broadcast in Novem-, ber 1988. It was rebroadcast on; March 3, 1989, which resulted a tip Tax Exempt Income Something May be Missing. Own assets that pay you tax-free income Do they include tax exempt Municipal Leases? mNott Municipal Lease Partners "Expanding Your Tax-Free Alternatives' 41 5989-3575 800777-6573 No Btokers, Please Get the news as it happens! For home delivery call 1-800-345-EXAM Introductory Offer To New Customers.

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