Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - July 25, 1997, Syracuse, New York Personal Line FRIDAY JULY 1997 JOHN J SMITH'S MARKETS DIES AT 65 THE 1997 The herald Corf pany GOOD MORNING The tall ships are coming to Oswego's and that includes a replica of the HMS Bounty the setting of the world's most famous mutiny Visitors can pay to walk on the ship that Marlon Brando stood on in the 1962 film on the The Weekend section also offers a map and a complete schedule See inside Computing Everybody gels into the act with Oswego Schools web and the kids and teachers are winning awards cny Web Site of the Week checks it the Emmys lead again leads the pack among series earning Emmy landing 22 but HBO was the surprise leader among networks when the contenders for TVs top awards were announced grabbing 90 nominations to 89 HBO also had the top comedy Larry Sanders tapped 16 the most ever for a comedy series See Page High court to lilted return the ring Upholding Emily the sas Supreme says the nng goes back if an engagement is broken Only in gross and situations would an ment ring remain with the ent when the wedding is called the high court ruled Thursday The ruling came in a case brought by Jerod a commodities broker in Wichita who proposed to Heather in 1994 He gave her a gold and diamond ring A year he broke the en- gagement When Parrish refused to return the he sued The Supreme Court ruled that an engagement nng becomes the property of the recipient only when the marriage occurs should Jerod be rewarded for having broken the engagement said dissenting appeals Judge Marquardt etiquette books say that if the engagement's the nng goes back to whoever said wedding planner Lyn na just like putting a down payment on News Service Reports Corrections To discuss a call the executive editor at THE SUN RETURNS A gentle northerly breeze will pany a warm 34 LOWM Local Bus Local Cal Television NO 272 Cunanan Begged for Passport One last getaway failed for a suspected killer cornered on a boat News Service Reports MIAMI Fla Andrew nanan called someone he knew in a effort to obtain a false passport and failing he stuck a handgun in his mouth and shot the FBI said Thursday The suspected killer claimed his last victim himself late in the upstairs master bedroom of a boat miles from the spot where ion designer Gianni Versace was slam was no suicide note and no correspondence to reflect why he com- mitted the Miami Beach Police Chief Richard Barreto said It is clear that he wanted to escape William deputy director of the said at a Washington news ence that a nervous and agitated nan was in touch with within 48 hours of the Versace slaying They discussed who on the East Coast might have passports was out of places to said Doyle Jordan of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was no other place to Cunanan was cornered in a houseboat owned by a socialite who claims to be a diplomat of the Principality of Sealand The unrecognized issues its own passports The Torsten drives a bearing diplomatic plates from the so-called principality He reportedly faces fraud charges m Germany A former British gun installation six miles off the English en- tire land mass equals the size of a ball diamond It declared from England in saying the mother country had abandoned it Its sovereignty has been in dispute ever since No connection between and has been but authorities said Thursday they were closely investigating the matter last Suicide leaves lingering questions and an open Page ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS 1 Andrew Cunanan August Male 35 CENTS Y The FBI signaled the end of its manhunt Thursday by placing a diagonal red banner across Andrew nan's picture on the agency's Most list on its World Wide Web site pageone AP MIDGET RACING GETS KIDS ON TRACK Josh of Jordan leads the pack during a et qualifying race Thursday at the state fairgrounds The cuse Quarter Midget Club is the host for the Eastern FRANK Grand which has attracted 326 racers 5 to 16 years old from across the United States The event continues with more qualifying today Finals are Saturday See Page Medicare Changes Would Put CNY Hospitals under the Knife Four hospitals in Onondaga County face the biggest cuts By ROBERT GAVIN Washington Bureau Central New York hospitals would lose more than million over the next five years under to overhaul the national health care program for the elderly and disabled Most of that about lion would come from Onondaga County's four major hospitals The cuts could force the tals to back or close reduce staff or offer fewer medical hospital administrators warn The estimated by the Health Association of New York would come as President Clinton and Congress try to squeeze some billion in ings out of the Medicare system to help balance the budget by 2002 The savings also are needed to keep the system solvent for er 10 without it will go broke in about four according to the trustees who over- see Medicare While hospitals would bear the the changes would mean higher premiums for the elderly and lower payments for some tors Under consideration Raising the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 67 years old That favored by the Senate but opposed by the House and appears unlikely to make the final Requiring ple to pay more in Medicare ance premiums The proposal would increase premiums for single retirees with annual incomes above and couples with incomes above Increasing monthly premiums from today to about in 2002 That's about a month more than Medicare users would pay in 2002 if the law were left un- changed Requiring a for visits by home health care workers Adding including coverage for pap smears and other at a cost of about billion Capping the share of costs paid by older people for outpatient services Expanding the role of aged care by giving patients more choices in plans that include health maintenance organizations The also would allow doctors and tals to form their own Medicare managed care networks Permitting a limited number of medical savings accounts Under this experimental the government would deposit the cost of Medicare coverage in a tax-free account The beneficiary would buy a low-cost policy and set aside the balance of the money for other medical expenses Cutting reimbursement rates for some doctors for ex- would see their the base on which are calculated drop from about to Cutting support about billion over five years for Medicare going broke Trustees report that the Medicare trust fund will go in the red in 2001 Medicare FUND AT YEAR IN BILLIONS -300 1997 2001 2004 In Reduce payments to doctors particularly for retirees Raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67 years old patients the choice to join managed care plans KRT ing hospitals The wants to redirect part of the payments to managed care nies to support medical education Freezing hospital ment rates in then reducing the increases in subsequent years next Employees more likely to haw heart attacks than bosses are A study of British civil servants suggests that a feeling of little or no control at work explains why the Dagwoods and Dilberts of the world have a greater risk of heart disease 50 cent higher than their bosses The study in The a British medical used data from a study of men and women employed in the British civil tracked irom 1983 lo 1933 issue of control I think is a relatively new idea tow-authority can put workers like the loon character at for heart attacks but certainly one that makes a lot of says Dr Robert professor of physiology at Washington University in St Louis Asked if bosses are a big source of job Carney but not high at work is associated with increased incidence of independently of measures of and low control is associated with higher plasma the study concludes Elevated levels of a protein that rells together to form could increase the risk of a heart attack Carney urges his own take as much con- trol over your life as Stand up to the or get a new job Sot Page Lawmakers spouses lobby to solve budget From the hell hath no fury Legislative their summer vacation plans on the verge of crashing and are putting pressure on lawmakers to pass a state already It's 116 days late today Lawmakers are tethered to Albany while their leaders Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver duke it out in secret with Gov George Pataki So have your OTTI meeting legislative spouses and don't invite the troika Come up with your own solution to the budget crisis Or in that the leaders make a deal Or go public After voters will make you pay when election time rolls around Either or risk alienating the home con- that matters Columnist Gus Page on school Page William Brennan Brennan Shaped Liberal Court Idealist or activist or William Brennan steered the Supreme Court toward individual rights Knight-Ridder Sen ite WASHINGTON Retired Justice William J Brennan one of the most important al idealists ever to serve on the Supreme died He was 91 In a ure that spanned nearly 34 years and more than Brennan Brennan shaped America's expanding ideas of civil rights and equality and was the court's leading opponent of the death penally He extended the rights of individual press consumer and environmental re- sponsibility devotion to the of Rights inspired millions of Americans and countless young law including President Clinton said Thursday Clinton ordered flags at federal buildings flown at half-mast Brennan was born in the son of an Irish grant father who was a fire er and labor leader As a Brennan would pick up fresh milk at a farm in the morning and it all the way up to the which was two and then in the afternoon I would deliver Poor health forced Brennan to retire in 1990 He buffered a broken hip last year and con- pneumonia In the and Brennan's opinions defined new views favoring abortion rights and affirmative action and ning capital punishment Unlike the who believe their job is strictly to divine the intentions of the was an he said before he retired approach my responsibility as a justice as a 20th century not confined to the vision in he said ultimate question must I what do the words of the Constitution and the of Rights mean to us in our the life of times of William J Ir Syracuse Link to historic Supreme Court cases back to including sound files of oral arguments
