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Show Page l'rovo, I'tah. Tuesday, March 28 -- THE HERALD, IS, 11)77 HEW Claims 409 Physicians Get $100,000 Or More in Medicare Money Act requests and in response to the new law aimed at providing more openness WASHINGTON (UPI) The government for the first time has released names of doctors and oiher providers of in health care who received $100,000 or more in Medicare payments during The list had been withheld previously because of disclosure prohibitions in Social Security laws and regulations, the department said It said information on Social Security beneficiaries, including those on Medicare, will remain 1975, Even before the list was published by the Department of Health, Kducation and Welfare under terms of the new government "sunshine" law that took effect Saturday, it was criticized strongly by the American Medical As- Shown with Medicare billings in excess of $1 million each are medical groups in such communities as Flint, Mich Danville, Pa.; Charlottesville, Ala. The Va ; and Hirmingham, Zuinbrota. Minn Health Facility billed Medicare for $22.3 million, the report said HEW said it would provide other information on Medicare payments in response to written requests and said such requests should be directed to HEW regional offices in Boston, New Yolk, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, i , payments. Releasing names serves oniy to badger a large segment of the profession and to establish guilt by innuedo " Sammons said some doctors on the list are hospital-baseradiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists or heads of clinics with large stafs working for border and has asked the United States for emergency military aid. The government-controlleZaire news agency said the "invaders" from d Angola were "led by other mercenaries coming from across the Atlantic and supported by a third country for the needs of ideological conquest." It did not identify the country, but political observers said the reference was to Cuban troops that had helped the victorious Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola during the Angolan civil war. In Washington, a State Department spokesman Monday acknowledged that President Mobutu Sese Seko has asked As the chief of the cabinet, Djuranovic is to run the government but his post largely is ceremonial in this Communist regime. them. He urged HEW to "say so" if it believes any of the listed doctors are guilty of fraud. for "materiel assistance," but he declined to elaborate. Zaire already has been allocated NEW YUKK U'PI) Ali will come out of his bouts, including 22 by knockout, and will be trained by former middleweight champion Rocky Graziano, who "lent" him his nickname. "This here kid, I saw him train, and he fights something like I do," Graziano said today. "He never takes a He walks in and throws backstep. bombs, bombs, bombs. He's big, strong and has plenty of guts, Be looks good to Muhammad short-live- d retirement and defend his world heavyweight championship in a multimillion dollar deal against "Rocky" Lorenzo Zanon of Italy in Seoul, Korea, May 10, it was announced today. Paul Corvino, who will promote the bout, has a letter of credit for $4,800,000 from the Korea Exchange Bank, most of which will be paid to Ali. He has a verbal agreement on the fight with Herbert Muhammad, Ali's manager, and anticipates the contracts will be finalized next week. Zanon, 23, has won 28 of his 30 pro t said he'll also work as "I speak interpreter American Italian, he understands me a little" and will be in his corner for the Graziano Peace programs. The State Department spokesman, Frederick Z. Brown, also announced that seven more Americans have been flown out from the battle zone to the Shaba province capital of copper-rich Lubumbasbi. Fifteen U.S. citizens missionaries, children and two Peace Corps workers have now fled the town of Sandoa, leaving behind the last two Methodist - - missionaries. Eight more Americans were confined to their homes in Kapanga, one of three towns held by the rebels and 94 miles north of Sandoa. ls - fOOLOEW VAU fight. Leon (UPI) ball whiz, was shot to death Monday night in a South Side apartment. Police said his wife, Sandra, was questioned about the shooting incident and released pending an autopsy. Hillard, 45, was dead on arrival at South Shore Hospital from a bullet which passed through his head. Homicide Sgt. William Boreczky said Hillard and his wife had been to see an attorney Monday to discuss a separation or a divorce. He said Mrs. Hillard decided to stay with her mother, who lived in an apartment below the home. Hil-lard- s' To Beat Red-Sociali- GOLDEN VALUE I Firm support, with t borders for durability Handsome quilted cover over heavy-dutpaddding for comfort, too Hillard called during refused to see him. "The next thing, he kicks in the door and she shoots him," the sergeant said. The time was 9:18 p.m. Boreczky said Hillard was shot with a .38 caliber pistol. "It was a through and through wound," he said, making it impossible to tell if he were shot in the front or the back of the head. He said the assistant state's attorney had deferred any charges pending a report from a pathologist. Boreczky said Mrs. Hillard said she was facing Hillard and she felt her life was endangered. If he were shot in the back of the head, the sergeant said, then it might be a different situation. Boreczky the night and basket- e II Mr Mom mm me." Zanon's 1 i Former Globetrotter Star Shot to Death in Chicago said - Hillard, Harlem Globetrotter she CHICAGO equipment. In addition, Zaire receives $14.6 million in the Peace Corps and Food for Out of Retirement, Again, For May 10 Fight one-tim- 2 million in military assistance for the current year. For the coming fiscal year, the Carter Administration has asked Congress to provide $32.5 million for the African country, mainly for communications and transportation $:j(J. Angolan It was the first high federal post for Djuranovic, president of the Communist party of Montenegro, one of Yugoslavia's six constituent republics. Bijedic was from d The cam-paig- to rout thousands of "mercenaries'' fighting near the President Josip Broz Tito last month proposed Veselin Djuranovic to fill the vacant post following consultations with top Communist party and government officials. Today's parliaments vote was a formality. medicare receiving - KINSHASA. Zane 1ITI1 government has stepped up its BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (UPI) -Parliament today elected a provincial Communist party leader as Yugoslavia's new prime minister to replace Dzemal Bijedic, whe was killed in an air crash eight weeks ago. Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle. Anticipating release of the list. Dr. John Sammons, executive vice president of the AMA, released a statement last week saying: "There is a basic dishonesty in the broadcast release of the names of individuals classified sociation HEW listed 409 doctors and other individual practitioners, 1,752 clinics or medical groups, and 58 laboratories as receiving $100,000 or more from Medicare. Names of Medicaid doctors who received $100,000 or more a year for their services to needy patients had been released previously. HEW said the list on Medicare, the program for the elderly, was released in response to about a dozen Freedom of Information Ali government Zaire Attempting To Rout Invaders' Yugoslavia Red Leader New Premier Bloc st Feuding French Factions Agree to Pooling Strength - PARIS (UPI Feuding Gaullist and Giscardian factions ended their rivalry today and agreed to pool their strength to beat attempts by the Communist-Socialibloc to gain control of Paris in Sunday's municipal election runoff. The peace pact between the two feuding majority factions virtually assured Gaullist leader Jacques Chirac, an opponent of President Giscard d'Estaing, of becoming mayor of Paris, his aides said Chirac and his past rival for the post of Paris mayor, Giscardian leader Michel d'Ornano. announced their decision to combine their groups' strength against the left after a two hour closed) st - Pope Paul Improves door meeting at the National Assembly building. Under the accord, D'Ornano was to throw his support behind Chirac's tickets in districts where Gaullists came out ahead in last Sunday's first round of voting in Paris. Chirac'pledged to reciprocate in districts where tickets did better than Chirac's Bally for the Republic Gaullist faction. The communique urged Parisians "who want to defend a free society to support massively with their ballots the majority list that will alone face the advocates of the Common (Leftist) d'Or-nano- pointments, including the Wednesday public audience last week after suffering his first hunt if influenza in three years The pontiff kept up with regular church work, however, and braved chil ly winds to appear for his noon blessing to pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Sun- day By Monday morning the fever was back and the Vatican doctors ordered him to take the day off A scheduled audience with the Secretariat of the World Bishops Synod was postponed program." truce Although the applied only to Paris, the end of their bitter rivalry was expected to help boost the majority's morale throughout France, political analysts said. 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