Show Standard-Examine- NATIONAL 4A Saturday April 20 1991 Animal rights rally fights use of dogs r the races At Surgical staples company fights back NORWALK Conn (AP) — More than 400 animal rights e shouted and barked the headquarters of United States Surgical Corp on Friday in their 10th annual protest against the company’s use ofhve dogs m demonstrations of its surgical staplers The rally was the First protest against the company since it began an aggressive $2 million advertising campaign in January to sway public opinion about the use of animals in medical re- ads ask the public to consider the setbacks the medical community would suffer if animals were not ac-mi- out-sd- used for research At a news conference before Leon C Hirsch company chairman denied that dogs are used as selling props He said the dogs are used for the demonstration purposes after the training staplers have been purchased He said just over 1000 dogs a year are used and called FOA’s claims “pure hokum" The protest was the third since an animal rights activist in 1988 was charged with attempted murder after planting a pipe bomb near Hirsch’s parking space at the company headquarters The activist Fran Trutt pleaded no contest to the charges and was released from prison in February Earlier this week US Surgical reported record first quarter sales and earnings The company said profits nearly doubled to $162 million while sales jumped 80 percent to $190 million About 5 police officers directg ed traffic around the crowd of noisy but peaceful demonstrators Many protesters wore fake dog noses search US Surgical headquartered in Norwalk Conn is the world’s largest manufacturer of surgical staplers which are used in place of sutures Many of the devices also cut and reattach tissue in one step resulting m shorter surgical procedures Priscilla Feral president of Norwalk-base- d Friends of Animals and organizer of the protest Said the company’s use of dogs to demonstrate its surgical staplers was a sales promotion tool that was needlessly resulting in the deaths of at least 10000 dogs a 1 1 sign-totin- year Feral called the company’s ad campaign “morally reprehensible” The newspaper and radio John Foraker of Las Cruces NM hitches a skateboard ride with the help of his dog ‘Doc’ Foraker says the ‘sprinter’ sled dog pulls him down a mph as practice at speeds reaching 30 hill Bush moves to soften new nursing home restraints Knighl Ridder Newspapers House” said Hollis Turnham Michi- WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has proposed gutting new national guidelines that would make it harder for nursing homes to tie down or drug residents against their will The abrupt policy change came as a task force of more than 100 federal inspectors descended on California last month to enforce the new guidelines which are intended to improve the quality of life of the elderly residents But California’s Republican Governor Pete Wilson persuaded the Bush administration to back off the new standard and instead rewrite the new nursing home inspection guidelines which took effect m most states last Oct Advocates of nursing home reform say the proposed revision strips the most important provision of a landmark federal law designed to toughen regulation of nursing homes: the requirement that they went beyond the scope of nursing care home reforms enacted by Congress in gan’s ombudsman for “If successful in this the state of Cali- 1987 That law established that residents fornia will undercut the work of 49 have the right to self determination states the District of Columbia and about such things as health care activiPuerto Rico in implementing this law" ties and their daily schedule she said For example it restricts the use of rereasons such as Spokesmen for the White House and straints for Office of Management and Budget rethe convenience of the staff or discifused to comment But a spokesman for pline Restraints on nursing home resthe Health Care Financing Administraidents have serious physical and tion which oversees Medicaid denied psychological side effects: bed sores Friday that the agency is “watering weakened bones urinary tract infections down” its nursing home enforcement and a gradual loss of basic functions like HCFA spokesman Bob Hardy said the eating and going to the bathroom acagency agreed to revise the inspection cording to gerontology researchers Failure to comply could result in a guidelines at California’s request because now “they’re1 going to inspect nursing nursing home losing its eligibility for homes according to the law and they’re Medicaid which pays the bills for 65 doing it today” percent of nursing home residents Before the agreement California had However officials in California — flatly refused to comply with the new where as many as two out of every three inspection guidelines contending that nursing home residents are kept under Before the agreement California had flatly refused to comply with the new inspection guidelines long-ter- m non-medic- al individual residents give their informed consent before any chemical or physical restraints are used on them They say it will also enable nursing homes to evade strict new standards — governing everything from staffing level to nutrition — if they can show compliance would be too expensive Work on the revised guidelines which were sent to the states for comment this past week might be finished as early as April 30 The changes affect all 50 states “Something is wrong when a national law can be changed with a phone call from the state of California to the White 1 some kind of restraint — vehemently protested that compliance with the new rule would cost $400 million to $600 million a year Wilson protested the new rules to Bush on Feb 14 A month later on March 12 he publicly thanked the White House for its help when HCFA agreed to rewrite guidelines “It appears that changes will be made so California won’t waste millions of dollars implementing bureaucratically mandated measures that new guidelines Woman arrested for using crime computer Knight Ridder Newspapers Information Center computer “She was thinking of marrying the guy and just wanted to see if he’d eve been arrested” said Sunrise Police Lt John Puleo “This was not one of my favorite SUNRISE Fla — Before she gave her heart away Sunrise police aide Debbie Gallagher thought she’d take a peek at the national crime computer police say just to make sure her boyfriend hadn’t ever been arrested He had been — and she was about to be First Gallagher found her boyfriend’s DUI charge Shortly thereafter she acquired a criminal record of her own when she was arrested Thursday for misusing the National Criminal started getting serious about a new beau Stephen Pitzel of Long Island NY Somebody at the department noticed when Gallagher peeked into the computer in December say Sunrise police Her superiors found out and Pitzel was picked up in January to face 30 days m arrests” The law is tough on 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