Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday July 14 1999 — Page 5 World' Nation Pakistani shells hit Indian city Hardline activists hold Iran rally DUBAI United Arab Emirates clerics (AP) — Iran's hard-lin- e mobilized tens of thousands of supporters at a rally today to counter six days of demonstrations and unrest on a scale unseen in two decades A senior Iranian cleric said at the rally that protesters who damaged public property during the previous demonstrations would be tried as enemies of the state a charge punishable by death Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the country's supreme leader who is has allied with the hard-linesought to deflect blame for the days of protests by accusing the United States and the “mean and wretched enemies of Islam" of fomenting trouble MUSHKOH VALLEY India (AP) — Pakistani artillery shells hit an Indian city in Kashmir today even as some Islamic fighters withdrew from India's portion of the territory India sent reconnaissance jets line that oyer the 1972 cease-fir- e divides Kashmir to ensure that Pakistan-base- d fighters are moving back from bunkered positions they had seized on strategic heights Despite Pakistan's agreement with President Clinton to take "concrete steps” to end the fighting in Kashmir its artillery has shelled India's only highway through northern Kashmir for two consecutive nights and intermittently hit tow ns and villages In Islamabad Foreign Ministry spokesman Tariq Altaf denied Pakistani troops were continuing to fire on Indian positions “To my knowledge we are not involved in any shelling" Artillery fire however has come from positions inside Pakistan where Pakistani troops are positioned The Islamic fighters are not known to have artillery Indian officers speculate it is meant to cover the retreat although India had agreed Sunday during a meeting between (he two nations' military chiefs that withdrawing fighters would not he fired upon pro-refor- Witness to wore: Ghulam Rasool 67 stands outside his home in Goshan village in the heart of the current battlezone in Himalayan Kashmir on Tuesday Rasool was also witness to the incursion by Pakistani forces into Kashmir in Iran's e activists and said about one million people took part The figure could not he independently confirmed but pictures hard-lin- showed the area overflowing 1947 The shelling continued into the daylight hours today hitting the Indian (own of Dras where India has a major military presence Four houses were damaged ones to make sure patients get early prenatal care it timely shots and other preventive treatment researchers reported today The study in today's Journal of (he American Medical Associa- with people including women in black Islamic robes chanting slo- infiltrators in Mushkoh Valley to the west of Dras and Batalik to the cast In Batalik officers said their soldiers can see Islamic fighters who have taken positions line right on the cease-fir- e and the Public Citizen Health Research Group a consumer group that favors a government-controlle- d health insurance system The findings come as Congress debates legislation this week to enhance HMO consumer rights The findings have long been suspected because health plans generally spend a higher proportion of the money they receive in premiums on patient care compared with s That's because have to satisfy investors and pay higher wages to top executives More than two-thirof the HMOs are nation's 300-plu- s about three times the level for-pro- fit for-prof- ils ds for-pro- fit in 198S The findings were disputed by and not-fHMOs — both profit — as well as the HMO for-pro- or accrediting organization whose data were used in the study “Making these broad generalizations makes us uncomfort- - Khamenei and hear speeches by clerics Thousands more unable to squeeze in stood in the streets outside “Death to America death to hypocrites" the demonstrators years of strict and fnisiiniing Islamic rule step down and Khatami be allowed to cany on with his social and demociaiie health insurance system The quality of care HMOs Patients at are more likely to receive preventative care than patients HMOs Here at investor-owne- d are some percentages of tests and treatments received For-prof- HMOs it Non-prof- HMOs it AP photo One of many hardline Muslim clerics leads tens during a rally outside Tehran University today chanted “Our blood is our gift to our leader" others shouted Hassan Rowhani the deputy chief of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said “those who destroyed public property and went on the rampage and committed aggression against the Islamic system will he tried in our courts us mohareh and mofsed" Mohareh and mofsed are terms used to identify die-haopponents of (he republic The punishment for anyone found to he mofsed Farsi for corrupt on earth is death The rally sent a signal that hard-linearc in no mood to give in to reformist President rd rs of thousands of people Mohammad Khatami a moderate clergy man and a hero of live student-led protesters demanding more freedom Many people held aloft pictures of Khamenei hut none of Khatami were seen demonstratThe ions which hue left two people dead and scores injured or arrested mark the first lime Iranians hae taken to the streets en masse since the 1979 Islamic Revolupro-refor- m foreign enemies have been destruction of pco engaged in pie's properties" lie said “the mean and wretched enemies of Islam and the revolution" think that Irani uns would let them allow the “criminal United Stales" lodom inate Iran tion that overthrew the shah and installed the US-buck- clergy's rule The unrest begun when police without authorization stormed a Tehran University dormitory on Friday hours after students rallied lift from the report con- trolled by the government “Even if I accept their flawed analysis managed care still does twice as well as the health plans" said Susan Pisano spokeswoman for the American Association of Health Plans a trade group that represents both for profit and plans Using 1996 patient care data 639 723 694 they performed in 14 areas such as prenatal care infant immunization and breast cancer screen- 751 ing Mammography Pap Smear In every category the had higher rates than the Not HMOs screened an average of 731 percent of women for breast cancer comfor-profi-ts 692 771 V for-pro- fit Early prenatal care 831 885 pared with 694 percent for plans As a result the study estimated that nearly investor-owne-d Beta blockers for heart patients 6000 additional breast cancer 592 706 Source: Journal at the American Metical AP deaths would occur in the United States if all women between ages of 30 and 69 were enrolled in AsMCUtion investor-owne- d able" said Margaret O' Kane president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance a HMO accredWashington-base- d iting group She said health plan performance varies significantly even within the same region and among plans owned by the same company Industry officials criticized researchers for saying the results justify the need for a national rather that plans About 48 percent of diabetics But one executive with a HMO faulted the methods study’s “I don’t buy it" said Dr James Moffat senior vice president for medical affairs at Miami-base- d d Health Plans Moffat and other critics argued (hat comand paring HMOs is unfair because in most cases they operate differently plans such as Kaiser Pcrmanente usually have their own staff of doctors who Av-Mc- for-pro- the researchers analyzed 329 HMOs according to how well Infant Immunization 8 reforms One protest numbered an esti mated 23000 most have been about 10000 On Monday (he protesters lam paged after police dispersed them with tear gas They burned empty buses smashed shop windows and tried to burn down the oft ices of the hard-lin- e Kuylian new spa per before they were sloped by police witnesses said by tele phone In a statement Khamenei said “a group of vicious people slip ported by certain bankrupt politi cal groups and encouiuged by HMOs higher not-for-pro- fit fit compromises patient care “Our study suggests that these plans are associated with reduced quality of care" said researchers from Harvard Medical School gans and waving Iran's flags Their number appeared to be in the tens of thousands Iranian television said many Officers said Indian soldiers people gathered inside the were wounded in exchanges of sprawling grounds of Tehran Unismall arms fire with resistant versity to show solidarity with tion concluded that HMOs' moneymaking mission for-pro- television state-ru- n One person was killed and 20 were injured ban! line clerics apparently hacked tin move The government fired twi security chiefs and repi unuuled a third hut the punishments lailei to appease protesteis who have gathered every day in lehiui ami at least seven other cities to ver--i anger One demand often lieiul at has been that Klumenei who has come to lepiesent jc m monitored in Dubai broadcast live pictures of today's rally by 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