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While martial law continues in Poland, parts of the East European nation also have been hit by natural disaster. A man waves for help from the roof of his flooded home in a village near Plock recently, where the Vistula River overflowed. Hundreds were left homeless as the river spread across thousands of acres. (AP Laserphoto)

Hospital hiring Other area hospitals not following Methodist's freeze

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Although one Indianapolis hospital has instituted a hiring freeze, checks with several hospitals around the state indicate Methodist Hospital’s 60day hiring suspension may be one of a kind. Clyde D. Fields, senior vice president at Methodist, says the freeze was caused by an unexpected drop in the number of patients. The reduction is caused in part by the number of laid off workers and expiration of insurance policies, he claims. The president of the Indiana Hospital Association said Thursday he was surprised to hear about Methodist’s hiring freeze and patient reduction. But it could all be a delayed reaction to layoffs at auto plants a year ago, Elton TeKolste speculated. Normally, hospitals see more patients immediately after workers are laid off because

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they have the time for elective surgery and are still covered by company insurance. Six months later, hospital populations drop, he said. “But we never saw the drop six months after the layoffs in Kokomo,” TeKolste said. Methodist’s slump may be the “first materialization” of the normal slump following massive layoffs, he added. But TeKolste said he hasn’t heard of any other hospitals in Indiana facing a similar situation. In fact, Gary Methodist, which is located in a region of the state which had the ninth highest unemployment rate in the nation according to the most recent U.S. Labor Department statistics, is going full steam. “We’re having almost a run on hiring,” said Karen Svenningsen, Gary Methodist’s personnel director. Gary Methodist, which is not

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Abbott convicted of first-degree manslaughter

NEW YORK (AP) - A member of the jury that rejected a murder charge against Jack Henry Abbott and convicted him of first-degree manslaughter says the convictauthor was scarred by confinement and couldn’t be "judged like a normal man.” Abbott, author of a book of letters from prison and a literary protege of Pulitzer Prizewinning author Norman Mailer,

Parliament member arrested at U. S. border

BUFFALO, N Y. (AP) - Two members of the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, one a member of the British Parliament, were being held today on immigration charges after allegedly trying to sneak into the United States with phony identification. The men were bound for the annual testimonial dinner of the pro-IRA Irish Northern Aid Committee, being held tonight in New York City, according to the committee’s national publicity director, Martin Galvin. Owen Carron, 28, who was elected to Parliament after hunger striker Bobby Sands died, was arrested Thursday night at the Whirlpool Bridge, which links Niagara Falls, N.Y., with Niagara Falls, Ontario, said Benedict J. Ferro, district director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Danny Morrison, also a member of Sinn Fein, the legal political arm of the IRA the IRA itself is outlawed was

connected with Indianapolis Methodist, is planning to open 105 additional beds soon at its Merrillville facility, she said. “Last year, we were exactly on target for the whole year” in anticipated bed occupany, Ms. Svenningsen said. "We have found that our census hasn’t dragged even though there have been layoffs in this county.” Officials for Parkview Hospital at Fort Wayne, Ball Memorial at Muncie and Bloomington Hospital report the number of patients hasn’t dropped significantly, they are still hiring nurses and no hiring freezes are planned. Meanwhile, at Indianapolis Methodist, nurses’ work time will be reduced by 10 hours each over the next five weeks to prevent layoffs, said Fields. No positions will be refilled, unless they are critical. Winona Memorial Hospital at Indianapolis reports it has

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admitted on the witness stand that he stabbed 22-year-old Richard Adan, a waiter and aspiring actor, to death outside a restaurant. But he said he had killed unintentionally and in self-defense because of a "tragic misunderstanding.” The verdict “shows that it’s OK now to kill if you’re upset,” Henry Howard, Adan’s father-in-law, said angrily, adding that

arrested while trying to enter the United States over the Peace Bridge at Buffalo, Ferro said. Also arrested were two Canadians, whom Ferro refused to identify. He said the two drove the cars that carried Morrison and Carron. Ferro refused to elaborate on the charges against the four, other than to say they were immigration violations. He also refused to say where the four were being held. "We have been investigating their presence and we were aware of their desire to try and enter the United States,” Ferro said of Carron and Morrison. "Both were refused visas at American consulates overseas,” Ferro said. Galvin said Carron and Morrison each called late Thursday to say they would speak at the testimonial dinner. Carron and Morrison were in Canada at the same time as the Rev. lan Paisley, the Ulster Protestant who leads the opposition to the IRA.

reduced the number of staffed beds by 62 since it is receiving fewer patients than anticipated and patients have been staying for shorter periods. Many Hoosiers are putting off elective surgery and other procedures formerly covered by insurance, officials at Winona and Methodist hospitals said. Fields said the downturn in the economy contributed to a 5 percent reduction in planned inpatient business during the last three months of 1981. Methodist officials have not decided whether to extend the hiring freeze beyond February, he added. Meanwhile, Methodist is working with 14 other hospitals to fund a recruitment newsletter that will be sent to 5,000 registered nurses in central Indiana who are retired or who work in non-hospital settings.

Abbott “will be back on the street and he will kill again.” “It was fair,” said Mailer, who had helped secure Abbott’s release from prison and had said Abbott was “bewildered” by his “abrupt” release from prison, where he spent half of his life, into a society of which he knew little. Abbott’s conviction Thursday means he faces from 12M> years to life in prison, depending on

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Acting Justice Irving Lang’s assessment of his criminal record. Abbott has served time on several charges, including the killing of a fellow inmate, and owes 11 years on a federal sentence. He had been free six weeks in a work-release program when the stabbing took place. Lang set sentencing for Feb. 24. He ordered that Abbott be

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held in isolation and given a psychiatric test. The jury returned the verdict on Abbott’s 38th birthday, during its second day of deliberations. As juror Michael Lucas left the courtroom, he said to the defendant, “Happy birthday, Jack Abbott.” The jury believed Abbott was under the influence of an “extreme emotional disturbance” when he intentionally killed

Adan last July 18, said juror Salvatore Arpa, a 53-year-old subway conductor. “I took into consideration when he was a young boy, being in foster homes, being locked up for long periods of time. It would leave a scar on anyone,” Arpa said of Abbott, who has spent 24 years of his life in confinement. “I think we gave him a fair judgment,” said juror Ronda.

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