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Canadians to sell health care to Americans TORONTO (AP) — Attention Ameri cans: Cheap, government-subsidized health care for sale. High-quality surgery at low cost. Why pay more in Toledo when you can i get it for less in Toronto? Toronto Hospital, the largest acute-care facility in Canada, and the Hospital for Sick Children, one of the best pediatric centers in the country, will begin marketing their ser vices south of the border in the next few months. Dozens of other institutions may follow. The plan’s proponents say it will bring badly needed millions into hospitals chroni cally short of funds. Others feel it will mean poorer service for Canadians in favor of rich Americans. ~ The Ontario government, for the mo ment, seems to be sitting on the fence, though I lealth Minister Ruth Grier says she does not sut port aggressive marketing of services outside the province. Nonetheless, the province has looked at the issue. A government study shows Ontario hospitals could make more than $80 million U.S. and create 645 jobs by serving Ameri cans. Hudson’sexplanationof the plan is simple. All Ontario hospitals have excess capac ity, beds closed due to funding cutbacks. By bringing in patients and money from out side, hospitals will be able to open more beds, hire back staff and, as a result, shorten waiting lists for Canadians. Up for sale will be such high-tech ser vices as bone marrc w transplants at $80,000 each, brain tumor surgery, head and neck surgery and complicated cataract surgery. The Canadian hospitals won’t be luring individual patients, but will attempt to sell services to the insurance companies, pre ferred provider organizations and health maintenance organizations. A salesman has been hired jointly by the two hospitals and will hit the road in a couple of months. But money is a problem throughout the system. The new provincial budget, to be made public Friday, is expected to contain deep cuts in the health care program, the single largest budgetitem,and hospitals will be squeezed once again. Americans with litigous inclinations might want to think twice, however. Mil lion-dollar malpractice suits are unheard-of in Canada. The Supreme Court has set a limit on general damages at $225,000 U.S., and punitive damage awards are paltry. Bringing suits in U.S. courts for malprac tice in Canada is iffy, but not impossible. Treating Americans is nothing new. The same is true for Toronto Hospital, whose reputation is equal to that of the best American institutions. Both hospitals are talking about small numbers for 18-24 months, then a review. If it’s a success, they will expand he program. With 44,000 in-patients a year, adding fewer than 100 is a drop in the bucket to Toronto Hospital. New Holocaust Museum A museum of a different kind, stark and disturbing, is now opened to the public as a memorial to the millions slaughtered in World War II by a Germany determined to eliminate all Jews. Survivors dedicate Holocaust museum WASHINGTON (AP) — A half century and a world away from the gaschambersof Auschwitz, Majdanek and Chelmno, a new Holocaust mu seum was dedicated Thursday to teach future generations the lessons of what one survivor called “the black hole in time, the black hole in history.” Before 7,000 people, many of them survivors of the concentration camps erected by Nazi Germany in World War II with a mission to exterminate the Jews, came a repeated admoni tion: Never again. From Elie Wiesel, who won a Nobel Prize for his efforts to keep the Holo caust memory alive, came this recol i lection: “In Poland, SS officers used Jew ish infants for target practice. The only emotion they ever showed was anger when they missed,” he said. “In Kiev, an SS officer beheaded two Jewish children in front of their mother, who in her anguish, in prey of some mystical madness, held them close to her bosom and began to dance. In Romania, the Iron Guard hanged Jews on meal hooks and displayed them in butcher shops, with signs, ‘Kosher Meat.’” Through starvation, execution and overwork, Hitler’s henchmen ex ecuted 6 million Jews, two-thirds of the pre-war population of Europe, in the drive for a “Final Solution/’ President Clinton said the museum bound “one of the darkest lessons in history to the hopeful soul of America.” Wiesel said, “Mr. President, I can not not tell you something. I have been in the former Yugoslavia last fall. I cannot sleep since (because of) what I have seen_We must stop the bloodshed in that country.” The president said “ethnic cleans ing” in Bosnia was “but the most brutal and blatant” example of evil in the world today. The museum reminds the world “again and again how fragile arc the safeguards of civilization,” he said. Throughout the ceremony, the de risive chants of demonstrators, who spread the falsehood that the Holo caust was a hoax, could be heard by the crowd. Foes of gay rights debate differently WASHINGTON (AP) — Some preach fire and brimstone from the pulpit or distribute lurid videotapesof homosexuals parading in San Fran cisco. Others simply call their mem bers of Congress to oppose lifting the military’s ban on gays. The opponents of expanded gay rights, from televangelists to ordinary citizens, won’t be out in force this weekend during a major gay rights march in the nation’s capital. Their vocal arguments that giving homosexuals expanded rights will weaken America’s military and cor rupt the nation’schildrcn already reso nate from the television airwaves to the top levels of government. “Homosexuals are seeking gov ernmental approval of their unnatural or immoral lifestyle,” said Robert Dugdn, Washington director of the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 50,000 churches. “It’s a behavioral question, not a discrimination or civil rights ques tion. It seems to me that homosexuals should not have special governmental acknowledgement of their lifestyle any more than child molesters or adul terers should.” Organizers predict as many as 1 million gay righisaciivisls will march in Washington on Sunday in support of expanded civil rights legislation to protect gaysand an end to the military’s ban on homosexuals. Groups opposing the gay rights agenda range from veterans’ organi zations opposed to lifting the military ban toreligiouscvangclists, anti-abor lion groups, mainstream religious or ganizations and grassroots coalitions. Some prefer slinging rhetorical attacks like the one launched by tele vision commentator and GOP presi dential candidate Pat Buchanan at last summer’s Republican National Con vention. When PrcsidcntClinlon announced in January he was ordering an end to the ban On gays in the military, reli gious broadcaster Pat Robertson urged viewers of his “700 Club” to call Congress. “When lawlessness is abroad in this land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany,” Robertson said. “Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists; many of them were homo sexuals.” Sound of sonnets to saturate UNL today From Staff Reports Events in the fourth annual Shakespeare Day will take place to day in Avery Hall. Organizers of the event plan to commemorate William Shakespeare’s birthday by reading his works and paying homage to his creativity. Steven Bunler, an assistant profes Nebraskan Editor Chris Hopfenspsrgsr 472- 17M Managing Editor Alan Phelps Assoc. News Editors Wendy Mott Tom Malnelll Editorial Page Editor Jeremy Fitzpatrick Wire Editor Todd Coo par Copy Desk Editor Kathy Stelnauer Sports Editor John Adkisson Art Director Scott Maurer General Manager DanShattH Production Manager Katharine Poilcky Advertising Manager Jay Cruse Senior Acct. Ease. Bruce Kroese Classified Ad Manager Karan Jackson Publications Board Chairman Doug Fiedler 436-7862 Professional Adviser Don Walton . 473- 7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1781 The Dally NebraskartUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34.1400 R St.. Lincoln. NE. Monday through Friday during the academic year; weakly during summer sessions. 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Following the first readings, there will be a showing of the latest film version of Shakespeare’s work, “Much Ado About Nothing,” which will start at 11 a.m. The readings will resume at 1 p.m. and last until 3:30 p.m. Shakespeare Day is sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, an En glish honorary society. Housing Continued from Page 1 Legal Services before choosing a land lord. “We keep lists of landlords that students have complained about, and what kinds of complaints they have lodged,” she said. Some students opt for the univer sity as a landlord by rooming in a residence hall for the summer. Selleck Hall has 612 available beds, and Fedde Hall on East Campus is offering 40 single rooms for summer student housing. But Sue Gildersleeve, assistant director of housing for business af fairs, said the rooms were filling up fast. Gildersleeve said the number of applicants seeking university housing was slightly higher than in the past. “We don’t really know why, but students may be getting their con tracts in earlier,” she said. She said she expected Fedde Hall, which offers single rooms, to fill up fast. Selleck, she said, will vary throughout the summer, as students may not stay in the halls during the -<«-] I've already had about a dozen people through here. —Moore junior philosophy major --99 ‘ entire summer. Students already living in Sclleck Hall who gel their summer contracts in by Friday are guaranteed the same room for summer housing, Gildersleeve said. “Even if it’s a day late we will try to honor it,” she said. Students seeking lodging in greek houses may be loo late, said Scott Heinrich, vice president of Alpha Gamma Sigma Fraternity. 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