The Michigan Daily-Sunday, February 6, 1983-Page,3 Social Security WASHINGTON (AP) - A check of records from 11 states, New York City and the Veterans Aministration has un- covered 1,411 cases in which Social Security paid more than $6 million to dead people. That may be just the tip of the iceberg, according to Social Security Commissioner John Svahn, who suspects that the agency may have paid a total of $100 million to the deceased. THERE IS one confirmed case in which the beneficiary had been dead since 1965 and another, still under in- vestigation, where the person may have died in 1962, said John Trollinger, an agency spokesman. the average case involves an over- payment of about $5,600, but in one case $50,000 was paid over the years to a dead beneficiary, Trollinger said. the agency began a computer check of state death records last year after it found more than 5,000 cases of people listed as dead on Medicare records who had received $30 million in Social Security benefits. SOME PEOPLE listed as dead by Medicare or the state-were discovered to be actually alive. During the Medicare match, investigators found more than 3,200 mistaken death repor- ts. In one case in Dallas, Svahn said, a Social Security official went to the home of a man shown as deceased on Texas records, spotted smoke, banged on the door and roused the "dead" man and his wife, who escaped the fire. In another case in Indiana, he said, errs, pay an amputee said the mix-up probably stemmed from a report filed to the state when his missing limb was buried. SVAHN SAID some of the cases ap- peared to involve fraud and some were foul-ups. "In some instances, people have tried to notify us of a death and because of our computer systems problems. . . we just don't get that recorded. And the checks keep coming, and pretty soon they get tired of trying to notify us,," he said in a telephone interview Friday from Social Security's headquarters outside Baltimore. Some "people have been just taking the check and putting it in a drawer and when our employee shows up and says, "We're looking for so-and-so,' they say, 'Well, we told you four years ago,' dead Svahn said. "I THINK we came up at one point with 90 checks that an individual had been saving," he added. But of the 1,411 cases, he said, "we've got a tentative number of 500 where the checks have been cashed, probably by relatives, after the person died." Svahn said that so far, his agency has recovered $382,000 in returned checks and $87,600 in checks that survivors wrote in repayment. About 40 percent of the dead people had received benefits on direct depost into their bank accoun- ts. In 56 percent of the cases, the person had been dead for more than a year, Svahn said. He said the computer checks would be expanded. HAPPENINGS-Scholars recount the Sunday Highlight WCBN will broadcast its annual Benefit Bash, live from the Michigan Union Ballroom. The broadcast will feature five local bands including George Badard and The Bonnevilles. The doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are free to listeners who have pledged donations and $4 to everyone else. Films Hill St. Cinema - Harold and Maude, 7 and 9 p.m., 1429 Hill St. Ann Arbor Film Co-op-Ashes and Diamonds, 7 p.m., Camera Buff, 8:45 p.m., MLB 4. Cinema Guild - The Good Earth, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Lorch. Mediatrics - My Fair Lady, 6 and 9 p.m., Auditorium A. Alice Lloyd Pilot Program - The Point, 9 p.m., Alice Lloyd Red Lounge. Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures - A Word for the Accused, 2 p.m., Auditorium A. Performances The Ark - The Paxton Project , 8 p.m., 1421 Hill St. Second Chance - Rapture, 516 East Liberty. Ars Musica - Mozart and Handel Highlight Concert, 3 and 8 p.m., St. An- drew's Church, 306 N. Division. PTP - The Diary of a Madman - 2 p.m., Trueblood Arena, Frieze Building, for more info call 764-0450. Union Arts Program - Oberline Players, "Hot Ice and Wondrous Strange Snow," 12:10 p.m., Pendelton Room, Michigan Union. Speakers Residential College - Dr. Julian Earls, Minority Arts Festival, closing ceremony, 7p.m., RC Auditorium, East Quad. Museum of Art - Sunday Tour, Martha Agnew, "The Nude," 2 p.m., Museum of Art. Meetings Racquetball -9a.m., Courts 1-5, NCRB. Miscellaneous Dept. of Parks and Recreation - Water Volleyball, 5 p.m. Mack Indoor Pool. Monday Highlight The Eclipse Jazz Series will sponsor a workshop on Jazz Improvisation by David Swain. It will be held at Trotter House, at 1443 Washtenaw Ave. For more details call 763-5924. Films Cinema Guild - Samuri, Part III, 7p.m., Lorch. Speakers Dept. of English and Art History - Wendy Steiner, "Storied Pictures: Narrativity in Literature and Painting," 7:30 p.m., Eats Conference Room, Rackham. Dept. of Chemistry - Kenneth M. Harmon, "Hydrogen Bonding In Hydrates of Alkyl Ammonium and Cholinergic Compounds," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry Bldg. B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation - Norma Goldman, "Caesarea: Ar- chaelogical Digs in Israel," 4 p.m., Anderson Room D, Michigan Union. Near Eastern and North African Studies - Joel Beinin, "Communism and Islam in the Egyptian Trade Union Movement," noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. Performances Music School - Composers Forum, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Music School - Brass Quintet Recital, 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Meetings WCARD - 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Church, for more information call Edith at 482-0546. National Assoc. for Professional Saleswomen-6 p.m., Weber's Inn, 3050 Jackson Rd. FLOC Support Group - 7:30 p.m., 308 E. William. Epilepsy Self-Help Group of Washtenaw County - 7 p.m., Center for In- dependent Living, 2568 Packard. SACUA -1:15 p.m., 4025 Fleming Administration Bldg. LSA faculty meeting - 4:10 Auditorium A. Botticelli Game Players - noon, Dominick's. Tae Kwon Do Club -6 p.m., Martial Arts Room, CCRB. Christian Science Organization - 7:15 p.m., Room D, Michigan League. Miscellaneous Center for Afroamerican and African Studies - conversation with Sylvia Wynter, 11 a.m., 246 Lorch. Trotter House - "We'll Never Turn Back," photo exhibit, 9 a.m., Trotter House Gallery. Ann Arbor Arts Assoc. - Carlye Crisler exhibit, 10 a.m., 117 W. Liberty. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. effects of Vietnam From AP and UPI LOS ANGELES -- Pulitzer prize- winning journalists, former CIA agents and military policy makers such as Nguyen Cao Ky gather this week for a conference called "Vietnam Recon- sidered: Lessons From a War." A.J. "Jack" Langguth, a former war correspondent and journalism professor who organized the four-day gathering at the University of Southern California, says he doesn't want the significance of the war to be lost on a new generation - or on the older one. "The idea was to see if out of one lengthy conference could come some lessons for the world and for jour- nalism," said Langguth. "It's impor- tant to say that Vietnam has not been forgotten, but it's also important to say that we are learning from it. Many panelists, including writers and leaders of the anti-war movement, are preparing scholarly papers that will be the basis of a book to be published by Harper ' Row with book proceeds to be donated to Vietnam Refugee Relief, according to Ed Cray, public relations director of the con- ference. Doily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Masked marvels Bill Grindatti, graduate architecture student and Kris Herzog, LSA senior, clown around at the masked ball last night in the Union Ballroom. The event was a benefit for the art school. Nazi criminal awaits trial I /- c 2 J +~? / -he re s more to scribbls thn ees heey (Continued from Page 1) tration camp. "We have come to show that we are still here," she said. "We want Barbie to be pbt on the stand so our children can hear of his crimes from his own mouth. We can forgive, but we will never forget." BARBIE FACES life imprisonment if convicted. It would be the first trial of a ranking Nazi official since S.S. Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960 and hanged after a lengthy trial in Tel Aviv. During his trial, Eichmann was kept in a glass cage to protec him from former victims who packed the courtroom. Barbie was expelled Friday night from Bolivia, where he had lived since 1951 under the alias of Klaus Altmann. He was granted Bolivian citizenship under his assumed name in 1957. BARBIE HAD been in a La Paz jail since Jan. 25 on charges of fraud in connection with a $10,000 debt to the stat mining company. Bomb explodes in Lebanon (Continued from Page 1) Palestinian guerrillas. It was the second PLO building wrecked by a car-bomb in eight days. On Jan. 28, a remote-controlled device set off a car-bomb at the three-story PLO security headquarters in the eastern Lebanese town of Chtaura. The bodies of 61 guerrillas and Syrian security.men were recovered from the rubble of the blast, which the front also claimed responsibility for. Israel invaded Lebanon June 6 to smash the PLO and forced the evacuation of thousands of guerrillas from West Beirut in August. Thousands more remain in eastern and northern Lebanon behind the lines of Syrian troops, who have been here for seven years, ostensibly policing the armistice that ended the 1975-76 Moslem- Christian civil war. (Continued from Page 1) 1980 - a move that cost the Wolverines the football game - might concur. "He can handle criticism of his leadership by the pubic in a thoughtful and diplomatic manner" - Schem- bechler once shoved a Daily spor- tswriter who alluded to the team's then- poor kicking game - "with philosophical insight and responsible acceptance, but he does pay a private price in worry and frustration that is not soon forgotten." Billy Frye is one of two men who the University community relies on to guide the institution through a most dif- ficult period. But one must wonder if the University Regents would have ever hired Frye if they had done a han- dwriting check before accepting him. Killelea says of Frye: "Not theoretically oriented. Doesn't like to be rushed with regard to thinking; prefers the slower, more careful and deliberate to the hurried approach. Thinking is somewhat less efficient due to worry or suppressed emotions. Goals are not well-defined nor of an overly serious nature." That doesn't speak too well of Frye's five-year-plan - The University's guiding force for the early '80s. . Finally, there's Don Canham, "an ambitious self-starter, (who) does tend to over-extend himself," according to Killelea. It won't surprise anybody to hear that Canham is "outward-going intense and highly expressive." But few people out of athletic circles ever learn that his "plans and results do not always team-up as expected." Those who have never heard of this "scientific method" of graphoanalysis for predicting personalitymight be in- clined to equate its reliability with comic Steve Martin's lucky mood wat- ch or Jeane Dixoi's astrology. But the graphoanalysis society assures its patrons that the technique "is not occult, nor is it related in any way to such pseudoscientific ap- proaches." The organization headquartered in Chicago, says its method is "based on research that was conducted over a period of more than 50 years." Harold Shapiro probably made the right decision. 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