European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april 1977 con ufers can evolve nifty tricks Washington api a Bank Teller was plunking Down a Day in bets with his local but his gambling Days were Over when police discovered he was stealing the Money from the Bank and its customers through complicated com Puter that just one of the cases described in a new government manual on selecting and prosecuting White Collar Many of them carried out through sophisticated manipulation o the Law enforcement assistance administration Leaai released the hand Book the Agency will Send copies to several thousand state and local police administrators and prosecutors to encourage a crackdown on Confidence bribery and other crimes accomplished through with from the Battelle Law and Justice study Center in prepared the manual in a 15month the principal author is Herbert a Battelle research scientist and former chief of the Justice depart ments fraud the handbook notes that investigating and prosecuting economic crimes is extremely Complex and Tim econ but it offers investigators and prosecutors guidance on questions they should ask the victims of White Collar stat utes that can be used against White Collar methods of gathering Intelli gence about such and ways to Ana Lyme financial data to determine whether frauds have the handbook also describes recent White Collar crime cases to Alert investigators to schemes that May be repeated in their u does not mention the names of those involved in the the Bank Teller Case happened in new Vork and investigators discovered it Road hogs on route 33 Pennsylvania slate trooper Al stood Willis a fms stymied about what he Doncel As he watches Over same of the 190 pigs that escaped when a Irac Lurl Railor overturned on route 33 near Driver Theodore Lee of was uninjured in the crash that occurred Early in the a photo psychiatrists detail 7 cases est mental ills linked new Ohk Noti the discovery of seven persons who suffered serious psychiatric disturbances after participating in a self help program called Erhard seminars training has prompted three psychiatrists to Alert their profession to the possibility that the experience1 May have devastating effects on some people six the seven developed psychotic re sume of them at the time or soon after he popu called St the training is intended in enhance and uses authoritarian and confrontational leaders to achieve its the writing in the March Issue of the american journal of Psychia emphasize thai their Case reports do not and cannot establish a cause and effect relationship Between the St experience and a psychotic but they say that the spread of the est movement and the Gravity of the cases that have come to our attention contribute a sense of urgency and importance to the communication of these preliminary findings As one of the Leonard said in an we dont if More people become psychotic after than after Riding on the f in a psych Lilic people become detached from reality and cannot distinguish real rum who is assistant psychiatrist at Mclean Hospital in said based on studies of encounter groups with a similar Type of Lead theres enough possibility of a real connection Between est and psychotic Breaks to cause us to want to Alert psychiatrists and but he added that it would be premature to warn the Public directly that est May be Haz ardous to their More than americans have gone through the St experience since it began five years each paying to sit through two weekends a total of 61 to 70 hours of St awareness training by an authoritative Leader who ridicules them and attacks their self esteem the sessions arc conducted in hotel suites nearly every weekend in a Hal dozen major est trainees often sit for several hours without going to the bathroom or leaving the room Many have been reduced to others have fainted or rolled on the floor some have former director of the emergency service at the Langley Porter no dropsy Chi Atric Institute in san and two former Michael Kirsch and Frederick de scribe five of the seven cases in the journal the two discovered subset will be published in a later report the cases include a Man who in the course of the training developed a Grandi Ose self image and manic at tempting to breathe underwater and do other hazardous feats that prompted his wife la Call the police and have him Hospi another Man who believed he was possessed and had hallucinations severely injured himself putting his hand a window he insisted was and a third armed himself with Bow and Arrow and handgun and was shot in a fracas with some men on a Street five of the seven persons the psychiatrists describe had no previous psychiatric illness or after the Estric Latch three required psychiatric and All but one received psychiatric treatment after a police raid on the bookmaking operation showed that the Bank Teller was the biggest curious about his Large daily investigators looked into the Case and found the Teller was pocketing customers its for but he manipulated Bank computers to credit the accounts with the amounts of their among other the handbook tells of a payroll Programmer who deducted a Tew cents from each company employees paycheck and added them to hmm the total amounted to a substantial salary increase for him until he was then there was the Bank employee responsible for calculating the interest on savings he diverted fractions of pennies to his own amounts so Small a customer would never this scheme gradually added thousands of Dol Lars to the employees gonorrhoea showing first decline in Atlanta a venereal disease has begun to decline in the United states and the National Center for disease control says it continues to recommend penicillin As he primary drug for Paul director of the cacs cd control said there is no danger that a new Strain of gonorrhoea resistant to penicillin May become the pre dominant some doctors have urged that two newer drugs be used instead of penicillin to treat the new were still having cases and As of april 1 we had 129 cases in 20 he Bui each outbreak appears to have been contained and eradicated within the com rate of increase drops in 1975 the Rale of increase for gonorrhoea was on half of 1 per compared with a Rise of 1 per Cotil in the cd through the 15th week of the cd reported a 4 6 per cent decrease in reported cases the first decline in the United states since record keeping was Wiesner said As of april the cd had reports of cases of compared to at the same time last the cd said reported cases of syphilis in the for the first two months of 1977 were Down 15 per cent from last through cases were re ported compared with last Lone exception Only new England showed a net increase or the period up from 214 to 232 cases with increases noted in Mas up from 155 to 173 and in up from 37 to other slates in the Region had the new Strain of which first appeared in 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