European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1977 army finds Quality of recruit Low North sea Oil Field shut Rig incompetence hinted Washington api the Quality of recruits entering the army during the past three months fell to the lowest level in at least a and if the trend continues in could Lead to recruitment of More a High school diploma is a main Stan Dard of Quality for the armed but figures obtained from do Casc manpower officials show that Only 47 per cent of the army recruits in january through March were High school this is about 9 per cent below the army minimum objective and Well under Levels reported by the Navy and air the continued downward trend in the army recruit Quality seems Likely to fuel a debate Over continuation of the Al Volun icer some members of Congress contend the draft should be defense Secre tary Harold Brown army who blame recruitment problems partly on congressional cutbacks in could turn to the acceptance of More women As a Way of bolstering Quali sources said about 90 per cent of the women recruited into the army have High school which the army has said is the Best measure of Quality As it relates Tii discipline and probability to Complete i he full term of Hie army now limits its uniformed women to about out of a total Force of about some officials argue that women have shown they can perform Well in a wide variety of military jobs and that the doors should be opened wider to but cer Tain army traditionalists oppose increasing the number of women in the service because they Are barred from combat schools continued Page i surveyed in order to obtain a statistically reliable Hoss and the Sample will be sufficient to provide about 90 per cent Validity the Survey groups includes an Esti mated 480 students in grades 9 through 12 and their 480 parents of students in grades elementary through High school and school staff members the questionnaires will be mailed directly to school principals for distribution to the selected according to she said the completed questionnaires Are due Back at Spra for tabulation and analysis by May final tabulation and the formal report of the Survey will project the needs assess ment of Dodds on a worldwide Ross said the formal report is scheduled for completion by june two f4 crash victims named Hahn Germany Cap a u air Force spokesman thursday identified two crewmen who died in an f4 phantom Jet tighter crash wednesday near about 15 Miles Northwest of they were the Lawrence Fidler or of a and his weapons capt Robert p mul of a the plane was assigned to the 50th tac fighter Wing at Vlahn a Norway a the norwegian government thursday ordered the closure for Security reasons of its North sea Oil Western Europe larg after three abortive attempts by a team of Texas disaster control experts to Cap a blown out offshore the government order coincided with disclosures of incompetence in events sur rounding the Blowout at Eko Fisk which had sent an estimated tons of crude Oil into the sea by noon Phillips operators of Trie told reporters that a Blowout preventer or valve at the wellhead of Bravo 14 was mistakenly bolted on upside the officials insisted that the error on Friday night had no relation to the Wells rupture just hours but acknowledged it severely impeded the Texas teams at tempts to Seal the the governments coming after pressure from left Wing members of parliament in involves temporarily shutting Down 30 Wells in the Eko Fisk Bravo and Alpha zones that produced million barrels or million tons of Oil in although no specific reference was made to the failure to Seal the Well on Friday As the government order was regarded As relating closely to the capping procedure involves High risks be cause of the possibility during closure at  expected hew chief signs legs aiding handicapped 9 embezzler jailed in map the former director of Iran civil aviation Agency and eight others were Given jail terms after a Mili tary tribunal convicted them on embezzle ment officials announced Washington hew Secretary Joseph Califano signed a regulation thursday designed to implement a four year old Law prohibiting recipients of fed eral funds from discriminating against the demands that the education and welfare Secretary sign the regulations have touched off protracted demonstrations and siting throughout this month Here and at hew offices around the coun Califano beat his own self imposed dead line by signing the document thursday instead of in Early May As he had prom the Secretary said the regulation will cause a mini revolution among colleges and other recipients of Federal funds who will be required to make All their programs available to the Handi the 47page Shorter and Sim Pler than one drawn up but never signed by the Ford includes require ments that All new buildings and facilities Mast be readily accessible to and usable by the handicapped and free of architectural bar programs and activities in existing buildings must be made accessible to the handicapped within three years without employers May not refuse to hire the handicapped if a handicapped individuals disability docs not impair his or her ability to do a specific Job if reasonable accommodations dec provided by the every handicapped child is entitled to be educated in regular Public school class rooms with no handicapped children unless placement in a special setting is in which Case Public authorities Wil be financially responsible for provid ing All necessary including Tui room and Board architectural barriers and special segregated school programs for the deaf and disabled now prevent Many of the nations 35 million or so handicapped Citi Europe Mill Fedir and of Tell Vilow 43 Piff s 01 a 4 4 pin 4 4 pin m 9 cd 30 6 Al 14 cd 4s 44 r to a s4 1j 39 s9 41 u 17 Tel 4j Hicl 41 s4 r 54 cd p partly i Del 1111 so Zens from joining the mainstream of american no reliable estimates have been made to show what the regulations will Cost the thousands of federally funded programs in the some groups say it will be As Low As million others say the costs will run into the the regulations implement a Section of the 1973 rehabilitation Boyc found guilty of spying for soviet Union los Angeles a Christopher a College student who said he was blackmailed into spying and Selling secrets to was found guilty thursday of eight counts of espionage and conspire the government is seeking a sentence of life imprisonment for the charges carry a maximum sentence of sentencing has been set for May the 23yearold defendant was passive As the verdicts were he frowned slightly and stared at the his Index Finger pressed against his the eight men and four women of the who had heard two weeks of Estimo took barely three hours to convict who had admitted under oath that he passed secret information to the rus a former Security clerk at try systems had insisted he never Dis closed anything harmful to the in a stunning an attorney for Boyces Andrew Daulton contended in a separate trial moments before the verdicts were read that Boyce was secretly a Cia mansfields brother Dies after touching Power line great up Joseph brother of former Mike Mansfield who now is ambassador to has died after accidentally touching a Power a retired was on an aluminium ladder pruning a tree when he apparently brushed against the Power tempts of fire that could spread through a linked system of pipelines to the entire the development came As government reports indicated the pollution problem created by the spillage is apparently less than originally it said that overnight the size of the Slick dwindled through evaporation and the action of the it is estimated to cover 150 Square the Slick was described As moving East Ward at a Speed of about one knot and rep resenting to tons of Oil in the for us renewed attempts to bring Well under control Friday Phillips was re ported to be flying new equip Enlin ram f Scotland to the 170 Miles West of corporate Headquarters the equipment includes steel discs called 2inch pipe rams when closed Over the 4inchdiameter Well will reduce by half the size of the Stream gush ing up from this should facilitate the mane vering into position above the inverted Blowout preventer of a three part Assem Bly that will effectively staunch the the disaster control headed by texans boots Hansen and Richard Hatte Only managed to Cut off the Oil for seconds on thursday before the rising from the seabed with a Force of pounds of pressure per Square forced open discs called Blind rams that were closed at the Well the according to Robert Archam Phillips Eko Fisk engineering direct were tested to withstand pounds of pressure in the upside Down Blowout pre the leakage of Oil that could have resulted from the difference in pressure tolerance would have been Archambeault but the rams did not function probably because of problems involving their rubber and the full thrust of the Oil pushed the use of the pipe rams on Friday would be a Way of getting around the Situa Tion where the entire flow has to be Cut off at Archambeault admitted nonetheless that the failure to close the rams was a serious setback and it is a Good possibility they could have been shut if the Blowout preventer had been attached Cor terror i continued Page i Stamm Heim prison to hear the they have been on a hunger strike for a month protesting official eavesdropping on their jail cell conversations with their Law most of the leftist defense attorneys Are facing prosecution on charges of carrying secret messages to House passes Bill to Carter naming building after Ford Washington up the House passed and sent to president Carter a Bill naming a Federal building in grand after former president Gerald the approved earlier by the Senate and passed by voice in the was pocket vetoed by Ford in meaning he refused to sign it into Law before the new 94th Congress came into the built in Fords Home town in houses a number of fed eral agencies and has been called the Federal now it will be the Gerald Ford