European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes thursday april 27, 1978 computer designed to catch cheating Aid for Many students is reject Washington a More than one fourth of the first students applying for Federal Grants to cover College costs this year Are being rejected by a computer programmed to catch cheating. The new computer Check for inconsistencies or omis Sions has resulted in turning Back More than 200,000 of the first 800,000 applicants for so called Basic educational Opportunity Grants says Leo Vomfeld hews student Aid director. Vomfeld called the figures  the rejected students Are Given a Chance to submit corrected applications he said in an interview but these will undergo extra scrutiny. By a conservative estimate Vomfeld said the department of health education and welfare has been paying out $100 million to $150 million annually to Stu dents who were ineligible for the Grants or who got to much. The bulk of the Money goes to students who underestimated their families income he says. Affirms Pentagon denial the student is required to list on the application the family s income and taxes paid. The computer compares those figures and if there arc apparent discrepancies the computer kicks the application out. There is no Cross checking with legally confidential internal Revenue service records of income and taxes paid. Vomfeld said information is still being gathered on what mistakes the students Are making. It is possible that some mistakes Are honest and that the application form is More formidable than we think he said. In those cases students will need More help from their Counselor or financial Aid officers in filling out the form he  Vomfeld said he believes computer rejections will Weed out mostly students who Don t deserve an award atall. Vomfeld said hew began computer auditing the applications because too Many kids were submitting corrected applications to get a higher  out of 4.5 million students who applied to 1977, nearly 2 million divided 1.7 Buooa the average award was 1850 and the $1,400. Ninety percent of the recipients a lies with adjusted annual incomes of Lea thai the Grants for the current year Range Noti Dent Carter has proposed rating the c year and adding $l4jlllioato the prot of j250 available to students from fall Sejm up to $25,000. Carter is pushing for expansion of this i alternative to tax credits for College tuition a i opposes As inflationary but which has a in Congress. Vomfeld said that As an added. Will audit 10 percent of the apply Carloni i who appear eligible for Grants concent. Who submitted corrected applications. They Ito provide additional information such i parents income tax returns. Haig says hell stay on f continued ram Page 1 of be anywhere in an official  a reporter asked As Haig was a about the resignation report Haig d i discussed my future with Secre y of defense Harold Brown in Janu this year. He asked me to stay on. He i the desire of the president and Secretary of state that i should and i was there any resignation threat since  and about the report 1 disagreement on the Neutron bomb con 1noianapous up the Neu tron bomb is necessary to counter the i Offet military superiority Over nato Bertts in Europe the former command of Usa eur said tuesday. Retired Gen. Michael Davison told Indianapolis rotary club there Are be clinker in the United states to defend Western Europe Neutron bomb is needed to what toe soviets already have place not what they might do in  be contended. He mid the United states has Stead decreased its contribution to nato the soviets Nave steadily raised number of tanks artillery pieces missiles and tactical aircraft deployed i Central Europe. In the tact of this soviet buildup i Hod it difficult to accept the idea that for is to unilaterally Stop the much needed armament improvements for ear forces la Europe will Lead the Sovi ets to restrain further buildups or indeed discard some of their established weapons systems. I find the whole concept to be Noth ing but Wishful thinking of a quite Dan Genus nature Davison Laid. Flirting words to him about cruise missile talks and tension with a new chief adviser i m not going o indulge in value judg ments of Pentagon speeches and  answering questions from the floor Haig said the Neutron bomb unfortunately had a bad  pictured As a monster in Public relations  the facts  he said that this system results in ten times less collateral damage than the conventional size to people to noncombatants and to  in his extemporaneous comments Haig argued a need to maintain a Bedrock of Confidence in the Western Security system. This he said was the needed base for going on to Pool resources More effectively to Cope with an International socioeconomic  Dollar problems and Trade imbalance he said would be aggravated if Security Confidence faltered. The United states he said no longer has a single decisive role in the West. He called for real partnership. Consultation does not mean information alone he said. The soviet Union he said has frag mentation problems in its sphere in animosity with China and centrifugal pressures in Eastern Europe. The third world he said has opted for dictatorial models and is capable of precipitous shifts while being deprived of moderating  there has been a relentless growth in soviet military Power. 4 to s per cent a year in real terms. Haig said this he said has enabled the soviet Union to deploy 45 divisions against China without diminishing strength in Europe and still having a Large residue of military equip ment to outfit emerging leaders else where. Soviet intentions he said were a prob Lem for political leaders i worry about soviet  Carter he said warned allies last year of the soviet threat and proposed to increase defense spending 3per cent in real terms. But the $126 billion defense budget Haig said in real terms is $11 billion less than the pre Vietnam Normal defense  there is he went on a terrible Burden for the president no longer to be Able to Convene groups of senators and representatives who could As in the past administrations deliver on Bis  Haig praised the Quality of questions while conceding he would finesse some replies. There was a foot in Mouth club in Washington he said and he did t want to be its president. One questioner asked his View on the necessity or desirability of a United states Security relationship with Israel i get on the Edge of propriety frequently but not on that one. That s a political question for political decisions he said. Willie at the big Beer joint t continued from Page 1 Moore the Carter s chief Capitol Hill lobbyist. Seems they had a Beer or two. And Moore missed his 8 15 . Appointment tuesday with the president. Carter phoned a bit unhappy to find his errant aide. It was a bloody Mary  groaned Moore after taking Willie his wife Connie sidekick Wayland Jennings wife Jessi Colter Jennings son. Buddy and a guitar player to lunch. "fsh"0 can 1 gel pm trapped in the soviet imm i passport mix no arrives v fran unit s Rhein Mai route borne to year and Tea Days u while waiting for his i the russians finally exit visa after inter Ury of state Cyro a one Europe