European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 dont fear air Force grads told air Force a air Force Secretary Verne Orr has urged the air Force Academy 900 graduates to take because a Good performance record will include Orr told the new second the fifth largest graduating class in the Academy 27year to have the courage to make experience often comes from bad a Good performance record will include it will include Orr the better leaders make More mistakes because they try to do More things the More they the Secretary said military leaders face new including increased recruitment of containment of weapons system and designing and procuring More reliable and More easily maintained weapons Orr also told the graduates not to expect much material gain from a military what we do offer you Are an Opportunity to and a Chance to make a difference to influence what your country said a world War ii Veteran who served in the South of this years 550 officers will Advance to Pilot 40 will take navigator training and 28 will go to helicopter another 284 will go to various no rated assignments within the air Force immediately after Twenty one have received scholarships for graduate five will go to medical two will go to the Marine one will be commissioned in the Navy and one will receive a army software firm target of million fraud suit Boston a Federal officials have filed suit to recover about million from a computer software saying it billed the government for the mortgage and maintenance payments on the Home of two the systems architects of ran fraudulently included those costs and other personal expenses in Billing the defense department and a dozen other Federal Agen attorney William Weld said the Bills were for the Home of George company and his Karen who was assistant Weld the pans were named in the civil the two were convicted of criminal charges a year Weld the civil suit seeks he systems architect sued the defense department in seeking million in a contract the Issue is pending before the armed services Board of con tract said Theodore the company weve been informed the suit has been Barrone it raises civil issues often arising out of the complicated govern ment contract such suits happen quite it will be answered and litigated the defendants and other senior company employees engaged in a variety of fraudulent practices to obtain excessive payments on Federal contracts by inflating overhead using false accounting including the pans personal sex Weld the suit also says that the pans intentionally altered employee time records and made fictitious entries to inflate government end of the Trail a photo first lady Nancy Reagan flips her leg Over her horses neck at the end of a Short ride in washing ton at the National Center for therapeutic Riding a nonprofit organization that conducts therapeutic horseback Riding classes for kids and adults with both mental and physical million seized in drive through cocaine operation Miami a police raided a driven drug Busi Ness run from the garage of a confiscating million in Cash and 20 ounces of officials report the Money apparently was the proceeds from one Days Walter Murphree of the metro Dade police organized crime Bureau said it looks like they had gotten a Load in the and All Day they were doing the Murphree neighbors in the quiet residential neighbourhood reported hearing noises that sounded like shots and they complained to police that cars had been going in and out of the driveway entering when an automatic garage door Murphree called it driven Reynaldo Castillo and Alberto were arrested tuesday night at the not Long after they agreed to take police officers inside to prove that the sounds neighbors had heard actually were they invited them in to look at the firecracker residue to prove it was Murphree i think they forgot they had some Coke laying on the police held the two men until they could get a warrant allowing a More thorough they found in 20 ounces of cocaine and wrappers for at least 40 Kilos of Murphree the cocaine has a local Street value of to police Fra ouf of Bush paddlers of phony cures Washington a undercover agents of the food and drug administration Are carrying tape recorders and Cash into so called health expos in an attempt to catch people peddling phony health the Agency the operations Are aimed at products that often escape enforcement efforts by making illegal medical claims verbally rather than in advertisements or on verbal promises Are usually harder to document than written noted Fra spokesman Bruce and that part of the significance of taping the the agents also Are buying products that carry misleading the Agency the Fra cited 13 exhibitors at a health horizons positive living expo held in Washington in the exhibitors promised fair goers their wares would cure everything from acne to multiple sclerosis and heart Dis the Agency two exhibitors sold simple Hydrogen per an Antiseptic and bleaching with claims the chemical would cure can kidney multiple inflammatory viral infections and bacterial said Agency spokesman Bill specially labelled bottled water was sold by two other exhibitors with claims that it cured hypertension and urinary and heart Grigg the Washington operation followed an initial Effort in Pittsburgh that Only surveyed Brown he said undercover actions Are planned at other health expos around the country later this but id rather not specify because we do intend to be Grigg said the 13 Washington exhibitors were ordered earlier this month to halt Ille Gal marketing practices within 10 Days or face Legal years fraudulent health products were promoted by Snake Oil paddlers who travelled around the said for some the City Rocity com Mercial health expositions provide the same Opportunity for he said that in recent operators have banded together to rent Large Exposi Tion Halls for a Short advertise them selves As a health make a hard sell pitch to prospective buyers and then skip Grigg said undercover agents attending the expos taped exhibitors systematically making drug claims for All manner of serious diseases for products and services which Are unapproved at and known to be worthless or indirectly dangerous at Federal Law requires the Fra to approve medical drugs and devices As Safe and effective before they Are the Agency particularly targets phony treatments for serious because fake cures May dissuade people from seeking legitimate while the Fra is targeting commercial health Community organizations often sponsor legitimate health expos where peo ple can have their blood pressure checked and receive advice from health Brown that Consumers should have Little trouble distinguishing be tween the legitimate operations and the frauds if they listen to what is any product that is promoted As being a cure for serious disorders such As cancer and heart disease should automatically be Brown the notion that you would self diagnose and treat such conditions All by yourself is something that ought to set off a flashing yellow he Brown also said legitimate health fairs will be Happy to let people do their own research or Check with their doctors before committing any legitimate concern wont be someone in a modern Day folding tent who bring to be out of town by rown