European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june 1985 education department gets dunce Cap Washington up Wil Liam saturday awarded his Golden fleece award for june to the department of education for paying a Bank in interest on hundreds of student loan checks even though they were never the ranking Democrat on the Senate appropriations awards the Golden fleece monthly for what he terms the most ridiculous or ironic use of the taxpayers Money for the Proxmire charged Between 1978 and the department of education failed to follow up on checks issued to students who had qualified for the depart ments student loan the Proxmire were never even though months semesters went by and school years All the he the department continued to make interest payments on the amount to Chase Manhattan the department oversees the student loan program and pays interest subsidies and fees to participating for playing softball with the Bank in Stead of fair with the the depart ment of education has earned a dunce Proxmire no one at the Bank or at department of education checked on whether the Money had been used for its intended purpose to pay for with this level of no won Der some students and schools give in to temptation and rip off this he Proxmire charged that the error was not a onetime be cause Many of the Loans went unused for so Long that Chase Manhattan assumed they were in Proxmire said the Bank eventually issued default which the department dutifully now that the Jig is the Bank has agreed to repay these default claims but is stubbornly hanging onto the interest and fees paid by the he Lou a department said the error was brought to Light by the departments own inspector general during a routine we discovered and we reported Mathis the department is very much on top of this and doing something about he added that the department is now trying to get Chase Manhattan to refund the interest soviets use Friendly persuasion to recruit most Fri says Washington up the Bis chief of who spends his time tracking Down espionage says so Viets trying to recruit americans As spies apply Friendly persuasion rather than Black mail or in a wide ranging assistant Fri director Edward Omalley talked about espionage in the United but he declined to discuss the recent spy Case that has shaken the intelligence John Walker his Arthur his Michael and Jerry All of whom served in the Are accused of participating in an espionage ring that allegedly funnelled Navy secrets to the soviets for 20 the which broke last month and is still under is being called the biggest espionage ring in 30 but the Walker Case is Only the latest in a growing number of espionage cases in the United members of Congress and the Intelli gence Community Are calling for limiting Security using polygraph tests to screen people with Security clearances and enacting the death penalty for right there Are is espionage cases pending in the the largest number but Omalley says it is dangerous to try to define a new style of i think its very dangerous to try to come up with a profile of a once having done to use that profile to identify Omalley its not the Way we do there Are certain things that Are fairly obvious a Lack of Patriot a Lack of loyalty to in recent Omalley the Fri has identified the method of operation used most often by the the soviet intelligence serv and other Eastern bloc intelligence agents to make Contact with americans who might be vulnerable to passing what they Kab agents stress when trying to recruit a target is Omalley coercion and blackmail Are not the approach is one of Friendly persuasion to encourage loyalty on the part of the in Many a Kab agent will meet a potential target at a scientific a University setting or a singles bar in North Ern where the Cia is Omalley the agent will spend time cultivating the Friendship and looking for the targets often Over lunch or he As Ive said Many times before the motivation that transcends All others that we see in this country is Omalley in the last six the Fri has started a special awareness program for civilian defense contractors around the the program has been in touch with defense contractors to educate them about soviet officials Here dont have much Money to spend on Omalley the Odds Are that if a soviet purchases or dinner for that is an intelligence not but the Odds Are while Omalley said that the open society in the United states makes it a prime target for there Are a few things that american intelligence agencies can do to tighten just because someone has a Security clearance Doest mean that one has to know everything that May be going on in a particular Omalley i if that one principle is paid at Tention things by and tighten up critical up photo fourteen Earold Elizabeth Burns of is reported in critical condition in Pittsburgh presbytery a University Hospital after receiving the heart and lungs of an 11 year old Michigan boy who died when a blood vessel burst in his report urges develop new rare metals sources Washington a the United states could end its dependence on South Africa and the soviet Union for rare metals used in everything from weapons systems to says a congressional report re leased the study by the office of technology assessment concludes that a variety of approaches by government and business could Cut the country dependence on vulnerable sources of manganese and Platinum within the next this report Points to a number of Steps we can and should be taking to minimize our materials dependence on nations As South said Dan who released the Given the political unrest in that Region of the world As Well As our need for greater flexibility in Pur South african for eign policy i believe Congress and the president should move swiftly to take action on the reports Glick Man the report says the United which has Little Domestic production of the should help increase exploration and development of deposits outside of South Africa and the soviet in better manufacturing and recycling processes would Cut the need of the rare metals and thus the nations dependence on foreign it the report says that More work must be done to identify less Vul Era materials that can substitute for the rare none of the approaches offers a Quick fix to import vulnerability the report chromium is a key ingredient in stainless steel and other alloys used in Jet engines and other machines that operate at High the report says the United states used tons of chromium in of which 85 percent was manganese is used to make super hard steel including the Armor plate on military the Ota says the coun try used tons of manganese in of which 99 percent Cobalt is used in making turbines and High Speed Carbide drills and the report says the United states used tons of Cobalt in of which 92 percent was the principal use for Platinum and the Platinum group metals Rhodi osmium and ruthenium is in catalytic converters on cars to reduce the report says the United states used Troy ounces of Plati num and Platinum group metals in of which 80 percent was bitterness remains Over refusal to stand for pledge n a a a after 10 months of harassment and hate 17 year old Susan Shapiro says she wanted to end the controversy that surrounded her refusal to stand for the pledge of allegiance in a High school classroom moments after she announced an out court settlement with school officials Shapiro was reminded that some residents of this Boston suburb Are still bit ter about her decision to remain a school employee who was mowing the Lawn outside school Headquarters where the announcement was made shouted Ann obscenity at who began to cry with its not she said at a news Confer ence with her before the Shapiro said she was anxious to put an end to the Nam calling and phone Calls that have tormented i didst go to my and i missed my i knew there would be so i stayed said who refused to stand for the pledge during her homeroom class at Randolph High school on the second Day of school last sep i Hope this settles it for she said she has no regrets about her i had a right to do to show people Are not a she Shapiro decision sparked a Stream of threatening letters and phone Calls to the family and the Justice department provided her with an escort to and from school for several she also received support from around the including a visit from Folk Singer Joan Baez and a letter from a disabled Vietnam Veteran who called her a Shapiro filed suit against her school and teacher Jean Noblin in charging that her civil rights were violated because of the harassment that followed her decision not to stand for the under the the defendants is sued conciliatory and Shapiro agreed to seek dismissal of the suit in District court in school lawyers also will ask that the Case be in a ceremony the conciliatory statements were read by superintendent John Zoino and by a teacher representing Zoino gave Shapiro her and praised her for an inner strength that is Noblin blamed the dispute on distorted reporting by the news Media and said she also has been the target of hate let us now forgive each other and get on with Pur lives and our she said in a