European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 drive needs regulation covering pledge errors by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington although the governments an Nual Charity drive distributes funds the Way donors want most of the it needs a Rule on How to decide who gets the Money from improperly completed pledge the general accounting office a Gao study of 20 stateside combined Federal Campaign drives in 1984 also recommended that the office of personnel which supervises the Cam require such funds to be placed in accounts that could earn thousands of dollars in in the absence of an pm regulation requiring them to do seven campaigns did not Contact donors for clarifying instructions on improperly completed pledge which resulted in thousands of donations being distributed to the wrong the report but the report also said when a random Sample of pledge cards was compared to the 16 campaigns were giving funds the contributions were distributed As donors wanted percent of the the sampling method did not permit estimating accurately How much Money went to the wrong the report in where million was the report estimated that from to million May have gone to the United Way instead of to charities that donors a Gao staff member who contributed to the study said the problem began when Campaign officials decided on a pledge card that did not comply with pm the study ran from july 1984 to May 1985 and involved campaigns that represented on third of the million Federal employees who participated in Csc that those campaigns brought in 38 percent of the million the annual drive actually represents More than 500 local campaigns across the nation where Federal workers have up to the pm decided How a designated contributions were distributed million were und Esig rated in in that Federal officials managing the drive were permitted to select one Charity to manage the Campaign in the in 1983 the last year for which the figures were the United Way was chosen More than 90 percent of the the rules also allowed the managing Charity to decide How a designated funds would be Dis the Gao report said that in seven of the campaigns studied the United Way kept the Money for its members instead of contacting donors to clarify the pledge in three changed their followup while four kept the Money As donations to the Gao said pm regulations did not state How improperly completed cards were to be so the agencies actions were not the absence of an pm regulation on How to handle improperly completed pledge cards is particularly significant since the managing charities have the unchecked authority to decide How to distribute a designated contributions to any including the re port As discussed earlier in our this authority Cre ates the appearance if not an conflict of inter est for the report said Gao investigators found 17 campaigns that placed Idle funds in interest bearing accounts or received administrative services Worth an equivalent amount from Banks that held the officials of the other three said they didst think of it or didst think the Money would be there Long enough to earn substantial the report estimated that the san Diego which raised lost in it said the which collected could have collected interest on an average daily balance of eligibility rules May be changed for combined Federal Campaign Washington the rules May be revised before this years combined Federal Constance who was confirmed Friday by the Senate As the the director of the office of personnel Man said in testimony before Congress this past week that she is aware that changes in eligibility rules Are being considered at the if confirmed for the she she would have to balance the Reagan administrations desire to exclude some groups with the reality that there is not much plan Ning time before the fall campaigns she said she would seek a Legal opinion on whether new rules could be instituted for the upcoming an official in the pm general counsels office declined to say whether the office has been asked to prepare such an the administration has waged a court Battle to exclude political advocacy and Lega defense groups in favor of traditional charities such As the red on july the supreme court ruled in Cornelius a act Legal defense and educational fund that the pm could exclude groups from the government fund drive to keep its size Loretta Cornelius is the acting director of the it said a lower Federal court could review exclusions that groups believed were ordered because the administration did not agree with their Robert executive director of the National committee for responsive said new rules could harm the fall he said local campaigns and charitable groups started planning two months based on a june 3 memorandum from the pm that said this years rules would be based on last those decisions would have to be reconsider he some groups have had brochures authorized and even those of the 200 National groups and the hundreds of local unaffiliated ones that have submitted applications might have to resubmit we might not get started until october and run into thanksgiving and crowding out the traditional appeals made at that last year the rules were changed to permit donors to write in the name of any eligible tax exempt organization providing human health and welfare participation dropped last year from million people to according to general accounting office the department of defense overseas combined Federal Campaign is held each year during six weeks in the last year it collected nuclear Winter theory faces test Toronto up almost 40 years to the Day after the bombing of american and Canadian scientists plan to test the nuclear Winter theory by observing a giant controlled fire set on Square Miles of Canadian scientists hoped to observe a convection column of Ash and Gas when several thousand fir Trees killed by a Bud worm infestation were burned the fire is a partial representation of one aspect of a nuclear without the blast or Accord ing to Andrew who brought the group of scientists it will embody some of the characteristics of the fire storm that will follow a nuclear five american and five Canadian scientists will test the nuclear Winter theory put Forward in 1982 by Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan and other the theory suggests that a nuclear War would create enough smoke and Ash to blot out the Sun and cause a new ice the fire near the Northern Ontario town of 400 Miles North of is not being set for the Benefit of the it is one of 50 controlled fires planned in Ontario for reforestation a helicopter will drop a napalm like Oil based substance around the Burn working outward in concentric Cir flames from the Blaze could reach about 100 Lacaze Steps Down As chief of Frances armed forces Paris up Joannou who reached the mandatory retirement age for generals six months has stepped Down As head of Frances armed to be replaced by Jean Lacaze is to stay on with the defense ministry As an adviser to defense minister Charles Herne on military relations with african countries that hold defense treaties with a career military Man who served in Africa and the near was named head of Frances armed forces pilgrims flock to Irish Village after rumours Shaf statue moved Ireland a thousands of Pil grims hoping for a Miracle have flocked to a Grotto in an Irish Village in recent Days to see a statue of the Virgin Mary that is rumoured to have swayed gently from the shoulders and moved its extra police have been called in to control traffic in Balli spittle in southwestern Ireland county red Cross workers have been treating people overcome by two women in the Village first said they saw the statue word spread and thousands of people have come each Day to see the statue and to seek adulterated egyptian Brandy kills at least papers say Cairo up at least 16 people have died from alcohol poisoning As a result of drinking adulterated Cairo newspapers the newspapers said the dead included seven sudanese residents of five indians and an egyptian who died in various parts of the three romanian railway advisers also reportedly died at the City of Beni about 100 Miles South of after drinking the substandard the newspapers said police shut Down several stores in Cairo where the victims bought the samples were taken for Laboratory Magazine says Churchill wanted to use Poison Gas on Germany new York up declaring it absurd to consider a raging Winston Churchill told advisers he wanted to drench German cities with Poison Gas in retaliation for the nazi bombing of american Heri Tage Magazine we could drench the cities of the Ruhr and Many other cities in Germany in such a Way that most of the population would be requiring constant medical treat the British prime minister said in a note published in the augus september Issue of the the which features an extensive article on the history and morality of the use of Poison quotes Churchill As telling military advisers it is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it in the last War without a word of complaint from the moralists or the on july 1944 a month after the Normandy inva Sion Churchill asked for a coldblooded calculation of the effectiveness of such an according to author Barton a Stanford University but his advisers told him Gas warfare would divert the Royal air Force from strategic raids and would not be probably prompting an even More deadly Ger Man Bernstein and president Franklin who approved the development of the atomic remained committed to a moral code against the use of Poison he britons Are not abandoning farm Council figures show London up Britain is not abandoning its meat eating despite claims by Accord ing to newly published every briton will consume 140 pounds of meat this almost the level of 10 years the British farm produce Council the Council said people Are eating less meat in the Home but More and the catering Industry share of the meat Market has risen the highest demand will be for beef and followed by poultry then Ham and the report