European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 18, 1985 Meese defends handling of White Collar crimes Washington not attorney general Edwin a Csc monday firmly defended the Reagan administration s handling of White Collar crimes and said he Wel comes Senate hearings on How decisions were made on whether to prosecute Large corporations. He also said there would be no Bounds on an internal investigation concerning the Justice department s decision not to prosecute Jackie pc scr president of the International brotherhood of teamsters. A Csc made the comments at a news conference called to propose legislation designed to crack Down on fraud by Federal contractors. He said one of the Bills would Aid efforts to detect fraud by giving Pentagon auditors new Power in obtaining corporate records. Other Bills in the package dealt with false claims bribery and grand jury disclosure. He said the Bills were the most important legislative initiative Congress could enact to Reform the  a Csc said the Justice department had vigorously prosecuted every defendant whether it be corporate or individual in White Collar cases. His comments were made largely in response to criticism Fay congressmen who said the department had been too lenient in its dealings with corporations and executives accused of crimes. Last week the Senate judiciary com Mittee announced it would examine the administration s prosecution of several Large corporations including . Mutton and Eli Lilly & co. The Senate inquiry will also explore the attempted prosecution of Presser on payroll padding charges. The prosecution was dropped earlier this year after the Justice department Learned that the crimes of which he was accused had been sanctioned by agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation said officials who spoke on condition they not be identified. A Csc would say Little about the department s investigation of its handling of the pc scr Case which a Csc de scribed As a management  department officials have said investigators Are trying to determine if there was wrongdoing by Bureau agents who used pc scr As a informer. A Csc said the Senate inquiry would be the Ideal forum to show that the Justice department has dealt harshly with corporate criminals. A House panel has been investigating the Glutton Case for several months. One of the nation s largest brokerage houses Mutton pleaded guilty in May to 2,000 felony counts of fraud in a massive Check kiting scheme. The Justice department decided not to prosecute individual executives a decision which Drew fire from Congress. In the Lilly Case the drug company and a former executive were charged with Misdemeanour counts of failing to disclose deaths and ailments associated with an arthritis drug. The company pleaded guilty and was fined 125,000. There was a similar Resolution last year in a Case involving the Smit Klinc Buckman corp., another drug maker. The Justice department disclosed last week thai a senior department official had rejected a recommendation from staff lawyers to prosecute three other Lilly officers. A Csc said the Hutton prosecution had set a precedent in criminal Law by making it Clear that certain complicated Over drawing practices were illegal. The Lilly and Smit Klinc prosecutions were the first Ever made under a 1962 Law requiring reports of Adverse reactions to drugs. People arc mis informing the Public or distorting things in the press he said. When you gel a conviction of individuals the newspapers put that on Page 19. But if you convict a corporation and arc not Able to convict Intel visuals then that gets on Page 1 he said the department had charged executives in Sev eral criminal cases including those against Lilly Smith Klinc the general electric co. And Hughes aircraft. Without their testimony a Csc said the Justice department would have lacked sufficient evidence to prosecute the company. Cowe Ges Don f encourage creativity report claims Washington up students in american colleges and universities take Safe courses and Are discouraged from undertaking risky research projects or challenging the ideas presented to them a study by the Carnegie foundation s Advance ment of teaching says. Written by Frank Newman president of the education commission of the states and former president of the University of Rhode Island the new report recommends a wide Range of proposals linking higher education to the nation s future including the need to develop within students a sense of creativity and entrepreneurship civic responsibility and an International perspective. Despite the advantage that american higher education has Over other systems of higher education it far too often stifles the inherent creativity of the Stu Dent the report says. Students too frequently sit passively in class take Safe courses arc discouraged from risky or interdisciplinary re search projects and Are discouraged from challenging the ideas presented to  Newman said. We must ill recognize the demands that the american role of leadership in the world places on higher education leadership in the Best and fullest sense of the word Newman said. Economic leadership is involved As is scientific and technological leadership. But More is involved cooperative efforts at Home and abroad a willingness to face the difficult social and political problems and a determination to work toward constructive solutions. In Short what is needed is More than just an economic renewal what is needed is a True american  the study also addressed student Loans saying students too often Are saddled with huge debts. Excessive Loans inadvertently undercut traditional values Newman said. Work ing one s Way through College is a cherished american concept that conflicts head on with go now pay later a student who leaves Collop 5 with a Large debt Burden May Well feel he has already assumed All of the risk that he possibly  Harvard freshmen Given unusual View of world Boston a one giggling fresh Man was lowered into a sewer tank Mon Day while others signed up for a tour of Black history landmarks in Field trips meant to give newcomers to Harvard University anew View of a new world. We want them to open their eyes said Burriss Young associate Dean of freshmen at Harvard. I be talked to seniors who have never even been on a  Young packed 500 freshmen into boats monday for a tour of Georges Island a civil War fort in Boston Harbor and one of several unusual stops on a we Klong Orien tation Jaunt. The Dean said the tour was meant to show students How immigrants must have Felt As they approached Boston. We want them to land in the Harbor the Way Immi Grants did Young said. But that idea was dropped before the tour and no mention was made of Immi Grants. That was just some smart com ment i made Young said. Instead students were lectured on Man Hole covers As clues to the Progress of civilization and a Young woman wearing a Princeton sweatshirt was lowered into a sewer to show her what it looked like and Calm her fears about rats underground. If All we Ever look at arc Beautiful facades All we will Sec Are facades said John e. Stilgoe a Harvard landscape Histo Rian who preceded the freshman into the sewer. In the end All this Beauty Here depends upon the sewer system he said. The Odd introduction to College life was organized by Young when he realized that because of the jewish holidays he had a few More Days than usual to Orient fresh men before classes started wednesday. It s an alternative to having them stalk ing around and just rooting he said. He said students were bused to the wharf for the Georges Island trip in the morning but they left on their own to find the sub Way Back Home to Cambridge in the afternoon. Young persuaded professors and local peo ple to Lead Tours of Cambridge and Boston neighbourhoods including a lecture by an environment professor on the Flora and Fauna of Boston s Fenway a walk through the italian North end with an italian lecturer and a political tour of Boston s City Hall statehouse and other landmarks by former City Council member Larry Dicara. In route to rime scene . Authorities capture 2 Arkansas jail escapees Spring Creek . A two Arkansas jail escapees charged with killing a state trooper were Cap tured tuesday by authorities who had used bloodhounds and helicopters to search wooded mountains for three Days. We have two suspects in custody shortly before 4 . In the Char Lotte s Branch area said state Highway patrol sgt. George Dowdic. The capture came the same Day a woman reported a break in at her Iso lated House and troopers spotted the pair fleeing a suspected campsite. Authorities said a Rifle ammunition food and a Blanket stolen from Rachel Gillespie s House were found at the Fugi Tives suspected resting place. He said the search had been concentrated in a four to five Square mile area near rough Knob pug Knob and sugar amp Creek. The objects of the search were Jimmy Rios 23, of Branch ark., and William Bray 21, a drifter who uses several addresses including Lexington . They were among five prisoners who broke out of the Franklin county ark., jail inmate August. They were believed armed with a .22 Caliper Rifle and the slain trooper s .357-caliber magnum pistol. Gillespie a 75-year-old widow who lives alone reported the break in after returning to her isolated House. The fugitives were charged monday with murder in the shooting death of Rookie trooper Robert Lee Coggins 27, of Bryson City. Coggins was shot twice in the head saturday after he stopped a pickup truck reported stolen in Arkan Sas. Dowdle said the Fri filed unlawful flight charges against Rios and Bray. Coggins had been a trooper less than a year. He was the third trooper slain in North Carolina this year. His body was found in his patrol car by a Rescue squad worker