European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 20, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Dod official denies punitive reassignments by Norman Black Washington a the defense depart men s lop fraud investigator on monday denied a published report suggesting that five agents were re assigned because they sought More aggressive prosecution of crooked defense contractors. Joseph h. Sherick the Pentagon s inspector Gener Al said the employee moves within the defense Crimi Nal investigations service had done no damage to the capability of that  i think somebody is making a lot out of nothing Sherick said. I think we be certainly gotten the Mes Sage out to our suppliers that we re watching them and they have to contend with us. And these changes Aren going to affect  Sherick was responding to a report published Sun Day by the St. Louis Post dispatch. The newspaper said it Hud Learned that the five people who made up the contract fraud staff had been replaced Over the past two months in what Agency sources suspect was a purge of agents who favor More aggressive action on investigations involving defense fraud the paper reported that one staff member had re signed two were transferred to non fraud areas and two others were reassigned to Dis Field offices. The paper said the head of the investigative service Bertrand g. Truxell had described the changes As coincidental but it also quoted sen. Charles e. Grass icy a Lowa and rep. John d. Dingell d-mich., As raising questions about the staff , in a letter Friday to Sherick demanded an explanation for the changes saying the sudden Transfer of All its agents May adversely affect the government s efforts against  said the replacement of the inspector Gen eral s criminal investigations team shows that the Pentagon s talk of aggressively investigating wrongdoing on the part of the major defense contractors is More talk than  confirmed the personnel changes on Mon Day but said they were not related. One individual decided to leave the government to enter the printing business and one asked for a change because he is about to retire Sherick said. The other moves were its space is in museum to shuttle Enterprise which Neer Lew in space arrives at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly Van atop a Boeing 747. The Enterprise ferried to Virginia by the National aeronautics and space administration will be displayed at the smithsonian s National air and space museum at the Airport. Routine he  thing about this is Headquarters people Don t do the investigations he said. The Field people do that. And i think it s a Good idea to move Headquarters people out into the Field and Field people to head  personally did t Sec any great problems with these moves and i think Truxell is doing a Good  Truxell was quoted by the newspaper As saying that he was appalled by suggestions that the staff changes or his stated intention to stifle leaks to the news Media were meant to intimidate  acknowledging that he had philosophical disagreements with some staff members on the handling of fraud cases he insisted that those differences had nothing to do with the changes. Those who want to be paranoid be my guest he said. Grassley s office said the five replaced staff Mem Bers All expressed criticism of the Pentagon s fraud prosecution policy when interviewed As part of a probe by his Senate judiciary subcommittee earlier this year. Best school list led by Stanford Williams College Washington a Stanford University and Williams College Are the nation s top schools according to a Survey of the nation s College presidents published by . News & world report. Stanford captured top honors in the category of major National universities while Williams was chosen As Best selective Liberal arts College the Magazine reported in this week s Issue. The two were chosen in a poll of several Hundred College presidents who were asked to name the five Best under graduate schools similar to their own institutions in size and academic offerings. Stanford was named on the lists of 40.2 percent of those choosing in the big College category while Williams made 55.1 percent of the Liberal arts lists. Harvard and Yale tied for second place among major schools being selected by 38.4 percent of the academic officials and Princeton was next at 36.6 percent. Others in the lop 10 were the University of Chicago Duke Brown the University of California at Berkeley the University of North Carolina and Dartmouth. Second to Williams on the Liberal arts list was Swarth More at 50 percent followed by Amherst College with 41 percent. The remainder of that lop 10 was Carllon Haverford Oberlin Pomona Wellesley Grinnell and Bow Doin. Intercom turned on for punishment Schroeder still in bed paddling broadcast throughout school but stronger Louisville by. A artificial heart patient William Schroeder suffered Post stroke seizures which were controlled with medication and has shaken a per listen fever his surgeon said monday. He s still in bed. He s Able to move All extremities. Hell shake your hand if he s awake enough. His consciousness waxes and wanes or. William c. Devries told reporters at Humana Hospital Audubon. Schroeder last week suffered his third stroke since receiving the Jarvik-7 pump in a nov. 25,1984 operation. This Guy s a fantastically durable individual and a lot of credit needs to go to him Devries  cat scans or computer enhanced a rays taken of Schroeder did not show any enlargement of the bleeding in his brain since the stroke Devries said. He suffered the seizures Over the week end but he is stronger now and his neurological condition is Al amt the same As it was shortly after the third stroke he  53-year-old Federal retire from Jasper ind., no longer has a fever Whicha a significant improvement Over the Early part of last week Devries said. Welch . A officials will investigate a principal who paddled a Spe Cial education Pupil and turned on an inter com system so the entire school could hear the Mother of the 12-year-old Pupil at Hemphill elementary school had approved of the paddling thursday Vincent Mullins. Principal for the past 10 years said. The wrong thing that i did was to turn the inter com on so the other students could hear  state Law allows teachers and school officials to paddle students if the parents have been Given 12 hours notice. But Mcdowell county school superintendent Benjamin Bomason says special education students should not be paddled. We re going to make an investigation but obviously there1, not much of an investigation needed because or. Mullins has come Forward and openly told what happened Thomason said. I know from working with or. Mullins in the past that his main concern As an educator is to make an improvement with the children he said. But still if you break the Law you break the  the mentally impaired boy was sent to the principal s office twice on thursday Mullins said adding that he called the assistant superintendent who suggested the boy be expelled. Mullins said he then called the boy s Mother who gave him permission to paddle the youth. He said he has not turned on the inter com system during paddling As a practice this year and that he did not discuss the intercom with the Mother. We Don t normally spank children Here but in this Case i was fulfilling a Parent s request he said. I admit that i was wrong to turn the intercom on but this kid is about All the problems that we can stand. I thought spanking him Over the inter com would have a settling effect for the other  volunteers trucking food to steel workers Atlantic City. . A this resort town s annual thanksgiving food drive for unemployed steel workers has overcome a Lack of transportation and a ton of canned goods pasta and vegetables will be headed for Pennsylvania this week. A trucker and three workers volunteered to deliver the goods to Braddock pa., where they will be Given to unemployed members of United Steelworker Loral 1219, Organ Izer Carl Martin said. The annual food drive a response to the help steel workers from Braddock gave local residents after a 1962 flood that killed 12 people encountered a hitch last week because the Man who usually drives was not Able to this year Martin said. More than 20 offers came in from truck owners who read news reports that Martin had about a ton of food but no Way to deliver it. Several bus companies also volunteered to help later this year when mar tin sends Christmas stockings to Braddock for the children of unemployed Mill work ers. Martin began the food drive four years ago after meeting local 1219 president Don Thomas at a steel workers meeting in convention Hall where Martin works As a Security guard