European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 23, 1986 the stars and stripes Page student Aid draft lists to be compared selective service to get names of 5 million men Washington a the depart mint of education will give the selective service system computer tapes wild the names of 5 million student Aid applicants in a move aimed at uncovering Young men who have failed to Register is potential draftees officials said wednesday. Education Secretary William j. Bennett and maj. Gen. Thomas k. Tur Nafie the selective service director announced the agreement Al a news conference. It is the latest step in the government s efforts to carry out a 1982 Law called the Solomon amendment h prohibits Federal student Aid to males who fail to Register with the selective struck system. The draft was abolished in 1973, hut Fol lowing the soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the Carter administration and Congress began requiring men o Register at age is. While their names Are kept in a Central file they cannot be conscripted unless Congress passes new legislation reinstating the draft. The education department will share the computer tapes from its Pell Grant pro Gram each year with selective service. More than 2 million students receive Pell Grants each year 5 million apply through the College scholarship service Anil the american College testing program. The Solomon amendment named for its sponsor rep. Gerald b. Solomon r , requires male students to Register or be denied Federal Grants and Loans. Stu dents must sign a statement that they have complied with Ilic registration Law. Bennett said the new arrangement will not Only protect the Federal taxpayer but also fulfil our obligation to those millions of line Young men who have registered to serve their ecu try if Ever he quoted Theodore Roosevelt As saying the first requisite of a Good citizen in this Republic of ours u that he shall be Able and willing to pull his one of the ways in which College Stu dents can pull their weight and fulfil their responsibility of citizenship is by standing ready to defend their country in Limu of need Bennett said. Over $8 billion of the taxpayers Money support the Federal student Aid programs carnage added and i am Happy that technological Advance give us the capability to Monitor these most important men Are required to Register at any . Post office within a month of their 18th birthday. Government officials say 911 per cent have done so and is million men have registered since 1980. The penalty for failing to Register is up to five years in prison and a s 10,000 Fine. Introduced by four legislators Bill would protect whistle blowers Washington a hoping to persuade More workers to blow the whistle on government waste and fraud four members of Congress Are introducing legis lation to prevent reprisals against Federal employees who report suspected problems. The legislators Ted by rep. Patricia Schroeder d Colo and sen. Carl Levin a Mich said government studies have shown that increasing numbers of Federal workers who detect waste and fraud remain silent due to fear of punishment. We still speak to the glory of whistle blowers we Hail them As tie salvation of our budget traumas and we Promise them their place in Schroeder said. Bui in fact we let them be eaten Levin said encouraging so called whistle blowers to come Forward could help the government meet the deficit reduction targets Laid out in the new balanced budget Law. Ii does t make sense to struggle with deficit reduction on one hand while on the other hand ignoring or discouraging or even punishing individuals trying to help us rapist robber gets after Bank camera Milf Aukee a a Man who abducted and raped a woman then forced her to withdraw Money from a Bank machine which snapped a picture of him has pleaded Guilly to armed robbery and two counts of sexual assault. Alfonio Salazar 28, was sentenced t re Day to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to thu robbery and first degree sexual assault charges stemming from the oct. 2 abduction of a woman from a shopping Center parking lot. Cut wasteful he said. The legislation would strengthen the Mcrill system Protection Board s office of special counsel the Agency designated to protect whittle blowers and so Russ him Pike lion of Federal workers who re Purl mismanagement is the primary Mission of the office in addition the Bill would allow whistle by twi is Hifa directly to the Merit systems Protection big sri Wilh Alle gation of reprisals it also would reduce the Standard of proof for reprisal complaints from i hiring a preponderance of evidence to substantial evidence. In fiscal \. Draw 71, described As aiuppa s unde Boss were found guilty in the four month trial All fir sentences of up to 40 Yean in prison and fines of up to 180,000. Eastern airlines says president s office was bugged Miami a a listening device was found in the office of Eastern airlines president lost week As negotiations Between the heavily indebted Carrier and Lia flight attendants neared a deadline. We be Lowed it Over to the proper authorities said Eastern spokesman Glenn Parsons on tuesday. It was a Small listening device and we have no idea who is responsible for it. Obviously it s a serious matter. Parsons said the Bug was discovered in president Joe Leonard s office last week. He said he did not know what Day it was found and refused to give further details or name the authority handling the Case. I would rather not indicate How it was found. This is not the kind of thing that you make an announcement of he said. Miami Fri spokesman Paul Miller re fused comment about the Case except to say that the interception of communications is a Federal offence. Last week. Eastern negotiators were meet ing Wilh representatives of the transport workers Union which represents the airline s 7,000 flight attendants and Federal mediators in an attempt to work out a new contract before the end of a 30-Day Cooling off period. A monday deadline passed without an agreement however and mediators lost the authority to Stop the night attendants from striking or of astern from imposing wage and Benefit concessions and furloughs. On tuesday Eastern executives announced that 1,010 Light attendants would be Laid off indefinitely. They also announced that those remain ing would work under restructured work and pay rules. Union officials say the Revi Sions reduce pay 25 percent to 32 percent below previous contract provisions. Parsons declined to say whether Eastern officials believe the Bug was rela cd to its current labor difficulties. Eastern owes 52,5 billion to various lend ers who have set a feb. 28 deadline by which the airline Musl reach agreements with its three unions. Gay officials Block opening of la. Aids test clinic los Angeles a a clinic planning to charge $100 to administer aids tests and Issue identity cards to those found free of antibodies to the deadly Sims Lenroot of building code violations City officials said. Inspectors found inadequate parking and other Viola Lioni Al the National association for aids awareness s. Frank Kroeger general manager of Ite City s de pm Zient of building and safety said on tuesday. The clinic had planned to open monday but tailed it off when reporters and news cameras crowded in front of the company s offices. Peter brawn a lawyer for the company told reporters at a news conference tuesday that City officials had maligned the company which May sue the clinic will open even if it must move to a different building Brown said. They re using parking permits and some other things As a. Means of keeping us from opening said spokeswoman Judi Bloom. She said More than 1,000 people had called to make appointments for inc ads test. Some of he violations resulted from work done without a permit and the clinic probably can obtain a permit easily said Afisa kit a spokeswoman for Rcv Yaroslavsky one of sever Al City Council members critical of the clinic. Yaroslavsky said the clinic s proposed services were expensive and misleading and duplicated free testing by other Agen cies. Councilman Joel Wachs accused its operators of trying to make Money from the misfortune of aids sufferers
