European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 12, 1986 stars and stripes Stripe Page 5 Federal workers7 bogus degrees ignored ski or Grees but the disclosure does t seem to be creating much of a stir in government circles. A subcommittee of the House select committee on aging which reported the Fri s findings at a hearing in december says that of the Federal agencies involved Only the . Postal service has reported taking disciplinary action against such employees. It s our feeling that because these agencies have not responded to our inquiries about follow up action we can Only assume that they re not taking any action said Peter Reinecke research director for the subcommittee on health and Long term care headed by rep. Claud Pepper a Fla. According to Fri spokesman Lane Bonner it is a Crimi Nal violation to make a false statement to the Federal government such As a false entry on a Job application about academic credentials. He said the maximum penalty under Federal Law is a $10,000 Fine and a five year prison sentence. The results of the e Fri s operation dip scam i Vestiga sized How easily a bogus degree can be obtained. The Florida lawmaker announced he had just received a mail order doctorate in psychology from a fictitious los Angeles University simply by having his staff answer an advertisement in popular mechanics Magazine pay a $1,810 fee and submit four Brief Book reports. During operation dip scam which began in 1980, the Fri said it identified More than 7,400 individuals who had bought one or More degrees from a diploma Mill. These fraudulent degree holders include some 200 fed eral government and 200 state government employees As Well As one High level staff member of the joint chiefs of staff one member of the White House staff one secret service technician a chief of radiology in a Texas Hospi Tal nuclear Power Plant engineers the report said. The panel said that on the Federal level phony degrees were held by employees of the Pentagon s defense Logis tics Agency defense personnel Agency and defense map veterans administration. Allen Ezell an Fri special agent in Charlotte n.c., who is coordinating the operation dip scam investigation said he is unaware of any Legal action against Federal employees with fake credentials. Ezell said the Fri s list included 75 employees at the Pentagon alone. The subcommittee said the veterans administration had not responded to Pepper s inquiry More than a year ago for information about How Many of its 94,000 physicians hold phony medical degrees. But the panel said most recent information available to the subcommittee indicates that a s review of 17,000 of its doctors has revealed 49 physicians practising with problematic  the subcommittee said Many of these doctors licenses had been revoked or suspended by state licensing boards lit 1__7� 1 i verify these Peers eulogize sen. Javits in . New York a former sen. Jacob javits was eulogized monday As a statesman and Man of principle whose struggle against a fatal disease Wasan example of his courage. Sens. Edward Kennedy d-mass., Charlesma Thias r-md., Alan Simpson r-wyo., Nancy Kassebaum r-kan., and Daniel Patrick Moynihan d ., attorney general Edwin Meese gov. Mario Cuomo and former sen. Howard Baker spoke at the funeral for the former Republican senator. We always knew where he stood for he was above All else a Man of principle ready to sail against the wind of the moment or the tide of his own party Kennedy told the 1,400 mourners in Side Central synagogue in Manhattan. Javits who represented new York in the Senate for 24 years died Friday at the age of 81 in a West Palm Beach Fla., Hospital of Amy trophic lateral sclerosis commonly called Lou Gehrig s disease. Also attending the service were former president Nixon Cardinal John j. O Connor new York mayor Edward 1. Koch former new York gov. Hugh Carey Sens. Bill Bradley d-n.j., and Al Fonse d Amato r-., and former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Javits is survived by his wife Marion two Daugh ters and a son. After the service he was buried a Linden Hill cemetery in Queens. Strokes Are most Likely to occur be Ween 8 and 9 ., study shows att amt /  it i r i i. Atlanta a doctors have found that strokes Are More Likely to occur Between 8 and 9  Than at any other time of Day the second study in two years to indicate that waking up May be dangerous to your health. Last year researchers found that heart attacks the nation s leading cause of death most often occur about 9  Experts theorize that the stress of arising touches off a series of biological changes in the body that raise blood pres sure and make the blood clot More readily. And these May contribute to the devastating damage of heart attacks an strokes. This new information is promising in terms of helping us understand the mechanisms of the Onset of these Catas trophic cardiovascular illnesses said or. Thomas Robertson of the National institutes of health. Robertson presented his findings monday at the annual scientific meeting of the american College of cardiology. He and colleagues reviewed 1,116 strokes and found that 12 percent occurred Between 8  And 9  They dropped off around noon and then crested again Between 3 . And 4 . Strokes were least Likely to occur Between Midnight and 1  And Between 3  And 4 ., with Only 1 percent occurring at those hours. Robertson looked for the pattern in strokes after or. James e. Muller of Brigham and women s Hospital in Boston last year discovered the morning Peak in heart attacks. Heart attacks killed 547,100 americans in 1983, and strokes which follow cancer As the third leading cause of death killed 156,400. Sailor at missile test base arrested for allegedly Selling secret paper strokes occur when the flow of blood to a Section of the brain is interrupted. Some happen when a blood clot blocks an artery while others result when an artery bursts flooding the surrounding tissue with blood. Scientists recently noticed that blood cells called platelets Are More Likely to clump together in the morning. This tendency toward clotting in the morning could result in the formation of abnormal clots that Block major arteries in the heart and the brain and result in these catastrophic manifestations said Robertson. Blood pressure also rises in the morning and experts speculate that this increase could trigger fragile blood vessels in the brain to rupture. It s not a gradual increase during the morning said Muller. It s Low when you re lying in bed and when you hear the alarm clock and stand up your blood pressure is 20 Millimetres of Mercury higher. It could be that surge in blood pressure has something to do with strokes being More  the researchers said blood pressure lowering drugs might be effective against strokes As could be medicines like aspirin that inhibit the blood s tendency to clot. One possibility still to be proven is that some thing As simple As aspirin the night before might Block that morning increase in platelets Muller said. Robertson said some of the strokes reported in mid morning might actually have occurred while people slept but even when Only those that clearly happen during waking hours Are Analysed the vast majority strike by Early afternoon. Sands of Tinie Point Mug Nas Calif. A a Navy enlisted Man stationed at this base where cruise missiles Are tested has been arrested for investigation of Selling a classified document authorities said monday. Petty officer 3.c. Robert Dean Haguewood 24, was arrested March 4 by the naval investigative service after he allegedly sold part of a secret document to an undercover police officer Navy spokesman it. Dave Morris said. A Navy source at the Pentagon said Haguewood was not a big time spy in the same category As the More than dozen people arrested since May in spy scandals that have rocked the service. John Russell a department of Justice spokesman in Washington said there was no indication that any Materi Al was destined to go to a foreign government or a foreign agent of a  because of that the Case is strictly a Navy arrest strictly a court martial matter and the Justice depart ment will not become involved Russell said. The Pentagon source described Haguewood As a Petty officer who worked with bombs and other ordnance. It appears he was an enlisted Guy in some serious trouble financially who approached somebody in a bar and let it be known he wanted to sell some classified information the source said. There was an undercover police woman who became involved and the police called in the Nis and the Fri and he was put under  Haguewood allegedly sold half of a document marked confidential to an Oxnard police undercover officer while Nis investigators watched Morris said. The entire document a manual of an undisclosed nature was recovered. The alleged Sale by Haguewood took place at an Undis closed location off the base and he was arrested after he returned to the air station. Haguewood was assigned to the Navy s Pacific missile test Center at Point Mug which in recent years has been conducting tests of the new Tomahawk cruise mis Sile Morris said. The Navy has launched the Tomahawk a subsonic Jet powered missile designed to Fly close to the surface to avoid detection from submarines and surface ships at land and sea targets in a 35,000-Square-mile test Range. A spate of espionage arrests began last year and has continued into 1986. In january air Force airman . Bruce d. Ott was arrested in Davis Calif., for allegedly attempting to pass classified information to a soviet agent. Ott was a member of a unit that flies the sr-71 spy plane which reportedly travels at three times the Speed of sound and flies near the Edge of space. Espionage cases in 1985 included that of the Walker family three men with Navy and defense Industry connections convicted of Selling secrets to the soviets. Other highly publicized cases included those of Jonathon j. Pol lard a 31-year-old Navy analyst who was arrested for allegedly Selling secrets to Israel and Larry we Tai Chin 63, a retired analyst for the Cia who was arrested for passing secrets to China for More than 30 years. Chin committed suicide after his conviction. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 12, 1946 radio Moscow charged Winston Churchill with warmongering against the soviet Union and declared great Britain s wartime Leader sought to sabotage the United nations. The communist party news paper pravda charged Churchill had merely masqueraded As their Friend during the War years and that Churchill sought to convey the idea that a new War is inevitable. More than that he is instigating a new War and calling for War against the soviet  30 years ago today. March 12, 1956 Bishop Photios of Paphos Cyprus said in Cairo he will take the place of exiled Arch Bishop Makarios in the Campaign to bring Cyprus under the greek Flag. 20 years ago foday. March 12, 1966 French president Charles de Gaulle wants All american and Canadian troops planes and bases out of France by the end of this year informed French sources in Paris said. West Germany May ask France to withdraw its two  divisions and three air Force wings if it persists in undermining nato a leading member of the West German government warned. 10 years ago foday. March 12, 1976 the associated press and the new York times have been rebuffed in their initial at tempts under the Freedom of information act to obtain the names of journalists who have worked for the Cia