European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday april 20,1986 All branches report higher participation in go Bill than leap by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington More than 107,000 military recruits 51 percent of All those eligible have decided to buy into the new i Bill since the program began last jul according to statistics compiled by the army. Rue a. It s obvious we be got a Winner on our hands said rep. Sonny Montgomeryd miss who authored and developed the new i Bill. This program provides an option for thousands who otherwise might not have been Able to afford College or receive technical  a general accounting office report issued recently underscored Montgomery s com ments. Participation in the new i Bill is considerably higher than the veterans educational assistance program it replaced the report stated. According to statistics contained in the report every service had higher participation rates for the new i Bill than the old leap. Army rate More than double the army s participation rate for the new i Bill about 68 percent of those eligible is More than double that for the leap program. Marine corps participation is about55 percent is. 35 percent for the leap. Iii / Force has seen its participate on rates for the new i Bill skyrocket compared to Thev eap. More than 40 percent of those eligible for the new i Bill Are participating. Only about 5 percent of those eligible Are in the leap. The Navy had the smallest increase slightly More than 30 percent for the new i Bill and about 26 percent for the leap. Under the new i Bill recruits can elect to contribute $100 a month for their first 12m ,�",lls/,9f service which is non refundable. In return the military will contribute up to 10,800 in Basic education benefits. The leap Calls for service members to contribute $2,700, which is refundable in return or a government contribution of twice that amount. New i Bill is still subject of debate the new i Bill has been the subject of a debate Between the Reagan administration on oneside and Congress and the military service personnel chiefs on the other. Administration officials have said they would like to end the three year test of the new i Bill after Only one year and return to the leap. They argue that because recruiting ingoing Well the less expensive leap program is sufficient. But Montgomery argues that recruiting is going so Well in part because of the i Bill he has said any formal proposal to kill the new i Bill Early would be dead on arrival i Congress. To Gao report said that while the leap is less Cost y to the government than the new i Bill recruiting and retention May suffer if the leap is reinstated. Army officials have cited statistics showing the enlistment rate for High Quality male recruits is up significantly since the new i Bill was implemented. The Gao report stated army recruiters in three Northern Virginia recruiting offices said 45 of the 73 enlistees who joined the army there recently indicated they did so because of the new i Bill. 3 in army i bil1 pr�8rarn manager estimated in the Gao report that a return to Thev Cap could result in More than 8,600 High school graduates who score in the top half of the mental ability tests not enlisting each year. Return to the leap would negate advances vifln8T"1 managers for the Navy and air Force agreed stating that a return to the i b la negate a is made in attracting higher Quality people through the new the Gao report recommended allowing the new i Bill to at least run its planned three year course which would enable the Dod to More accurately assess the Bill s impaction recruiting. F respective effects of the two programs should not be compared until sufficient data is available the report stated. Any disruption to the three year test period could further Lessen the possibility of pointing to specific results achieved from the new i  an improving unemployment picture together with a shrinking Pool of eligible recruits was already beginning to greatly Impact our recruiting capabilities before the new i Bill came along Montgomery said. As the statistics show it is a program essential tothe survival of the All Volunteer  bestsellers a photo he wants space to show adaptability John Hockenberry correspondent for National Public radio is a paraplegic. He s also among the 100 who have reached the semifinals in the National aeronautics and space administration s journalist in space program. Hockenberry says much of the . Space program deals with something he s been concerned with for some time adaptability. Prosecution receives of to Appeal Goetz dismissal new York a new York s High est court will consider an Appeal by the prosecution to reverse the dismissal of at tempted murder and assault charges against subway gunman Bernhard Goetz. Manhattan District attorney Robert Morgenthau on Friday won permission to compiled by the new York times fiction 1the Bourne supremacy by Robert Ludlum 2break in by Dick Francis 3the Mammoth Hunters by Jean m. Auel 4lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 5-seasons of the heart by Cynthia Freeman 6lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett 7home front by Patty Davis with Maureen strange Foster 8the handmaid s tale by Margaret Alwood 9nerilka s Story by Anne Mccaffrey 10high Jinx by William f. Buckley or. 11joanna s husband and David s wife by Elizabeth Forsythe hailed 12private affairs by Judith Michael 13texas by James a. Michener 14the White House mess by Christophe Buckley 15paradise postponed by John Mortimer 16cyclops by Clive Cussler 17black genesis by l. 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The appellate division of state supreme court agreed in a 3-2 decision thursday that the prosecutor erred in telling a grand jury to consider what a reasonable person would have done in the same situation As Goetz who is accused of shooting four youths on a subway train. The court said its prior decisions hold that the state s justification Law is governed by a subjective Standard so the prosecutor should have told the jurors to consider whether Goetz himself believed deadly physical Force was necessary. Goetz s lawyers who did not contest Morgenthau s request for permission to a peal said Friday they re confident they will win their Case again. Thursday s ruling affirmed a Jan. 21 Deci Sion by state supreme court Justice Stephen Crane who found that assistant District at Torney Gregory Waples had failed to Tell the grand jury to apply the subjective Standard. Crane dismissed nine of 13 counts filed against Goetz by two grand juries in the shooting of the youths on dec. 22, 1984, aboard an it subway train. Goetz 39, an electronics Calibrator who had been accosted before by muggers said that when one of the four youths approached him and asked for $5, he was afraid he was about to be robbed. He pulled an unlicensed gun and fired seriously wounding All of them. The youths claimed they were just pan handling Money for video games