European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 4 the stars and stripes sunday june 22.19b6 business turns sour in Pill m Macao ngtau Start Ysusi Kwh slapped booming m 9-Yctr-Flld Julie Dun co s Lea Taafe stand. So the Hershey pc Ingmer closed Down her stupid after Only few hour it ouse of tact of customers. Report opposes drug testing for Federal workers Washington api drug i King of fed Sal workers planned or required by one in five agencies has been plagued by error rates of up to 30 percent and could can up to s100 for each employee a House report said Friday. Some agencies arc establishing. Wide scale random testing of employees where Here is no indication of drug use rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., said in releasing the report our study shows this Type of testing to be costly and false positive Rales ranging fro five o 20 percent in a study published in 1981 were cited by the report. It said a Federal Agency could risk a lawsuit if it fired an employee Only to discover an error. Testing costs could Range up to $100 for a full Battery but could be Well below thai figure it said Schroeder expressed support for test ing programs aimed at determining Etc causes of accidents or at helping employees overcome drug but she was critical of Broad random testing As recommended in March by the presi Dent s commission on organized crime. The report b House civil service subcommittee staffers came with the Dis cat Frei thai same lawmakers might Dis agree. An aide said the study was de signed to help head off any legislative move to require Federal employee drug tests. Despite an upturn in urine testing such programs appear to be confined to 20 percent of Federal agencies according to Trie report. In a statement Seh Rocker described such Swcap Ilij programs As useless for reasons ranging from testing procedures of Many labs that Are Sloppy to the right of employees to be protected from unreasonable intrusions into their bodily the whole premise underlying drug testing is she said. Trie report found tests under Way or i n the works at an array of agencies. Some were Long standing requirements aimed it safety and Security sensitive employees such i astronauts. Nasa regularly has tested applicants for going into space not Only for hard drugs but for caffeine and nicotine. The report also cited a May 28 letter to the National Treasury employed Union in which customs Cornut Toner William von Raab said the customs service program would expand upcoming tests of Job applicants to include the random and unscheduled testing of cur rent employees in positions covered by the the Union has filed a Law sure to Block the plan. Among agencies that now test or Loon will Are the air Force tie army the Navy and components of the defense department and Justice department As Well As the Treasury department and the transportation department the Central intelligence Agency Nasa the Panama canal commission the postal service the Tennessee Valley authority and the pc Iran s administration. Only a few agencies reported specific findings of their programs. The Navy said it conducted 1,901 tests of civilian employees in 1983 and 1934 and that 21 were positive. The Panama canal commission said it began la in november 1985 and As of feb. 28, is Ink and had triggered referral for drug or alcohol it said four employees refused nine tested positive one Les cd negative and one was voided due to a Sample collection Tva said thai of 2,176 96 have been confirmed positive. Survey uncovers illegal use of Federal phones Washington us a govern mint wide Survey found workers at five agencies made thousands of Persona Telephone Calls on the Job to spouses or children in suburban areas and friends around the country the Washington Post reported saturday. The newspaper reported that the sur vey initiated by the president s Council on integrity and efficiency found by in 29 percent and 50 percent of Long distance fails made by Federal employees 31 the five agencies were for personal rather than business reasons. Survey officials said the Calls were re searched solely by using computer Prini Oisiu to obtain phone numbers dealing the number and listening for the an Swerer. There was no monitoring or listening in and the nature of some Calls could not be determined they said. The five agencies were among 17 executive Branch agencies investigating employee Telephone Calls the newspaper re ported. La is illegal to make personal Long Dis Tance Calls on government phones. Viola tots May be fined suspended or dismissed but the government rarely tries to collect when it discovers personal use. The office of personnel management found 36.5 percent of its Calls were unofficial. At the housing and Urban development department 29 percent were unofficial at the Energy department 30 percent at the Agency for International development so percent and at the National aeronautics and space administration 43.1 percent. We knew there was a problem but we Werc surprised it was that bad said Joseph Wright jr., Deputy director of the office of management and budget who also is head of the president s Council on integrity and efficiency pm officials said they checked More than 200 Calls from a computer printout and found the majority of the unofficial Call were to spouses Parent or children in suburban Washington or throughout the country. 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