European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday september 23,1986 Cameroon inquest Voundee Cameroon a an to National scientific Cafter once will be held in Yaounde by he in of the year to try a a ctr Minc ilk cause of the poisonous Gas eruption from in vat Nios last month lha willed 1,7v people officials said suday. One Monif Cowf the aug. 21release of dead Meas from beneath the take in no Otto Estern Camer Oon experts Yil vie not Able to make a of the cause. Japan so Swiss Itaki Ameri can French and Cam cronian scientist All have studied taken samples from from the victims. Fins tory results Are Cape Ltd Ember officials said. Conduct questioned Islamabad Pakistan Upin official newspaper saturday Qualo Ned the conduct a killed Tel tuesday near to foreign ministry in Islamabad the Wocial pm Vistani time said the Oto Tomat Fyodor Goren Kov who a aloft Jedy killed by ayoung Paki a stopped his youth after a Parr said Leiblic opinion was thai orc nov Lac Havior was against lip Romalic Havior and norms and had no inv cent in an army a Suer Itie colonel Genikov should have exercised Gresler restraint on being accosted by Astringer the paper said. Isl week had to pick up the Pung Man hailed temperatures 45 6 of a Lurt. I 70 Thoi. I p a Dkl i pm 1 p Pentagon warns of flaw in Reagan s drug test order Washington up a major flaw in president Reagan s executive order requiring drug tests for certain fed eral employees is Likely to Lead to erroneous test results and punishment of in Nocent workers Pentagon sources say. Pentagon officials warned hat be cause a provision of the order Calls for employees to provide urine without a observer present drug users could Tam per with specimens drug users in the military for exam pie have covertly switched their Sample with other during test ing officials and a civilian lawyer White House order is really disturbing to me a Pentagon drug official said without an observer present agencies won t be Able to Lell if they retelling your specimen the next Guy s or the dog who have administered the military s extensive drug test program said specimen switches led to the victimization of Many innocent service Mem ers before the Pentagon started requiring direct observation in the Early 1980s.meredith Rountrey an official in the White House drug abuse policy office said she had not considered the possibility of a malicious switch of s something i had t thought of she said. I Don t know what to say would think there would be some re course but i m not sure Pentagon officials also said thai with out direct observation drug users could escape detection by concealing packets of clean urine in heir clothing or inserting chemicals into their urine to confound the tests. The addition of soap or highly acidic chemicals 10 urine can make the tests of that urine unreadable officials agreed that the exclusion of observers might allow resourceful drug users 10 avoid detection but said the administration though it More important to defer to employees privacy to gain their support for the might mean a problem in terms of inaccurate results she said thursday but it s a risk we re willing to Reagan s executive order issued Las monday requires drug tests for Federal employees holding sensitive positions including presidential appointees and Law enforcement positions include those designated by the Agency chief la involve National Security the pre Lection of life and property Public health or safety or other functions requiring a High degree of Trust and Confidence the executive order says. White House officials said they estimate Bow Many of the 2.8 million Federal civilian employees would detested but said $56 million had been ear marked for testing in fiscal 1987. Employees whose less indicate drug use would be fired if they refused coun-1 scaling or failed a second test following a rehabilitation program. The executive order in an except onto the privacy provision allows a super visor to Call for direct observation of a employee whom the supervisor has Rea son to believe ,. May alter or substitute the specimen to be a White House official said the provi Sion allows any supervisor who suspects an employee of drug use to require direct observation. Supervisors can Tell which employees Are on drugs the White House official said. They work with them Day in an Day out and they can select behaviour but a Pentagon official said Pentagon lawyers claim that supervisors cannot legally Send in observers unless they have specific evidence that employees in tended to tamper with specimens. Mark Waple a North Carolina he had dealt with a dozen army and air Force cases in he last two years i which service members he was represent ing had apparently been victim of spec Imen switches. Waple said the switching look place when observers were not watching dose j Fly or were absent in violation Ofregula-1 Lions. Drug addiction a growing problem in Moscow schools Pray a reports Moscow up _ drug addiction has become a serious problem in the Moscow school system with 3.700 addicts currently registered in government clinics the pravda newspaper said Sun Day. Quoting from a speech by Moscow communist party Boss Boris Meluin the newspaper also said the number of crimes committed by teen agers in the City is growing and placed tie blame on corrupt school system. He said several school principals have been sentenced to prison recently for bribery and abuse of Power and 330teachers at 47 vocational schools inspected in the past few months were punished for drunkenness and violation of disciplinary besides the increasing number of drug addicts within the school system Yeltsin said a number of High school student shave been disciplined for drunkenness and other violations of social during the last five year period crime among the students and the num Ber of those disciplined for drunkenness and other violations of social order have Yeltsin said. Drug addiction is becoming a serious problem. We have Long shut our eyes to this. We were ashamed of speaking. This Ostrich policy Ted to the following Situa Tion there Are now 3,700 drug addict registered in Moscow. Tail year alone 164 new addicts were discovered Amon students in secondary and vocational schools. The number of crimes Coin milled by teen agers is growing Yeltsin said. There Are no private dig treatment clinics in the soviet Union and anyone seeking treatment must Register with the government. Secondary and vocational school Stu dents Are usually Between 14 and 17 years old. The Moscow school system has about 1 million secondary and vocational school newspaper said. Yeltsin made his remarks during a speech to workers an teachers employed by the Moscow school District. He did not specify what types of drugs Are being used by students. After years of denying the existence of any drug problem in the soviet Union dismissing it As a product of Western capitalism the official Media has car ried a flood of drug related stories in the past six months apparently signalling change in the Kremlin s attitude toward the official Media also portray reported increases in crimes especially burglar ies u being directly related to drug and communist party newspapers have placed partial blame for the increasing number of drug addicts on Ricter controls on alcohol especially Vodka announced by the government last year. The newspaper argues that Tome peo ple seek substitute for booze and turn to the problem of drug addiction in the Moscow school system Yeltsin also attacked what he termed growing corruption scandal in the school ministers should be ashamed of the present level of Educa Tion available in Moscow. The state of Many vocational school Sis so miserable that Young people refuse to go there. Every fourth school cannot provide conditions necessary for study he in the soviet Union is paid for by the stale and is mandatory until the age of 17. Libya backs sandinista or rebel says Las vegas Nev. Up Libya has provided $10 million to pay for a Public relations Campaign in the United Staneslo promote the Sandi Tisla regime in Nicaragua a rebel Leader Bermudez commander of the nicaraguan democratic Force said sat urday that Libya provided 1 100 million to the leftist government in Managua i september 1985. With s10 million for hiring Public relations agencies in the United states to bolster the image of the american Public opinion is being taken misinformed at International an diplomatic Levels Bermudez said through an interpreter. The principle of non interventions shown. And the sympathizers of the sandinista regime requested there Beno american intervention in Nicara Bermudez who commands the larg est rebel Force in Nicaragua with an estimated 18,000 troops said support ers of the sandinista fail to mention the cuban and soviet we believe we Are winning in the military Field but Are losing the psycho logical Battle. Because of the Vietnam War. The so Viets discovered thai the greatest weak Ness the United Stales has is the psycho logical Impact of War. So they orchestrated a Imilsi thing for the nicaraguan War. The sandinista hired at their serv ice in the United Stales Public relations firms that make propaganda or assist to a f propaganda plan their visits and lobby Bermudez said. 1 t. -
