European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and strikes Friday december 19.1986 . Hopes to disconnect phone abuse Washington a the Reagan administration responding to reports or Telephone system abuse by Federal employees plans to propose new regulations on worker Long distance personal Calls a spokesman for the general serv ices administration said wednesday night. Joseph m. Slye a spokesman for the Agency draft regulations were aimed at cracking Down on genuine abuse but also would Lake into account reasonable Long distance personal Calis. Fur instance sly proposal would redefine Calls now considered Ille Gal including some Calls to Day care Cen ters baby Sillers and Latch key children As official. Stateside workers travelling out of town on government business also would be allowed to make a Brief free Call Home each Day on the Federal phone system Siye said. The draft regulations which arc being circulated among government agencies members of Congress and Union Proba Bly will be published in january for a 60 Day Public comment period Slye said. In june he president s Council on integrity and efficiency ordered the inspectors general of All Federal agencies in conduct studies to determine the extent of phone system abuse. The office of personnel management has found 36.5 percent of the Long Dis Tance Calls were unofficial department of housing and Urban development 29 percent department of Energy 30 per cent Agency for International development 50 percent and National aeronautics and space administration 43.1 percent. Sly reports presented an unfair picture because of the definition of the term abuse. Is it abusive when you Call a baby Sitter to Check on a sick child in som cases those Calls Are Long distance he said. The of the administration isto redefine abuse and crack Down on those abusing the phone Gas administrator Terence c. Golden in an interview with the Washington Post said agencies which now receive phone records months after the fact in the form of stacks of paper listing thou Sands of Calls will be Given new information to help target chronic abusers. Agencies will be Able to get computer sorted lists of Calls such As those that Are recurring or lengthy that Are made Dur ing off hours or that Are made to recorded messages. Individual agencies will decide the Type of punishment for those Alto violate the rules. Slye said. Employees could defined suspended or dismissed Golden told the Post that when Long distance Calls on the Federal phone Syi tem As Well As commercial line were computed an average 22 percent were personal the new definition of official Calls was in effect the percentage of personal Calls would drop to 16 percent to in per cent. Slye said thai percentage is in the Range of private sector findings. Freighter freed from reef in Biscayne National Park Biscayne National Park Fla. A a 243-foot freighter was pulled free tuesday from a jagged Coral reef in his National Marine Park the coast guard ship. In god we Trust apparently ran a ground sunday night. It was spotted by a helicopter monday near Pacific reef where a Lighthouse stands to warn ships away from the shallow reefs. The Salvage vessel Helen b pulled the ship fire at High tide tugging on steel cables stretched Between the two vessels because the freighter was stuck in iut so shallow that a lug could not get alongside. The last Slop of the honduran Regis tired ship had hem port a Prince Haiti and it was bound for Miami id pick up cargo authorities said. The Crew remained on Board while it was stuck on the reef. Four dehydrated stowaways were found should. The Coas guard look one by helicopter in a he spinal about 30 Miles away in Miami. The others were Licud for . Immigration officers said c Oast guard spokesman Luis Diaz. Pan am to discontinue flights to 3 countries new York a world airways is suspending its service to Senegal Liberia and Nigeria effective feb. I. The airline announced that stops in Dakar Senegal Monrovia Liberia and Lagos. Nigeria on us twice weekly flights to Nairobi Kenya will be suspended Merle Richman said tuesday that pan am Hopes to continue the monday and thursday flights to Nairobi via route has become uneconomic Looper ate Richman company decided to suspend the slops in West Africa because of currency problems and a declining number of tourists he said. Currency regulations have made it difficult for the company to convert its funds to Dollar Sand Lake them Oul of the three countries he said. He did not release exact figures for the number of passengers stopping at the three cities but said in arc had been a gradual deterioration in what is essentially a tourist Market. Scholarship established to Honor slain teacher lew1stown, Mont. A a scholarship for students planning a leaching career will be established to Honor the memory of slain teacher Henrietta would be a scholarship fund for kids going into education Fergus county superintendent Shirley Barrick said in an interview published tuesday. We want people to know that Educa Tion is a Good profession to be Smith. 40, a substitute teacher was gunned Down dec. 4 in a shooting spree at Fergus High school in Lewistown. The incident also left an assistant principal critically wounded and two Stu dents slightly Fergus freshman 14-year-old Kristofor Hans has been charged in the shootings. The prosecutor said he would petition to try Hans As an adult. A photo Tom Moylan sifts through the Landfill in Sandwich mass looking for what he thought was a winning ticket. Man searches trash for 2 Days learns lottery ticket is worthless Braintree mass. A a Man who thought his wife had thrown out a j2.9 million lottery ticket and spent two Days sifting through garbage looking for it says he s really relieved that someone else proved to be the Winner. I just had about a 3,000-ton weight lifted off my Back Tom Moylan 32, of Sandwich said wednes Day. Knowing the ticket his wife Bridget 2s, Acci dentally threw out was not a Winner also takes a Load off our relationship Moylan said. Moylan was t certain he had picked All six numbers correctly but knew he had the last two right and had a gut feeling about the others. So he spent monday and tuesday tossing trash. Moylan filed a claim wednesday with the Massachusetts lottery commission hoping a search of com Puter records might help prove his Case an hour later Catherine of judge also of Sandwich walked into lottery Headquarters in Braintree with the Sec Ond winning ticket from the dec. 10 drawing for a $5.8 million Jackpot said lottery spokesman David Ellis. Judge and her husband Thomas a retired air National guard colonel had wailed a week to bring in the ticket because they just did t want a great Deal of attention Ellis said a Man from Stoneham also had picked the six numbers and split the prize with the judges. The winning numbers were 3.5,8,20, is and 36. Texas executes Man by injection Huntsville Texas up Richard Andrade condemned to death for the fatal stabbing of a female bar owner who tried desperately to fend him off by jabbing him with a ballpoint pen was executed by injection Early thursday. Andrade 25, was pronounced dead at 12 32 a.m., nine minutes after the lethal drugs were injected into his right Arm. Andrade. Who had requested that no witnesses be Al Lowed at his execution and cried and cried and cried when he teamed corrections officials refused to bar re porters looked Al the ceiling or away from the witnesses. When asked by Warden Jack Pursley if be had final statement. Andrade looked at chaplain Carroll picket then Shook his head to indicate he did not Andrade was the 68th person put to death since the United states resumed executions in 1977. Andrade on death raw since november 1984, spent less Lime there than any of the 19 men Texas has put to death since resuming executions in 1982. The average stay on death Row in Texas is about six years. His Tina Appeal to the supreme court was rejected wednesday Clearing the Way for his execution for the March 20, 1984, slaying of Cordelia Mae Guevera 28, during an attempted sexual assault. Guevera who was stabbed 14 times fought with her attacker using a ballpoint pen to try to save herself nieces county assistant District attorney Bill May said. When Andrade was arrested two Dayi after the slaying police found Ink on the Back of Hii shirt apparently from where Guevera struck him. Andrade testified at his trial that he used heroin the night of the crime and bad no recollection of Guevera t death
