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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 20, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stabs and stripes Friday february 20,1987 Federal guidelines will Moke it difficult to cheat on Uhn Lysis Washington a Federal  ordered 10 take drug toils will find in hard to doctor urine samples under rules issued thursday but also Are Guarani cd review by a medical officer before any positive result can be reported to a supervisor. The technical rules were prepared by the department of health and human serv. Pcs and Drew Quick criticism. The head of the National Treasury employees Union has filed a lawsuit in an Effort to prevent the . Customs service from imposing drug tests on its employees. The head of that 120, Union. Robert m. Tobias said the guide lines add More Insull to  to Federal employees who after haying been accused by the president of being guilty before proven Iii Occil Are now owing labelled As potential  he called the regulations further onslaughts on employee fourth Amend ment rights and a comic exerciser in tidy bowl  last september president Reagan or dered drug testing of employees who have sensitive jobs and instructed the department to develop the scientific procedures to be followed. The office of personnel management issued regulations last november that Cou d made As Many As 1.1 million worker subject la Lessing although Only a fraction of them arc Likely to be required to submit. Those government wide rules were held in abeyance pending the health and human services guidelines but som agencies including the Fri and drug enforcement administration have been in Ling on heir own. The new rules designed to ensure that the person being tested is submitting his own fresh urine Sample Call for water in the toilet to be used to contain a Blue Dye and for the Sample s temperature to be taken within four minutes both arc to guard against the person sub mitting a Sample diluted with toilet water or one that was smuggled into the testing site a Monitor would tic nearby but would not watch the person give the Sample. The guidelines include elaborate instructions on transportation of Sam Leslo make sure they arc not mixed up and on the Laboratory testing procedures. For example any Sample that tests negative on initial screening is reported Back to the Agency As negative. An initial Posi Tive must be confirmed positive by a Sec Ond More expensive analysis thai is Gener ally accepted As nearly 100 percent accurate even then the report must go initially Only to the Agency s medical review officer. The guidelines require a physician with knowledge of substance abuse Dis orders to serve As a medical review offi cer Al each Agency said department of health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen at a news conference attorney Gen eral Edwin me Csc and office of person Nel management director Constance a Homer said the testing program was aimed Al rehabilitating drug users. Bui Homer acknowledged that employees found to be using drugs once can expect to be fired if they arc caught a second Lime. In some instances such a secret service agents who guard the president a first offence would be sufficient for dismissal she said. Sen. Joseph Biden d-del., chairman of the judiciary committee said he did not believe the guidelines would adequately protect against cheating that to do so would require having someone suffer the indignity of having someone standing there physically watching them give the urine specimen. And rep. Stony Hoyer d-md., called on fellow lawmakers to help him Slop the initiative. \ Snow tracks in Roanoke a pedestrian makes big Way across the big snowfall this year. The final storm Norfolk Southern railway Yard in a Virginia it s Snow it Winter in id Roanoke pm after the Region s fourth Yean. Donation plea put Oral Roberts through heir Tulsa a Fla a evangelist Oral Roberts says he has been through hell and Back since he said on his television show last month Hal he would die in March unless followers donate $4.5 million for u medical missionary scholarship program. All of sudden in was like the world Well mad Roberts said in an appear Ince on his son s television program. Richard Roberts  people were making me the worst person who Ever lived because 1 want Edlo scholarship medical school students he said. For a Little while 1 got so Low that if 1 would have died they would have had to Jack me up to Bury  but Roberts said on tuesday s pro Gram that he is confident his followers will Sec him through. I be been through hell and Back Roberts said but on March 31,1 expect to be alive Lolic Roberts said he expects inc Money to be raised to fund the program for Oral Kob crts University medical students. On Jan. 4, Roberts told viewers god warned him in March 1986 that Roberts had to raise $8 million for the project in one year or i will Call you  some 13.5 million has since been contributed. About $1.6 million in Cash and pledges poured in within two weeks of Rob erts remarks. Ministry spokeswoman Jan Dargatz said no additional announcement about the Success of the fund raising would be made until the total is received. The Money will allow Oral Roberts University medical students to graduate debt free and become missionaries in third world countries Roberts said. The juror Over the evangelist s re Marks which he has repeated on other television programs and m letters sent to his prayer partners has prompted some television stations not to run his weekly program. Wafaa to in Dallas this week announced the station will not renew Rob erts program effective March 22 because of the evangelist s fund raising approach. If pressure and stress can kill you they would have killed Oral Roberts Roberts said on his son s show. If de Mons and satan coming against you can destroy you then they would Hove destroyed me. The Devil came 10 my room just a few nights ago and 1 Felt those hands on my Throat and he was choking the life out of me. I yelled to my wife Honey come " Roberts said his wife Evelyn Ramelo his room. She Laid her hands on me and rebuked the Devil and commanded the Devil to get out of my  he said. I began to breathe and came out of my be Strong rights Leader s Yard May yield clues to blocks past great Harrington mass. Api plates and shoelaces from the Back Yard of the Home of evil rights Pioneer . Dubois May yield clues to the lives of Blacks before the civil War a archaeologist says. Robert Paynter a professor Al Theunis Crilly of Massachusetts Al Amherst said he is sifting through the property for hints of the daily existence of people a Homay have lived there 150 years before Dubois death in l%3. Dubois was a founder of inc National association for the ads an Cement of col ored people and a Leader in the pan Afri can movement. He died in self exile i Ghana. Although his autobiography describes his upbringing Little is known about his ancestors and other Black families who have lived in the Berkshire kills since the revolutionary War. When you Start dealing with Anonymous people who Don t write Long an detailed diaries or leave lots of prop erties to descendants you have to weave together information from objects and sparse documents Payler said. Homer Mcado a researcher in afro american studies said some families came with dutch settlers from the Hud son Valley and others were escaped slaves who hid in the Hills. He said Paynter s study would reveal the line of strength leading not just to Dubois but to Many families still in the area who v. Ere around just As Long and who Are just As important in Ihei rown  for the past two Summers Paynte has led student learns on excavations at the site now a National historic land Mark. The digging has turned up so Many Bro Ken plates that faint or Sard he wonders whether the family worked As caterers to wealthy White new York families thai vacationed in Western Massachusetts. Dubois great Grandfather. Tom Burg hard probably came to the Berkshire with a dutch family. Payler said. Burg Hardt was freed in the 7sos because he fought in the revolutionary War. Dubois was bom in the Village of great barring on in 1b6b, the House was Given to Dubois for his 6ulh birthday by such friends As attorney Clarence Dar Row. Dubois sold the House because he could t afford to keep in up. And the property was eventually turned Over to the Dubois foundation  
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