European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March t6. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 liar professor Speaks with forked Tongue Philadelphia k losing a Friendship try this line in my opinion you will be very fortunate to gel this person to work for this Gem of a double enl Endre is the creation of Robert Thornton a professor of economics at la High University in Bethlehem a. Frustrated Al having to write letters of recommendation for people with dubious qualifications Thornton has put together an Arsenal of Tongue in Cheek statements that offer honest though perhaps negative assessments of Job candidates. Thornton Calls h is collection the lexicon of inconspicuously ambiguous recommendations. Or liar for Short. " liar May be used to offer a negative opinion of the personal qualities work habits or motivation of the candidate while allowing the candidate to be Lieve that it is High Praise Thornton explained. Other liar examples offered by Thornton to describe a person who is totally inept "1moil enthusiastically recommend this candidate with no qualifications to describe an sex employee who had problem getting along with fellow workers i am pleased to say that this candidate is a former colleague to describe a candidate who is so unproductive that the Job would be better left unfilled i can assure you that no person would be better for to describe a Job applicant who is not Worth further consideration i would urge you to waste notice in making Ihil candidate an offer of employ to describe a person with lacklustre credentials i cannot say enough Good things about this Candi Date or recommend him too highly Thornton pointed out that liar is not Only useful in preserving friendships but in also can spare the writer serious Legal trouble in a Lime when Laws have1eroded the confidentiality of letters of recommendation in most states he noted Job applicants have the right to read inc letters of recommendation and can even fit suit against the writer if the contents arc negative when the writer uses liar however whether perceived correctly or not by the candidate the phrases Are virtually litigation proof Thornton said. Samantha Smith foundation in financial trouble Roo port Maine up the Samantha Smith foundation rounded in memory of the schoolgirl who wrote Toile late soviet Leader Yuri Andropov about her tears of nuclear War is having financial problems. Jane Smith told the Rockland Are rotary club that donations have fallen off and the foundation she formed after her daughter s death has turned to fund raising to fill its Are right now scrambling for funds Smith said. In the beginning we were trying to figure out what to do with our Money. Now we re trying to the 11-veer-old girl gained worldwide attention in 1983 when she visited the soviet Union for two weeks at the invitation of Andropov after writing to him. During the months following Saman tha s death in a plane crash on aug. 25, 19ss, Jane Smith received donation from around the country for the foundation created in her daughter s memory. She used the Money to take american students to the soviet Union and the foundation will Welcome 20 soviet youths to Maine this summer. The foundation also publishes a mag Azine and is marketing Joam e s Jam for Sam As a source of Revenue. Named after Maine marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson the Jam was intended to finance the Magazine bul initial sales were interrupted by a contamination care and Smith said the product has now just broken said one of the goals of the foundation is to make americans and russians More aware of each others human beings around the country it s funny we Don to think of the Sovi ets As having children Smith said. In the past our View of the soviet Union was dour old men reviewing tanks. We re seeing a lot More of what goes on in the Day to Day life. I think we need to know a Tot More about the soviet Union a Bronze Talue of Samantha was recently erected at the Maine statehouse. Funds for the $25,000 statue were raise separately by a group of Auburn Mer chants who received donations from faces extradition to Italy Chicago chef said to be mobster Chicago up the alleged founder of an italian underworld organization wanted in Italy for a series of killings has been working As a chef in a Chicago restaurant under an assume name . Magistrate Thomas Rose mond said in Clearing the Way for extradition proceedings against a Man identified As Carmine Esposito 31. Esposito who was last seen in Italy in1944, has been using the name Michael j. Phelan and claims to have been born in Milwaukee police said. The suspect was arrested thursday Ata restaurant on charges involving a series of killings in Italy. Esposito is one of Italy s most wanted fugitives Federal officials said. He is is being held without Bond fed eral officials said. An extradition hearing has Bee scheduled for april 22. During Friday s hearing , attorney Thomas Scorza presented evidence that the real Phelan now reside sin Las vegas but formerly lived in Mil Waukee where he lost the identification papers which Esposito now uses. The suspect s attorney Philip the evidence pre Carmine est Waltg apply to sealed to identify his client. He said fingerprints supplied by italian offi the Fri apparently taken i Italy after Esposito was arrested for armed robbery at the age of 17, could have been taken Al any time. But a fingerprint specialist from the Fri said the fingerprints taken by ital Ian authorities and those taken after the suspect s arrest Here were identical. The complaint accuses Esposito of organizing a crime ring known As the Nova Camorrah Orga Pizzata or new organized crime. It allegedly has been operating in Avellino near Naples since vo3 victims in Many of the killings link Edlo Esposito reportedly were members of a rival Camorrah faction the Nuva fam Ilia or new family. Scorza said Esposito lied to the United slates from his Hometown of Avellino Early in 1984 after he was convicted of extortion and sentenced to four years in prison. The murder charges were issued after be fled. Italian police officials Learned last Yea that Esposito was living in the United states authorities said. Last december they told the Fri in Washington where he lived. Arson suspected in Dawn Blaze at synagogue Westwood mass. A a fire raced through a synogogue saturday morning causing heavy damage. Officials said thai although the Blaze apparently was deliberately set they did no believe it was an act of anti semitism. The Blaze at Temple Beth David was one of three that occurred within one hour in the Boston suburb officials found no evidence of any Vandal Ous activities inside the Church except the fire itself said fire chief John Sheehy. Rabbi Henry Zoob said he consider edit Ami semitic because any attack on a synagogue is an anti semitic two alarm Blaze was started about 5 30 . In the basement of the Wood Frame Structure which once housed a Baptist Church Sheehy mid. He Esti mated the damage at $400,000. The Blaze was discovered while fire fighters were extinguishing a car fire in a parking lot a few Hundred Yards said that fire and another car fire an hour earlier also were set and the three Are believed to be connected. Firefighters removed three torah from the Sanctuary bul All three of the sacred scrolls were damaged Sheeh said. Aids Hospital will turn away indigent patients Houston up aids patients who Lack the Money or insurance to pay for their care no longer will be accepted Al the nation s first Hospital devoted entirely to he treatment of the disease Hospital officials Institute for immunological disorders oper ated by american medical International opened i september and since Ihnn has provided $2 million in services to impoverished patients but will provide the free care no More. By August Hospital officials expect the total Cost of caring for indigent patients to reach $5 million far More than the $250,000 Ami committed to indigent care when it signed an affiliation agreement with the University of Texas system the highest priorities of the Institute arc to continue to provide care of the highest Quality to its current patients As Well As 10 continue its research program directed toward eventual elimination of this disease the Institute s Board said in a statement Friday. The need for services by patients who Are without health insurance and have no other financial resources has reached a Point that threatens the ability of the Institute to serve these two priorities the statement said. Therefore the Institute is not currently accepting new patients who arc unable to pay for their health Hospital serves about 600 oui patients and has the capacity for 150 in patients but saturday had only10 in aliens a spokeswoman said. Indigent patients already accepted for admission and those whose insurance or funds lapsed after admission will continue to receive treatment Hospital officials said. Officials said they also will counsel patients with aids related disorders about financial problems and help them maintain their health insurance and other resources. The facility also will help Imlig Enis gain admittance to Jefferson Davis Hospital a county operated facility with an out patient aids clinic and 16 Beds for in patients
