European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 7, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 rough seas strand 123 tourists on Saratoga Miami up rough seas stranded 123 tourists aboard the air Craft Currier Saratoga where hey spent saturday night watching top Oun with the Crew and playing basketball on inc hangar deck before being flown to Shore on helicopters sunday. They re getting quite the taste of Navy adventure Felly officer Khris Hruska said sunday. The visitors lined up to use a cellular phone to Ell relatives Back on Shore about the change in Plant with mos taking the adventure in stride. Generally All we be seen Are big smiles. They be gotten the extended Lour a better look at the ship than the Normal tour Hruska said the tourists went to inc ship in shuttle boats saturday for a three hour Lour of inc vessel anchored 4vi Miles off Miami Beach. But inc shuttle boats were grounded saturday afternoon by 23-Mph winds and 4 to 7-Fooi seas. That left 123 Visi tors stranded aboard the Saratoga and 200 sailors stranded on Shore. The tourists were bedded Down in extra staterooms and berthing Compart ments and passed the time playing games eating and watching movies with the 2,000 crewmen and officers still Saratoga s Well locked to Stu Dio kept hem entertained. We be got movies like top Oun. Which we a re show ing to boost Hruska said. Fourteen year old Andrew Kapustin taking the Lour with two teen age pals phoned his father to report hat he was playing basketball on the hangar deck and having a great time he was very excited said his father Rafael Kapustin said you can imagine for a 14-year-old it would be fun the stranded sailors who did i have enough Money for hotel rooms slept in a Park Pavilion that serves As Beach patrol Headquarters or it the naval Reserve Center in Coconut grave where cols and blankets hastily set up for them. The Sens were slightly Calmer Sun Day but the Metal ladder used to reach the ship from the smaller boats had been badly damaged and using the shuttles was Giitl too Chancy Hruska said. Helicopters took Over sunday carry ing visitors ashore three or four at a time and resuming with sailors. The process took several hours but All the tourists were Back on land by Early afternoon. The Carrier was scheduled to leave for Jacksonville Early monday after a three Day Liberty Call in Miami. Roberts says he s prepared for persecution Rockwall. Texas up stumbling in front of his pulpit to dramatize How he has been Slung by criticism for his do or die fund Raiser. Oral Roberts sunday said he fought off the Devil surpassed his $8 million goal and now . They re coming after me he said. I m going to stand the persecution. I m going to stand like a Good Soldier. So what if the dogs bark. The rain Rollson. Roberts climbed into his prayer Tower on the Campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa okla., on March 22 to Pray and fast in an attempt to attract contributions for a medical missionary program. The Day before he entered the Tower a Florida dog track owner contributed $1.3 million which allowed Rob erts to meet his $8 million goal. But the evangelist said sunday in his first Sermon since leaving the Tower that god told him to continue his Vigil. He said raise $8 million above your regular needs Roberts said. That was taken oui of context and a tremendous persecution was raised toward near the end of the 10 Days when it looked like i could not birth the medical missionary program and the Media was raging and my name was on the lips i suppose of every person in his country it was like a spiritual Hurricane. Two or three times i fell the Devil on me to de stroy my life and my medical Mission. The Slakes were big the last 10 Days in March Christ on one Side Lucifer on the other Side and my friends and myself in the he said that on the last Jay something clicked inside me. I heard god say now you can stay up Here until Midnight. You can slay and Pray but it s done. The medical Mission is done " on Jan. 4, Roberts told viewers of his weekly Yelevi Sappho gooral Roberts fills to his knee during Sermon sunday Sion program that he was s4.5 million Short of the $8 million cod had told him he had to raise by March 3 or be called Home. Roberts said he made More than a million prayers while in the be been through hell and Back trying to convince people that $8 million won t do it. To s got to be above our regular needs and we need it in Panl and May and june and july and 1988 and 1989, 1990, 1991, until god returns to the Earth he said. On april i on his son s daily television show. Roberts announced that $9.1 million had been raised enough Tor the medical scholarship program $700,000 to make up and a $400,000 we had fallen behind in inc fall of the year and be cause we had put some dbl on the University it was killing me Roberts said. Bills arc paid. Debts Are lifted. We have the $8 m ill Ion with an overflow he said. In the hand clapping gospel Reading two hour service at he Church on inc Rock which is led by Roberts protege the Rev lorry Lea Dean of oru s Seminary Roberts took aim Al those who criticize him for his lifestyle. He said Ihal in the Bible god promises to Reward believers for heir gifts a Hundred fold. " was born in a Little two room Cabin in Oklahoma with a lean to. Now i live u one of inc fines Homes. I drive one of the finest safest cars and if a newer safer one were to pull in front of my door. I d go out and say i want it " Roberts said. God designed life for believers to be an abundant life he said. God designed for you to live in inc Over there s no escape from persecution. As soon As you get the one Hundred fold persecution is coming As sure As death and taxes he said. Marines probe 5 enlistees1 faked transcripts Detroit Dpi the Marine corps is investigating the source of five doctored transcripts from a Detroit High school that were used to help Young men qualify for the corps. The Detroit news in a copyright Story sunday said it obtained transcripts that turned out to be fabricated. School officials confirmed the report. Marine corps recruiting officials viewed inc five transcripts and said All five Young men had been accepted in inc Marine corps. Four Are in Boot Camp in California and one was dropped six weeks after he began training. According to computer records four of the students took Only Basic courses and also Swimm ing Aulon repair r and band while of penning High school. The transcripts Given to the marines show the students Tak ing such courses As economics French and chemistry. It was not known when or by whom the transcripts were doctored school officials armed forces rely heavily on the transcripts in judging the Quality of applicants a corps spokesman said. The news showed the doctored Tran scripts to Detroit Public schools area g supt. Herbert Tabor and his two Deputy superintendents. They confirmed that the transcripts were Marine corps immediately opened an investigation into the Case. A spokesman said they planned to inter View the Recruiter involved in enlisting inc four privates now in Boot Camp and to review records of Hose and of her con tracts he initiated. Maj. Gregory d. Raths in charge of Marine recruiting for metro Detroit said inc investigation will seek to determine whether the Marine Recruiter knew inc transcripts Given him by peril Ling officials were false. Rains said another Marine staff sgt. Jeffery d. Quinn was removed from his recruiting duties in Detroit after head fitted to questionable recruiting practices including submitting a phony High school transcript for a recruit who later admitted he had not finished inc eighth Grade. Pershing principal Emyral a. Crosby whose signature appeared on three of the transcripts said he did nol remember signing any of Floc documents. In four of the cases one student according to the school Board computer earned Only 30 credit hours in 1984,1985 and the first semester of 1986. The papers Given to inc marines show he started Al penning a full year earlier and graduated Wilh 210 credit hours another enlisted the computer said earned 55 credit hours from 1984 through 1986. The papers sent 10 the marines showed him Al t crashing fur inc entire 1983 school year and graduating in june 1986 with 21s hours. Another student earned 55 credit hours from 1984 through 1986. The re cords Given to the marines said he started in 1983 and finished the i he Grade before dropping out with 195 credit hours. Another enlisted accumulated 105 credit hours from 1983 through i9s5. But transcript and verification documents Given to the marines indicate he started Al peril Ling in 1982 and graduated in june 1986 Wilh 200 hours of credit. The fifth Slud enl who went to Boot Camp in january and washed out by March earned 25 credit hours Al per Shing in Only three semesters. But the transcript Given 10 the marines claimed the student had earned 175 credit hours. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foday. April 7, 1947 Howard Hughes millionaire movie producer and aircraft de signer taxied his experimental Xii plane along i Culver City calif., runway then look off on a successful one hour flight. 30 years ago foday. ,. April 7, 1957 the Hunt for kidnapped american Anita Carroll ended in Iran with the discover of her Bullet pierced body not far from where Lii r husband and another american were killed in an ambush 20 years ago foday. April 7. 1167 Nasa officials said Rykel failure branded a giant experimental satellite in the wrong orbit and Lutey expected it to Fiill out of orbit Anil Burn. J 0 years ago foday. April 7, 1977 Tom Dri Ulley. First Black mayor of los Angeles def Rafii 11 challengers to win re election and while Allan in City councilman Wythe Powler or. Captured the vacant congressional Seal of United nations ambassador Andrew Young
