European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday november 16,1987 North taken off project after probe paper says Washington up the Marine corps re assigned it. Col. Oliver North a key figure in the Iran Contra scandal from a classified project following in quiries into his Security clearance the Washington Post said saturday. The former National Security Council staff officer Deputy. Marine it. Col. Robert bad Aiso has been reassigned from his duties assisting North in the Classi fied project the Post said citing unidentified sources. But maj. . Robbs a Marine corps spokeswoman said saturday she knew nothing about the re assignments. North s attorney Brendan Sullivan declined to comment on the report. The Post said North was bumped from the Job of chief coordinator of Marine 2018" last month Fol lowing inquiries from both the news papa. And congressional staff into North s status and Access to classified information. Marine 2018," which involved Access to sensitive materials was a Long Range plan examining the corps next three decades and evaluating potential threats and capabilities and preparing for future roles and missions. Testimony in the Iran Contra hearings before con Gress this summer showed North gave classified mate rials to people who had no Security clearance destroyed classified documents and took top secret material Home from the Csc without authority. But Robbs asked to comment on the Post report said he s assigned As project officer in the service plans and policy Branch plans division of the Marine corps where she said North has been since he was fired nov. 25.1986, from his Csc staff Job. On nov. 25. Attorney general Edwin Meese revealed that profits from the Keagan administration s secret . Arms sales to Iran had been diverted to the nicaraguan Contra rebels. North was involved in both operations. I Don t know anything about his clearance being downgraded Robbs said. He s still there. His title project officer it s the same. People in that division do lots of things. Whatever he did from then to now could have been different  at the time North was fired House armed services committee members were assured that his assignment would be to a non controversial Job the Post reported. The report of the congressional Iran Contra committees scheduled for release tuesday is expected to be especially critical of North for his treatment of classified materials. The Post citing unidentified sources also said the Navy had withdrawn North s 24-hour Security detail but North continues to employ private Security guards. North is expected to retire from the marines when he becomes eligible May i the Post said. $2 million raised by comic Relief no laughing matter for homeless Universal City Calif. A dozens of the nation s top comedians look turns cracking jokes and pleading for donations for the homeless saturday Dur ing the nationally televised comic reliefs fund Raiser. The event raised $2 million in pledges in the first hours it was aired on Cable tvs Home Box office which unscrambled its for pay Only signal so an Esti mated 40 million Basic Cable subscribers could watch. Comedy is a great healer comic Billy Crystal said backstage. If you can laugh at a terrible situation it helps. If people sense that we care. Maybe they la give a Dollar or  a Universal amphitheatre audience of about 6,000 watched about two dozen comedians joke sing and make passionate pleas for Money during the four hour show a reprise of last year s Campaign for the Home less. Last year s inaugural Benefit raised nearly $2.6 Mil lion that has gone to help More than 150,000 homeless people in 18 cities. Donations this year Are earmarked for Street people in 23 cities. By 10 p.m., pledges passed the $2 million Mark said organizer Dennis Alba. Hob agreed to pick up All administrative costs allowing All proceeds to go to Charity. It will be several Days before organizers know How much Money was raised said Bob Zmuda president of comic Relief. The show will be rebroadcast at least four times on Hob. Seven rebroadcasts of the 1986 program brought in the bulk of the contributions last time. I think it s nauseating that we have to have an Crystal Williams event like this because of the homeless problem co median Robert Klein said backstage. Among the comedians who took part in the show were Robin Williams Dudley Moore Rue Mcclanahan and Estelle Getty of Abc s Golden girls Steve Allen and Dick Gregory. The decision to run the show on Cable versus net work television was to accommodate the political views of All the comedians participating Zmuda said. He said comedians with varying political viewpoints were asked to join the lineup. On Cable the comics Are Able to say and do any thing they want he said. Comic Relief will be rebroadcast on Hob on dec. I 7, 20 and 31. Poll finds no budget consensus but 63% oppose higher taxes new York a offered an assortment of of Lions on How to Cut the Federal budget most Ameri cans could agree Only on How not to trim costs a poll released saturday said. According to the Newsweek Magazine poll Only 8 percent of 500 adults supported a Cap on automatic Cost of living increases in Benefit programs. Just 9 per cent supported raising taxes while 23 percent supported cutting non defense Domestic spending. A larger number but still under half wanted to Cut defense spending which got an endorsement from 43 percent of those questioned. Asked about a 10 cents per gallon increase in the gasoline tax 77 percent opposed it offered a 2 percentage Point Cut in cola increases for Benefit pro Grams 69 percent were against it. Newsweek said. Sixty three percent opposed an increase in the Federal income tax. The Only Choice that garnered support from More than half of those polled was a decrease in social Security benefits for recipients making More than $25,000 a year from other sources of income. Fifty five percent of those polled supported this proposal Newsweek said. The Telephone poll was conducted by the Gallup organization on Friday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage Points. Stateside june figures show drop in endowment returns Washington a a Campus business group has said that colleges and universities earned an average return of13.8 percent on their endowments in he year ending june 30,1987. That was Down from the 26.9 percent return that the institutions racked up a year earlier the National association of College and University business officers said. Assassin s getaway car sold at Tennessee auction Memphis Tenn. A the getaway car driven by the Assassin of civil rights Leader mar tin Luther King or. Has been sold for $27,000. But the vehicle s new owner says the White 1966 Ford Mustang is up for Sale again. I m in the car business. I m just going to try to sell it and make 3 Buck red Strickland an Independent automobile dealer from Memphis said at an auction after buying the Mustang ones driven by James Earl Ray. King was murdered in Memphis on april 4, 1968, and the Fri seized the car the following Day in  car was stored for More than 19 years in a barn at the Shelby county penal farm in Mem Phis. Article urges doctors to report Drunken Drivers Boston a doctors should be require to report Drunken Drivers involved in accidents to state health authorities As one step toward dealing with their danger a report concludes. The study in the new England journal of Medicine said that physicians usually Send Drunken Accident victims Home without at tempting to Cope with their alcoholism. Do we feel that it s reasonable to treat the patient while they Are in Hospital and deny the fact that they Are sent out with a major clinical and social problem asked or. Peter Fielding one of the authors. That is not caring for outpatients and we should be doing something More for people than  Fielding said he advocates requiring physicians to report to state health agencies Drunken Drivers who gel into car crashes just As doctors now must report Many infectious diseases. How Ever he said he does not believe doctors should notify the police of such cases. Breast cancer warning issued in cd report Atlanta a breast cancer already a leading cause of premature death among Ameri can women May become a increasingly serious Public health problem the National Cen ters for disease control has warned. The cd in a report last week said cancer is the leading cause of premature loss of life Amon american women and breast cancer is the Leader in that category. In 1984, american breast cancer victims were robbed of More than 227,000 years of potential life or life they would have had if they had lived to age 65, the cd said. The Atlanta based Agency uses years of potential life lost at a measure of premature death with age 65 used As a statistical Benchmark. Bedtime for Bonzo co writer Dies at 87 los Angeles up Hollywood screen Wriler and cameraman Lou Breslow who co wrote the cult classic bedtime for Bonzo Star ring Ronald Reagan has died at 87.breslow, who wrote or contributed to the writing of 100 screenplays during a five decade career died of pneumonia at the motion picture and television Hospital in Woodland Hills. The Boston bom screenwriter along with Val Burton wrote the 1951 comedy bedtime for  tha film stars Reagan As the Earnest baby Sitter for an unpredictable Chimpanzee. The movie was based on actual scientific experiments in which the effects of heredity and environment on humans were tested by rearing chimps As children