European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 2, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 panel Calls for review of Dodds Pentagon says study unwarranted by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington the House armed services committee Reading to complaints from military parents is calling for a sweeping review of the defense department s overseas school system that could result in the institution of local school boards. But a Pentagon official said that the study which would be done by the general accounting office is unwarranted and that problems Between parents and department of defense dependents schools can be solved by belter communication. The committee ordered a comprehensive study of the strengths and weaknesses of the Dodds system As part of its version of the defense authorization Bill passed in Early april. Rightly or wrongly parents of children in the Dodds system from Europe to the Pacific complain of a general inability to have meaningful Impact on the policies and operation of their schools through the local school advisory boards stated the committee report to the Bill. Carlyle Rogers a Volunteer for the army family Liaison office and a former member of the army family action plan youth education committee agrees with that assessment. The school advisory councils Are ineffective be cause of their Lack of authority Rogers said. The problem is that there is no accountability. Principals and administrators arc not accountable to their local  but Barbara Pope assistant Secretary of defense for family support education and safety said what this boils Down to is general frustration on the part of parents Over the fact that there arc no locally elected school boards in the overseas  Many of these parents arc familiar with so called Section 6 schools operated by the military at installations in the United states and puerto Rico which have elected boards authorized to hire and fire principals Pope said. There arc 18 school systems consisting of67 such schools with 35,000 students. They want to know Why it in t the same overseas she said. It s because of the Way the legislation  the Law says that the overseas system will be Cen trally managed from its Headquarters in Alexandria a. But Rogers pointed out that All Section 6 schools have locally elected boards at the installation level which she said could be done overseas. In calling the study unwarranted Pope cited a Simi Lar More limited investigation into Dodds in the Philippines last year that found nothing wrong. The Bottom line is communication she said. Behave formal channels parents can use to voice their concerns channels that both Dodds and the military arc responsible for. What we re hearing is that the Celebration and protest Down under Al left aborigine protesters boo Britain s Queen Eliza Beth ii during her visit sunday to St. John s Cathedral in Brisbane Australia. At right the Queen is presented with Flowers on leaving the Cathedral As the protesters. Watched by police look on from across the Street. Sat urday in Brisbane the Queen opened world expo 88, marking the Bicentennial of the Start of european settlement in n he land Down under. Bone marrow flown from . Used in Milwaukee transplant Milwaukee up a 14-year-old new Jersey girl suffering from leukaemia had a Bone marrow trans Plant saturday using marrow flown to this country1 from England. Molly Scharkey of Cherry Hill n.j., received the transplant at the Milwaukee county medical Complex. Nursing supervisor Meg Shannon Stone said saturday she was in satisfactory condition. For 10 to 14 Days is the period when you watch to Sec if the transplant takes or if she will have a reaction or reject it said  Bone marrow was drawn Early Friday from an English woman in London s Royal Hammersmith Hospital and flown to  prefer to use Bone marrow from close relatives because it reduces the Chance of rejection. But when a related donor cannot be found doctors look for other closely matched people. A Hospital spokeswoman said the marrow from eng land was a perfect  the Bone marrow was intravenously dripped into her blood and doctors said in would find its Way into her Bone cavities where in is hoped in will take Root and grow healthy White blood cells which fight infection and disease. Scharkey had a final dose of radiation Lave Friday to kill remaining cancerous cells in her Bone marrow. She suffers from chronic leukaemia. The patient has been in isolation for two weeks while her own diseased Bone marrow was killed wit radiation. Her parents Debbie and Kevin Scharkey have been staying in the Ronald Mcdonald House on inc Mil Waukee county grounds in Wauwatosa. Channels May be too formal and not responsive enough at the grass roots  but Rogers said an in depth look by an Independent Agency at inc Way Dodds is administratively Struc tured could Only help. There arc too Many layers Between the people at the top and the parents she said. And the people at the top and in the Middle layers arc constantly Chang ing. The channels May be there but they re very cum  the House commit lec a Nice that the Lack of Opportunity for meaningful parental Impact is not the Only complaint that has been received about the Dodds system. Questions have also Arisen about evaluation of teachers administrators and curriculum student safety availability of essential supplies programs to Deal with drug abuse " and the Issue of whether Scholastic aptitude test scores thai Are equal to or above in National average necessarily reflect Quality education the committee report said. The commit lec report directed the Gay to look into each of those concerns. Before inc investigation could begin the Senate mus agree when the two committees go into conference to Iron out differences in their respective versions of the defense Sulho Bizalion Bill. Traditionally when extra appropriations arc not a Factor inc committee voicing a concern can include it in the final language of inc Bill. Indians lured to jobs in Libya flee army Camp new Delhi India not nearly 100 indians who travelled to Libya for jobs in a leather factory were taken from the Tripoli Airport to a nearby army camphor military training before some of them escaped and sought help from the Indian embassy a lop Indian police official says. Many of inc victims said they had been beaten and otherwise poorly treated during their six weeks at the Camp the official said. They were kept at the army Camp for Aboul one and a half months before some of them jumped the Wall and managed to reach the Indian embassy Loco Plain Sarif inc official. Amod Karlh a Deputy police commissioner in new Delhi. According to Karlh inc 97 indians All mosle Shoemakers from villages in two Northern Stales were hired by an employment Agency to work at factory in Tripoli. The workers hew there late last december after each of them paid the Agency about s1,000 to gel their travel documents and work permits. The Agency. . Enterprises is based in new Delhi and is owned by indians. Two employees of the com Pany and a policeman who reportedly assisted the have been arrested. An Indian foreign ministry spokesman declined comment on the matter and officials cited the sensitivity of inc affair As the reason for the silence. Libyan diplomats did not respond to several Lela phone Calls Al their embassy or Ai their Homes. India docs nol have particularly close relations with Libya but thou Sands of Indian labourers and engineers work in construct lion projects and earn valuable foreign Exchange there As do Indian workers elsewhere in inc a fiddle Easl. As soon As the workers landed a Tripoli they were Laken by an Indian Job agent to this Camp which was near the sea and very close to Tripoli Kanth said. He said Hal he did nol Nave a name for the Camp. According to Karlh the recruits were threaten cd often beaten and forced by libyan army officers to partic palc in drills marches and physical training including push ups and rope climbing. They were not Given training in the use of weapons he added. He said he did nol know if people of other nationalities were also at the Center. Kanth said the incident was the first of ils kind to come to his notice although. In 1986, the Indian government sharply reprimanded Libya after it advertised Here for recruits for ils armed forces. Policemen Dis Persed lines of Prospect live applicants Al the Lime. In 1982. 31 Farmers from Punjab lured by similar promises of jobs were found at a guerrilla Camp in Lebanon. The Indian government secured their release and paid their Way Home