European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 27, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 no sheep state it s shelling time in Australia and this Floc looking Merino sheep wants nothing but the bit service hang the nil. Rancher allot in Wells who has a Barber chair on he front veranda of his borne a Cath Ltd Queensland in hippy to oblige just for the Shear fun of it. Offer to deliver 17 pos for $ 1 million called a scam education to news video tour of College Campus in Munich being offered Munich High school seniors Wilh Munich Campus on their College wish list can Lake a i of Minuit tour of the Campus from their living room. A film learn from the United Stales spent a week i october canvassing he University of Maryland Cam pus and Munich to gather video footage for a script that features current students As ill stars. The finished product titled the Best of both  takes an incoming student from arrival at the Munich train station through a taxi ride in the City to meeting other students on the Campus. Hie video in vhf format ii available through High school guidance Counselor at department of defens dependents schools a University spokeswoman said. I copy of by William j. Bartman Washington the brother of is. Serviceman missing in Southeast Asia says the government did not give him the Opportunity to respond to a Trio s s million offer to deliver 17 pos including his brother. The defense intelligence Agency however said the offer appeared to be a scam. The Agency raid an american and an englishman told us. Officials in August thai if the government would come up with ii million plus even . Pass ports a general presumably vietnamese would deliver the 17 pos in the Philippines. The name of a.1.c Steven h. Adams was released when . Officials requested proof of the prisoners exis Tynce. At thai time the men further claimed that for �50,000 each they would provide fingerprints and other information on any american listed As missing in action. The is million was to be placed in a Friendly Weil european embassy in Bangkok Thailand. The general then would take the prisoners to the Philippines and for an additional s i million provide information on How to secure the release of another 1,400 americans held in Asia. But Bruce Adams of Wyoming said he should have been Lold about the offer immediately. Instead it was eight months before the air Force casually Section told him his brother supposedly was one of the 1 7 prisoners. I got a Call from the air Force casually office. About a report in which my brother s name was mentioned Adams said monday. Not Only was my brother s name mentioned but also the name of the Camp he was held  Adams and several other members of a group dedicated to locating u a. Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia released More than 2,400 balloons in front of the White House monday to protest the government s Lack of action in the Case. The balloons represented pos and my As. The . Government maintains it lacks proof that any . Serviceman is being held in the Region. Also the american and englishman were involved in separate offer to help release american hostages in the Middle East Pentagon officials said. In addition to the suspicious circumstances of the Adams Case a Pentagon spokesman noted the american government policy is students or their Parent also can borrow a cop f the video from the Campus. The Laiel edition or the Munich Campus Catalon includes a form to order the video or individuals can Call the Campus at ets 440 6s35 or civilian ob9-690-0093. Nobel prize Winner to address University of Maryland grads Heidelberg Nobel prize Winner Klaus von Klizing will deliver the graduation address sunday at 3 . Before an estimated 325 University of Maryland graduates at the Patrick Henry Village officers club. Von Klizing who works for the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart was awarded the Nobel prize in physics 1985. Former Calif state senator to give graduation speech Wiesbaden former California state sen. Dan o Keefe will deliver the graduation address for an Esti mated 100 cily colleges of Chicago graduates june 4 at the Wiesbaden a club. Graduation ceremonies arc scheduled 10 begin at 2 . O Keefe leaches sociology at on. , Arnold High school at Wiesbaden. Tempelhof education Center takes top air Force award Berlin the education Center at Tom Puthof Cen trial Airport has been chosen As the Best in the air Force for bases of floss than 3,000 people. The Center which was renovated in 1986, offers under graduate and graduate degree programs. The air Force s annual citation called the Altschuler award for excellence in educational programs began in 1972, . Group using to help troubled new York. A Charles Scott has Bee through two wars several jobs and a lot of  and Downs. Now he said i m 57 and i feel like tin 27." Scott is about to graduate from the Vietnam veterans leadership program which was started by the kind of veterans rarely heard from Well adjusted Well off an relatively untroubled by their War experience. It s successful vets helping vets who Haven t quite made in in the mainstream said the program s 44 year old president and co founder Gene Oil Lson who led an infantry platoon in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967 As an army first lieutenant. Among its founders Board members and staffers arc lawyer investment Bankers and executives of every pins tripe. The chairman of the Board Doug Cree Law earned a Silverstar in Vietnam and is an executive with mtg. Gitelson. A former banker and management Consul Tant started the program six years ago in his apartment. We kept each other alive in Vietnam Wilh this enormous buddy network. And now 20 years later we re rebuilding a network and helping each other in an economic War to get into the mainstream he said. Thursday in a. Ceremony at Vietnam veterans Plaia in new York the non profit group is celebrating its move to a 10,000-Square-foot office Courtesy of Drexel bum Ham Lambert inc. And the donation of si00,000  equipment from ism. About 750 veterans have been placed in jobs through the program which is a Pilot for similar efforts m other cities Oil Lson said. Olla own Heads a staff of 24. Most of them Vietnam vets and Many who have gone through the program. Placement director for instance used to be homeless living behind an elevator Shaft in the South Bronx. We believe the experience of serving in combat gave people skills abilities and values that Are Transfer Able to he mainstream life Gitelson said. The 57-year-old Scott of Brooklyn was in the air we do no pay Ransom for hostages or  but Adams said that As his brother s next of Kin he should have been told of the offer in the beginning. Red Mcoaniel a former prisoner of War in Southeast Asia who Row Heads the american defense Institute agreed that we should have been informed. We would Welcome that  last january Adi formed pledge program whereby 40 million americans would provide a Al Hillion Reward for any resident of Vietnam. Laos or Cambodia who defects and lakes out of the coun try o least one american pow. The group say it has information that the Reward i being discussed covertly by private citizens and Mili tary members within Laos and Vietnam. Defense officials said offers such As the one involving dams Are not new. After the Ofir to deliver 17 prisoners for Al million was made other players came Only the scent some of them in Europe said the Pentagon spokesman. One offered to provide photographs and videotapes proving the existence of american Row Zinasia. They wanted financial support and an american express card to buy weapons for an asian liberation army. But again nop Roofener  a state department spokesman said the govern ment actively solicits information and reports about sightings of americans in Southeast Asia. Alt of these Are taken Down and evaluated. We be received thou Sands of reports. All have been evaluated. Many have been thrown out As total fabrications. Only about 100 Are still open  for his part Adams remains haunted by his brother s Case. I always Felt that he survived his incident based on what my family was Lold by the american red  he said. The plane carrying Adams a scuba diver and in others went Down Over water in october 1966. In August 1967 there were a couple of phone conversations in which a red Cross individual said to the airman s parents your son is alive and Well in a Hospital somewhere in Southwest Asia. On exiling the aircraft his left Side was severely injured " Adams Laid. The slate department spokesman said president Reagan has Given the Mia Issue the highest priority. We will do whatever it necessary to gel them Back. We operate on the Assumption that there could be such people out  buddy system9 Vietnam vets Force during the korean War and an army platoon sergeant in Vietnam in 196 and 1969. After 12 year with the new York army National guard he started his own business a parking garage but was forced to give in up when the rent went Loo High. Welfare and pan Lime work came next and then he saw a television and for the program. It was one of the Best things i Ever did he said. The Dan i give you a Job but they prepare you for a  the first stage called Basic training involve tests of skills intellect and personality that determine what kind of Job the vet is Best suited for. Psychologies and medical testing Tii Telson said have uncovered brain injuries no one Ever treated  group discussions classroom work and coun seling Lead to instruction in How to prepare resumes and handle Job interviews. Hilelson said 60 percent of the participants had been unemployed for six to nine months when they entered the program 50 percent were transients. We re not talking about the easy Guys he said. But they re wonderful Guys with Talent who have somehow fallen on  the jobs they find Are split 50-50 Blue Collar and White Collar he said averaging 118,000 annual starting pay mostly with Small and medium sized businesses and Public agencies. The program started As simply a Job placement serv ice. When an Effort began to build a memorial in Newyork to Vietnam veterans i Ilion s group supported it at Public hearings. We wore suits everyone else was in Jungle fatigues he said. We said we also have to do some thing about those who Are  fifty cents of every Dollar contributed to the memo rial was earmarked for a jobs program and v Alp was selected As that program with 1500,000 to Start. It is also supported by state and Federal funds