European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 27, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 med school enrolments Down again Chicago a medical school enrolments have dropped for the sixth consecutive year with fewer White males studying to become doctors but More women and minorities pursuing that goal the journal of the american medi Cal association says in its current Issue. The number of applicants to medical schools is Down More than 10 percent for the 1987-88 academic year compared to 1986-87, the journal says. Physicians Are generally advising potential medical school applicants not to go to medical school said or. Marten Kernis vice Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Physicians Are working right now in a changing environment with All sorts of Federal regulations being imposed Chan Ging reimbursement policies huge in creases in malpractice insurance premiums increases in lawsuits changes in the tax Structure  and potential applicants May be discouraged by the increasing Cost of a med ical education the perception that medi Cine is More technological and less humane than it once was and the Long period of training involved he said. The Ama reported that 65,742 Stu dents were enrolled in the nation s 127 accredited medical schools for 1987-88, a decline of 400 students from the pre Vious year and 1,701 fewer than in 1983-84. The number of applicants was Down for the third straight year to 28,123, and reflects a decline that has lasted a decade. Women accounted for 37 percent of 1987-88 medical school applicants and 36.5 percent of entering classes it said. In the past five years the number of first year White male students has de creased by 13.2 percent to 8,216, while the number of Black male students has decreased by 6.8 percent to 572. But in the same period the number of first year White female students in creased by less than one tenth of 1 per cent to 4,363, while the number of Black female students increased 31.7 percent to 682, the journal said. Birthday gala Leonard Bernstein is greeted by television personality Kitty Carlisle Hart and a giant birthday card As he arrives at a gala performance by the Boston symphony in Lenox mass., in Honor of his 70th birthday. Military strength Rose 8,527 in july Washington a the nation s armed forces increased slightly in Active duty strength in july but still remained Well below year ago Levels the Pentagon said. As of july 31, the army Navy air Force and Marine corps had 2,112,834 men and women on Active duty up 8,527 from the number reported june 30. It was Down 45,652 from the total on july 31,1987. All four services Are in the midst of general personnel cutbacks prompted by budget reductions. During july however three of the four services reported increases in personnel while the air Force saw a slight decline. The air Force reported 578,978 men and women on Active duty at the end of july Down 1,444 from june. The army reported 758,026 on Active duty As of july 31, up 3,842 from june. The Navy reported an increase of 5,450 men and women in july with 578,483 on Active duty at the end of the month. And the Marine corps reported 197,347 on Active duty up 679 from june. Defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci has ordered a Cut of almost 36,000 positions from the Active strength totals re ported at the end of fiscal 1987. The cuts Are to be completed and the services stabilized at the new Levels by october 1989. The defense Secretary has told con Gress he would rather maintain a smaller Force that is properly equipped and ready to fight than a larger but hollow Force. Columnist proves downfall of Yuppie panhandlers scam by the los Angeles times los Angeles Yvonne Clark Felt sorry for the handsome Well dressed Young Man who said he hoped to enrol at the University of California los Angeles and his pretty Blond wife who he said was two months pregnant and had not eaten All Day. The two said they had lost All their Money when their car was burglarized and so Clark who met them last december in the parking lot of a local supermarket wrote them a Check for $25. The couple s tale of woe also touched Ann Broyles pastor of the nearby Malibu United meth Odist Church who gave them $53 in  bless you they said promising to pay her Back when ims Angeles times columnist Jack Smith met the same desperate couple in Pasadena in May the woman was still two month pregnant and the Earnest Young Man was still Urcla bound. Smith gave them $20, wrote a column about it and the letters poured , Short is How police came to discover that Jeffrey Duayne Altai an 31, is not going to College and Tracy Chris Hartland 24, is not going to have a authorities nay received free rent two Are managing actors wheat Holly Angeles area los Angeles City attorney James k. Hahn say they ran their scam for at least three years in Park ing lots from Malibu to  Yuppie panhandlers As they have been dubbed were each charged with 22 Misdemeanour counts of Petty theft. Each count carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000  said he would seek jail terms for both defendants As Well As restitution for their  people were hardly Down on their Luck Hahn declared. I Don t know actin ability but the were pretty Good at what they did. They had turned this into their regular Way of going out and making Money. The couple s Story was elaborate and always ran along the same lines according to More than 40 letters written to Smith which he turned Over to Tholos Angeles police department s bunco forgery division. The Man approached Host and said they had Bee trying to find an apartment when their Money was stolen from their car. He said his wife was pregnant and had morning sickness their dog needed Veteri j and of agencies could help them. He prom would pay the Money Back tracked Down Allman and Hartland a dug. 10. Officer said Hartland told him prof to $35 a Day after Smith s column 3 killed 1 Hurt in plane crash Pembroke Pines Fla. A a Small plane crashed through the roof of a print shop thursday killing three people in the plane and severely burning one person on the ground officials said. It does t appear there were any survivors from the plane said police sgt. Keith Plant. One Wing broke away from the wreckage and landed behind the building. There were three people in the building located in a Small strip shopping Center when the plane crashed into it authorities said. Two people in the building escaped with minor injuries but the third a 24-year-old woman suffered Burns Over her face neck Chest and arms and was in critical condition at Jackson memorial Hospital in Miami said or. Michael Mirando. The people heard the crash heard the explosion and had time to get out fire capt. Sam Halpert said. It was a split second  Federal aviation administration spokesman Jack Barker in Atlanta said the plane was a Piper Aerostat that took off from the nearby North Perry Airport about 3 30 . The plane can seat six people. Halpert said rescuers who were waiting for the wreckage to Cool Down hoped that no one else was in the plane or the building. We know we re going to find people dead. We re hoping it s As few As possible he said. The crash and fire released a Small amount of cyanide Gas which kept firefighters away from the flames eating through the print shop and a gift shop next door said Halpert. The fire was later brought under control