European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 20,1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 fair skinned Black firefighters suspended Boston a the Case of two fair skinned  who were hired under a minority preference plan after saying they were Black has sparked icily wide investigation of minority hiring. The 31-year-old twins Philip and Paul Malone who have been Whit the fire department for 10 years were sus Pended without pay in August for Alleg edly misrepresenting their race As a minority. They arc awaiting an Appeal of their Case in the stale supreme judicial court. As a result the racial backgrounds of36 other firefighters have been investigated according to department officials. Eleven firefighters most of whom identified themselves As hispanic face hear Ings but arc still working. The police department was investigated As Well but no evidence of minority misrepresentation was found. A re View of he City school department is ongoing. The malones have refused to discuss i hair Case. They both Are working at other jobs but Hope to return to the fire Dupar Mcm. Their wives Marsha and Janet have spoken briefly with report  All comes Down to who says who is Black and How Black do you have to be Marsha Malone Philip Malone s wife said recently. We re trying to be optimistic because they want their jobs  the twins first applied to the fire department in 1975, identifying themselves As White. Bui i hair scores on the state Philip Malone civil service exam were too Low for acceptance into the department. They look the est again two years later and identified themselves As Black. They later explained that their Mother told them in 1976 that their Maltman great grandmother was Black. Al the Lime documentation was not required to Back up their claim. Paul Malone by 1978, when the twins got their jobs there was a minority preference plan in effect and their scores were sufficient for them to be hired As minorities. The controversy Over their claims to be Black arose earlier this year when the twins took the lieutenant s exam and scored Well said fire department spokesman Matthew Corbet. When state civil service officials re turned the list of scores the Brothers were identified As Black. Corbet and fire commissioner Leo Stapleton who both worked with the malones in a station House have said they never knew the malones had been hired As minorities until they saw the indications on the exams. They look like White Guys Irish Guys maybe a Little German because they have Blond hair said Corbett. Boston instituted a minority prefer ence hiring plan after a Federal judge or dered the fire department in 1974 to bring minority representation up to lev Els comparable to the City s population. At thai time just 19 of More than 2,100 City firefighters were Black or his panic. Today the department is 21 per cent Black or hispanic compared to 29 percent for the City s population. It s a very serious situation said City councilman Bruce c. Boiling who is Black and who represents a predominantly Black Section of the City. He had asked mayor Raymond Flynn to conduct an investigation of minority hiring after he Malone Case was publicized. The Malone Brothers characterized themselves As Black and look two positions that should have gone to Minori ties he said. Corbett said the department changed its guidelines after the Malone Brothers were suspended Wilh incoming firefight ers now required to furnish More documentation about their racial Back ground. 8 cops suspended in fatal beating Miami a a suspected drug dealer believed to have put out a con tract on an undercover agent was fatally injured during a confrontation with police Friday and eight officers were sus Pended pending an investigation a police spokesman said sunday. Sin of the eight officers suspended Wilh pay were Wilh Leonardo Carlo Mercado 35, before he died Friday he said. The other two were supervisors. The spokesman. Set. David Rivero said Mercado died of internal bleeding caused by Blunt trauma to the  this thing was just a frenzy he said. Charges in the Case could include Mur Der Rivera said. The sin undercover officers All Mem Bers of a special unit set up to fight Street drug sales confronted Mercado outside a relative s Home while on duty Friday. Days earlier they had received an Anonymous tip alleging that Mercado had put out a murder contract on Pabio Ca Macho one of the six Rivero said. Witnesses said he officers look Mer Cado inside his relative s Home shut the door and pulled a curtain closed. The officers did t have an arrest warrant police said i saw Mcnno s Girlfriend standing next to the door Yelling they re beating him they re beating him " said Jack Castaneda 16. You could see the move ment through the  he said a 14-car-old Stepson of mar Cado s climbed in through a Back win Dow but was thrown out by police. Ruben Mercado. 15, a Nephew of the dead Man said he saw his Uncle carried away on a Stretcher by paramedics. He looked bluish he said there was blood coming out of his Mouth and bruises on his  Mercado died Friday night a Jackson memorial Hospital and the department decided to suspend the officers after an autopsy saturday. Police originally said Mercado was injured in a struggle thai broke out when three officers approached him for questioning and he ran into the House and tried to grab a knife. On saturday rive to said a knife had been found but he could not say whether Mercado had brandished it. Police records show that from 1980 to 1988, Mercado was arrested 16 times on charges including drug offences assault and attempted murder but the outcome of the charges was not immediately known. Relieved of duty along with Camacho were detectives Andy Watson Tommy Trujillo Charlie Haynes Ron Sinclair and Nathaniel veal All of whom were at the scene Friday police said. Energy chief believes Peg can t survive Washington Cap Energy Secretary John Harrington is leaving office firm in his conviction that the Organiza Tion of Petroleum exporting countries is  the Long run the open Cartel can not survive Harrington said in a recent interview marking inc end of his nearly four year tenure. Cartels do not work. They have  in  several of open s larger members have new incentives to produce Oil rather than comply with last month s Deci Sion by the Cartel to limit production to 18.5 million barrels a Day. Him Ngin cited the following exam Ples. -. /. Venezuela has a major stake in the Cit go Chain of service stations and de spite previous support of open the South american nation s future is Here not with  v saudi Arabia is buying service stations and a refinery from Texaco and that s a major  we be got two countries who have been at War for eight years Iran and Iraq with 40 to 50 billion dollars in War debts and a reconstruction budget that is going to be horrendous with one thing Tosill  on contends that ownership of . Distribution facilities by overseas producers should be welcomed because of the incentives it gives producers to bring Oil to Market it s Good for the United states acid it s Good for saudi Arabia. No. I it s a guaranteed Market for saudi Arabia and no. 2, it s a guaranteed Supply for us Herringto said. Those who fear a resumption of the Oil shocks of the 1970s Don t realize we live in a fundamentally different world he said. A -. V " in the first half of 1986, the Oil Indus. Try was devastated by the collapse of. Crude Oil front above 127 a barrel to less than s12 measured by average refiner Cost half the 1,980 exploration rigs Active in 1985 were idled and 120,000 out of 585,000 exploration and production jobs vanished. Crude Oil now Sells for Aboul $15 a barrel imports have risen from less than 30 percent of . Consumption in 1985 to More than 40 percent now. At the same time . Production has fallen by a million barrels of crude a Day to a Little More than 8 million barrels while . Producers of crude Oil have pleaded for Trade Protection Harrington and. President Reagan Maint trained that quotas or tariffs would harm the . Economy More than they would help the Oil Industry. A Lariff might be politically impossible anyway because of the demands for exemptions by Northeast Consumers Mexico and the petrochemical Industry plus the mandatory exemption for Canada under the recently negotiated free Trade agreement Hemington said. Herringto said cooperation with open is not the solution although he said he understood Why Texas Alaska and Louisiana sen observers to the open celing. Homeless hold March in new York new York a aiming