European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday March 3,1989 15 Marine recruiters co relieved of duty in probe Pittsburgh a the Marine corps relieved 15 recruiters and their commander of their duties in Pittsburgh for alleged violations including fabricating High school diplomas for recruits a newspaper reported thursday. The Pittsburgh press quoted Marine maj. Robert w. Mclean a corps spokesman at Parris Island , As saying thai six of he recruiters face courts martial on charges that will be filed within the next few weeks. Punishment for the nine others ranged from Forf cil urdu pay 10 Ioctl Cosof reprimand he said. Maj. Donald Kappel a corps spokesman in the Phil Adelphia District Headquarters confirmed on thursday thai an investigation led to the 15 recruiters being relieved of duty but he declined to provide details. Investigators found recruiters had provided a Many As 17 diplomas for recruits who never graduated from High school the newspaper said. A key idea the Dupont company u taking credit for helping to solve a longtime problem for Drivers who Are constantly Locklyn their car keys inside their vehicles the company s credit card key which was intrude need it a recent automotive engineers exhibition in Detroit will hold a spare set of car pc s in a plastic credit Cardl Ilce Holder that for j Etsu Drivers can keep to their wallets. In addition the criminal records of some recruits were omitted from enlistment papers As were medical problems that could have disqualified recruits from serving the press said. The investigation began in january after a suburban Pittsburgh recruit became ill at Boot Camp on Parris. Island and had to be hospitalized for a severe ulcer his Mother says she reported to the Recruiter the newspaper said. ". Investigators later identified 82 others who May have been recruited improperly. Thirty of the 83 recruits were discharged because of enlistment problems Mclean said. The corps retained 49 and has not yet decided what to do with the others. The head of the Pittsburgh recruiting office maj. George a Eberhart jr., was relieved feb. 14 of duties he had held since 1986. Viewers restricted at display of flog Chicago a an exhibit using an american rag spread on the floor at the school of the Art Institute will go Back on display but not for Public viewing officials said wednesday. The display will be Only for students faculty and staff of the museum school but the move Drew imme Diate protest from veterans groups which filed a Law Suil late wednesday to remove the Flag. What we re objecting to of course. Is Hal it is the american Flag and the. Flag is being disgraced walked on said John Mahony of the american legion. This is totally unacceptable to the veterans groups said Joseph a. Morris general counsel for the mid Amer Ica Legal foundation which represents the veterans of foreign wars. Disabled american veterans and the Mili tary order of he purple heart among others. Last week the work by student Scoll Tyler titled what is the proper Way to display a . Flag sparked demonstrations by veterans and threats of Vior in acc. The protests were countered by student concerns about Freedom of expression. School officials cancelled weekend classes and closed the gallery where Tyler s work is displayed. After meetings with students faculty and veterans representatives officials said the gallery was to reopen thursday for in House viewing Only and under additional Security.  will continue to ensure thai the first amendment rights and the safely of its students arc protected officials said in a statement. -. To fulfil its responsibility , the school will Post a sign advising persons of the intent of the police and prosecutor s offices should a viewer choose to step on the  police have determined thai it is Legal to display the work but said trampling or otherwise desecrating the Flag is a felony the school has said previously. In the work a Flag is spread on the floor in front of a photomontage of Flag draped coffins South koreans burning the . Flag and other scenes. Visitors Are invited to comment in a Ledger on a shelf in front of . Base reviews policy offer arrest of boy who hit guard with Pencil Las vegas. Nov. A Nellis fab officials Are rethinking a policy on dealing with juveniles after an. 8-year-old boy was arrested i or hitting a Security guard in the face with a Pencil. Authorities said the boy was arrested by base Security police charged with Battery read his rights and turned Over to local authorities. He was later released to his parents and the charges were dropped the arrest occurred after inc boy tossed the Pencil out the window of a school bus sinking a sentry guard ing the base s Entrance. The sentry was not Hurt. Security guards boarded the bus and took the boy into custody after he admitted tossing the Pencil. Nellis officials said the boy was arrested under a new policy designed to crackdown on juvenile Vandal ism. They acknowledged that the boy s actions May not have fallen under the vandalism category and said the policy May be revised. We could have handled it with More sensitivity maj. Victor Andrijauskas base spokesman said tues Day. Because of this situation the policy is being  the boy s father sol Jim Warner who works on the base declined to allow the family to discuss the matter publicly. Stateside fund crunch spurs order to shut Down 2 satellites by the new York times running out of Money for the program the Federal government ordered on wednesday the shutdown of he last two american satellites in a series thai pioneered the photography of Earth from space and offered a valuable tool for crop forecasting Mineral exploration and Forest management. The process of notifying customers and turn ing off the landsat satellites will Lake a month giving backers of the spacecraft time to try to save them. The shutdown of the two satellites would Mark the United states withdrawal from a Field it founded. Foreign rivals including the soviet Union and France now operate similar satellites. The american satellites landsat 4 and land sat 5, were launched in 1982 and 1984 respectively and have Long outlived their expected life times of three years. Experts now said the two could last Well into next year and possibly beyond. ,.". -. Agent Orange checks mailed to 172 families. New York map the  from the agent Orange settlement fund were. Mailed wednesday to families of 172 Vietnam veterans whose deaths were linked to the defoliant. The checks ranging from s340 to 33,400, were sent out after . District judge Jack b. Weinstin approved a preliminary payment schedule for survivor families from a $ 170 million fund which also will provide Money to totally disabled veterans exposed to agent Orange Dunn Lac Vietnam War. The payments Are Only the first of thousands exp Cid to be made. Checks to survivor families will continue while payments to disabled veterans will begin at the end of March. About 75,000 applications for payments have been sent out by the Aetna life insurance co., the fund administrator. The payments sent out wednesday totalling about 1500.000, averaged 13,000 for each fan Sily woman pleads innocent to death threat charges los Angeles up a woman was or dered held without bail after she pleaded inno cent tuesday to charges that she sent More than 5,000 death threats to actor Michael a Fox. At her municipal court arraignment Tina m. Ledbet tar 26, a shipping clerk denied five counts of malting terrorist threats. Led cutlet who had been free on $50,000 bail was ordered into custody without bail by judge David Milton after Deputy District attorney Susan Grubor argued that the defendant was a threat to the Community. She was ordered to appear in court March 10 for a preliminary hearing. If convicted she could be sentenced to three years in slate prison on each count. Prosecutors said Ledbetter began sending writ ten death threats to Fox in Early 1988 because she was upset Over Fox s marriage to actress tract pol Ian who used to appear in the Abc sitcom family tics of which Fox is the Star prosecutors said Leduc Lucr was upset that Fox had broken up with actress Nancy Makcon to marry Pollan. Makcon acts in another television sitcom facts of  2,425 jews departed soviet Union in february Washington a jewish emigration from the soviet Union totalled 2,423 in february the National conference on soviet jewry reported wednesday nearly 13 percent or 308. Went to Israel. Most of the others chose to go the United Stales. In january 2,796 departed. " " meanwhile the group called upon american jews and members of Congress to stage a hunger strike coinciding with the third annual such strike to be carried out by jewish women in the soviet Union next wednesday through Friday to protest denials of visas to Long term applicants