European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday March 12,1989 misuse of Library computer found in military contracts Washington a an internal investigation has uncovered improper use of an information com Puter system of the Library of Congress by some Mili tary agencies that May have Trico to bypass regular 1 in Wagon procurement procedures in awarding re search contracts. Librarian James h. Billington said Friday. Hillingdon said he Library had ordered the Federal Library and information network fed link to can cel the contracts or Transfer them to the proper Penta gon authorities under Library of Congress jurisdiction fed link administers information and Library service contracts on behalf of member libraries and information centers in order to get the Best possible Price for the govern ment. The services arc open to any Federal Agency. Put Ink has grown since 1976 to become the a lion s largest provider of automated Library network services Billington said. It gives government libraries and other government participants Access to hundreds of data bases and to Many new information technologies. -. -. During the  thai began in january it was Learned that fed link had been sign ing contracts for services hat had nothing to do with libraries or information data Haws said the Library s inspector general John a runs Bargor. He said various contractors were to provide services thai included an analysis assessments and Independent appraisals of a Navy night Labelling system development of a missile Security plan and support of an army machine gun program. By using fed link s contracting services procure mint officers at several . Military installations  As the Navy s Charleston s.c., shipyard and the air Force s 7th comm group in Washington ., apparently bypassed special Pentagon rules on compel Ilive bidding and other procurement procedures Rensburg Craid. A he said inc questionable contracts involved orders from various army Navy and air Force units totalling about s4 5 million last fiscal year. Total fed link activities in the fiscal year that ended sept. 30 involved contracts for j97.1 million with us vendors to provide services for 1,395 different Federal entities Accord ing to the Library -. We still do not know Why these inappropriate con tracts were  said runs Bargor. Our investigation and Hal of inc defense department arc continue  a Pentagon spokeswoman had  immediate com ment on the report Sun inc Kelt an exhibition Neimant puts the Fin Hii if in cuties Una 12-foot him Isbill Turtle display at a Stu Iii in bark in own  atm England Aqua brushing up on turtles Lum which is mounting the show will exhort Thi Public to Sikk your neck omit a closer look Ai turtles when it opens on March 28 in Boston stateside. School suspends student because of Glass haircut Richmond a. A the Mother of an elementary school Pupil has ruled Mil the Barbershop Tor her son even though he was suspended because of what school officials contend is i Martini Glass design shaved on his Scalp. The school principal said the hair design which the Mother contends is an hourglass encourages alcohol abuse. My son has missed Ihrck weeks of school because of a haircut said Debra Muhammad whose-1l-Ycar-old son Isaiah attends Robert e. Lee elementary school. I be never heard of anything like this in Rny life. 1 could if he Wasa troublemaker. But fora haircut. Muhammad said Isaiah s older Brasher has the same hourglass design carved in his hair. Principal Gregory Muzik said All the youngster has to do to gel reinstated is get a haircut " m not saying the child is Oul of school forever he said. There has to be some willingness  executive at Motorola named to Commerce Post Washington a president Bush has so. In Clad Motorola executive Michael Philip Skarzynski to be assistant Secretary of Commerce for a development the White House said. Skarzynski is director of business development at Motorola inc. In Schaumburg iii., and before that served As marketing director lie tame to Motorola in 1986  and co. Since 1982, from 1979 to 1980, he was an associate for the Center for strategic and International studies a Washington based conservative research organize Ion,.1skarzynski succeeds James i1. Moore or. 15,000 Justus recalled Subaru of Ameri Caby Cherry Hill . Up Subi tru of America issued a voluntary recall Friday for 15,000 four wheel drive july automobiles sent  factory without enough transmission fluid the company said. The problem was discovered after a number of car experienced bearing seizures and tear wheel lockup said Fred in Cilcer. A spokesman for he importer. No injuries or accidents linked to the problem have been reported he  covered by inc recall were manufactured for the 1988 and 1989 Model years. The company has decided lha the level of transmission fluid in the $6,500 cars should be slightly higher than called for in original specifications because Lac Shane and contour of the transmission housing in the four wheel drive Model Are slightly different from that in the Froni a chef drive version he said former to series actor Sam Melville Dies at 52 los Angeles a actor Sam Melville who played officer Mike Danko Ollic Early 1970s television series the rookies,".has died Polwart failure his. Publicist , 52, died thursday is his Hollywood Hills Home publicist Susan i lil Riopta said Friday. The actor had complained of Chest pains recently but otherwise had been " in picture of health she said in the rookies Melville played a Green and idealistic cop dedicated to More humane methods of police work. The series was on he air from 1969 to 1972, Melville had been a regular guest Sharon Lac old gun smoke to series. He also appeared in  motion pictures As big wednesday and the Thomas Crown affair drugs elderly aids Strain emergency Core pen Vii ai1  medical care ill Public hospitals is suffering be Caw of increases in aids patients Lnig of Virdow cases and elderly patients As cull a1, cuts in govern men funding Lios lil admit Siratirs said Friday. The problem is 10 i Ere that a aliens requiring emergency treatment face up 10 a in rec Tia Wail for Hospital Beds in the new s Ork City area and Waits of up 10 is hours in Angeles and 12 hours m Miami said Larry s. Gage president of Ilif National association of Public hospitals. Cage said hospitals in Boston Chi Cago is Louis Washington and Memphis ten n., arc severely strained. We Are rationing i Earlh care for the poor in a necessary aggressive Way he said. Gage was one of More than a dozen speakers at an emergency conference Fri Day on indigent care sponsored by the association which serves 85 Public and non profit hospitals. We know what to do we just Don t have the resources said Arthur Keller Man medical director of the emergency department at regional medical Center in Memphis. We arc being Pul in the position of haying to give inadequate care to our patients. We have situations where Lwe have one doctor,1 two nurses. Arid 30 a aliens in the emergency room Many hospitals have instituted Cost containment programs at government urging at a time when victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome arc increasing hospitals also arc seeing More drug overdoses As a result of rising crack co Caine us and More elderly people Are being sent to hospitals rather than Nurs ing Homes he said. Kellerman also said a crisis has occurred in the past two years because hospitals have reduced Tola Beds under pressure from the Federal and stale governments medicare funding has been Cut and Rhory and More people arc without adequate insurance. In Denver tic problem was so severe thursday night that five of nine Hospi tals Wens on ambulance diversion nol accepting any new emergency a Licals because there were  critical care Beds available Kcal Gernian said. Charity Hospital in new Orleans lost ils certification in part because of a staffing shortage As a result of budget cuts he said Kellerman said some hospitals have worsened the situation by phasing out their emergency Roums