European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 6 a a a the stars and stripes thursday March 1,1990 a leg up program did no to help disadvantaged study finds Washington apr a Vietnam Era program intended to give Low aptitude and disadvantaged youth a a leg up Quot on life by lowering standards for entry into the military was a failure a study concludes. Allowing those people to enter military service did not improve their lot later in civilian life said the private study conducted for the defense department. A in fact in terms of employment status educational achievement and income those who never served were better off than those who had been in the  Quot project 100,000�?Ts social promises were not kept a social scientist Janice h. Laurence said in testimony submitted for a hearing wednesday before the House veterans Ait airs subcommittee on oversights and investigations. Project 100,000 was the name Given by defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara to the social engineering Effort under which the military was viewed As a stepping Stone for social advancement. The study raised questions about current proposals to encourage the use of the military to help youth overcome social and educational disadvantages. It also questioned whether Large numbers of veterans Are entitled to remedial help. A we need to examine How we can reach out to these veterans and open up opportunities that the program was supposed to create Quot said rep. Lane Evans d-ill., who chairs the subcommittee. Laurence is a senior scientist with human resources research organization the Alexandria  group that conducted the study for the defense department. The study raised the ethical question of whether lower aptitude people should be excluded from the military except in times of National peril. Under the program so called a flow aptitude recruits a those scoring below a Normal cutoff on the armed forces qualification test a entered the service with promises of traditional and remedial skill training. About 300,000 entered the service under that program from 1966 to 1971, with nearly two thirds entering the army. Fifty four percent were volunteers and 46 percent were draftees. Half of the group came from the South. More than 40 percent were minorities and the average Reading ability was at the sixth Grade level. Most went to combat or to a soft skills military jobs such As food service Supply wire communications motor transport and automotive repair. Flaws in the enlistment test allowed another group of about 300,000 people a also lacking the traditional qualifications a to enter the military from 1976 to 1980. According to the study the project 100,000 veterans wound up earning $5,000 to $7,000 less per year than their non Veteran counterparts. Veterans were More Likely to be unemployed were less Likely to be married and More Likely to have been divorced. A he a cleaning up Larry Foster of Tarrant Ala., finds plenty of eager Ishing tuesday. Customers restore the tubs to give buyers for the old style cast Iron bathtubs he a pol their Homes or gardens the look of yesteryear. Eddie Murphy faces $35 million lawsuit claiming a Harlem nights ideas stolen Union Ion Dale . Apr a screenwriter who claims his ideas were stolen for the movie Quot Harlem nights Quot has filed a $35 million lawsuit against Eddie Murphy who was involved in a similar Case in january Over Quot coming to  Michael or conc. 35, charged tuesday that a Harlem nights Quot contains material lifted from a screenplay Greene wrote for Murphy called a a halloween to  when he saw a Harlem nights Quot in november he was astounded at the similarities a some 100 in All or conc said. A my film was a lot better than what was made Quot he added. Both scripts were about 8-year-old orphans being raised by underworld characters both were set in the 1930s and both had a corrupt italian plainclothes cop a sgt. Pallone in Greene a version and sgt. Cantone in the movie Greene said named As defendants in the suit Are Murphy Paramount pictures corp., the William Morris Agency and Steven Weiss. A lawyer for Paramount Les Fagen denied the charge of copyright infringement saying that the scripts contained motifs common to hundreds of movies. Greene said he submitted his script to Murphy in january 1989 and was advised it had been rejected. The script was never returned he said. In january a judge ruled that Paramount pictures had to pay humorist Art Buchwald for a script idea he claimed was the basis for Murphy shit 1988 movie a coming to  the amount of the payment has not been settled. Stateside former Alabama official Dies after Long illness fort Payne Ala. Apr William m. Beck sr., a former judge and speaker of the Alabama House and a longtime fiend of former gov. George c. Wallace has died after an extended illness. He was 86. Beck died monday of respiratory failure at Baptist medical Center Dekalb Hospital in fort Payne where he lived. Beck a Democrat was first elected to the Alabama House in 1939 and was elected again after world War ii. He served four years the first time and became a Dekalb county circuit judge in 1943. Beck gave up his judgeship after about a year to enlist in the Marine corps during the War. When Beck returned from the War he was elected again to the House. He served As speaker from 1947 to 1951, during the late James e. A big Jim Folsom a first term As governor. During that time Beck helped push Bills through the legislature to improve state roads and he and Wallace became friends. Wallace was then a freshman representative. Survivors include two sons and a  fined $390,000 for improper prescriptions Boston apr a neurologist who improperly signed More than 100 prescriptions for narcotics has been fined $390,000, the largest amount in a civil lawsuit against a doctor for improper drug distribution the government said. The Fine approved tuesday by . District judge Andrew Caffrey settled a lawsuit brought against or. Julian Ungar  was accused of leaving batches of signed prescription forms for Percodani and Perc Ocet which Are pain relievers with associates at the Manomet medical Center in Plymouth Southeast of Boston. Ungar Sargon owned and operated the Center in 1985 and 1986. At that time the government alleges he was not authorized to write prescriptions in Massachusetts and spent Only a few hours at the Center every two  service offering Reward in mail bombing Houston apr the . Postal service on monday announced a Reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to a conviction in a Church mail bombing that injured a pastors daughter. Postal inspectors Houston police and agents with the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms Are still investigating the bomb that exploded Jan. 30 when Lisa Osteen opened her fathers mail at the Lakewood Church. The bomb is believed to have been mailed from North Carolina about Jan. 26, said Judith Groome another postal inspector in Houston. Osteen 31, was hospitalized for 11 Days for treatment of bruises and hash bums from the bomb that exploded in her Lap. She is director of ministries at the 10,000-member non denominational Church where her father John Osteen is pastor. The explosion was not believed connected to mail bombs that killed a judge in Alabama and a City councilman in Savannah ga.4 killed As truck hits car at Minnesota intersection Stillwater Minn. Apr a month after celebrating the 10th anniversary of their arrival from Vietnam a couple were killed along with a Niece and Nephew when a truck hit their car broadside at a Busy intersection. Huy Huu Tran 37, and his wife Linh Tri Cam Doan 35, of Stillwater held a lavish dinner last month to celebrate their Success and thank friends and employers for helping make their american dream come True. The Rev. Merle Strohbehn of the first presbyterian Church which sponsored the couple said that in 10 years the trans had Learned English built careers and bought a Home. Tran was a highly skilled machinist and his wife was a seamstress he  patrol it. Rod Lundgren said it appeared that the tractor trailer Rig carrying potatoes ran a red Light. The Driver was being held pending a decision by the county attorney on whether to file charges