European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stabs and stripes monday november 12,1990 make that one shot to go a Hospital in Pomona Calif., has taken a pointed approach to the world of drive in restaurants Banks and movies. In what could be a first for the nation the Pomona Valley Hospital medical Center offered free flu shots to anyone age 55 and no who cruised by sat urday. Here Marge Thayer keeps a stiff upper lip As nurse Cindy Kayer inoculated her. At the wheel is Dorothy Dunn the medical Center gave More than 2,000 injections under the program funded by the los Angeles county department of health services. Leaders defend King against charge of academic plagiarism Atlanta up1 a civil rights leaders and historians saturday defended the late Martin Luther King  Elace in history despite allegations the slain civil rights Iader plagiarized during his academic career a a it a inevitable with every hero that As time goes by people put in proper perspective their humanness and that s what a happening to or. King a said the Rev. Joseph Lowery president of the King founded Southern Christian leadership conference. Quot or. King never claimed he was god. The revelations about Kings writings published Friday in the Wall Street journal and subject of a news conference at Stanford University Yere based on the findings of an editorial by Ted a Tufa by Stanford historian and civil rights activist Claycome Carson. Divided by his allegiance to King and to uphold the truth Carson said King the Winner of the 1964 Nobel peace prize repeatedly used words and ideas from other scholars in his dissertation and other academic works. Quot we found that there was a pattern of appropriation of textual appropriation a said Carson 46, and a specialist on Black history. Quot by the strictest definition of plagiarism a that is any appropriation of words or ideas a there Are instances of plagiarism in these  the papers include those written while King was a student at Crozer theological Seminary and at Boston University where he earned his doctorate in theology in 1955. Carson became involved in the King works As a result of being selected by Coretta Scott King in 1985 to head the Martin Luther King or. Papers project a Multi volume collection of her husbands writings. The findings were presented to the projects advisory Board of scholars in october 1989 but Carson As senior editor said he decided not to make Public any details until the first instalment of the collected papers was Cape canaveral Fla. A space shuttle Atlantis is to lift off thursday on a classified defense Mission reportedly to deploy a satellite to spy on Iraq. The National aeronautics and space administration said it would be Atlantis first flight since March following delays arising from fuel leaks on two of its three space shuttles. It is to be the 37th flight of the shuttle program and the fifth this year planners declined to reveal exact launch time thursday evening saying those details will be kept secret until nine minutes before liftoff because of the classified a published. The original Date for publication was the end of this year. Kings dissertation entitled a a comparison of the conceptions of god in the thinking of Paul Tillich and Henty Nelson Weiman a appears to borrow Many words from a dissertation written three years earlier by Jack Boozer under the same adviser at Boston University. Boston University said it formed a committee to study the allegations but Carson defended Kings reputation saying his contribution was not As a scholar. Quot his place in history is based on what he did after he left graduate school. His contributions can to be undermined by our new findings a he said. Mrs. King was first made aware of the findings in 1989 during a meeting with the project s advisory Board but has refused to comment on the information. The revelations come a year after the Public was treated to details of the preachers extramarital affairs documented in a Book written by one of his closest confidants the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. The Abernathy autobiography a and the Walls came tumbling Down a infuriated the civil rights Community with assertions that King spent parts of the night before his death with two different women. Although dozens of books since his death have documented Kings affairs none elicited As much condemnation from the cml rights Community As Abernathy a. Paul Schilling the Only living member of the by faculty committee that reviewed Kings dissertation is another defender. A the thought or. King put into his work was original and displayed a Clear fair understanding of the material Quot said Schilling who said he had no knowledge of plagiarism. A the did most of the work on the dissertation while in Montgomery and during the first year of an extremely Busy pastorate a Schilling said. Ture of the Mission. Information about the Mission will be kept secret As with the six previous defense department shuttle flights. Hie flight is expected to last about four Days during which Atlantis five astronauts will release the satellite. Experts believe it is either a photographic imaging or an eavesdropping spacecraft. The . Space Agency had earlier scheduled the Mission for nov. 9, but the air Force delayed the flight while repairs were being made to Atlantis fuel tanks. Stateside3 Navy workers charged in Wash Cross burning Oak Harbor Wash. Up a three Navy employees have been arraigned on charges connected to a Cross burning last month on the Lawn of a racially mixed couple. Oak Harbor police chief Thomas Miller said the three Navy mechanics May have been spurred into action by news of the trial of White supremacist Tom Metzger in Portland Ore. Two of the suspects residences were searched and police said evidence pointing to their involvement in the crime was found. The suspects were identified As Marlon w. Burns 25 Terry k. Bishop 21 and Dale l. Quickie 21. All three Are employed by the Navy and live in Oak Harbor Mitt Essaid. The suspects were arraigned in Island county Superior court on charges of conspiracy to harass and malicious harassment. The incident occurred oct. 7 when a wooden Cross was found blazing on the front Yard of Brian and Marina Williams. He is Black and she is White. Several red swastikas also were painted on the sidewalk in front of the  plans testing of truck bus emissions Sacramento Calif. Apr California smog squads will begin random Roadside testing next Spring of diesel smoke from heavy trucks and buses under a program adopted by the state air resources Board. The program approved 7-1, will apply to All such vehicles in the state regardless of where they Are registered. A. It asks a truck and bus operators to do More than what owners of gasoline powered cars have done since 1984 through the smog Check program a said the boards executive officer Jim Boyd. The program requires the testing and repairing a if necessary a of gasoline powered passenger cars every two years. The state already has two programs to control diesel emissions but originated the new one because of new medical  fire strikes California town 7 Homes damaged Devore Calif. Apr a wind whipped Brush fire destroyed or damaged seven Homes and forced residents to evacuate dozens of others sunday. No injuries were reported. About 300 firefighters from san Bernardino county and the California department of forestry battled the 300-acre Blaze in this town eight Miles Northwest of san Bernardino said county fire spokeswoman Deborah Mcclellan. Dubbed the Knoll fire the Blaze was reported about 1 . And destroyed or damaged seven Homes and several smaller structures in the neighbourhood of Devore Heights just Northeast of interstate 215, Mcclellan said. Firefighters had surrounded 35 percent of the Blaze Early sunday and expected to contain it by Nightfall she  a they re concentrating on the Southern Edge of the fire and mopping up elsewhere so the winds done to pick it up again a she said. The cause of the fire was under investigation. About 400 people evacuated their Hoines and a nearby Campground Mcclellan said North to Northeast winds of up to 40 Mph fanned the Blaze and wind borne embers ignited Brush on the Southern Side of the interstate Highway. But firefighters snuffed out the flames there and traffic on the freeway was not affected authorities said. Thursday i Iff off set for Atlantis