European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 3, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 names i Virginia s rep. Slaughter to resign from Congress from wire reports Richmond a. A four term rep. D. French Slaughter or. Said monday that he will leave Congress in november because his health has been impaired by minor strokes. A a while it has been a great privilege and Honor to Erve i have Reluct Andy concluded that the recent impairment to my health prevents me from continuing my service a Slaughter said in a letter to gov. L. Douglas Wilder. The Republican congressman said die would resign effective nov. 5, the Date of the next general election. He said a special election for his seat could be held that Day along with the scheduled state legislative and local elections. Wilder had no immediate comment on when he would order a special election. Slaughter 66 was diagnosed june 21 As having experienced a series of minor strokes that have affected his  left calling card Hartford Conn. A a Bank robber who slipped a Teller a Holdup note written on a Deposit slip that had his name on the Back of it has been sentenced to five years in prison. Alvin a. Robertsonu28, of Meriden also was ordered monday to pay Back $23,779 he stole from six Connecticut Banks. Robertson robbed Banks by passing notes to tellers in which he demanded Money and claimed to have a gun. In his sixth robbery on Jan. 29 at the Bristol Federal savings Bank in Terryville Robertson wrote his demand on the Back of one of his own Deposit slips. State police arrested him that  artist s son slain Pittsburgh a the 29-year-old son of jazz guitarist and Singer George Benson was shot to death outside a bar in an argument Over music police said. Keith Givens was shot twice in the Chest Friday outside the Honey Dew bar in the City a Homewood Section. Cornelius t. Mcbride 49, was charged with homicide police said. Witnesses reported Givens and Mcbride a had words at a Jukebox inside the bar about a song that was playing and the argument continued outside police  beat skirt lifter. Salt Lake City a a Man was beaten unconscious after other dancers took offence at his lifting women a skirts during a Square dance Competition police said. The unidentified 35-year-old Man was in serious condition at lds Hospital on monday a Lett a Skull fracture officials said. Police said the Man apparently was beaten by two male dancers and dumped in the Bushes outside the Salt Palace convention Complex where a a Square dance convention was being held. During the convention the Public was invited to participate and the Man apparently lifted women a skirts and a forced himself on several dancers police said. Two men swung at him forcing his head into a Brick Wall a witness told police. Police said the dancers have since left town and no arrests have been  returns safely a san Francisco a a plane with 362 people aboard returned safely to san Francisco International Airport on monday after blowing an engine shortly after Takeoff. A piece of falling debris broke a car Windshield however an Airport spokesman said. No injuries were reported. One of three engines on an l-1011 american trans air charter burst apart four minutes after Takeoff Airport spokesman David Wilson said. Frisbee size debris from the engine fell into the Yards of nearby Daly City residents and one smashed through an automobile Windshield Wilson said. The plane returned safely using its other two engines. By Howard Kurtz the Washington Post Washington a the Heartfelt Essav by Phil Donahue syndicated to the Washington Post and other papers took the form of a letter to the late a sister Mary Andrew a a nun who touched his life in his Catholic school d4ysin Cleveland in the 1940s. But the talk show Host said monday that while there was such a nun she was named sister Mary Andrew. And he acknowledged Theu Handwritten note that appeared with the article was not As the piece suggested a reproduction of a 1953 inscription from sister Mary Andrew in a leather bound prayer Book she gave him. A instead Donahue said he asked a woman at a nonprofit Catholic organization to write the inscription a which he reconstructed from memory a and to sign it a sister Mary  a Donahue said he changed the nuns name to protect her family a privacy after being told by a Mutual Friend that the family did not want publicity about the woman a recent death from breast cancer. A he said he then also decided to change the name of another nun mentioned in the piece to a sister  a i just took the easy Road and changed the names a Donahue said. A a in la Tell you this a every name in there is a real person. A i really done to think i deceived anyone Quot Donahue said adding a a in a like to know How the piece has less value if the name has been  but Jake Morrissey an associate editor at Universal press Syndicate which distributed the Donahue piece to a number of newspapers said the Syndicate would Send its clients a clarification. A while i appreciate his desire to protect the family 1 would be liked to have known this at the outset a Morrissey said. A it needed to have an editors note at the top of it saying the name had been changed to shield the privacy Newark . Apr a former food store operator who discovered that the Black Market was More lucrative than the grocery Market pleaded guilty monday to Selling a House for $30,000 in food Stamps government officials called it one of the largest frauds Ever uncovered in the $18 billion program but they said trickery deceit and theft arc widespread. A just about anything you can buy in the United states for Cash you can buy for food., Stamps a said Dave Dickson a director of investigation so with the . Department of agriculture which runs the program. That includes guns and sex he said. And drug related frauds have increased sharply within the program. About 10 percent of retailers in the new York metropolitan area Are believed to be illegally trafficking the Stamps and the problem is not isolated said Joseph Yarrish the departments regional inspector general. Investigators Are concerned with the increasing role drugs have had within the food stamp program. In 1987, Only five cases of stamp fraud were prosecuted in connection with drugs Dickson said. In 1990, the num be increased to 119. In mondays plea Awni Alyousef also known As Boston apr the Dean of Boston University a College of communication copied much of a commencement speech from an article written by a film critic without crediting the source the Boston Globe reported tuesday. Dean h. Joachim Maitress May 12 speech Drew heavily from popular culture and the War against standards an article by pcs critic Michael Medved the newspaper said. The article appeared in the february Issue of the scholarly journal imprimis and was condensed in the june Issue of Reader s digest the Globe said. A videotape the University produced for Sale to graduates shows maitre copied the theme and Structure of the article and used 15 paragraph Long passages without attribution the Globe said. Maitre is in Malaysia and could not be reached for comment the newspaper said. Of the nun he was writing about. The newspapers need to know this is in fact a fictitious  the matter came to Light when sister Mary Ann Walsh a reporter for Catholic news service called our lady of Angels elementary in Cleveland and found there was no sister Mary Andrew. Donahue acknowledged the name change to Walsh. A i Hope 1 get some Points Here in this grand Donahue moral drama for having told the Catholic news service a Donahue said. What made it particularly striking is the personal nature of the article. A dear sister Mary Andrew a it begins. Quot the other Day someone told me you died. Imagine my guilt. From my fifth year to my 13th you were the Chalk i was the slate a the Tabula Rasa on which you wrote so profoundly so beautifully. The guilt i feel for not having thanked you looms Large in my Chest  Donahue Best known for working a television audience with a hand held Mike seemed puzzled that questions had been raised about the piece. He said he was never taught by sister Mary Andrew As the piece implies but that she worked at an All girls school Down the Street and he got to know her while working Summers there for 50 cents an hour. Donahue closed the Telephone interview by saying he had no second thoughts about the changes. Quot it did no to occur to me that this was some sort of moral decision Quot he said. Jack Ayoub admitted that lie took $1,000 in food Stamps As a Down payment on the House then turned Over the keys when the balance was paid also in Stamps. Alyousef 29, operated his scam out of jacks foods in Camden while working As a real estate agent authorities said. The Quot buyer was an undercover agent for the agriculture department who had been investigating the store when Alyousef offered the House for the Stamps. The Camden House was Worth less than $10,000. Alyousef from Maple Shade faces up to 60 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines when  be sentenced sept. 20 by . District judge Maryanne Trump Barry. He was allowed to remain free on $50,000 Bond. A Alyousef also admitted he bought $7,900 in food Stamps for half their value and sold a Mobile Telephone for $1,000 in Stamps. Alyousef a father Salti Alyousef 52, of Voorhees was indicted on fraud charges for buying $2,600 in food Stamps at half Price authorities said. He is believed to be in Jordan. University president John Silber did not respond to a request for comment the newspaper said. Medved a critic author and president of the Pacific jewish Center in Venice calif., said he was appalled by the unattributed use of his work. A my article was All about upholding standards a he said. A one of the most fundamental standards is not to pass off As ones own the work of someone  Medvedis article suggests ugliness and violence Are being glorified in films and television while traditional family values Are ignored. He mentions the film the Cook the thief his wife and her Lover citing what he called a unrelieved ugliness horror and depravity at every  maitre mentioned the film in his speech and said it contained a unrelieved ugliness horror and depravity at every turn i think a the Globe reported. Home sold for $30,000 in food Stamps Dean accused of stealing from article