European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 6, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3 retired Admiral helps commission namesake ship Norfolk a. Apr the Navy commissioned its newest ship the $864 million guided missile destroyer Arleigh Burke before a crowd of about 10,000, including for the first time in history the ships namesake. Burke an 89-year-old retired Admiral spoke Only Long enough to thank the spectators who gathered thursday. Burke was Only the third living person to have a ship named for him and the first who was Able to attend his ships commit Sioning the Navy said. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney led the ceremony commissioning the destroyer. Burke was described by Cheney As a visionary who helped ensure that America had the Force it needed to survive Many crises including the persian Gulf War. Burke was chief of naval operations from 1955 to 1961. Rate of 7% since october 86 Washington apr the nations unemployment rate increased to 7 percent in june its highest level in nearly five years the government reported Friday. The Rise in the civilian jobless rate up from May s rate of 6.9 percent added another 105,000 americans to unemployment lines the labor department said. Americans jobless now number 8.7 million. Since the Start of the recession last july the number of unemployed workers has surged by nearly 2 million the government said. The jobless rate is now 1.7 percent higher than last Summers relatively Low rate of 5.3 percent. However the labor department said that the june numbers though not on the positive Side indicate that the labor Market is no longer deteriorating As it was in earlier months. . Companies after adding jobs in May for the first time in a year Cut Only 50,000 jobs in june a a much better performance than the 220,000-a-month Job loss the nation endured in the first few months of the year dressing for the occasion the Agency said. Still june a 50,000-payroll loss was far worse than analysts had expected. They thought jobs would have grown by that much or More in june and said the first Back to Back rebound in hiring practices would have been fresh evidence that the recession is ending. Fridays negative numbers Are sure to revive worries that if a recovery has started it will be anaemic. In a bit of encouraging news the labor department released a separate report showing that the number of americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell by 8,000 in the third week of june Down to 423,000. Fridays main unemployment report also showed that the number of discouraged workers a or those who want a Job but have Civit looking because they think none exists a averaged 980,000 people a month in the second Quarter. That a about 100,000 More such dejected workers than a year ago. The 7 percent jobless rate was the highest since  1986, when unemployment was still falling from the peaks it hit in the 1981-82 recession. Dutch court overturns Ira conviction Den Bosch Netherlands a an appeals court Friday threw out the murder conviction of a suspected Ira member in the slayings of two australian tourists dutch television reported. Gerard Hart 27, of Lurgan Northern Ireland was sentenced in april to 18 years in prison for the May 27, 1990, assassinations of australian lawyers Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose in the Southern dutch town of Ormond on the German Border. In the first Ever Ira trial in the Netherlands Hartch a co defendants a Sean Hick 30, of Dublin Ireland Paul Hughes 27, of Newry Northern Ireland and Donna Maguire 24, also of Newry a were acquitted of the slayings. Dutch television said Harte a conviction was overturned and the three acquittals upheld for a Lack of evidence. Harte had appealed his conviction and the prosecution had appealed the acquittals. All four denied being members of the outlawed Irish Republican army. Ormond is a common recreation destination for British soldiers based across the Border in Germany. Spanos and Melrose London based lawyers were driving a British registered car. They were shot at Point Blank Range after returning to their car from dinner. They were accompanied by Melrose a wife and Spanos Girlfriend. Enterprising hawaiians in Kailua Kona have already got the the Sun. Its a once a Century happening and the to shirts arc to shirts to sell for next thursdays big event a total eclipse of just part of the circus like atmosphere that a sprung up. University Dean says plagiarism was error Boston apr a Boston University Dean has apologized for using parts of a movie critics essay in a speech without crediting him saying it was All a mistake the critic said. A fall is forgiven a Michael Medved pcs television film critic told the Boston Herald in a Story published Friday. Medved said he got an apology thursday from h. Joachim maitre Dean of Boston University a College of communication. Maitress commencement speech on May 12 used the Basic theme and 15 passages from a work by Medved without referring to him. The speech decried the decline of cultural standards. Medved said he got a Call at his Santa Monica calif., Home from maitre who had been in Malaysia when news of the apparent plagiarism became Public earlier this week. A basically he was saying his intention was to read excerpts from the work and simply to say a you All know How i feel. Here is someone else who feels the same Way a a Medved said. There was no answer Friday morning at Maitress Home in Brookline. Medvedis article a popular culture and the War against standards a appeared in the february Issue of imprimis a journal published by Hillsdale College in Michigan. It was condensed in the june Issue of readers digest. The Boston Globe reported the apparent plagiarism tuesday saying it had obtained a video of Maitress speech that the University was Selling to graduates. A contemporary culture a Medved wrote a is obsessed with superficial skill and Slick salesmanship while ignoring the More important issues of soul and substance. A your culture a maitre said in the speech a sometimes seems to be obsessed with superficial skill and Slick salesmanship while ignoring the More important issues of soul and  while Medved said he had accepted Maitret a apology he Saint he was disappointed that he had heard nothing from University officials. He said he still was exploring possible Legal action related to the schools Sale of his copyrighted material. Boston University president John Silber declined to comment publicly on the allegations saying maitre should get an Opportunity to defend himself first. Medved said maitre told him thursday that he had handed out copies of Medvedis essay around the College for weeks before the commencement and had intended to properly attribute the material. A the said it was a blackout a lapse on his part and that he was appalled that it occurred a medea said. A the seemed to be bearing up rather Well considering the situation he is in which is to put it mildly rather embarrassing a Medved said of maitre whom he described As a extremely amusing and a a charming  a the acknowledged making a really boneheaded series of mistakes not giving the planned introduction of my material and second not stopping the University from making a tape and Selling