European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 23, 1991 the stars and stripes c Page 5 Home . Workers to get tuition Aid by Mike Causey ers nuts hip my by Mike Causey the Washington Post Washington a Federal agencies soon will be Able to pay full tuition costs for employees seeking College degrees or to repay the student Loans of workers m some Job categories that have shortages. The new authority expected to be offered Early next year would make the government More competitive with commercial firms for specialists in Fields where Federal pay now trails private Industry by As much As 30 percent. Congress approved the program As part of the defense authorization act of 1990, and the office of personnel management has asked agencies to comment on the plan which would also cover Federal civilian work ers outside the defense department. The comment period ends Early next month. P under the proposal agencies that have trouble obtaining or retaining people in any Field could offer to pay that employees Way through school in a program leading to a degree in that specialized Field. Agencies could also offer to repay student Loans of workers on the payroll keeping them in government. They would also have the option to repay the student Loans of Job seekers As an inducement to attract them into government service. The new authority would be exercised entirely at an Agency s discretion. However the Agency would not be obligated to offer it to any employee unless the Agency determined it was having recruiting or retaining work federal1 agencies now can pay for Job related College courses of employees but Only on a course by course Oasis. The change would give agencies the authority to pay for All courses leading to an academic degree for called Rhca is Rny the Agency identifies As being in so Calvd hard to fill or shortage category jobs. There arc now about 190,000 Federal workers mostly scientists engineers and medical personnel a paid speral higher Rales because they Are in pm 7hf. Vcg0iy 1 some Quot of him could be eligible for the tuition payment or tuition payback program however being in a special Rale Job would not Autri magically make them eligible. Hong Tthum i Elf a yees or Prospo it pc workers whose jobs of if sir special rate pay status could also Benefit if their Agency approves the payments for them. W a improves me payments for ther North lied in Book Texas magnate Perot save Washington apr Texas Bil a nears in his in nor a Pom Chiei. Quot Washington apr Texas billionaire h. Ross Perot said monday that Oliver North lied in his new Book by Sug Quot a Eki that Perot asked him to Shielu president Reagan from the Iran Contra scandal. North wrote that Perot made the request at two december 1986 meetings with North a lawyer Brendan Sullivan at the defense attorneys Washington office. Perot acknowledged meeting with North and Sullivan once in december of that year. But the former White House aides allegations Are Perot false Perot said from his Dallas office. A i have no idea Why lieutenant colonel North made up this false Story that the stars and Stripe years ago oct. 23,1981 a Solidarity Union leaders in Warsaw discussed a proposed nationwide warning strike and heard Union chief Lech Walesa plead for reason As strikes continued to spread across Poland in Defiance of communists demands. Appears in his Book a Perot said. A a i never wanted to protect anybody Perot said in the Telephone interview a Flo a Ella �.4li wanted the truth to come out. I had one item agendas in meeting with North a lawyer he said. A i did no to want lieutenant colonel North to take the fifth  according to North Perot asked Sulli dec 1986, a look Why does no to Ollie just end this thing and explain to the Fri that the president did no to  North said that at a second meeting six Days later Perot so message was the same i should forfeit my fifth amendment rights and make a statement that cleared the  North said he attended the later meeting but not the earlier one. Perot said he has checked his records and recalls Only one meeting the later one. A a no time did i even hints that North a should protect anyone a including the president a Perot said in the statement. A i assumed that the president must have had substantial knowledge of these events or they could not have occurred a the businessman added. Perot said that he tried to Contact North on monday but that North had not returned his Calls. Sullivan was not available for comment. North a Book under fire an american Story is being published this week. It also a reveals a a dear Ollie letter that North got from Reagan on nov. 4, 1985, at a time when North was secretly involved in supplying the nicaraguan con tras with guns. The typewritten letter bearing Reagan s signature said a you have proven yourself to be an outstanding american  it does not mention the con tras but a Handwritten note North got from vice president Bush late in november 1985 mentions North so tireless work on a the hostage thing and with Central  Reagan and Bush have said they had no idea North was running an operation to Supply the con tras with arms. A discloses the existence of a nine Page Pardon request to Reagan from three defense lawyers in the Iran Contra scandal on nov. 10, 1988, three months before the Start of North a criminal trial. A enough is enough a said the request from Sullivan and lawyers for the former National Security adviser John Poindexter and former Cia station chief Joseph Fernandez. The request said trials would serve no purpose except to prolong the agony for the country and the people  Poindexter was convicted of five felonies in the scandal and is appealing. Fernandez Scase never came to trial because the Bush administration refused to allow disclosure of certain classified information that a judge deemed relevant to Fernandez a  years ago _ oct. 23,1971 a president Nixon named Lewis f. Powell and William h. Rehnquist to the supreme court. If confirmed by the Senate they would succeed justices Hugo l. Black and John m. Harlan and bring the court up to full  ago reported .-soviet Deal Over migs Falls Flat after key misunderstanding of a i -29 Uco a and see a is Quot Ber Quot  had a8a�?~"s,.us-<�ras quoth said. Had Fot Sut a we Quot a a a a per. Oct. 23,1961 a in a speech at hot Springs. Va., Deputy Secretary of defense Roswell l. Gilpatric hinted that . Military planners overrated soviet military capability. He asserted that officials believe the Kremlin s claims of a crushing superiority in nuclear arms Are false and that the United states can strike Back As hard or harder than the soviets.40 years ago oct. 23,1951 a six British cargo ships moved into the Suez canal under the protective guns of a destroyer escort and British troops seized four railway stations to bring in blocked military supplies. At the same time Egypt charged Britain with a premeditated provocative aggression Quot in the tense canal zone. The misunderstanding broke into the open at a news conference called by in re Ona technical expertise Ltd. It of Dunn Loring va., along with the soviet aerospace firm Elf-90. A operating under a Broad memorandum of understanding we will be pursuing the Sale lease or service contract employment of the Mig-29 aircraft in defense department training programs a it president Stephen f. Rohrkemper said. Quendy8encountemtcfn"the yield a a a said St a we it Quot a enc or i in  yield said never discussed this  he said in the firm had a no possibility to sell or Supply the Mig fighters. The former Vietnam. Navy flier who served to a. Me i Viivi gun hers. Cd kit to Sroff a spans s said to Quot spa Kama Quot by a has rope and Asia. A. To la a r asked if it would be a Good idea to a not specific merely"1algfo?thtfi� Gai Ethem Cha Quot a work together to locate and sell prod amount of information about  weapons dealer convicted of conspiring to deliver military helicopters to iraqis Miami a a a for Loral in 1_______�?�. Miami apr a a Federal jury Mon Day convicted an International weapons merchant of conspiring to Arm Iraq with military helicopters. Sarkis Soghanalian a 61-year-old lebanese National also was convicted of five related charges and acquitted on three others. He faces 24 years in Federal prison and $240,000 in fines when he is sentenced dec. 20. The charges include conspiracy to deliver military helicopters to Iraq in violation of the arms Export control act making false statements in violation of Iaun?hi4mlranspirin8 10 cd pm re rocket Soghanalian told Moreno. A where an i launchers to Iraq. Jurors who deliberated a total of 14 hours Friday and monday acquitted Sog hawaiian on counts that included attempting to Export the helicopters to Iraq. . Marshals took him into custody after . District judge Federico Moreno determined that Soghanalian might try to flee. His attorney Neal Sonnett objected saying his client has had plenty of Opportunity to flee but has shown up every Day for his trial. A judge in a not going to go anyplace a going to go a Moreno said he would order a hearing by a magistrate As Early As tuesday to see if other arrangements could be made. Soghanalian Span aviation co., run by his 30-year-old son was found guilty of the same six counts and also faces the same fines. Soghanalian a son originally was named a defendant in the Case but a month before trial began the government dropped All charges against him