European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday november 17, 1991 postal chief taking Steps to identify violent workers by the new York times Birmingham Mich. A the nation s postmaster general on Friday ordered a review of the personnel records of the postal services 750,000 workers and its former employees to identify anyone who has displayed aggressive or violent behaviour. The order was issued one Day after a former worker shot and killed four supervisors and then turned the gun on himself at a suburban Detroit Post office. In the last eight years there have been nine armed attacks against Post offices by former employees resulting in More than 30 deaths. But Anthony Frank head of the postal service for three and a half years rejected the notion that the attacks suggest a system wide problem exists. He said that although most postal workers handle the stressful workloads Well Mellvane Quot some number a very few people within our ranks Don t fit the Mold of dedicated Public  in addition to the extensive checks Frank said he was establishing a nationwide Telephone number for postal employees to report threats. He also ordered a review of the hiring and screening process at the nation s 40,000 Post offices. The three unions representing postal workers had no immediate comment. The initial toll of three deaths from thursdays incident Rose to five after the assailant Thomas Mellvane was removed from a life support system and another supervisor died from a Bullet wound to the Chest. The supervisor was identified As Rose Marie Proos 33, of sickling Heights Mich. Frank said he will ask the police and military How they might help the Post office screen troubled applicants. Mellvane who had received a dishonourable discharge from the marines for violent behaviour and who was an expert kick Boxer told postal employees that he would retaliate if he were not reinstated As a postal clerk. He was dismissed a year ago for timecard fraud and lost an arbitration hearing on nov. S that made his dismissal postmaster general Anthony Frank announces a nationwide review of postal employees personnel records in an Effort to identify those prone to violence. Final. Postal officials were still trying to understand Why relations Between letter carriers and supervisors have been so acrimonious at the Royal Oak Post office Frank said. He acknowledged that the office was the subject of a number of complaints by customers and workers. New York City plans to distribute condoms to High school students new York apr some High school students in the nation largest Public school system will begin receiving condoms on demand this month without parental permission. The Board of education began training teachers and Counselor for the distribution program which is designed to help Stop the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. The plan survived assaults by opponents who said it would undermine parents rights and promote promiscuity among teens. Administrators expect the first school to begin distributing condoms Quot within 10  said James Vlasto spokesman for school Chancellor a. Joseph Fernandez. 1�?The school has not yet been selected. The distribution plan which eventually will be available to 2f>0,000 students is one of a handful of programs around the country a and one of the most literal because it does not require visits to health clinics. Of the na-20 percent new York City is Home to about 3 percent t Lions 13 to 21-year-Olds, but accounts for 21 of All aids cases in that age group. Mathilde Krim professor of Public health at Columbia University and co chair of the american foundation for aids research estimates that two of every 100 teen agers in the City Are infected with the aids virus. That amounts to 5,160 Public school students. Officials in Chicago and Baltimore have agreed to make condoms available at school clinics. On oct. 8, the san Francisco school Board approved Pilot programs that could begin in january for about 3.0 h of the City a 20.000 students. San Francisco parents unlike those in new York can opt to take their children out of the program. Boston s mayor and schools superintendent opposed a condom plan. But the Philadelphia school Board voted in june to allow distribution on a trial basis by health and social service agencies. Miracle Fawn killed by poacher 1horndyke Bay Wash. Apr a Fawn born when an automobile struck her Mother and expelled the Fawn from the womb has been killed by a poacher. Laline a dubbed Quot the Miracle Fawn Quot by caretaker Billie Sizemore a was shot with a .22-caliber Rifle on oct. 31, five months after her traumatic birth on Washington s olympic Peninsula. Slate Law prohibits shooting does. Quot shed come right up to you. She d push you w Ith her nose Quot Sizemore said. Quot she probably went right up to whoever shot  Quot she discussed the fawns death last week saying Quot it s taken me this Long to be Able to talk about it Quot her husband found Faline a skinned body near their Rural Home on the West Side of Hood canal about 10 Miles South of the Hood canal Bridge. The couple went in search of Faline when it did not return from its usual afternoon in the Woods with to other fawns that the size mores care for. Their proper serves As a Haven for animals Sizemore nurtures i health and returns to the wild. L Aline was born May 27 when its Mother was Struc by a car. The Impact split open the Deer and sent the unborn Fawn sliding Down the Road. The birth Sac cushioned Faline a fall. Sizemore who named the Deer after a character i bin Fri bottle fed Faline when it was a Newborn an recently nursed it through an intestinal ailment that be the Young Deer seriously debilitated. Quot she was really beginning to Bounce again Quot size More said. A she would have made it. She was a reall Nice Little   a amp a reinstates mounted cavalry unit from wire reports College station Texas a Texas a amp a University s cavalry unit which was disbanded  a woman said some members attacked her has been reinstated officials said Friday. The Parsons mounted cavalry unit an elite group in the schools corps of cadets was to participate in pregame ceremonies saturday for the Texas a amp a Arkansas football game. The unit was disbanded in september after the female Cadet said several members of the group attacked her because she wanted to join. She later claimed she was attacked again and briefly abducted. She recanted both claims oct. 21, but school officials determined she had been subjected to Oral harassment and six cavalry members were  strip searched Oakland Calif. A an elementary school employee was fired Friday for strip searching 10 boys an official said. The 9 and 10-year-old boys were searched tuesday after a girl in their class claimed $7.50 had been stolen from her Book bag said Dan Siegel attorney for the Oakland unified school District. The Money was later found at the Bottom of the Bug. James Allen a Campus supervisor at Piedmont Avenue elementary school and school Pat president Thomas Mcdonald lined the boys up against a classroom Wall had them turn their pants pockets inside out and drop their pants. Prior to the search All the girls in the room were excused because they were not present when the Money was believed to have been taken Siegel said. A there was an improper search and or. Allen has been terminated a Siegel said. Quot its a very Clear Issue that school District officials May search students based on reasonable cause but that strip searches Are not  Mcdonald who is not a District employee has been asked not to return to the school Siegel  rican vote is on san Juan puerto Rico a a Federal judge has dismissed an injunction suit seeking to derail a dec. 8 referendum in which puerto Picans will choose among statehood Independence or continuance of . Commonwealth status. . District judge Hector Laffitte ruled Friday against the pro statehood new progressive party and sen. Nicolas Nogueras who claimed the Law authorizing the referendum was vague unfair and one sided. It thus violated the due process clause of the . Constitution they argued. The vote offers a series of proposals that would affect a future status referendum on the Commonwealth. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon who proposed the referendum said that even though the proposals would have no binding Legal effect they would serve As guidelines for Congress to use in drafting any enabling plebiscite  s role protested Salt Lake City a demonstrators waved placards Friday outside a women s conference organized by sen. Orrin g. Hatch saying his role in the hearings on Clarence Thomas nomination to the . Supreme court shows he is no Champion of women. Hatch a Utah was one of Thomas most outspoken defenders in the hearings on allegations by University of Oklahoma Taw professor Anita Hill who said Thomas sexually harassed her a decade ago. Patricia Gumble Hovey said Hatch subjected Hill to Quot innuendo and character assassination a and  present himself As a Champion of women a issues. Quot in a saying. Done to assume a role As an advocate of women and women s issues. That simply is not possible or. Hatch Quot said Gamble Hovey one of about 80 protesters. Hatch s seventh annual women a conference a one Day event attended by about 2,500 women included a workshop on sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace