European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and Stripe Friday december 20, 1991new system to ease chore of getting Federal Job by the Washington Post Washington a not Long ago if you wanted a Job with the Federal government and did not live in a major metropolitan area you would have had to travel to one of the country s 41 Federal government centers to find out about openings. You could have tried to Call the Center but chances Are the phone would have gone unanswered said office of personnel management officials. If you did fill out a Job application it would take six to eight weeks sometimes longer for the government to process it and even longer for Federal agencies to set up interviews. But in a windowless office of Opma a Headquarters a Crew of 10 program analysts is putting into place an application system that May revolutionize the process. Like Many of the past decade s Domestic revolutions this one involves computers and soon will make the famous some would say infamous 49-question Standard form 171 Federal Job application obsolete. The system will Cost an estimated $10 million Over five years said pm associate director Leonard r. Klein. He added that the computerization of applications will reduce the number of clerks needed for processing. Since 1980 half of the 2,000 positions for clerks who manually processed applications have been eliminated in part because of automation. The new system will work like this someone who wants to find out what Federal jobs Are available can Call 1-900-990-9200. For 40 cents a minute the caller can listen to an automated listing with Access to nearly All the jobs available anywhere in the country and can request an application and Register to take the appropriate civil service examination. Klein said applications Are mailed to callers within five Days. The Cost of a Call which averages about $2.50. Is expected to drop once volume increases. In place of Quot the of 171, which requires applicants to write out answers and clerks to read and evaluate them the new application form resembles a standardized test. Using a no. 2 Pencil applicants Blacken a bubbles Quot corresponding to their replies. An optical scanner computer will then read and evaluate the applications at a rate of 3,000 an hour. Civil service exams also Are graded by computer. The test and the application will be numerically rated. Applications of those eligible then will be stored at the pm computer Center in Macon ga., or at one of the 2b pm service centers around the country agencies seeking employees can Call the computer using a touch tone phone and special codes which let it know the occupation needed and location of the Job. Within 15 minutes the computer will produce a list of applicants which will be faxed to the Agency. Name other details come out on accuser from wire reports the anguish of the trial is Over the reclusive living finally at an end. But her life remains in upheaval. A disruptive disturbing and traumatic a those Are the words i d use Quot Michael go Neil said of the eight months since the infamous easter weekend at the Kennedy estate in West Palm Beach. A a it a going to take a while to gel her life Back to  in a Telephone interview wednesday. Of Neil spoke about his stepdaughter Patricia Bowman 30, and her efforts to gel on with her life. Thursday night. Bowman was scheduled to Tell her Story on abcs primetime live. Born in Akron Ohio in 1901, Bowman was an Only child. She attended the private Rollins College in Winter Park fla., and Palm Beach Community College. Bowman who is known As Patty and her 2-year-old daughter live in a House in Jupiter that of Neil bought for her in 1989 for $101,800. Quot Bowman moved to Florida in 1981 after her Mother married of Neil who retired in 1986 As chairman of Gen corp a conglomerate that owns general tire. She has worked for a Palm Beach newspaper. A Law firm a methodist Church and Walt Disney world. As the Case unfolded most news organizations did not identity Bowman because of policies against publishing the name or photograph of accusers in rape cases. Television networks carrying the trial used electronic masking to cover her face. �?o1 think its important that she has that Choice Quot said Sandy Duncan coordinator of Palm Beach county victims services which provided rape counselling for Bowman. Quot now that the trials Over i think she wants to get out and reaffirm her Story and if that s what she a chosen to do i Hope she a prepared to Cope with the opinions the Public might  Bowmans lawyer David Roth emphasized she received no compensation from Abc. Poll critical of hype in Smith trial Holiday spirit is Crystal Clear Irina male Eva owner of a gallery in West Hollywood calif., puts the finishing touches wednesday on a Christmas tree made of hand Cut Strass crystals. The tree valued at $250,000, is eight feet tall and five feet wide and is held together with Silver and Gold plated connectors. It took six months to construct. New York apr about three in four americans in an associated press poll said news organizations paid too much attention to the trial of William Kennedy Smith. More than seven in 11 adults faulted the attention the Media gave the most Wutch cd rape trial in history. Smith 31, was acquitted last week. Among 1,003 adults interviewed Only 17 percent said they did not follow the trial closely. Ice Survey research group of Media pa., took the poll which has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. The trial s explicit sexual language which prompted president Bush to complain tuesday about a filth and indecent material on television disturbed 42 percent of those polled a and More than half of those Over age 55. A 56 percent majority said they watched live television coverage of Smiths trial but the Cable networks can and court to a which provided almost All the live coverage a Don t reach nearly that Large a segment of the population. Many people apparently believed they watched the trial live when they actually saw news  releases higher than estimated study says by the new York times washing ton a a team of scientists studying nuclear contamination in Ohio has found that the amount of uranium dust released by a nuclear weapons Plant near Cincinnati was Many times higher than the government previously estimated. The study is in its Early stages and the scientists said they could not determine what it acct it any the contamination was having on residents near the Plant in to Ernald. Ohio. The Fernald Plant turned out depleted uranium Metal that while slightly radioactive is not nearly As dangerous As plutonium and other radioactive substances produced by the nuclear weapons inn Surv. Uranium is considered most dangerous when it is inhaled or ingested. According to preliminary findings the contamination consisted of thousands of pounds of uranium dust that poured into the air and water each month from the feed materials production Center a Plant that turned out uranium Metal for the atomic weapons Industry from 1953. When it opened until the late 19sl s. The $1.5 million study paid for by the department of Energy and prepared for the National centers for disease control by the radiological assessments corp. Of Nieses  looked at releases of uranium from the Plant in i960. %1 and 1962. In that period the study said about 200,000 pounds of uranium were re leased or in those three years that the report said were representative 40 percent of the total that the Energy department said was released Over More than 30 years. In a news Eon Terenee on wednesday in t Cincinnati the authors of the study said they would be better Able to determine the risk the contamination posed to Ohio residents by 1993. 1 he new estimate of contamination Tom Fernald closely resembles the results of a private study of the plants uranium releases that was completed in Mav 1989 by the Institute for Energy and environmental research a private research group in Takoma Park my. The Institute conducted its study Lor citizens who sued the department of Energy Over the contamination and won a $78 million settlement in 1989. But the conclusions of the new Federal study differ sharply from those of the department which owns the Plant. In i9n.\ in its first official study of the contamination the department said no More than 192,000 pounds of uranium had been released from Fernald during its 31 years of operation. In 1989, in a second study the department said perhaps As much As 550,000 pounds of uranium had been released. The department said wednesday dial its earlier studies to estimate the amount of uranium dust from Fernald were conducted even though gaps in the Plant s environmental records would produce