European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 28, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5lawmakers bounced checks at embassies Washington apr House members wrote bad checks for Cash at . Embassies overseas and state department employees had to go after them to recover the Money the departments inspector general said thursday. A a it a been known to happen. I Only know the few that came to my attention a inspector general Sherman Funk said in a Telephone interview. A there were a few congressmen who caused a problem. We went Back to the congressmen and they  he said there had been no such problems for a a couple of years a but declined to say when the bad checks Nad been written. He would not identify the lawmakers involved. The lawmakers wrote the checks on their private Bank accounts while they were travelling overseas on fact finding missions and other official trips. There was no connection with the much publicized House Bank where members wrote thousands of overdrafts that did no to Bounce because they were covered by Money from other lawmakers accounts. Funk said the problem had affected embassies in Europe Africa and other areas. At least one of the bad checks was cashed at the . Embassy in new Delhi India and it took state department employees about six months to collect from the lawmaker involved a government source said. In the House Bank investigation the ethics committee is hearing appeals from lawmakers whose names Are on a preliminary list of the 24 most flagrant abusers. Rep. James Scheuer d-n.y., said his name will be removed from the list which a i never should have been  the preliminary list said Scheuer had overdrawn 169 checks and exceeded his next months salary in eight of the 39 months investigated. But he said his accountant was Able to prove to the committee that the Bank had failed to Post transfers on time and he had not had overdrafts greater than his next months salary in three of the months. A a in a not saying my accounts will revert to a state of virginal perfection a Scheuer said adding that he still is Likely to appear on a larger list of current and former members no wrote at least one bad Check. Scheuers statement came As other lawmakers on the worst abusers list met or planned to meet with an ethics subcommittee in an Effort to Challenge the records before the names Are released. Nineteen current and five former members were found to have routinely abused the Bank a overdraft privileges congressional sources and members have said. Continuing their Effort to capitalize politically on the situation House republicans announced an advertising Campaign thursday that seeks to blame the Bank a problems on the democrats. Michigan rep. Guy Vander Jagt chairman of the House gop Campaign committee said the scandal Quot is a metaphor for How they run everything. The Only solution is. To Bounce the democrats and put the House under new management for the first time in 38  House democrats countered by unveiling a newspaper and that Calls the republicans Quot hypocrites Quot because three Bush Cabinet members a defense Secretary Dick Cheney labor Secretary Lynn Martin and agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan a have acknowledged having written bad checks on the House Bank when they were in Congress. Separately four new Jersey congressmen attacked the system of congressional privileges and proposed an end to government subsidies of their meals Medicine haircuts and other services. They also targeted ambulance services printing and photography services stationery supplies and use of the House gym. The four Are democratic reps. William Hughes and Robert Andrews and Republican reps. James Saxton and Dean Gallo. In the stars and stripes10 years ago March 28,1982 a fierce anti Israel rioting erupted in Nablus in the occupied West Bank where an israeli army officer was injured As troops battled palestinian youths hurling stones and using slingshots to fire bottles and chunks of metal.20 years ago March 28,1972 a protestant extremists called a strike to sabotage direct British Rule in Northern Ireland. The strike crippled communications and transportation blacking out electricity and threatening to create shortages of food and water.30 years ago March 28,1962 a israeli attorney general Gideon Hausner used German documents and testimony by Adolf Eichmann a a assistants to prove that the former is officer was the guiding Force in the destruction of 6 million european jews under the nazi regime. Hausner was arguing against Eichmann a plea for commutation of his death sentence.40 years ago March 28,1952 a an attempt to assassinate West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer with a mail bomb killed a police official and wounded three other people when the package exploded at police Headquarters in Munich. World War ii 50 years ago today 28 march1 a 9 a 4 2 japanese troops prepare to launch the tinal offensive against the american and filipino defenders of the Batan Peninsula in the Philippines. In France British commandos raid St Nazaire at heavy loss but damage the Only dry Dock in Western Europe capable of accommodating the German battleship Tirpitz. A big Raf bomber raid causes heavy damage in Lubeck in Northern Germany Sofce 2194 Days of War w h. Smitn a  ire. Vorisj  Book of world  ii h son acc o  "361man survives 80-foot fall Santa Barbara Calif. A a paramedic was lowered into an 80-foot-deep Well thursday to Rescue a construction worker who had fallen Down the 4-foot-wide, Unrein forced dirt Shaft. Rescuers worked quickly to save Edgar b. Lopez for fear the Shaft would collapse. It was freshly bored and dry. Lopez 22, suffered injuries including a lower Back compression fracture spokeswoman Gayle Beede said. He was in stable condition at Goleta Valley Community Hospital. Lopez fell when he pulled a plywood cover off the Well which had just been drilled for a septic system said Santa Barbara county fire capt. Charlie Johnson. Eli Iskow the paramedic who rescued Lopez said Lopez was most Likely saved by a Cushion of soft soil that fell into the Hole before he did. A the was Lucky really Lucky that he had that dirt to soften his fall a Iskow said. A that was an 80-foot fall and not Many people survive 80-foot Falls onto hard soil. Paramedic Eli Iskow clutches Edgar Lopez who was rescued from dirt Well Shaft thursday at a Santa Barbara Calif., ranch. A an 80-foot fall into a donation of baby s organs denied fort Lauderdale Fla. A the parents of an infant born without a brain can to donate the 6-Day-old girls vital organs to other children before she Dies a judge ruled thursday. Theresa Ann Pearson was born saturday with Anen Cephal a Little understood condition that stops the brain from developing beyond the Stem which controls breathing and heartbeat. She has no Skull and doctors say she Likely will die within several Days. The organs wont be usable for transplants by then a doctor testified. A if my daughter can help someone else live i know if it was happening to me id be grateful a Laura Campo the girls Mother told Broward county circuit judge Estella Moriarty. But Moriarty said a 1988 state Law forbids declaring Theresa Ann brain dead because the Stem of her brain still functions a i can to authorize someone to take your baby a life however Short however unsatisfactory to save another child a Moriarty said. Moriarty did say doctors May remove organs not vital to the child a life. Its possible that one of the child a kidneys May be removed. The parents attorney William Campbell said no decision had been made about an Appeal. Doctors had told Campo that Theresa a organs could give life to five other infants who need her heart kidney liver lungs and eyes. A she is perfect in every Way except. She does no to have a brain a Campo said. Or. Richard Beach a neonatologist at Broward general Hospital said a if we wait for her brain Stem to give out on its own and shut Down her organs a which is going to happen in the next week or so a there wont be any Point in retrieving  a a they a be so damaged by then that they a be worthless a he said. Ane Cephalic infants occur in two of every 1,000 fetuses in the United Stales and six per 1,000 worldwide. Eight of every 10 Are stillborn and Only 400 to 500 a year live longer than a few minutes Beach said. Us student gets $1.6 million in rape los Angeles a the University of Southern California failed to provide adequate Security around an off Campus dormitory where a student was raped said a jury that awarded the woman $1.6 million. The woman sued the school for fraud and negligence saying officials concealed information about crime in the neighbourhood. A they enticed students to live at that facility by not revealing the dangerous area a said her attorney Natasha Roit. Recruiting brochures touted the area for its amenities she said. The woman was raped at knife Point in 1988 and a Man was convicted Roit said. She left the University after the rape. The jury awarded her damages in an interim ruling tuesday then continued deliberating the question of whether the University should be assessed punitive damages. The lawsuit said the woman a assailant stalked her dormitory a Day before she was raped and he was suspected in the parking lot rape of a school visitor two Days earlier. An attorney for the school Garrin Shaw said us had an adequate Security plan for the building including escort services and around the clock Security patrols. Crime statistics for the area Are available at the Public Library he said