European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 9, 1992 tuition payment rules set for government workers by Mike Causey the Washington Post Washington the Federal government on thursday issued guidelines that will allow agencies to pay tuition for people with critical Job skills whom the government needs to recruit or retain. In some rare instances individuals May qualify for full salary and tuition while going to school. Nearly 200,000 of the governments 2.8 million workers Are paid special higher salaries because they Are in occupations where shortages exist or Are anticipated. Most Are engineers technicians scientists or medical employees. About one in every five workers in Washington is in the so called shortage Job categories. Those coming into the skilled professional and technical positions Are most Likely to Benefit from the tuition payment plan. The defense authorization act of 1990 set up the expanded Benefit but agencies have been waiting for guidance which came thursday from the office of personnel management. Pm s rules effective in 30 Days modify a existing policy that places constraints on academic degree it will make training available a to address recruitment problems to the extent that training qualifies employees for entry into shortage it said employees a must be qualified for the interim positions they occupy while getting degrees. Tuition also can be paid for people already on the Job if the instruction contributes to their Job performance. On camera Patricia Bowman the floridian who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape last year remains in the spotlight five months after the heavily covered trial ended in an acquittal. On thursday Bowman went to the Colorado College in Colorado Springs to discuss the Media treatment of rape and sexual assault victims. Ransom note May be prank Morristown . A a group calling itself the Rainbow warriors sent a Ransom note to authorities demanding Money after the disappearance of an Exxon executive but officials say they Arentt convinced of its authenticity. Morris county prosecutor w. Michael Murphy or. Said investigators Hadnot verified that any group is holding Sidney Reso president of Exxon co. International based in Flor Ham Park. A absent a current photograph and or voice recording this office cannot reach the conclusion that or. Reso is in the custody of any particular group a Murphy said. Reso vanished april 29. His car was found idling in the driveway of his suburban Morris township Home after he left for work. A Law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity said investigators Hadnot determined whether the note came from a kidnapper or a prankster. The note ordered authorities to a have a lot of Money ready. Instructions will Exxon spokesman Jim Morakis said he did no to know if the report of the Ransom demand were True. The Fri referred questions to Murphy. The Rainbow Warrior a ship of the environmental group Greenpeace was sunk in july 1985 in new zealand by French Security agents. Sinatra aide apparently killed in crash Palm desert Calif. Up Jilly Rizzo the Security chief of Frank Sinatra was killed on his birthday in a fiery crash with a suspected Drunken Driver the singers publicist said thursday. Riverside county sheriffs deputies said a Jaguar Lent to Rizzo was hit broadside by a Mercedes Benz on wednesday and burst into flames. The coroners office said the identity of the Lone body in the car would not be confirmed until Friday because it was burned so badly that dental records would be needed to determine whether it was Rizzo. But Susan Reynolds Sinatra a publicist said a a we be been advised that it was the Driver of the Mercedes was not at the Accident scene when authorities arrived. A Short time later a Man and a woman arrived in another vehicle and the woman said she had been driving the Mercedes. Sheriffs sgt. Keith Stinson said the woman was booked on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter felony Drunken driving leaving the scene of a traffic collision and driving with a suspended License. The Man was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to a felony. Wednesday was Rizzos 75th birthday and Many of his friends and family members had planned their annual party for him Reynolds said. The crash occurred a Short distance from Rizzos Home in Rancho Mirage a Southeastern suburb of Palm Springs and the site of dozens of celebrity estates including those of Sinatra former president Ford and comedian Bob Hope. The former new York restaurateur has lived in the desert town since closing his famed new York Saloon Jillyn a in 1979. He also owned another restaurant Jil Lye a South in Miami Beach imitating macgyver build bomb from wire reports mount Prospect Iii. A teen agers imitating the television character macgyver left a bottle bomb in a Church parking lot that exploded and injured a minister police said thursday. The Rev. Omar Logan said he picked up what he thought was a piece of trash and it exploded in his hand tuesday night. Logan was not seriously injured. The bottle bomb was in a Box. A i was reaching through the window tiring to raise the dumpster lid with one hand Ana trying to pitch the Carton with the other when it exploded Logan said. Police said the bomb was similar to dozens seen in the area in the past several Rogers site Burns Oologah okla. A miniature Model of will Rogers Birthplace was destroyed by a fire apparently set by an arsonist police said thursday. A i can to imagine anyone who would do this a said police dispatcher Jan Miller. The Model built in 1931, was a two Story Home about 10 feet tall and encircled by a White picket Fence. It stood on one Comer of an intersection. A it was a very charming Lovely Centrepiece of Oologah a said Joe Carter director of the will Rogers memorial in nearby Claremore. A a it a very tragic because it was hand built and carefully restored in recent Rogers a humorist journalist and actor died a in 1935 in a plane crash. The property on which he was bom is under water but the House in which he was born was moved to higher ground about 30 years ago two Miles from where the Model was served detergent mount Carmel Ohio a an elementary school cafeteria worker mistook laundry deter. Detergent left on a table and the lunchroom worker sprinkled some of the powder on French Toast that was served for lunch monday food services supervisor Marilyn Hutchinson said. Four of the 26 pupils who were served the detergent at Clough Pike elementary school in this Cincinnati suburb complained of nausea principal Barbara Dardy woman robbed Providence . One of six people who stopped to help a dying woman outside a Bank was charged with stealing $10 from her before rescuers arrived authorities said. Barbara Gauthier collapsed wednesday and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital where she was pronounced dead of an apparent heart attack detective capt. Paul Leboeuf said. Judy Nickerson 29, who was in the group of people in a car that stopped to help Gauthier outside Hospital Trust National Bank was charged with larceny from a person a felony he said. Gauthier had gone to the Bank to withdraw $10 from an automatic Teller machine Leboeuf said. She dropped her withdrawal slip and the $10 Bill As she collapsed. A witness told an off duty police officer that Gauthier May have been robbed by one of the people in the car which had driven off. The officer Christopher Patterson chased Down the car and arrested Nickerson children get warning St. Paul Minn. A a Wisconsin Kinder Gart Ner whose left Arm and right hand were severed in a farm Accident and reattached has a message for other youngsters a i would like to Tell children to stay away from machinery. They can rip your arms and legs the words of 6-year-old Michael Conoboy were read wednesday night by his Mother Dixie Conoboy at a Hospital news conference. Michael sarm and hand were reattached april 25 after they were Tom off when he was playing on an irrigating machine. The hand was amputated four Days later because of circulation problems but a doctor said Michael a left Arm is doing Well
