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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 11, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 28 suspected of cheating on naval Academy exam Annapolis my. A Twenty eight midship men could face expulsion in the . Naval Academy s largest cheating incident since 1974, a spokesman said. Tuesday. In an unrelated incident four other midshipmen were disciplined for a Pillow attack that Hurt two female classmates. An investigation produced evidence that 28 midshipmen May have cheated on an electrical engineering examination last year Academy spokesman cmdr. Mike John said. The investigation began in december after officials Learned that a copy of the final exam for the Junior level course was missing. Midshipmen also told officials that exam copies were being circulated in the Academy s dormitory before the exam said Noel Milan another Academy spokesman. The Academy decided to go ahead with the Examina Tion which was Given to about 700 students. There s no evidence to believe the exam was com promised to the extent that it would have to be Reta Ken John said. Honors boards composed of students will hear fro the 28 midshipmen under suspicion and will review Evi Dence. Then the boards will recommend to top facade my officials whether the midshipmen should be cleared or disciplined. Those disciplined could be expelled or put on honors probation. The last major cheating incident at the Academy Wasin 1974, when seven midshipmen in a navigation course were expelled and 13 were placed on honors probation John said. The Academy also announced tuesday that four mid Shipmen will be disciplined for slightly injuring two female classmates in a dec. 3 prank that occurred several Days before the army Navy football game. The prank known As a Mack truck involves Shin ing a flashlight in the face of sleeping victims and then hitting them with  this they will receive demerits loss of leave and privileges and will be placed on conduct probation John  officials Learned of the attack when one of the women was asked about a scratch under her Eye John said. The women who were both bruised in the incident told officials they did not think they were singled out for the attack because they were women. Alimony attorney Mitchelson faces a for cheating on income tax los Angeles a Marvin Mitchelson the Jet set divorce attorney for Joan Collins Roxanne pulitzer Bianca Jagger and other personalities has joined the ranks of such celebrity tax cheats As Lcona Helmsley and Pete  Man who put the word Alimony into the Legal lexicon left a Federal courtroom in Handcuffs tuesday after he was convicted of failing to report nearly $2 Mil lion in income. Mitchelson had blamed his  judge ordered the 64 year old Mitchelson jailed on $2 million bail after prosecutors argued he might flee. But shortly after he was led away he complained of Chest pains and was taken to a Hospi Tal where he was in stable condition one of his Law yers  could get 12 years in prison and a $1million Fine at sentencing april 12. Federal sentencing guidelines make it in Mitchelson Likely he will serve More than three years. The flamboyant Mitchelson became Hollywood s Premier divorce lawyer by handling Mich Elle triola Marvin s 1979 Alimony 5 lawsuit seeking half of Lee Marvin s Fortune. She and the actor lived together for six years and never married. Hiding his status is fraud jury says by the los Angeles times los Angeles an his patient committed fraud when she hid her condition from a health care professional treating her a jury decided tuesday in a lawsuit brought by a medical technician who was accidentally Cut by a Scalpel. The los Angeles Superior court jury awarded surgical worker Diane Boulais $102,500 in Hermase against Jan Lustig 46, a former psychologist who was diagnosed with the aids virus in 1987, but failed to disclose that when she had breast reduction surgery in 1991. Boulais 40, has not contracted the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids and has undergone numerous tests since the Cut. In contrast to recent highly publicized moves to Force doctors and other health care workers to disclose their aids status to patients this Casenas believed to be the first of its kind where a health care professional sued a patient. Her right to sue for Alimony was upheld but her claim was ultimately rejected though the actor was or dered to pay her a nominal sum for rehabilitation. Mitchelson s clients also included Carl Sagan ton Curtis Connie Stevens and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Over the past 20 years Mitchelson reported no tax Able income and has almost never paid taxes,.voluntari by . Attorney Torrec Bowers said. After an eight week trial a jury deliberated just a Day before convicting Mitchelson of cheating on his tax returns from 1983 to 1986. I guess this is the West coast version of the Leona Helmsley Case Bowers said referring to the Newyork hotel executive who went to prison last year for tax evasion. Mitchelson filed monday for bankruptcy  Bank had planned to foreclose on his $6 million Man Sion because he had not paid the mortgage for six months. He was spending far More than he was earning assistant . Attorney Gary . None Day in june 1985, he bought a Rolls Royce for his wife and another car for his  As utilities were threatening to Stop service he was also paying for limousines hotel suites and Antiques and even bid $1 million for jewelry owned by the late Duchess of Windsor said assistant . Attorney Michael Reese. Mitchelson s attorney John Mitchell said his client had an image to keep up. Sen. Packwood wants his accusers named Pendleton Ore. A sen. Bob Packwood says the women who have accused him of making unwanted sexual advances should be identified and placed under oath when they go before the Senate s ethics committee. During a Public forum tuesday in la Grande in Eastern Oregon Packwood complained that the Washington Post has named Only 10 of the 23 women who told the newspaper he sexually harassed them. Most of the forum audience of 100 appeared to sup port the Oregon Republican. He was asked Only one question on the sexual allegations that have hounded him since shortly after his election last november to a fifth term. How do you justify your unwanted advances toward 23 women including employees prospective employees and lobbyists Between 1969 and 1990?" Nancy Bach Man of la Grande asked him. Packwood 60, responded that he wants to hear the complaints straight from his accusers under oath and he wants a Chance to Cross examine them before the committee. Judge blocks pm plan to close Michigan Plant from wire reports Ann Arbor Mich. General motors corp. I obligated to keep open a Plant in a Community that gave the automat or years of tax Breaks in Exchange for jobs a judge ruled in a setback to pm s Money saving plans. Pm said it would Appeal tuesday s ruling preventing it from closing the Willow run Assembly Plant in Ypsilanti township As planned this summer. The automaker had planned to shift production to splant in Arlington Texas. There would be a Gross inequity and Patent unfairness if general motors. Is allowed to simply decide that it will desert 4,500 workers an their families because it thinks it can make these same cars a Little cheaper somewhere else circuit judge Donald Shelton ruled. Pm lawyer Lee Schutzman called the ruling ridiculous and said it would have no immediate Impact on the Plant 30 Miles West of Detroit because production is scheduled to continue through july. Man held in two deaths Little Rock Ark. Police arrested a Man in connection with two killings including that of woman who was a former Ward of. . Surgeon general designate Jocclyn m. Elders. Nina Frazier 25, was found dead feb. 2 slumped behind the wheel of a pickup truck on an isolate Road in Little Rock. The body of her 31-year-old Boyfriend James Mancos was lying face Dow outside the truck. Both had several wounds in the upper  Anthony Brown 24, of Little Rock was arrested tuesday on two capital murder warrants said police it. Charles Holladay. He would no discuss further details of the Case. At the time of her death Frazier was wanted on several drug charges and on charges of forging $2,700 Worth of checks belonging to elders , director of the state department of health and president Clinton s Choice for surgeon general said she and her husband considered Frazier part of their family. Frazier lived with her for several months As a teen Ager elders said. The first met when Frazier was 8 or 9 and elders treated her for diabetes. As a teen Ager Frazier had difficulty controlling her diabetes and was running away from Home quite a lot at the Point elders recalled tuesday. So her parents in an attempt to help her diabetes and All thought it would be better if she lived Wither doctor. And so i became her  Man in radar gun Case Dies Santa Rosa Calif. Eric Bendure a police officer who claimed microwaves from a hand held radar gun caused his cancer died monday. He was 34. Bendure sued the radar gun s manufacturer for$12.5 million claiming he contracted cancer while working with the san Anselmo and Petaluma police departments. His lawyers argued that the radar gun was negligently designed and emitted microwaves even when it was not being used to track cars exposing Bendure to radiation when he rested it in his Lap. In Dur s cancer developed first in his Groin diagnosed in 1989. But jurors found for the manufacturer Kansas based custom signals inc., whose lawyers argue that scientific studies had failed to find a link Between microwaves and Bendure s cancer. Chief of pulitzer named new York Seymour Topping former managing editor of the new York i Imes was selected tuesday to be administrator of the pulitzer , 71, also will join the faculty of Columbia University s graduate school of journalism which administers the prizes. Topping will step Down As director of editorial development of the times co s 31 regional newspapers when he assumes his new Post nov. 1, University president Michael i. Sovern said in a statement. Topping succeeds Robert , who served from 1981 until his death in june. The administrator supervises the selection of jurors for the 21 pulitzer prize categories i journalism drama letters and music and oversees the judging  
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