European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 14, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 7 panel named to weigh midshipmen s cheating by the Baltimore Sun Annapolis my. The . Naval Academy s superintendent has named three retired admirals to help determine the discipline handed out in the facade my s largest cheating scandal. Rear . Thomas c. Lynch said wednesday at a news conference that the admirals All former facade my officials would provide fairness and consistency to the process. Lynch also said they would not overburden the midshipmen who Rule on violations of the school s strict 43-year-old Honor concept. Senior Navy officials approved the process announced wednesday. The procedure was devised bythe Admiral and his staff Academy officials said. The scandal involves the final exam for electrical engineering 311 taken by nearly 700 juniors in Decem Ber 1992. The Navy inspector general s report on the scandal May be released As Early As today. Sources said about 125 midshipmen Are involved. It is expected to be the largest cheating scandal in the Academy s history approximately doubling the 64 midshipmen implicated in the use of crib sheets in a 1974 navigation exam. Seven midshipmen eventually were expelled in the 1974 incident. The be problem As it has become known has troubled the Academy for the past year leaving Many in the brigade dispirited. While Lynch took pains wednesday to say the school has a Strong viable Honor concept he acknowledged that the Academy has not done enough to instill Honor in the midship men. Education is the key and that s what we have been lacking. I intend to fix that in the near term Lynch said. Pressed by reporters about whether he Felt responsible for the scandal the Admiral said the Buck stops with the individual midshipmen. I feel very badly that it happened under my superintendency. You have a problem when you do not recognize you have a prob Lem. I know what the problem is. We have failed in the education and  the retired admirals named to the panel Are . Leon Bud ency midshipmen Comman Dant from 1981-84. Vice Admiral William a Lawrence superintendent from 1978-81. And vice . Charles Minatr midshipmen com mandant from 1961 to january 1964, after which he was superintendent until june 1965. Under Normal circumstances midshipmen accused of Honor code violations must go before an Honor Board which determines guilt or innocence. Punish ment is then left to the commandant of midshipmen the Academy superintendent or the Secretary of the Navy. Under the new process the Flag officer panel can make four possible recommendations find the if was no violation Send the Case to the commandant of mid Shipmen for discipline Short of expulsion Send the Case to a midshipmen Honor Board or Send the Case to the military court system. More Oil spills off puerto Rico rough seas hit grounded Barge causing leakage san Juan puerto Rico a High Waves battered a Barge grounded off a san Juan resort Beach and caused new Oil spill Early thursday the coast guard said. Cmdr. Jerzy Kichner head of the coast guard s special Oil Salvage team said he could not estimate How much Oil escaped saying Only that it was a significant  the Barge Morris j. Herman spilled about 750,000 Gallons of heavy fuel Oil Early Jan. 7 after it lost its towline to a tug and grounded on a reef. New globs of Oil washed up on beaches in the City s Condado resort Section thursday. Waves were dark ened with Oil and the stench of Petro Leum wafted Over the area. Kichner said that during the night Waves of up to 7 feet forced the Barge 3feet deeper into the Ridge of Coral reef. He Saia that workers were moving quickly to skim up the newly spilled Oiland that the coast guard was bringing in two More Large skimmers. The rough seas forced Kichner s Crews to Stop pump ing the remaining Oil from the Barge. About 1 million Gallons of combined Oil and water had been pumped but authorities had no estimate on How much was still on the Barge Kichner said. The Barge had been loaded with 1.5 million Gallons of Oil. He said the coast guard hoped to Tow the Barge 15 to 20 Miles put to sea sunday where it would be pumped out and  wednesday tugboat Captain Roy Mcmichael Tes tugboat Captain Roy Mcmichael uses a map of san Juan As he tries to tidied at a coast guard hearing on the spill that he went to bed shortly after a towline to an Oil Barge snapped and was replaced with an emergency line. The emergency line broke a Short time later and the Barge hit the Coral  said he went to bed after the emergency line was connected because he was hit in the stomach by a line during the repair. He left his first mate in charge and kept the boats moving at full Speed. Everything in my opinion seemed of he said. I Abner play called sexist cancelled Concord . A a High school teacher cancelled a play based on the comic strip i l Abner after female students complained it was sexist. Teacher Bill Metevier said his decision not to pre sent the play at Concord High school s annual Spring musical was t based on the girls complaints. We re just not ready to do that Type of comedy he said. I Don t believe we Are Able to do a piece that is so  student Katie Pike said she understood the piece was satirical but that does t mean it s not  student Robin Bartlett agreed. We do not want to be on stage exploited demeaned and degraded she said. Al Capp s famous cartoon was made into a movie in 1959. It shows the Backwoods town of Dogpatch facing the possibility of becoming a test site for atomic bombs. Metevier showed his students a videotape of i l Abner in december. When classes resumed after win Ter break a half dozen girls complained. Participation in the show is voluntary. Metevier argued that i l Abner is a piece of Amer  he said the Story stereotypes men As Well As women. Federal agencies accused of violating postal rules from wire reports Washington postal inspectors say Federal agencies May owe thousands of dollars in penalties for using a private delivery service instead of the. . Mail  Federal agencies have been shipping materials via Federal express for overnight delivery under a contract negotiated by the general services  the postal service holds a Legal monopoly on first class mail. Items sent by anyone government agencies private individuals or corporations via other services must be considered urgent or must meet certain other  audit by the postal inspection service concluded that much of the material Federal officials were sending for overnight delivery did not qualify for the exemption. Agencies could be required to pay the Post office to make up for lost Revenue on any item they have sent that Aid not qualify As urgent. Fatal fire traced to Heater Cleveland paper stuffed into a natural Gas space Heater apparently started a House fire wednesday that killed four children investigators said. = the victims were identified As Robert Chambers jr., 3 his Brothers Henry 3, and John 6 and their sister Melonie 1.firefighters said the House was engulfed in flames when they arrived about 6 30 . The children s parents i Mccrty Walls 31, and Robert Chambers sr., 36, were outside the two Story Frame Home officials  parents were in critical condition. Walls suffered second degree Burns Over 20 percent of he body. Chambers suffered second degree Burns Over 40 percent of his body. Pacifier devices recalled Washington a Washington state company is recalling 340 pacifier thermometers because government testing shows they pose a potential choking Hazard to infants and Young children. The devices were sold nationwide under the Dubby Brand name through pharmacies and mail order companies from april to August the consumer product safety commission said. They sold for As much As $12.50 each the commission said. The pacifiers have a built in thermometer that displays the temperature of the baby sucking on the nipple. They Are Pink or Blue and were sold in Blue boxes with a window front. During routine testing the nipples separated from the base of the devices the commission said tuesday. No injuries have been reported. Canadian wheat protested Shelby Mont. Dozens of Montana Farmers blockaded a pair of Grain elevators wednesday to protest Large amounts of Canadian wheat being trucked across the Border. Farmers used their trucks to Block the entrances and exits to the Peavey co. And Harvest states elevators. They complained that the influx of Canadian wheat has left them with Little Market for their  s 92 trucks a Day coming through the Border up there said Farmer Marvin atoms. We had a fellow set up there and count  the Daylong blockade started before Dawn in this town about 35 Miles South of the Canadian Border. Prison Escapee captured Parkersburg . Authorities on wednesday captured a prison inmate who had escaped while attending his Mother s funeral. His daughter was charged with aiding his escape. Gay a. Gibson 38, was viewing his Mother s body at a funeral Home tuesday when a throng of family members surrounded him and moved toward an exit said Paul Kirby Deputy Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary. Gibson was found about 12 hours later hiding in a Motel room Shower. He was staying with daughter Lisa Watson said state police Cpl. Bill Adkins. Gibson was charged with escape and returned to the  pleaded innocent to aiding and abetting an escape and was held on $25,000 Bond. She a maximum five years in prison if convicted