European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes firms May lose . Contracts Over hiring Bias Froy May Washington a fed eral officials Are threatening to unleash a never before used eco nomic weapon contract cancel lation to combat Job discrimination in companies that do $75 billion Worth of business a Yea with the government. President Johnson empowered agencies nearly three years ago to terminate contracts if recipient firms failed to hire promote and pay employees without re Gard to race. Officials admit that some companies have disregarded non discrimination pledges but con cede no contracts have been  the future however some contracts Are going to be los unless an awful lot of people suddenly reverse their Field claimed Ward Mccready assist ant director of the labor department s contract compliance  said executives of a half dozen of the nation s largest corporations will be called to informal hearings in new Yor this month As part of the government Effort to increase negro and puerto rican representation in Manhattan s 2.4 million White Collar labor Force. However he refused  firms or provide any de tails on the  Philadelphia the govern ment s insistence that More i Nova Jos try Experiment in education window Rock Ariz. Up the sprawling Navajo tribe with 70 per cent of its Popula Tion unable to speak or read English is revolutionizing Amer ican education today. The tribe s first Community College Long a dream of tribal leaders will become a reality i january or. Robert Roessel said. We be had the idea a longtime but i think our Success at the rough Rock demonstration elementary school where a school Board of seven people Ith Only three years of school ing Between them revolutionize education has Given us the Confidence to go ahead with the col lege Roessel said. They proved that in educated people will exhibit the leadership the foresight to pro Duce a solid progressive Educa Tion program. That program demonstrated to the navajos and to others they can provide leadership in education said Ploessel who has been Active i Indian education since 1951 and director of the rough Roc school since it began two years ago. Roessel takes Over june 30 a development director for the new Navajo Community Coll Egeto handle the accelerated plan Ning for a two year College expected to become a reality in january ten or 12 years ago More than half the Navajo children were out of school you know. We just did t have the facilities for them. We began dealing with the children but we just could t work with the adults we did t know How  Jority workers be hired for fed eral construction projects has stalled nearly j20 million i work. And the contractor on the $30 million . Mint in Phila Delphia was told his contract could be suspended or terminated unless he acted to integrate his work Force. Neither contract has been terminated however. Johnson s september 1965 executive order applies to All government contracts Over $10,000or All but $5 billion of $80 Bil lion the government pays each year in contracts for goods and services. The order not Only ban discrimination in hiring but re quires affirmative action pro Grams to ensure upgrading of minority  covered by item ploy 25 million persons one third of the nation s work Force. Mccready calculates that these firms have 3 million Job open Ings a year that could be filled from minority groups. Varied uses the former hotel Majestic in Paris scene of the preliminary .-Norlh vietnamese talks also has been a Militar Headquarters. Ipi Pho Onee was luxury hotel talks site often in spotlight Paris a the old hotel Majestic location of the peace talks Between the United stat Sand North Vietnam has been in the spotlight  the Days after world War n ended it was a . Mili tary Headquarters. Now it is n by the French governments an International conference  building was put up in grand style in 1908, and until world War h was considered by Many the most comfortable hotel in Paris. Only a few Hundred Yard from the Arch of Triumph it is surrounded by business an residential buildings. The hotel was taken Over bythe germans during world War ii and they reportedly made so Many alterations that it  Many envoys to Paris they knew Franklin s wished by Robert Musel Paris up More than one postwar american Ambas Sador leaving the . Embassy Here for the last time has passed with envy the statue of Benjamin Franklin sitting placidly in the front courtyard. Since Franklin arrived fro the embattled american colonies in 1779 to ask Aid from the French no one has been Able to achieve the same Accord Infranco american relations certainly not since world War ii when the positions were re versed and the remnants of the French Empire had to ask Aid from the United states. Today a new ambassadors its in the big office on the place de la concorde pledged tomake still another attempt to restore the historic rapport be tween the old Alliati pried apart Many americans believe bythe deliberate policies of presi Dent Charles de Gaulle. Bearing a letter from presi Dent Johnson Sargent Shriver flew in a week ahead of sched ule wednesday night to be on hand for the opening of the preliminary peace talks with North Vietnam. He is not expected to take a direct part in the negotiations at least at  Are in the hands of aver Ell Harriman and his advisers. Shriver s main task will be Tobridge the growing Gap Between american and French  expressed the belief at an Airport news conference that the fact that France is playing Host to the talks might itself Lead to some improvement. De Gaulle is scheduled to leave next week for Romania but Shriver is expected to see him briefly saturday when he presents his credentials including the letter in which Johnson trapped by diplomatic ritual  to address de Gaulle As great and Good  his political a  Shriver is cer Tain to be a social Success with the Aid of his attractive wife Eunice of the Kenned clan. Already French society is eager to meet the woman hailed in their magazines As an accomplished hostess with film Star looks Shriver has his work Cut out for him. The French do not like the Way the United states handles its race problem and they say so bluntly from television commentators to the Man in the Street the same goes for Vietnam where America is not Only blamed for interfering in civil War but also is sometimes illogically blamed for not help ing the French at Dien Bien Phu 14 years  Vietnam criticism reached such a Peak that retiring ambassador Charles e. Bohlen had to take the unusual step of for Mally protesting against a French television program which suggested the United states might not bomb North vietnamese installations if american prisoners of War we replaced in them. Everywhere he looks shr Verwill find a drawing apart of the French and american  finance the French Are frankly out to replace the Dollar Ashe world s prime currency. They Are in no mood to listen to Washington s advice on limitation of nuclear  Gaulle has gone a Long Way in his Pursuit of Friendship wit Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe. This is far from a comple telis of the problems confronting Shriver. It was easier in Frank Lin s time. Could not be economically re converted to a hotel. When Paris was . Forces used the building As a Headquarters. American military men still operate a communications Center in nearby Bombproof cube they Call the Blockhouse. The Ger mans poured so much Concrete into the Structure that it prob ably never will be torn Down. T h e French government bought the Majestic and rented it to the United nations educational scientific and cultural organization until the latter sown quarters were completed. It is now considered a Brancho the French foreign ministry and has lost almost All of its re War luxury. It is one of the few buildings in the area whose exterior has not been cleaned in accordance with the country wide beautification program. The conference rooms Are on the ground floor the other seven floors consist Oloff ices and there is a cafeteria in the basement. The. Building stretches for 100yards Between Avenue Kleber and Rue Laperouse. The front,60 Yards wide faces Avenue Des Portugeis where 50 cars could be parked. Otherwise parking is critically  main conference room equipped for simultaneous trans lation faces the Street through wide but Bur protected windows european edition col. James a. Campbell Usa  d. Frank. A a v. Production Henry Elf Stein. .,.,.i. A. Circulation ?ij2s".lt" ill Tulp thu Forcht pub Luh la sri