European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 12, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 of time Navy officer ousted for pregnancy reinstated with rank of it. Cmdr. May 12, 1947 the army will encourage women scientists to work in atomic re search if the Bill to make the women s army corps a permanent part of the Mili tary service becomes Law a wac official in Washington said. May 12, 1957 the Pentagon issued a new directive calling for uniform policies in the rotation and movement of military dependents overseas. The directive will deny commissary and Post Exchange Privi Leges to dependents of men below e4 with four years service or less. May 12, 1967 or. And mrs. Landon Morrow sr., Learned via to that their son spec. 4 Landon Morrow jr., was wounded by an explosion in Vietnam. A late news television program showed a closeup of their son being worked on by medics shortly after the explosion. Richmond. A. Up u. Alice Cook user May resume her career As u. Cmdr. Alice Cook us Hanks to a court decision that motherhood should not necessarily Rule out Active duty in the Mili tary. The 4th . Circuit court of appeals monday ruled unconstitutional the Navy s 1967 regulation which required that she be discharged because she was pregnant. The court ordered her reinstatement in the rank of lieutenant commander and awarded her 10 years Back pay. The regulation which said pregnancy was cause for immediate and automatic discharge was rescinded in 1975. There is much to be said for old fashioned the court said in its opinion but we think it is better said by women than by government in the form of inflexible regulations based on a false and irrational premise conk was appointed a lieutenant in the naval Reserve in 1971. After several vain attempts to be readmitted to the regular appeals court overturning Norfolk based . District court judge Richard Killam s dismissal of her suit for R.I. statement said there is no reason to think that a woman will be less efficient in her work after she recovers from the birth of her child than she was although the Navy is surely right that some mothers will be less Mobile be cause of child rearing responsibilities others May choose to not be so affected. The Navy s own implementation of its regulation demonstrates irrationality the court is enough to rhetorically inquire Why is u. Cook user competent to serve and it. Comdr. Cook us incompetent the regulation makes no distinction Between regular and Reserve status on Active paper hires Caroline Kennedy new York up Caroline Ken Nedy will be working As a copy person this summer at the new York daily news the paper said tuesday. Yes. Caroline Kennedy has been offered a Job As a copy person for the summer a spokesman for the news said. Yes she has accepted and will Start work sometime in the spokesman said Kennedy. 19, had an interview monday filled out applications and was taken on a Brief tour of the editorial department and com posing room where she was besieged by autograph seeking printers. She will be paid 156.89 a week. Wants reins on radio Liberty re panel votes to drop ban on red visitors Washington i up a Senate com Mittee tuesday voted to drop the . Ban on foreign communists visiting America and tentatively approved a plan to put Ylladio Liberty and radio free Europe under closer government control. The Senate foreign relations commit tee approved by voice Vole an amendment to the state department authorization Bill to admit communist visitors to the . The . Has been under criticism particularly from the soviet Union for main Taining a policy of denying visas to foreign communists unless the Secretary of state specifically approves them. Harvey it Asserman a Leader of the nuclear protesters embraces two friends As they enter court. Up photo the amendment would allow communists to visit unless specifically barred by the committee also approved an organizational change to tighten the supervision of radio free Europe and radio Liberty. Sen. Hubert h. Humphrey d-minn., objected to the amendment by sen. Claiborne Pell d-r.i.,and George Mcgovey d-sd., on grounds it constituted a Funda mental change in the status of the Sta recalled Congress purpose fully divorced the radio stations from government control after it was discovered in the Early 1970s they had been funded secretly by the Cia during the cold War Congress has continued to provide $50 million a year for the radio stations which beam uncensored programs to Russia and Eastern Europe. The soviet Union has denounced them As subversive relies of the cold other actions tuesday the panel made these changes in the j742 million state department authorization Bill added $20 million to assist jewish emigrants from Russia Settle in Israel. Added $14 million to assist the re settlement of african refugees As Well As kurdish chilean and other refugees. Tentatively agreed to pay the us. Share for 1977 of the . Scientific educational and cultural organization while withholding funds for 1978. Mask sold for $100,300 London a a world auction record for a pre columbian work of Art was set it sol Heys the Landon Fine Art dealers when a Pale Green Stone Teotihuacan burial mask from Central Mexico sold for 59.000 pounds i $100,3001. The 7-Inch-High mask dating from be tween 250 and 750 a a. Was bought by an Anonymous London dealer. 30 nuke prof Esters in . Refuse of stand trial Concord. N h i a a court hear ing was cancelled tuesday after about 30 uni nuclear Power demonstrators refuse to Fri to trial claiming they had not been Given Aden ate a Liiv of their court a lawyer f to the demonstrators said that Afler in was announced the by " p � about30 was due in court about 300 others arrested at demonstration surrounded the 30. Blocking police from Lakin them away the lawyer. Nancy Gertner said the told late monday met and Early in that they were to appear in or Ter court ant Alt tick toners Jame said the National guard was told Turiy the protesters unto the buses and him in court Bui shortly before 9 a in the court hearing in Exeter was can celeb without explanation tin Manchester incident delayed by 30 minutes the beginning of the second Day of hearings in . District court in Concord before june hunh Bownes into conditions at the live armoires where More than 700 demonstrators rent no d is a result of a sit in at the construction site of the Brook nuclear Power Plant May 1.bownes is hearing a civil suit brought by the protesters Ugai Asl gov. Melon Thomson claiming the demonstrators were subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because of conditions at the a Morus. Fiertner who is representing the demonstrators at the Federal court hearing called the. Manchester incident Railroad ing everybody wants a speedy trial but. My god. They want time for she added hat those called for trial at Manchester had been Given court Dales Well in the future
