European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes june 1977 combat for women called Likely in future Diego up population changes May increase pressures to use women in combat in future a Penta gon officer told a military the declining birthrate and the reduced recruiting Pool of fighting age youths May become a Factor in deciding whether to end the current ban against military women taking part in said army Henry tic army policy could change and the Navy is already studying the Supply and demand there will be for manpower in coming said a staff officer with the director of defense research and do you increase bonuses or seek higher pay Scales to attract qualified recruits Taylor asked the symposium on military what about women do they play a larger role in our combat Readi Ness new York up United nations ambassador Andrew Young has told a group of Black College graduates that they should become revolutionaries in their chosen professions if they Hope to effect any change in i would Hope that in your own Way each of you would consider yourselves in some sense a Young told 400 graduates of the Medgar Evers a Young Calls for revolutionaries in professions Urban America has needed a v lion in educational methodology for a Long it time he we need Community health services that Are not designed make the doctors Rich but Are a primarily designed to make the people Young warned the graduates not to be coopt Edby the system and lose an in Terest in a life of a probe rail buffs Mark Broadway limited 75th year cabbies find it easy to beat Job rules new Yolk a some new York cab Drivers Are being certified for duty in violation of rules that say they Are sup posed to prove they can speak or under stand know the cites geography and pass a medical an investigation by the associated press the firsthand investigation of proce dures by the taxi and limousine commis Sion revealed that Little was done to insure that Drivers speak or understand even though rules specify Drivers must read and write half of a recently introduced geography requiring applicants to specify How to gel from one place to was not medical records were fabricated and test results were entered on Drivers forms even when the tests had not been adminis the commissions medical form specifics that an applicant be Given a thorough physical commission spokesmen say that Between 85 and 90 per cent of All cab Driver applicants Are checked at a Queens test Center run by the metropolitan taxi cab Board of a spokesman said the commission accepts the results at face a recent Check at that Center showed that applicants were Given Brief Eye and color blindness the doctors Assis Tant said there would be no blood pressure test because in the Only one two applicants were assigned blood pressures of 120 Over a third was Given 118 Over 60 after a very Brief Eye one applicant was assigned 2020 vision and an other applicants were then in groups of into a Small room where one group was told to drop your the boards Stanley told the first applicant an a reporter to breathe three times As he held a Stethoscope to the lower he pronounced him and the other three applicants were pronounced fit even though they were not the doctor signed the medical forms certifying that he had checked the four applicants including their Thorax and in he had checked one for a hernia and left the others Bernard executive director of the taxi cab said there Are Many applicants a Day that Are we would be fools if we did what your Story after they Are applicants go to commission where they Are tested on their knowledge of the one official said the City toughened up its tests last month after it received Many complaints that Drivers didst know what they were doing or where they were the new test requires that Drivers correctly identify the location of seven of 10 aboard the Broadway limited a free Champagne and birthday cake were served on dining car tables co Vered with Crisp White Linen and vases of carnations a train buffs celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Broadway the new York Chicago de scribed by an Amtrak spokesman As the flagship of the passenger rail was jammed with including about two dozen train buffs who Nave been pre paring for the trip for some of the rail buffs who were Gath ered in the observation car talking Over old romances with various trains banded to Gether several months ago to raise to polish up the 30yearold diesel locomotive which hauled the Broadway limited on the anniversary about 200 to 300 claimed seats in new York on the which has a 64seat a bar four Pullman two Economy class slumber five coaches and a Crew of commonly visited places and that they explain on paper How to get Between five pairs of one supervisor said the second part of the test would prove whether an applicant can write in i i r l l on the Day the a no one of Tuc ear plants under safety Prodo taking the written test had been Given a Law we w r r Washington a the nuclear regulatory commission is probing a possible design problem in the safety systems of about half of the nations 67 nuclear Power Reading test in Only the first part of the test was the part left out was the one in which the applicants were supposed to Tell How to get Between Given one applicant asked Why it was left out and was told because were dont ask there were four per sons in the the probe is focusing on Battery systems designed to provide backup Power if the Normal source of electricity is two sets of batteries Are designed to provide emergency Power to ensure the Cooling systems function and prevent melting of the radioactive fuel a private nuclear who says about so Battery failures have been reported about Haft of the nations nuclear Power has urged the arc to consider design changes in the Ford motor admits bribes paid abroad Detroit Ford motor has disclosed that it made improper payments totalling in foreign countries during l74and Ford is the third automaker to admit questionable payments by overseas including Chrysler corporation reported its Over seas operations made improper of million Between 1971 and Gen eral motors disclosed questionable pay ments of at least million Between 1972 and the subsidiaries and recipients involved in the payments have not been policeman Slayer gets 500 to years Chicago up a Man convicted of killing a policeman in Chicago has been sentenced to serve 500 to years in the circuit court judge said that since be could not sentence Willie Lewis to death under current be would give him a sentence which would protect society from a Man who cannot be Reh Abili Headstone removed offer defamation suit May enter politics Joseph Kennedy eldest of the new generation of Kennedy is considering a try next year at the office of state treasurer in the elected Job pays a a a judge has ordered a Gravestone removed be cause it says the jail Escapee Leon was shot in the Back by John Weaverville sheriffs Howard has brought a million libel suit against the deceased Ralph contending the Stone defames and damages his Whitfield was shot and killed last sept 2 after be and two others escaped from the jail of Trinity in Northern califor a grand jury absolved Howard of wrong doing after determining that Whitfield was pointing a Rule at him at toe the Stone was ordered temporarily re pending by Trinity county Superior court judge Harold Carters diplomacy role hailed Washington up the Senate approved a Resolution thursday praising Rosalynn Carter for moving beyond the ceremonial role of a Public officials spouse and into the world of foreign policy and diplomacy the Resolution also praised president Carter for giving her the the Resolution hailing the successes of Carters recent latin american trip was approved without it was sponsored by Hanson d Alan George my and majority Leader Robert Byrd of West the Resolution congratulates Carter on choosing his wife to be his emissary to latin America during the two week trip to six countries and praises her for Success in accomplishing the the spouse of a person in Public life is relegated to purely ceremonial functions and noncontroversial Wil Liams serious issues have traditionally been left to the diplomats and major political Rosalynn Carter has broken that tradition with a Brilliant display of knowledge about sensitive issues and the ability to convey our country greatest concerns effectively and he noted Carter studied foreign policy extensively before the trip which enabled her to raise the issues of human nuclear Trade and Aid in detail with foreign Williams said Carters efforts to learn Spanish benefited this coun try with immeasurable Good will