European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes honduran forces of stage Maneu vers Washington up More than military personnel will be involved in joint Maneu vers with the Hon Duran armed forces in Northern Honduras later this a highlight of exercise Universal trek 85 will be an amphibious Marine assault scheduled for april 23 near puerto Castil la on the honduran Caribbean coast Fol Lowed the next Day by an assault by the 101st airborne Pentagon officials honduran forces will join up with forces on the North coast for the latter phases of the a spokesman said no live firing is involved and none of the troops will be operating near the nicaraguan or Al Salvado ran american forces will begin withdraw ing april 27 at the end of the exercise with All scheduled to be out by May the exercise will Cost an estimated forces include from the 400 air Force personnel and 180 joint head quarters staff an amphibious task Force will sail from on two Days while in route to it will make a rehearsal amphibious Landing in near Camp on the air assault task Force from fort will deploy to Las the Pentagon said the exercise will demonstrate Many aspects of a modern joint military defensive including naval air Force strategic tactical close air waterborne and ground news organizations will have Access to the a spokesman rights panel rejects comparable Worth theory Washington not after impassioned the United states com Mission on civil rights thursday urged Congress and government agencies to reject the doctrine that men and women should be paid the same for different jobs of comparable the vote was 5 to one fran Cis the Tennessee state commissioner of voting with the Morris vice chairman of the said there is sex based discrimination in but it is the repetitious charge that women earn Only 60 percent of what men earn in this country obscures the significant fact that women work less have less seniority and work More intermit the commissions action was immediately criticized by the National Organiza Tion for women and by the american federation of county and municipal the federation has filed Law suits against new York City and Nassau and the states of connect Cut and charging pay disc rim most of the plaintiffs in these Law suits Are Judy president of the nation Al organization for said the com Mission failed to recognize that sex based wage discrimination pervades our econ supporters and opponents of the theory of comparable Worth both see it As one of the major civil rights issues of the under a policy of comparable employers try to assess the intrinsic value of different jobs by measuring the skills and Effort required of their responsibilities and their working con if such Job evaluations were used in set Ting proponents of the comparable Worth theory it would reduce the Dif Ference in wages for predominantly female such As nurses and and male dominated such As truck Drivers and warehouse who tend to earn by its the commission adopted the findings and recommendations of a 232 Page the report said that employers could voluntarily agree in collective bar gaining to pay employees on the basis of comparable Worth but that the must not impose such a Job evaluation studies Are inherently subjective and cannot prove it the commission majority said that Feder Al civil rights enforcement agencies should reject comparable Worth and rely instead on the principle of equal pay for equal it also said the Justice department should resist the doctrine of comparable Worth in appropriate court it said Congress should not adopt legislation that would establish a policy of comparable Worth in the setting of wages for employees in government or private the two defenders of the comparable Worth Mary Frances Berry and Blandina Cardenas were originally appointed to the commission by president in a joint statement they said that the forces of Supply and demand could not always be trusted to set wages in an environment where there was a history of segregation that had closed certain jobs to women and Berry comparable Worth can be an important tool in the Arsenal for attack ing employment discrimination in cases where the employer has already done Job evaluation she said she did not take a position on whether a comparable Worth policy should be used in situations where the employer had not done such stud the commission emphasized that com parable Worth is not synonymous with equal pay for equal a principle explicitly adopted in the equal pay act of which requires equal pay for men and women doing the same a comparable Worth by involves different jobs said to be of equal one John the idea of comparable Worth seems totally impractical in an Economy As Large and dynamic As Bunzel is a senior re search fellow at the Hoover institution on revolution and a research Cen Ter at Stanford another Robert de an assistant professor of Law at Catho Lic comparable Worth imposed by government has the potential to destroy the collective bargaining rights of millions of american the commission Clarence Pendleton said that proponents of the comparable Worth doctrine were making a disingenuous attempt to restructure our free Enterprise system into a state con trolled Economy under the false Guise of the other commissioner voting with the majority in opposition to comparable Worth was Esther Gonzale Arroyo a teacher from Bradley vehicle crashes into Bridge during unloading a an army transport vehicle being unloaded on a dirt Road beneath interstate 15 crashed into four freeway Bridge and traffic will have to of rerouted for several one Concrete column was destroyed and the foundations of others were loosened in the Accident wednesday said Highway patrol officer Richard according to Paul Luellig at fort the armoured m2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle was being unloaded from a train onto Mannix a dirt when it hit the Bridge the vehicle was bound for training a Nevers at fort 40 Miles and was one of a Convoy of about 30 from fort he the California Highway patrol and army Are investigating the Luellig Treyve the army been doing this for this is the first time its Ever Hap said interstate 15 is the main link Between Southern California and Las traffic was rerouted on a simile Detour while state Highway Crews began repairing the we regret the Accident and fully appreciate the California Highway patrols Speed and efficiency in rapidly setting up an alter Nate said Frank Miller fort Irwin chief of state transportation department Engi neers were called to the scene about mid night and estimated that the foundation could be patched up with temporary sup ports by they did feel it was unsafe for vehicle it took a Good Hostetler the crash scene was about 27 Miles North of teachers who marked jews files booted Bloomfield a three teach ers at an exclusive elementary school wont be rehired next fall because they marked the applications of jewish Stu dents with Bagel a school administrator we will not have them Here next said Lillian president of the Cranbrook educational comm which includes Brookside the school employ ing the unidentified it was wrong to use religious Bauder it was poor it gave the appearance of i pro a committee of eight business and civic leaders was appointed last fall to investigate charges about the Mark Ings made in a lawsuit by a former Cranbrook personnel who filed a sexual harassment suit against the institution after she was the committee released a report saying it found no evidence of discrimination at the two other schools a High and an intermediate no More than a dozen applications were marked with the Colo coded Bagel which Bauder said were never part of school policy but were used Only by the three the teachers in 1981 marked some applications of 3 and 4yearolds with concentric circles representing a the panel the teachers believed those students to be jewish either because of their last names or the Nursery schools they Bauder the teachers told the committee that they used the markings in an Effort to Divide jewish students More evenly Between morning and afternoon kindergarten sessions during the 198182 school the teachers abandoned the system in acknowledging that it was unwise but insisting that they would not discriminate against any Bauder the determined that 76 percent of Gentile applicants for the 198182 Junior kindergarten class were compared with Only 43 percent of the jewish the panel did not declare Brookside guilty of religious said committee member Alan former director of the Michigan commission on civil the committee could not determine whether the students identified with the Bagel symbols and denied Entrance to the kindergarten were qualified to enter the May alleged drug Boss arrested Mexico City up police have arrested the alleged head of Mexico huge drug Ernesto authorities a spokesman for the attorney generals office said some 150 police arrested Fonseca and 23 suspected accomplices in a massive raid in the Pacific resort of puerto Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today april 1945 president Franklin Delano Roose velt died april 12 at warm of a cerebral the White House 30 years ago today april 1955 the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor announced that the Salk vaccine has proved to be effective in preventing the approved by the National Institute of is expected to be available within weeks to american 20 years ago foday april 1965 a terrifying barrage of tornadoes has smashed through a six state area of the killing at least 236 persons and injuring More than property losses Are expected to run into the 10 years ago foday april 1975 the United states closed its embassy in phenom penh and evacuated americans and some cambodians in a helicopter Airlift protected by heavily armed