European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May be fined million in fraud Case Philadelphia a general electric the fourth largest de tense pleaded guilty monday to defrauding the government of on a minuteman missile contract and was fined the maximum of the plea came on what was to be the opening Day of jury selection for trial on the attorney Edward Dennis said Ges guilty plea Means it could be barred for up to three years from bidding on any new defense but that he has received no indication of what the defense department will District court judge Louis Bechtle said the maximum penalty was fully and clearly appropriate guilty of 108 counts be pleaded guilty to 108 counts of making false statements and making and presenting false claims for payment to the air Force to recover Cost overruns on a contract Worth million to refurbish the minuteman mark12a intercontinental ballistic the according to a grand jury indictment returned against be on March involved Engi Neering and other services for the minute Man reentry systems done at be plants in Philadelphia and suburban King of Prus Sia Between june and april have you heard this one a photo Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney listens As his son Benedict tells him a joke to pass on to comedian Bob Hope at who was in the Canadian Capi Tal to perform at a Benefit gala to raise funds for the Royal Ottawa Weinberger denies Star wars is a weapons system Washington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said in an interview published monday in the Washington times that the administrations Star wars program is not a but rather a harmless Means of destroying Weinberger said the strategic the proper name for Star is a nonnuclear destructive Force to destroy soviet missiles during their separation flight or reentry it is not a weapons system in any sense of the Weinberger it is not designed to kill people or at tack targets on it is strictly designed to destroy missiles in the air by nonnuclear Humankind for Mankind we Are not taking the nuclear arms race into just the opposite ski will make nuclear missiles thus reversing the nuclear arms he said the idea that the nuclear arms race is being taken into space is the soviet propaganda line that some intelligent people Swallow line and ski is not an arms nor an not even a Wear its a harmless Means of destroying he Weinberger said it is absurd to fear a disaster caused by a computer error that could set off a Star wars the answer nothing nothing Weinberger he said the soviet disinformation campaigns Are All focused on destroying they Are pulling out All the stops to convince the world and a lot of elements in our own Public opinion that everything will be All right if we Only Stop our ski research and any discussion of it is quite Clear that the soviets fear our ability to develop Weinberger and the reason is All too it s because they have a heavy concentration of offensive Wear which would be effectively countered by Weinberger said the Pentagon needs billion for Star wars the attempt to Cut and recut shows that soviet propaganda is having an Impact among no expert the Media and in the Weinberger official complains about University sexist7 language not a Federal civil rights official has complained to the University of California at Berkeley that its course catalogue contains sexist such As manpower and the Paul chief regional attorney for the education depart ments office of civil wrote in Early March to Lola assistant Chan cellar of the he enclosed four pages of Sample descriptions he thought might be read As administrators and faculty members generally rejected the calling it a ridiculous although one University language authority said that some changes would be in Mankind was not one of he Grossman posed no threat in his letter but pressed for a meeting with University officials to discuss the of his be wrote these phrases May be perceived by some persons As subtly discouraging female student interest in the he then suggested some alternative you May yourself have thought of better Grossman suggested that in the description of the business administration l5l management of human re phrases the word manpower might be replaced by staff personnel Job training or human re source in describing education the role of experts in social services he suggested that Grantsmanship might be re placed by Grant Grant acquisition or Grant in a course description in materials Sci ence and Mineral Grossman asked that the phrase manmade be changed to or or artificial or he asked that Workman compensation be changed to workers Bompensa in Grossman asked that Mankind be changed to human human or the human Grossman would substitute humanoid human fossils or Fossil humanity for Fossil changes were also suggested in course descriptions in Pale Otolo natural re Public health and military he suggested that employees of the of fice of civil rights and University representatives sit at the same table and draw up a common list of questionable n Roderic vice circulated Gross mans letter to faculty repro explaining that the civil rights office was acting on the basis of a complaint it had David a journalism school professor who chairs the faculty Senate policy responded on april Littlejohn said he had sought guidance from usage and style books of the new York the Washington the los Angeles times and United press these As Well As people he agreed that some stereotypical words should be replaced with such As firefighter for but he continued or assert that the syllable Man signifies males exclusively can Lead one into such Barba risks As Tombu Esperson or he said Man and Mankind were universally understood to include both men and except to avoid obvious terms of Deri he or words commonly regarded As it is regarded As culturally sound to let languages evolve according to Normal daily and As culturally unsound to try to legislate them artificially according to the mandates of political pressure in no Case should Good English which Are a part of our common history and simply be legislated in and out of usage according to the whims of persons or groups who suddenly declare themselves even now the University has gone too far by using chair and chairperson rather than Littlejohn he said the newspaper style books called the substitute words awkward and unnatural in he said he found some of Gross mans suggestions acceptable he called workers compensation an improvement but argued against use of human As an adjective and rejected Humankind As a Laboured and needless Littlejohn said he and several faculty members consulted found this whole intrusion he said he and others were astonished that the office of civil rights was Able and willing to waste its time and our Money on matters of this Littlejohns advice to Park was in no Case should the University accept the idea that the office of civil rights is a better judge of appropriate language in its Public or descriptions of its than the University