European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 firefighters can work past age 60 supreme court overrules forced retirement Washington up the supreme court monday gave older Ameri cans in physically demanding jobs greater rights to work beyond traditional retire ment ruling in favor of firefighters and airline pilots fighting to keep the justices ruled unanimously that Baltimore could not mandatorily Force its fire fighters to retire at despite a Federal policy of retiring most government fire fighters at that the court also held with Justice Lewis Powell not that West Ern airlines could not Force pilots to retire at 60 and must consider making pilots into flight engineers if they request the Federal aviation administration re quires commercial pilots to retire at age but does not prevent them from becoming flight both cases hinged on Federal require ments concerning whether age is a genuine occupational qualification for a we conclude this civil service provi Sion does not articulate a Bona fide occupational qualification for firefighters and that its presence in Federal Law is not Rele vant to the question of a Bona fide occupational qualification for Justice Thurgood Marshall said of the Federal Rule on five of the High courts nine members Are supreme court Roundup More than 75 and another three Are More than they serve for in other the court held in a that the Purchase of allegedly obscene material by an undercover police officer is not a Sei Zure under the fourth amendment and does not require a search the court thus made it easier for police nationwide to crack Down on stores Selling allegedly obscene by a 72 the court reinstated a Hyattsville adult Bookstore employees conviction for distributing obscene material by ruling he had not been subjected to an Ille Gal police affirmed on a 44 with Powell a lower court ruling that a Nebraska Law requiring a photograph on a Drivers License interfered with a woman religious belief against the making of any Graven ruled unanimously in a Case from Massachusetts that revocation of an in mates Good time credits must be sup ported by some evidence from prison offi ruled in a suit involving the controversial drug that a trial judges decision to disqualify attorneys can not be appealed before a ruling on the Mer its of the Powell did not ruling upheld the constitutionality of Alabama capital punishment statute in an Appeal filed by Brian Keith who was sentenced to die for murdering a 16yearold Trade deficit grows at record Pace Washington a the nations broadest measure of foreign Trade returned to a record deficit Pace in the first Quarter of 1985 and activity among the manufacturers who suffer most directly slipped again last separate reports from the Commerce department and the Federal Reserve Mon Day underscored the link Between the Ever growing Trade deficit and the declining activity at factories that is retarding Overall economic Commerce said the deficit on the cur rent account of International transactions for the first Quarter was billion not quite up to the record billion recorded for the third Quarter of 1984 but Well above the revised billion figure for the fourth Quarter of last four straight quarters at the first Quad Ter Pace would put the 1985 deficit at compared with the record billion last that 1984 in was More than double the old Mark of billion in the said the operating rate at the nations mines and utilities was Down percent in May after an even sharper percent decline in capacity utilization has gone Down five of the past six months and now at per cent of potential is Down percent from last when the current slide the As measured by Gross National grew at Only percent in the first the first figures for the second the so called Flash Are due out the fed Cut the discount interest rate it charges Bank borrowers from 8 percent to percent effective May 20 in an attempt to stimulate the particularly the manufacturing the report issued by Commerce Mea sures not Only Trade in merchandise but also in which includes investment earn Robert a Baltimore City fire and five of his colleagues challenged Baltimore mandatory retirement Johnson and four others were 60 or More when the lawsuit against the City Council members and other City officials was brought to court in May Johnson was involuntarily retired on May 1979 two Days after his 60th the equal employment Opportunity commission joined the charging that the policy discriminated on the basis of age in violation of the 1967 Federal age discrimination in employment which protects workers from forced retirement up to age a court temporarily barred the City from forcing the firefighters retirement until the Case was and Johnson was re turned to his the City had adopted a pension system in 1962 which provided for retirement at 55 for All firefighters below the rank of Lieuten lieutenants May work until they Are 65 years the system allowed firefighters hired before 1962 to retire at age the City argued that age is a legitimate and necessary occupational qualification for the firefighter position and their ability to perform their duties safely and efficiently diminishes after age Sands of time a photo John stirring up support for american Industry at an Falcio convention in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 1945 the 6th Marine moving into action on Okinawa Southern front for the first opened an assault on har Akiri Mesa on the Western raising to five the number of divisions Hammer ing at the remnants of the japanese 30 years ago today june 1955 the International olympic committee meeting in has named Squaw As the site of the 1960 Winter olympic giving the its first olympic Host role since the 1960 summer games will be in 20 years ago today june 1965 club owners of the National football league will meet in new York to consider 1966 expansion to Atlanta in a Battle with the rival american football league for the cites new million Staci 10 years ago today june 1975 King Faisal Assassin was beheaded with a Golden sword before thousands of saudi arabians in ghanaian return Home Ghana a Ghanas Mili tary government said including who came by Canoe and Bush returned Home last month after being expelled by civil rights groups protest questions about sex Lite Cincinnati a civil rights groups Are protest ing questions on the sexual habits of candidates for jobs As firefighters and police recruits Are asked if Treyve engaged in homosexual had sex with a child or been involved in a and Are asked to reveal the most outrageous sexual experience Treyve Ever they also Are asked if they have used personnel director Robert Burnett said the questions were used on the last civil service examinations in but the entire examination process is being reviewed for upcoming he that Doest necessarily mean the City will change or drop the Burnett said the questions have been asked routinely As part of background checks and attempts to screen Candi dates whose activities make them unacceptable for Sensi Tive police and firefighter representatives of the National organization for women and Stonewall a homosexual have asked the cites civil service commission to drop the saying they invade personal Richard president of Stonewall said he agrees the City should screen candidates for firefighting and police but he said the questions go too we certainly dont want to have police officers who have been involved in rape and child he but some of the questions Are just too civil rights attorney Allen Brown agreed theres a need for psychological testing for the but he said some of the questions Are it is irrelevant to find out a policeman is but it might be important to find out he is a homosexual with a compulsion toward Brown 1 think those questions were designed by someone who was looking for