European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 army plans to Cut staff positions proposal Calls Tor support slots to be transferred to frontline units by Norman Black Washington a the As part of an unusual internal has decided it can reduce by roughly the number of staff positions backing up its fighting the disclosed tuesday by one of the services top management Calls for transferring support positions both at the Pentagon and in the Field to front line the army total manpower would not change under he Only the number of soldiers serving in administrative the army has about staff positions in the Pentagon and spread among Field operating agencies out of its total Active duty strength of in a separate but related 347 other officer slots assigned to what the army Calls its organizational effectiveness leadership training program will also be shifted to frontline the latter move was approved by John Wick Ham the army chief of and army Secretary John Marsh despite some High level Bernard the supreme Allied commander in eur fought unsuccessfully to save the program in its current the decision to reduce the size of the support staff has yet to be announced publicly because details Are still being worked according to David an army it was disclosed by Fred Elam during an Elam is the chief of the army management Directo rate within the office of the chief of the decision to eliminate organizational effectiveness training As a separate activity is just one of a series of measures that the army is taking to improve the Man Ning Levels and the readiness of units with soldiers in them As opposed to Elam we Are reducing the size of the army staff in the Pentagon As Well As reducing the size of the Field operating he its an Effort to improve the utilization of our Elam added that the support reductions would affect roughly 3 percent of the existing or about and would probably be completed by the fall of the army now expects to remain at its current Active duty strength of for the foreseeable that has created problems for army because the service is attempting at the same time to create four smaller Light infantry divisions and thus increase its total standing strength from 16 divisions to although two of the four planned Light divisions will be created by converting existing divisions into smaller the army has been searching for More than a year for existing Job slots that could be switched to support the new harassment suit settled out of court Washington a a former employee of american broadcasting and the network reached an out court settlement tuesday in her million sex Ual harassment suit against Abc and one of its former vice terms were not attorneys for both sides said a statement would be issued Cecily of who brought the suit after she was fired from her Job in May kissed and hugged her and her Mark after District judge Barrington Parker dismissed the jury and the James a Manhattan Media consultant and a former Abc vice president for corporate hugged and kissed his Legal questions opening arguments were scheduled monday but Parker said there were Legal questions still to be ironed Parker told the jury that the attorneys for both sides had been in involved in serious and intense negotiation Over 48 hours and had told the court they had reached an the Only thing re he was to put the settlement in he said both sides had assured the court their clients were in full Accord with the Coltman claimed she was fired from her Job in abcs Washington Bureau after she complained that Abernathy had threatened her by making repeated unwanted sexual advances and implying that her career depended on complying with his she also alleged that abcs top management tacitly encouraged sexual which is a violation of denied All charges Abc and Abernathy denied All in court they maintained that Coleman falsified her educational and employment history on her was frustrated at not obtaining a permanent Job and went to great lengths to make herself highly visible within Julie an Abc said in a statement released late tuesday that the parties have agreed that no admission of liability May be construed from their settlement and it is regrettable that this matter reached the settlement incorporates among its various provisions a payment to Cole Man by Abc and Marks the amicable conclusion of the Hoover she did not specify the settlement amount but a source familiar with the Case said the network had agreed to pay Cole Man Between and modern chemical weapons imperative forces in Europe Rogers says san Francisco a North at lactic treaty organization forces in Europe Are so weak that nuclear weapons would have to be employed fairly quickly to Stem a soviet according to the supreme Allied commander in the Alliance must give top priority to strengthening its conventional forces to Stop a soviet ground attack without resorting to nuclear Bernard Rogers said tuesday at the Commonwealth under current i would have no option but to request the release of nuclear weapons fairly Rogers said during a visit marking his sixth year As that Means within a matter of not the goal is 10 divisions mobilized in Europe within 10 Days of a Warsaw pact said who was the army chief of staff in the in Light of the extensive soviet stockpile of offensive chemical their vast array of delivery Means and demonstrated inclination to use chemicals Are particularly Rogers for these funding for development and deployment of modern Chemi Cal weapons that Are Safe to store and Han dle is he our current stockpiles Are unsafe to handle and largely useless for Mil itary May offer Reward for hijackers Washington a the Reagan administration is considering offering for the apprehension of the shiite militants who took Over Twa flight 847 and killed a Navy a official said the who spoke on the condition that he not be its under the los Angeles times reported wednesday that the administration is considering offering As much As the official told the associated press that the administration had asked for million for the but Congress had appropriated he said the Law authorized individual rewards of up to each from the antiterrorism White House spokesman Larry Speakes refused specific comment on the report but added i would Point out to you that Congress last year authorized the Secretary of state to pay up to each to individuals furnishing information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person conspiring or attempt ing to commit an act of terrorism Over the los Angeles in a Story from also quoted sources As saying the administration is laying the groundwork for an attempt to Kidnap the hijackers and bring them to Justice outside militants planned More con says Texas up the hijackers of Twa flight 847 originally in tended to Fly from Airport to Leav ing an american body at every then blow up the plane and commit for Mer hostage Allyn Conwell said in an inter View broadcast Over a Houston television station he said Petty officer Robert the american Sailor killed at the Beirut Airport the Day of the was intended to have been the first of several interviewed before leaving Ger did not say Why the shiite moslem hijackers changed their minds about killing More he said the hostages had been continually frustrated in Captivity and worried that their families would assume they had been Many times we were Many times we cursed we cursed the people in we cursed our we cursed he being we were not a Homo Genous teacher fired for keeping baby wins suit a a Federal court jury decided tuesday that an unwed teacher was unjustly fired for keeping a baby she said was conceived in a the three woman jury awarded million in compensatory dam Ages to Jeanne and Mil lion in punitive to be paid by six past or present members of the Rural Haw Thorn school Board that fired school Board attorneys said they would Appeal the who once studied in a Convent to be a contended the Hawthorn school Board violated her civil rights and defamed her by citing immorality among grounds for her 1982 Eckmann lawsuit originally sought million in damages from the school Board and the six members who voted to dismiss but that figure was reduced to about million As the lawsuit went to the Eckmann contended she was fired for keeping a baby conceived in a november 1980 and that she was told a month before her son was born to give the baby up for adoption or resign or she would be fired for Eckmann who was in the courtroom earlier eating a Lollipop and waving to his was born july 1981 the Day after the school Board began its dismissal if shed have just taken her medical had her baby and put the baby up for we  be Here Edward Eckmann told the jury in closing they were after her because of her they were not after her for anything Donald one of the school boards reminded the District court jury that Eckmann older brother and Sis Ter each testified she had told them she had an affair while at a weekend religious re treat in trustees of the Rural school District Testi fied they doubted Eckmann was they said they also fired her for ins Bordi cruelty to students and causing divisiveness among other Diedrich told the jury that the school Board invented the other charges As a pre text for covering up their real to charge her and dismiss her for immoral everything else was Eckmann testified she was raped in no vember 1980 in an Iowa Motel room by a Hitchhiker she befriended while returning from the Retreat in she said she did not report the attack to police because she didst think anyone would believe Eckmann entered the roman Catholic Sisters of notre Dame Convent in Louis in the but left after two