European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1985 study is critical of women in combat by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington Israel sent women into combat in but they were withdrawn within three for two reasons israeli men proved More protective of the women than of other men and would jeopardize their own missions to save writes political science pro pc scr Jean Yarbrough of Loyola University in israeli commanders found the arabs fought with greater determination against women units to avoid the humiliation of being Defeated by casualty rates went up on both if the israelis could not change the attitudes of their own soldiers toward still less could they raise the consciousness of their Yarbrough says in the summer Issue of policy a quarterly publication of the heritage the the feminist sexual Equality and the decline of the american concludes that National Security is not advanced by allowing women to serve in combat related military its a troubling Issue that nobody wants to talk probably because nobody wants to take unnecessary flak from women groups and ardent said a spokesman for a conservative Washington based Public policy research Yarbrough says the United states is the Only major country to seriously consider placing women in of 72 countries that Register or draft citizens for military Only 10 include and none places them in combat not Only have women moved into combat re lated she but the distinction Between combatants and noncombatants has been blurred by the inclusion of women in technical combat positions such As missile launch where they would be prime targets in a israeli women Are drafted and Given weapons but their purpose is to free men to Yar Brough soviet women fought in world War but that was out of dire not ideological says there arc Only women in the soviet unions in the United feminists support women in com Bat As a matter of Yarbrough says military professionals support it As a matter of when Congress ended the draft in the Pentagon sought to compensate by recruiting she during the the number of women in uniform jumped 350 percent to More than at the end of fiscal it had passed in the service academies were opened to and the army put women in combat support positions where they could be shot at and in some jobs that had been classified As in Congress permitted women to serve on and even combat for up to 180 that same coed Basic training was launched it ended for recruits four years in the air Force opened Pilot and navigator positions to and the Pentagon proposed repeal alts a troubling Issue that nobody wants to talk about ing combat restrictions on citing a need for flex just before he left office in president Carter proposed drafting women As Well As she but the Senate armed services committee rejected that saying if women were inducted at the same rate As it would Hurt advocates of expanding opportunities for women in the services argue that women dont need to be As Strong As citing the Gates they say there Are fewer and fewer ground combat jobs requiring no technical and they say women recruits often Are More intelligent than their male counterparts and can operate sophisticated Yarbrough dismisses those saying that the nuclear stalemate Between the superpowers Means future wars will be limited and to the extent that the recent falklands War provides any Victory will depend More on traditional infantry stamina than sophisticated she she that Many military tasks can be accomplished through but she says there is no Good evidence that men will cooperate with women As Well As they would with other she says two including one carried out during a reformer provided results that were unclear at while it is True that women pose fewer disciplinary problems than they Hurt combat readiness in other Yarbrough citing defense department she says 10 per cent of army women Are pregnant at any time 17 per cent Are pregnant Over the course of a that Means lost deployment problems and a need for child she she says both men and women complain that women receive preferential treatment in duty assignments and sick men resent having to perform added responsibilities because women Are pregnant or Are unable to handle strenuous when women do get to share the hardships of the they complain of Lack of privacy in sleeping and showering she says sexual harassment is acute in the perhaps because the insularity of military life intensifies sexual attraction and conflict or because the military legitimately cultivates aggressive behaviour to a greater degree than civilian the trend of recent history and court decisions is to ignore the natural differences Between men and women in the name of social Yarbrough when applied to military the principle of equity is wrong and she although the military defends the principles of democratic it cannot fully embody its end is not she says military initiatives to integrate the ranks with Black soldiers were a Good example of a policy of equity that was in the National but the situations of Blacks and women Are not the she the argument for segregating Blacks was based on longstanding and irrational White Reju whereas the Case against women in combat is rooted in recognition of genuine physical and psychological differences such As strength and aggressiveness that Are important in Battle to the extent that the prejudice against women in combat is based on an appreciation of these natural and desirable it is valid and should influence military 3 convicted of fraud in diaries literary hoax Hamburg a a Hamburg court monday convicted three West germans in connection with the million Sale of phony Hitler diaries to Stern news Aga a Deal prosecutors called the biggest literary hoax of the the court sentenced self confessed diaries forger Konrad Kujau to four years and six months in prison for a fraud and forgery while former Stern re Porter Gerd Heidemann received four years and eight months of imprisonment for fraud in procuring the 60 volumes for the mag the five judge panel gave Kunaus girl Edith eight months probation for receiving stolen property some of his earnings from the under the West German Legal a person found guilty of a crime is sentenced in the same court and defendants can be credited for prison time already and have been held in investigative custody for two prosecutors had asked for a seven year sentence for six years for Kujau and a oneyear suspended sentence for prosecutors claimed during the 10month trial that Heidemann kept at least of the million Stern gave him to buy the and that Kujau got of the the three defendants claimed to have been duped by one another about the origin of the volumes and of the Money paid for both Kujau and Heidemann Are allowed to stay out of prison pending Appeal or until a Date specified later by the court for the sentence to take attorneys for both men said they would Appeal the probably within a i wont get a nazi artefacts told reporters before the i wrote the things didst i an East German admitted forging the volumes on notebooks he bought in an East German stationery but said he did not know Heidemann was buying them for he alleged Heide Mann always knew who had really written Kujau told that during the he wrote a 340page Book about the entitled i was which he Hopes to publish in sentencing the judges said they could not accept his argument that he didst cheat anyone by forging the the judges noted in order to make the Sale to Kujau had to swear the documents were a Mas circulation Magazine published weekly in created International sensation when it first printed excerpts from the diaries in two editions in april and May the magazines Peter pc declared that history will have to be written because of what the nazi dictate had to say in the which to Date from 1932 to two weeks after the first excerpts geared in West German govern my experts declared the diaries to be Cru the Magazine immediately fire trial testimony indicated that the Diaraj were produced by Kujau and sold to so Over a two year period starting Early Heidemann told the court Kujau him to believe the diaries were prosecutors admit that they have not to abolished what happened to Sterns they allege that Heidemann u his share of the Money to finance repairs his the Caren which formerly Konrad Kujau left and Gerd in court monday before their and to buy vacation