European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes August 1985 administration files Brief against comparable worth7 stateside Washington a the Reagan which has denounced the concept of comparable filed a court Brief Friday giving its Legal arguments for resisting the idea of paying men and women equally for different jobs of similar in a  Brief filed with the 7th circuit court of appeals in in which it takes the Side of the state of Illinois in a suit brought by the Justice department maintained that Congress never in tended to give judges the authority to decide the relative value of Peoples it was the first time the administration had entered any Case testing the constitutionality of comparable Worth sys even though president Reagan recently was quoted As calling the notion Mickey a cockamamie idea that would destroy the basis of free similar argument presented in its signed by assistant attorney general William Bradford head of the civil rights the administration made a similar the Justice department argued that the bulk of the Case brought against the state by the Illinois nurses association and the american nurses association was based on the advancement of the comparable Worth the last april District judge Charles Kocoras dismissed the plaintiffs suit against the saying a claim of wage discrimination based on the comparable Worth theory goes far beyond the existing statutory supreme court precedent and the application of constitutional the question before the appeals court is whether the District judges decision should be upheld or remanded to his court for a full the Justice department said in its Brief that Only one Point of the plaintiffs suit alleging that nurses were not compensated on the basis of equal pay for equal work was worthy of further that Issue alone should be remanded to the lower it on a Host of other the department the plaintiffs claims Are inextricably tied to and dependent upon a theory of comparable Worth requiring the District court to embark on a course of Subjec Tive judicial analysis of the inherent Worth of state employment positions such claims do not state a cause of action under title Vii of the 1964 civil rights it Edith a Washington lawyer representing the Illinois said she want surprised by the administrations position on the but she said limiting fights against wage discrimination to the concept of equal pay for equal work is like going at a lion with a by Gerald president of the member american federation of county and municipal which has filed a comparable Worth suit against the state of accused the Justice department of trying to turn Back the clock on civil the shame of this action is that the court and the Justice department Are trying to deny Illinois state employees their Day in court and deny them a full hearing of the Mcentee said in a the Issue of comparable Worth has been widely de bated among labor Union lawyers and econ in a White House meeting july 30 with congressional Reagan made the sharply critical statement about the said a participant who asked not to be Clarence chairman of the commis Sion on civil earlier this year labelled the theory As probably the loonies idea since Looney tunes came on the screen and called it a scheme to redistribute in the equal employment Opportunity commission ruled in a 50 vote that it would reject comparable Worth As a Means of determining Job Dis saying that the theory is not recognized under title Vii of the civil rights act of historical discrimination women rights groups and labor unions have called comparable Worth the looming social Issue of the claiming that historical discrimination against women has resulted in Low pay in jobs held predominantly by such As teaching and secretarial in the nurses class action suit contended there had been intentional discrimination against employees in such sex segregated relying on a 1983 state commissioned study of comparative they said nurses in Illinois Are paid less than for although nurses jobs got a higher rating in the Job based on Educa skill and working in a separate statement Reynolds said the comparable Worth theory makes a mockery of the Ideal of equal pay for equal advancing instead the thesis that equal pay should be provided to men and women in remarkably different jobs on the basis of a subjective evaluation by some expert that the two jobs can be called actor Sean Penn drop Tough images during wedding rites a they May have Tough and tawdry when Rock Star Madonna and actor Sean Penn were married on a quiet Bluff overlooking the Pacific the affair had the look of an old fashioned the whose nude photos graced both Playboy and Penthouse magazines this month and whose Bell Baring dress style has been picked up by a generation of teen wore an of White gown with a 10foot train and who played a doped out teenager in the film fast times at Ridgemont High and a spy in Falcon and the wore a Black a Black Robed Clergyman performed the half hour serv ice just before Sunset Friday and Madonna later tossed the traditional bridal bouquet to a Bevy of including actress Diane Keaton and a purple haired Security guards kept reporters at Bay out while an obscene message was scrawled on the Beach below the apparently to dissuade photographers who buzzed the Home about 35 Miles West of downtown los Angeles in eight Penn has had ruins with the but this time he seemed Gershwin to be honoured Washington a president Reagan has signed a congressional Resolution authorizing the striking of a Gold medal in Honor of the late composers George and Ira the actor faces an  charge in Nash stemming from an alleged attack on two Brit ish journalists who tried to interview and take pictures of the couple outside their the photographer later filed million the estimated 200 wedding guests included actresses Carrie Candy Clark and Rosanna who co starred with Madonna in the film desperately seeking also on hand were artist Andy actors Martin Sheen and Christopher Walken and teen heartthrob Rob Lowe and David there was one uninvited a freelance photog a who hid since 1 in Bushes in the Yard to photo graph the i had but they took All my the guard saw said Cesare of los who was ejected an hour before the i could have made with those the ceremony and reception also were a birthday party of whose full name is Madonna Louise turned 27 and Penn celebrated his 25th birthday guests began arriving about at the Many guests were surprised at the sight of 100 or so photographers and reporters and eight new organization helicopters covering the Madonna and Penn had kept the site of the wedding a secret even from Many those invited had to Tele phone at the last minute to find out where the ceremony was being Man convicted of damaging navys Elf Antenna system a a Man has been convicted of cutting Down a support pole for the navys extremely Low frequency Elf Antenna system in Michi Gans upper Thomas of was found guilty on a charge of malicious destruction of property Over a for using a saw on May 28 to Cut Down the pole in Ely chief assistant prosecutor Judd Spray Hastings faces a maximum penalty of four years in jail and a sentencing was scheduled for the Elf system for submarine communications was activated for the first time this month and is expected to be fully operational next opponents claim it will endanger the Ani Mals and two girls killed by fire engine responding to a false alarm a two teenage girls were killed and a third one was slightly Hurt when their car pulled in front of a fire engine responding to a fire that turned out to be smoke from a police the fire its lights and sirens was answering a report of a House fire when it hit the car on the passenger police the 18yearold Driver was treated at Bristol Hospital and her sister and another both died of their none of the firefighters was the Accident is under police birthday Celebration turns into tragedy As boy drowns Utah a a boy who drowned at an amusement Park while celebrating his nth birthday apparently was sucked into a filtration officials Troy Whitten of Plains City was playing in a Pool at the flying j wild Waters amusement Park with his brother and a Friend when he stuck his feet into an intake and water pressure apparently pulled him said Weber county sheriffs Deputy Robert the brother called a who broke the pulled the boy out and attempted to revive he was taken to Mckay Dee where he was pronounced authorities a grate was placed Over the pipe after the Johnson Why the grate was off the pipe is in he Miami voters reject proposals to restructure City government Miami a mayor Maurice Ferre says he won one and lost one As voters turned Down two proposals which would have restructured Miami government along the lines of san Francisco or the first proposal would have transferred responsibility for Day today City operations from a professional adminis Trator to a Strong elected voters rejected that proposal to according to an official count from the cites 85 the second proposal would have changed election of the mayor from a nonpartisan to a partisan race with demo cratic and Republican that proposal was rejected to coast guard saves 71 people aboard foundering fishing boat Hilton head up the coast guard rescued 71 people from a foundering fishing boat that began taking on water about eight Miles from authorities the 65foot fishing based in Hilton issued a distress Call after it began taking on said Charlie Ray at the coast guard air station in a helicopter was dispatched from and the coast guard Cutter Cape upright was sent from Tybee just off the Georgia the helicopter lowered pumps to the disabled and passengers got aboard the officials no one was reported injured in the