European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Telescope dealers Stock skyrocketing Miami Apas valleys Comet an optical gear distributor that lost its Stock in riots in 1980 sees a business recovery in the i had no but had insure said George who founded Tasco 31 years during the Liberty City the company one of the nations biggest optics Dis Tribu lost its warehouse and in the riots he recalls his wife int it time to quit but by 1984s sales were up to he and business is As customers flock to buy equipment needed to spot valleys Comet when it starts coming into View this this is just the beginning of a said Sheryl Rose Fields daughter and executive vice president of there have been huge demands for telescopes starting this will valleys Comet be a once in lifetime Opportunity can it become the Opportunity for a new a new performance in Tasco sales were 78 percent above the same period last and in some Southern the num Ber of retailers who want to sell Tasco products is up 50 percent from last company officials Tasco and its competitors Hope Comet gazing fever will Lead sky watchers to Shell put to each to bring the 50millionmilelong Tail of Comet dust into brighter and sharper the which zooms by the Earth every 76 is already Visi ble this but Only through pow Erful viewers with binoculars will be Able to spot the Comet by late while people planning to look at valleys with the naked Eye must wait until around new years valleys Comet valleys Comet Venus Earth june 1 Comet is 435 million Miles from Earth and 345 million Miles from the travelling about Miles a Comet Venus Early july Comet skirts fringes of asteroid Belt that is 310 million Miles valleys Comet Earth Mic Faugust although too dim to be seen in the Constellation Orion by an amateurs Comet is about 270 million Miles 3 times the distance Earth is from the Chicago Tribune graphic source science digest South especially the Flor Ida is the Best place in the Continental United states to View Hal Leys the Liberty City riots were sparked by the acquittals of five White police officers in the beating death of a Black insurance women Leader urges new rallies in support of Era by the associated press the next president of the National organization for women called on supporters monday to remember our Suffragette mothers by renewing a drive for the equal rights amendment As rallies observed the 65th anniversary of the 19th amendment giving women the right to its time to go Back to the its time to raise Eleanor Smeal told about 200 people at a noon rally in Pitts i think our Suffragette mothers would love us to commemorate this Day by say ing what were going to do to finish their she in about 150 people commemorated the event at Daley Plaza in the cites Chicago for the first time in the history of this Are said Brenda Deputy chief of staff for mayor Harold she said some of the accomplishments include the creation of a sexual assault team in the police department and a coun seling program for women reentering the educational a Pittsburgh was re elected president of the worlds largest feminist organization on july pledging to make now More visible by holding rallies and launching grass roots campaigns throughout the she previously held the office in 197782 and takes office again Smeal said she Doest believe in wait ing for the conservative mood in the United states to weve had enough of reactionary poli she people say we should wait through the conservative tide and the pendulum will eventually swing our i say its time to give it a healthy at women recalled the work of activist Alice Paul in bringing about the passage of the 19th about 400 members of the new Jersey chapter of the National organization for women and the Alice Paul Centennial foundation toured Pauls her High school and other Sites said historian Amelia the Virginia league of women voters held a news conference urging women to get out of your kitchens and into the hurdle women have faced is not get Ting into Arenas where the Power decisions Are said Muriel president of the leagues Ric Mondarea in los Maureen the daughter of president addressed a town Hall of California reception to Honor those who attended the 1985 forum of the decade for we can now ask internationally for the participation by women in policy Mak she in free Tours Are being offered for 10 Days at the Home of Elizabeth Cady one of the main figures of the Early women rights to commemorate women suffrage said Judy superintendent of the women rights National historical the Park was founded in its first project was the Purchase and restoration of the Home of who pushed through the Radical Plank of women suf Frage at the nations first women rights convention held in Seneca in Susan Anthony used to travel 40 Miles East from Rochester to visit Stanton and plot Pentagon defies House oks forklift contract by Norman Black Washington a eight months after it won a bidding a Washington state firm has finally received an air Force contract because of a decision by Pentagon leaders to defy a House the decision to award an initial million contract for a new bomb loading forklift to Pacific car and foundry was finalized last the air Force acted at the direction of Deputy defense Secretary Wil Liam Taft in by using other funds within its effectively bypassing a hold placed on the Transfer of funds from another account imposed by the House armed services the move prompted three Maryland lawmakers last Friday to protest the extraordinary action to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and to demand a probe by the general accounting but Pentagon officials maintained they did nothing wrong and that the Marylander simply were trying to protect a local firm that lost out in the to have done otherwise would have sent All the wrong signals to said one High level Pentagon official who spoke Only on condition of con Gress told us to stage a and you cant just ignore the the unusual dispute Over Whit in Pentagon terms is a minor contract began last when Congress agreed the air Force should rely on Competition to select the maker of a special forklift to Load bombs and cruise missiles onto the new by that approach had been recommended by the air Force because of problems it encountered with a similar strategic weapons loader developed and produced by the Aai of for use in loading b52 last the air Force announced it had selected Pacific car of Over Aai because Pacific bid was substantially cheaper million for 90 of the vehicles compared with million for those of but when the air Force asked permission to Transfer million from one account to another to award the the House committee committee officials said they we rent convinced that developing a new loader really would be cheaper than buying an improved Model made by the commit which includes three members from Maryland and none from finally voted on the matter in refusing to Sanction the Transfer of that prompted Slade to write a letter of protest to after reviewing the Taft agreed the contract should go to the Winner of the on he directed assistant air Force Secretary Thomas Cooper to award the contract to Pacific and the contract was finalized in a letter to Roy said he had hoped the House panel would authorize the Money but since it refused to do we Are faced with no Choice other than to use other Taft that didst sit Well with Dyson and some of his Mary land last he and Helen Delich and Marjorie sent a letter to protesting the air forces Defi Ance and demanding the contract be the letter also argued that Aai stood to lose 300 jobs be cause of the action and that the air Force would not save any Money in the Fred a Pentagon said monday that Weinberger would have no comment on the Walter a spokesman for said his company was disappointed by the air Force Texas Faw Banning sex be Ween homosexuals upheld new Orleans a a Federal appeals court on monday ruled that a Texas Law forbidding sexual Intercourse be tween homosexuals was the 5th circuit court of on a 97 overturned two court rulings that struck Down the saying the Mea sure was permissible because it was passed to implement a million texans Are now criminals said Tom president of the Texas human rights the judges said the Law is constitutional in View of the Strong objection to homosexual which has prevailed in West Ern culture for the past seven Donald of a homosexual and Gay rights challenged the Law in saying it threatened his a Federal judge in 1982 ruled for Baker and struck Down the that ruling was affirmed in 1984 by a three judge panel of the 5th judge Irving Goldberg wrote the main dissenting opinion in mondays if Ever there was a constitutional right to Texas has violated it by blatantly intruding into the private sex lives of fully consenting Goldberg the opinion dealt with several sideline including whether Amarillo District attorney Danny Hill could handle the a peal on his own after state attorney Gener Al Jim Mattox dropped Hills Appeal had been thrown out by the three judge but mondays ruling said he could substitute himself As a class repro Baker said the Law would threaten efforts to combat an incurable disease that often afflicts homosexuals and destroys the body ability to fight if you drive it underground you make the tracking of the disease More said Bill president of the Dallas Gay Hill and others said the Law was needed to control