European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 1 the stars and stripes tuesday october 8, 1985 justices agree to review affirmative action plans Washington Ltd the supreme court opened its 19r5-k6 term monday by announcing it will conduct a sweeping review of affirmative action plans the Reagan administration charges discriminate against Whites. The justices returning id inc Bench on the traditional first Monda in october will hair arguments this term in a Case brought by the Cleveland chapter of the inter Nalii Hul association of i Cru Ile Ping a pro motion agreement worked out Between the City and a group of Niin drily firefighters the court Ako agreed to decide a Case involving the new Vork City local of the Sheet Metal workers inter National association Over whether a Union can be or dered to increase its non White membership to a certain it be the cases Are among a series of affirmation action disputed that have made the r Way to the High court since 19k4. When the justices ruled in a Case Frum Mem Phis. Tenn. That Whites could not be Laid off before Blacks with Jess seniority. The Reagan administration has argued the ruling Means minority hiring quotas Are unconstitutional ant such Relief can be granted Only to those who can prove they have been actual victims of discrimination. The supreme court Roundup Justice department has sent letters 45 communities asking them to review mandatory hiring quotas in Light of that ruling which is called the stints decision. The court already has on its docket a Case from Jackson mich., concerning a Union Degoti led affirmative action plan. N other actions As they worked through a backlog of More than 1,000 pending appeals the justices agreed to decide if it is constitutional to exclude ardent opponents of capital punishment from juries in capital trials a dispute that could affect death penalty Laws nationwide. Announced they will decide if an employer can be held accountable under civil rights Laws for the sexual harassment of a female employee by a male supervisor. Said they will consider whether the first Amend ment right to free speech protects a a Ludyn who gave a sexually explicit speech before a High school Assembly. Refused to disturb a ruling that a Pompano Beach ? la., ordinance that prohibits people from sleeping in their cars is unconstitutionally i it stand a lower court ruling endorsing the prac Tice of Anonymous juries in a racketeering irial involving reputed members of the underworld. The court also heard arguments in an Indiana Case Over gerrymandering the use of legislative a captor lion mint to Benefit a political parly. The eventual ruling could dramatically affect the political balance of Power in state Legislatures and could eventually be Felt in con Gress. Affirmative action is one of several hotly contested topics inc Reagan administration is pushing before the supreme court which also faces major decisions this term on abortion and the rights of criminal defendants. Air Force captains adultery conviction still stands Washington a an air i orce Captain who was found guilty of military misconduct Tor having sexual Intercourse with a married woman an air of it acc sergeant lost a supreme court a peal monday. The court without comment let stand a military appeals court s ruling that cant. Michael Johanns rights were not violated when he vyv court Martiale for committing adultery. In i9kj, Johanns then 2k, was court Martiale at Minot a in North Dakota for having sex with sgt. Donna Robbins. At the time her husband was stationed in Guam. Johanns who was not married also was convicted of misconduct for having sexual relations with two women who were enlisted air Force members. Officials Johanns violated the Mili tary code because officers arc not allowed to fraternize on equal terms with enlisted men or women. june a military appeals court threw out the fraternization Case but upheld a finding hat Johanns committed adultery. Adultery although Seldom prosecuted is a viable offence subject to trial by court martial the appeals court said. An officer having relations with the wife of an enlisted member clearly acts in a manner prejudicial to Pood order and hut the appeals court it aside a ruling by a lower military court that ordered Johanns discharged from the air Force. The appeals court ordered further hear Ings to determine the proper punishment for Johanns. Johanns who was a missile combat Crew commander and now is on leave from the air Force and jiving in Colorado Springs colo., said his constitutional rights were Vio lated because the military s prohibition against adultery was too vague. There was no air Force precedent for court Marti Aling a single Man for engaging in a private consensual act of sexual Intercourse his lawyers said. They also said that Johanns did not violate North Dakota s adultery Law be cause he was not married. The North Dakota Law limits adultery to married per sons Liis Appeal added that Johanns was singled out unfairly for punishment say ing military officials acknowledged that extramarital sex was widespread at the North Dakota base. Superpowers must give and take nato chief says Washington Lupi nato Secretary general lord Carrington said Mon Day following a meeting with president re Igan that the stage is set for a give and take Between the superpowers on arms control. Carrington said even the Kremlin could not have expected for one moment that the arms control proposal announced last week by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev would be accepted by the West out of hut the North Atlantic treaty organi a Tion chief told reporters certainly it was very Welcome that those proposals were put on the table. It s been a or Long Lime since there have been any Concrete proposal1 by the soviet Union which go into the details the a proposals have Gune into. In the Long bargaining process you have to Gic and take and i imagine both sides will give and Lake in the process of the negotiations he said. C Jeri Nylon a former British foreign Secretary spoke to reporters at the stale department following meetings with Cagan Ai the while mouse and Secretary of stale George Shuli at the department. Later he seeing defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger As part of his 10-Day visit. Gorbachev during a state visit to trance announced thursday that the soviet Union was proposing a 50 percent reduction in nuclear arms if Reagan agrees to abandon his Star wars missile defense program. He a kit offered to negotiate separately president Reagan cols with Secretary general Carrington Al inc while house""0 with the British and French for reductions in their nuclear arsenals a move seen As an Ai Icmat to Divide the United slates from its european allies. Carrington said the seriousness of inc soviet proposals will be judged when is. And soviet negotiators get Down to the negotiating Al arms control talks in Geneva. If there is a genuine ish on inc soviet part to negotiate he Saiu the nov. 19-20 Summit be tween Reagan and Gorbachev can give the talks a push in the right Carrington said the proposals were not necessarily intended to Divide hut he added "1 think it s going to be extremely difficult in Divide Europe from the United states and split nato. Carrington said Washington is consulting its allies fully on the negotiations and euro peans feel it s their own Security involved in the Gorbachev also announced a reduction in the soviet Force of intermediate Range mis Siles trained on Europe. Carrington was asked to assess the effect of that announcement on a dutch decision scheduled for nov. I on whether to deploy nato intermediate Range missiles. He no cd the dutch government has said it will deploy inc missiles if the number of deployed soviet ss-20 missiles is greater than inc june 1984 level of 378. Carrington said Gorbachev had announced he had reduced the missile Force from 441 to 243 on standby Alert " Jaroff founder of Don Cossack chorus Dies at 89 i . . A Serge Jaroff who left the soviet Union shortly after inc russian revolution and be came the creator and Long time director of the famous Don Cossack chorus died saturday at Kimball medical Center Here after a Long illness lie was 89. Jaroff was born in Moscow in 1896 and trained Uherc As a choral director. He founded the Don Cossack chorus composed of so Viet emigres after fleeing Russia. The group Perlor Mcd publicly for the first time in 1923 in Vienna and ruched the height of in Fame in the 193 Sand 1940s. They became an overnight sensation and played Over the world said Igor Chich Agov. Director of inc Rose Pons Lac charitable foundation which was started by the renowned american opera Singer whose name it bears. They were a famous russian chorus Chich Agov said they were propagating the russian music inc russian Art. Artists who brought russian Arl to the world " sad Jar it was Eriline his memoirs and "1 T of " the the rus Al Moscow ,nncdl.t0 acc Cpl an invitation to return to r cd rus " Lac l%0s by an cd Hirschi Chagos compared Jaroff s accomplishments to other Mma a tin snip. I � real soviet Union artists including pianist Sergei race Ifica in Oil Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He is in the and n helgradetakcs"T5 " do Ray Brach Fla it s a great loss to the world he said group of these people who Are really the
