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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 13, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 of expanding opportunities for women Orr cautions against changing too fast by  Swift Washington Bureau Washington is retiring air Force Secre tary Verne Orr says that opportunities for women in his service arc expanding but that there s a danger in moving Loo fast. Women arc in 95 percent of air Force jobs Orr said. Two years ago i put pm in the front and Back of Azacs airborne warning and control system planes. This january i opened Security police for women. We be opened some Sig int signal intelligence col lectors that work behind the lines and they Pilot planes that they can Fly. They re in practically everything today but combat. The air Force has accepted it because it s been Grad Ual and the women have proved  Orr said. If you set like or. Aspin wants to a quota i m very Jokester charged released much afraid the arc d be a backlash just like there was in school busing. When you said you be got to bus people across the Ity in broke Down because then people resent  Orr referred to rep. Los Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee. That committee said in defense authorization legis lation last year that the air Force ought to have a mini mum goal of 25 percent women even after combat exclusions. Every year you Chip away a few More  Orr said. There s probably 25 percent of the jobs in the air Force that women can handle. But you cant make a quantum jump All at once and you can t legislate it or you la have people griping. Of. We be got to take pm women the air Force is 11 percent women a higher proportion than in the other services. The service sought to make women 17 percent of its 1985 recruits. Orr has said the air Force will seek to raise that to 19 percent this year. From 1972 to 1984, women in the air Force increased from about 16,500 2.3 percent of the Force o about 66,500 11.2 percent the service s fiscal year 1986 re port to Congress states. All officer career Fields and All but four enlisted specialities Aerial gunner Para Rescue tactical air command and control and combat control specialist Are open to women. Women Are excluded from some combat related positions fighter and bomber pilots within open Fields. As of Jan. 1, 1985, Only about 6 percent of air Force positions remained closed to women for combat reasons the statement said. Federal Law bars assigning women of any service to positions in which members have a High likelihood of facing combat. Town goes ape Over Rno Sfer prank Harrisburg. A. A a Man who admitted donning an ape suit and mask in a nighttime prank that scared residents into Locking their windows and taking up weapons was charged As a disorderly person Friday police said. Craig a. Brashear 24, of Enola was charged and released after admitting he was the hairy creature seen by residents in a wooded Section of nearby East Pennsboro township said police chief James Corbett. You have to laugh at this but really it has scared people to death. There arc peo ple who arc going to be thrilled that big foot has been captured the chief said. Brashear bought fur Type cloth and a mask with fangs after seeing a local news paper Story about residents who reported a foul odor and screeching noises coming from the wooded area the chief said. Bras car wanted to stir up More activity to make it seem like there was a Crea Ture out there Corbett said. In the Early morning of sept. 29, friends dropped Brashear off in the neighbourhood and he stood in an area where his furry body would be illuminated by headlights the chief said. One Young Man saw the creature and described him As being hairy 6 Eccl tall and with arms extending below the Knees. After the local paper published the report panic and curiosity seekers spread through the Community the chief said. Old ladies were Locking their windows in was just a panic out there the chief said. There were people going out there with rifles and guns looking for it the vigilantes. You know How High school kids arc but there were adults  Bigfoot was captured after police were tipped off that Brashear had an ape cos tume Corbett said. He confessed after being questioned thursday night and Fri Day morning. Brashear will gel a summons in the mail the chief said. Basically the kid does t smoke does t drink. He s probably a Good kid the chief said. Bras car did not respond Friday to Mes sages left at the local printing company where he works. Students across . Protest apartheid by the associated press thousands of protesters on dozens of campuses across the country Friday marked National anti apartheid protest Day with marches lectures and rallies and More than 100 students were arrested in Connecticut. The flurry of protests came against a background of colleges considering whether to sell their Stock in companies doing business in South  last Spring when scores of campuses were hit with similar anti apartheid demonstrations More than 20 colleges have decided to divest themselves of All or part of their South Africa related holdings. The Day represents the fruition of coordinated student protest said Josh pcs sen National student coordinator of the american committee on Africa a new York based anti apartheid lobbying group. The momentum has been great toward divestment. We want to build added  demonstrators at Wesleyan University in Middletown conn., carried signs read ing no More blood Money and we must  More than 100 students were arrested there after blocking administration building entrances to protest the school s ji8.5 million in investments in companies doing business in South Africa. In Rhode Island about 200 students including freshman Amy Carter daughter of former president Jimmy Carter rallied on the Brown University Campus Green to protest apartheid. Later in the Day the student government announced that Stu dents voted 1,125 to 233 to urge the school to sell $23.3 million it has invested in firms doing business in South Africa. At the University of Maine in Orono about 60 students staged an anti apart Heid rally and erected a makeshift shanty town on the mall where several students planned to spend the night. About 90 Boston area College students rallied in a mall across from an office of International business machines corp., shouting International business machines you Don t know what Freedom  in Cambridge mass., about 150 Harvard students gathered for a noon lecture and chanted not you not me we won t endow  the night before about 50 Stu dents had camped out in sleeping bags in front of president Derek Bok s office. About 20 students demonstrated out Side the office of Boston University presi Dent John Sib or who chided the group for endorsing simple minded solutions for a Complex problem. About 1,200 noisy but peaceful demonstrators attended a lunch hour rally it the Berkeley Campus of the University of Cali fornia to protest the school s refusal to Stop investing in firms with ties to South Africa. In Pennsylvania about 150 people marched on the state Capitol in Hartsburg to Call for passage of Bills that would pro Hibit stale pension funds state universities and Pennsylvania cities from investing Money in companies that have business relations with South Africa. Our Brothers and Sisters who Are dying in South Africa need our help Over Here state rep. David Richardson sponsor of the legislation told the crowd. Elsewhere in the state nearly 200 people at Pennsyl Vania state University in state College protested. At the University of Nebraska in Lin Coln about 300 anti apartheid protesters heard state sen. Ernest Chambers Tell them also to look at racism close to Home. He cited the record of minority hiring at the University which has 70 minority and 1,062 White faculty members. Two Hundred students gathered across the Street from the while House Al la Fayette Square to protest the policies of the South african government. 42 Hurt As four bus rams dump truck Emporia a. A a tour bus slammed into the rear of a dump truck Fri Day on interstate 95, injuring All 42 people aboard. Five were hospitalized police said. The front of the Carolina american Tours bus which was returning to Fayette Ville ., after a 4-Day sightseeing tour to Lancaster pa., sustained heavy damage. There was minor damage to the truck said . Perkins a state trooper. He had no further details on the Accident. The bus Driver Ronnie Cru tree 29, of Fayetteville was taken by helicopter to the medical College of Virginia Hospital where a spokeswoman said he was in satisfactory condition with a broken Arm and broken . The condition of another person airlifted to Mcva had not been determined the spokeswoman said. Three others were taken to hospitals in Emporia and nearby Roanoke rapids  None of their injuries were reported to be serious. The 37 passengers who were treated for injuries but not hospitalized continued to Fayetteville on another bus. The dump truck Driver was not injured. Kahane suing to be allowed entry to . New York a rabbi Cir a Hanc the Ultra nationalist israeli politician recently stripped of his . Citizenship filed a Federal lawsuit Friday to Force officials to let him into the country. The Brooklyn born Kahane 53, was stripped of his Cili Enship when the state department ruled he gave up his citizenship by taking a seat in the israeli parliament in August 1984. His suit seeks to prevent the government from barring his entry into the country this week. Kahane who planned to enter the coun try thursday to begin a two week speaking tour claimed in court papers that he still is a . Citizen. . District judge i. Leo Glasser agreed to a hearing on the matter but scheduled it for Friday afternoon the Day after Kahane was slated to arrive in the United states. Kahane w to founded the militant jewish defense league emigrated to Israel 14 years ago. In his court papers Kahane stated that rulings by the . Supreme court in 1967 and 1980 had determined Congress lacked the Power to revoke american citizenship in the absence of a specific intent to revoke Cit  Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 13, 1945 Palestine was placed off limits and All american troops in leave were ordered to leave the country by East head quarters in Cairo the Palestine Post in Jerusa Lem reported. Continuing tension Over jewish immigration was Given As inc reason. 30 years ago today. Oct. 13, 1955 . Amateur Tennis Champion Tony Trabert has accepted the offer of Tennis promoter Jack Kramer to turn professional for a reputed guarantee of More than $75.000, highest Ever Given to a net Star to turn pro. 20 years ago today. Oct. 13. 1965 Sandy Koufax and Maury wills look command of inc world series As the los Angeles dodgers humbled the Minnesota twins 7-0 and look a 3-2 Edge by winning the fifth game. 10 years ago today. Oct. 13, 1975 fifteen Hundred marines arrived in Bremerhaven Germany to Lake part in the autumn forge series of nato exercises becoming the first detachment of marines to operate on German soil since world War i  
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