European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Navratilova loses see sports Page 25 d181 Hurt in Virginia As train derails Page 2 q South Africa attacks guerrillas Page 8 q today s Dollar buys 2.20 Marks Page 27 the stars and stripes unofficial publication of the pm. Armed for act vol.45. No. 33 tuesday May so 1986 d 8693 ruled Washington a the supreme court in ii blow to affirmative action in the american workplace. Monday struck Down u plan aimed Al protecting the jabs of Black school teachers in Jackson midi., no he cinch i of whiles with More seniority. The 5-to-4 ruling said the affirmative action plan violated the Constitution s Gua Rantee if Protection Tor All under the the ruling was based on narrow grounds. The court still has two other major affirmative action cases under consider Senate committees Bill cuts some is faxes More than 60 percent by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the la Bill approved unanimously by the Senate finance committee would Cut taxes for the lowest ranking service members by More than 60 percent and a take Deduc. Lions for Home mortgage interest a Perma nent part of a new . Lax code. The Bill is generally beneficial for Mili tary people Asil tends to lower lures Tor Low income people a Pentagon lax lawyer said. Obviously our enlisted people arc in those lax a summary of the Billy the Senate finance committee shows the measure would Cut taxes by 62.3 percent for people with incomes of less than . An offi Cial of Ilic Pentagon s comptroller s office said thai includes Many Scricc members in grades it e-2 and sex the finance committee summary shows the Bill would Cut taxes Mure than is per cent for people with incomes Between 110,000 and s20.000. Pentagon figures show he bulk of the enlisted Force pay grades e-4. Is and e-6, Falls in that category. Their average annual taxable pay generally ranges front Azcui Simon to see taxes on Page 28 up duty to be phased out at Marine mess Halls in . By Norman Black a military writer Washington the Marine corps has decided to get its few Good men out of the Kitchen in a move thai one can Only assume will be met with jul Biblin the Marine corps this week will begin eliminating Kitchen police duty Al its mess Halls inside the United states. The corps is the last of the nation s Mill Lary services to move to civilian contractors for non specially Kitchen help. Once completed the change will mean that 2,0511 marines will not at Uny Given moment be drawing such duties As cleaning tables swabbing decks scrubbing pots and pans Manning the food service line or carrying garbage. We need the manpower. We no longer can afford to lie up our marines doing these tasks says Jerry Stark n Farmer Marine who is now a civilian official with the corps commercial activities Branch according to Stark and maj. Tony Roth Fork a Marine spokesman the process will begin May 23 Al Camp a Cigar a satellite facility outside Camp la june . By the end of Ilic summer the mess Halls Al la Jeune As Well As at the nearby air station at new Kiver ., will have stopped using Marine mess non. Contract awards should follow later this year for mess Halls at such locations As Cherry Point ., and Eltoro Tustin and Camp Pendl Clon in California. The process won t be completed until 1988, but it eventually will spread to other bases such As those Al san Diego and Twenty nine Palms Calif Honolulu and Beaufort,. By the end of this year More than 1,000 see up on Page 26 action with decisions expected by july. Four justices agreed lie Jackson plan for laying off. Teachers was nol based on con supreme court Roundup mincing evidence of prior discrimination by the school Board. Justice Lewis f. Powell in an opinion for the four 5.iid, the court held that Sci clan discrimination alone is sufficient to justify a racial classification. Ralli or inc court has insisted upon some slow ing of prior discrimination by the. Government unit involved before allowing limited use of racial classifications in order to remedy such discrimination Powell was joined by chief Justice War Ren e. Burger and justices William ii. Mehraj Otist Hud Sandra Day o Connor. A slice Byron r. While provided. The fifth vote to strike Dawn the Jackson Offir new live Maclian plan. But he wrote a separate opinion explaining his reasons the court slopped Well Short of accepting see Layoff on Page 28 Welcome Home a Navy flier hugs Bis family at Oceana na5, a Glicr returning on sunday from an eight month our of the Mediterranean. The unidentified Nier is n member of at tack Squadron 55, which attacked in hex lust month Slaty photo Page 5.
