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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday october 4,1988 critics fear effects of sanctions vote by United pics International while opponents of apartheid praised the Senate s Vole 1o override president Reagan s veto of economic Sanction against South Africa critics warned the Sanction will Force South Africa to use greater Force to suppress dissent. In South Africa which threatened to Boycott . Wheat if inc veto was Over Ridden. Foreign minister Roelof Pik Bolha said the 7s-2i vote thursday was the result of an emotional wave that could not have been turned Back. Other countries cannot solve our prob lems he said it remains our responsibility to do so ourselves. I Hope from my Sid that they will leave us alone for a while and let us As South africans give attention to solving our problems with less interference from  White opposition lawmaker Helen Suzman said while South african president Pieler Bolha was to blame for the Senate vote sanctions will have no positive it fact on the country s political future. "1 think or. Botha is going to Retreat into a siege Economy Suzman said. He is going to put Reform behind him now because he will not want to be seen to buckle to foreign  in the United slates both Black and while leaders applauded the Vole. The Rev Jesse Jackson attending the 41 is session of the . General Assem Bly praised the Senate vote As courageous and  the civil rights Leader and former democratic presidential candidate said president Reagan has shown a religious conviction of supporting the system. He has put Mineral rights Over human rights and his constructive engagement policy has  sen. Richard Lugar r-ind., chairman of the foreign relations committee in an impassioned speech before the final vote said we arc against tyranny and tyranny is in South Africa. We re no destroying that government that government is  los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley said up photo arresting style Rhode Island slate trooper Brendan Doherty models � Black leather coat that won him the title of Besl dressed state policeman in the nation. Doherty showed off his finery on the David letter nuts show in new York. App non from left sen. Ted Kennedy a mass Cor Cut Scott King and Randall Robinson a Chi rights lobbyist on Capitol Hill rejoice Over the Senate vote to override president Reagan s veto of a South african sanctions Bill. Congress is standing tall  lost the . Government has joined the City of los Angeles and other cities an states throughout he nation in the fight against South Africa s cruel racist oppression of its majority population Bradley said in a prepared , democratic nominee for Gover nor of California is seeking to become the first Black to be elected a stale governor. Corp la Scott King wife of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King jr.,said, today Martin Luther King s dream has been advanced. He said Man times that apartheid in South Africa was the worst form of institutionalized racism in the world. That form of racism Lias been dealt a death blow  sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass.,called the vote a great Victory for democracy in America and Freedom i South  zimbabwean prime Bisler Robert Mugabe who led a successful guerrilla War against the government of White Rule Rhodesia said at the United nations Well done people of the United  Mugabe dismissed Reagan s arguments that sanctions would do More harm to South Africa s Blacks and that diplomatic Means rather that economic pressure would entice South Africa to Reform its racial policies. Health study blocked panel says Atlanta a miscarriages in seven month period by three centers for disease control employees and the wives of two other workers prompted a request for a study which was blocked by the Whitehouse a congressional report said. The action by the office of manage ment and budget was disclosed this week by a congressional subcommittee staff report which charged bomb is using its paperwork reduction Powers to Block re search into on the Job health hazards. In the seven month period in 1981, mis carriages occurred among three workers in an infectious disease lab at the cd and  of two lab workers the report said. Two other wives of workers had successful pregnancies in the same period. The Center for environmental health proposed u surveillance of pregnancies among cd workers to determine i their work was a Hazard. Bui the idea was vetoed by the office of management and budget last year and again in a gust the repo.1 . Vemon Houck director of the environmental unit said the study was in tended primarily to create a Model for pregnancy monitoring programs at other laboratories. Senate again denies Aid to Philippines Washington up the Senate for the second time this week refused thursday to Send $200 million to the Philippines by rejecting a bid to take that Money from a slush fund created to ease approval for Aid to Nicaragua rebels. Amid Sharp language Between the sen ate s leaders the chamber refused 57-41 to approve the Aid to the Philippines which the House of representatives passed last month hours after philippine president Cora Ion Aquino delivered a moving address to a joint session of Congress. On monday the Senate rejected 51-43the emergency Aid Bill for the 7,000-Island nation when Senate minority Leader Rob Ert Byrd , proposed 10 take the Money from Ether foreign Aid accounts excluding those for Israel and Egypt. Byrd tried again thursday proposing to cult the philippine Aid from a $300 million economic Aid package for Al Sal Vador Guatemala Honduras and court Arica a Deal president Reagan offered to lawmakers in Exchange for approval of�100 million in Aid for the  trying to overthrow Nicaragua s govern ment. Minority Leader Robert Dole a Kaiu strongly objected to the philippine Aid saying the United state did not have the Money. He called Byrd i Effort a Back handed Effort to squelch the Contra Aid. Firefighter fined for harassment new York a rejecting judge s recommendation to dismiss a fire fighter found guilty of harassing a female co worker the City s fire commissioner instead fined the Man $15,000 and sus Pended him without pay for six months. Firefighter Greg Mcfarland also was required to Complete an alcohol rehabilitation program and to apologize in writ ing to the woman and the department. Commissioner Joseph Spinnato said. Mcfarland who will return to duly at different fire company a Ned to the punishment As an alternative to being fired. Cidra Tompkins an administrative judge and hearing officer who conducted a departmental trial in August recommended his termination. She convicted Mcfarland of harassing firefighter Ella my Nair and of being drunk on duty at his Brooklyn company on june s. Mcfarland and Mcnair tussle Over a knife Mcnair was using to scrape fro the firehouse Wall a newspaper dipping she considered derogatory to women inthe department. In the scuffle the suffered Cut fingers on the right hand an required five stitches. Spinnato said Mcfarland s punish ment was harsh and gels the message across that we will not tolerate harassment of female firefighters in any Way shape or   
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