European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday december 11.1986 now guide details rights of women state by state new York up the Legal rights of women at Home on the Job and in the Community Are spelled out slate by state in a new guide issued tuesday by the National organization for women s Legal defense and Edu cation fund. It was written to help the average woman tune in to Al she needs to know to fully understand her rights and options according to the fund a unit formed by now in1970 As a litigation and education affiliate. Now def subsequently became a separate organization but it maintains affiliation with now and its 800 chapters nation  say the fund s main Mission is to achieve full Equality through institutional change Legal Reform and a Ducat tonal campaigns. The new Book the first major publication by now def is called the slate by stale guide to women s Legal  ii was written by now def and Renc Cherow o Leary an associate professor of communications and Public policy at City College of new York. Marsha Levick the organization s executive director said the guide is expected to be useful in coming months both by women checking out their rights and by Law yers."1987 is Likely to become one of the most important years for women and the Law with nearly a dozen cases before the supreme court of the United states hundreds of women s rights issues being tested in lower courts and nationwide consciousness building around the . Constitution s Bicentennial Levick said this is an important year for to men to understand and join the debate on our Legal system she said. Fund leaders said the Tome also can be an invaluable tool for lawyers working in family Law including marriage divorce Domestic violence and reproductive rights on employment or education discrimination cases and in areas that relate to women in the Community including the criminal Justice  the first portion of the publication provides a overview of women s Legal Rigits and the second part is a compilation and summary of state Laws. Covered in part one the Legal process a Quick course on How the Legal system is structured tips on finding a lawyer and a review of Stales  Equality for women. Home and family a look at Laws on marriage divorce rights of unmarried couples reproductive Freedom Domestic violence and elderly women. Education outline of women s rights under tit Leix of the education amendments of 1972 and other Federal Laws employment a reference to Laws and a discussion of growing concerns about work place issues such As Compa Rable Worth sex harassment policies toward pregnancy drive Walter waitress wholesale Chiao a Tribur graphic source Bureau of labor statistic and childbirth age discrimination handicapped workers and occupational health and safety Laws. Women in the Community outline of some of the newer issues facing women and the criminal Justice sys tem today such As rape battered women pornography premenstrual syndrome and the courts women in the military fair insurance Laws housing women and Politi Cal  part two state by slate Laws Are organized Accord ing to four Broad categories Home and family Educa Tion employment and Community life. Aids victim s lawsuit settlement hailed by civil rights advocates Miami a a $190,000 lawsuit settlement that out a fired worker with aids Back to work and paid his medical Bills is a tremendous Victory for other victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome according to civil right advocates. Todd Shuttleworth was reinstated As a Browar county worker of monday and county cominis Szopen approved the settlement tuesday. It already had Bee accepted by a Federal judge scheduled to hear the Inal the settlement covers shuttle onh t Back pay medical Bills and Legal feet although the county Madeno admission that the firing constituted discrimination. Calls to Broward county were referred to the attorney who handled the county s Case and he did not return Telephone Calls. It s a tremendous Victory in our leading Case said Nan d. Hunter an american civil liberties Union staff attorney coordinating aids work in Miami. Shuttleworth a 33-year-old budget analyst was diagnosed As having aids in june 1984, and the county fired him the following september out of fear that he might transmit the disease to co workers. The deadly aids virus is carried in blood and body fluids. Homosexuals and intravenous drug users Are Pooai deity High risks. A doctor who examined Shuttleworth last Lummer be him ii months to two years to live. Shuttleworth �  examiner Ronald Wright Cor  on aids deaths and a actual education program. Legally the most significant aspect of it is the county agreed that for All future aids related cases it would be bound by the Federal civil rights Laws Hunter said in a Telephone interview from new York As a practical matter the most significant aspect of it is ibis defendant had to Shell out almost $100,000 in damages. That s going to have an enormous education Al Impact on employers in the  Urvashi via an attorney and spokeswoman for the National Gay and lesbian task Force in san Francis co said the settlement sends a Strong message to employers across the country that people with aids can not be discriminated against that they must be treated As if they bad any other  several state human rights commissions have nude that determination stae said but there a no Federal precedent the Justice department has issued a policy opinion that fear of contagion justifies firing but the opinion has no binding effect. Hunter said. This is a situation that s going to new because More and More people Are going to be diagnosed with aids and More employers Are going to have to develop Polimiti and be dear with people/1 via said. One of the things that i nope will happen after the act element is employers will take the Lime to develop Good policies ones that will hold up  Stah Sidt stove burners left on sleeping Tot Dies of heat san Bernardino. Calif. A a Lod Dler sleeping in the Kitchen died when the room temperature Rote above 200 degrees after ser father left the love burners on to keep be warm police Laid. Renee Marie Allen 14 months died tto Eidy morning of extreme heat exposure said pore so ibo Evans Bui Deputy Coroner lint Boh Sari an autopsy failed to establish the pred cause of death . The child s father James Allen was arrested for investigation of involuntary manslaughter Evans Saidt our investigation led us to con clude due caution had not been exercised the District attorney will decide whether Tofile charges he said. Fraternities plan to take emphasis off alcohol state College a. A fraternities at Pennsylvania stale University will ban Alco hol front Rush unctions and ask that guests at parties where drinks Are served show identification a spokesman said tuesday. Sixteen of the school s s2 fraternities have Bee charged with serving alcohol to minors during a two month undercover investigation but the changes had been in discussion for several months. Rush is the fraternities system of holding gather Ings and parties to attract and screen new member. The new rules for Rush activities place a to More emphasis on recruiting of members and Good members and a lot less emphasis on Alco eol said Bob Butler note fraternity Council membership chairman demos Back new rules to of Senate reference Washington a House Democrat have endorsed new House rules that would allow members to refer to the Senate As the Senate instead of simply As the other  the democratic caucus meeting tuesday in dosed session also voted to make it easier to feed it sown bodies raising to Iso the threshold at which . House rules Nave prohibited members from referring in debate to he Senate by name since the Early 19th Century apparently because of a belief that the two houses should legislate independently. Lawmakers were gave led Down unless they used euphemisms for the other chamber. Commuter train kills boy wearing cassette Headset Ridge Wood no. A a teen Ager a skilled monday evening by a new Jersey transit corp. Commuter train As be listened to a cassette Headset that apparently muffled the train s Whis Revin qty a. Became the ninth person killed past year police said  was walking Wulah along the tracks to a Reu dental neighbourhood when the twin hit him bom behind said sgt Alfonse Imperiale transit to  eastbound train was not carrying any Pas sengers and was in route to Hoboken after a evening commuter run said Imperiale. Unveiling of portrait Marks o Neill s birthday Washington a Howe speaker Thomas p. O Neill or. Got a birthday my from the Hou is be turned 74 the a Oveita of Hii official portrait the ceremony tuesday in the House chamber Likely was o Neill i final official act As speaker an office he relinquishes next month be the new Congress convenes and he ret ire. As i pull Down the curtain and Watt off thei Tage for the last time this House i love the my no Susetts Democrat told an audience of boat. The portrait punted by Robert Stef Crof Orleata mast., will Bant m the Pamko Tom just off the Home dumber atom with Naill Lay of Many of oneor46 Pride Cetnor