European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. December 28. 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 9 Gao notes Dod firms hefty profits Washington Iii d in Lime of year that Many businesses Oiler Christmas bonuses but congressional auditors have Laken a Holiday Opportunity 10 report . Defense contractors reap Bonus profits from the i Clagon All year Long. Congress s general accounting police which conducted its own investigation and also reviewed a Detent department study said in a thick report wednesday that contractors generally make taller profits from the Pentagon than they con in the commercial Market place. While inc defense department study indicated such profits under the Reagan administration Nave been about Compa Nihls to general commercial opera tons since 1983. Inc Ciao concluded Dur ing the entire period the profitability of defense business was substantially greater than commercial  one problem the Gao said is the Pentagon docs l have a Way to measure the defense Industry s . Tie congressional Agency recommended set Ling up a so Stan to Monitor profit. The Pentagon disputed Many of the Ciao conclusions complaining in partic ular that no credit was Given to sups it has Laken since an initial profitability report. The Ciao. In Lurn. Aid ii did modify recommendations to take Pocnia gain changes into account. The Pentagon asserted is regulatory changes should reduce private contractor profits even More but the Gao said it does not believe the changes will show As much improvement As the Pentagon a Sii i its. A technician ill the Pill pen corp in Trumbull conn., inspects sunless getting to the Point steel tips for ballpoint pens. . Con Sumers buy More than 1,1 billion pens a year the writing instrument manufacturers association says. Women s new roles challenging society report says Washington a the changing world of women has had a dramatic Impact on americans in the last 30 years and reconciling heir Many roles poses the Challenge of inc future a new study reports. Women s growing role in the world has progressed faster than the accepted norms of society resulting in a cultural lag Between How women arc viewed Ana Haw they must Cope with life said inc new study american women in transition. As a result three crucial issues confront society wages child care and housework said Suzanne m. Bianchi and Daphne Spain authors of inc study. The shift of women out of the Home and into the labor Force and out of marriages and into Independent living arrangements represents changes which Are out of step with the ability of social institutions to support the changing economic role of women they reported. Changes in the last three decades have launched society on a Road toward Equality of the sexes from which there is no turning Back they wrote. If we want a productive labor Force of female and male workers but also value the family work hours Musl be flexible Day care available and affordable and work within the Home equitably divided. The Lime has come to Deal with this reality and to bring norms and institutions into line with society As it mists in the 1980s," Spain and Bianchi wrote. Their study published by the Russell Sage foundation is based on a detailed analysis of data collected in the 1980 census Bianchi is a population expert at the census Bureau and Spain formerly of the Bureau is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. Historically men have held jobs oils id the Home while women tended to House and family the report noles bul that situation began to change when the Post world War ii baby Boom generation started to mature. The family oriented 1950s were perhaps the last decade in which women s behaviour my social norms were in agreement they said. By 1960, one fourth of wives with children were in the labor Force and today that figure is More than half inc authors wrote. But while Moil mothers hold jobs adjustments at Home have not been made. They continue to do the majority of housework and Day care facilities for their children Are often inadequate or prohibitively costly. Finally wages of women remain Low in comparison with men an inequity that was inc personal problem of a few women decades ago but which now air acts the majority of families. That is complicated by a world of High divorce Rales and delayed marriages in which More and More women maintain their own households often trying 10 sup port themselves and children. Women who Are divorced from their husbands Are Seldom divorced from their children most children of divorced parents live with their Mol hrs Spain and Bianchi observed. The result is what Many women term a balancing act As they try to move Between family and work responsibilities. The ability to juggle these competing demands of enforces women into what arc considered traditional female jobs such As teaching or nursing or forces them to work Only part time. While Many dramatic changes have occurred for women one area that has changed Little is wages said Bianchi and Spain. The ratio of female earnings to male earnings has remained remarkably stable Over time. Women on average make 70 percent or less of what men make when both arc working full time they said. Explanations Range from women spending less time in the workforce having less skills experience or train ing to simple sex discrimination. Whatever the reason for the discrepancy. Its persistence makes the balancing act particularly difficult for women who maintain Independent households Bianchi and Spain said. The Challenge for the future is to find a reconciliation Between the roles of wife and Mother and that of wage earner they concluded. Mom to seek new trial for condemned go son Frederick my. A after two years Carolyn Dock is still fighting against her Soldier son s death sentence bul she says she has Learned to make time for other things in her life. Her son Todd Dock was an army private stationed in Germany in june 1984 when he was charged with killing a taxi  months later Dock now 22, was convicted of murder in a court martial and sentenced to death. He is being held at fort la Vanworth Kan his Case ran be appealed through the military system and ultimately could go to the . Supreme court but mrs Dock is concentrating on winning a new trial for her  the death sentence was imposed mrs Dock has spent an estimated $99,000, hiring civilian lawyers and making two trips to Germany in search of evidence that might help her son Scase. At the beginning it truly was All con suming said mrs. Dock 51. Then 1 realized 1 had to keep up with my Busi Ness and some kind of social life. In order to keep some perspective on it. "1 Don t want it to be the Only Point in my life because you lose your  a widow with six children including Todd mrs. Dock is involved in two antique businesses. To help meet expenses she said she sold her House for the equity and re placed it with a townhouse. She also has held three Yard sales which raised More than 16,000 for the Todd Dock defense fund. Mrs. Dock said she recently retained a new attorney and plans to file a petition fora new trial for her son before a february dead , she is awaiting action on an Appeal filed in May with the army court of military review. The Appeal alleges Dock was without an attorney for 37 hours after his arrest. In february 1985, Mai. Gen. Rich Ard g. Graves commander of the 3rd army div to which Dock was attached upheld the court martial pro Cess that resulted in the imposition of the death sentence. Mrs. Dock said she is not convinced Todd committed the crime but said if he did she believes it was not a premeditated act but the result of an alcohol problem. Dock signed a confession to the crime bul mrs Dock said she believes her son was intoxicated at the Lime