European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday a 17,1987 the stars and stripes pages panel won t criticize High court s ruling Washington a the . Commission on civil rights which has been accused by civil rights activists of following the Reagan administration line in recent years broke from its conservative Mold Friday to reject by a 5-3 vote a staff report that assailed the supreme court decision that upheld Job preferences for women. In a 6-3 ruling on March 2j, in Johnson is. The Santa Clara county calif., transportation Agency the High court permitted the California Agency to promote a woman Diane Joyce Over a Man Paul Johnson who had scored higher in a competitive interview the decision which has implications for minorities As Well As for women said that under title Vii of the civil rights act of 1964, employ ers need not admit past discrimination in order to adopt an affirmative action plan to overcome a conspicuous imbalance in traditionally segregated Job  the eight member commission split equally Between congressional and presidential appointees has been dominated by a conservative majority since 1983. The 30-year-old commission s Char Ter is to review the performance of fed eral agencies and recommend new Laws favouring acceptance of the staff re port were chairman Clarence  jr., vice chairman Murray Friedman and William Allen. All were appointed by president Reagan. Allen argued that affirmative action plans by sanctioning discrimination to Correct statistical imbalances in the workforce arc an enormous  Pendleton said the decision by re moving evidence of past discrimination As a condition of preferential pro motions could allow employers to fend off legitimate individual claims of Bias by enacting an affirmative action plan based on statistical balance. I think employers love this Deci Sion he said. Commissioners Mary Berry Franci guess and Blandina Ramirez endorsed the Johnson decision saying in a joint statement thai i gives careful approval to much needed voluntary efforts to improve the employment status of women in a gradual  they were joined in rejecting the staff report by Robert Dcastro and Esther Buckley. Dcastro said although he saw problems possibly arising from the decision lie believed adopting the staff report unchanged would give the impression that the commission believes somehow that gelling rid of sex discrimination is not real  Berry also said the staff report mis slated the facts of the Case to support its argument. It said for instance that a woman was promoted Over a better qualified male applicant White the court found he difference in qualifications to bal Only minimal she said. Commission attorney Neal Devins who wrote the report said the degree of difference in qualifications was irrelevant. White House acts to kill Reagan plug for station Washington a the White House on Friday asked a radio station in Nashville term., to refrain from using a tape of president Reagan saving that he listens to ism the 50,000-Walt blow Torch of the  Reagan responding to the pleas of a reporter from ism interrupted a ques Tion and answer session with Southern journalists to read inc statement. Deputy press Secretary Albert r. Bra Shear said the White House called the station and said Reagan does not do promotions or anything like that and asked hat it not to use Trie tape. Brashear said he did not know if it was Legal to use such material As a promo Tion but added it is our opinion that we cannot allow anyone to use anything the president says or docs in a Commer Cial promotional capacity for obvious reasons. It s unfair to everyone else. Everyone wants the president s endorse  that s Fine but at the same time if he did t want to do it Why did he do it said Jerry Dahman ism news director. He said the station aired the tape several times Friday during news Broad casts. Reagan was in the Middle of a nuts Tion and answer session with journalists most of whom were quizzing him on Heiran Centra affair when he called on a woman in the front Row. She identified horse Las Liz White from ism radio in Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 17, 1947 a citywide Rodeo broke out in Tacoma wash., after dozens of steers escaped from a packing House and ran through town 30 years ago today. May 17, j9s7 the former economics minister of nazi Germany Walther Funk was released from Spandau prison where he was serving a sentence As War criminal. Allied officials said the 66-year-old Funk was Given his Freedom because of advanced age and the state of his  20 years ago today. May 17, 1967 the Pentagon disclosed that in the past four years More than 10,000  civilians had been classified As unreliable and re moved from jobs involving nuclear weapons. Nashville and handed Reagan a piece of Jjck saying my general manager says can t go Home unless you read this  Reagan appeared both amused and perplexed but then laughed and boomed out in his Best broadcast voice i m Ronald Reagan. Whenever i m in Nash Ville i listen to radio 650, ism the50,000-Watl Blowtorch of the  the audience erupted with groans and laughter drowning out part of what Rea in said. Could you do it one More time an everybody be quiet White pleaded. All right re Agni responded noting that Only the last part of his statement was drowned out and repeating it. It s just like being Back at who he added referring to his Days As a sports Caster at a radio station in Des Monics Iowa. Dahman said he and station manager Bob myer were joking when they suggested to while that she ask Reagan Todo the promotion but he supported her for following through with it. Why not give it a try if you work in radio and gel an invitation to the while House you love to have the president saying something about your station or even acknowledging it he said. The 20-minute meeting with the re porters was billed by officials As a Chanceford regional journalists to question Rea Gan and was not available for live Broad cast on television or radio. Graduating with style a plod these graduating fashion students put their training to use for Friday s commencement at Honolulu Community College designing Cap and gowns with a local flavor. The school wanted graduates to Wear casual hawaiian garb but the fashion students walked. At list they decided to rent traditional Black gowns and mortar boards but then opted for a design of their own. Killer Dies in Georgia electric chair 10 years ago today. May 17, 1977 the luxury liner Daphne with 400 passengers aboard left new Orleans bound for Cuba despite a dockside demonstration by several Hundred cuban exiles. It was inc first tourist cruise to Cuba since 1961. Jackson a. A Joseph Mulligan who was convicted of killing a witness to a murder he committed for insurance Money was executed in Georgia s electric chair Friday evening claiming until the end that he was innocent. John Siler a spokesman for the department of corrections quoted Mulligan As saying am innocent As six guards strapped him into the Oak electric chair. You Are killing an innocent Man. I have tried to Tell you Over and Over and Over. I won t be around to stand up for myself but i Hope somebody stands up. I Hope you know Georgia s death penalty Law is wrong. It s wrong he said in a Calm voice looking at each of the it witnesses. Outside the prison 14 opponents of the death penal by Sang hymns and prayed. We re Here to say this execution and executions in the state must Stop said John Pickens an Atlanta lawyer who represents the poor and homeless. We would Call upon this stale to end this inhumane and cruel  two supporters of the death Penally also stood silently outside the prison. The supreme court by a 7-2 Vole had earlier turned Down an emergency request aimed at postponing Mulligan s execution and a formal Appeal challenging his conviction and death sentence. Mulligan was visited by his father his brother a Cousin and his attorneys before the execution and ate part of his requested last meal of Fried shrimp and oysters. Mulligan 35, was sentenced to die for killing Mari on Jones Miller in Columbus on easter morning in 1974. A death sentence for the slaying on the same Day of army Cape Patrick Doe Mulligan s brother in Law was overturned by state courts. Prosecutors said Mulligan killed Doc the estranged husband of his sister o collect on a life insurance policy and he killed Miller who was Doe s Girlfriend to eliminate a witness. Mulligan s appeals have been based on claims of various errors by the trial judge and prosecutor including failure to make it Clear the jury had sole responsibility for sentencing Mulligan to death. Much of the prosecution s Case rested on the Testi Mony of Timothy Helms who was granted Complete immunity in return for testifying thai Mulligan shot Doe once in the head and shot Miller four times. In their appeals Mulligan s attorneys focused on the Deal Given Helms and on Mulligan s claims Hal he Wason a bus when the killings occurred and that they resulted from botched drug deals by he. Us and Doe. In Allan in police arrested 1.1 opponents of the a Cash penalty Friday afternoon when they blocked the front doors to lilt office of inc department of corrections and the Board of pardons and paroles