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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, September 26, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 26, 1987 the stars and stripes Continental debut a Model of the european space Agency s shuttle Hermes is inspected by technicians inside the is building in Toulouse France thursday. Consider ably smaller than a . Space shuttle Hermes will carry fix astronauts and a App Cio j,5-ton Pirn lust. The Esa shuttle is expected to Fly in the 1990s. Lottery Winner battling drugs 5 years later Olympia Wash. A five years after striking in Rich the slate s first lottery millionaire May lose her nursing License because or allegations of drug abuse. Slate officials allege that Jana Page 34, i veiled drugs at a Spokane nursing Home for her own use. Covered up the thefts and tied about her continuing Battle with drugs a habit that began Only after she won the lottery. Now Page faces suspension or Revo cation of her License for the second Lime. In a statement of charges by the state department of licensing Page is accused of diverting drugs including demerol a potent painkiller for her own use for More than a year at the Manor care convalescent and rehabilitation Center. The department alleges she replaced inc drugs with water and worked while under the influence. Page has an unpublished Telephone number and could nol be reached for comment. The nursing Home administrator Debby Rappuchi declined comment and would not say whether Page is still on the Job Page then a Walla Walla re Sidon won the stale s first pot o Gold million Dollar drawing in Seattle on dec. 17, 1982. The payoff of $50.000 yearly for 20 years was a mixed Blessing she said months after the Windfall. At the Lime she talked about the invasion of privacy sniping by townspeople and friends the Strain on her marriage fear thai her two children might be kidnapped and the deluge of requests for handouts. Her husband Bosquit his Mill Job Afler being razed by his co workers. I got just a glimpse of what it would by Tike lobe a movie Star she signed. It would be awful we totally lost our privacy for the first couple of  the pages blew much of their first year s winnings on luxury items she said. In 1983 her License was suspended when she turned herself in and went into drug counselling. She was allowed to continue practice ing nursing As Long As she submitted to counselling and regular drug testing. She was reins Laid last september. Japanese american seeks Appeal to supreme court san Francisco apr a japanese american who won a Federal appeals court ruling in his world War 1 internment and curfew Case says he Hopes prosecutors Appeal to lie . Supreme court so he can be fully vindicated. Thursday s ruling by the 9th . Circuit court of appeals in the Case of Gordon Hirabayashi upheld similar decisions by lower Federal courts based on the disclosure of suppressed evidence that internment was done for racial not military reasons. The Constitution has guaranteed my Protection regardless of race sex religion and so on but in does t guarantee that it s going to be applied said Hirabayashi a 23 year old student at the Lime of his arrest in 1942, and now a 69-year-old retired sociology professor in Edmonton Canada. Hirabayashi called thursday s ruling very Good news but said the Legal vindication he wants is supreme court ruling. Hirabayashi who lived in Seattle was arrested inlay 1942 after refusing to abide by an 8 . To 6 . Curfew or report to a civilian control Center the first step toward placement in an internment Camp. He was convicted of both charges and sentenced to three months in jail and spent another nine months behind bars while the Case was pending because he refused to be placed in a Camp. Sex discrimination suit settled Chicago a Libby Owens Fard co. Will pay up co $10 million for lost wages and make 34 jobs available to women Over five Yean under a settlement Wilh the Federal government of a sex discrimination lawsuit attorneys said this settlement is historic for its cooperative Dis position of a major lawsuit Charles a. Shanor Gener Al counsel of the equal employment Opportunity commission said in announcing the agreement with the Ohio based Glass manufacturer. The settlement must be approved by a Federal judge. The Leoc filed the lawsuit in 1978 after receiving a complaint from a woman who said she had been dented a Job at the company s Ottawa 111., Plant because she did t meet minimum height and weight require ments he said. Under a 16-year-old policy the company required factory employees to he Ai least 5-foot-4 and weigh at least 110 pounds. About 1,700 women were refused work Ai eight lobby Qwens Ford plants and probably three times that Many refrained from applying because they knew the company s policy said Margaret l. Herbert Ane Etc attorney who worked on the Case. All would be eligible to Benefit under he proposed settlement to be advertised in five Stales where the company operates plants and in three where it once did said Leoc attorney John p. Rowe. Lops position is that its hiring requirements were Job related and necessary for the Sale and Effifie operation of its plants said Byron Quandel a company spokesman. We Felt at the time that. Certain jobs in Glass manufacturing and fabricating require a certain level of reach strength and stamina in order 10 be safely performed. The key thing was  Quandt added that the height weight requirement was used by the company under Torii of a 1971 con sent decree reached in Federal court in Toledo to set hiring guidelines. Under its new agreement with Leoc the Lof has denied any liability fur any violation of Tiili Vii of the civil nights act. Hut has agreed to the icbms of the settlement to avoid the Cost of any further Lime con suming litigation he said  
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