European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 21,1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 policies impede women in military hinder careers Gao tells Congress by William j. Bartma Washington Bureau Washington the effects of current policies regarding military women clearly impede their Prog Ress As service members the general accounting office told Congress thursday. The congressional service is preparing a report on issues taking Mii diary women birr Mirin f tier Gay senior assistant director gave the House armed services military personnel subcommittee a hint of what the Gap is finding when he concurred with the defense advisory committee on women in the serv ices that a major Impact of these policies has been to inhibit the career progression of women in the Mili tary by excluding them from some jobs they Are Capa ble of  the subcommittee is examining through a series of hearings the issues faced not Only by military women but by military spouses As Well. One committee member.  Dickinson r-ala., already has introduced legis lation thai would expand the jobs available to military women although it would not drop regulations thai prevent them from taking combat roles. While he acknowledged that women arc being Hurt by inc services policies Ferber said the problem May be difficult to solve. He said the individual services each apply the statutes regarding women differently which raises , there is no easy solution he said. The serv ices Are different and establishing hard and fast Crite Ria in today s military and social environment is not easy. But the effects of the current situation Are Clear military women Are being impeded from Prog Ressing in their chosen  Gap investigation was requested by Sens Wil Liam Proxmire d-wis., and William Cohen a Maine. The hearings and inc slight ions follow ally Gaithe past year by dacoits that military women Are unfairly treated and Are often victims of harassment. Or. Mady Wechslur Segal a sociologist from the University of Maryland said other nato members have done a belie Job of integrating women into their  scientists have been used in some instances military. Here in  states we have a habit of implementing new policy and then just expect it to work she said. Segal s partner in a research project on military women. Or. Sandra Carson Stanley a sociology professor from Towson state University in Maryland said issues such As the Chance of an arms reduction agreement Between the United states and soviet Union make inc military womens1 Issue important. Strong conventional forces reduce the necessity of relying on nuclear arms for effective defense she said. Further the presumed current imbalance unconventional forces favouring the Eastern bloc nations greets attention to manpower issues. Mibb we expect that when there Are shortages of Quali a find men especially during limes of National Emorgen Lcy most of the nato countries will increase women s military roles she said. She said women Are historically used in greater role Sal limes of War but in peacetime their contributions Are forgotten. One of the rationales often used to justify excluding women from certain military roles is the value of protecting women from risk of physical injury the sociologist said. In is therefore ironic that women tend to serve Ini inc military when he risks arc the greatest they Are i less accepted and sometimes even forced out when dangers Are lower but career benefits  the two sociologists showed that of All Natona tons the United Stales has the highest percentage of women in the services 10.2 percent Only Canad comes close to Iha with 9.2 percent. The United kingdom is a Distant second with 5.1 percent. But despite the higher percentage Segal said . Mili Ary women Are limited in Many ways including their. No is inn in rank.  a ski ing women s military roles with Canada and Denmark letting women Lake direct offensive combat  Ferber said that while the . Military tries to protect women from the dangers of actual warfare the complexity and fluidity of Modem warfare and the considerably changed social role of women make it difficult to draw clearcut lines which identify Safe versus dangerous locations military jobs women can  do or military jobs women should not  the services ability to determine degrees of Dangcil Fin modern warfare is questionable meaning that i women Are excluded from some fighting jobs hut not others and May be protected in some Job but put31 substantial risk in others he said. T rep. Albert Bustamante a Texas observed that in ii today s nuclear world anybody would be in danger i because anybody is within striking distance. So what few we arguing about my j other findings from the sociologists study were that men on average tend to lose More service Lime while in the military than women . Stan Ley and Segal said that White women tend to lose More time for health reasons men lose More Lime for disciplinary problems and problems such As alcoholism. Attrition rates for military men and women Are similar there Are More male single parents in the .military than female single parents. Est accused of provoking profess former double agent Kim makes rare appearance a soviet to London a former double agent Kim Phil by appeared on soviet television for the first Lime and accused Western intelligence of provoking latvian opposition to soviet Rule the British broadcasting corp. , whose defection from Britain to the soviet Union 24 years ago confirmed massive soviet penetration of Western intelligence appeared wednesday in a Foj minute interview m the soviet Republic of , now 75, was the third Man with thai Burgess and Donald Maclean. The three a Brut of Cambridge University in the 1930s and myed British id american secrete for decades of segment of the interview Shai frn Ilby speaking but Only a few word Jufer heard and then Ain russian report Gat Romares. Saying Iha Oherni intelligence encourage to opdj0boviet control of their country them As  the bbl report is of latvians protesting theby the soviet Union 47 Yean Jet authorities who tried to latvian and a  demonstrations. Kab officer inter View Hilby called him comma Fulty looks nun like Cambridge do i to Tuut a Brauar in exile bbl said. Philby is thought to hold the  colonel and received the order of Lenin award Woithe bbl described his television Intel few on the lat Vian troubles As one More service for a a Putty he adopted half a Harold a pair Philby took up a pro soviet ideological Sti while Al Cambridge and was a soviet agent led m16, the British intelligence Agency Early  in his autobiography my silent War pub 3 in 1968, that there was hardly any Check of Hii background before he entered the ranks of the British secret  ease of my entry surprised me he wrote the Only enquiry into my past was the routine reference Tomis the Security service or  Agency who passed my name through their records and comeback with the laconic statement nothing recorded against among the key posts he held was Britain s of secret agent in Turkey head of the soviet desk Al mi6, an Britain s Liaison Man with the Cia in the United states. The British say his betrayals Cost the lives of hundreds Olp eople working for British and . Intelligence in Alba niacin 1949-53.in 1951, he lipped Burgess that Maclean was suspected of being a soviet agent and both or them immediately defected to Moscow. Though suspicion fell on Philby As the third Man in a soviet spy ring alter the two  was Able to outwit his interrogators and avoid arrest. But he was tired from intelligence work and worked Asa journalist in the Middle East until stronger evidence against him came to Light causing him finally to flee from Beirut Lebanon to Moscow. Chinese a Tot flying Mig-19 a defects in Taiwan Talph. Taiwan a Force Squadron Comman 19 Jet fighter across Strait and defer a i his Mig-1 Taiwan nationalists thursday the Dej Rifca ministry reported the  Liu Chin Yuan 28,look of 4lwfi a base in lungs he in the soul Era coastal province of fijian 113mires across the Taiwan Strait from Tai wan and landed at the China. Chuan Kang air Force base in Taichung 120miles South of Taipei it 3 38 . The ministry issued i Brief statement thai said Liu stationed with tic 49th chinese air Force flight div was a native of Jinan in the northeastern prov Ince of Shandong. Taiwan s official broadcasting  China said two nationalist chinese Jet fighters scrambled to intercept the Mig 19 As it approached Tai i and late escorted it to the air base who by was greeted by nationalist chinese official. Officials declined to provide audit Al details on the defection. A number of chinese pilots have defected to Taiwan since the nationalist government retreated to this Island in1949 after losing a civil War on the China Mainland to the communists. Officials said Liu was the sixth Pilot to defect by flying directly to Taiwan since 1960. Several others have defected by flying planes to South Korea the Only Sian country that maintains diplomatic it ions with the nationalists. Defectors to South Korea  to resettle in Taiwan but the plan were kept by the korean