European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday november 21,1987 stateside 6 accused of hazing must do Community service Lowell mass. A six University of Lowell students accused of hazing a freshman who was left in a coma for three Days have been ordered to perform 200 hours of Community service. District court judge Neil Walker made the order and continued he Case without a finding for one year. If the six perform the Community service and arc nol charged with another of sense the charges of hazing and failing to report having will Beji missed. The victim Yaj hot  he a Sejut and in it m. The supreme court Yard said. At the same time the Senate judiciary committee appeared on the verge of setting a timetable for confirmation hearings. Chairman Joseph r. Biden jr., who met Wilh White House chief of staff Howard h. Bakerjr. And commit tee members said the most Likely timetable would be to Start hearings about Jan. 20, have a committee vote about feb. 2, and begin floor debate about feb. S. A mid december hearing Date also remained under consideration Biden said out the earlier Start would nol change the floor schedule. A Broad coalition of civil rights civil liberties and women s groups waged a successful All out fight against president Reagan s first nominee for the court vacancy Robert a Bork. Bui the same groups have nol yet taken positions on Kennedy urging a go Stow approach until they Complete a study of Ris record. Yard said she Hopes the other groups win soon join now in opposition. Yard said  group was especially Upsel at Kennedy s ruling against female workers in the state of Washington who sought Equality in pay with men holding comparable jobs. Kennedy wrote the decision in 1985 for h unanimous Ihrck judge panel of the 9th . Circuit court of appeals where he has served for 1 2 years. He paid not the slightest attention in findings of fact which. Yard said showed that discrimination did exist. Kennedy said the disparity in pay without proof of a discriminatory motive docs not violate a Federal Law Banning on the Job sen. Bias. It is evident. Thai Congress after explicit consideration rejected proposals that would have Rahib. With Effii artwork he wrote. He said inc state could not be held responsible for an inequality which it did nol create adding Nei ther Law nor logic deems the free Market a suspect  Yard also criticized a 1980 Kennedy opinion involving homosexuals in the Navy. He ruled against a Chal Lenge by three sailors to the service s former policy of giving automatic discharges to those engaging in homosexual activity. After discussing the need for military discipline and the special problems caused by Long isolation on ships Kennedy said upholding tic challenged regulations As constitutional is distinct from a statement thai they fire Wise. It should be Plain from our decision that be constitutionality of the regulations stems from the needs of the military the Navy in particular and from the unique accommodation Between military demands and what might be constitutionally protected activity in some other  that explanation did not satisfy Yard who said if Kennedy could not uphold the privacy of the sailors what will he say on the right of privacy of women to control their reproductive rights rehabilitation conference focuses on Nixon s White House years Hempstead . A the rehabilitation of Richard Nixon s reputation is Well under Way As reflected in he first National conference on his presidency says former Secretary of state Henry Kissinger about 150 scholars journalists and former Nixon administration officials including . Haldeman John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson Sal amiably thursday on panels with former opponents and critics. And As keynote speaker Kissinger concluded an emphatic defense of Nixon s foreign policy by recalling his meeting with the despondent president iwo Nighti before Nixon resigned in 1974 Over the watergate scandal. History will treat you More kindly than your con temporaries Kissinger said he old Nixon. "1 believe this conference is proof that this process is Well under Way he said of the three Day meeting at Hofstra University. Nixon was invited to the conference but declined according to a spokesman for the sex president who lives in Northeast new Jersey. Professor Stephen Ambrose of the University of new Orleans author of the recently published Nixon the education of a politician faulted the Nixon administration for not ending the War in Vietnam sooner. Think of we were out of Vietnam in 1969," Nixon s first year in office. Ambrose said earlier in the Day. Nixon mishandled the Retreat at a terrible  an irritated Kissinger dismissed such criticism say ing that the North vietnamese did nol want to negotiate an end to the War. The nation could not change its policy in Vietnam As if it were switching a television Channel he said adding that in was presumptuous for outsiders to pre lend they had a monopoly on  Ehrlichman who was Nixon s Domestic adviser said his former Boss was a pragmatist. He was essentially a problem solver he said. When you presented him with a problem and some options you did t gel ideological  Elliot Richardson who held numerous Cabinet posts in Nixon s administration said Nixon had it within his grasp to become our greatest Post world Wai ii  Richardson had no answer for Why Nixon did not there were what he called flaws of character but Richardson wondered if a different Nixon would have succeeded so Well in some areas. "1 still Don t understand him said Hugh Sidey longtime Washington correspondent for time mag Azine. Sidey described Nixon As an Enigma who did t understand the oath of office he took but understood the world belter than other american leaders. Maybe we will have to live with this contradiction achievements in the books but failure in the human dimensions that mean so much to leadership in the pres Jency he said.  swindler strikes again Arl Noton a. Up the sweetheart swin Dler a dumpy balding Middle aged Man suspected of using Romance to con women out of their Money across the country has struck again in the nation s capital. Police in at least eight Ilant say the Man has wooed Between 15 and 20 women in their 40s into turning Over thousands of dollars to him and then leaves them the journal newspapers in suburban Washington re ported thursday. He meets his victims in singles bars through lonely beam ads in magazines and in the Case of Bis latest Mark through an and she placed seeking a Roommate. He moved in wild the 41-year-old Arlington woman last month and within Days convinced  that he could straighten out  troubled finances. After writing  a 120,000 Check from a phony corporation he claimed to own he persuaded the woman to give him 14,800 in Cash 10 invest for  in a High yield fund in new York. The con Man a i-fool-7,160-Pound Cigar smoker with a receding hairline and new York accent has nol been heard from since. Arlington county police detective Jim Grunwold who was assigned to the Case last month said he a linked the sweetheart swindler to similar schemes in Alabama Michigan Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylva Nia Kentucky and Oregon