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 go cafe is by w11,Liam j. Bartman Washington Buma Washington the armed serv ices policies cd Carlo impede military Wum ivs Careen the general account ing office told Congress thursday. The congressional watchdog Agency is preparing a report on issues lacing Mili tary women. But Martin Ferber Gao senior assistant director gave the House armed services military personnel sub committee a hint of what the Gao is finding when he concurred with the de sense advisory committee on women in the service that a major Impact of these policies has been to inhibit the career progression or women in the Miti Lary by excluding them from some they Are capable of  the subcommittee is  on issues faced by Mil i women and by military Sno sat Une committee member repo Priam Dickinson r ala., Alread it introduced legislation thai Boudro Spand the jobs available to in although it would nol dry regulations that prevent them from taking combat roles. While he acknowledged Hal women Are being Hurt by the services policies for Kcf Taitl to Salve. Yet there is no easy solution he Aid. The services Are different and establishing hard and fast criteria in Day s military and soda Environ not easy. But the effects of Perrem situation arc Clear being impeded for pop Messing in l or chosen Fields the pm Kvenic Stion was rcom Villiam Proxmire a wis i Cohen a Mainc. The hearings and investigations follow allegations Over the past year by Daco wits that military women arc unfairly ire tied and Are often victims of harassment. Mady Wechsler Segal a sociologist from the University of Maryland said other nato members have done a Bel Ter Job of integrating women into their forces. Behavioural scientists have been used in some instances she said to help in the proper integration of the military. Steal s partner in a a Tim a Sociol a a a project on rank. Other nato members Are expanding women s military roles with Canada and Denmark kiting women from Towson slate 1, said issues such Ince of an arms reduction element Between the United states and soviet Union make the military women Issue important. National Folce Afu uce 04fli4pvs she Savuth Mhor. Favouring bloc nations directs attend Power  the two sociologists showed thai of Alt nato nations the United Stales has the highest parentage of women in the serv ices 10.2 percent. Only Canada comes close with 9.2 percent. The United kingdom is a Distant third with 5,1 per cent. Despite the higher percentage Segal said . Military women Are limited in Many ways including i hair progression Ferner raid that while the . Mili tary tries to protect women from the dangers of warfare the complexity and fluidity of Modem warfare and the considerably changed social role of women Mike it difficult to draw Clear Cut line which identify Safe is. Dangerous Loci Lions military jabs women can or cannot do or military jobs women should nol  other findings from the sociologists1 study were that men on average tend to lose More service Lime White in the military than women service Mceben. Stanley and Segal said that while women tend 10 less Mere time for health reasons men lose More Lime for disciplinary problems and problems such As alcoholism. Attrition Rales for military men and women arc similar. There arc More male single parents in the . Military than female single parents. World today $6 billion soviet project announced by Hammer Moscow up american industrialist Armand Hammer thursday said he has signed a memorandum with the soviet Union to build and operate a 16 billion petrochemical Complex in the largest joint venture Ever undertaken in the soviet Union. Hammer chairman of Occidental Petroleum corp., said his los Angeles based company had joined Mon Edison of Italy and Japan s Marrube in corp. To develop toe Complex that will pro Duce petrochemicals using Gas liquids and Sulphur produced at the Tongu Oil Field near the Caspian sea. Expected to Lake three Yean to build the joint venture will be the target Ever embarked on in the soviet Union he said the 89-year-old Hammer told a news Confer ene thai the project reflects his Trust in soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his belief that Gorbachev realizes Western capitalism and socialism have to live  e. European nations debt increased in 1 985- 86 Paris apr debt among Eastern euro Pean nations surged in 1985 and 1986 following three Yean of decline and Western economic experts predict indebtedness will Rise again in 1957. The nominal Gross hard currency debt in bul Garia Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland Romania and the soviet Union stood at the equivalent of til 5. 5 billion at the end of it is Likely to exceed $125 billion this year according to confidential documents of the organization for economic cooperation and development obtained by a Dow Jones in Paris. The Steep Rise in hard currency debt reflects a deterioration in the past two years in Eastern Europe s Trade with the non socialist countries especially the industrialized democracies according to the 24-Nalion Recd and other Agen cies that track communist bloc economies. Germany gives millions for China Forest fire Relief Beijing a West Germany signed an agreement thursday providing j 1 1 .7 million in Relief for areas of China s Northeast damaged this year by the worst Forest fire in Modem chinese history. Proposed legislation would open 162,000 military slots to women by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington proposed legislation expanding the role of women in the military would end men Only requirements or 162,000 positions in the services. The numbers were released by the general account ing office which is studying the role of women in the services. An aide to rep. William Dickinson r-ata., who wrote the House version of the Bill said the Fig ures Given by the Gao correspond with numbers the congressman acquired from the individual services. An Idun Titial piece of legislation is in the Senate sponsored by Sens. William Proxmire d-wis., and William Cohen a Maine. Neither the House nor sen ale has pushed Forward with the Bills so far and House leaders say they Are waiting for the results of a Penta gon study of women in the services. Rep. Beverly Byron chairwoman of the House armed services subcommittee on military personnel said she would like 10 see the defense department move on its own to help military women rather than have Congress Force its hand. The Pentagon opposes the legislation which would have the biggest Impact on the army by requiring the opening of h3,000 positions to women. Many of those positions Are now considered off limits to women be cause of their High combat possibility. The Navy would open 14,000 enlisted positions and 700 officer positions on combat logistics Force ships for women. The air Force estimates 4,500 new positions would be open for women on reconnaissance planes transport aircraft and in some training Posi Lions. The legislation stops Short of placing women into combat. But it does broaden the role of women by doing such things As permitting them on Board Navy vessels Hal Are officially designated As combat ships. In addition to Byron a Maryland Democrat the Bill has gained support from some key members of the armed services committee. Among those expressing support were reps. Pat Schroeder d-colo., Jack Davis r-i1i., and Sonny Montgomery d-miss., Al though Montgomery has stressed that he wan is women kept Oul of direct combat roles. Dickinson said he Hopes through the legislation to eliminate the Many career restrictions on military women. Dickinson s aide said he believes everyone on by Ron s subcommittee is interested in looking into this whole Issue of women in the military and what is Avail Able to them in terms of meaningful career opportune  the aide said the roles of military women Are directed by a Law that s close to 40 years old pregnancy will bring prison term Georgia judge tells 2 shoplifters m1lledceville, a. A two women convicted of shoplifting can stay Oul of prison provided they do not gel pregnant again without being married. Sisters Vanessa and Bernice Mosley were convicted oct. 2ft of stealing $172 Worth of groceries from a supermarket earlier this year. Superior court judge Hugh p. Thompson on wednesday placed each woman on 10 years Proba Tion fined them s2.000 apiece and ordered each to perform 200 hours of Community service. Thompson added the stipulation that neither sister can have a child out of Wedlock without violating her Proba Tion. Violating probation could result in a say in jail. Illegitimate children interfere with the court s ability to handle the cases and make it hard for probation officers to supervise the women said at Martinez assistant District attorney for the Okmulgee judicial circuit. Martinez said be mice mos icy 24, has two children and Vanessa Mosley 22, has one child and is pregnant. Neither has a Job. Art Appeal is being considered said Angela Emerson a Crnic Mosley s lawyer. I would have some question about its legality and constitutional ily she said. Bob Boulineau the attorney for Vanessa Mosley said he wiil talk with her about the sentence bul has not considered an Appeal. Georgia attorney general Michael Bower said it would be improper for him to comment. If either woman gets pregnant again and is not mar ried you be got a pretty Good circumstantial Chi. Donee Case that she was involved in fornication which is a violation of the terms of probation he said since fornication is against stale Law and breaking the Law is a probation violation. Each woman has one previous Misdemeanour conviction for shoplifting