European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday december 2,1987 Senate approves Burnley As transportation Secretary Washington a the so talc approved the nomination of James h. Brumley in to be Secretary of transportation monday promoting an official who has had repeated clashes with lawmakers Over Federal safely and economic policies. Although the Vole was a lopsided 74-0. Some legislators who supported elevating the transportation department s no 2 official into the lop Post emphasized that their feelings toward him were mined. Sen. Ernest Hopings d-s.c., chairman of the Senate Commerce committee complained that it has been like Piilini 1ee1h" for run Gre if per Quad the depart ment to Lake Steps to improve aviation safety or. Burnley has been part of the management Over at Dot that has been slow to recognize the obvious problems we face and even slower to act toward solv ing  he said. And sen. Frank Laulin Borg. D-n.j., chairman of the Senate transportation appropriations subcommittee made reference to the frequent Battles the 39-Ysar old North carolinian has had with legislators. Burnley Deputy Secretary of the department since 1983, has been a vocal defender of several Agency policies that have been unpopular on Capitol Hilt. Or Burnley at limes has had difficulty working constructively with members of Congress Lautenberg  we be seen a change the senator said refer ring to efforts by Brumley in recent weeks to make peace Wilh several legislators. Reagan selected Brumley ocl 8 for the $99,. Year Cabinet Job. He would replace Elizabeth h. Dole who resigned from the Post a week earlier to work full time on the presidential Campaign of her husband. Senate minority Leader Bob Dole a Kan. Burnley saw his relations with Congress reach a Low Point in May when he crossed swords with a senator on National television. Appearing on lbs to s face the nation with Lautenburg Burnley accused critics of his Agency s aviation safety policies of speaking gibberish and non  those opponents and Lautenberg had been among them were scaring air past rears ill Loose Quick glib comments Brumley said. Two weeks later Brumley angered sen. Wendell Ford d-ky., chairman of the Senate aviation sub committee when he defended Cagan administration decisions not to hire additional air traffic controllers until june several months after lawmakers said More were needed. Ford accused the Reagan administration of having stonewalled Congress Over lawmakers demands for extra air traffic controllers. An irate Ford told Brumley i Don l want you to get away from Here and think you re All bad. Just  Brumley has also been a defender of the 1978 Law that deregulated the . Airline Industry saying ii has increased Competition and helped drive Down fare. But Many lawmakers in recent months have True that the legislation has made carriers desperate for profits willing to slump on maintenance to drive up their earnings. 2 Alaska based of jets intercept Chase off pair of soviet bombers Anchorage Alaska up two air Force Jet fighters were scrambled to Chase off it pair of soviet bombers Over the Bering sea along the Aleutian is lands Chain officials reported monday. The . Al is from the King Salmon base in South Western Alaska intercepted two soviet Bear bombers on thanksgiving Day said it col. Ted Tilma Alaska air come spokesman at Elmendorf fab in Ancho rage. The soviet planes flew East from Siberia Over Phebe ring sea following a course parallel and to the North of the Aleutian islands he said. Tilma said he closest Point to land reached by the soviets was 97 Miles North of the Busy fishing port of dutch Harbor. Just Over 100 Miles North of this Point is the Pribilof islands group inhabited by Alaska s aleut people. When the air Force Jet fighters appeared the soviet bombers continued 10 Fly East toward the Alaska main land for a while before turning around with their air Force escorts and retracing their paths West Back to Ward Siberia Tilma said. He said the iwo air Force Jet interceptors stayed with the two soviet intruders for 75 minutes before resuming to  the intercept occurred thursday afternoon no information about it was publicly released until monday. Tilma noted that the soviet bombers Are capable of carrying missiles judge rules at to discriminated against pregnant employees Chicago a a Federal judge ruled that an american Telephone & Telegraph co. Subsidiary discriminated against pregnant employees during a 12 year period i decision that could affect an estimated 20,000 women. . District judge Frank j. Mcgarr ruled monday that at to technologies inc. Discriminated against the women by denying them the same disability leave As workers Wilh other medical conditions. The ruling came in a class action lawsuit brought by the equal employment Opportunity commission and individual women. The ease a the Federal Agency s largest pending equal employment enforcement action said Julianne Bowman an Leoc attorney. She said an estimated 20,000 current or former workers could be affected. Bowman said the Agency and the women Are work ing on a proposed settlement to present 10 the company next week it would ask for monetary damages bul she would not say How much. They at to officials know it s coming Bowman nj., manufactures Telephone equipment for at to. Mcgarr in a summary judgment handed Down without a trial ruled monday that three policies no longer in Force had discriminated against pregnant employees. One policy in effect from 1965 to 1969, forced the women to begin unpaid maternity leave at the end of their Mill month of pregnancy. That policy was. Changed in 1969 to Force maternity leave to begin after he seventh month and the Rule remained in effect until 1971, Bowman said. A second policy in Force from 1965 to 1977, stipulated that employees taking maternity leave could receive Only 30 Days of seniority credits while others on disability received full credit while they were out of work she said. The third policy also from 1965 to 1977, gave women on maternity leave no guarantee that they could return to their jobs or to jobs similar to ones they had held before the leave Bowman said. The lawsuit became a class action in 1983, after the l Oll Ciais Sno it s coming Bowma i of. Alte said. They re going to look at the offer and then Well Mcgarr joined together a number of lawsuits filed a Sil Down and begin settlement negotiations an at to spokesman said no decision had been made concerning an Appeal bul noted Hal the company no longer had the same rules for maternity leave. At to technologies based in Berkeley Heights year earlier by women in Chicago and Kansas City Bowman said. She did not know the number of suits. Burke Stinson a District manager at at to s new York headquarter said the company had t decided whether to Appeal the ruling. Stateside College students protest Cia recruiting on Campus Providence . A about 100 Brown University students briefly took Over a Dean s office tuesday to protest Trie University s involvement in Cia recruiting efforts. The students sinking and waving signs occupied the office of John Robinson the Dean of students for about 20 minutes but led after another Dean issued two warnings and a police officer appeared. There were no arrests and none of the students will face disciplinary charges said Dean of student life Eric Widmor who issued the warnings. They got out before the warnings ran out Widmer said. On Friday the Cia cancelled plans to hold Job interviews on Campus because of fears that the recruitment would be disrupted by protests. National Forest project actively markets tourism Roanoke a. A the pc Flenon National Forest has become the nation s lint Forest to actively promote outdoor recreation instead of just waiting for people to ask for information Forest service official  think this is sort of a leading Edge in National policy we re going to ice the Forest Sere ice More involved in marketing said quite Blankenship a Forest staff officer for recreation and wilderness. The Pilot project suited in october will initially try to promote tourism in the mount Rov ers National recreation area a 115,000-acre stretch of the Jefferson Forest in southwestern Virginia near the Tennessee North Carolina stale  area contains 350 Miles of trails and Vir Ginia s highest Peak the 5,729-foot mount Rog ers Bui Campground Are not always full. In the past the Forest service has provide information Only to people who ask font Ireland s Abbey theatre to perform in new York new York a Ireland s famed Abbey theatre company will nuke its first Manhattan appearance in a half Century when it brings Day a Tom Mclntyre to Manhattan Community Conefe stage this March officials said  play the great hunger will be a fanned from March 15 u March 27 at the theater. Prior to the run in new York the troupe win per form in the soviet Union Philadelphia and Boston. The Abbey theatre was founded by William Butler Yeats in 1904, and has served As Home to generations of Irish dramatists including Yeats scan o Casey Brendan Behan and S.C. contemporary playwrights As Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. Passengers Crew unhurt As plane veers off runway Denver a seventeen people aboard a Continental express commuter plane escaped injury when it veered off a runway after Landing at Stapleton International Airport and wound of in a Patch of  flight from the Western Colorado Lown of Monlross to Denver touched Down monday afternoon and was nearly at the end of us slow Down Roll when it went off the runway and into he mud said Airport spokesman Norm a very. The 15 passengers and two Crew members were evacuated from the a Caroliner Turboprop aircraft. The propeller sustained minor damage and there were scratches on the Landing gear door said the Federal aviation administration s regional office in Seattle. There appears to be no major structural damage a cry  express is operated by Rocky Mountain airways which last year was bought by Continental airline s Parent company Texas air  weeks ago. Continental airlines right 1713 from Denver to Boise. Idaho crashed on Takeoff during a Inow Sion. The death loll from the nov. 15 Accident a reached 28, while 54 of the people aboard the dc-9 survived