European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday february 12.1988 study examines pressures of office Romance Washington the influx of women Inlo the working world a turning the work place increasingly into marriage Hunting grounds and is pulling new pressures on managers to Deal with office romances nepotism and sexual harassment u private study said thursday. The work pm acc it nol supposed to accommodate people falling in love said Sarah Crint principal researcher for the study. Corporate Llain nepotism office Romance and sexual harassment the work place is supposed to be � rationalplan1, and Romance is Crim said. Tin report by a private publisher the Bureau of National affairs. Ilik i not offer any rcom Xvi Ulanimo to employers Bill did find that an Alfair beige in a supervisor and a subordinate Tan he most disruptive of the work place. A tool corporations do nol have formal poli cies romances Ivel can employees although some do have policies against married t us pc working together. I Here is a trend toward relaxing nepotism policies because the incidence of married Cou ple wanting to work for the same company is increasing. 3rd defendant sentenced to prison in . Race Case new York a Jason Ladone the third defendant in the Howard Beach Case was sentenced thursday to five to 15 years in prison despite his open court apology to the Mother of the Black Man killed during an attack by a White gang. State supreme court Justice Thomas Dimakos sentenced Ladone to 2 a years to 7vt Yean for Man Slaughter and Ifie same sentence for assault. The two sentences Are to run consecutively. The sentence was inc shortest of those handed Down against the three teen agers convicted in the racial at tack on three Black men that left one 23-year-old Michael Griffith dead. Jon Lester already in jail on a weapons charge has been sentenced to the maximum of 10 to 30 Yean and is serving his sentence Al Attica prison. Scott Kent 18, was sentenced Friday to six to 19 years. Ladone the youngest of inc three was the Only one to speak before sentencing. He noted he had turned 16 just five week before the dec. 20,1986, incident i m sorry mrs. Griffith for your senseless loss i sorry. Mom and dad that your lives have been so violently overturned he said. Ladone said he had no intention of hurting anybody when he went to a party the night of the incident lie had Learned he said that perhaps it takes More courage to say no one Young Man is dead and another one stands before you. T nope that i get the Opportunity to make my life a productive one be said. Ladone s lawyer Ronald Rubinstein had called for leniency. He said ins client had Mai Rcd. He repeated arguments from the trial that the incident was not racial that the victims were armed and the teen agers were caught up in racial . Even a White person is in need of equal Justice under the Law he said. These were no Fink who were sporting for a fight and they got a Light. And unfortunately a Young Man but prosecutor Charles j. Llynch described Ladone s actions As a result of uncontrolled fury founded on and he called for the maximum sentence to continue the message that violence Bawd on race will not be tolerated in this Dimakos agreed that Ladone did not have a history of violence. But the night of the attack he said. La done displayed a mind that was criminal and Bent on this cannot go he said. When lie announced the sentences would run consecutively hisses could be heard in inc Queens courtroom which was three quarters filled mostly with neighbors of the convicted teen Ager. Ladona Sal numbly As the sentence was handed Down. Before he was let away by court officers he he cd Rubinstein and waved 10 the crowd. Bunch of Onici firs you arc Pontius Pilate shouted Harold Kern father of Ladone s co defendant. Scon Kern. Richard brawn an associate Justice with the state appellate division permitted Kern to be released wednesday on s300.000 bail pending Appeal. Average tax refund up nearly 20% this year Washington al1 fewer Ami Mill Are inching to file their Feder Al a returns this year but those who do ire finding the average refund up by Al most -0 percent from 1987, the internal Revenue service said thursday. During the first live weeks of inc car the irs received 9.14 million returns Down 17.s percent from the 11.08 Mil lion i or the same period a year ago. The Nura jul refund was 1656. Compared with sl-48 Al inc same Lime last year. These returns due by april 1 i Are the first since most of the big new lax Law enacted in \ i took effect. And Al though some errors Are turning up the irs sail there have been no big sur Prises. Early indications Are that the filing season is going pretty much As sex Robert lab Aube director of theirs taxpayer service division told re porters. The drop in the number filing Early returns is not significant he said. In fad. Inc number of couples and in
