European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes news briefs Panama stores reopening As strike loses steam Panama City. Panama a Many shuttered stores reopened thursday and opponents of inc regime at Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega pondered their next move As a general strike wound Down. President Reagan indicated thursday he believes Noriega must to. Secretary of state George p. Shultz said economic sanctions against Noriega s government were being considered Kaiui Riol police made a Row of Force Early thursday along Calle 50, the scene of disturbances tuesday and wednesday. Al least three truckloads of the troopers took up positions at strategic intersections. National civic crusade leaders said they would decide thursday night whether to Call off the strike which was longer than the five shut Downs staged last year by the opposition. Hostage Higgins name on Marine promotion list Washington a it col. William Hig glib the . Marine kidnapped in Lebanon two weeks ago has been selected for promotion to the rank of colonel Higgins a military Aid to former defense Secre tary Caspar w. Weinberger before assuming a Armor said a study group with members from his office the Dod general counsel the joint staff and the military services Nas been formed to study ambiguities in the defense officer personnel management act including inc ways thai service secretaries interact Wilh promotion boards. . Loses vote to close Plo s . Observer Mission United nations a the United nations wednesday voted 143-1 for the United states to sub Mit to binding arbitration on whether it can shut Down the Palestine liberation organization s observer mis Sion. The United states did not vote and Israel cast the Only negative Vole. Israeli ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu who said the Plo is a terrorist group hat has no place in the United nations stormed out of the chamber when the Flo representative. Zyhdi Labia Terzi said Israel vote showed contempt for the world body and the norms of civilized the general Assembly also voted 142-0 Tor a Resolution asking Hie world court at the Hague nether lands Tor a ruling on whether he United slates has the right to refuse arbitration. Neither Israel nor the unit eds tires voted on the measure. The arbitration would be conducted by an Independent three member panel with the untied Stales and the United nations each appointing one member and the third appointed jointly. The resolutions sponsored by the soviet Union several soviet allies and satellites nations professing non Alliance with either superpower and the philippine Lay thai closing the Mission would violate the 1947 treaty under which the United slates became . Headquarters. The pact provides for binding arbitration. The Plo has non voting status in the general As Sembly and exercises considerable influence at the United nations which regards it As the Only legitimate representative of the palestinian people. Soldier of Fortune loses lawsuit Houston a Soldier of Fortune Magazine was found by a Federal court jury thursday to be negligent in publishing a classified and that led to the slay ing of a Texas woman and the jury ordered the mag Azine to pay $9.4 million to the woman s family. The jury ordered thai 11.5 million be paid to Ibe woman a son and awarded $400,000 to her Mother. The two received 17.5 million in punitive damages. The verdict followed two weeks of testimony to a six person jury which received the Case on tuesday. It stemmed from inc slaying of Sandra Black Al her Home in Bryan three years ago. Mrs. Black s husband Robert is on Texas death Row Tor paying John Wayne Heam $10,000 to kill her. Black contacted Carn through a personal services classified and Heam placed in Soldier of Fortune in late i9s4. Hearn is serving three life Lertus in Florida for the Black Lia Yini and two other killings in that state. Gary Wayne Black is inc victim s son and Mario lie Eimann 64, her Mother had sought 122,5 million in the suit attorneys for the Boulder Magazine and Jas Parent company Omega group lid., did not dispute thai the and brought Heam and Black together but insisted Magazine executives had no Way of know ing the and was for illegal activity. Heam i and appeared in four issues of Soldier of Fortune offering services of former Marine and Viel Nam veterans and weapons specialists wild Jungle War fare expertise Tor High risk assignments in the unil de states or overseas. Soldier of Fortune witnesses said the ads Are run to provide employment for Vietnam veterans. Talks from Page 1 Thatcher who have been pushing for modernization. But it also apparently met West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl s political needs by avoiding the mention of a timetable for modernizing. At a news conference following the dosing Mimmitt ses Sion nato Secretary general lord can Tan voiced concern that the Rnoda Mullion agreed id in 19s3, has been misinterpreted in some countries As representing an escalation. What we re talking about is keeping our nuclear deter rence up to Dale where and when it s he said. Carrin Loti would not elaborate on what inc Leaden meant by up to Dale and avoided a question on whether modernization would take place in West Germany where it faces stif Public opposition. However Thatcher said she was Especial y Happy with the Alliance s stance on upgrading and believed the communique s wording was Clear. In a thinly veiled Barb aimed at Kohl Thatcher said "1 understand there is no difference in the word modernization and up to Date in German. I like up-Lo-dalc.1 that s what ibis communique says. Don t underestimate it in statement following Ibe Summit Reagan said he left Brussels More confident than Ever thai the Alliance is on the right path and has the will logo Down a four pan Agenda and we re ready to gel Down to Busi the Summit is probably the last for Reagan and lord Carrington. Carrington who retires this summer is due to be replaced by Manfred Warner the West German defense minister. Reagan ended his statement with thanks for Canington s service to the Alliance and words of Welcome for Warner whose a longhand will Toon be on nato s Bill from Page 1 Taw barring sex discrimination in federally funded Edu cation programs applies Only to specific programs or activities receiving Federal assistance and not the institutions of which they Are pan. The restoration Aei clarifies that entire institutions and government agencies Are covered if any program or activity within them receives Federal Aid. The Broad coverage also applies to the private sector when the Aid goes to a corporation us a whole or when inc recipient principally provides education health care housing social service or Parks and recreation. The Bill also says Farmers gelling crop subsidies people on food Stamps and other individuals receiving Federal assistance arc not required to comply with the anti discrimination statutes. Sponsors of the restoration act said Congress always intended Broad civil rights protections on the theory thai those who dip their hands in the Public till should not object if a Little democracy Slicks to their ringers As rep. Augustus Hawkins a Calif put it. Bui opponents claim the Bill goes far beyond Resto ration. Like Reagan they complained that it is too intrusive into the private sector and into religious organizations. The wording of the Law is going to bring about unintended consequences like you could never imag Ine said rep George Geta rpt House leaders provoked controversy by bringing the Senate s version of the Bill directly to the floor wednesday bypassing committees and limiting amendments to one gop substitute for Ibe entire Bill. We need a voting rights act for congressmen sputtered rep. Henry Hyde r-11l Bui other members said there had been More than 40 committee hearings on the Grove City Bill since 1934. Hawkins chairman of inc House education and labor committee and a senior member of the con Gressional Hack caucus said 2,900 amendments had been offered Over the years. Al the compromises that can possibly be made have already been made. Certainly All the ideas that could Ever Nave been thought of have already been expressed Taid Hawkins. The time to act is the gop substitute sponsored by rep. James Sensenbrenner r-wjs., would have limited the Bill s Impact on corporations and allowed More educational institutions to escape compliance Wilh the sex discrimination ban on religious grounds. Sensenbrenner said he offered it in a spirit of reconciliation to end the four year congressional ordeal Over the Bill. Bui it was Defeated 266-146. An anti abortion amendment adopted by the Senate says nothing in the Bill or in existing Law requires inst Lucions to perform or pay for abortions. The Amend ment invalidates 197s regulations thai bar discrimination against women who have had abortions or sought them and require College health plans to treat abortions like other temporary disabilities feminists considered the amendment a setback but did not actively oppose the civil rights Bill in the House. The National right to life committee called the amendment a great Victory laying that Congress has emphatically rejected the Legal doctrine that anti abortion policies Are a form of sex discrimination the into ration acl applies to the four civil rights Laws affected by the supreme court ruling title in of the 1971 education amendments barring sex discrimination in federally funded education programs the 1964 civil rights act hiring racial in federally assisted programs the 1973 rehabilitation act barring discrimination against the handicapped in any program or activity receiving Federal Aid and the 1975 age discrimination act barring employment discrimination against older people. The House passed the restoration act in similar form on a Vole of 375-32 in 1984, shortly after the court decision. The Bill was bottled up in � Senate commit tee until last year
