European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 14, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Gay groups protest police candidate quiz los Angeles Dpi Are you a Man but wish you were a Girt Are you very strongly attracted to members of your own sex would you like to be a Florist if you want to join the los Angeles police department you will have to answer those questions and More like them. Homosexual Community groups charging the test questions arc discriminatory demand the dumping of the questions which appear on a 45-year-old standardized psychological test routinely Given to All police officer candidates. In the Wake or the complaints. Mayor Tom Bradley announced he has ordered a review of the test. Thomas Coltman director of Legal services at the los Angeles Gay and lesbian Community services Center said the questions appear to be de signed to screen put homosexuals and therefore May be illegal. We Are very much offended by what s on this test he said. And in my opinion the questions May be Vio lating the City s Law prohibiting Job discrimination based on sexual  other questions relating to religious beliefs and the role of women May also offend other groups Coleman said. The following Are examples from the566-question Minnesota multiphase personality inventory test prepared by the University of Minnesota. Questions Are to be answered True or false. I am very strongly attracted by members of my own sex. I have often wished i were a girl or if you arc a girl i have never been sorry that i am a girl i would like to be a Florist. I believe in the second coming of Christ. I believe women ought to have the same sexual Freedom As men. I have never indulged in any unusual sexual practices. There never was a time in my life when i liked to play with dolls. Christ performed miracles such As changing water into wine. I like to Cook. I like mannish women. Other questions ask if a candidate believes someone has control Over his mind if he is afraid of losing his mind if he is bothered by people outside on streetcars in stores etc., watching him if he sometimes feel As if he must injure himself or someone else or if he shrinks from facing a crisis or difficulty City personnel department director Jack Driscoll agrees the test copy righted in 1943, could use some Revi Sions and said City Legal experts Are studying , Driscoll denied the test is  Don t bclicv1 it is used to screen out homosexuals he said. Driscoll explained that the City does not scrutinize answers to individual questions but rather lumps inc answers together to develop a psychological profile of candidates through a variety of test scores. Driscoll said the questions that appear to focus on male female stereo types Are used to determine what is called a masculinity Femi nity score but that the City does not use those scores. He said the City is trying to deter mine whether it could scrap those questions and still use the lest and the other scores it produces. Driscoll defended inc use of the exam saying it or something similar is needed to Weed out mentally unstable candidates for police jobs. It is also used in special cases for firefighter candidates we have an obligation to make sure that police officers Are psychologically capable of doing the Job Driscoll said. He said the lest is widely used by other cities throughout the country. Poll shows Bush would defeat protesters arrested All demos if election held now Al be i? new York a vice president George Bush would defeat any democratic opponent if the presidential election were held today according to a Gallup poll taken for Newsweek and released saturday. But a growing number of people think Bush should disclose More about the lean Contra affair the poll showed. Seventy four percent of the respondents said they arc pleased with the Field of candidates now running and would not like to see an undeclared candidate enter the race. The Gallup organization interviewed 755 voters by Telephone thursday and Friday. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage Points. The poll showed Bush would gel 49 percent of the vote to Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis 43 per cent if the election were held now. Against other democratic opponents the poll show Bush would defeat sen. Albert Gore or. Of Tennessee 55 percent to 37 percent and would win 58 percent to 35 percent against Jesse Jackson. If sen. Bob Dole of Kansas were the Republican candidate the poll showed he would lose to Dukakis 45 percent to 44 percent. However Dole would defeat Gore 53 percent to 34 percent and Jackson 58 percent to 32 percent. Fifty percent of the respondents said Bush should Tell the Public More about the role he played in the sales of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the nicaraguan Contra rebels and 42 percent said he had done enough explaining. A Newsweek poll taken in january showed respondents split evenly on the Issue at 44 percent. Bush got higher Marks for being Strong and Force Ful in this Survey than he did in polls taken by them Aga inc two months ago and in october 1987. In the Post super tuesday poll 46 percent of the respondents agreed with that description of the vice president compared with 36 percent in the two previous polls. A photo democratic presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis dons an apron for a stint on the production line at a Chicago bakery. The Massachusetts governor As campaigning for Illinois tuesday primary. Balcer House to be put up for auction Tega Cay . A Jim and Tammy Bakker Sotl owned. Five level House will be put on the auction Block april 12, with the minimum Price set at $995.000. The Money will go to help the pal ministry based in nearby fort Mill pay its debts. Dave Huncy Cut of Lake Wylie realtors said he Shad about 55 inquiries about the House since the auction notice appeared tuesday. They include doctors lawyers Well known sports promoters and very successful Independent business people he said. The 10,226-Squarc-fool House was built in 1976 an enlarged four times after pal bought it in 1981 As a parsonage for the bakkers and their two children. The master bedroom has his and hers bathroom suites connected by a sunken Whirlpool tub. The tub is flanked by a Glass enclosed Rock Garden. Faucet handles Are in the shape of Long neck swans. The bakkers apparently shared a 600-Square-fool carpeted clothes closet that adjoined Tammy s dress ing room. Large mirrors abound in the music room exercise room bathrooms and other areas. The House has a commercial Kitchen with heavy duty appliances two additional kitchens and at least 25 closets. Electronically controlled draperies and curtains Are in most major rooms including Bakker s study and the master bedroom. The massive House sits at the Bottom of a Steep Hill and fronts Lake Wylie in one of Toga Cay s most exclusive sections. The grounds include a two Story playhouse that is heated and air conditioned a guardhouse boardwalks to a White Sandy Beach at the water s Edge and a Large Dock where the bakkers once kept their 58-foot House boat and Small Power Cruiser. Mercury Nev. A More than 1,100 anti nuclear protesters including actress ten Garr actor Robert Blake disc jockey Casey Kasum and activist Daniel Ells Berg were arrested saturday at the nation s nuclear test ing grounds 65 Miles Northwest of Las vegas. Saturday s demonstration dubbed reclaim the test site was pan of a 10-Day protest to be continued through March 20. Nyc county authorities estimated the crowd of pro testers at 3,000, Well below the 5,000 to 10,000 organizers had expected to participate. Protesters climbed barbed wire fences surrounding the 1,350-Squarc-Muc site began walking across the desolate desert and were arrested by some 300 officers from inc Nevada Highway patrol Nye county sheriffs office and the department of Energy Security forces. Garr was asked if she thought joining the protest would Hurt her movie career. "1 Hope not she said. Idon t think you have to be a fanatic to think nuclear weapons arc going to annihilate the  those arrested were placed in two Large enclosures then bused to Tonopah and released. All were cited for Misdemeanour trespass. Authorities no longer prosecute Misdemeanour arrests for trespassing. Authorities took extra precautions for the rally building an 8-foot Chain link enclosure lopped with barbed wire to hold detainees. Americans for nuclear testing held a counter do Mon stration saturday. Protests at the site have been common in recent years Jesse Cocks an organizer with the american peace test said her organization counted 2,547 tres passing arrests in 1987. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 14, 1948 a severe breakdown in Foo distribution in Moscow resulted in unprecedented bread lines and widespread hunger. 30 years ago today. March 14, 1958 american Oil prospectors beat Back an attempt by japanese interests to acquire what was believed to be the last major untapped Petroleum Concession in the Middle East off the shores of Kuwait. 20 years ago today. March 14, 1968 new Hampshire democrats gave president Johnson a narrow Victory Over sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy d-minn., in the nation s opening presidential primary election. J 0 years ago today. March 14, 1978 in a gun blazing assault on a government office in Assen Netherlands South moluccan extremists seized about 75 hostages and demanded the release of prisoners serving time for ear tier terrorist attacks