European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 4 the stars and stripes tuesday March 29.1988 Reagan critical of democrats Trade solutions Richmond a a democratic candidates who espouse Trade restriction and retaliation have a message the Public won i boy president Reagan said monday. Protectionism in t just bad economics it s bad politic Hie president said. In an address prepared for delivery to workers at the Reynolds metals co., Reagan issued a Back handed slap a critics of Hii free Trade philosophies. Rep. Rich Ard Gephardt d-mo., made finding new solutions Lothe nation s Trade woes a fixture of his Campaign but Reagan did not mention any Democrat by name. I think he american people have decided hat on great depression is enough and they Aren t going to give the Trade demagogue a second Chance Reagan said. " would Nolc that on super tuesday those who had predicted that protectionism would be embraced in the South were proven wrong Reagan said. Gephardt did poorly in the March 8 Delegate selection contests throughout inc South and announced monday that he to ending his bid for the democratic president attacked the International Trade Bill under consideration by a House Senate conference committee. The House version contain a Gephard proposal requiring presidential action against nations running it Cess Trade surpluses. Ill veto it if i must Reagan warned. He derided the Bill s mandatory retaliation and automatic Protection provisions As seriously harmful to the National interest. It enacted they could weaken the International trading system and could require inc president to Start Trade it s a bad proposal under any circumstance Rea Gan charged. In remark apparently directed a Detuno crafts faulting his Trade plans Reagan said too Many talk about making America More competitive but support provisions in the Trade Bill that would Bench some of he Best competitors on our team. They talk about saving jobs but Bey want provi Sions thai have the potential to destroy thousands if Noi millions of american accused his critics of being myth makers who accuse his administration of overseeing the de Industrial ipalion of America the decline of the Middle class and the loss of american the president contended that the reality is new jobs and five years of steadily rising real income. He also pointed out that the Economy is in its 64th straight month of expansion and hat manufacturing exports arc surging. Although the Trade balance is slowly improving the , merchandise Trade deficit wid ened to $12.44 billion in january and in 1987, the Trade deficit exploded to a record 1171.22 billion. Reagan s remarks came As the House Senate Confer ence committee was preparing to Eccl tuesday to work out compromises in the rival versions of the sweeping 1,000-Page Trade Bill. The measure is aimed at wrestling with the Issue surrounding the debate Over the nation s Trade prob lems the record . Trade deficits and Layoff s in . Industries some say arc due o foreign Competition and Trade barriers. Last week the Senate finance committee chair Man. Sen. Loyd Hunt san a Texas predicted that the committee would Complete is work on the measure and Send ii to Reagan before the end of april. The Gephardt amendment would require the presi Dent to reduce excess and unwarranted surpluses by Japan and a few other countries in their Trade with inc United Stales if negotiations failed the president would be required to use import curbs to Tower the surpluses at a 10 percent annual rate. The president could waive such action if he found i contrary to the National economic interest or if the offending country were wrestling with serious debt. Critics say the plan is a Long step toward protectionism and invites retaliation against . Industries acting for boat people la us noun gestures Sun Dir id Boston u plan Tro Ong Harned University student from Vietnam Lis ten. The norwegian actress1 joined Boston mayor Ray. Mood Jyna and others Frt Didiog member of Ibe vote Truann Community in holding news Cru Vireace. They old the Media they want to Call Ullin too to lit plight of the Bwl people who Vuk u flee Vietnam s regime Losetto in Ncik Tho ring Thailand stamp of approval gained by Playboy sealing Victory Washington a the supreme court has turned away an unusual copyright dispute that filled the easter Seal society against Playboy enterprises. Trie justices Over orc dissenting vote rejected arguments monday thai Playboy illegally used materials in tended for an easier Seal telethon in a pornographic movie. New Orleans musician and entertainer Ronnie Kole acting on behalf of the easter scat society contracted with Public television station yes in 1982 to make a videotape of a staged Mardi Cras Isle videotape was edited into a if min ulc version supreme court Roundup for the society National telethon for crippled children and was broadcast March 28,1982, a year later yes broadcasting director Julius Cain received a. Telephone Call from John Thompson a Canadian television producer who requested videotape of a Mardi gras , unaware of Thompson s exact intentions provided an unedited copy of the easier Seal tape. Portions of the tape were incorporated into a movie entitled Candy the stripper a sexually explicit film carried on Cable television s Playboy viewers in the new Orleans area who had taken pan in the staged Mardis gras Parade upon Wing themselves in the pornographic movie complained that their privacy rights were invaded. The easier Seal society Hen sued Playboy enter Prises yes a Canadian film producer and others accusing them of copyright violations. The society said 11, and not yes owns the copy right on the Ith . Circuit court of appeals ruled against inc society Lasi april. The appeals court said Congress in 1976 narrowed the copyright pre Lection for Thott who hire others to produce original works. Because yes was an Independent contractor the easter Seal society was not the sole author of the Mardi gras videotape inc appeals court said. In another copyright Case Ihu court refused to re Vive a 1300 million copyright infringement Lawi Uil against the creators and marketers of trivial Pursuit a popular Board game. The court without comment rejected arguments by the author of several encyclopedias on trivia that Man of the questions contained in inc Board game infringed on his copyright works. In other action the court agreed to hear the Appeal of a convicted killer who said his rights were violated when he was denied an Opportunity to talk 10 a lawyer during trial recess. The court said it will review a ruling that denied a new trial to the South Carolina Man. Refused to hear an Appeal by former new York City political Boss Mead hip Pisio who sought Lopre vent Public disclosure of certain court documents. The justices without comment Lei stand a ruling challenged by Espostio the former Brooklyn demo cratic bos convicted of giving illegal gratuities to rep. Mario Biaggi . Chicago to Settle police department Bias suit Washington a the City of Chicago has agreed to pay More than 19 million in Back pay awards to Kiili discrimination Case involving 729 women Blacks and hispanic on the Chicago police Force the Justice depart ment announced monday the proposed consent decree fixed in . District court in Chicago would require the City to establish an inheres a bearing Back pay fund of 11.2 million for reimbursements of awards to discrimination victims. The City also would adjust seniority Dales for those victims. The decree would resolve an employ ment discrimination lawsuit filed in 197 alleging a pattern and practice of discrimination by Chicago in police department hiring and promotion a Feder Al judge in january 1976 found the City in violation of title Vii of the civil rights act of 964. The consent decree coven 233 women on the if 72 policewoman eligibility list who were subsequently hired or reclassified As police officers and who successfully completed their probationary period and women who were employed before March 24,1972 As policewomen or matrons and subsequently were re classified u police officers. 453 Black and hispanic men who applied for the 1968 or 1471 patrolman eligibility lists and were hired from March 24, 1972, to dec. 31. 1978, a patrolmen or police officers from those lists and who successfully competed their probationary period. The first three women promoted to sergeant after March 24, 1972, who served As policewomen or matrons in 1468 or before that time. The first 38 Black and hispanic men who applied for promotion to sergeant in 1968 and who Wen promote to that rankfrommarch24, l�lodec.31.l97j, the proposed decree was filed in court Friday
