European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 / the stars and stripes world today e. German couple swims past patrol to Freedom Berlin a an East German couple eluded a communist patrol boat and swam across he Havel River to reach or Codon in Wisl Berlin thursday police said chernobyl nuclear on. Do Bengzon who led in the Manila suburb i ported milk was Par products resumed to tar the Accident. into How part of the shipment was sent Back to inc Philippines. Last month health officials also recovered More than 700 cans of he contaminated milk that were distributed to several provinces out Side Manila. The local distributor of the milk product de Nied knowledge of the shipment. Gao criticizes Dod policies that bar women from jobs by Chuck v1nch Wash Axon Bureau Washington the military services unnecessarily limit Job opportunities for women because of policies Hal Are not waled to current combat exclusion rules according to the general accounting of fice about half of the 2.2 million military jobs Are close to women because of defense department policies that bar females from serving in positions that May expose them to the danger of combat. The Gao report said. Bui through policies and procedures for identifying inc availability of various jobs and for attaining recruiting goals for women the services further limit the jobs thai women May compete for the report said. Women May not compete for All jobs identified by the services us unrestricted by the combat exclusion policy the Gao said. Among examples listed i. The Marine corps allocates some non combat jobs in the Fleet Marine Force and is support establishment equally Between men and women to reflect the gender composition of the general civilian Popula i the Navy limits women to no More than half of its non combat Pilot positions. \ the air Force limits new Pilot and navigator openings for women in proportion to of females interested in joining the air Forte who Are qualified to fill the positions y the army s recruiting goals limit the number of women recruited and the number of jobs made Avail Able to them. Ing quarters is a constraint when assigning mixed Crews women May allowed to fill inc number of sea duty positions open to them the Gao recommended that women should be Al Lowed to compete on fun equal basis with men for All jobs Hal arc not specifically closed to them through the combat exclusion policy. The report also that the army re move gender specific recruiting goals and that the Navy take ship sleeping quarters into account when establishing inc it umber of non combat sea duty opportunities for women. The defense department deferred responses to Sev eral of the Gad findings because of Independent stud ies now taking place on the same issues. For example the Marine corps is doing Ait analysis to see if there Are any specific personnel programming needs that night calf for distributing the reel Marine Force non combat jobs on a so so basis if the Marine corps can t provide justification for its 50-jo/rule, Dod agreed that the positions in ques Tion shr Fuld be made available on a gender Neutral open Access basis the report said. Pentagon also is awaiting an air Force assess the costs of attrition and retention of male and female pilots and navigators before deciding whether thav service s recruiting policy should be changed. Lavy officials said they Are altering ship configurations to ensure that adequate sleeping areas Oie Avail Able to accommodate the required number of women sea in fiscal 1991. Military officials did not agree with the Oao recommendation that the army should remove gender f specific recruiting goals. They said Hal the recruiting3 objectives for women Are Notum is but goal thai their Iurii Iii y r ode Tuvic to Noi Oinui dui gum Sun inc the Navy docs not consider the size of sleeping / army must work hard to achieve because Only 8 per quarters on non combat ships when determining sea cent of the eligible female population typically express duty availability for women. Because the size of Cep any interest in joining that service. Stud ends Foss of bombs of police in second Day of protests in Seoul Seoul South Korea a protes ters Yelling Ami olympic slogans hurled hundreds of firebombs at riot police thursday As Radical students vowed to disrupt the summer games if a student Leader is not released. About 1,000 students clashed with police around Korea University in the. Worst Street clash in Seoul since inc games began sept. 17. / the protest marked the second straight Day of demonstrations calling for the re a lease of student Leader of Young shit arrested by police Lasi week Waves of students pelted police with rocks and firebombs setting sort pc troopers ablaze. Police tried to tend of the missiles with Shields during the Hurlong clash. Down Vii it the dictators olym pics and Yankee go Home radicals yelled As they charged lines of riot police blocking the streets with Shields. Police martial arts squads with Long Batons charged the students beating and kicking some protesters. But police were pushed Back several limes students. Some police and students were injured by firebombs and rocks but police had no casualty figures. There were no reports of arrests. The fighting was confined to the streets in front of the school in northeastern Seoul about 15 Miles from where the games Are being held. Students from other Seoul colleges look part firefighters called in by police tried to douse exploding firebombs with hoses but students drove them off with More missiles. Police were hampered in the fighting because of a government ban on using tear Gas during the olympics to try and preserve peace. The police hurled stones and rocks but had no effective Way of fighting Back with out tear Gas. Police tried to avoid a clash staying in Back streets while inc students blocked the main Road and lore Down part of the school s Walls. Students attacked with firebombs As soon As police moved in. A South korean student is engulfed it flames As fellow protesters thursday launch firebomb at police in Seoul. Radicals said they would disrupt the olympics including the mens Marathon on sunday if police Donot release of. The student Leader was charged tues Day with violating National Security Laws for organizing anti government demonstrations. Authorities have beefed up Security for olympic events in Case of student demonstrations and say the radicals won t be Able to disrupt events. Radical leaders released a statement charging the government of popularly elected president Ron Tae woo of using inc olympics to Cement students also have staged anti olympic protests to demand the games be snared with communist North Korea and to denounce the Ron administration but just a handful of Slu Denis have turned out for the mostly peaceful protests. Most South koreans want the games to be a Success and arc critical of the radicals
