European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday decembers 198b the stars and stripes Page 3 corps View of women questioned panel emphasizes need for fairness by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington although the Marine corps improved a number of actions to increase opportunities for women last april an advisory panel still believes the leadership of the service May not be fully dedicated to that cause. The defense advisory committee on women in the services said in its recent semiannual report that continued vigilance is needed to ensure that women marines Are treated fairly. On other issues the report said the Navy s Mobile construction battalions should be opened to women. While the units May come under enemy ire. They usually deploy As a Sec Ond or third wave after Marine infantry and combat Engineer units have cleared an area. As such they Donot experience the same degree of  called the two year army College fund enlistment option discriminatory because women arc barred by com Bat exclusion Laws from serving in most skills that qualify Tor the Bonus Money. The committee recommended expanding that enlistment option to non combat skills to expand educational opportunities for women. Urged that All services adopt a policy granting new mothers six weeks of non chargeable leave after the birth of a  the marines the panel recognized such Steps taken by Gen. Alfred m. Gray jr., the Marine corps commandant As a letter to the Field reaffirming his support for women marines. But extensive interviews with female marines on base visits and Field trips showed thai Many still be Lieve Gray docs not want women in his service the report  perception persists that Many in the leadership of the Marine corps continue to question the role of women in said. This hampers the ability of women to serve As full partners with their male  one incident fueling that perception occurred in april when Gray was involved in a skirmish with defense Secretary Frank Carlucci on the Issue of women marines As embassy guards. Addressing a meeting of the advisory committee i april Gray turned that he was the Only person who should make decisions that affect the Well being of marines. Pentagon officials downplayed the incident with one Call i no it a m i nor Battle that Gray  committee members Are concerned that women Are not being accepted by their Peers and supervisors As full fledged members of the unit and Are perceived As unfairly obtaining the Glamour billets at the expense of male marines. Women still Are barred from embassy posts in cer Tain countries hat arc considered too dangerous. Sev eral arc in the Middle East. The corps should remind women that they Are eligible to Volunteer As guards and emphasize their participation in this prestigious unit the panel report said. Acceptance of women As Security guards should be encouraged by All Levels of the Chain of command especially at the embassy  the report also said that Gray should take Steps to ensure that his positive attitude As expressed in his White letter concerning the retention and utilization of women in the Marine corps is re emphasized by him personally and is reflected and practice by All leaders in the Marine  a Marine corps official declined to comment on the report but said the service will prepare a number of briefings addressing the committee s concerns. Holy s Premier claims insult plans lawsuit " Rome a Premier Ciriaco Domila claiming insult said saturday he will file suit against Italy s communist party daily newspaper l uni la. Which ran a front Page headline accusing him of enriching himself with funds intended for earthquake victims. While the headline stated flatly Demila enriched himself from the Earth quake saturday s accompanying article did not make any direct accusation against the Christian Democrat Leader. Instead the article recounted previous press reports about de Mita s alleged links with the Banca Popolar Dell Urpi Nia located in his Hometown of Vacit Innear Naples. L uni la said the reports showed that the Bank made huge profits from govern ment funds earmarked to help rebuild areas destroyed by an earthquake in 1980 that killed nearly 3,000 people inthe Region. L uni la cited a report in l espresso Magazine last year that do Mita his wife children and several relatives As Well As other lop Christian Democrat officials arc shareholders in the Bank. De Mita s office issued a. One line statement saturday saying that he has ordered his lawyers to file suit against l Unita the Christian democrats daily news paper ii Popolo said l Unita reduce itself to aggression and insult toward the head of the  not even during the cold War did the vulgarity of insult toward the adversary reach such Levels ii Poolo said in an editorial for sunday s editions. Excerpts were released in Advance to the Media. L uni la responded that it was just re porting the facts. The headline of the article obviously is a simplification. But does not appear unjustified it said. More than $20 billion in government funds have been sent to the Canh quake hit areas in the past eight years bul re pairs arc far behind schedule and thou Sands of people Are still living in Tempo Rary housing.  v  newspapers regularly report on abuses of the Relief operation by politicians organized crime and local contractors. 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But there is a catch. The rules say that the Money must be caught in the air. The Bills cannot be trapped against the sides or the Ceil ing 01 the Box and cannot be picked upon the floor Steven Perkins a three time voyager into the land of whirling Cash claim that there is a method to the madness of the Money Box. After winning $51, j30 and $8 in his three chances he Learned hat it s All in the body Posi Tion. If you face into the wind the Money blows toward you instead of. Away he said. After positioning the next most important thing is to do selective Perkins. Said.-. Anything that had a number of five and up that s what went through he said.  but not everyone who climbs into the Box has mastered the science. "1 did t look my eyes were closed said Vickie Konkol. Konkel managed to blindly stick$43 through the Slot that she had to share with Laurie Burns the other win Ner of that Bingo game. The amount of Money taken out of he Box depends on the amount that went in and a lot of people Are saying that Here just Ain t enough Money blowing around these Days. We have a Rule that you get at least half of what we took in said senior master sol. John Robin the club Man Ager say we look in s100. And say that person Only stuck $20 through the Slot we would bring that up to  however players say they not Only would like to Sec bigger pots they also complain about the denominations of Bills flying around in the Box. The first time 1 got in it there was $200," Perkins said. Of that j200, you re talking about at least $125 intones and the rest in fives Lens and twenties. They had one fifty the club managers contend they arc not trying to keep players from win Ning big Bucks but arc trying to keep the club in the game As Well. If we just Lake in $50, Well put i maybe a couple of Lens a couple of fives and the rest ones said Rob Ninetle. We Don t fix it but we Don t put in All big Bills. 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