European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october4. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 & special Armor added to soviet tanks Aspin says coating makes penetration Tough Washington a the soviet Union is equipping some of its tanks with several layers of a special Armor that can withstand certain types of . Missiles the chairman of the House armed services committee said Mon Day. The soviets have bolted two and three layers of reactive Armor boxes to their t 72 tanks a discovery members of the committee made during i hair trip to inc soviet Union in August said rep. Los Aspin a wis. Reactive Armor unlike the traditional Type of Armor goes beyond merely protecting against an oncoming missile or projectile. The reactive Armor consists of a steel Box thai includes layers of sled plates and explosives. The rationale for the reactive Armor Box is thai a missile May hit the Box and Sel off inc explosive inside bul inc steel plate will Block further damage. To combat the Ria Clive Armor boxes the United states has equipped its anti tank weapons with dual charge War Heads. These missiles include a first charge which penetrates the Box and sets off the explosive and a second charge which when it ignites a fraction of a second later can break through the steel plates and penetrate the tank. The soviet action makes it difficult for even a dual charge warhead to penetrate past the Armor. This can t be anything but bad news to forces planning to defend against these tanks with current anti tank Wear  Aspin said. At the same time our anti tank weapons should retain High effectiveness against soviet armoured fight ing vehicles whose numbers arc being increased As tanks arc withdrawn from soviet forces in Eastern  the soviets have said they arc with drawing 5,300 tanks from Eastern Europe while increasing the number of in Fantry fighting vehicles which arc thinner skinned. Aspin said. The committee plans to release a full assessment of the .-soviet military balance later this month. Court ruling on Fertile women criticized by labor unions Acle Chicago f not if a factory Job poses a Poten tial risk to an unborn child an employer May bar All Fertile women from those jobs even if they Are not pregnant or say they have no intention of getting preg Nant the Federal appeals court Here has ruled. The decision by the . Court of appeals for the 7th circuit last week involved a Milwaukee company that makes automobile batteries. The decision has raised alarm among labor unions a omens groups and civil liberties organizations. They say such a policy is sex discrimination because it denies women Access to nigh paying if hazardous jobs. The court voted 7-4 thai Johnson controls inc. Was not violating Federal sex discrimination Laws because it bars women from working where there arc High concentrations of Lead. Joan e. Benin associate director of the women s rights project of the american civil liberties Union said of the ruling if the theory behind this Case is sustained or at least not successfully challenged it will institutionalize the second class employment status of All Fertile  Kim Gandy Secretary and treasurer of the National organization for women said this reminds me of the old protective labor Laws. They protect women right out of the Good  lawyers for the plaintiffs said no decision had been made on appealing to the . Supreme court. The matter is one of a handful of cases that address policies by which employers selectively bar pregnant women from some jobs by citing a threat to the fetus. In its official statements and court documents the company says an abiding concern for worker safety not fear of possible lawsuits prompted it to enforce its policy. Johnson controls has spent $ 15 million since 1978 on new equipment to remove Lead from factory air. But work place safely advocates argue that avoiding lawsuits is a major motivation in the formulation of fetal Protection policies. Joseph Kinney. Executive director of the National workplace safely Institute said most companies Are a Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1949 a French foreign office spokes Man rejected As without foundation the soviet Union s accusation that France Britain and the United states had violated a big four decision in setting up the West German state. 30 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1959 acting on a supreme court ruling that Dupont s 23 percent holding in general motors corp. Constituted a tendency toward monopoly a fed eral judge in Chicago ruled that Dupont must give up voting rights of its pm Stock. 20 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1969 West Germany s social democratic and free democratic parties scaled their pact to form a left Center coalition government ending 20 years of Christian Democrat Rule. 10 years ago today. Oct. 4, 1979 Pope John Paul ii arrived in Phila Delphia on the second Stop of his six City tour of the United Stales to celebrate an outdoor mass for tens of thousands of people in Logan Square. Solved from any liability involving a worker who is injured or becomes ill As a result of a work place injury. But because a fetus is a regarded As a third party. Kinney said any illness or deformity could expose the company to major lawsuits. Carin Ann Clauss. Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin represented the United automobiles work ers one of the principal plaintiffs in the lawsuit. He says there have been two previous decisions in which Federal courts struck Down similar employer policies. The suit against Johnson controls was filed by Sev eral women there some of them Middle aged. They argued they had been the victims of sex discrimination in losing promotions to younger men. Or were Dis placed from higher paying jobs in the part of the factory where batteries arc made. Do disc Zulu spokeswoman for Johnson controls said a woman can be exempted from the policy and work where there arc higher Lead concentrations Only if she has a written statement from a physician that she can no longer Bear children. Zutz said the policy was in no Way intended to support or encourage women of childbearing capability to seek to change their  members of the United automobile workers and the Union itself appealed the Case to the Federal level after a Federal District judge in Milwaukee ruled for the company. In ruling for the company the court said there was Clear scientific evidence that an unborn child s expo sure to Lead creates a substantial health risk involving a danger of permanent  but the judges were divided. In the majority opinion. Judge John Coffey said it was in the Public interest to support the company s policy because the government and the taxpayer ultimately paid for training and other programs to overcome the mental and physical harm attributable to Lead  but judge Frank Easterbrook a dissenter estimated that women could be denied 15 million to 20 million Industrial jobs thai pose some risk of exposure of toxic chemicals. Picked to Fly Mac c. Jemison a 32-year-old physician is the first Black female astronaut named to a space shuttle Mission. She and two other astronauts i n selected last week for a 1991 flight that will he con ducted jointly with the japanese space Agency. Bakker finishes his testimony blames Falwell for pal collapse Charlotte . Not Jim Bakker finished in Days of testimony at his fraud and conspiracy trial monday by blaming fellow television evangelist Jerry Falwell for the collapse of the pal ministry. Bakker 49, whose ministry collapsed in 1987 after sexual and financial scandals ended his testimony on a in Csc Central 10 his defense the real conspiracy to defraud came from the group of people who look Over the ministry for i hair own  much of Bakker s time on the witness stand in . District court was spent responding to questions from a prosecutor about lavish bonuses he received As his ministry lurched toward financial ruin. Bakker spoke haltingly Al times almost inaudibly As prosecutor Deborah Smith outlined How he continued to receive millions of dollars in bonuses As his pal ministry found itself in a deepening financial crisis. Bakker is charged with 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy in connection with the Sale of vacation lodgings Al his heritage Usa Christian resort and theme Park. The prosecution claims he solicited donations by offering vacations he often could not provide and thai at least $3.7 million of the Money was used to pay for his lavish lifestyle. Bakker claimed thai if he had been Able to continue raising Money he would have Mot All the ministry s financial needs. But after Bakker finished his testimony. . Ben Ion inc bankruptcy trustee for the ministry which filed for chapter ii bankruptcy on june 12. 1987, painted a Bleak financial picture of the ministry Al the time Bakker resigned. He said the ministry had $50 million in secured and unsecured debt and faced claims of $160 million by pal partners who bought the vacation agreements $15.5 million in claims from contractors and lax Bills of $59 million to $79 million to the internal Revenue service and $12 million to the state of South Carolina. He put the value of inc ministry s tangible assets at $140 million. After the uproar of the trial s first weeks Bakker s final testimony was rather tame. There was no mention of the sex scandal and hush Money pay Cal to Jessica Hahn that began his Down fall. Closing arguments were scheduled for tuesday and the Case was Likely logo to the jury wednesday