European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 17, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 Bush uses 12th veto on Hatch act Bill by the Washington Post Washington a president Bush vetoed a revision of the Hatch act Friday calling it necessary to prohibit Federal workers from actively participating in partisan politics a to preserve the impartial evenhanded conduct of government  it was Bush a 12th veto and was accompanied by a renewed Promise to veto a 13th Bill the family leave measure passed thursday that Grants workers the right to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid Job leave to care for ill relatives and Newborn children. The Hatch act passed on a 334-87 House vote tuesday is expected to trigger a major veto Battle in the Senate where it passed with the Bare minimum 67 votes needed to override a veto. The Hatch act enacted in 1939 to prevent Federal employees from being coerced to work in the re election Campaign of Franklin d. Roosevelt bars fed eral workers from engaging in most partisan political activities. Bush said Friday that Congress had unacceptably altered the a manifestly successful Law saying that the a obvious result of enactment of the Bill would be unstated but enormous pressure to participate in partisan political  principal supporters of the Bill have been Federal and postal unions. The opposition has been almost entirely from republicans. Constance Newman director of the office of personnel management said that Bush a opposition to the measure however is based on a conviction not  although Bush is vetoing Bills at four times the rate of former president Carter and twice that of former president Reagan he has yet to lose a veto Battle. The National Treasury employees Union asked senators not to a Trade their collective conscience for White House cuff links or breakfast with  democratic staff members however were pessimistic. A i can to believe there Isnit a Bridge or a judgeship out there that he can use to pick up the votes he needs to sustain the veto said one. In a briefing Friday White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater reiterated Bush a intention to veto the family leave Bill. On Capitol Hill House and Senate democrats sharply criticized Bush for promising to veto legislation that fulfils a Promise he made in his own Campaign for the presidency. A a it a time for the president to live up to his words a said Senate majority Leader George j. Mitchell a Mainc. A the opponents of this Bill Are rip Van Winkles yearning for an earlier sexist Era when a woman a place was in the Home a said sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. A earlier this week a said rep. Pat Schroe Der d-colo., a in response to a question about the pending Flag amendment House minority Leader Robert Michel said that you can to vote against motherhood. Well George Bush is about to show them  rep. David e. Bonior d-mich., and Kennedy both predicted that a Bush veto of the family leave Bill might provoke such a Public outcry that supporters could override a veto even though the House vote for the measure fell 46 votes shy of the two thirds necessary. The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote. A if the House is Able to override then i think wed have a very Good crack at it in the Senate said sen. Christopher j. Dodd a Conn. A this is a very precarious position for our party to be in a said rep. Marge Roukema r-n.j., a key Backer of the measure in the House. A a it a Clear that the Republican party should be supporting this and that the first father George Bush should be supporting this. We be protected the legitimate concerns of Small business. It is a very popular Issue with people every poll shows  togs Selling like hot cokes As film opens a i new York apr even if your Chin  Cut sheetrock and you done to have a two Way wrist radio you too can look like Dick Tracy a thanks to a line of Tracy togs and accessories at a department store near you. Nobody held a gun on the shoppers who turned out at Manhattan stores Friday kicking off the Tracy paraphernalia onslaught by laying out Cash for yellow fedoras $30tracy towels $20 and Tracy to shirts $14. Want the great detectives jutting jaw on your face $50 for a mask. How about a Denim jacket with his likeness across the Back $ 115. A leather bomber jacket with the omnipresent Tracy logo $195. Or his trademark yellow Trench coat $345. Believe it sweetheart. And stores were giving customers the hard sell on the goods which were generated by the incredibly hyped Warren Beatty flick that opened nationally Friday. The second floor at Bloomingdale a featured a stack of eight televisions running the movies trailer nonstop. In another Section of the Dick Tracy shop there a tape of co Star Madonna belted out a a Vogue and songs from the films soundtrack Over and Over and Over. A this is All for that movie a asked one woman As she handed Over $28 for a pair of to shirts. The Tracy togs were so prevalent that they a gasp a displaced Bart Simpson and family from the top of the to shirt Racks. A a it a great. My wife says they re quite Well made not trashy a said Roger Dutton a Melbourne Australia resident who was clutching a pair of towels. A you pay Premium for the Premium goods i  in another Section Lacy bustiers flapper dresses and other skin flashing selections worn by breathless Mahoney that a Madonna folks Drew plenty of interest but not As Many buyers. A if i could get away with this stuff in Kokomo id Wear it a said Linda Dechert who was visiting from Indiana. A i think this stuff will catch on with the younger crowd. Madonna a so  the Madonna breathless outfits Arentt As daring As Dick Hart peddles Dick Tracy to shirts outside a Manhattan theater. The film opened nationwide Friday. A the ones that cling to the Singer in the movie. A some of her gowns were Slit Down to the Navel. We did no to go quite that far a said Elaine Johnson of . Glo which is handling the clothes. At Macy a flagship 34th Street store the eighth floor was covered in Tracy yellow with painted Black silhouettes of Tracy and his nemeses big boy and Flattop. A calling All Crim stoppers to Herald Square Quot read a Macy a newspaper and and More people than that responded. Although store policy is not to release sales figures things were going Well on Day one of the Tracy explosion. A your shop is Well travelled quite popular a said Barbara Lewinski spokeswoman Tor the store. A and once the film opens this weekend it should get  department asked to probe a slave Day san Francisco apr the a act has asked the Federal Justice department to investigate an annual fund raising event in some Public schools that students have nicknamed a slave Day because classmates a a buy one another As servants. Students at upper Lake elementary school in Rural Lake county also Call the Day a seventh graders Rule a because the younger students Are allowed to turn the tables on eighth graders and order them about for a Day. But the National association for the advancement of coloured people Calls it a form of slavery that violates the Constitution and civil rights Laws. A slavery was heinous. It Wasny to a fun game a Dewitt Bussey a consultant to the a acpt a racial intolerance task Force told reporters. In written statements to Federal and state officials the a act said the Lake county school held its 13th annual a slave Day last month another is planned in october at Union Lake High school and similar events have been held at other schools around the state. The events a Only serve to condone the concepts of White supremacy a the organization said in a letter to acting . Attorney William Mcgiver. The a act asked that the District be ordered to halt the custom and Start new programs in human rights and ethnic diversity for students and staff. Thordie Ashley another a act consultant said Blacks were not treated differently from other students during the a slave Day event. Otis Williams principal of the elementary school did not return Telephone Calls thursday. He has been quoted As saying the school would discontinue the practice. The a act also said school Board members had promised to abolish the tradition. In its arguments against the practice the organization cited statements by Ron Roctz an upper Lake High school teacher and elementary school Board member that he had a a bought a High school senior As part of the event at his school each year. One year Waelz told a local newspaper he a bought a mexican kid dressed him up in a big Sombrero a scrape and Hung a Green card around his neck. It was All in Good clean  state school superintendent Bill Honig who received a similar complaint from the a act last week said his department was investigating the practice