European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 1, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 5 House to take up rights Bill following Senate passage Washington a the Senate overwhelmingly approved a major civil rights Bill wednesday that president Bush has agreed to sign. The Bill goes Back to the House which has already approved a similar measure. House speaker Thomas s. Foley said the House will take up the Bill Early next week and predicted the House will approve the measure. The Bill expands the rights of sexual discrimination victims to sue and negates a series of supreme court rulings on Job Bias. The Senate approval on a Vole of 93-5, came after three Days of haggling Over amendments. Senators accepted changes that would apply the Bill a Job protections and those of other anti discrimination Laws to their employees. In addition the Senate agreed to require its members to pay any judgments in such cases out of their own pockets. The legislation has been in the works for two years since the supreme court issued several rulings in 1989 that made it More difficult for victims of Job Bias to win lawsuits against their employers. The Bill had been stalled until a Compromise agreement last week by Senate leaders of both parties and Bush. That agreement Laid to rest the debate Over hiring quotas which Bush had said earlier versions of the Bill would encourage. The agreement with Bush averted a second threatened veto. A year ago the Senate sustained Bush a veto of a similar Bill by one Vole. _ the Bill expands the rights of victims of sexual harassment and discrimination to sue for damages. They currently can collect Only Back pay and attorney fees. But As part of the Compromise sexual discrimination cases would be subject to Dollar limits on awards ranging from $50,000 to $300,000. Depending on tin size of the employer. Victims of racial discrimination face no such limits. _ in addition to Striate employees the measure covers White House employees and other government workers who had been exempted from civil rights statutes. The Senate Bill would not cover House employees who already can take Job related complaints to a special Board. Tax Relief Bill unlikely Foley says by the Washington Post Washington a House speaker Thomas s. Foley d-wash., said wednesday it appears unlikely Congress will vote on a major tax Relief package this year largely because of Strong opposition from president Bush and House republicans. However democratic and Republican congressional leaders made headway wednesday in fashioning a Foley Compromise Bill to provide extended benefits to millions of unemployed workers who have exhausted in the stars and stripes their unemployment insurance according to sources. Negotiators Are focusing on a proposal by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen a Texas to cover about two thirds of the $5.2 billion Cost of the unemployment benefits by closing a loophole form per income people who make quarterly estimated payments of their income tax. Foley pledged wednesday to push through another unemployment insurance Bill a with or without the administrations support a before Congress adjourns for the year around thanksgiving but virtually ruled out action on a major tax Bill. A a it a very Clear that the signal has gone out from the while House to resist and oppose any reductions in taxes As a part of dealing with the recovery or As a part of providing tax fairness Quot Foley told reporters. A i regret that but its very Clear that a the Case and under those circumstances the enactment of such a tax Bill will be extraordinarily difficult if not  Bush last week accused the Deri Socrat in controlled Congress of panicking with a wave of tax Cut measures and indicated he was not about to follow with a hastily conceived package of tax cuts and incentives that might do More harm than Good. A it might Burden future generations More a Bush said. Foley briefly voiced optimism a week ago that Congress might pass a tax package this year after Bentsen and others floated proposals to provide Middle in come families with a lax break and other  perk scaled Back by House Cox news service Washington in an act of Shear polities the House of representatives trimmed its perquisites wednesday by sharply raising prices at its tax subsidized Barber shop. A House administration sub com Mittic doubled the Tab for a Basic haircut from $5 to $10 and bumped the Bill for a Shoeshine from 75 cents to $2 in the Barber shops first round of Price increases since 1979. The action comes at a time when polls show voters Are in a political lather Over congressional benefits ranging from free drugs at a Capitol Hill pharmacy to free parking at National Airport. A National outcry arose recently Over revelations that House members had bounced 8,000 checks at their cooperative Bank and owed Over $300,000 in unpaid tabs at the House restaurant. Rep. Mary Rose Zukur a Ohio estimated the Price increases would Cut about $50,000 from the estimated $108,000 deficit in Barbershop operations for the next fiscal year. The House Barbers and attendants Are Federal employees paid Between $15,000 and $26. Hka a year plus 30 percent of the Price of their services. The other 70 percent goes toward the Cost of the operation with tax revenues making up the annual shortfalls. The prices at congressional Barber shops have Long been among the Best deals in Washington. A haircut in the Senate Harber shop still costs $4.50. Haircuts in private establishments Range from about $9 to $25.10 years ago nov. 1,1981 a in an Effort to bolster the West German move toward neutrality soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised that West Germany would be spared the danger of a nuclear War if it refused to deploy . Medium Range missiles. Brezhnev declared that the soviet Union would never use nuclear weapons against a country that does not have them.20 year ago _ nov. 1,1971 sen. J. William Fulbright praised the Senate s unexpected rejection of a $2.9 billion foreign Aid Bill which he described As Quot welfare imperialism intended to ensure . Dominance Over Small nations. .30 years ago nov. 1,1961 san Francisco police and fire officials pressed their search for an arsonist who set fires in nine hotels one of which resulted in an estimated $10,000 damage. Years ago nov. 1,1951 a korean truce talks Drew nearer to a settlement As communist negotiators offered a map of their version of a Battlefront Buffer zone which closely resembled that of u n.  to War memorial sought Washington a since the Day the Vietnam veterans memorial opened in 1982, visitors have been leaving behind items meaningful to themselves and their fallen loved ones. Each night the National Park service has gathered catalogued and put them into a government warehouse for posterity. The tiniest items Are precious be they chewing gum wrappers flags or ribbons from a Little girls hair. A group called beyond the Wall began an Effort thursday to place some of the items into a permanent exhibit in the smithsonian a museum of american history next year for the 10th anniversary of the memorial. A there has been a huge Public demand for this exhibit Quot said John Wheeler who Heads the group trying to raise $200,000 to pay for curatorial expenses. A a it san important step in Healing the lingering wounds of that Era Quot Wheeler said. A for grief to be completed it has to be shared. The memorial itself is a place where grief is shared.�?�. The a shaped memorial Cut into the Earth is inscribed with the names of 59,252 americans who died in Vietnam or Are missing in action there. The things people leave behind Are kept in a National Park service warehouse in Greenbelt md., in the care of Ducky Felton curator of the Vietnam memorial collection. He estimates there Are 25,000 items. His collection includes Racks of service ribbon bars combat awards headgear paintings sculpture candles Christmas decorations. There was even a working television set. One item is a South vietnamese hag a three red stripes across a Field of yellow a signed by hundreds of Veie ians. Many attached unit patches medals regimental pins jump wings and buttons. There arc Beer cans including some that Are unopened. Wheeler one of the original group hacking the creation of a memorial in the 1970s, said Beer figured in Many conversations during the War As in Quot if we Ever get out of this alive in a going to Huy you a  in a parallel Effort to the fund raising beyond the Wall wants to hear from people who left the items. A to visit these items is overwhelming a said Leah Miller National director of beyond the Wall. Quot you look into our country a heart when you see  the address for the Vietnam exhibit fund raising drive is beyond that Wall Box 221619, Chantilly a. 22022. Cheney assails Congress on manpower cuts Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney lambasted Congress on wednesday for demanding More cuts in the Pentagon budget As lawmakers refused to accept reductions affecting their Home districts. A i cannot maintain the same sized Force we have had Tor the Iasi 40 years be Given less Money and be expected to maintain the same Quality Force Quot Cheney said in an address to the american logistics association. Quot Congress is bound and determined to perpetuate the notion that we can do  in particular he complained that while he has been told by Congress to slice the Active duty Force by 521,inn a or nearly one Quarter of its size a he has been barred from cutting National guard and Reserve forces that support those units. Quot if i take out one third of the Active divisions of the United states army that we contemplate then i also need to be Able to take Down that guard and Reserve Force Structure Quot Cheney said. As pressure has mounted Tor sharply increased cuts in the nation s $290 Hillion defense budget efforts also have been made on Capitol Hill to keep the National guard and Reserve at the existing level of 1.15 million positions. The House and Senate armed services committees Are scheduled to Iron out their differences Over trimming the reserves in the coming weeks but both have suggested cutting the National guard and Reserve by less than one third the number the administration seeks. Lawmakers who favor retaining the guard and Reserve slots Point to their successful role in the persian Gult War and oppose cutting Back such Johs during times of economic hardship. Cheney argued that the retention of the higher numbers of National guard and Reserve members will result in a situation in which units exist hut Are not fully manned or supplied