European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes saturday november 2, 1991 a part of a House stands while its contents Are strewed around the Yard in Gloucester mass. Powerful storm leaves three missing in East by Robert d. Mcfadden the new York times a ferocious Atlantic storm masquerading As a halloween Hurricane battered coastal areas of the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states again thursday and left widespread flooding smashed Homes boats and seawalls heavy property damage and at least three people missing. The tempest a a monster hundreds of Miles wide that lashed like a Hurricane but was born in Canadian Waters not the tropics a struck late tuesday. The storm which fell just Short of a Hurricane s 74-Rnph winds bludgeoned the coast wednesday and thursday with seas As High As a two Story House and was wobbling Back out to sea thursday night entered 300 Miles off Virginia. Quot this is a very dangerous coastal storm a one of the worst of this Type to hit the Tri state area of new York Connecticut and new Jersey in the last 20 years a said Gene Salerno a meteorologist with the National weather service in new York. The service posted More flood warnings on thursday night but said the worst was probably Over. From Maine to the Carolinas the storm ravaged thousands of Seaside Homes and summer cottages including president Bush a vacation Retreat at Kennebunkport Maine. The storm sent thousands of people fleeing to Inland shelters and knocked out Power ii Nany areas. The storm ravaged More than 100 Seaside Homes in Maine. The presidents House reportedly sustained heavy damage including some flooding and broken windows caused by Waves 20 to 30 feet High. Bush planned to interrupt a political trip to the West to inspect the waterlogged and debris strewn property today White House aides said. Four of five air National guardsmen whose helicopter went Down in the storm 60 Miles Southeast of Long Island were found Riding Gargantuan seas in a life . They were plucked to safety Early thursday by coast guard vessels that houses on fire Island ., were washed into the sea by thursdays storm. Caught a glimpse of their Strobe Light in the pitch darkness. The helicopter crashed wednesday night on its Way Back to Long Island from an unsuccessful Mission to Rescue a Sailor adrift 210 Miles South of Nantucket mass. A search was under Way for the fifth guardsman Quot for the Sailor and for a Fisherman swept from a Rocky Point at Narragansett r.i., on tuesday. In the new York metropolitan area damage in Many sections heavy. Roads and hundreds of Homes were flooded on the shores of Long Island new Jersey and Connecticut. Thousands of people were evacuated Inland and there was massive Beach erosion throughout the Region. Long islands Eastern and Southern shores were hit hardest. In Westhampton Beach where Many celebrities have summer Homes the storm destroyed 18 houses and severely damaged 10  with aids virus wins Scarlet letter Case Buffalo  A jailers violated a prisoner s rights by putting red stickers on her documents and belongings to show she carried the aids virus a Federal judge ruled thursday. The slickers and other treatment violated  Nolley s rights under state aids disclosure Laws and the . Constitution . District judge John to Curtin wrote in a 73-Page decision. Quot prison inmates Are protected by a constitutional right to privacy from the unwarranted disclosure of their 1 Liv status a the judge said. Nellcy sued for $500,000 in damages alter officials at the Erie county holding Center marked her clothing hag and papers with red stickers to indicate she was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or his which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Curtin said another hearing would determine whether Nellcy was entitled to damages. The ease has been compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne s novel the Scarlet letter in which Hester prynne was forced to Wear a red Quot a to indicate she was an adulteress. Assistant county attorney James Tuppen said he had t decided whether to Appeal the decision. If the county does t Appeal it will change its jail policies to address Curtin s criticism even though the judge did t explicitly order a change he said. Nellcy had t come Down with aids at the time she was in jail. She was jailed three times Between june 1988 and february 1990. Nevertheless jail officials placed her in a special housing unit intended for mentally disturbed inmates and forbade her from attending Church services or using the jails Law Library. Jennifer Coleman Nolley s attorney. Said her client s health has worsened since she got out of jail. A she s pretty sick Quot Coleman said. Quot this is going to make her very very  supports steel Mill in sex harassment suit Detroit up a jury of eight women that heard six Days of testimony spiced with graphic sexual language rejected a woman s $750,000 claim that a steel company maintained a sexually hostile workplace attorneys said thursday. The Wayne county circuit court jury found tuesday that Mclouth steel products corp. Had not discriminated against sexually harassed or retaliated against Catherine Fincher. Fincher complained she had seen nude men while passing by a male Shower room that she saw three male co workers urinate in Public and that the closest bathroom was a unisex facility. A a steel Mill is a rough and ready place a explained Mclouth trial attorney Joan a Brovins of the mount Clemens Law firm of Ross Brovins amp Oehmke. Quot the jury a message was ii you can t stand the heat then get out of the  Brovins was the highest ranking woman executive in the . Steel Industry for three years before leaving Mclouth As general counsel and corporate Secretary in Early 1991. The jury heard Fincher complain of male profanity Playboy calendars a Man who asked her for dates and obscene Graffiti. Fincher said one Man inquired about her private parts while another Man confronted her in the lunch room wondering whether she engaged in sex at work. Quot every factory is a Tough place for men and women alike a said Thomas Oehmke another Mclouth trial attorney. Oehmke wrote sex discrimination in employment the first Book published on the subject. In the mid-1970s, Oehmke represented plaintiff Maxine Munford in the first sexual harassment Case tried in Federal courts drawing National attention to the plight of women discriminated against in the workplace. Mclouth an employee owned company said Fincher never told her supervisors about the allegations at the time or if she did the company said it took immediate action on her complaints. Oehmke said the jury believed the complaints were exaggerated