European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 january 1/2, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5scope of new civil rights Law limited thousands of pending cases fall under old rules by Robert Pear the new York times Washington a the new civil rights Law does not apply to thousands of cases filed by people who say they suffered Job discrimination before the measure was signed by president Bush on nov. 21, the equal employment Opportunity commission declared monday. The ruling Means that workers who filed complaints alleging discrimination before nov. 21 must try to prevail under the old rules which made it much harder to prove discrimination. The old rules also limited the compensation that workers could obtain if they won. Under the commissions policy the benefits of the new Law a including jury trials and punitive and compensatory damages of up to $300,000 a would also be unavailable to people who file lawsuits in the future complaining of discriminatory conduct that occurred before nov. 21. Whether the new Law applied to pending cases was one of the most important and contentious questions surrounding the measure passed after More than two years of bitter dispute Between Congress and the White House. In debate on the legislation Republican and democratic members of Congress expressed sharply differing opinions on that question and the statute itself does not clearly resolve the matter. With thousands of cases pending around the United states the question May ultimately be appealed to the supreme court. Evan j. Kemp jr., chairman of the equal employment Opportunity commission said the new policy was adopted unanimously by the panel of three republicans one Democrat and one Independent All appointed by president Bush or former president Reagan. The commission describes itself As a a american a primary civil rights Law enforcement Agency and has the authority to carry out Laws on discrimination. In its policy statement the commission acknowledged that parts of the Law create a an inference Quot that it should apply to past discrimination and to pending cases. The panel said some judicial precedents would also support that View. But the commission said the supreme courts most recent decision on the Issue suggests that a new Law should not be construed to have retroactive effect where the language of the statute or the intent of Congress is ambiguous. Civil rights lawyers criticizing the commissions decision said it would severely limit the initial Impact of the new Law. Job discrimination on the basis of race or sex they note was illegal before nov. 21 the effect of the new Law is to make discrimination easier to prove and to increase the penalties very substantially. A from the Plain language of the statute it should be Elear that Congress intended the civil rights aet of 1991 to apply to pending eases Quot said Joseph m. Sellers director of equal employment Opportunity programs at the Washington l awyers committee for civil rights under Law. But the supreme court now controlled by conservative justices would appear Likely to Side with the commission. While acknowledging contradictory supreme court precedents Justice Antonin Scalia said in a Case last year that it was a contrary to fundamental notions of Justice and a contrary to the Wisdom of the Ages Quot to apply Laws retroactively. A major purpose of the new Law was to overturn supreme court decisions that made it harder for victims of discrimination to win in court. The new Law is helpful to victims in several ways. Under the old Law such victims could obtain Back pay in a trial before a judge but they were not entitled to a jury trial. Under the new Law they May demand a jury trial and May seek damages for emotional pain and suffering mental anguish humiliation and other a non pecuniary losses Quot caused by an employers discriminatory actions. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 1,1982 a a High ranking communist official in Warsaw Poland said the party has not been weakened by the imposition of martial Law. But reliable reports from the polish capital indicated it has been split into three factions. 20 years ago Jan. 1,1972 a the North Atlantic Alliance went into 1972 with Only one major certainty soviet strength is growing. In 1971, soviet land based missiles were firmly established in Egypt and Moscow was increasing the number of its submarines armed with nuclear missiles. 30 years ago Jan. 1,1962 a Premier Abdel Karim Kassem stated that Iraq was determined Quot to liberate and retrieve Kuwait Quot and to Quot give the imperialists a lesson they will never  40 years ago Jan. 1,1952 a Britain began paying its $3,750,000,000 postwar loan from the United states and her wartime lend lease debt with dollars it got by Selling Gold to the United states. The first instalments on both obligations totalled $138,500,000. Art dealer rescues Lenin statue to preserve a piece of the past world War ii 50 years ago today 1 Jan. 1.9 4 2 German forces counterattack against the soviet troops that landed on the Crimea s Eastern end. In Libya the afrika Korps attacks Britain s 8th army near aged Abia. The japanese press american and filipino soldiers Back toward the Bataan Peninsula and make further gains in the Advance Down both coasts of Malaya. In Washington 26 nations sign the Atlantic charter. New York a new York City Isnit exactly the first place you a put a valuable object you want protected from vandalism and Graffiti. Unless of course the object in question is a 4-ton statue of Vladimir Lenin and the alternative location is Russia. A there were other statues like it being destroyed or toppled or defaced a said Art dealer Paul Judelson the statues owner. A part should be preserved even if it becomes unpopular for whatever reasons and that a a primary motive of bringing the statue  the statue had been commissioned by the City of Krasnodar the capital of the Kuban Region near the Black sea. But by the time the Bronze sculpt cd was finished in late 1990, the anti communist movement in Eastern Europe was already so Strong that a Krasnodar  take it. They  pay for it. The artist who made the sculpture would not even sign the statue. He was ashamed to be associated with Lenin Quot Judelson said. Judelson visited the foundry where the statue was designed and made in what was then still called Leningrad and is now St. Petersburg a few Days after the failed August coup. He had gone to the City to make sure several artists whom he represents were of. One of them Sergei Bugaev said he would love to have the unwanted statue to accompany an upcoming exhibit of his work at the University of California los Angeles. So Judelson bought it a though he wont disclose the Price a and put it on a ship bound for Montreal where it was trucked to new York. The 8,000-Pound statue was supposed Paul Judelson purchased a 4-ton statue of Vladimir Lenin and brought it to new York. To be stored in the Queens museum but Judelson says at the last minute the museum backed out. The statue is now lying on its Back on the solid Concrete floor of a Manhattan warehouse. The ceiling is too Low to stand it up. Judelson also scrapped the plan to transport the statue to Urcla As an accompaniment to the exhibit of Bugaev a work which is n Dernis tic a conceptual arts that is in so. Ltd it contrast with the realistic foundry Mauc Lenin statue. Bugaev a exhibit opens at the Queens museum in april however and Judelson thinks putting the statue up outside that facility would be Fine. Little town makes big casket for huge Man source 2194 Days of War w h. Smith publishers inc. A Eynon a. Apr a company in this tiny town proved no Job is too nig when it built a 4vx-foot-wide, Iron reinforced casket for Walter Hudson who weighed 1,125 pounds when he died last week. Carl Short production manager of casket shells inc., said the company is the nations largest maker of specially oversized caskets but that Hudson s Cas Ket had to be made by hand because it  fit on the production line. A everybody was quite excited about it a Short said. A everybody was quite pleased with How it turned out. Its the biggest one we be Ever  Eynon is about 1 x Miles North of Philadelphia. The velvet lined Box weighs about 800 pounds. Its 54 inches wide 40 inches deep and 88 inches Long. A Standard casket is 28 inches wide 25 inches deep and 83 inches Long. Hudson a casket is made of 16-gauge steel and its Bottom and Corners Are reinforced with a inches of Iron. It has Zinc handrails that Are secured by extra heavy bolts and washers through steel plates