European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday april 30, 1992women win payoff in Job Bias Case by the new York times san Francisco in what is the largest damage recovery in any Case brought under the civil rights act of 1964, the state farm insurance co. Has paid $157 million in a settlement with 814 women who were refused jobs As insurance sales agents in California Over a 13-year period. At a news conference tuesday lawyers for the women said the total payment including awards won by individual women in separate trials was expected to exceed $200 million. A i think this sends a pretty powerful message that women can stand up and fight Large institutions and they can prevail a said Guy t. Saperstein an Oakland lawyer whose firm represented the women for 16 years. Many of the women had worked for the company As secretaries and office managers earning about $8,000 a year. Although they were often required to do the same work As the agents 99.6 percent of state farms agents in California were men who earned about $61,000 a year in 1981 and More than twice that amount today. In 1985, . District judge Thelton e. Henderson found that state farm was liable for intentional sex discrimination in the recruitment selection and hiring of agents in California the company did not Appeal and in 1988 agreed to the court ordered requirement to hire women for 50 percent of its agent jobs for 10 years. State farm also agreed to pay discrimination victims an amount based on individual hearings. The settlement announced on tuesday ends the Case after about 150 of those hearings had been held. The remaining women have been paid without having to go through a hearing. Expensive Toast Carol Vander Jagt wife of rep. Guy Vander Jagt r-mlch., toasts president Bush at a tuesday night dinner that set a record for political fund raising. The president s dinner in Washington brought in $9 million As contributors paid top Dollar to mingle with the administrations  in Hud scandal indicted by the los Angeles times Washington a Deborah Gore Dean a Central figure in the Hud scandal of the Reagan administration was indicted by a Federal grand jury tuesday on charges that she took an illegal gratuity to perform official acts and then lied about it to a Senate committee. The indictment returned one Day before a statute of limitations expired charged Gore with demanding and accepting $4,000 from Quot a private individual while she was executive assistant to Secretary of housing and Urban development Samuel r. Pierce or. Pierce is regarded As the Centra target of the probe by Independent counsel Arlin m. Adams into allegations of wrongdoing at the department. No charges have been filed against him. Agi Dean 37, proclaimed her innocence. The grand jury charged that on april 29, 1987, Dean demanded and accepted a $4,000 Check to perform official acts in connection with the unidentified individuals requests for funds under huds Section 8 moderate rehabilitation program. That program was designed to stimulate rehabilitation of substandard rental housing and to provide rental subsidies for Low income families. In june 1987, the indictment charged Dean made a false statement to the Senate committee on banking housing and Urban affairs which was considering her nomination As Hud assistant Secretary. In the statement she said she knew of no investments obligations liabilities or other relationships she had that might involve potential conflicts of  kills 3, wounds 3 on rampage Reno Nev. Apr a Man whose neighbors hated and feared him went on a rampage killing three people and wounding three others hours after he was sentenced to jail for a previous attack. The gunman Fermin Mancilla also died in monday nights killing spree but it Wasny to Clear whether he killed himself or was shot to death by his last victim authorities said tuesday. Investigators said Mancilla 36, killed the couple who managed the covered Wagon Mobile Home Park in which he lived then went to the adjoining Bonanza Park and shot to death the Man who brought a Battery charge against him. He also wounded the wife of a Man who had complained about his playing loud music and two men who May have simply been bystanders police said. A Fermin had been a problem Ever since he moved in Here three years ago a said Marilynn Ellsworth manager of Bonanza Park. A the managers of the covered Wagon tried to evict him for a Long time but were scared to death of  Mancilla apparently called a relative in Texas shortly before the rampage and said he was going to get some guns and kill people Deputy police chief James Weston said. Police said Mancilla was armed with an my carbine a semiautomatic Rifle and a .44-caliber revolver. A the was in a car. Driving and shooting the victims a Weston said. Police said Mancilla went to the covered Wagon Park first and killed Jerry Iskra 67, and his wife Faye whose age was not available then killed Gary Cowan at the Bonanza Park. Weston said Mancilla left a note for his wife who was not Home at the time saying he loved her and his two children and that he was leaving. Earlier in the Day municipal judge Janet Berry sentenced Mancilla to 90 Days on the Battery charge but gave him until saturday to report to jail. Bonnie Brand a Deputy City attorney said Mancilla started to get agitated during the hearing and blamed the Park residents. She said she suggested it might be better for Mancilla to begin his sentence immediately but the judge disagreed. A the did not make any threats in court a the judge said later. Senate panel finds no evidence of americans held in Indochina Washington a the chairman of a Senate panel investigating whether . Service members Are still alive in Indochina said tuesday that there is no evidence of any named individual being held in Vietnam or Laos. A was of this moment neither our teams nor this committee has any specific information about a specific individual being alive Quot sen. John Kerry d-mass., told a news conference. North Vietnam repatriated 591 . Prisoners of War in 1973. The special committee is investigating whether any of the 2,273 americans listed As missing in the War were held after the conflict. A we have no evidence at this time of an individual by name being alive in Viet Nam or in Laos a Kerry said at a briefing following a trip to Laos Vietnam and Cambodia by members of the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs. Kerry the committees chairman said the panel is evaluating evidence that there May have been some american military personnel left in Indochina after the War ended some 20 years ago. The panel plans hearings on the Issue Quot it is my sense that this tortured Long chapter with respect to Vietnam could possibly be brought to a close in the next months provided that Vietnam Laos and our state department and defense department do All that they Promise to do a Kerry said. Threat of global warming doubted Washington up global warming caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in Earth a atmosphere is much less serious a problem than some experts have claimed scientists said tuesday. The report was issued by the George c. Marshall Institute a Washington based scientific policy think tank. Its authors said further studies should be conducted before governments make sweeping policy changes. A we feel one can safely wait. It does no to mean we can ignore it a said one of the authors Frederick Seitz. Seitz past president of the National Academy of sciences and his colleagues said analysing climate changes using satellite data has led them to conclude t iat computer models of global warning Are five times higher than what is happening. While a . Estimate of climate change projected warming of about 7 degrees in the next Century the Marshall report said a More accurate projection was less than 2 degrees. But the scientists said there were some compelling reasons to reduce emissions anyway. A chlorofluorocarbons Are greenhouse gases with Good reasons to be 3ressed because of the Ozone Lem Quot said William Nierenberg former director of the Scripps institution of oceanography. Chlorofluorocarbons Are blamed for destroying the protective Ozone layer