European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday june 11, 1992drug Agency settles hispanic Bias suit Washington a the drug enforcement administration has agreed to pay $275,000 to some hispanic agents and to continue promoting them at the same rate As other agents in a tentative settlement of a 7-year-old employment discrimination lawsuit. The Agency said tuesday that the Money would go to agents employed before Jan. I 1985, in amounts based on length of service. The proposed settlement also would establish an advisory committee elected by hispanic agents with Access to leaders of the Agency. Douglas Huron attorney for the agents said the payments would Range from $600 to $2,500 per agent. But he said the primary feature was the Agency a agreement that promotion rates for hispanics at All Levels including the senior executive service would be roughly equal to promotion rates for non hispanics. Huron said the Dea had done just that since the class action lawsuit was filed in 1985, but the hispanic agents wanted to ensure that it continued. In separate interviews Huron and Dea general counsel Dennis Hoffman said that goal did not constitute a quota. Huron who announced a tentative agreement april 29, 1991, said it took More than a year to draft the language which was submitted monday to . District judge Harold h. Greene. The agreement still must be approved by Greene and by the plaintiff class of agents which covers about 300 hispanics among the deals nearly 3,000 agents. The tentative settlement comes less than two months after the Fri reached an agreement in principle with lawyers for More than 300 Black Fri agents who had complained of racial discrimination. Under that agreement six Black Fri agents Are to be promoted to supervisor and Given a total of $115,000 in Back pay. Another 67 Black Fri agents would receive new positions or special training other Black agents would receive payments to make up the Gap in awards and bonuses they received that were too Low. In 1988, a Federal judge in Texas ruled that the Fri had discriminated against hispanics. Quot according to the lawsuit against the Dea hispanic agents who were fluent in Spanish tended to be Given unfavourable work assignments such As Spanish English translation wiretap monitoring and undercover work. The agents also faced discrimination in pay awards training and discipline the suit  baptists Widen exclusion of Gays from wire reports Indianapolis a Southern baptists have banished two congregations for accepting homosexuals and set in motion a precedent setting change in bylaws to exclude other churches that do the same. Both measures were strongly approved tuesday at a convention of the 15.2 million member Church the country a largest protestant denomination. The change in bylaws must  again next year to go into effect. In Milwaukee delegates to the 204th general Assembly of the presbyterian Church .a. Took up another homosexual related Issue ruling that boy scout troops May meet in presbyterian Church basements despite be Outing a ban on homosexuals. 1 he delegates voted 368-165 against a Resolution urging congregations to find out if their scout troops ban homosexuals and to bar them from Church facilities if they do. Scout leaders and Gay activists had said it would be a hypocritical stand for a Church that bans Gay clergy and declares homosexuality to be wrong. The Southern baptists decision is a departure from their tradition of allowing congregations autonomy i he 18, 100 delegates voted by an overwhelming show of hands to banish two North Carolina churches Pullen memorial in Raleigh which blessed a homosexual Union and Binkley memorial in Chapel Hill which licensed a homosexual to preach. Their actions a Are contrary to the teachings of the Bible on human sexuality and the Sanctity of the family and Are offensive to Southern baptists Quot the Resolution said. Neither congregation had representatives at the convention. But the Rev. Mahan Siler pastor of Pullen memorial said in Raleigh that the action is troublesome. A i Hale to see baptists make essential to cooperation and membership any of our positions on social issues i is dangerous a he said. Earlier tuesday vice president Dan Quayle addressed the Baptist convention on its opening Day issuing a rousing Call for traditional family values. He de vice president Dan Quayle greets Southern baptists in Indianapolis where he urged adherence to traditional values fended his criticism of to character Murphy Brown for having a child out of Wedlock. He said of his critics a i Wear their scorn As a badge of  Quot the baptists punctuated Quayle s address with applause and amens often standing to cheer him on. At a news conference Quayle steered Clear of the baptists debate. But he said a let me be very Clear. I he preferred lifestyle is one of marriage. The preferred lifestyle is the traditional  the presbyterian Resolution recommended by a committee said the 2.8 million member denomination must do everything in its Power to prevent society from discriminating against homosexuals. A the Issue is not the boy scouts. The Issue is whether the Church of Jesus Christ is going to be a discriminatory organization a Gerald Wise of the Chicago presbytery argued in support of the Resolution. But Jack Willard of the Lake Michigan presbytery said that a vote for the Resolution would be perceived As a an unwarranted and thoughtless attack on the scouts. A i beg of you lets not shoot ourselves in the foot a he said. The proposal was one of a number of recent challenges to the boy scouts exclusion of homosexuals which officials defend As reflecting family values. Voters oust another Check bouncer 11i i i Rock Ark. Apr voters angry Over the House Hank scandal heeded a cry to a Bounce Beryl and sent rep. Beryl anal my or. Away after seven terms in Congress. Despite help from gov. Bill Clinton Anthony lost a close race to Arkansas Secretary of state Bill Mccuen on tuesday. Anthony became the second Arkansas congressional member a and one of several from around the nation a to be ousted this year because of bad checks and voter disenchantment. The contest highlighted primary elections in four states. In other races a m nine republicans picked clothing magnate . Beans granddaughter Linda bean As their congressional candidate. Bean a conservative got 46 percent of the vote defeating advertising executive Tony Payne and toolmaking company executive John Purcell. She will Challenge democratic incumbent Tom Andrews in the fall. A Virginia slate sen. Robert Scott got 67 percent of the vote in defeating two democratic primary opponents in the new Black majority 3rd congressional District. The District which stretches from Norfolk to Richmond is heavily democratic giving Scott the Early advantage Over the gop candidate Dan Jenkins who is also Black. A virginians also picked gop nominees for Congress in two districts in the suburbs of Washington. In the new uth District Law professor Henry Butler of George Mason University in Fairfax topped a Field of five including Andrew Schlafly son of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. In the neighbouring 8th District lawyer Kyle Mcslarrow won a three Way race. A North Dakota attorney general Nicholas Spaeth won the democratic gubernatorial primary defeating state Senate majority Leader William Heigaard 65 percent to 35 percent. In Arkansas Mccuen had 44,653 votes or 51 percent to Anthonys 43,004 votes or 49 percent according to tinal unofficial results. Mccuen had hammered away at the congressman for writing 109 bad checks at the House Bank and for supporting the 1990 congressional pay raise. In the May 26 primary Anthony received just 40 percent of the vote and watched As another bad Check writer from Arkansas rep. Bill Alexander was Defeated. Ait Erward Anthony promised voters he would change his ways. But it Wasny to  out polls Clinton in Beauty contest write in Bismarck . Apr Ross Perot beat out Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton in write in votes in the unusual North Dakota democratic a Beauty contest primary in which neither Man was on the ballot. Perot the Texas billionaire who Hasni to announced a formal bid for the presidency was largely ignored on the Republican ballot where president Bush took 87 percent of the vote. Leading the democratic race was Lyndon , a perennial presidential candidate who is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for mail and tax fraud. With 97 percent of the precincts reporting the democratic results were Larouche with 6,867 votes or 28 percent and Nevada millionaire Charles Woods with 6,509, or 27 percent. Perot received 19 percent of the vote with 4,710 write in votes and Clinton had 6 percent with 1,343 w rite in votes