European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I saturday november 27, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3. F sex army pharmacist is her loss of Job Boss wanted someone who fit in she says by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a former pharmacist at the army s nato health clinic is trying to get her Job Back claiming her supervisor engineered her ouster partially because of her appearance. Beverly Orr wants to return to the Brussels clinic where she worked one year As a civilian pharmacist Grade gs-11, until july 11. The Merit system Protection Board is determining whether an administrative Law judge will hear her Case. Under regulations the Board has 160 Days to decide whether to accept a complaint although such decisions sometimes Are delayed until enough complaints in Europe Are gathered for a judge to hear them All said a lawyer familiar with the process. Orr said her Job trouble first surfaced april 21, when she returned from a vacation in Germany during which she visited the inspector general s office at the . Army Europe s Headquarters in Heidelberg. On that Day her supervisor or. Capt Brian Crisp told Hertha her Job would end in july Orr said. Crisp since has been promoted to major. Crisp s reference was the first Orr had heard of Aone year appointment she said. She had accepted the Brussels Job based on assurances of a three year assign ment by the civilian personnel office at chevres a which serves the Brussels area. She was working As pharmacist at the army Hospital in bad Cannstatt Germany when she accepted the Job. The Brussels Job offer included a housing allowance and travel and moving expenses. Orr has documents verifying those aspects of the Job offer. However in april officials at the civilian personnel office at chevres a told her that they had made a administrative error and that her Job would end in two months. They took pains not to Call it a removal action but that s what it was said Mary Graniri Praschma Orr s at Torney. Austerity plan in Belgium triggers strike Brussels Belgium a workers protesting a government austerity plan Par Al Zed factories trains shipping and Road traffic Friday in Belgium s first nationwide general strike since world War ii. Picket lines blocked the entrances tothe country s chemical steel and textile plants. Mail was not delivered and mos schools were closed. Strikers blocked roads to the National air port and Rush hour traffic into the capital and the major cities slowed to a crawl. Business at Antwerp s port came to standstill because none of the locks was manned to let ships through. The government said Friday that it would reopen talks with unions and businesses on its plan to freeze wages and boost  results of the action Are excellent socialist Union spokesman Yvan Brockmeyer  workers in Belgium belong to the country s two major unions which called the one Day strike. Local strikes monday and wednesday shut Down businesses in several provinces. The employers federation said the three Days of protests this week would Cost the nation about $335  unions have threatened to have an other general strike on dec. 10, when the belgian government plays Host to the euro Pean Community s Summit of government attorney Thomas Dorrington who is representing the clinic refused to answer questions regarding Orr s charges citing judge advocate general policy that pro Hibits discussion of open cases. Civilian personnel officials at chevres also declined to comment. Personnel in the family practice clinic at Schofiel Barracks in Hawaii where Crisp now works said he was on temporary duty in Japan and did not know when he would return. A spokesman at Tripler army medical Center which oversees the clinic did not re turn a phone Call. Crisp rated Orr highly successful in a performance rating dated March 8. Orr said she went to the inspector general in part be cause a noncommissioned officer from the Brussels clinic had gone through her file at the chevres a personnel office about 60 Miles Southwest of Brussels. She said she brought the matter to the attention of Richard Murdock chief of technical services at the personnel office who told her anyone could go into he file under the Freedom of information act. Orr said co workers at the clinic later told her that sgt. 1st class Agnes Watkins had returned to the clinic where she works bragging about information she had obtained from Orr s file. Contacted at the clinic wednesday Watkins refused to comment. Orr a registered pharmacist for 10 years said she believes Crisp wanted a pharmacist who fit in better with the nato military Community. Because Orr had interviewed for the Job by Tele phone she said no one in Brussels saw her until she re ported for work. Orr who is Black wears a closely Cut hairstyle Avant Garde clothes and sometimes a ring in her nose. Know that people have this idea in their head of what a pharmacist should look like she said. Maybe i Don look like a pharmacist of but i  she said Crisp and Watkins made derogatory re Marks about her hair and appearance. Of i know that people have this idea in their head of what a pharmacist should look like. Maybe Mon t look like a pharmacist of but i am Beverly Orr my hair s just Fine. I m not going to go straighten my hair get some Greasy hairstyle just to fit in with what people think i should look like. I just have a Job Todo and that s All Orr said Orr filed a complaint against Crisp and Watkins wit the equal employment Opportunity office at chevres on aug. 11, claiming she was a victim of racial and sex at discrimination. She said that she tried to file a complaint while still employed at the clinic but that local Counselor told her that she could not file a complaint against Watkins because she also is Black. Orr has returned to the Stuttgart area where she Strying to find work. She was evicted from her Brussels House when she could no longer afford the rent she said but some of her belongings remain in Brussels be cause the chevres personnel office continues to Den her return transportation rights. Passengers carry their Luggage past burning tires to the departure terminal at the Airport in Brussels Belgium on Friday. Striking Airport employees blockaded the main Road to the Airport in protest of planned government austerity measures. Leaders in Brussels. The austerity plan which Belgium s parliament approved this week includes $3 Bil lion in budget cuts and new taxes for next year. It freezes wages for government jobs until the end of 1996, and removes alcohol tobacco and gasoline from the Cost of living wage Index. Economists said the plan will Cost the average family in Belgium about 3 percent of its income. Unemployment in Belgium is 14percent and expected to Rise. The unions want commitments from the government and employers to raise employ ment and reduce the Impact of the austerity plan on the workers. Recession battered countries across Europe Are facing labor unrest. The govern ment of France which has 12 percent unemployment abandoned an austerity plan after air France employees disrupted air traffic in october. In Germany Volkswagen Europe s big Gest automaker and its Union agreed this week to implement a four Day workweek to save jobs. It is the first time since 1936 that Bel Gium s two strongest unions joined in a nationwide strike. At the time they did so to demand a 40-hour workweek and protest High unemployment