European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday september 6, 1995 ii or slow to respond preventive safety inspection rarely done study finds by Bob port and John Solomon the associated press Washington two Days before two construe. Lion workers in Twinsburg Ohio plunged to their death s in june 1994, Federal inspectors had received complaints of safety problems. They were too Busy to visit right away the employer Esprit constructors had t been inspected in at least five years though its Parent company Hud been fined twice during that period because workers did not have fall Protection. Last summer a 35-year-old worker at american Der ringer corp. Near Waco Texas was. Fatally shot in the head As he and a colleague tested a pistol. Before the death Federal safety inspectors had t checked on the facility since 1987. Afterwards the government found 29 violations citing the company for failing to protect workers from accidental gun shots. In his 10 years of business John Cembruch owner of v Connecticut tank trailer inc. In North Branford conn., said he can t recall one Surprise safety visit from Federal inspectors. A Man was killed there in March " when a cover blew off a tank. There s enough deaths going around that keeps them pretty Well tied up All the time said Cembruch. Whose company paid a $2,500 line and improved its Here s enough deaths going around that keeps them pretty Well tied up All the time John Cembruch Connecticut businessman safety practices. The fact is it is rare in most workplaces to get a preventive safety inspection from the occupational safety and health administration the Federal Agency create to protect american workers. Three quarters of us. Work Sites that suffered serious accidents in 1994 and Early 1995 had never been inspected by Osha during this decade according to an associated press analysis of six years of Agency records. Those accidents claimed the lives of 1,835 worker Sand injured thousands More. With 2,000 inspectors and 6 million workplaces the Agency is Hamstrung by a Legal mandate that requires itto respond to every complaint no matter How routine. More than half the time those complaints turn up no serious violations while nearly a third turn up no violations at All according to the a s computer analysis. The a obtained records of the 778,000 inspections conducted by Osha Between january 1989 and May 1995, and examined the most serious accidents in 1994 and through april 1995. Osha used its own computers to confirm Many of the a s findings. Officials at Osha acknowledged that they often Don t arrive until after a lethal Accident occurs. Joseph dear Osha chief said Osha is trying to Weed out unfounded complaints by fax or Telephone better target its Surprise inspections and build cooperative agreements with Industry. At the same time Osha is struggling this fall to Ward off congressional efforts to Cut its budget and curtail Osha s authority to conduct inspections. The a s analysis focused on 6,411 workplaces where Osha inspectors recorded fatal or catastrophic accidents in 1994 and the first four months of this year. In most states accidents Are classified As catastrophic when someone Dies or at least three workers Are hospitalized. Some states like California classify an Accident with fewer than three injuries As catastrophic. The a analysis found that 4,830 of those work places or 75 percent never had been visited by Osha in the five previous years. More than half were Small shops with fewer than 50 employees. Seventy six per cent of the in inspected companies were nonunion. It. Academy finds women right in step Northfield it. A it was Only her third Day at one of America s oldest private military colleges but Dawn Mills experience was hardly hellish. Norwich University accepts women and puts them into leadership positions. And though every facet of the training is driven by cherished traditions an All male corps was dropped As one of them two decades ago. Tradition has its place but you also have to remember tradition won t always help you for the future said Mills a freshman from san Antonio. Mills and her 323 male and female classmates were. Drilled on How to March Wear a uniform Salute superiors Wax a floor and blend into the traditions of being a first year  is not unlike the tasks Shannon Faulkner faced and walked away from As the first female Cadet in the 152-year history of South Carolina s Public military col lege the Citadel. The difference is in the approach. Norwich founded in 1819, went coeducational in 1974 with a class of 906 males and eight females. Since then it has steadily recruited women. This year its 150 female cadets make up 16 percent of the Norwich Cadet population the school s most female cadets  University freshman Cadet Dawn Mills of san Antonio practices the manual of arms with fellow Rooks at the nation s oldest private military College in Northfield it. Dole vows no Compromise on Bud i ". A Chicago a with an Eye on bolstering his White House Hopes sen ate majority Leader Bob Dole served no  that republicans were in no mood for an autumn of Compromise with president Clinton in the bitter Bud. Get welfare and medicare debates. With Congress due Back this week from its summer recess to face a string of major legislative decisions Dole use d a speech to the economic club of Chicago to make it Clear that republicans do not fear the Prospect of a government shut Down if they cannot come to terms with Linton on a budget plan. Beyond the upcoming congressional Battles Dole s speech was part of an Effort to reassert his status As the Republican presidential front runner. On monday in Indianapolis in his lat est overture to the top s social conservatives Dole endorsed making English the nation s official language and criticized the embarrassed by America crowd he said was undermining the country s traditional values. 7- / later in Iowa he brought up his opposition to abortion something Dole rarely does in Campaign speeches but also scoffed at suggestions that he suddenly was re making his. Mes Sage. I get tired of Reading these Sto Ries that Bob Dole is moving to the right he said. Nobody has Dol checked the voting record. They Are All things i be talked about in the  Dole had two major goals for tues Day s speech in Chicago to court eco nomic conservatives with details of what Dole administration economic program would look like and to serve notice to gop rivals  had no intention of legislative missteps or questionable compromises that might damage his Campaign. Dole warned Clinton that time was running Short if the president hoped to strike acceptable deals on reforming Wel fare slowing the growth in medicare spending and putting the budget on path to be balanced by 2002. Laying a Marker for any such talks Ole said we will never Compromise away the mandate the american people gave us last november. We will fight to the end for fundamental conservative change or we will take our Case to the american people in 1996. This will note an autumn of  _ As for his own views Dole provided nourishing new rhetoric but Only a few new policy clues one by endorsing a constitutional amendment that would re quire a sup majority of three fifths in Congress to approve any tax increases. Otherwise Dole repeated his Call for scrapping the current tax code in favor of one with lower and flatter  but he did not endorse any of several competing Flat tax plans or say whether he favors preserving any deductions. He did say he believed a family of four making about $30,000 a year should Payno income taxes at All that All taxpayers should be Able to file on a postcard sized form and that the new system should Call for the virtual elimination of the internal Revenue service. The irs was never meant to be such an intrusive oppressive presence in american life Dole said. Dole also called anew for reducing taxes on capital gains saying today s rates leave american investors at a giant disadvantage to rivals in Germany and Japan. I i i