European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 9 in the states Bush orders sanctions for Sudan goal of economic pressure is to Stop country role in Darfur violence by Deb Riechmann the associated press Washington president Bush ordered new economic sanctions tuesday to pressure Sudan government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned As i Promise this to the people of Darfur the United states will not Avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the the president the sanctions target govern Mentrin companies involved in Sudan Oil and three in including a rebel Lead suspected of being involved in the violence in for too Long the people of Dar fur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the murder and rape of innocent the president my administration has called these actions by their right Ful name the world has a responsibility to put an end to Bush Bush had been prepared to impose the sanctions last but held off to give Secretary general ban Kimono More time to find a diplomatic end to the vandals burned flags at veterans Graves Orcas Van dals burned dozens of Small Amer ican flags that decorated Veter ans Graves for memorial Day and replaced Many of them with Han drawn authorities said fort six Flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters sunday in the authorities swastikas drawn on paper appeared where 14 of the flags had members of the american legion on this Island off washing tons Northwest coast replaced the burned flags with new ones Sun Day the vandals struck again on me Morial Day after a guard left at the san Juan county sheriffs office this the Van dals left 33 of the Han drawn this is not an act of free this is a sheriff Bill gumming said in a statement released monday from the associated press Gerald president Bush addresses Darfur on tuesday at the White Bush ordered new economic fou year crisis in Sudan West Ern Darfur Region where More than people have been beyond the new Bush directed Secretary of state condole Ezza Rice to draft a pro posed Resolution to strengthen International pressure on the sudanese government of presi Dent Omar save Darfur coalition director David Rubenstein welcomed the sanctions but said they might be too Little and too president Bush must not give further months to determine whether these outlined measures work the Darfur people dont have that much he the president must set a Short and firm deadline for fundamental changes in sudanese and prepare now to implement immediately further measures should Khartoum continue to i Call on president Elbashir to Stop his obstruction and to allow the peacekeepers in and to end the Campaign of violence that continues to target innocent women and Bush Bush said delaying sanctions to allow More time for diplomacy had not been president Beshirs actions Over the past few weeks follow a Long pattern of promising cooperation while finding new methods for the president the conflict erupted in february 2003 when members of Dar furs ethnic african tribes re belled against what they consid ered decades of neglect and discrimination by the a abdominal de Khartoum sudanese leaders Are accused of retaliating by unleashing the janjaweed militia to put Down the rebels using a Campaign of Mur mutilation and plunder a charge they the fight ing in Darfur has displaced million High court rules for employer in pay claim by Mark Sherman the associated press Washington the supreme court on tuesday limited workers ability to sue employers for pay discrimination that re sults from decisions made years the in a 54 said that employers would otherwise find it difficult to defend against claims arising from employment decisions that Are Long the Case concerned How to apply a 180day deadline for complaining about discriminatory pay decisions under title Vii of the Federal civil rights act of Lilly Ledbetter sued Goodyear tire rubber claiming that after 19 years at the company she was making a year less than the lowest paid Man doing the same Ledbetter claimed the disparity existed for years and was Pri Marily a result of her a jury but an appeals court overturned the verdict because she had waited too Long to begin her the deadline set in the Law Means nothing if employees can reach Back years to claim disc rim the company argued to the Justice Samuel writing for the agreed that Ledbet ters claim was this Short deadline reflects congresses Strong preference for the prompt Resolution of employ ment discrimination allegations through voluntary conciliation and Alito the decision broke along Ideo logical with the courts four Liberal justices Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Congress could should Cor rect the courts parsimonious Reading of title in our this court does not or is indifferent the insidious Way in which women can be victims of pay Dis Ginsburg read ing her dissent from the Justice Clarence who once led the Federal equal employment Opportunity commis sided with five years Thomas joined his Liberal colleagues in a 54 Deci Sion that made it easier for Vic Tims to complain about Lon term Job discrimination or harassment when shabby treatment was extended Over a period of months or in this Ledbetter argued that each paycheck that was smaller than those received by similarly situated men amounted to a new discriminatory the which is responsible for investigating workplace discrimination said led betters claims could go after a she was initially awarded More than a judge reduced the award to Cindy Sheehan Sheehan quits As Iraq War protester the associated press fort Texas Cindy the soldiers Mother who galvanized the ant Iraq War movement with her monthlong protest outside presi Dent Bush Texas says she is done being the Public face of the Ive been wondering Why in killing myself and wondering Why the democrats caved in to George Sheehan said by phone tuesday while driving from her now called Camp Casey in Honor of her in to the air where she planned to return to her native in going Home for awhile to try and be she in what she described As a res ignation Sheehan wrote in her online diary on the daily Kos Liberal blog goodbye America you Are not the coun try that i love and i finally realized no matter How much i Sacri i cant make you be that country unless you want its up to you Sheehan began a grass roots peace movement in August 2005 when she camped outside Bush Crawford ranch for 26 de manding to talk with the presi Dent about her sons army Casey Sheehan was 24 when he was killed in an ambush in Baghdad in Casey died for a country which cares More about who will be the next american idol than How Many people will be killed in the next few months while democrats and republicans play poli tics with human she it is so painful to me to know that i bought into this system for so Many years and Casey paid the Price for that i failed my boy and that hurts the