Thursday, November 14, 1985
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Israeli minister Sluaron fired
JERUSALEM Prime Minister
Shimon Peres, angered by attacks on
his peace overtures to Jordan, rejected
a partial apology from Cabinet Minister
Ariel Sharon on Wednesday and handed
him a letter of dismissal, a Labor Party
official said.
Peres convened his Cabinet to dis
cuss the firing of Sharon, who had
accused Peres of making a secret
agreement with Jordan's King Hussein
and of being "weak and spineless."
Rafi Edry, head of Peres' Labor Party
faction in parliament, said on Israel
radio that a compromise formula had
been agreed to by Peres. But he said
Sharon had refused to include in his
apology an expression of confidence in
the prime minister and his policies.
The Cabinet continued to meet and
it was uncertain if a compromise could
be worked out. It would take 48 hours
for the dismissal to go into effect and
there was a possibility Peres could
retract his letter.
Earlier, Sharon, minister of trade
and industry, apologized for any per
sonal attacks on Peres, but stood by his
criticism of Peres' overtures to Jordan,
including acceptance of an international
forum for peace talks.
"If things I said were understood as
a personal slight to the prime minister,
Shimon Peres, I hereby express my
apology to him," Sharon said on Israel
radio.
But Sharon went on to say that he
stood by his criticism of Peres poli
cies, and Israel radio quoted Peres as
telling the Cabinet that he could not
accept an apology on such terms.
In an earlier meeting Wedneday with
Likud bloc leader Yitzhak Shamir, Peres
accused Sharon of breaching a law
requiring Cabinet ministers to accept
collective responsibility for government
policy, the aide said.
He asked Shamir to agree to the
dismissal, but the foreign minister
objected, the aide said.
Sharon's dismissal without Shamir's
approval could prompt Likud to pull
out of the government and end the
joint-rule agreement under which the
two ideologically opposing parties have
governed Israel for the last 14 months.
Sharon, the former defense minister
and architect of Israel's 1982 Lebanon'
invasion, kept up a stream of criticism
even as the hour-long meeting was
being held and accused Peres of hold
ing secret talks with Jordan King
Hussein.
"We see the terrible pictures of
Israelis lying with knives in their backs
and we continue to conduct secret
negotiations with Hussein in whose
capital the killers' command posts
operates, snaron saia on israei nauio.
Study finds job-family conflict
source of employee depression
BOSTON Nearly half of the
employees interviewed in a study say
the main reason they get depressed at
work is the strain of holding a job and
raising a family at the same time.
The Boston University study, released
Wednesday and considered the first of
its kind in the country, also found that
one-third of working parents spend
part of the day worrying a great deal
about their kids.
"The world isn't set up to have two
parents at work," said Bradley Googins,
an assistant professor of community
organization, management and plan
ning at Boston University's School of
Social Work. "It is a struggle. From our
data, it's something that does impact
most families."
The researchers also concluded that
individual employees have done every
thing they can to improve the strain of
holding a job and raising a family, and
said it was now up to corporations to
help solve the problem.
Googins and Dianne Burden, an
assistant professor of social policy and
research, followed the lives of 651
employees at all levels of a large
Boston-based corporation for one year,
interviewing them about work and fam
ily matters.
The researchers would not identify
the corporation, but said it was typical
of many American firms only 20 per
cent of the workforce had a traditional
family set-up, with a working husband
and unemployed wife caring for child
ren at home.
Googins said similar studies have
been conducted with government
employees, but none has lasted as long
as a year and examined private-sector
workers.
The Boston University study found
that working mothers, especially if
they are married, bear the brunt of
juggling career and family.
The average female married parent
at the company, according to Gocins
and Burden, spent 85 hours a week on
her job, homemaking and child care,
compared to the 75 hours spent by a
single female parent, 66 by a married
male parent, 65 by a single male parent
and 55 by a non-parent.
"Married mothers are the ones who
have moved into new roles at home and
at work," said Googins. "Culturally,
they still hang onto their roles at
home. . . while they love what they do
at work. It manifests itself in conflict."
The Boston University study also
found that 43 percent of the employees
interviewed, both male and female,
said the strain of managing family
responsibilities was the main reason
they got depressed at work. Googins
said one-third of the respondents said
they worried a significant amount about
their kids during the day, "which has
got to be a large part of this stress
strain depression."
Laser communication advance reported
WASHINGTON The Defense De
partment, in an experiment with sig
nificant implications for war-fighting
strategy, ha" successfully transmitted
messages vi laser light from a high
flying airplane to a submarine cruising
at "operational depths."
The experiment, confirmed by Rear
Adm. Thomas K. Mattingly and other
Navy officials, was conducted more
than a year ago off the coast of San
Clemente, Calif., under the code name
"SLCAIR 84," pronounced Slickair.
A small jet carrying an experimental
green-light laser was able to establish
contact and transmit messages "error
free" to a submerged submarine.
Although precise details are classi
fied, the airplane was flying at alti
tudes between 20,000 feet and 30,000
feet at the time of the transmissions,
one source said. Another source said
the term "operational depth" meant
the submarine was more than 100 feet
below the surface.
The successful test has paved the
way for additional research and con
vinced some officials a more advanced
laser system can be constructed. Dur
ing the next two years, the Navy will
take control of the research from the
Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, or DARPA.
Although Navy officials caution the
service is still years away from building
any operational system, the experi
ment offers one promising avenue for
attacking a problem that has long
dogged nuclear planners how to
communicate reliably with ballistic
missile submarines without requiring
the sub to rise near the surface and risk
disclosing its position.
Moreover, a laser communications
system is viewed as having tremendous
implications for tactical warfare be
cause it could allow surface ships to
protect the whereabouts of U.S. attack
submarines, while still directing them
toward enemy submarines.
The existence of the DARPA research
program involving so-called blue-green
lasers has long been public knowledge.
The research has been cited in the
past by such concerned lawmakers as
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., and Sen. Carl
Levin, D-Mich., who see it as offering an
alternative to the ELF (extreme low
frequency) submarine communications
system now being built in Wisconsin
and upper Michigan.
Recently, however, Mattingly provided
the first public acknowledgement the
research had moved to the point of a
successful transmission of data. A
former astronaut who now directs space
programs within the Sapce and Naval
Warfare Command, Mattingly referred
briefly to the test in an article he wrote
for "Proceedings" magazine, published
by the U.S. Naval Institute.
In an interview, Mattingly stressed
the Navy and DARPA were still engaged
in basic research "and not develop
ment of an operational system."
Another Navy official, who spoke on
condition he not be identified, said
earlier experiments had established it
was possible for a submerged subma
rine to be reached by laser light.
G3 WS in 1 El VS A rounduP of the day's happenings
State Treasurer Kay Orr, 46, plans to announce her
candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor
next Thursday, sources say. Confirmation from several
sources within the GOP came after it was learned that Orr
had approved formation of an "Orr for Governor" fund
raising committee.
Poland's new premier named his government and,
as expected, Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowki was dropped.
He was removed from the policy-making Politburo Tues
day. Zbigniew Messner, who became premier when Com
munist Party chief Wojciech Jaruzelski gave up the job
last week, named three new deputy premiers and nine new
ministers in a major rearrangement of the government.
Evangelist Billy Graham, 66, has been admitted to
a Minnesota hospital for cardiac tests after Mayo Clinic
doctors gave him s stress test.
Twelve enlisted men at F. E. Warren Air Force Base
in Wyoming face administrative discharge because they
are homosexuals, base officials said. Air Force officials
began an investigation in August after receiving informa
tion that homosexual activity was occurring on the base.
The discharges were ordered because it's against military
regulations to be homosexual, a statement said.
Artificial heart patient William Schroeder, 53, was
more alert and moving better as he continued recuperating
from a third stroke, which he suffered Sunday.
A federal court, is deciding whether "Star Wars"
belongs to the ages or to George Lucas. "Star Wars," the
name of a blockbuster, also is a term everyone uses to
describe President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
Reagan insists he's sorry anybody ever called it that.
Meanwhile, director Lucas' firm, Lucas' Film Ltd. now is
suing to stop use of "Star Wars" as a euphemism for SDI in
commercials. Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes suggest
"Star Shield" be used as a substitute.
In Brief
Legislators study extremist groups
LINCOLN National news reporters have taken an interest in a
legislative investigation into the activities of extremist groups in the
state.
Representatives from Nightline, the Washington Post and the Courier
News Service have contacted Omaha Sen. Jerry Chizek's office asking for
information on extremist groups in Nebraska and the legislative hearings
scheduled for early December, said Jim Crounse, legislative aide to
Chizek.
Chizek is sponsor of LR1 12, a legislative resolution that calls for a study
of the scope of extremist group activities in Nebraska. It also suggests an
investigation into suspected proliferation of automatic weapons and
seeks recommendations for law changes relating to extremist groups.
The hearings could lead to legislative proposals outlawing paramilitary
training camps in the state. Legislative proposals will depend on what is
presented at the hearings, Crounse said.
Although the alleged murders at a farm near Rulo led to the national
interest in the legislative hearings, the resolution was introduced before
the Rulo arrests, Crounse said.
Law: Parents liable for kids' kids
MADISON, Wis. Wisconsin has adopted a pioneering law that holds
parents financially responsible if their minor children have babies.
Under the measure, signed Tuesday by Gov. Anthony Earl, a welfare
agency could take the parents of both the mother and father to court to
make them pay for the expenses of raising the child.
The law also allocates $1 million for pregnancy counseling, requires a
girl's consent before a hospital or clinic can notify her parents of her
abortion, and repeals restrictions on the advertising and sale of
contraceptives.
State Rep. Marlin Schneider , who said no other state has such a law,
said it was intended to reduce teen-age pregnancies by increasing discus
sion between parents and teen-agers regarding sex.
By making parents financially responsible, "they may at least talk
about the subject" before there is an unwanted pregnancy, he said.
Plan to ban kids from rock concerts
SAN ANTONIO, Texas After trying unsuccessfully to tame the lyrics
of heavy metal rock music at concerts, the City Council here is consider
ing prohibiting children under 13 from attending rock shows that depict
violence and illicit sex.
Mayor Henry Cisneros says a proposed ordinance, the first of its kind in
the nation, reflects "common sense," but opponents call it misguided and
argue that "parents ought to decide and not the government."
At issue are performances at the Convention Center Arena, owned by
San Antonio, the nation's 10th largest city.
The ordinance, which comes up for debate Thursday, would bar anyone
younger than 13 from concerts at which sadistic or masochistic sex, rape,
incest, bestiality and exhibitionism are depicted on stage.
Earlier this year, the council considered ways of banning objectional
lyrics at rock concerts. When City Attorney Lowell Denton determined any
such action would be unconstitutional, council members took aim at
concert theatrics.
The council ordered the ordinance prepared after a city-hired child
psychiatrist conducted a $2,000 study on the effects of rock music on
youngsters.
Gooden unanimous Cy Young winner
NEW YORK Soft-spoken but hard-throwing Dwight Gooden of the
New York Mets became the youngest player ever to win the Cy Young
award, receiving unanimous acclaim Wednesday as the best pitcher in the
National League last season.
Gooden, who turns 21 on Saturday, also became the first pitcher to win
Rookie of the Year and Cy Young awards in successive seasons. The
right-hander had a record of 24-4 and led the National League in earned run
average, strikeouts, complete games and innings pitched.
Gooden received 120 points, including all 24 of the first-place votes cast
by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, becoming the seventh
pitcher to receive the award unanimously.
John Tudor of St. Louis, 21-8 during the season, was second with 65
points, followed by Orel Hershiser of Los Angeles with 1 7, Joaquin Andujar
of St. Louis with 6, Fernando Valenzuela of Los Angeles with 4, Tom
Browning of Cincinnati with 3 and Jeff Reardon of Montreal with 1.
"I'm honored to have my name listed with the other Cy Young winners,"
said Gooden. "So much has happened to me in such a short period of time
Rookie of the Year last year and now this. Still, I would gladly trade
both of these awards for one World Series ring. That's what I will be
shooting for next year."
Philadelphia commissioner resigns
PHILADELPHIA The city's police commissioner announced his
resignation Wednesday, exactly six months after directing his depart
ment's disastrous attempt to evict members of the radical MOVE cult from
their fortified row house.
Commissioner Gregore J. Sambor, 57, told more than 200 officers at a
meeting that he had sent a letter to Mayor W. Wilson Goode saying he
would relinquish his duties Nov. 30. He made no reference to the MOVE
confrontation.
"There will be many who will second-guess this decision, and many who
will deny that it is mine, but the simple truth of the matter is that it is
time, Sambor told the officers, who gave him a standing ovation when he
arrived at the Police Academy.
Sambor, who said two months ago he had no intention of quitting, was
contradicted by Goode in testimony before a special commission investi
l?n "? th! May 13 M0VE traSedy, in which 1 1 members of the cult were
killed and 61 houses were destroyed by a fire started by a police bomb,
dropped to break up a rooftop bunker.
Goode testified that he had been misled and disobeyed by his subordi
nates. The mayor's representative on the scene, then Managing Director
Leo Brooks, resigned this summer, citing personal reasons.
bambors 23 months as commissioner were tainted by two widely
criticized police operations.
