Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday Juno 6 1989— Page 5 Navy report cites safety problems in submarine fleet WASfflNGTON (UPI) — A series of recent collisions foes and odier mishaps involving US Navy submarines and their crews has cost the federal government at least $973 million The Washington Post reported today An internal Navy report obtained discernible improvement" ' submarine force from 1983 the study In die last two weeks there have been three major U3 submarine accidents TTiey included a propulsion failure aboard the USS Helena in die Pacific near Pearl Harbor an engine room fire on the USS Blueback off die coast of Southern California and a groundine bv the USS Gurnard near San Diego The report conducted by die Navy's Submarine Safety Programs Directorate in Norfolk Va did not provide a complete tally of die mishaps The report cautioned there may have been more and the cost to the Navy may have been higher the Post said Fires were die most frequent and C06dy type of accident involving equipment The blazes were caused mosdy by the improper storage of debris The overall number of such mishaps declined slighdy during die 1983-19period but accidents and deaths of crew members rose the newspaper said 87 of die 83 “explosive mishaps" included in die report involved a single type of torpedo die Mark 48 Expats say each attack submarine in the U3 Navy probably carries more than a dozen of the conventionally aimed Mark 48s die Post said Half the explosions were attributed to die improper handling of torpedoes Since 1983 there have been 31 reported suicides in die submarine fleet — one officer and 30 enlisted men die newspaper said The report gave no details of the deaths Two-thir-ds A winner Randy Travis was named the entertainer of the year during the Music City News awards show in Nashville Tenn Monday night Ricky Van Shelton shared the spotlight during the televised show from the Grand Ole Opry House In an unexplained finding the report found that the largestt number of mishaps involving submarine personnel could be tracedI to reckless driving of cars and motorcycles' during shore leave the newspaper said The automobile accident rate was about double die average the report said Shelton won the awards in the male artist single album and video of the year categories Reba McEntire took the female vocal of the year award for the fifth straight time and called the honor “very very special" The awards show is the traditional kickoff of Fan Fair a weeklong extravaganza of country music that is expected to draw 20000 fans to Nashville this week Angry Blackmun scores high court ruling on discrimination WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court ruled 4 Monday that comparison of an employer's white and minority workers is not enough to prove discrimination a decision one justice assailed as “major strides backwards" for civil rights In die ruling by Justice Byron White die court said in racial digriminartm CSSeS brought against employers it is not enough merely to produce the employer statistics showing ' has hired more whites than for die' job White held that die proper comparison is between the job and the racial composition of die qualified labarmariteL 5-- non-whit- es He was Chief Justice William Refanquist and Sandra Day majority - still' believes that race discrimination — or more accurately race discrimination against — is a problem in our society or even remembers that it ever was” 1 “Racial imbalance in' "one1 segment of an employer's wok' force does not without more establish a case of disparate impact with respect to the selec-tio- n for the other positions' employer's concluded die opinion in die case involving salmon workers in Alaska the whether ‘ of workers Justices O’Connor Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy hi a scaring dissent Justice Hairy Blackmun wrote bitterly “Today a bare majority of the court takes three major strides backwards in die battle against race discrimination One wonders cannery non-whit- es Justice John Paul Stevens labelpd the majority niliqgr the “latest sojourn into judicial activism” Also dissenting were Justices William Brennan and Thuigood Marshall j Charles Stephen Ralston of die NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund said that before reading die ruling It was hard to gauge its firture significance but “it doesn’t sound good at alL” “Hus is definitely a cutback on existing law and this will be it harder cases” Ralston warned In other action Monday the Refused unanimously to become involved in a dispute between die homeless rights group Community for Creative and an artist fighting over die copyright of a statue of a homeless family on a Steam grate The decision means rthe CCNV and artist James Earl Reid of Baltimore must share ownership of die copyright for Thiid World America” The discrimination ruling in a lawsuit begun by workers in Alaska against die Wards Cove Packing Company and Castle & Cook Non-Violen- ce am non-whi- te hue diaeriminarinn The majority of cannery workers are hired from native villages in Alaska and through a local union of primarily Filipino members of the International and Longshoremen's Warehousemen’s Union in Seattle As a result cannery workers are almost all members of these ethnic groups All other positions are filled through applications received at the during the mainland home offices of the plants through rehiring prcvi off-seas- on employees and trough These positions are held predominantly by whites The suit also alleged that were segregated from whites in housing and eating facilities and that the bunkhouses and food provided for minorities were far inferior to those provided fa whites The federal district court rejected the claims but the 9th U3 Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that ruling the statistics mad an adwqnat (ng of ryrial discrimination The appeals court ordered the lower court to hold word-of-mou- th non-whit-es The employees charged that die concentration of Asian and Alaska Native waken in 'the1 lowest-pai-d cahnery Worker fend laborer positions and die relative scarcity of such minorities in g positions proved fa Dads Love'em ’ ‘ hearings in which the company must show some other reason for die disparity Monday’s high court action reversed that decision Attorney Douglas Fryer of Seattle who has handled the case die cannery companies the last 13 years said his clients were “very pleased" He noted changes within die industry have diluted the influence of the cannery workers union saying “The union has lost much of its influence mostly because most of the salmon processors freeze instead of can now" Victorias higher-payin- White wrote that as long as there is nothing to deter qualified minorities from applying for jobs “if the percentage of selected applicants who are court Ruled 2 that money spent te is not significandy less Church on of Scientology inthan die percentage of qualified struction is not te die applicants who are Marshall wrote that (he payments mechanism selection employer's probably does not operate with a are not contributions or gifts within (he meaning of IRS rules disparate impact on minorities" and that such a ruling does not deTo rule otherwise White clared would “inexorably lead infringe on the First Amendment to to die use of numerical quotas in rights of Scientologists of freedom religion the workplace” 3-- non-whi- non-whi- awwiwwwj iu SIX-MONT- H KEY INVESTMENT CERTIFICATE MINIMUM DEPOT $1000 $ Union leaders arrested in Mexico MEXICO CITY (UPI) — Ten oil union leaden were arrested on fraud and Hntwwhmait charge In the latest government crackdown on corruption in the powerful Petroleos Mexicanos union Special agents of the attorney general's office raided the homes of the union's Local 1 leaden at 2 m Monday in the Gulf port of Tampico 203 miles northeast of Mexico City authorities said “The men are accused of embezzling $740000 over the last d oil union said Vicente several months” from die the attorney general's office Mendoza a spokesman "They were unquestionably trusted' allies of Joaquin Hernandez Galicia who was based in Tampico for many decades” Mendoza said referring to the union's top leader who was arrested and jailed in January state-owne- fa Hernandez better known as “La Quina” allegedly massed a small fortune and wielded immense power in Mexican politics His arrest was one of the first crackdowns on corruption by newly elected Ptesident Carlos Salinas de Gortari Pope travels on to Denmark HELSINKI Finland (UPI) — Pope John Paul II left Finland for Nordic y Denmark today on the fourth leg of his to the Catholic Roman a ever first the visit pontiff by pastoral Lutheran regiOL predominantly The pope was to be met on arrival at Vaeriose military airport 13 miles west of Copenhagen by Conservative Rime Minister Foul Schluter to Following a brief welcoming ceremony the pontiff was to go Danish the of residence summer 18th the Palace century Fredensborg monarch for a private meeting with Queen 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