1340 NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Friday, September 18, 1992 7 BRIEFS Syria threatens to leave peace talks WASHINGTON — Syria said peacemakers with Israel were verging on deadlock and threatened yesterday to walk out of the negotiations unless Israel acknowledged it must withdraw from all of the Golan Heights. "For sure, we shall not sit forever, discussing nothing," said chief negotiator Muwaffiq al-Allaf, calling on the Bush administration to intervene. However,he said Syria would return to the bargaining table at the State Department after the weekend break. "The Israelis make it clear that they are not here in order to negotiate a comprehensive and just peace, but to attempt to divide Arab ranks by insisting on separate deals and partial solutions," the veteran diplomat said. His blistering, public attack reversed his own positive appraisals of the talks as recently as Wednesday. School lunches fatty, group says WASHINGTON — Children who eat a school lunch are getting too much butter and oil with every meal because the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dumping fatty farm products on school cafeterias, a consumer group said yesterday. Public Voice for Food and Health Policy said that the department had spent twice as much money on butter and cheese for the national school lunch program as on fruits and vegetables. Since 1979, the department has spent $10.2 billion on food for the school lunch program. Of that, the department used $1.3 billion to buy butter, $2 billion for cheese, most of it very high in fat and $1.6 billion for fruits and vegetables, Public Voice said. The school lunch program served 4.1 billion meals last year, reaching an average of 24.5 million children each day. Women accuse VA of sex harassment. The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Women who work at veterans hospitals told Congress yesterday that they were sexually harassed on the job, then faced reprisals for complaining about it. You are victimized first by your harasser and next by the system," said Mary O'Connor, who said she was a victim of physical sexual harassment by a doctor at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Northampton, Mass. She said that when she complained, management attempted to minimize the abuse, to cover up the actual assault and informed her that if she filed a formal complaint, the entire hospital would be aware of the offense and that complainants were in for extreme discomfort. pharmacies were there. She was one of half a dozen female VA hospital employees who appeared before the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations to describe harassment in their own experience or that of others. Rep. Lane Evans, D-III., head of the panel, called it powerful and disturbing testimony. VA officials said they recognized the problem of sexual harassment and were dealing with it. Other women said they had received unwanted job transfers, reduced responsibilities, punitive scheduling and were subjected to embarrassment before their colleagues after pressing sex harassment cases. "There are many women who continue to put up with it and silently suffer unwelcome verbal and physical harassment," said Donna Grabarczyk, a nursing supervisor at the VA Medical Center at Lyons, N.J., who complained of physical advances by an administrator. "They fear the kind of punishment I have received over the past two years." They said the VA sometimes transferred male employees to avoid punishing them for harassing female employees. Rebecca Ainlay, assistant chief of pharmacy at the VA medical center at Mountain Home, Tenn., said in a statement delivered by her lawyer that she was harassed by a supervisor who had been transferred to that hospital even though the VA knew he had previously harassed another employee. "The VA considers sexual harassment a very serious matter and has taken numerous steps to ensure that all VA employees, supervisors and managers are aware that behavior encompassing sexual harassment in any form is unacceptable," said Anthony Principi, VA deputy secretary. Markets await vote by French LONDON — The currency crisis that pitched Europe into political and monetary turmoil widened yesterday, but central banks managed to keep order even as financial markets swung wildly. The Associated Press During the early-morning hours, Italy joined Britain in suspending its currency, the lira from the European exchange-rate mechanism. 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