University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, May 2. 1989 Nation/World 7 Germany rallies NATO support The Associated Press BONN, West Germany — The government began a new effort yesterday to rally NATO allies behind its proposal for superpower talks on reducing the military expenditure caused a dispute with the United States and Britain. Foreign Minister Hans-Dieter Genscher was quoted as saying West Germany's argument must have 'special weight' because it the alliance is strongest. And the range-weapon weapons would be fought on its territory. Both the United States and Britain say the negotiations proposed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl are being approved. high change Westward in Genscher's remarks were the first official West German comment since a meeting Sunday in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain tried, but failed, to change Kohl's mind on the issue. In pursuit of support for the West German campaign, we visit Home on today, and Germaners will go to Paris. Italy has said it agreed with West Germany that negotiations on the short-range weapons should begin, but France has not made its position clear. West Germany claims the support of nearly half the 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization members. In an interview with the Frankfurt Rundschau, Genscher said, "This is not a new demand that has only now been made by us and other alliance partners. This concerns putting into effect an intention which has already been stated in two alliance decisions." Genscher has previously noted the NATO decision at summits in 1987 and 1988 that negotiations on short-range nuclear weapons should be held at the United States and Britain say this is not the time. West Germany's army has about 500,000 soldiers. Most of the alliance's short-range Lance rockets are on its territory and would be used there in a war. Kohl and Genscher say NATO should not pass up opportunities to negotiate in important areas of disarmament and insist the time is right for taking up the battlefield-range weapons. U. S. and British officials start starting negotiations now could lead to elimination of the short-range weapons and increase the threat from the Soviet bloc's superior conventional forces. WASHINGTON — Despite President Bush's "read my lips" vow against new taxes, his administration is considering higher gasoline taxes for 1991, officials said yesterday. The higher taxes would be in exchange for such concessions as a lower capital gains tax. Bush plan may mean new taxes The Associated Press Administration sources said it was unlikely that Bush could hold his new-taxes stance for more than one year, given the difficulty of reaching budget deficit targets by only adjusting spending. The federal gasoline tax is 9.1 cents a gallon. The size of any increase that might be part of a deal with Congress or the air, the administration sources said. Bush yesterday showed no indication that he was in the mood to trade right now. He told the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "it means to live by what I've said: No new taxes." NASA reschedules shuttle A possible trade was discussed late last month at a weekend meeting between Bush and a group of economists who recommended a confidential retreat in Camp David, Md. The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA yesterday rescheduled the one-aborted launch of space shuttle Atlantis for Thursday afternoon after technicians upgrading up job1 in replacing a faulty fuel system parts. The space agency said "This plan is optimistic ... pending completion of testing and analysis to understand clearly the problems encountered during Frida's launch attempt." But officials said they were confident enough in making a Thursday launch that they gave the signal to start a new countdown at 8 a.m. today for the first shuttle planetary launch. The five astronauts aboard Atlantis are to propel the $500 million spacecraft toward Venus to map The launch opportunity "window" on Thursday is 64 minutes long, beginning at 1:48 p.m. Court makes ruling on sex stereotyping the cloud-veiled surface. The launch was scrubbed Friday, 31 seconds before the planned liftoff because of a sudden electrical surge in a hydrogen fuel pump. NASA said yesterday that its metal core was found in the pump may have caused abort circuit. After the launch was postponed, engineers also discovered a pinhole leak in a 4-inch-diameter line that carries liquid hydrogen from the external fuel tank to the shuttle. Officials had said Sunday that Friday was the earliest launch possibility. But with the replacement work going so well, they said yesterday that Thursday was possible. The Associated Press By a 6-3 vote, the justices ordered further lower court hearings in a suit against the accounting firm Price Waterhouse by Ann Hopkins, who said she was denied a partnership because of "macho" attitudes that she did not behave sufficiently lady-like. WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the burden is on employers to disprove sexual stereotyping when they are accused of discriminating against women. Yesterday's ruling also is a partial victory for Price Waterhouse. The court overturned a lower court ruling that would have placed an even heavier burden of proof on the company. The absence of a court majority enunciating clear guidelines is likely to sow confusion among lower courts when deciding such cases. Moreover, only four of the justices agreed on the standards that should govern lawsuits alleging sexual stereotyping. Justice William J. Brennan, in the court's main opinion, said when someone "proves that her gender played a motivating part in an employment decision, the defendant is not responsible by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have made the same decision even if it had not taken the plantiff's gender into account." Joining his opinion were Justices Thurgoed Marshall, John Paul Stevens and Harry A. Blackmun. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in a separate concuring opinion, agreed that in the case of Price Waterhouse, she would have shifted to the employer to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision concerning Ann Hopkins' insistent consideration of her gender. As long as "the employer credibly testifies that the action would have been taken for legitimate reasons and should be ample proof." White said. But O'Connor said she does not favor "the strong medicine" of forcing employers to bear the burden of proof in all such cases. Justice Byron R. White also concurred in today's result. But in a separate opinion he said he would not require an employer to submit "objective evidence" to disprove sexual bias in such cases. The three dissenters are Chief Justice William H. Rehquist and Justices Autumn Scalia and Anthony Hookins' suit. Kennedy, in his opinion for the three, said there was ample evidence that Price Waterhouse did not discriminate against her intentionally. Document disclosure may force North mistrial The Associated Press WASHINGTON — While the Oliver Norr jury deliberated for the ninth day yesterday, U.S District Judge Gerhard Gesell raised the specter of a mistrial if the news media succeeded in forcing disclosure of a sealed document in the case. The jurors, knowing none of this, returned to the courthouse after a second weekend under the eyes of U.S. marshals. The jury had been dismissed before jurors before quitting at the lunch hour Saturday. The document in question, a stipulation of facts agreed to by the government and North, summarizes highly secret intercepts of intelligence gathered as the Nation's most important mission in December 1985 augment of Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran. North is charged with contending in a false chronology that no one in the U.S. government knew until January 1986 about the missiles. His defense is that former CIA Director William Casey and National Security Adviser John Poindexter knew about the missiles from the intercepted messages but perpetuated the false story. The document, an exhibit in the trial, was included in the material the jury took into its deliberations on April 21. But Gusell refused to disclose it, and the court organizations filed a protest with the court. President Reagan, when interviewed by the Tower investigative commission in January 1987, said he did not remember how the shipment came about. After the court session, Timothy B. 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