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Court to reconsider Penk case
PORTLAND (AP) - Faculty women who
lost ■ mx discrimination case against Oregon’s
state colleges and universities last year con
tend on appeal that a federal fudge misinter
preted evidence and denied them a fair trial.
Attorneys for the Mate, meanwhile, main
tain the evidence supports the conclusions
made by U S District judge Helen Frye and
that it would be a waste of time and money to
retry the massive case known as Fenk vs.
Oregon State Board of Higher Education.
Briefs describing in detail the appellate
arguments of both sides have been filed with
the U S. Oth Circuit Court of Appeals A date
for arguing the case has not been set.
Frye in February teas concluded there
was no pattern of am discrimination against
woman faculty members at Oregon’s eight
public colleges and universities, except for
three individual claims involving woman at
Western Oregon State College.
An original class of 2.ZOO women faculty
members had sought damages totaling *33
million for alleged discrimination in hiring.
pay, promotion and tenure decisions,
Portland attorney Don Willner, chief at*
torney for the faculty women, alleged on ap>
peal that Frye denied the women a fair trial by
excluding testimony from two expert
witnesses who would have been called to rebut
statistical analyses performed by the state.
Willner also alleged that Frye rred by
restricting time fcr rebuttal, and by sr ng the
size of class of women by about half
A brief filed on behalf of Oregon Attorney
General Dave Frohnmayer contends Frye pro
perly refused to accept the testimonv of the
rebuttal witnesses because Willner feiwd to
give notice of the experts' names in time to
allow the state lo prepare cross-examination.
Willner's brief indicated that failure to meet
the court's deadline waa inadvertent.
If the appellate court fails to reverse Frye
on state liability, Willner asks that the class ac
tion and the individual claims be sent beck to a
different fudge for retrial.
Washington prepares for possible fallout
OLYMPIA, Wash(AP) Washington on
Tuesday braced itself for possible fallout from the
nuclear accident'in the Soviet .Union, but officials
said the radioactivity probably would pose no
heailth'.threat; ,. ;v < '.'"1
Gov., Booth Gardner met with.officials from
the 'state' departments ‘of. Ecology. Social and
Health Services and Emergency Management to
review stepsthn state could take in the event ab
normally high radiation . .ievels reach the
North west '■ p.;. ~ -V vV
Charlie Porter, director of the Astern En
vironmental Radiation Facility in Montgomery,
Ala., said fallout detection stations in all 50 states
will deliver data to his station.1 The agency is an \
arm of the federal ^Knivommental Protection
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(iardner said.feadings at several monitoring -
stations around. Washington state showed only
normal background radiation. . ' *
Terry Frazeeofthe state radiation control of- -
ficesaid there are no plans to test milk or water
for radiation. '’. '. - • p
"Air is more sensitive (to radiation), and we
won't be testing milk unless there is increased
radiation levels.in the airjV Frazee said.
Filters on radiation monitors at the capital in
Olympia, at Spokane and at the Hanford nuclear
reservation in eastern Washington were ordered
changed daily. Normally they are changed once a
week, officials said. ° ■
• '"There is nothing to-be worried about in the
Northwest at this point, but we wilt maintain con
tinuous monitoring of the situation," said Gard
ner press aide Jim Rneeland.
Kneeland said state government will "use
the situation as a vehicle to make sure our skills
art? up to handling any situation and for taking a
look at what kind of a response we should have "
Federal officials have said if the radioactive
cloud from the* accident at the Soviet nuclear
power plant at Chernobyl ascends to 15,000 feet .
or higher, it probably would pass over the polar
ice cap, move across Canada and into the nor
thwestern United States.
• However, it is estimated that fallout, if any,
wouldn't reach Washington until Saturday at the
earliest.
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Indonesia expels reporters
BALI, Indonesia (AP) ’ —
President Reagan, bearing a
"message of freedom" for Asian
allies, received a lush welcome
in the .Orient on Tuesday, but
Indonesian'authorities prompt
ly expelled-two Australian jour
nal istsin Reagan’s entourage^
A third reporter.' Barbara
Crosaette of The/ New York
Times, who had come on her
own. was also ordered; out of the
country.-allegedly because she
had written stories critical of In
donesian President Suharto.
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Australian Broadcasting* Corp .
wereordered off the.press plane
accompanying Reagan, detain
ed briefly in the airport terminal
here, then told to country on the
next plane to Tokyo.
Suharto banned all Australian
journalists after a Sydney
newspaper published an article
alleging corruption .in his
government.
President Reagan regretted
the decision by the Indonesians
to deny entry to the journalists,
said presidential spokesman
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