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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1987)
Friday, September 25, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 lenient, Reagans; ion was taking J he 26 Iranians a the bodies of tin ed in the incident egard this inciit eagan said in asu vitn his letter tol said it mined ilin lensive purposes:.| hran, and IraiEjP <harnenei at tlit; j enied that the ’ explosives infill .els. nans were repontJ others, four off were pulled froi J lines were founoi! , ready for i fense Secretan i r, who was tor ha Friday for ah region, said son:! stained had [ elp in the mines; i sources saidthq ielded imeUiger.:;: chart showing n ugh the gulf. ulatif; utAIDi possible maiimi j eholds. e of the decision! the booklet tto came two days aft ion came unden ise subcommittee! tingressionaldire:.') lailing. aid 25 million cop : for initial c conjunction 1 inmune deficienol ■areness and Prerej ctober. lass maker will pay million settlement discrimination case CHICAGO (AP) — Libby-Owens- Ford Co. will pay up to f 10 million for lost wages and make 342 jobs available to women over a five-year period under the settlement of a sex discrimination lawsuit with the gov ernment, attorneys said Thursday. “This settlement is historic for its cooperative disposition of a major lawsuit,” Charles A. Shanor, general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said at a news conference announcing the agreement with the Ohio-based glass manufacturer. The settlement still must be ap proved by a federal judge. The EEOC filed the lawsuit in 1978 after receiving a complaint from a woman who said she had been denied a job at the company’s Ottawa, Ill., plant because she didn’t meet minimum height and weight requirements, he said. Under a 16-year-old policy, the company required factory employ ees to be at least 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weigh at least 110 pounds. About 1,700 women were refused work at eight Libby-Owens-Ford plants, and probably three times that many refrained from applying be cause they knew the company’s pol icy, said Margaret L. Herbert, an EEOC attorney who worked on the case. All would be eligible to benefit un der the proposed settlement, to be advertised in five states where the company operates plants and in three where it once did, said EEOC attorney John P. Rowe. Byron Quandt, a company spokesman, said, “LOF’s position is that its hiring requirements were job-related and necessary for the safe and efficient operation of its plants. “We felt at the time that . . . cer tain jobs in glass manufacturing and fabricating require a certain level of reach, strength and stamina in order to be safely performed. “The key thing was safety.” Quandt added that the height- weight requirement was used by the company under terms of a 1971 con sent decree reached in federal court in Toledo to set hiring guidelines. Under its new agreement with EEOC, “the EOF has denied any lia bility for any violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act but has agreed to the terms of the settlement to avoid the cost of any further time- consuming litigation,” he said. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Under terms of the settlement, outreach programs will be estab lished to try to locate women ex cluded from jobs because of the company’s height and weight re quirements, EEOC attorneys said. That will include five areas where the company runs plants: Toledo, Ohio; Ottawa, Ill.; Sherman, Texas; Mason City, Iowa; and Lathrop, Calif. Also included will be areas in which it operated plants that since have closed: Brackenridge, Pa.; Charleston, W.V.; and Clinton, N.C. Other U.S. plants and plants in Canada and Mexico are not covered by the settlement, Herbert said. The company has 8,300 employ ees in North America. 'vovv**- THE SESAME STREET TREASURY VOLUMES 2-15 $099 EACH VOLUME 1 FOR ONLY FREE... 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