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in Con- te Obituaries Charles Bourget Marine Corps pilot WELLS Charles E. Bourget 73, of Country Lane and formerly of Duxbury, died at home Monday after a long illness. He was born in Brockton, Oct. 5, 1921, a son of Charles and Grace Howard Bourget, and graduated from Worcester Academy. He earned his wings at the Navy Flight School in Pensacola, Fla.

Mr. Bourget joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and was a decorated bomber pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. Following the war, he was a test pilot for the Marine Corps, leaving in 1958. He returned to Brockton and operated Bourget Plastics for many years. He sold the business and became president of North River Plastics in Plymouth, Mass.

He retired in 1982 and a short time later moved to Wells. He was a member of the Brockton Lodge of Masons, and an avid fisherman. He was predeceased by his wife, Shirley L. Marshall Bourget, In 1991; a daughter, Leslie Bennett, in 1981; and a brother, David Bourget, In 1993. Survivors include: a son, Charles E.

Jr. of Wells; two daughters, Nancy M. Worthley of Peabody, and Andrea Leporati of Wells; his mother of Brockton; a brother, Paul, and two sisters, Grace Leavitt and Barbara Egen, all of St. Augustine, eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Richard Courtois, born in Biddeford JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass.

Richard P. "Godoy" Courtois, 64, of South Bourne Street Road, died Sunday at Faulkner Hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Biddeford, Maine, on June 18, 1929, the son of Leo P. and Clorinthe Grenier Courtois. A veteran of the Korean War, he served in the U.S.

Navy. Mr. Courtois was a die maintenance supervisor in Boston at L.E. Mason Co. He was a member of the American Legion.

A brother, John Courtois, died previously. Survivors include his wife, Diane Kent Courtois of Jamaica Plain; a son, Richard P. Jr. of Cambridge; a daughter, Michelle Moreno of Roslindale; a brother, Leo four sisters, Gabrielle Brouillette of Connecticut, Rita Peloquin, Pauline Roy and Theresa Binette, all of Maine: and a grandchild. Death notices BERTRAND PAUL died April 24 in Biddeford Memorial Mass 11 a.m.

Saturday, May 14, at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church, 16 Cults Saco. Burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Biddeford. No calling hours. Memorial donations to The Pines Endowment Fund, P.O.

Box 354, Ocean Park, 04064. Arrangements by Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm Biddeford. BOURGET CHARLES died April 25 in Wells. Funeral service 11:30 a.m. Friday al Shepherd Funeral Home, 216 Main St.

Kingston, Mass. Burial in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Mass. Calling hours Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., al Bibber Memorial Chapel, Lower Bragdon Road, Wells; Thursday, 7-9 p.m. at Shepherd Funeral Home. Memorial donations to American Heart Association, P.O.

Box 346, Augusta, 04330-0346. COURTOIS RICHARD formerly of Biddeford, died April 24 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, Jamaica Plain; burial in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain.

Calling hours Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., at F.J. Higgins Funeral Home, 4236 Washington Roslindale, Mass. Memorial donations to American Heart Association, 33 Fourth Needham, 02194; or the American Diabetes Association, 1 Joslin Place, Boston, Mass. HORSFALL WILLIAM R. of Alfred, died April 25 in Portland, Committal service 10:30 a.m.

Thursday at Evergreen Cemetery, Alfred. Memorial service 11 a.m. at Alfred Parish Church, Rev. Katherine Fisk, pastor, officiating. Memorial donations to American Diabetes Association of Maine, P.O, Box 2208, Augusta, 04338.

Arrangements by Heald Funeral Home, 61 Main Springvale. LEVESQUE LEO died April 24 in Biddeford. Funeral Mass 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph's Church, Biddeford.

Burial in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Biddeford. Calling hours Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., at Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm Biddeford. JOURNAL TRIBUNE TUESDAY APRIL 26, 1991 Civil Rights Act is not retroactive, high court rules By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press WASHINGTON A 1991 law restoring and expanding workers' protection against employment bias does not apply to thousands of cases pending when the law was enacted, the Supreme Court ruled today. By a pair of 8-1 votes in cases from Texas and Ohio, the court said Congress did not intend to make the Civil Rights Act of 1991 retroactive.

Writing for the court in both decisions, Justice John Paul Stevens said there was "no clear evidence of congressional intent that (relevant sections of the 1991 law) should apply to cases arising before its enactment." Only Justice Harry A. Blackmun dissented. Congress passed the law, reluctantly signed by President Bush on Nov. 21, 1991, to undo several of the conservative high court's jobbias rulings that had outraged civil rights activists. The 1991 law allows people who prove they were discriminated against illegally by an employer to collect compensatory and punitive damages, and for the first time makes jury trials available in bias cases.

The law also allows lawsuits for illegal racial bias in all phases of an employment relationship hiring, promotions and firings. Everyone agreed on those aspects, but the law's wording is ambiguous on the issue of retroactivity. Democrats in Congress wanted the law to be retroactive; was pending before the 5th Republicans did not. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Bush administration con- She argued that the law should tended that the law should be applied to her case, entitling applied only to various forms of a jury trial in which she could bias, including sexual harassment, compensatory and punitive that occurred after the law took from USI Film Products.

effect. The appeals court ruled But the Clinton administration her. read the law in a different way In the Ohio case, Maurice one that would apply it to all legal and Robert Davison worked disputes still alive when Bush garage mechanics for Roadway signed the legislation. press Co. in Toledo, Ohio, Today, the court said the Clinton fired in 1986.

administration's interpretation was: They sued, accusing wrong. In the Texas case, Barbara Land- Express of racial bias. Both men graf sued USI Film Products after black, and they said white working at its plant in Tyler for 16 ployees been treated had Part of their case was months. Before she quit in 1986, after the Supreme Court in Landgraf worked the overnight shift limited protections offered as a machine operator making Civil War era anti-discrimination plastic bags. law to hirings, ruling that it Fellow employee John Williams subjected her to what a federal judge apply to on-the-job bias.

called "continuous and repeated The 1991 law overcame the inappropriate verbal comments and ruling by amending the 1866 physical contact. apply to on-the-job discrimination, The judge found Williams' sexual 100. Lower courts, however, harassment severe enough to make 1991 law could not help Rivers the plant a hostile work environ- Davison. ment and make her employer Today, the Supreme Court liable under a federal law known as with the lower courts in both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of "Congress, of course, has 1964. power to amend a statute But the judge said.

Landgrat was believes we have misconstrued, not entitled to back pay because she Stevens said. It may even, could not prove she reasonably felt broad constitutional bounds, compelled to quit. such a change retroactive and Back pay was the only monetary by undo what it perceives to remedy available under Title VIl at undesirable past consequences the time, but the 1991 law was misinterpretation of its work enacted while Landgraf's appeal uct. French government dictionary prefers 'logiciel' to software but do citizens? By CHRISTOPHER BURNS Associated Press PARIS In 11S endless guerrilla war against Franglais, the government has armed itself with a new dictionary containing 3,500 translations aimed at Oops, make that From "airbag" (sac gontlable) to zoning" (zonage), the glossy red handbook seeks to counter the everwider use of English in business, sports and science by providing French alternatives. It remains to be seen whether the new terms, some of them long and clumsy, will catch on in a nation struggling with itself over how to be modern, high-tech, and cool, vet preserve its rich linguistic tradition.

The Dictionnaire des Termes Officiels contains translations mandated by government ministries since France started fighting Franglais in the early- 1970s. This year's edition adds about 100 new terms and has an English-to-French index. It also is available on Minitel, the telephone company's widely used screen-and-keyboard console. idea is to be more accessible," said Anne Magnant, head of the French Language Delegation, which prepared the 462-page paperback. The dictionary must be used by public officials, she said, and "we hope professionals, students and teachers will use Robert Berube, formerly of Saco BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz.

Robert L. Berube, 48, of Highway 95, and formerly of Common Street, Saco, Maine, died April 13 at the Medical Center in Phoenix after a brief illness. He was born in Biddeford, Maine, on Dec. 15, 1945, a son of George and Dorothy Gilbert Berube, and graduated from the former St. Louis High School in Biddeford.

Three years ago, Mr. Berube moved from Reno, to Bullhead City, where he was a civil service employee. Prior to moving to Reno in 1989, he was employed as a welder by General Electric in South Portland, Maine, and was a machinist for the Maremont Corp. in Saco and Pratt Whitney in Southington, Conn. Survivors include his wife, Carolyn O'Connor Berube of Bullhead City; two daughters, Tammy of Las Vegas, and Destiny of Bullhead City; his father of Saco; a brother, Richard of Biddeford; a sister, Marguerite Gagnon of Old Orchard Beach, Maine; a and nieces and nephews.

Other deaths DOANE LINDA, 48, of Deep River, Conn. died Sunday at her mother's Portland home She was born in Portland on March 4 1946, the daughter of Irvin. Paul and Miriam Holden Doane, and graduated from Melrose (Mass) High School in 1964. where she was active in Rainbow Girls She graduated from the former Gorbam State College, now USM. In 1968.

From 1968 to 1991, Miss Doane taught third grade at Mile Creek School Old Lyme, Conn and for the past three years at Center School. In Regional School District 18 she served on the School Management Math. Career Incentive and other past president of the School District Teachers served on the RETA Negotiating and as chief She motivated and challenged students with special studies of endangered a dinosaur hat day emphasis on math and children's litera- ture, and assisted parents and faculty members She spent summers on Island Survivors include her Minam Doane- of Portland. Marilyn Staples of Kennebunk and Nancy Brooks of Rutland, brother, Paul a of Portland, nieces and nephews onal service 1. p.m.

Wednesday Peabody Chapel, 749 Congress Portland, burial Evergreen Cemetery Memorial service 3-30 p.m, Friday, gregational Church, Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Conn Memorial donations School District 18. Lyme Street, Regional Old Lyme, 06371. Deaths elsewhere DONALD ATWOOD, 69 DETROIT Donald J. Atwood, deputy secretary of defense during the Bush administration and a retired vice chairman of General Motors died Sunday atter ulcer surgery. He was 69.

Atwood was appointed to the Defense Department's No. 2 posinion in 1989. He left in 1993 when the administration changed. Atwood joined GM in 1959. He was named executive vice president and elected to the GM board in 1984.

He served as vico, chairman 1987 to 1989. MAN AMMO BRIGHTEN SOMEONE'S Let a favorite person in your life know that you are thinking about them. You'll be surprised at the happiness it brings them. BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES GRADUATIONS PROMOTIONS BIRTHS NEW HOME NEW BUSINESS NEW CAREER The daily newspaper of York County, Maine ROUTE 111, ALFRED RD. 201A MAIN STREET BIDDEFORD, MAINE SANFORD, MAINE AND Journal Tribune 1994 9 William Horsfall owned tax business ALFRED William R.

Horsfall 64, of Gore Road, died Monday at Maine Medical Center, Portland, after a long illness. He was born in Woonsocket, R.I., Nov. 21, 1929, the son of William R. and Josephine Sauner Horstall. He attended Woonsocket schools, graduating from Woonsocket Senior High School.

He was a graduate Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I., earned an MBA from Northeastern University and attended the University of Maine, Orono. Mr. Horsfall was an Army vetcran of the Korean Conflict. He was employed by the former Jayson Co. in Portland as a controller.

He then owned and operated Elrow Association, a business and tax consultation service and also worked for 20 years for Block in the Congress Strett office, Portland. He was a member of the Blackstone River Masonic Lodge, Blackstone, and the National Accountants Association. Survivors include his wife of 34 years, Marion E. Orlup Horstall of Alfred; two sons, William R. III of South Freeport and David W.

of Seattle, a daughter, Deborah J. Shaw of Saco; and a sister, Eva S. of Woonsocket. Paul Bertrand, former alderman BIDDEFORD Paul A. Bertrand, 84, of 407 Pool Road, died Sunday at St.

Andre's Health Care Facility after a long illness. He was born in Biddeford on Sept. 24, 1909, a son of Joseph E. and Philomene Gagnon Bertrand, and was educated in Saco schools. Mr.

Bertrand graduated from the first apprentice class of the SacoLowell Shops on Feb. 12, 1934. He worked 30 years with Saco-Lowell and Maremont Corp. He was also employed nine years by Kidder Press, Dover, N.H., retiring in 1971. From 1939 to 1940, he served as alderman of Ward 5 in Saco during the administration of Mayor Lewis G.

Brock. He enjoyed fishing, reading and camping. He wintered in Florida for 15 years. He was predecased by brothers, Joseph R. and Lucien Bertrand.

Survivors include his wite of 51 years, Yvette D. Langelier Bertrand of Ocean Park; two daughters, Mrs. Richard (Jeannine) Parker of Saco and Mrs. Barry (Andrea) Harrington of Londonderry, N. a sister, Edna Paquette of Saco; four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.

Leo Levesque, Elks Lodge member BIDDEFORD Leo Levesque, 88, of 131 May died at home Monday atter a long illness. He was born in Nashua, N.H., Feb. 6, 1906, a son of Paul and Georgianna Rocheleau Levesque, and was educated in Nashua schools. For 30 years, Mr. Levesque was employed by Rockingham Park as a pari-mutuel clerk.

He moved to the Biddeford area in 1968. He was a member of St. Joseph's Church, the Biddeford- Elks Lodge, Union St. Jean de Baptist and the Biddeford Senior Citizens. Survivors include his wife, Alice Lessard Levesque of Biddeford, and several nieces and nephews.

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dismissed 1989 by a didn't 1989 law to. said the and agreed cases. the that it within make therebe the of a prod- Words that do not catch on will be dropped from future editions. Magnant said. Premier Edouard Balladur is trying to push a bill through Parliament that would toughen the language laws.

During a debate in April, one Socialist senator ridiculed it as Maginot With annual revisions, the new dictionary can react more quickly to language changes than the multivolume lexicon published every few decades by the Academic Francaise. New listings include for commuter, for catering, "essaimage" for spinoff, "numero for hotline and for, telemarketing. Other. terms, such as disque compact (CD), (stealth), and "remue-meninges" (brainstorming) have yet to achieve general use. While has replaced Walkman, French TV showed an.

electronics salesman who. didn.1 know what was until the interviewer said back. We find it a bit ridiculous." said Bill, a deejay (animateur) on Fun Radio, a rock station that tangled with the government over a SeXoriented talk show for young people. Parade' exists since I was born, so palmarest would her ditficult. he said.

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