Homosexual Trio Wins Job Fight

Washington Star

WASHINGTON

George

W. Grimm has a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University and, until a few years ago, worked as a missile expert for Ford Institute in New York. For the last year he has been living on welfare.

When the government discovered that Grimm, 52, was a homosexual, it lifted his security clearance. Homosexuals are vulnerable to blackmail, the government said.

Grimm took his case to court, contending that he always has openly admitted being a homosexual so there is nothing he can be blackmailed about. Monday, he and two other homosexuals won at least a partial victory in U.S. District Court here.

Judge John A. Pratt ordered the government either to prove that there is some connection

between Grimm's homosexuality and his security status or restore his clearance.