NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, June 5; 1985
Page 2
Compiled from wire reports
Silence in schools upheld
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states can order a moment of silence for meditation at the beginning of the school day, but said that an Alabama law required it in its effort to return prayer to the public schools.
In the first Supreme Court test of moment of silence laws, the justices upheld a lower court ruling that found a controversial Alabama law unconstitutional.
However, the court did not find that the practice of allowing a moment of silence, now adopted by about half the states, violated the Constitution.
"The legislative intent of Alabama's law to return prayer to the public schools is quite different from merely protecting every student's right to engage in voluntary prayer during an appropriate moment of silence during the school day." Justice John Paul Stevens said in the 6-8 ruling.
He said previous state laws protected students' rights to pray silently if they wished, but the unconstitutional Alabama law was enacted to convey a message of state endorsement and promotion of prayer in schools.
Sixteen states, including Kansas, have laws that mention meditation or silent prayer in public schools. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia are the other states.
Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland,
Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Rhode
Island all have meditation statutes
Alleged spies plead not guilty
Accessed ring leader John Walker and his sailor son, Michael, implicated in an alleged Soviet spy ring that includes a third family member and a fourth person jailed in San Francisco, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of espionage that carry life sentences.
charges of Epiphany John and Michael Walker pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Daniel Klein in Baltimore.
The case broke open May 20 with the arrest of John Walker, 47, a former U.S. Navy warrant officer. Two days later, his son, Michael, 22, a seaman aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Nimitz, was arrested. John Walker's brother, Arthur Walker, 50, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, was arrested a week later.
A retired Navy radio expert with access to highly classified communications codes — described by authorities as a “very significant player” — is the latest to fall in the widening investigation.
Berry wintworth, 45, of Davis, Calif., surrendered to the FBI Monday in the San Francisco area and was charged with espionage. Whitworth is to be charged with passing military secrets to the Soviet Union in an operation based in Norfolk, Va. Court papers indicate a fifth person may be involved.
Whitworth appeared before a U.S. magistrate and was ordered held until a bail hearing Friday.
GOP optimistic about tax plan
President Reagan heard encouraging reports yesterday in Washington from Republican leaders that a tax reform plan may be enacted by Christmas.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, who previously had predicted a tax package would not be passed this year, told reporters. "We don't want to hang around here all year. We may be able to get it out by
House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois said he expected 30 or 40 days of hearings and added, "It's possible everything is going to be geared to get it out by Christmas."
During the 45-minute session in the Cabinet room, Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which will be handling the legislation, proposed a top tax rate of 25 percent, instead of the 35 percent proposed by Reagan.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan asked Packwood where revenue would come from if the maximum tax was 25 percent, and asked the same question when talking with reporters.
Keeping up his personal lobbying for his tax reform,
Reagan, who was on the road three days last week,
is scheduled to leave on a two-day trip Wednesday. He will
be departed to Oklahoma City, Atlanta, and Birmingham.
Ala.
Reporter won't reveal source
Television reporter Susan Wornick was found in contempt of court and was sentenced to three months in jail yesterday in Boston for refusing to reveal the name of a source about alleged police corruption in Revere, Mass.
Superior Court Judge James Donahue called Wornick's refusal to reveal the source a clear obstruction of justice and sentenced her to jail until she changed her mind or a grand jury closed its investigation of the case.
Wornick, 35, a reporter for WCVB-TV, showed no emotion when Donahue imposed the sentence and remained free while her lawyers attempted to get an immediate delay of the sentence from the appellate court.
her lawyer, Michael Lston, said he would appeal the judge's decision.
Papandreou may soften stance
The decisive election victory of Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou on Sunday will allow the Socialist leader to moderate his hard stance toward the European western diplomats and political analysts said Monday.
The controversial prime minister, whose relations with the United States and NATO are strained, said last week he would move U.S.Greek relations toward
calmer seas once he was elected to a second term.
Papandreou, who will be sworn in today, remains publicly committed to the dismantling of four U.S. military bases in Greece and a number of smaller military installations, the diplomats and analysts said.
Papandreou, 66, a Harvard-educated economist who once was an American citizen and professor, has called for the removal of U.S. military bases, urged withdrawal from NATO, uprated relations with the Soviet Union, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Movement, and recommended a nuclear-free zone in the Balkans.
Papandreou has backed down from some of his more extreme stands, and has negotiated a new agreement allowing the U.S. bases to operate until 1988.
KCC stops utility's refund plan
The Kansas Corporation Commission in Topeka
derailed a Kansas Power & Light Co. plan Monday to
return more than $8 million refunded by the coal hauler
to its electricity customers.
But it also saved KPL customers a surcharge of about the same amount to cover a contract penalty to a coal plant.
The result will be a washout in KPL rates. KPL had planned to impose a customer surcharge at the same time as it provided a refund.
KPL, which last week changed its name to KPL Gas
Service to reflect its merger with Gas Service Co., had
sought a surcharge on electricity customers of 064
cents a kilwatt-hour to recover nearly $8.38 million in
penalties it had to pay on its coal contract with Amax
coachship to Klper to Klper to Klper. Jeffrey Energy Center
near St. Marxs.
KPL began incurring a deficient tonnage charge when decided to build a fourth coal-fired爙炉 at deforestation.
Rather than granting the surcharge, the Corporation Commission directed KPL to offset the cost with $8.42 million it received in a court settlement from Burlington Northern Railroad.
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