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NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1983
Lawsuit nied to halt ouster of panelists
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Two women fired from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by President Reagan filed suit against them for dismissal and asking to be reinstated.
United Press International
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, contends that Reagan had no power to fire Mary Berry and Blandina Cardenas Ramirez from their part-time posts on the six-member anti-discrimination agency.
WASHINGTON — Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, left, and Mary Francis Berry, two of the three members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission who were fired by President Reagan on Tuesday, speak at a press conference after filing suit with the U.S. District Court that challenges their dismissal and requests their jobs be given back.
"The basis of the lawsuit is that the president does not have authority to fire members of an independent agency," said Elaine Jones, an attorney for the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Academy for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP fund filed the suit along with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
Rabbi Murray Saltman of Baltimore, another commission member dismissed in Reagan's surprise power play Tuesday, did not join in the suit.
AT A HEARING before U.S. District Judge Norma Johnson, lawyers for Berry and Ramirez argued that the fringes were illegal, and they sought an emergency order to keep the women from being evicted from their offices this week, having their telephones bugged and their staff assistants fired.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard, arguing for the Reagan administration, constitutional right to remove members within the executive
Appearing at a news conference before the court hearing, Berry and Ramirez said that their removal and replacement by Reagan appointees would destroy the independence of the commission.
branch."
Judge Johnson promised to render a decision "before the end of the week" on the request for a temporary stay, and scheduled another hearing for Nov. 7.
NO OTHER PRESIDENT has fired a
civil rights commissioner. With the latest group of dismissals, Reagan has replaced five of the six members since taking office.
Berry and Ramirez stressed that they were not going to court because they needed the civil rights commission jobs.
Berry is a history and law professor at Howard University in Washington, and Ramirez is a full-time director at San Antonio Center for Entrepreneurship Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Donor sperm may transmit VD, scientist says
By United Press International
BOSTON — Women receiving donor sperm for artificial inseminations may risk getting a variety of sexually-transmitted illnesses through tainted semen — including gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, a science warned yesterday.
A physician with the federal Centers for Disease Control warned in the New England Journal of Medicine that there had been at least 10 "anecdotal," unconfirmed reports that women caught sexually-transmitted diseases in donor semen that they received through artificial insemination.
United States, but no established "protocols" screen donors for sexually-transmitted diseases, wrote Dr. Laurene Mascola.
AT LEAST 10,000 women each year are artificially inseminated in the
Dr. Mascola, who spent a year in the Atlanta-based CDC's Venereal Disease section and is now assigned as a field physician at UC San Diego, such transmissions could be dangerous.
"The effects of certain sexually-transmitted diseases on maternal health, pregnancy outcome and infant development," she wrote in a letter to the Journal.
CURRENTLY, NO OFFICIAL guidelines exist for screening donors of fresh sperm for the presence of sexually transmitted diseases. Moreover, women receiving semen from anonymous donors are unaware of
these potential problems."
But Dr. Mascola wrote that microorganisms causes gonorrhea, hepatitis B, some vaginal infections and a virus that can cause birth defects are "just a few" of the agents known to be transmitted in semen.
She noted that doctors perform screenings of genetic disorders on semen donors and suggested that they be tested for HIV when taken for sexually transmitted diseases.
Dr. Ward Gates, director of the CDC's division of Venereal Disease Control, said that the 10 reported cases of sexual diseases from artificial insemination were unconfirmed, second-hand reports, and that he was unaware of any documented cases. He had no details on the unconfirmed reports.
By United Press International
Aim is to locate missing persons Federal program to coordinate profiles of pattern murderers
WASHINGTON — As part of an effort to track down missing children and adults, federal authorities said yesterday that they were planning a program of profiles of "serial murderers" and information information on their crimes.
Although no money has been set aside for the program, which is still in the planning stages, officials hope to identify murder patterns and pool the information. Violent Criminal Apprehension Program ICAP—now being set up by the FBI.
Stewart, head of the Justice Department's National Institute of Jus-
Officials told reporters at a briefing that they think many missing children are the victims of "serial murders" killers who travel around the country picking their victims one at a time based on a common characteristic.
"IT'S LIKE TRYING to identify and solve a new disease." said James
There are probably about 35 serial murderers currently operating in the United States.
They described Jack the Ripper, who killed five people in London in the 19th century.
"WHEN A SERIAL murderer strikes today and roams about, law enforcement officials say."
munities) have no way of communicating with each other," said Pierce Brooks, a homicide investigator working with the Justice Department.
roger Depue, chief of the behavior science unit at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va., said that the FBI had interviewed approximately 40 convicted serial murderers in an effort to develop trends and profiles.
He said investigators often asked how a perpetrator abducted a young child from a busy shopping center. Officials had a new project will answer such questions.
"Once you've found out how the perpetrator got the child from the shopping mall, then you can make plans to counter his work." Depue said.
Conservationists file lawsuit to prevent deer hunt in refuge
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Conservationists announced yesterday that they had filed a suit against the Department of Interior to stop a controversial deer hunt scheduled to begin Saturday in oakhaven State National Wildlife Refuge.
The Humane Society of the United States asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Oberderfer to stop the South Florida hunt, charging that 24 species of wild animals were threatened or of special concern, would be adversely affected by the hunt."
Some of the animals that could be harmed include the bald eagle, river otter, bobcat, Florida panther and jaguar. There are also red and blue heron, according to the group.
A SPOKESMAN FOR the department's Fish and Wildlife Service
declined to comment on the court case. Later yesterday, Oberderfer tentatively scheduled a hearing on the dispute.
John Grandy, vice president of the Humane Society, argued that the 600 permits being issued would allow invade this pristine wildlife sanctuary.
"The opening of the refuge is particularly absurd when you consider that there are already more than a million refugees in Florida open to hunting," said Grandy.
The department plans to allow a total of 27 deer to be killed during three weeks.
The lawsuits was filed yesterday, the same day Interior Secretary-designate William Clark told environmental leaders in a private meeting he was troubled by the many lawsuits against outgoing Interior Secretary James Watt's policies and wanted to settle as many as possible out of court.
Frenchmen make first-ever ascent of Eiffel Tower
By United Press International
Charles Coutard and Joel Descouz
roared up the 746 steps of the
starcase aboard 310cc bikes. Higher
than most of the rides, it are
only accessible by elevator
Since being opened in 1899, Gustave Eifel's recently-renovated tower has been scaled by stilt walkers, by the Mayor of Montmartre, by the bicycle and by engineers climbing the outside of the iron structure.
PARIS — Two Frenchmen yesterday made the first-ever ascent of the Eiffel Tower by motorcycle, jolting up the staircase on cross-country tike bikes to the second level 378 feet above street level
Yesterday's stunt was the first ascent of the tower by motorized vehicles.
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