NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1983
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Supreme court to hear race-based custody suit
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether a white mother risks losing her child and did simply by marrying a black man.
The justices agreed to hear an appeal by Linda Sidiot Palmore, who argues it is unconstitutional for family court judges to take interracial marriage into account for custody decisions. A judge decided that her 6-year-old daughter, Diana, would suffer "social stigmatization" because her mother married a black man.
After divorcing her husband in May 1980, Palmore won custody of Melanie. A year later, she married Clarence Palmore, who is black.
Her first husband, Anthony Sidoti of Mulberry, Fla., filed to regain custody, arguing Palmere had "created a bad environment" for her and said she亲自然ly before she remarried.
A Hillsborough County, Fla., judge sided with the father and changed the custody order to send Melanie to live with him.
A higher Florida court affirmed the decision.
Palmore, now of Seffner, Fla., asked the Supreme Court to find it is unconstitutional to take race into account in a custody decision.
IN OTHER ACTION yesterday, the justices refused to consider whether Jack Henry Abbott may use royalties from his book on prison life, "In the Belly of the Beast," to appeal his conviction for killing a New York actor who, on parole, abused a victim. Abbott has imprinted the money Abbott makes from the book until a wrongful death suit by the wife of his victim, Richard Adan, is settled.
Abbott so far has earned $70,000 from the book, which brought him literary fame and prompted Norman Mailer and some other authors to support his release from prison on an earlier charge.
The justices agreed to review another well-publicized murder — the case of a man whose life sentence was thrown out 13 years after the verdict, because of extensive pretrial publicity. Prosecutors are appealing an order for a memorial for Yount, convicted in the brutal strangulation slaying of an 18-year-old girl.
The court also took these other steps yesterday before a two-week recess:
Yount's sentence for killing Pamela Sue Riper, a high school senior in Clearfield County, Pa., was overturned by a federal appeals court because, at least one of her second trial, 80 percent of the prospective jurors were familiar with the case.
- Announced it would review the NCAA's multimillion-dollar deal with television networks for broadcast of college football games, which some schools claim violates antitrust laws by limiting appearances by each team.
- Agreed to rule on whether a pension fund can demand a company that has withdrawn from a pension plan
- Agreed to rule on the eventual pensions of its employees.
- *Revisiting a key discrimination case, agreed to hear Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s appeal from a ruling that the firm discriminated against a black woman employee on the basis of her race.
- Uphold a ruling that Connecticut may not require wholesale beer prices in the state to be as cheap as the lowest price charged in three adjoining states.
Natural gas explosion levels grocery store and injures 17
Bv United Press International
DAVIS CREEK, W. Va. — A fiery natural gas explosion leveled a grocery store crowded with shoppers yesterday, injuring at least 17 people, and police feared they would find bodies in the smoldering rubble.
State police trooper Rick Robinson said all 37 store employees were accounted for and authorities had not recovered any bodies as of 8:30 p.m., 6 hours after the blast.
"We're expecting a couple (of deaths)," said Trooper R.D. Eestep of the South Charleston detachment. Eestep and other troops refused to give their first names, providing only initials.
Robinson said the fact that employees were able to get back in to help victims made him hopeful that everyone got out. He said the odds of anyone
trapped inside remaining alive were "astronomically low."
STATE POLICE TROOPER C.R. Martin, one of the first on the scene, about five miles southwest of Charleston, said the explosion occurred when fumes ignited from a gas leak. The fire was caught in an area many witnesses reported smelling gas in the area for several hours prior to the explosion.
"When I got there it was completely enveloped. Three walls were gone and part of the front wall. Martin said "It is so shocking." Explosion plus several small explosions.
"There were several injured. They had burns and cuts and abrasions. One guy was cut pretty bad. His face was burned and cut."
He said dozens of firefighters and police officers were at the scene. Once the flames were nearly out, a crane was used to partially lift the store roof.
Canines lose favorite bite to retirement
By United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Maybe it's his name. Or maybe it's the way he freezes when he sees them snarl. Whatever it is, dogs like to bite Frank Bacon.
"I don't know why they do it," said Bacon, 55. "It's not like I'd challenge them or anything."
Getting an occasional dog bite wouldn't be so bad, the Springfield resident said. But during his 35 years as a mailman, he racked up more than 30 bits, snaps and chews, he said.
"They told me the record was something like 23," Bacon said.
A greyhound once chased him into a swimming pool, another dog snapped his fingers through a mail slot and one toothless mutt once even gummed his leg black and blue.
"IT WAS THIS old German Shepherd mix or something and he saw me coming one day," Bacon said. "He knocked me down and had my leg in his mouth. By the time I was back home, all I bruised the way to my hip."
Bacon said he tried using dog repellent spray once, but didn't have much luck there. "I must have pointed out," he said, "my own face," he said.
Having been a substitute carrier for many years, Bacon said he didn't learn where the more vicious dogs lived.
IN 1963, when Springfield was introducing its new leash law, officials brought Bacon to the local humane shelter to photograph him with three supposedly harmless puppies, he said.
"One of those little ones nipped me right in the lip," he said.
But it's all over now: Bacon retired from the postal service last month.
But despite his run-ins with canines, Bacon said he still likes dogs.
By United Press International
Economic, military programs needed Kissinger reports on Centra
WASHINGTON — Henry Kissinger, giving an indication of his Central America commission's thinking, said yesterday that both economic and political reasons led for the troubled region and that the problem lay in synchronizing the two.
Kissinger and the bipartisan panel he heads returned Sunday from a week-long, six-nation visit of the region. The 12-member commission is to produce a recommendation to President Reagan this winter on a long-range U.S. policy for dealing with Central America's problems.
"I believe an increase in economic aid can make an enormous difference and almost certainly will be recommended by our commission," the secretary of state said in an early morning interview broadcast on CBS-TV.
"SOME OF THE PROJECTIONS of some of the leaders are a little exuberant, but on the other hand it is in an area of very small countries in which a relatively small amount of American assistance can make a huge difference," he said.
But later yesterday, speaking to a group of financial analysts, Kissinger
added, " it is safe to say you cannot guerrilla war by economic programs."
While the economic programs "can show a vision of a better future and a prospect that the status quo will be accepted," it also has the potential there has to be a security program."
An economic program can be carried out fairly quickly, while a military and security program takes much longer to place and to become effective, he said.
"How to bring these two things together is the big problem of our foreign policy and one of the problems we will deal with in our report," he said.
IN DISCUSSING FOREIGN policy in other parts of the world, Kissinger was pointed critical of the Reagan administration, especially in dealing with the Soviet Union on arms control issues.
He recalled that the administration has made seven different proposals to the Soviets in the last year in the talks to limit nuclear missiles in Europe.
"In my opinion," he said, "that is six too many."
It would be better, Kissinger said, "to take only one step we believe in, instead of negotiating with ourselves."
American tour
He said that new and different proposals were made at the urging of western European leaders, largely to appease European public opinion, but that the rewritten proposals have had the opposite effect.
Each new proposal, he said, "only convinces the public that the old ones were no good and that this one may not be any good, either."
He said that the administration also had a major communication problem with the Soviets, which could have tragic consequences.
REFERRING TO THE Korean airliner incident, Kissinger described the administration's response as a "strange combination of extremely tough rhetoric and extremely moderate actions."
"The tragedy is that the Soviet Union may not know how to read us. The Soviet leadership may think the United States is dedicated to overthrowing their regime" and will react accordingly.
The Soviet behavior in the airliner incident, he said, was characteristic of the Soviet system and should not have been surprising.
"They cannot apologize, because if they do they would have to blame somebody, and who can they blame?"
Striking pilots seek advice from labor leaders
By United Press International
HOUSTON — Leaders of striking Continental Airlines pilots traveled to Washington yesterday to seek help and advice from labor leaders and Concern executives against payroll outcacks that followed the airline's bankruptcy filing.
Air Line Pilots Association spokesman Marty Martinez said Dennis Higgins, newly elected chairman of ALPA's continental executive committee, will lead labor leaders, and other striking pilots were to meet members of Congress.
uea of arbitration with other labor leaders. Martinez said.
Higgins will be meeting with labor groups, seeking whatever support they might offer and will be discussing the
"WE ALSO HAVE another group of pilots traveling to Washington to visit with members of the Judiciary Com- mitted in cases of bankruptcy laws." Martinez said.
Continental has not yet responded formally to ALPA's offer Friday of written amendments to Continental's old labor pact with the pilots. The airline Friday tentatively called the proposal "an insult."
Continental says it was acting legally when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization Sept. 24, suspended the old pilot's comeback and appointed new flight rules. It resumed flights Sept. 27 to 25 of the 78 cities it had served.
Pilots and flight attendants struck Oct. 1, complaining Continental was abusing bankruptcy law to break unions. The new rules imposed half pay and longer hours on the 4,260 of 12,000 pilots back to work at the "new" Continental.
Bankruptcy court files revealed the cash position Continental was trying to keep secret from competitors.
BANKRUPTCY JUDGE R.F.
Wheeless had sealed that information,
but U.S. District Judge John Singleton
alleged the legal and voided Wheeless' stay order
Search of the files disclosed that as of Oct. 1, Continental had $14 million in unrestricted cash and a total cash amount of $13 million restricted funds, of $50 million
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