Thursday, Dec. 5, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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Voting Act debated in Supreme Court
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Voting Rights Act does not entitle blacks to "state" seats in elections, the Reagan administration and the state of North Carolina told the Supreme Court yesterday in the first test of the act since it was amended in 1982.
During hourlong arguments, North Carolina Attorney General Lacy Thornburg urged the justices to overrule a three-judge panel, which said the state violated the rights of black voters in drawing seven legislative districts three years ago.
The Voting Rights Act "means that members of a minority have a right to vote and a right to register and a right to have their vote fairly counted." Thornburg said.
Julius Chambers of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund argued that black citizens in North Carolina have less chance of being elected than whites because their votes are diluted in at-large districts.
At issue is language that says a voting procedure, "which results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color," is illegal.
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Chambers said multimember districts violate the act when they are used to disperse black voters into white majorities. In multimember districts, voters elect several candidates in an at-large election instead of choosing a single officeholder.
"The success of candidates in each of these districts was substantially adversely affected by the way whites refused to support black candidates." Chambers said.
Thornburg, however, said at-large districts do not harm the chance of success for black candidates. He noted that bwons won five of 30 atlarge seats in the North Carolina Legislature in 1982.
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U. S. Solicitor General Charles Fried said the amended Voting Rights Act was "a middle path" between guaranteeing blacks electoral seats and requiring them to prove intentional discrimination before being able to show violations of the right to vote.
The three-judge panel ruled last year that North Carolina lawmakers wrongly used six multimember districts to create white majorities when it would have been possible to form several black single-member districts instead.
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ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines officials said yesterday that they regretted that police were forced to remove singer Connie Francis from an airliner but that they had no choice when she refused to stop smoking while the jet was being refueled.
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Francis, 48, a singing star of the 1960s most noted for the movie song "Where The Boys Are," refused repeated requests from crew members of the plane to quit smoking Tuesday, officials said, and kicked one of the policemen who escorted her from the plane.
Francis was not immediately available for comment in Los Angeles, where she went after she
The incident occurred about 3:15 p.m. while the plane, en route from Nassau to Los Angeles, was being refueled at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta.
was booked by Clayton County police on charges of simple battery and criminal trespass and released on personal recognition.
"She was asked repeatedly to terminate her smoking during a refueling operation," a spokesman for Delta said. "When she refused the request, the crew asked for help from local authorities, who then escorted her off the aircraft."
Francis was taken to the Clayton County Jail where she was detained about $^{3} \frac{1}{2}$ hours.
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