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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday june 23, 1977 no fans of Anita Bryant supporters of homosexual rights hold a rally outside the California Capitol in Sacramento. Their protest was prompted by a Resolution which was before the state Senate rules commit tee. The Resolution would have com mended Singer Anita Bryant for her fight against homosexuals. The commendation died in committee without being brought to a vote. A photo mrs. Carter says Gays should not be harassed san Francisco up first lady Rosalynn Carter said tuesday homosexuals should be free of harassment but she declined to say if she would allow her 9 year old daughter Amy. To be taught by a Gay  by reporters about her views on homosexuality. Mrs. Carter at first tried to skirt the question. Then she said. I Don t think they should be  asked if she would mind if Amy were taught by a Gay teacher she said i think Jimmy answered that question very Well. He said he had enough problems to worry about without having to take on another  the questions came up at a Brief meet ing with reporters during a break in an All Day hearing by the president s commis Sion on mental health of which she is honorary chairman. Mrs. Carter said that at a previous hearing a speaker talked about the stresses on the family of the Gays and i think they deserve to be heard by  during the hearing mrs. Carter was told by an sex mental patient Tanya  what Temkin called the horrors of Shock treatment psychosurgery and drug used in California institutions. Temkin. Representing network against psychiatric assault of san Francisco said mental patients should have the absolute right to refuse medical treatment of any kind in an institution. Another witness blamed official neglect by the government for an increase in suicide wife beating and child abuse among vietnamese refugees. Stateside Illinois governor signs death penalty Bill Springfield. Iii. Up gov. James r. Thompson tuesday signed legis lation restoring the death penalty in Illi Nois. He said the Law could very Well become the Model Law for other states. The new Law provides for death in the electric chair for persons convicted of kill ing policemen firemen prison guards and prison guests or prosecution witnesses or  also authorizes capital punishment for persons who kill while committing Hijack ing armed robbery robbery sexual As Sault aggravated kidnapping holding of hostages arson burglary or taking inde cent liberties with a child. Before imposing a death sentence the judge and jury would be required to con Sider mitigating circumstances such As the defendant s age mental state and criminal record. The Illinois supreme court Wouldhave a final review. He s flatly accused of puncturing 185 tires Dallas up _ police have arrested a Man who allegedly used u ice pick to flattened 185 tires in two apartment complexes in a single nigh police said they believe the 29-year-old unemployed Georgia Man had a grudge against the Landlady. He told police be was drunk and became angry when the apart ment manager had his car towed away. Police said the Man waited for Nightfall then punctured 18s tires on m automobiles. The damage was estimated at Gas. Cab rejects bid by airlines for fare increase Washington up the civil aeronautics Board tuesday rejected an air fare increase of seven tenths of one per Cen that most . Airlines had wanted to put into effect  Board said its calculations showed that with the hike the airlines would Earna 12.4 per cent return on investment significantly above the 12 per cent return Ceil ing allowed under present rules. Without the increase the Board said return on investment will be 11.6 per cent in a separate but similar action the Board also suspended a 1 per cent increase Western airlines had proposed putting int effect july 1. A co iffy votes itself out of existence Grimco City ind. A Glimco City went out of existence tuesday after us four registered voters unanimously approved dissolution of Indiana s tiniest  will now be part of neighbouring Alex Andria increasing Alexandria s population by seven four adults and three children to of. Within is minutes the voters Kenneth and Esther Patton and Philip and Carol Friend had filed into the offices of utile Lake industries and marked a secret ballot. All four said before the ballots were counted that they had resigned themselves to annexation but each also said be had toyed with the idea of voting against it Grimco City was incorporated in either1911 or 192j records Are unclear and has always been owned by whatever firm occupied the sprawling Plant now used by utile Lake. The town is named for the general Insu lation manufacturing corp. Annexation will bring police and Ore Protection from Alexandria As Well As water sewer and waste disposal service. College students costs to be 5.2% higher new York a the thousands of american students getting ready for col lege this fall face record costs 5.2 per cent higher than last year a recent College in trance examination Board Survey  typical student attending a private four year College and living on Campus will spend $4.905 for the 1977-78 academic year the Survey found. The same student who chooses a Public four year College and lives on Campus will spend 3,005, up 4 per cent from the 1976-77year. The biggest difference in costs betwee Public state and private colleges is in the area of tuition and fees which also accounts for the biggest chunk of a student spending. Extra pipeline was pointed heavenward Prudhoe Bay. Alaska a a spokesman has disclosed that the Alyeska pipeline service co. Took out a Little extra insurance on its expensive system for de livering North slope Oil. Several chaplains All of whom served pipeline construction Camps during the three year construction of the project gathered at pump station no. 1 sunday for a Benediction service spokesman John Ratterman said tuesday. We certainly Don t want to pass up any chances h added. Or. Raymond Dexter who was in charge of the pipeline ministry led the service. Meanwhile Oil had reached the 25-mile Point on the trans Alaska pipeline by tues Day evening. Stilwell says . Pullout in Korea requires stronger japanese forces Washington up the former . Commander in South Korea. Gen. Richard Stilwell says that the withdrawal of . Ground forces from that country will require a bolstering of Japan s Mili tary , now retired told a conference on Northeast asian Security sponsored by the Stanford research Institute. The withdrawal of the . Ground forces will undermine the Basic premise for korean Security that the sum of . And South korean forces provide Security for North East Asia when they Are equal or greater than the North korean  to Japan he said. In the end. Any nation Worth its Salt and Japan i such a nation will do what is necessary to fulfil its  he said. Unless Japan increases its present military expenditures of one per cent of its Gross National product there is scant Chance for Security in  Stilwell. Who has been an outspoken and Public critic of the withdrawal of us ground forces from South Korea said Japan s military Force will be the swing Force in Northeast Asia within  he said. The appetites of the communist nations Are insatiable. We must get serious about contingency defense plans for Yugo allow foreign Banks Belgrade i up Yugoslavia has liberalized its commercial regulations Al lowing foreign Banks into the country for the first time. The landmark legislation also eases the conditions under which for eign manufacturing and trading firms can open offices in Yugoslavia. A direct and indirect attack upon  Stilwell who served As commander of the . Command in Korea from 1973 to 1976, said a further requirement for continued stability on the korean Peninsula would be to make the current demarcation line Between North and South Korea per manent. To defuse the solution on the korean Peninsula he said we must work toward maintaining the countries identities and boundaries. Reunification of the two Korea is illusory. We have insisted on firm boundaries for the two Germanis and in the Middle East. We can do no less for the Republic of  mounting arms race. Stilwell said will not defuse the situation. But establishing boundaries permitting the entry of both Korea into the United nations and Universal recognition of the two countries will   
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