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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 28,1977 mane attraction Bernadette Peters wears a towering blonde wig As she belts out a song in to Ronto. She was in the film silent movie and starred in the television series All s fair which was can celeb at the end of the season. A very nervous suit Winner attends first class at Cal med Davis. Calif. A a very nervous Rita Clancy attended her first class at the University of California medical school Here monday after winning the first round of her Challenge to a minority admission program. There were no protests or disruptions Ashe 22-year-old russian immigrant arrived on the Campus East of Sacramento. I m Happy to be in and i Hope i can stay Clancy told reporters before enter ing her Only class of the Day a first year course in cellular biology. At a mid morning break she referred re porters questions to her husband  morning she was very nervous be cause of All the press and very afraid of what student reaction would be he said. I think the first two weeks Are going to be extremely difficult for  meanwhile the University asked the 9th . Circuit court of appeals in san fran Cisco to reverse . District judge Thomas Macbride s order admitting Clancy. The Davis medical school is the target of a suit by Allan Bakke another White Stu Dent who challenged the special admissions policy which reserves 16 of the 100 slots in the entering class for disadvantaged minority students. Bakke like Clancy argued that he was denied admission to the medical school while less qualified minorities were a  Bakke Case is pending before the . Supreme court. The California supreme court ordered Bakke admitted saying his rights had been violated by the minority admissions research expert Dies at 76 Ann Arbor Mich. A Norman . Maier internationally known for his research in human relations decision making and problem solving has died. Hews 76. Program. But the nation s highest court blocked the order until it decides the Case. Arguments Are scheduled for oct. 12. The University said Macbride s admission order in Clancy s Case threatens great and irreparable injury to the univer sity and is directly contrary to the High court s stay of the Bakke decision. Clancy had been on the waiting list for admission to the school but Macbride last Friday ordered her immediately admitted saying she probably would have been accepted had it not been for the minority pro Gram. Patrick Clancy who quit a Job in the los Angeles county Public defender s office Totake a similar Post in nearby Solano county said he and his wife were living in a Motel while they looked for an apart ment. He said his wife who graduated from Urcla with an a minus average was reluctant at first to press her Case but she s gotten fired up and is now willing to go tothe . Supreme court with  stateside Tony Boyle retrial postponed four months Media a. A the murder trial of former United mine workers president . Tony Boyle has been postponed for four months because of a flare up of his heart condition. Boyle 75, accused of arranging the 1969 assassination of a Union rival was in Crozer Chester medical Center when Dela Ware county judge Francis j. Catania decided to continue the Case until Jan. 16. Boyle was admitted to the Hospital 10 Days ago with Chest pains. Besides a Long history of heart disease Boyle suffers from three herniated spinal discs and from stomach problems that Stem from an drug overdose suicide at tempt in 1973. Boyle is charged with providing $20,000 in Union funds to  the killers of Joseph Jock Yablonsky his wife Margaret and their daughter Charlotte As they slept in their Clarksville pa., Home on new year s eve 1969. He was convicted in april 1974, and sentenced to three life terms but that verdict was set aside by Pennsylvania s supreme court on grounds that Boyle was denied the right to present a Complete defense. 28 flyable planes up for Sale Battle Creek up in classically unabashed bureaucratic prose the de sense property disposal service is trying to unload 28 planes that it has branded potentially  without defining the phrase the defense department s closet cleaning Agency has announced it will accept offers for the sur plus planes and 14 aircraft engines starting oct. 13. Condition of the merchandise was not mentioned in the announcement. The shopping list includes 12 Curtiss Wright commandos 11 Grumman track ers two Beech Model 18s, two Grumman albatrosses and one North american t6 texan. Prospective buyers will have to show some dedication however. These planes and engines the service said Are All located in Japan and Are presently available for  anyone embarrassed by Low Telephone Bills can Check out details by calling 0462 51-1520, Extension 228-4110, during business hours in Sagamihara Japan. Pidgeon leaves Hospital to recuperate at Home Santa Monica Calif. Up actor Walter Pidgeon 78, was released from St. John s Hospital in Good condition monday to Complete his recuperation at Home after surgery last month to remove a blood clot on his brain a Hospital spokeswoman said. Pidgeon a Veteran of 85 movies and twice nominated for Academy awards As Best actor entered the Hospital aug. 4. Although the operation was a Success Pidgeon later lapsed into critical condition and doctors found another blood clot on his lung which was dissolved by  actor s condition has improved steadily during the past several weeks enabling him to go Home where he will receive treatment for minor complications the spokeswoman said. Suits by actor photog Over fight end in draw los Angeles a a lawsuit Over a 1973 fistfight Between Tom Laughlin the hard hitting hero of the film Billy Jack and a photographer who had been hired to publicize the movie has ended in a draw. A Superior court jury refused to Grant either Laughlin or photographer George Spear any damages in a Legal Battle Over injuries in the fight feb. 6,1973. Spear who had been hired to publicize the film filed a civil suit against Laughlin charging him with assault and Battery and asking for $100,000 in damages. He claimed the actor held him in a Hammerlock bruised his face and damaged his Teeth. Laughlin who had been viewing promotional films of the movie before the fight broke out counter sued for $1 million claiming he rather than Spear had been attacked and injured. Quake faults found near nuclear facilities Menlo Park Calif. Up govern ment geologists have mapped a group of previously undetected Young Earth quake faults running through the liver More Valley and passing close to three nuclear research facilities. Traces of the faults lie close to the University of California s Lawrence liver More Laboratory and the adjacent Sandia corp. Plant where atomic weapons Are de signed and developed and to general electric s Vallecitos nuclear research lab oratory. But government atomic Energy officials said they already have studied the new Evi Dence of earthquake activity in the area and Are confident none of the faults poses any health or safety problems. Enlisted figure juggling was known Washington up the army s recruiting command knew enlistment Fig ures were being juggled in the northeastern United states and did no object the former commander of that Region testified monday. Retired army col. William h. Sachs who headed the regional office in it. Meade md., until last january told the House armed services investigations sub committee his superiors knew credit for enlistees from recruiting offices which overproduced was being shifted to offices which did not meet quotas. There was no objection voiced to me Sachs said. The panel is seeking to find out whether there was any involvement by higher Headquarters in the Albany n.y., office s listing phantom enlistees who never existed on computerized Rolls. The com Mander and four others in the office have been disciplined As a result. Maj. Delbert Collins who serves at the it. Meade regional Headquarters testified about several types of manipulation of statistics he had devised so we d look Good when it came to sustained perform  but Collins said his manipulations had never misrepresented the total number of recruits actually signed up by the North Eastern District on an annual basis. He said his schemes included reporting fewer recruits than actually enlisted in periods when quotas were exceeded and saving the additional numbers for Slack periods reporting some enlistments Early to make a weekly quota and deducting them from later reports and shifting credit from one office to another. Collins said his juggling was necessary because in Spring it s difficult find that Little enlisted when he s out there washing his car and chasing  you were reporting fraudulent num Bers said subcommittee chairman Sam Stratton   
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