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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday july 25, 1978 presidents a months for contempt warns staff times reporter convict on drugs Washington up president car Ter monday warned White House staffers to obey the nation s drug Laws or seek employment  presidential warning conveyed to senior White House staffers by Carter s top adviser Hamilton Jordan will be passed on to lower level assistants As Well press Secretary Jody Powell told  s admonition followed last week s resignation of drug adviser Peter Bourne who left the senior White House staff after acknowledging he wrote a falsified sedative prescription for a female assistant in his office. The powerful drug Quaal Ude is widely  subsequently told reporters he knew of eight others on the White House staff who smoked marijuana and some who had used coca Ine. No prob but Powell said no investigation is under Way at the White House to flush out Mari Juana  know of no Way to conduct an investigation of every staffer Powell said but i can say the president has made it quite Mctear to his senior staff and wants them to make it Clear to those who work for us that be does not care whether people agree with Ibe Laws. But those who work in the White House Are expected to obey the Laws and if they do not they can seek employ ment  Bourne left his Post thursday following reports he was under criminal inv stiga Ilion for allegedly providing a prescription made out to a fictitious person Tor his assistant Ellen Metsky. Bourne said he was trying to protect Metsky s privacy. Powell said Carter s order stemmed from reports that some people in the White House think it s acceptable to Vio late the Law. He Carter does not and if they do. They should work somewhere  May be sure the president does not agree with violation of the Laws inside or outside the White  he said. Suggestions of drug use by White House staffers Drew comment monday on Capitol Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker urged another inquiry into suggestions White House staffers were smoking pot saying if i had anything to do with it it would t  and Baker said he would fire anyone on his staff known to be smoking marijuana. House speaker Thomas o Neill said he would not tolerate use of marijuana during duty hours by anyone on his staff. O Neill said he issued the same warning to a party for interns on hts  Tell them if you drink Beer at your own House then you can drink Beer at this Little party Here. But under no condition is there to be any pot. Anybody who smokes pot can go right out that door " Hackensack. . Up new York times reporter Myron Farber was found guilty of contempt charges monday and ordered to serve a six month jail term for refusing to turn Over his notes on or. Mario Jas Calovich who is on trial for  the same time Bergen county As Siena Cut judge Theodore Trautwein fined Farber  and fined the new York times $100,000 for its refusal to obey a court  imposed the sentences on Farber and the newspaper after finding both guilty of criminal charges they defied a court order to turn Over Farber s notes on Jas Calevich. Who allegedly murdered five patients with overdoses of the drug cd  also faces civil contempt charges for failing to Honor a defense subpoena for his  has been charged with kill ing five Hospital patients with overdoses of curare a muscle relaxant Over 10 years ago at River Dell Hospital in Oradell . In 1976. A series of stories written by Farber led to the reopening of the investigation into the mysterious  an Exchange with Trautwein the re Porter explained Why he declined to turnover the documents that defense attorneys claim Are essential to their a if i give up my file i it mined my professional in diminished the credibility leagues said , most important 11 notice that the nation s on per is no longer available Tot women who would seek a would respond to it to without  times had i Case to two . Supreme who declined to stay the u and the paper to turn Over tulja Calevich s trial is into i 35 More garbage workers Are Fijas san Antonio walkout Contini san Antonio Texas a about 35 More garbage workers were fired monday when they refused to work saying they feared for their safety from pickets. On saturday 106 workers were fired after they struck Tor higher wages. Texas state Law prohibits Public employees from  re fired  assistant City manager Louis Fox said of those who re fused to work monday. That left the Job of garbage collection Toone third of the Normal work Force of 300, those who reported for work monday morning did so amid taunts from pickets representing the fired  manager Tom Huebner said the City of 800,000 the nation s 10th largest would try limited garbage run using Sani tation workers who did not join their col leagues in walking out saturday  salary dispute. Two to four weeks we do anticipate some problems in Gar Bage collecting he said at a news Confer ence sunday. We will maintain that serv ice t would anticipate it will take two to four weeks to get Back to Normal. If police Protection is necessary on the routes we will provide that Huebner said "1 mean business. I will not be intimidated. It s All Over. These men have lost their  Eddie Leija. President of the san Anto Nio refuse collectors and one of those fired said pickets will be set up in front of garbage truck garages and City Hall. Lei Asaid the Union wants no violence. Philadelphia and new Orleans also were hit by garbage strikes within the Pas week. Garbage collection and other municipal services resumed in Philadelphia monday for the first time since july 14, when 20,000 City employees went on strike. Workers voted to end Philadelphia s longest strike in history Friday after winning 7 percent pay increases. Over the weekend private haulers and some City workers who returned to work immediately after the rat faction vote be Gan Clearing piles of garbage from 29 designated dumping Sites. Trash accumulated at the City dumping shoulder High be to 100 feet  new Orleans turned to work Friday icat strike Over Dan its trucks in better linked to Illinois uprising 3 die in disc Urban of Georgia state 500 american scientists pledge Boycott of soviets Chicago up _ about 500 scientists us. Mule Nalion have Peg a withhold All personal cooperation with the St protest the imprisonment of two soviet dissidents. Physicist Malcolm Derrick of Argo Tjenall of Ries a winced the pot while greeting Avital Shch Aransky wife ? Anatoly so Taransky to Hare International Airport sunday Derrick said the scientists would refuse i?�-nfonn8uon with soviet scientist sat scientific conventions until Shch Aransky a of 2v Are lease mrs. Shch Aransky was scheduled to meet with scientists and businessmen for two Days in Chicago in an Effort to win sup port for her imprisoned husband. Her Chicago visit is part of a nationwide tour on behalf of her husband sentenced by soviet authorities two weeks ago to 13 years in prison for treason and anti soviet activities. She has visited new York Washington and los Angeles and is scheduled to Fly Ocanada tuesday. Orlov was convicted of anti soviet agita Tion for his his activities in a group Moni Toring soviet compliance with the Helsinki human rights Accord. By the associated press Georgia officials said monday that a riot at the state prison May have been prompted by an uprising one Day earner at an Illinois prison. A total of four guards and two inmates died in the two disturb , about so prisoners staged a peaceful sit Down monday in West Virginia. Both the Georgia institution at reids Volle and the Pontac correctional Center in Illinois were quiet monday. Tense but under control was the description Given by one Georgia official after sunday s riot. Our feeling is this occurred because of the incident saturday in ponbaivlll.," said Sara Passmore spokeswoman or the Georgia department of offender rehab i tation. She said it appeared from the Onset that the riot was directed at the prison administration. Two inmates and a guard died in the Georgia riot. 3 guards slain at the Illinois prison three guards were killed and $3 million in damage was done in a seven hour rampage by several Hundred inmates. A clean up of clothing and trash that littered the prison Yard began. About 500 inmates of West Virginia s maximum Security prison at Moundsville staged a sit Down strike monday demand ing restoration of a recently abolished inmate Council and More Liberal Good time policies. Prison superintendent Bobby Leverette said the prisoners remained in the Cellblock area and there was no violence. The Georgia prison beset by racial Trou Bles and overcrowding has suffered ear Lier outbreaks in which two inmates were kitted and some 30 others injured on july s. . District court judge an Thony Alaimo ordered inmates separated by race. Passmore said sunday there Are not enough facts to determine the cause of the riot. But she added since the riot broke out simultaneously in two wings it s appear. It eel i ten ent it was  the Viott nce it 83 Imit befit in two 1sprawling facility  to i. I. I   i White and one Mack. Tej another guard who were  said the f cent  Frong the mates set Ore to a that and unlocked keys taken from Sak guard Dan Harrison to death. Guard taken to Tatt Natt 1 _. At least 10 Stab wounds Chest and arms and Foskey was reported in condition Early monday. The other two Passmore  body of onegin a hallway of  rioting inmates the other was Tot Toey in the other Wing tmp0r$ m Catt Mhz aux1ublrmlngtumt ctn tet fort or    us angst  
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