European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse 6 the stars and stripes thursday August �0, 1978 failed to prove incitement judge dismisses suit against Abc drama san Francisco up a judge tuesday dismissed an $11 million lawsuit against Abc that charged a prime time drama showing a sexual assault of a Young girl led a gang of youngsters to commit a similar Robert l. Dossee granted a motion by Abc lawyers for non suit after attorney Marvin Lewis representing a 13 year old girl assaulted four years ago had finished his opening statement. The judge ruled earlier that Lewis would have to show incitement which he had not done. Thus he ruled the show bom is protected by the first amendment. The judge ruled that in order to collect damages the plaintiff would have to prove that Abc intended for viewers to imitate the said he would ask the California court of Appeal to overturn Dossee s Rul ing within a few Days. Lewis had admitted that he could not show that Abc actually intended viewers to imitate the sexual assault on a Young girl portrayed in the drama but charged the network was negligent and reckless in putting on the show during a time when children might be watching. Lewis asked the judge to Rule that "stim-ulus1 As Well As incitement was also grounds for removing the program from the Protection of the first amendment. Abc lawyer Floyd Abrams asked the judge at the conclusion of Lewis opening statement to dismiss the Case. Dossee excused the jury until thursday and listened to arguments by both sides. He then re tired to his Chambers for 30 minutes. After the ruling Abc issued a statement which said in part our Legal vindication is particularly satisfying since the Evi Dence clearly indicated that there was in fact no causal connection Between the film and the actual on sept. 10, 1974, Abc presented at 8 . The drama of a runaway girl in which actress Linda Blair was portrayed As be ing sexually attacked in a Shower by Delin quent girls using a plunger. Four Days later on san Francisco s Baker s Beach. Olivia Niemi 9, was similarly attacked by three Young girls using a Beer bottle. Lewis brought suit for is million compensatory damages and $10 million Puni Tive damages on grounds that Abc was negligent and accountable in civil court for the predictable consequences of showing the film. Sex mobster tells panel of crime wave in prison Washington up racketeer Gary Bordach gave Congress details on Dve murders in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary wednesday and said he turned in firmer because i got sick and tired of senseless murders at the prison. Resuming testimony As Star witness at Senate crime hearings Bordach also said he made $2.000 a week peddling drugs in the Atlanta prison and helped smuggle weapons and Money to prisoners hired by the mob to hit other inmates. Everybody is armed except the guards Bordach said of the Atlanta Penitentiary where he served five years on a Miami loan sharking conviction until he began cooperating with Federal investigators last fall a weapon is about As easy to gel As a Toothbrush. You place an order pay the Price and you get your weapon in three appearances before the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee last week Brooklyn bom Bordach 35, said he functioned As a loan shark drug smuggler and hit Man for a Miami crime Syndicate in the 1960s and Early 1970s. He said he shot his own underworld part Ner to death in 1970 to Stop the Man from cooperating with prosecutors and became the target of a Syndicate murder contract himself when he refused to carry out or Ders to kill an Atlanta inmate. Nonetheless Bordach said wednesday. Pulp paper workers strike on West coast Portland Ore. A pulp and paper workers struck seven Crown Zeller Bach corp. Mills in Oregon Washington and California raising to 15,000 the num Ber of workers on strike at West coast paper Mills. Meanwhile members of the association of Western pulp and paper workers Rati fied an agreement covering 635 workers at the Kimberly Clark corp. Plant in Fuller ton. Calif. Twenty seven paper Mills have been struck by the a App w and the International Union. Gary Bordach it was disgust and not fear that prompted him to become an informer in return for a Grant of immunity and the Chance to a straight under a false identity. I got sick and tired of senseless Murd ers in the prison he said. He scoffed at the alleged Effort his crime Bosses made to have him killed in Retalia Tion saying they sent an Amateur to do a Man s human s work "1 could have eliminated the intended Bordach said he never witnessed and see Hlaj Privot where nine but he said he knew some of the victims and killers involved and had Learned what happened from crime Syndicate associate who trusted him. On that basis he discussed five murder Sand described All but one As uw.,.wu4 my wt1 a against narcotics paddlers accused of sen ing bad merchandise. The other involve homosexual advances. The weapons involved were knives hatchets and in one Case paint thinner doused Over a sleeping inmate who was set stateside poll says most doctors would Cut fees for the poll carried in the current Issue of american medical news the Ama s weekly newspaper Tor doctors said most Doc tors feel it is their ethical responsibility to reduce fees or provide free care to indigent an article accompanying the poll said the Advent of the medicare and medi Caid programs in the mid-1960s caused a reduction in the number of physicians who provide free or reduced fee care
