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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol., 37, no. 168 tuesday october 3, 1978 is oozy and sunday if 21855 a Job safety Case Osha dealt defeat by supreme court How to to bad fuck in the ring Denver up Friday the 13th occurs again this month and some of the most superstitious per formers will risk the sometimes dangerous three rings of the great est show on Earth. The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus opens in Denver oct. 5 and performs until oct. 15 including the reputed bad Luck Day of the year. . Fox official historian of the largest circus in the world offered the following observations on the superstitions of those in the circus world Don t whistle in the dressing room and Don t drop Peanut shells in it. Don t put your hat on the bed and continued on Page 28, Coll from press dispatches Washington the supreme court monday let stand rulings that the govern ment cannot bar employers from retaliating against employees who refuse to do work reasonably believed to be too danger  court thus handed a significant Legal defeat to the occupational safety and health administration. Only justices Harry a. Blackmun and William j. Brennanjr. Voted to Grant full review to the government s Appeal. The votes of four justices Are needed. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall now must go to Congress to seek the authority he wants Osha to have. Earlier ruling lower courts ruled that the Agency is not authorized to order employees rehired and paid Back wages when the employees did not first take administrative and Legal  seeking supreme court review government lawyers argued a limited right to self help is necessary to Deal with extreme situations for which the administrative and judicial processes Are too slow unless workers Are to be left with the cruel Choice Between their safety and their  ironworker Jimmy Simpson was fired continued on Page 28, col. 2 landslide destroys 20 Calif Homes Lacuna Beach Calif. A an unexplained landslide of More than three hours duration monday destroyed 20 Homes damaged five others and forced the evacuation of 50 persons in this fashionable resort Community police said. Streets collapsed and Power poles and Gas lines were severed in a Hilly three Block area As residents were awakened be fore Dawn by the slide authorities said. Several minces juries were reported. Most of  Overlook the Ocean of police said. Of Adful breaking up shattering said John Wolfe a resident of the area. Walls were falling. It was dark up there and the Power poles were collapsing and the stench of natural Gas was  police spokesman Don Deilke described the scene in the Community 35 Miles South of los Angeles As a Complete  three streets have caved in and we re calling in All our people he said. It was not immediately known what caused the slide. Deilke said there was no rain and no  however the area was pelted with re continued on Page 28, col. 4 and Cost of the Hoti ses thumbs up during a Long swim distance swimmer Stella Taylor who has twice swum the English Channel signals that everything s Fine during her Bahamas to Florida swim. The Man on the surfboard is a member of her support Crew. A photo mistake in navigation wastes time Energy of Bahamas Fla. Swimmer aboard the Idle Day a mar athon swimmer Stella Taylor unaware that a navigational error had caused her to waste precious hours and Energy stroked toward the Florida coast monday trying to Complete her Over-100-mile swim from the Bimini islands. By 1 30 . Monday after swimming for 27 hours the woman who twice conquered the English Channel was 44 Miles East of key Largo Fla., about 33 Miles from her starting Point at Orange Cay a Dot of an Island 48 Miles South of the main Bimini  original destination was the fort Lauderdale Palm Beach area 130 Miles from Bimini but it was believed she was trying to reach land wherever she could probably in the Florida keys. The 46-year-old swimmer was travelling at less than two Miles an hour. Crew members said she had been lost for half a Day in the Gulf Stream because of their Lack of sophisticated navigational equipment. They said they were under or Ders from Taylor not to give her any information on her position. Taylor failed in an attempt to Swirn from the Bahamas last August. She was pulled from the water 12 Miles Short of Florida. The British born swimmer s original strategy was to ride the Gulf Stream North Ward to the fort Lauderdale Palm Beach area. However it appeared monday that the normally powerful current had calmed and she was Well to the South of her Palm Beach target area. A Pilot said he plotted her position at 52 Miles South of Miami or about 80 Miles South of fort Lauderdale. If that location was accurate she was Only 25 Miles East of the Florida keys and still could reach the coast within 12 hours. After a night in which she was repeatedly stung by jellyfish and forced briefly from the water by a passing shark Taylor told a reporter in the accompanying press boat i be had a rough night. I vomited four times. They really stung  the Only real danger the swimmer has encountered since leaving Orange Cay was from the shark. However a Crew member shot it and Taylor resumed her 70-stroke i continued on Page 2, col. 11  
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