European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. June 10, 1980 supreme court agrees to decide constitutionality of statutory rape Laws Washington Psi the supreme court agreed monday to Rule on the constitutionality of statutory rape Laws. Under such Laws it is a crime for a Maleto have sexual relations with a female who is a minor. The Laws do not provide for an prosecution for the female. Nearly every state now has a Law similar to the California Law that is being challenged in the Appeal by a 17-Ycar-old Issue in the lest Case is whether Pun Ishing Only males for sex involving to can a cars is an unconstitutional form of sex Dis final ruling on that question is expected from the court sometime next year. In another major action monday the court said it would decide next year whether Federal Law gives mentally retarded per sons in state hospitals a right to adequate care and treatment. A lower Federal court ruled last year thata 1976 Federal Law creates a right to Ade quate care for mentally retarded persons i hospitals or clinics in any state that receives Federal funds. The Law was invoked by a girl who Livest Pannhurst state Hospital in Spring City a. She contended that the conditions at Pannhurst were inhumane and dangerous and that patients frequently were mis treated and poorly supervised. The court acted on the new test cases Asit continued to Issue orders and opinions before beginning its summer recess late this month or Early next month. The statutory rape Case grew out of a incident Between two teen agers in Sonoma county boy was 17, and the girl was 18 months drinking whiskey and wine near some Railroad tracks the teen agers went Toa nearby Park and had Intercourse. He was charged with violating the state statutory rape Law which makes it a crime for any male to have Intercourse with a female under the age of 18, other than his wife. In other cases monday the court ruled unanimously that a person May be convicted of helping another person com Mit a Federal crime even if the other person is tried first and found not guilty. The Rul ing upheld the conviction of a Gulf Oil corp. Vice president in Pittsburgh , on charges of arranging special favors for an internal Revenue service agent. The agent was found not guilty of accept ing the illegal gifts but stand for was then tried and found guilty of aiding and abet Ting the agent in the crime. Monday s Rul ing upholds that conviction. Agreed to Rule next year on whether Federal agents May Stop an Auto or truck tomake an arrest because the vehicle s occupants activity tits a profile that seems suspicious. Wealthy builder is Italy s 22nd kidnapping victim Como. Italy a four masked men armed with pistols and sub machine guns grabbed a wealthy builder As he came out Ofa bar in a town outside of Como in the 22nd kidnapping reported in Italy this year police said. Luigi Moroni. 57. Married with three children tried to flee but was overpowered by the gang and forced into a wailing car which then sped away. Police threw up roadblocks but found no Trace of the gang. Italian restaurateur Dies Florence Italy a Vincenz Sabatini. Whose restaurant was a favorite meeting place of artists and politician died of a heart attack in a local clinic his family reported. He was 64 and is survived by his wife. The Justice department argues in an a peal that Federal officers need not have specific suspicions about a vehicle they want to Stop so Long As the activity involved is of a kind that has led the officers to be suspicious in other cases. Ruled 7-2 that a Federal court May award attorneys fees to a person who wins a Job Bias Case in a state government Agency without Ever suing in Federal court. Refused to step into a dispute Over whether the Federal government or private landowners own the alleyways in the District of Columbia. A lower Federal court ruled four years ago that the alleys belong to the Federal government but the Issue has been raised anew in other cases in Federal and local courts in the District. Claims Media harassment woman deplores focus on her in Jordan Case fort Wayne ind. A Martha. Coltman. Speaking publicly for the first time since civil rights Leader Vernon Jordan was shot As he left her car said monday she fears that he attention focused on her will make it difficult for her Ever to resume a Normal also told reporters that she had Given investigators All the information Shehad on he May 29 shooting in which Jor Dan was seriously wounded. She blamed what she called Media harassment for making her a figure of notoriety and said the attention had severely damaged her effectiveness in the civil rights movement and her ability to begin a careering business. Coleman said that her neighbors had told Nebraska City recovering from deadly tornadoes grand Island neb. A the City of grand Island has changed its emphasis from Rescue to recovery in the Wake of a deadly string of tornadoes that ripped through hundreds of Homes and businesses last tuesday. Mayor Robert Kriz said some merchant son the fringes of the stricken sections of the Central Nebraska City would be allowed to reopen. Most of the storm debris had been cleared and traffic flowed smoothly Sun Day. Kriz said about 93 percent of the Resi dents without electricity had Power restored monday. But the mayor cautioned that heis still concerned about turning the Power Back on in the most heavily damaged sections. Meanwhile the last two known Tornado victims were buried monday. Charles Fred Peterson 60, one of the first victims found was to be buried at 10 30 . Monday. And Danny Daven port 25. Of Overton who became the fifth victim when he died Friday from head injuries suffered in the tuesday night storm was to be buried in least five persons died in the twisters. Of an initial list of 70 names 18 persons remain unaccounted for since the killer storm struck. Well have a few More bodies i think Kriz said. We have called off formal searches but i think we re going to Sec some More victims. There is a vehicle in a Lake. There Are other vehicles too that we can t get into yet. The storm stirred up the algae in the Waterways and our divers can t get Down. Nebraska National guardsmen and la enforcement officers remained on patrol in damaged sections of the City and a nightly curfew will stay in place Al least through monday night Kriz said. Her of reporters wandering around Henhouse and that her residence had been shown on National fact that she lives alone has been widely publicized the 36-year-old Divorcee said. Eventually someone else will be shot somewhere else or mount St. Helens will erupt again and i la be left to Deal with the kooks and people who know i m living alone said Coleman who described Hersel fas a very private she said that she will not return to he materials expediter Job at International Harvester for awhile. Coleman said she had stayed in hiding on the advice of the police her attorney and her doctor. She said that i she had to do it again she would have handled it the same said that after Jordan s address to a local Urban league banquet she and Jor Dan returned to her Home where she made Coffee and they listened to the stereo. She said she left her stereo and her lights on when she and Jordan left the House to re turn to his Motel. Coltman said she had expected to come right Back Home. Earlier her attorney Charles Leonard had said that Coleman stayed in seclusion since the shooting to avoid becoming a National figure but that she probably will have to come Forward soon to Tell her Sid of the Story meanwhile doctors operated again on Jordan this time to repair an abdominal incision from surgery nearly two weeks after the National Urban league president was shot in the Motel parking lot. Jordan was in serious but stable condition at Park View memorial Hospital doctors Saidur. Jeffrey Towles said the 44-year-old Jordan was operated on sunday night be cause of a breakdown in an abdominal Inci Sion made in earlier surgery. Leonard told reporters that Coleman who voluntarily look a polygraph test administered by an Fri agent Friday passe with absolutely no question whatever. She now has been absolutely eliminated As hav ing any involvement email on Oklahoma so real in grand is the mail goes through land. Neb Ali Hugh Many of the Boron in shambles. Tatar �., Hil ust
