European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May 1985 comments today crossword its unpalatable but not poisonous by Ellen Goodman maybe my palate is too but the Case of Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb has left me with the most Peculiar not mind just a bit if Cathleen Webb had recanted an eighty Earold Rob she would not be known outside her Home if her Story was about a scared 16yearold who lost All her wages gambling and concocted a lie being it would never have made Page the cover of nor would we have had a series of Clour reports on the ramifications How this single Case May make juries More reluctant to convict future but since her Webb has become More famous than Potiphar the old testament who cried rape against no Joseph has become something of a tourist attraction in country club and is hoping for a major motion they have jointly gotten More space and airtime than any of the other rapes of the last 12 the inconclusive conclusion of the Case Hast sorted things at the webbs testimony didst jell with either the police the evidence or common she scratched her own stomach with the words h fir 11 and Lov upside Down and backwards the hearings proved that Webb was but we dont know when she was the considered opinion of no less a Legal expert than Harvard Law schools Charles Nesson i think Shes got to be out of her in the Jim Thompson didst believe webbs but he agreed that it Shook Gary Dotson conviction right Down to the Root meaning of the we Are no longer convinced that Dotson raped it was appropriate to commute his but it int As easy to mute the concern that we Are going to Fah Back into the old mindset about women who cry what it says Carol president of the american psychiatric is the whole Issue of women we had gotten past that and Here we arc Back there the old rape Laws were Rife with assumptions about women the proof needed to support a rape charge was More Strin gent than that to support a charge a you needed corroborating witnesses or proof of a the prosecutor and jury were and often still arc formidable hurdles for any woman who charged until the rape shield Laws were passed in 40 the entire sexual history of the victim was up for Public for a Long time juries received special instructions reminding them that an accusation of rape was easy to in there Are no More false charges of rape than false charges of any other but the old belief has died As Susan a Harvard Law professor one of the accomplishments of the past 10 years has been to eliminate or reduce the special requirements of rape cases which were premised on the notion that the defendant had to be protected against the Fantas Ying i hate to think that the Case is Captur ing the Public imagination because views toward women Haven changed that under any 10yearold veneer of change there is inevitably a mass of it Doest take much for suspicions and superstitions to show they come up As a chorus of i told you those who always believed that women lie about rape found proof in the tale Webb but the rest of us simply find this Case As As As the two leading several years when the first marital rape Case was concluded on the West and Greta actually went Back to John Many groaned that she put the cause Back a she the balance of Public under standing had fundamentally so it is in afraid that the woman who walks into the police station this week May be asked when she last had sex with her and whether Shes afraid Shes the woman who walks into court next week or next month May face a More suspicious juries always have to decide who is telling the As professor Nesson sums it this Case int a but it int a the Way we look at rape cases has already and for the we have righted the balance and Given most women a fairer Chance to be the aftertaste of the web Dot son Story May be but its not Washington Post writers group by Eugene Sheffer lost masterpieces Worth new York a if Michelangelo Hercules and nine other major Art treasures that have disappeared somehow surfaced today on the open they would be Worth Art authorities an unqualified masterpiece commissioned by Francis 1 of disappeared without a Trace after it was shipped to France in other artworks by masters such As Cezanne and Rubens have been lost in War Many during world War ii and by natural pillage and arts and Antiques Magazine in its june Issue said War is the most common reason for a masterpieces disappear when Napoleons troops scoured said author Peter scores of irreplaceable pieces the same was True during world War according to the Sucliste a record of works looted by the nazis and never two Hundred and fifty three major works taken during that time still Are according to Watsons conservative the missing masterpieces would be Worth million if they were auctioned in some works listed As lost in Art catalogues have in fact been Watson Many titans went up in flames at the doges Palace in Venice still More 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