European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes pages City not liable for mistaken shooting Washington up City police departments cannot be held responsible for a police officers mistaken use of deadly Force unless the killing is shown to be the result of a City the supreme court ruled voting with Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting and Justice Lewis Powell not Par the justices threw out a million verdict against Oklahoma City for the shooting death of William Adam the verdict had been upheld by the i oth circuit court of Tuttle was killed by a Rookie police offi cer who had responded to a report of a robbery at an Oklahoma City the Julian said he shot Tuttle in believing the suspect was reaching for a gun in his a jury found that Rotramel mistake was partly the fault of the City for failing to train him the supreme ruled that for the City to be held it must be supreme court Roundup shown the act was based on City proof of a single incident of unconstitutional activity is not sufficient to impose liability unless proof of the incident includes proof that it was caused by an unconstitutional municipal which can be attribute to a municipal poli Justice William Rehnquist wrote for the in other actions the court agreed to decide in a California Case whether police need a search warrant be fore they can Fly a plane Over a fenced Yard in search of let stand an appeals court ruling or Dering Chicago to ensure minority voter rights by giving Blacks or hispanics a 65 percent majority in 23 of the cites 50 refused to review a lower court ruling the nuclear regulatory commission was Correct in granting an operating License to the san Onofre nuclear Power Plant in Cali ruled unanimously that an insurance company representing a school located on state property within the Crow Indian reservation in Montana must exhaust an injury lawsuit in Crow tribal court before taking the Case to a Federal District ruled 63 that Montana cannot tax royalties from Oil and Gas leases held by no indians on the Blackfoot Indian Reser adjacent to Glacier National Park in Northwestern in the Oklahoma the jury exempted Rotramel from paying damages because he had acted under the Good Faith belief his life was but the City was or dered to pay damages to Tuttlis widow for violating her husbands civil the verdict was based on the Jurys find ing that the cites training of police officers was grossly tempers flare As hotel strike talks break off new York up talks aimed at ending a hotel strike broke off with no signs of Progress monday As police and Union pickets traded charges about raucous Demon in front of the cites Swan Kiest the the first since the strike began lasted Only hours and ended without agreement in a bitter dispute entering on wages and tempers on the picket line and several pickets accused police officers of the Union said workers ranging from bellhops to housekeepers were off their William director of the state mediation called on the two sides to meet again As soon As Park Avenue closed police closed off Park Avenue near the posh Waldorf Astoria hotel the site of some of the noisiest demonstrations for about 15 minutes because of a protest by More than 100 they Are getting very Rowdy with people inside the said officer John they Are harassing guests and there getting thus More than 35 strikers have been arrested by the Union police confirmed Only 23 arrests 18 for disorderly four for assault and one for resisting four women pickets have accused police of including one woman who said an officer broke her Hank a spokesman for the the hotel and Motel Trade Council of the Falcio met with police officials to discuss ways to curtail Vio Lence on the picket the Union said everything from bottles to clothing had been thrown at the strikers from the if no contract is reached this the which is waging its first strike in its 46year warned that picket lines will be set up at 40 More the walkout could Cost the cites billion annual tourist and business Trade millions at the Start of the a group of hotel workers March by new Yorks Sheraton Centre in support of the strike which began saturday a photo summer banquets have been cancelled at hotels where picket lines have been set the Tony awards supper was moved from the new York Hilton to the grand which already settled with the the Union is seeking a percent wage hike in each year of a fou year the hotel association has offered a percent also at Issue were 14 so called including a reduction in health and pen Sion benefits and changes in Job guests at the hotels have been carrying their own baggage and have been making do without room and maid and they seemed to be taking the strike in Ive been through blackouts in new now a said Don of a guest at the Harley it Doest deaths from cancer higher than Normal Sands of time study focuses on 50s nuke tests Washington a soldiers and sailors exposed to radiation at two atomic test Sites in the 1950s Are showing  death rates from cer Tain the National research coun cil reported authors of the councils study also said the excess deaths May Well have resulted from Chance since no similar re sults Are being found at other test when the data from All the tests Are there is no consistent or statistically significant evidence for an increase in leukaemia or other malignant disease in nuclear test the government sponsored study the studying death certificates of about deceased veterans who were among witnesses at five separate nuclear test confirmed the findings of a 1980 centers for disease control study that said there was an excess incidence of leukaemia among veterans who had participated at test shot Smoky at the Nevada test site in and it also said there appeared to be a slightly  incidence of prostate cancer among witnesses to blasts in the redwing test series on Pacific atolls in 1956 a result the authors seemed to discount since prostate cancer has never been demonstrated to be one especially susceptible to induction by they also said the Smoky results must be considered in the context of the broader findings of no excess leukaemia among wit Nesses at the four other test series in Nevada and the Pacific or at other blasts in the same series As the Smoky the subject has led to disputes Between veterans and the government Over possible government responsibility for cancers devel Oping among participants in aboveground tests in the Gloria executive director of the National association of atomic dismissed the new study As chief among her complaints was the fact that the study compares health problems of the atomic veterans with those or men in the general population rather than with 1950s vet Erans who were not exposed to the study pointed out the same apparent one of the reports Seymour was quoted in the summary As not ing that studies of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs show that leukaemia is one of the cancers that develops soonest following radiation he suggested future analysis of mortality rates among the exposed veterans might find additional excess cancer the centers for disease control study had indicated that nine of More than witnesses to the Smoky test had died of leukaemia compared with the deaths that might have been expected in the general population without unusual radiation expo the new study came up with similar Fig but it added that the radiation the witnesses were supposed to have received should not have caused the increased deaths according to current medical the study involved veterans present at Nevada test series upshot Knothole in 1953 and plumb Bob in 1957 and Pacific proving ground series greenhouse in Castle in 1954 and redwing in 1956 at the Enewetak and Bikini in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today june 1945 american troops drove two Miles southward along Okinawa East moved within 500 Yards of the islands Southeast beaches and Cut off the chinch pen insula to dominate a Amagusuku 30 years ago today june 1955 prisoners returning from Long russian Captivity said they saw Many americans in soviet the train Load of 250 austrians and ethnic Ger mans reached Freedom in Vienna after so Viet prison terms dating Back to Early in world War 20 years ago june 1965 Mission control in Houston told astronauts James Mcdivitt and Edward White to watch their fuel con the astronauts arc setting their sights on a space endurance 70 years ago foday june Israel withdrew half its soldiers and most of its weapons from the Sinai desert