European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1985 separation of Church and state reinforced Washington up the supreme in a pair or decisions reinforcing the Wall separating Church and ruled today that having Public school teachers give special classes at religious schools is the both 54 divisions of the Are the latest in a series of High court decisions on the politically controversial and in each Case represented a de feat for the Reagan one Case involved a program in grand that sends Public school teachers into private schools for remedial and enrichment the other concerned the use of Federal funds to provide remedial instruction to disadvantaged youngsters who attend religious schools in new York writing for the majority in the grand rapids Justice William Brennan said the program overstepped the constitutional line Between allowable governmental accommodation of religion and direct financial the symbolic Union of Church and state inherent in the provision of stat provided instruction in the religious school buildings threatens to convey a message of state support for religion to students and to the general the court said in the new York the majority held that although the Federal title 1 program promotes worthy the sending of Public teachers to private schools raises the governmental involvement with in other the striving to wrap up their 198485 also struck in a 63 a Texas ordinance that excluded Homes for the feeble minded from areas zoned for apartment the court to carve out a special constitutional Niche for the let without a lower court decision from North that says the constitutional right to privacy protects unmarried couples who live to the Case involved a married police officer who was fired for living with a woman who was not his ruled 72 that Border officials can detain a person suspected of smuggling drugs by swallowing the Contra band until the person has a Bowel held 54 that the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act can be used against business fraud conspiracies As Well As organized crime the twin school rulings were at Odds with the Reagan administrations Federal lawyers argued in both supreme court Roundup cases that outlawing Public Money in religious schools could hinder the education of students in Low income the court adhered to a precedent set in a 1975 Meek that Aid to Public even if secular in violates the Constitution if it benefits the school and its the ruling in the grand rapids Case upholds the 6th circuit court of which ruled the shared time and Community Educa Tion programs were the programs were initiated by the grand rapids school District in 1975 to reach the 30 percent of the school age population attending private by the 198182 school More than religious school students took part in the program and state Aid approached million under the shared time the Public school system leased classrooms in religious schools for up to a week to offer classes in physical Educa languages and the classes were attended solely by private but taught by Public teachers during the regular school the instructors were required to Post Public school signs on the Wall and to remove or cover any religious symbols during the class the Community education program involved private school teachers who taught Leisure such As arts and on religious school property after regular school the High court majority said the Community education program was unconstitutional there is a sub Stantial risk overtly or the religious message teachers Are expected to convey during the regular school Day will infuse the supposedly secular classes they teach after the shared time though structured some what also poses a substantial risk of state sponsored the court no attempt is made to Monitor the shared time courses for religious joining Brennan in the opinion striking Down the shared time program were justices Thurgood Harry Lewis Powell and John Paul chief Justice Warren Burger and justices Sandra Day Ocon Byron White and William Rehnquist on the Issue of the Community education Bur Ger and Oconnor joined the majority to declare it Union the title 1 majority was made up of mar Powell and record breaking wind feed flames Brush fires destroy 70 Homes in san Diego area san Diego a thousands of peo ple were evacuated and hundreds remained homeless monday after windswept Brush fires destroyed up to 70 Homes As the air literally exploded in the cites worst residential Blaze in 20 authorities the 300acrc fire that raced up a Canyon below fashionable Normal Heights was one of nearly a dozen blazes that charred about acres sunday As temperatures reached Sicord highs in los Angeles and san police estimated damage in Normal Heights at with Many of the destroyed Homes costing up to mayor Roger Hedgecock declared a City emergency and asked George Duck Majian for a disaster which would make the area eligible for state and Federal several fire storms broke out at the height of the said fire Larry the air literally there would be Homes and then five or six of them would just go a second san Diego county fire swept across killing a two cows and a Goat and burning three Homes and two ranch Sheds about 15 Miles East of the City near mount said Dena spokeswoman for the California depart ment of three san Diego television stations that have transmitters atop mount Miguel Kusi and Kitty were off the air for several hours after Power was Cut for the safety of Utility officials firefighters also battled erratic High temperatures and rugged terrain trying to contain a Blaze that charred acres in the san Jacinto mountains near Palm about 100 Miles North of san authorities ordered about 20 residents of Carlisle Canyon near Lake 40 Miles West of los to flee As flames blackened More than destroy ing a Mobile a second Ventura county Blaze charred 90 acres near Santa about 10 Miles farther another Brush in the Sequoia National Forest 150 Miles North of los an was controlled sunday after burning the Forest service authorities evacuated residents in an area of Ventura county Northwest of los Angeles threatened by two More Brush fires one blackening More than fire in the Hollywood Hills of los dotted with expensive did no dam age to said fire spokesman Larry the 25acre Blaze and a few smaller residents of a fire ravaged neighbourhood try to protect themselves from heat and smoke As they flee their Homes in san ones were quickly he the Normal Heights fire began about noon sunday in dried out Brush that covers dozens of Small canyons beneath Normal an upper Middle class neighbor Hood about eight Miles Northeast of Down town san this is the biggest fire that Ive known of in 20 said police Tom the Blaze was controlled late said fire spokesman Logan about 20 firefighters were treated for smoke heat exhaustion and minor officials san Diego Gas electric spokes Man Dave Smith said the Utility Cut Power to customers in the area for about six hours before restoring it to 90 percent of the Homes sunday Between and people were evacuated at the height of the fire and 100 to 150 would not be Able to return to their damaged or destroyed said about 400 peo ple were processed through a red Cross Shel Ter but most found places to stay with family or said spokesman Pat David disobeyed police orders and returned to his House in Midas grabbing his 84yearold Sisters fur coat and As he sat on the Couch at a makeshift evacuation Center in the Normal Heights United methodist swearing clasped his Sis ters hand and apologized for in no he said through the but you dont know what this is to lose maybe if i was but the Devil is really working on Forest service spokesman Steve Waterman said habitats of Bighorn sheep and least Bells an endangered Bird were the san Jacinto fire near Ca which started was half contained and 20 percent controlled sunday with in two Miles of Palm he but Forest service spokesman George Kenline said it was burning away from the City and probably would not grow even though full containment was not expected until july it was 115 degrees sunday in Palm while the 100 in los Angeles broke a 101year record of a Reading of 96 in san Diego broke the record of 84 for the Date set in the National weather service