European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 9. 1985 . Closes doors to cuban representatives Washington aim president Reagan on tuesday barred officials or employees of the cuban government or the communist parly of Cuba from enter ing he United slates. Reagan Saij he was acting in response to Cuba s decision to suspend a . Cuban immigration agreement. Reagan suspended the entry of officers a employees of the government of Cuba or the communist parly of cub i who hold diplomatic or official passports and individuals considered by the state department to be officers or employees of the cuban government or communist party regardless of what kind of pass ports they hold. Reagan s proclamation exempts party or government employees who arc enter ing the states to conduct business at the cuban Ini crests Scalion in Washington or the cuban Mission at the United nations. Cuban representatives will be allowed to visit the . Headquarters in new York for other purposes if the slate department concludes thai the Visil is required by . Agreement. A similar exemption is provided for experts on a . Mission and individuals coming to the United states on official . Business As representatives of non governmental organic unions. The stale department also is authorized to make of her exemptions. The proclamation declares that Cuba s decision on May 20 to suspend All types of procedures regarding the execution of the 1984 immigration agreement disrupted Normal migration procedures be tween the two countries. The ban is effective immediately. No smoking in Florida jury rooms nicotine fit could affect jurors lawyer says Bartow Fla. A a circuit court judge has ruled thai a defendant in a drug Case can have a fair trial even if jury members arc having nicotine fits because of a new state Law denying them cigarettes in the jury room. Judge Carolyn Fulmer on monday rejected pc trial arguments that marijuana trafficking charges against Thomas Hill should be dropped because of the recently enacted Florida indoor air act. Attorney Jack Edmund contended that Hill 35, will not be Able to get a fair trial because some jurors would be More interested in smoking than deliberating. The indoor air act which took effect oct. 1, requires that smoking in Public buildings be permitted Only in designated areas. It prohibits smoking in jury rooms in Al cases. Edmund also asked the judge to declare unconstitutional the provision in the Law that applies to jury deliberation rooms. Fulmer agreed that smokers May make poor jurors by a Nus of the new Law. But she said their addiction does t warrant overturning the Law or the charges against Mill. In fact she said she supports the Law. Jurors who Don t smoke have Long been raising the question of intolerable conditions in the jury room Fulmer said. Under the new Law an attorney who wanted to exclude a smoker from a jury would probably have reasonable grounds to do so she said. Testimony in Hill s trial began monday and the trial is expected to last five Days. Or. William Krc Mpr a psychologist called by Edmund testified that just being told they would t be Al Lowed to smoke is enough to reduce some people s ability to function. Smokers denied nicotine can find it hard to concentrate and they might even subconsciously Force a decision in order o leave the jury room Kemper said. Ben Fredericks a Lakeland lawyer expressed concern that the smoking ban might Cau e jurors to Rush to a he said that during a recess in a Case last week defendants attorneys and jurors who smoked were forced to mingle As they stepped outside to smoke. Assistant state attorney David Bergdoll who argued against the motion compared making allowances for smokers to permitting alcoholics to take a flask into the jury deliberation room so they could take a during a recess in the trial Edmund a smoker of non filtered cigarettes said he Ruis tried without Success to give up the habit. He predicted that the Law As it affects jury rooms would eventually be overturned. The verdicts of jury trials conducted since the Law went into effect May be put in jeopardy As o result he said. Injured in crash unit Richard 52, the flamboyant 1950s Rocker whose hits included Tutti Nittis hospitalized tuesday alter his car crashed into a Telephone pole authorities said. A spokesman for Cedars Sinai medical Center in Hollywood.Calif., said the Singer whose real name is Richard Peoni nun is in serious but stable condition with a fractured leg and possible Bead and rib injuries. A Uii Tuluii. Tjinuni.13 uti Iii Tina uni. Vici i Iii Tuitui Aru u re suit n Saio. Outraged catholics protest at . Premiere of Hail Mary new York a catholics Amone the thousands while others mahi Nucrim orium of demonstrators at the . Premiere of a movie denounced by Pope John Paul ii for its depiction of the Virgin Mary As a Gas station attendant Knelt in prayer and sprinkled holy water on those arriving for the show. The film Hail Mary by French director Woodard opened to similar protests in Europe earlier this year. The demonstrators outside Lincoln Center monday eve Ning clutched Rosary beads held lighted candles recited the Hail Mary and Sang its musical version ave police sgt. Thomas estimated the crowd at 7.500 to 8,000 people. "1 think it s sinful said Doris mignon. Who stood on a Balcony overlooking the Entrance to Alice Tully Hall and sprinkled holy water on theatregoers. In Godard s film Mary is an avid basketball player who works at a Gas station. Joseph is a dreamy and frustrated cab Driver. Gabriel is an unshaven unsavoury looking Ange who travels by Jet. Mary played by Myrica Roussell is nude in several scenes but there is no sex. Protesters at the premiere ranged from the Rev. Peter finn spokesman for the archdiocese of new York to members of the society of St. Pius a a group Loyal to French archbishop Marcel life Burc who opposes Liberal reforms imposed in the mid-1960s. Some protesters formed a semicircle around the from door of the theater and shouted shame As movie goers walked Down a narrow corridor police opened for them in the crowd. Some of the Thea Lerogers waved their tickets while others made obscene gestures. Don t gel Down to their level one elderly nun told the protesters. shortly after the film began members of the crowd Knelt and recited the Hail earlier monday Cardinal John j. O Connor who Heads the archdiocese of new York denounced the film As blasphemous and As in the biblical Story Godard s Mary is a pregnant Virgin and Godard focuses on the struggles of Mary and Joseph to come to terms with divine insemination. The film takes Little interest in the child. Two roman Catholic groups failed in Legal attempts to have Hail Mary suppressed in France. When the film opened in Rome in april priests nuns and some Neo fascists demonstrated against it trading insults with leftist supporters of Godard. Pope John Paul ii who put the motto totus thus totally yours and the letter Mon his coat of arms As a sign of his Devotion to Mary said the film deeply wounds the religious sentiments of he led a recitation of the Rosary broadcast worldwide by Vatican radio May 4, with the intent of repairing Theoff Ense inflicted by the film. Five Days later Godard asked the italian distributor to withdraw this sincere but imperfect it was a Courtesy he said Friday to the Pope for generating so much publicity. The film has been praised by some catholics and won a pm from the International Catholic Cinema office atthe Berlin film festival this year. Guardsman uses hand to plug fuel leak after Accident ,.calif. A a National guardsman who plugged a fuel leak with his hand for 25 minutes was credited with helping save two women trapped in a car during a 33-car pileup that killed eight people. Pvt. Keith Roe s move to keep the fuel from dripping on the car also helped pre vent a much worse fire in the sunday Acci Dent on interstate 5 just North of san fran Cisco said George Bicker a i acting chief of the Sacramento fire department. Authorities blamed the wreck on smoke from a grass fire. Up to monday official estimates of the number of fatalities see sawed Between seven and 10, with the Highway patrol and Sacramento county Coroner s office reporting conflicting information. The Highway patrol and Coroner agreed monday on a death count of eight. More than 40 people were injured. Roc 19, a cabinetmaker from Rancho Cordova arrived at the scene with spec. 4 Norman Clark 23, who helped give fir staid. The women were in a car flattened to three feet High by a Sam truck from which the dram valve of the tractor s fuel Lank was ripped. The women were later reported in stable condition with Back injuries. Roc said he Lay on his Side until rescuers arrived trying to keep up a reassuring conversation. Other lives were probably spared by a truck Driver who Jackknife a his Rig into a Concrete Center divider instead of letting it plow into the mass of wrecked vehicles. The Driver Ken Lenhart 45, of Lindsay was credited by one of the motorists Clif Ford Shelton with doing a Beautiful Job. He was Alert and did the Only thing he could to keep from wiping us out
