European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday november 13,1985 Helms assails . Handling of Medvid s Case Washington a sen. Jesse Helms tuesday lashed at the Reagan administration s handling or the Case of a so Viet Seaman who apparently tried to defect and wondered whether its action resulted from some secret agreement Between the two superpowers. The stale department has clearly decided it s More important to appease the soviet Union than to allow a Young Man an Unfall Rcd Chance for Freedom Helms said at a hearing before the agriculture com Mil acc of which he is chairman. Helms said secrecy surrounding the administration s decision to let the ship depart for the soviet Union with 25-year-old Miroslav Medvid aboard raised the question of some sort of agreement that the United states will treat soviet ships in a manner similar to treatment of embassies As though they were foreign enclaves not subject to . Powers. Why was the . Government so protective of the soviets at this Lime Helms asked. Is there a secret agreement that Weill Send defectors Back two investigations already arc under Way into Why Medvid twice was returned to the ship in the hours immediately after he leaped into the Mississippi River on oct. Medvid eventually told state depart mint officials he wished to return to his Homeland but critics have contended he should have been offered Asylum earlier. William e. O Malley a private consult ing psychiatrist asked to evaluate a govern ment psychiatrist1 report on the matter said he saw evidence that Medvid had been Given heavy Tranquili Zers similar to drugs used to treat psychotic patients in the United states. Such drugs would impair will Power but leave the drugged person appear ing outwardly Normal he said. Or. Medvid was not a free agent acting under his own free will o Malley said criticizing the government doctors for not taking urine and blood samples that could have proven whether such drugs were pre sent. Helms led the tight last week to prevent Medvid from leaving . Territorial Waters but the government declined to enforce a subpoena calling on the Sailor to appear at a hearing tuesday. The administration source said the ins probe will try to determine if procedure changes Are needed. The real question is not whether rail takes were made the source said. The question is whether the mistakes were result of individual judgmental Erron or whether the rules need tightening or  Holiday gift mailing tip from i  off co to help your gift Arr it in one elect. Packing sealing Pik Cwm ring on . And Bonom of Toteh of for a Dutka. A Yitti it Wio or Don t forget Sam space available Mill deadline is not. 29.upi Gra Wilc 5 die when Small plane crashes in Pennsylvania Derry. A. A a Pilot and four businessmen returning Home from Illinois were killed when their Small plane crashed in heavy fog about five nines from the Westmoreland county Airport authorities said. An instrument Landing system at West Moreland county Airport which could have directed the plane through the fog was out of service because of runway construction Federal aviation administration coordinator Richard Fisher in Pittsburg said tuesday. The win engine Turboprop Cessna 441was equipped with electronic Landing in Strung cats that could have told the Pilot he was off course if the Airport s system had been working said Mark Weaver of the Faa s records Center in Oklahoma. Michael Benson of the Faa in new York said visibility near the Airport was three quarters of a mile when he plane crashed at 6 05 . Monday. The plane crashed on a Ridge about five Miles Northeast of the Airport near Latrobe in Unity township said Mark Sturnick supervisor at the Westmoreland county emergency Center. No radio distress Calls came before toe crash said Faa spokesman Irwin Gold Stein. We Don t know exactly what went wrong. Apparently. He was off the course of the approach said Walter Meade an Faa regional duty officer in new York. Jerry Lee Lewis Tine after surgery Memphis. Tenn. A Rock v Roll Star Jerry Lee Lewis was doing Fine after More than four hours of surgery tuesday for a bleeding ulcer his manager said. Doctors on monday had told the enter Tainer s family that the 50-year-old Singer stood about a 50-50 Chance of surviving the operation said Bis Mother in Law Sarah Mccarver. . Whitten the entertainer s Road manager and spokesman said Lewis went into surgery at 7 30 . And the operation was completed shortly before noon. He s in recovery doing Fine Whitt unsaid. Whiten said Lewis was visited by several friends and was in Good spirits As he was wheeled into the operating room he was Strong and he was up for it Whitten said. He s been in the Hospital forgive Days and he was  Whitten said the operation was per formed to remove More than 30 percent of Lewis stomach. Mccarver said Lewis was hospitalized Friday because of abdominal pains and was found to have three stomach ulcers one of which was bleeding. He has been growing weaker and doctors feared he might not be Strong enough to withstand the operation she said. Justices to hear Case of Job Bias at religious school Washington a the supreme court agreed tuesday to consider whether state Laws Banning on the Job Bias May be applied to religiously based employment practices of Church affiliated schools. The court if it decides it has the proper jurisdiction will Rule whether Ohio officials May take any action against a Dayton Church school s officials who decided to fire a pregnant teacher so she would stay Home with he baby. A Federal appeals court ruled last june 26 that efforts to Force the school to comply with an Ohio Law Banning sex discrimination in employment would violate the school religious Freedom. Linda Hoskinson worked for the Dayton Christia schools As an elementary school teacher for five years when she informed school officials in 1979 that she was pregnant. Hoskinson said she wanted to continue leaching during her pregnancy and in the following school year. Dayton Christian schools founded by the Patterson Park Church and the Christian Tabernacle operates three schools As part of its religious Mission. Hoskinson was told in a memorandum that her teaching contract would not be renewed for the following year be cause of her pregnancy. The schools superintendent Claude Schindler said in the memo my concern. Was. Hat As you will be a new Parent. Your teaching would be in contrast to the school s  lawyers for the schools said that philosophy reflects the belief that mothers of preschool infants Bear a scriptural responsibility to provide nurture and care for them at  after receiving the memo Hoskinson consulted a lawyer. When school officials found out they fired her for religious  the contract All Dayton Christian schools employees enter into require what officials say is the biblically required internal peaceful resolutions of differences. A Day after her firing Hoskinson filed a  with the Ohio civil rights commission. After a comply supreme court Roundup counts of their convictions arc overturned. By a 5-4 vote the justices overturned a Pennsylvania Nett of 0ura. Re ing that freed Njamin Gold hammers of 5"T to go to j ail for or8ery and theft.�?. Reedr dude we Tow the constitutional privilege 2k sell Man anal a applies when someone face commitment As a sexually dangerous  " j be ill Law preliminary investigation the commission determined that the schools probably violated state Law. The commission attempted to reach an agreement wit school officials that would require the school among other things not to tech information about most prospective employee religion. In late 1980. The Dayton Christian schools filed a Federal lawsuit seeking to bar enforcement of the Ohio civil rights act in Hoskinson s Case . District judge Walter h. Rice ruled against the school but the 6lh us. Circuit court of appeals reversed is ruling. In other cases the court agreed to decide whether communities lawfully Mangrant exclusive Cable television franchises. In a Case of potentially momentous importance to the Cable Industry the justices said they will decide whether such arrangements sometime May violate the free speech rights of excluded companies. Ruled that the Constitution s ban on double jeopardy does not bar defendants being a sentenced after some t.  whether the North Carolina Agri employee " a Ivice discriminates gain a cd mini a Rii Faid " i hear Ria an administration argue menu that the state run program illegally is paying some Wilh in Yms less the Ite workers a Zsa Raets a.,?. "t"1,1 of 5eniorily and edition. Sued for dec de w.5ether the government May Berant Rol Sito " at Federal dams and flood Idil Wui the a Rea an administration in Arlen a and Thal inlere8t undue jew Ion s enforcement Effort officials right to free exer " an excess be � an