European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday. December 11. 1985 contest Winner wants $20 million from firm Atlanta a a Myc in old Man we i s he figured out Trie pattern of i contest soon sortie by Beatrice com ponies contends the Ernes him 5 0 million but Beatrice disputes his claim and says in has. Called off the con test rank in Agio a Salesman for Procter & Gamble. Mailed thousands of entries in inc monday night winning line up contest offered Bbeatrice foot products. The contest u is has cd on the number of touchdowns und old goals scored by each team in eight monday night National football league games this fail. After finding a pattern to the game cards Mayio said he began asking for As Many cards As he could get. I asked for cards from other people. I told them 1 had a go Al to win he said monday. Maggio refused to say How Many cards he entered although he contends the con test rules entitle him to $ 0 million or tickets to the super howl game. To ensure that his entries did not go . He said he flew 10 Angeles last week and mailed his cards from the Post office there just before inc deadline. The company operating the contest is in los Anji Eles. said Vic has hired an Atlanta Law firm to represent him. I be invested about $3.000 so far. Including Telephone Calls and plane tickets and the Legal fees will be an additional expense he said. Beatrice officials said they have called off the contest and will award Only a limited number of the company announced in newspaper advertisements that in would award Only five super bowl trips for a total of 2s people and Only five lesser Bro Owski a Beatrice spokeswoman in Chicago said Maggio s entries were obviously a Factor but i think there were some other reasons As Well for can celing the contest. There were some problems with the Way the contest was Sel up. As far As i understand she contest cards contained eight blocks one for each of the eight monday night nil games. In each Block were 16 numbers covered by Silver dots eight corresponding to touchdowns and eight to Field goals. Entrants were required to scratch off one Dot in each category. If the numbers revealed by scratching off the dots corresponded to the exact number of held goals or touchdowns scored by a particular team in that week s game the player was awarded one Point. There was no Rule prohibiting a player from waiting until after the game to scratch off the dots. Maggio claims that by figuring out the patterns of the numbers under the dots he was Able to amass 14 Points for each card he entered. According to the rules printed on the Back of the card a score of 14 entitles the player to s5.500 in Cash or a super bowl trip for six. The rules do not state a limit on the number of entries by each contestant. High court ruling restricts use of undercover probes Washington api the supreme court by a 5 4 Vole tuesday limited he Power of Law enforcement authorities to obtain convictions based on statements Given to police informants. The justices ruled in a Case from Maine that such statements May not be used As evidence against the person who makes Ihm even when that person initiated Contact with the informant. The court 21 years ago prohibited the use of incriminating statements deliberately elicited from indic cd defendants by informants. Led by Justice William j. Brennan the court today refused to limit that ruling to situations in which govern ment agents initiate the Contact with indicted defendants. Knowing Cupl citation by the state of an Opportunity to confront the accused without counsel being present is As much a breach of the state s obligation not to circumvent the right to assistance of counsel As is the intentional creation of such an Opportunity Brennan said. In other action the court. Refused o shield airlines from paying interest on dam Ages arising from crashes related to International travel. By a 4-4 vote the justices upheld a Federal appeals court ruling that assessed what is now 10 years Worth of interest on a judgment against Eastern air lines Stem Ming from a 1975 crash in new York. Ruled that members of Federal prison disciplinary committees May be sued for violating inmates rights. In a 6-3 ruling the court rejected the Reagan administration s position and upheld awards of $4,500 to two former Federal prisoners in Indiana who were placed in solitary confinement for allegedly advocating a prison work decision on informants As did a previous ruling by the Maine supreme court threw out Percy Moulton or. S theft conviction. Moulton and Gary Colson were indicted in 1981 in connection with automobile related thefts in the Belfast supreme court Roundup Maine area. While their indictments were pending col son told Belfast police chief Robert Keating that Moulton had suggested killing a slate s witness in inc Case. After being contacted by Moulton about meeting to Dis cuss trial strategy Colson agreed to Wear a body wire trans Mitter so police could hear what was said at that meeting. Moulton made several incriminating statements at the meeting which were used As evidence against him at his trial. He challenged his ensuing conviction arguing that his sixth amendment right to a lawyer s it cup when talking to government agents had been violate. The Maine supreme court ruled for Moulton. And or dered a new trial. Maine attorney Gei Cral James e. Tirney supported by Justice department lawyers urged the nation s highest court to reinstate Moulton s conviction. A neighbor tries to console Dorothy Wilbert is flames destroy the wooden Bouse she lived in with her four daughters and Ber husband Arthur. The fire to Calla nothing left a Trolo ban Fla was believed caused by Wood burning stove. Mrs. Wilbert returned from her Mother s Bouse o find the borne ablaze. No e was in the Bouse. They argued thai since the by fasl police bad not set up the confrontation Between Moulton and Colson. Mouton constitutional right to have a lawyer s assistance was not violated. But Brennan said it is Clear that the stale violated Moulton s sixth amendment right when it arranged to record conversations Between Moulton and its undercover informant lawyers also had contended that Moulton s statements should be allowed As evidence because police had other legitimate reasons for listening in on the conversations they were investigating a possible murder plot against a state said police arc free to investigate new crimes that May be committed by people under indictment but that they must contend with those people s constitutional rights if seeking evidence pertaining to pending charges. Justices Thurgood Marshall Harry a. Blackmun Lewis f. Powell and John Paul Stevens joined Brennan s opinion. Chief Justice Warren e. Burger and justices Byron r. White William h. Rehnquist and Sandra Day 0 Connor dissented. Writing for the four Burger said the decision yielded a bizarre he accused the court s majority of creating a new right Only for those possibly habitual offenders who per Sist in criminal activity even White under indictment for other Burger said police would be hampered in investigating entirely separate crimes by people under indictment. Democratic Coa Ilion formed by for is dead Bush says Wilmington Del. A vice president George Bush told Republican governors tuesday the democratic coalition forged by Franklin d. Roosevelt is dead gone buried but he cautioned that the gop can t yet claim Mohave replaced it. Addressing the closing session of the annual meeting of the Republican governors association Bush gave an up beat forecast of parly prospects in 1986. The president s standing wih the american people won t be sinking said Bush. No hell continue to ride a wave of the vice president said president Reagan s popularity and the United states continuing economic strength would enable the republicans to counter the historic trend in which the party in control of the White House suffers substantial losses in the midterm election of a president second term. It s not going to happen to Reagan he said. N citing economic growth he said was reaching a Broad Range of americans Bush conceded there Are some such As some Farmers who have not yet Felt the growing National Prosperity. I realize there arc others who Are concerned about foreign Imp on i taking their jobs. We share these con Cerns. Bush said it might be two More elections before the top can claim it is the new majority party in America. The old Roosevelt coalition is dead gone buried but we Don t yet have a new equally Strong coalition to take its place. I believe that the next two National election will decide whether such a coalition actually comes together. Of i i
