European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 1986 stars and stripes Page court upholds restrictions on adult Heaters Washington a the supreme court tues Day made it easier for inc nation s communities to restrict the locations of adult movie Heaters and other adult entertainment attractions. By a 7-2 vote in a Case from Runton wash., the court said communities May use their zoning Powers to pre serve the Quality of Urban life by relegating All adult movie houses to one isolated area or by requiring that the Heaters be scattered. The court had said that much in 1976, but tuesday s decision is a key one because it frees communities especially smaller ones from having to wait to see what effect adult movie Heaters have before restricting them. The justices said Runton which had no such Heaters in 1981 when it passed a zoning ordinance could rely on the experiences of other larger cities to assume that adult Heaters would be harmful although the ruling discussed Only Heaters its rationale is applicable to adult bookstores and other establishments featuring sexually explicit materials. The ruling came just one Day after the High court barred cities from trying to Battle pornography by subject ing its distributors to lawsuits charging sex discrimination against women. The court on monday struck Down As an impermissible interference with Freedom of speech an Indianapolis Ordi Nance that imposed such Legal liability on pornography paddlers. Runton a City of about 32,000 just South of Seattle bans Heaters showing a rated movies from operating within 1,000 feet of Homes churches Parks and schools. The 9th . Circuit court of appeals struck Down the ordinance in 1984, ruling that it violated free speech rights. In Large part tuesday s decision relied on a 1976 ruling in which the justices allowed Detroit to use its zoning Power to require the dispersal of adult Heaters. Pornography generally referring to sexually explicit materials is not a Legal term. Unless something it found to be obscene it is protected by free speech guarantees. The supreme court since 1973 has defined obscenity As a work that appeals to a morbid interest in sex has patently offensive depictions or descriptions of sexual conduct and on the whole has no serious literary artistic political or scientific value. The Runton ordinance which regulates pornographic movies not judged to be obscene was challenged As Violat ing free speech  High court rejected that argument. In other decisions tuesday the court ruled in a California Case that states May not Force privately owned businesses to include with customers Bills information from consumer groups and other organizations. Gave police officers greater latitude to search Auto mobiles. It ruled 5-4, that police without court warrants May reach into or even enter a car to Check its identification number and once inside May seize any criminal evidence they see. Ruled 8-1 in a Case from West Virginia that the simultaneous appearance Kcf ii Rand jury of two government witnesses is not Ai grounds for dismissing criminal charges. Heard arguments in a pair of cases one from Cleve land and the other from new York and new Jersey that could affect the future of affirmative action in the Ameri can workplace. Incentives push Domestic car sales United denies for mid february to 13-year High Detroit a a buyers Rush to meet sales incentive deadlines pushed mid february Domestic Auto sales to 11 percent above last year s rate Detroit s Best show ing for the period in 13 years. There was a surge with people running out to take advantage of incentives Auto motive Industry analyst Michael Luckey of Scarson Lehman Bros. Inc. In new Yor said tuesday after the car makers released their sales reports for feb. 11-20. General motors corp., whose 7.7 percent loan financing offers expired feb. 22, enjoyed the biggest year to year sales gain an i8.s percent increase compared with a mediocre showing in the same period a year ago. Pm brought Back its incentive program this week with no expiration Date but at a 9.9 percent rate on most of the cars an indication that pm believes the . Econ omy will pick up and that new cars can be sold with less bait. Ford motor co. Sales were up 5.7 per cent. No. 3 Chrysler corp., which had an unusually High sales rate a year ago suffered a 13,9 percent decline. Just above at rage Ford s Market share was a Shade above average at 25.3 percent and its dealers generally have neither shortages nor Back logs of cars. That and pm s decision notto offer More attractive interest rates less ens the pressure on Ford to begin a Large incentive Campaign Luckey said. Pm s Market share was 58.3 percent and Chrysler 12.1 percent. It s hard to argue that pm is offering an attractive rate Luckey said. Ford May sit Back for a  Chrysler s 8.6 percent interest program on most cars expires feb. 28. Among the smaller producers Ameri can Honda motor co. Inc., the nation s no. 4 car maker reported a 60.9 percent Caf to year increase of Ohio made Accord compact cars in the feb. 11-20 period with 3,993 sales. Nissan motor corp. Usa sales of 2,897 Tennessee built Sinira subcompact put the company behind Honda in sales for the period. Nissan started car production 10 Auto 85 sates sales leaders rank 84 sates rank 83 sales rank Cavalier 431,031 1 377.s45 259,397 escort 420,690 353,578 326.333 celebrity 363.619 3 322.189. 3 180,627 10 Ciera 333,585 242,209 191,720 9 Tempo w-g8l,i44 256.532 8 136.148 Accord 269,071 256,648 222,137 Caprice j-v&g4s.826 258,902 .238.930 Century 234,508 6 217,042 10 150,280 sentry 224,815 193.062 Cutlass 217,504 10 302,087 331.179 Chicago Tribune graphic source Industry sales statistics there last March. American motors corp. Sales of Domestic cars were Down 28.6 percent for the period and Volkswagen of America sales were Down 6.3 percent. For the period the Domestic car makers sold 253,906 cars 11 percent better than228,761 a year ago. There were nine official Selling Days so the sales per Day for the period came to28,212, the Best since 34,099 in the Indus try Boom year of 1973. Pilots charge of added risk Chicago a leaders of the air line pilots Union said tuesday that United airlines is jeopardizing flight safety by observing Only minimum standards. A Resolution expressing no Confidence in United s management was adopted Fri Day by the United airlines master executive Council of the air line pilots association and announced tuesday by Roger Hall the Council s chairman. Mel Volz United s vice president for flight safety and Industry affairs said the airline s record has been  during 1985 there was not a single Inci Dent serious enough to be classified As an Accident by the National transportation safety Board Volz said. The pilots statement is so vague it i difficult to figure out what they re talking about United spokesman Chuck Nova said. Management is steadfast in its commitment to the highest level of  officials of United participate on a joint safety committee with Union representatives and would be willing to discuss pilots complaints Novak said. Hall said of the Resolution this unprecedented action was brought about by the pilots concern Over the reduced standards of safety since the airlines were deregulated in 1978. United airlines historically a Leader in air safety apparently has now adopted a policy of merely meeting the minimum standards As set by the Federal aviation administration  John Leroy a Union spokesman who has been a United Pilot for 20 years said we be now got the $99 fare from coast to coast. You can t have that and the level of safety we used to have. The flying Public does t know  Leroy said deregulation created a level of airline Competition that encouraged management to Cut costs everywhere right Down to the Legal  but the Legal minimum won t provide the level of safety people expect and de serve he said. Fellowships Grants linked to status of College Loans Washington a the National endowment for the humanities announced tuesday that it will not award any Grants or fellowships to applicants who Are delinquent in repaying government backed College Loans. John Agresto the acting chairman of the endowment said it will require applicants to declare their loan status when they apply for Grants and fellowships and will seek the education department s help in identifying delinquents. Fairness to other applicants honesty in scholarship and respect for the american taxpayers who pay for these awards require hat we be exceedingly careful with the funds entrusted to this Agency Agresto said. We also Hope this measure will encourage people to get Back on track and satisfy the loan obligations they have  the endowment is an Independent Federal Agency established in 1965. It uses its current $138.6 million budget to underwrite a variety of research scholarship education and Public programs in the humanities with government funds. Education Secretary William Bennett said in August that he had asked the internal Revenue service to with hold 1985 income tax refunds from 1 million loan delinquents and served notice on an additional 1 million defaulters that they would lose their refunds if they did t pay. At the same time Bennett predicted that government payments on defaulted student Loans would jump from $749 million to $1.08 billion in the fiscal year that ended last sept. 30. He said an education department study indicated that the default rate on guaranteed student Loans would Rise from 10.7 percent to 11.7 percent in fiscal 1985, and would increase to 13.6 percent by 1990