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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday May 6, 1986 Cleveland to get Rock and Roll Hall of Fame new Vork a Cleveland was named Mon Day As Hie hum s Filic Rock and Hull Iliili of Fame beating uni Philadelphia ind Chicago through the tenacity of its Nick hippy populace. We h ivc been swayed by the incredible Community enthusiasm thai his come up in Cleveland record Industry executive Ahmet Lirl gun chairman of the Rook and Roll i Hill of Fame foundation said in announcing the selection. Ertegun appeared at a news conference with Ohio gov. Richard Celeste Cleveland mayor George Voino . Miry Rose Oak Rand other Ohio officials. Ertegun said the foundation s Board of directors rejected applications front cities that included Memphis Tenn. Nashville  new Orleans and san Francis co finally voting among three finalists Cleveland Phil Adelphia and Chicago. Ben Needell a member of the found Ilion  of. Directors said the decision was essentially unanimous. Newdell estimated that the museum would Cost about j20 million with the Muncy 10 come from Ftika Vejl slate Anil local contribution and private fund missing. Celeste said the slate would Contr Bulc s4 million and Dakar Tail she Cape Clad the Federal government to contribute up to 15 million Mike Benz executive vice president of the greater Cleveland growth association estimated that the museum would bring 200 to 300 jobs and approximately $25 million annually into the Cleveland Economy Eric gun and other Board members said Cleveland based its bid on the City s Rock v Roll history. Cleveland officials claim that the term  was coined by the Laic Cleveland disc jockey Alan freed whom they also credit with promoting Trie first Ruck concert on March 21,1952,. However. Ertegun said there s a sense in which Rock v Roll really belongs to All of America. It docs l belong to one City that s Why making a Choice was so.  Cleveland was chosen mainly because of the persistence of its civic leaders and the enthusiasm of its residents he said More than 600,000 people signed n petition last year in support of bringing the Rock and rail Hill of Fame to Cleveland and Cleveland residents swamped Tele phone lines in january when the newspaper Usa today conducted a Reader opinion poll on where the museum should be located. Trials Given right to bar jurors opposing death penalty Washington up the supreme court Deal ing a major blow to opponents of the death Penally ruled monday that it is fair to exclude ardent opponents of capital punishment from juries in capital trials. The Justice on a 6-3 vote reversed a ruling by the 3th . Circuit court of appeals which said last year that the exclusion of jurors who hold absolute scruples against Tho death penalty violates a defendant s right to a trial by an impartial jury. Writing for the majority Justice William Rehnquist said the Constitution docs not prohibit i lie Stales from death qualifying juries in capita cases it is simply not possible to define jury impartiality for constitutional purposes by reference to some hypothetical mix of individual viewpoints he mole. The Constitution presupposes that a jury selected from a fair Cross Section of the Community is impartial regardless of the mix of individual viewpoints actually represented on the jury the  not Only Arkansas but also 33 of the 37 Stales which allow capital punishment and require the jury either to set the sentence or recommend a sentence to the judge. In those states citizens who say they could not Vole for the death Penally under any circumstance routinely Are stricken from the juror Pool because the same jury thai determines guilt or innocence also sets the sentence and the jurors Mutt be unanimous before a death sentence can be imposed. The process is known As death qua Ifica  numerous studies have shown that people who support the death penalty arc More Apt to convict suspected Crimi supreme court Roundup nals while those who oppose the death penalty Are More Al to acquit them. But the court said that even if he studies Are valid it is necessary to keep off juries those citizens who say their attitudes toward the death Penally might affect their impartiality. In other actions monday before beginning a two week recess the justices agreed to decide the constitutionality of a Louisiana Law that forces Public school teachers to give equal time to the leaching of creation science As Well As evolution rejected an Appeal from accused serial murderer Theodore Bundy sentenced to death for strangling two Florida sorority Sisters in 1978. Bundy 39, is suspected in dozens of murders committed Between 1974 and 1978. Said the Kerr my acc corp. Must stand trial again to determine punitive damages in the Case of Karen silk Wood who died in a cat Accident in 1974 after com Plain ing about inadequate safety at its Oklahoma nuclear i i Plant. Ruled the constitutional ban against double jeopardy docs not apply in the Case of Patrick and Michael Poland who were sentenced to death in two separate court hear Ings for murders committed during the robbery of a Puro Laior truck in Arizona the death penalty ruling reinstates a life sentence for Ardia Mccree of car Den ark., who was convicted of the Valentine s Day slaying of Evelyn Boughton 54, during the 1978 robbery of the gift shop she operated Mccree had argued that even though lie was sentenced to life his pro death penalty jury was biased toward convicting him. Service jobs expected to be fastest growing new York a virtually All . Job growth in the rest of the 20lh Century will be in services with the instability of american families creating millions of new jobs that Haven t been for Mally categorized the conference Board says. The less stable family is contracting out what was traditionally done at Home said Audrey freed Man author of the study which was released Sun Day these changes Are creating new needs. Service jobs account Tor three quarters of All Amer ican jabs and should pick up jobs disappearing in manufacturing by the year 2000, the Survey said. The Survey predicted that manufacturing jobs Mil drop off about 3 per cent Between now and the year 2000. According to Freedman the biggest beneficiaries of the new trend will be those in people caring jobs such As Chad psychologists nurses social work ers teachers Protection jobs such As private Security guards receptionists building superintendents and cleaner upper jobs such As sanitation men and hotel cleaning Crews. Balloonist finish race in virtual dead heat Winner undetermined Palm Springs Calif. Up the annual Gordon Bennett balloon race has ended in what looks like a dead heat and organizers say it could take Days to figure out whether a japanese or a us Swiss entry was the Winner. Less than 24 hours after it began the Competition concluded in Utah sunday with "l.a. Times whose co Pilot was pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad and Benchana sponsored by a japanese restaurant Chain Landing safety some 510 Miles from the Start and about 200 Miles apart race officials said it could take sever Al Days to determine who drifted the farthest six brightly coloured helium balloons carrying pilots from Japan Germany Switzerland and the United Stales lifted off saturday morning the race is too close to Call race spokeswoman Frances Byrne said sunday Conrad who has flown in the last three races designed and sculpted the new Gordon Bennett trophy that will be presented to the winning team. "l.a. Times navigated by Regula hug Messner 68, a Swiss woman known As the first lady of ballooning landed about 4 . Sunday outside Raleigh Junction Utah. Benchana which set a race record in 1981 with a 47-hour. J,3-mlle flight to North Dakota set Down in mountains about 10 Miles North of Price Utah about 2 hours before Conrad and hug Messner landed. The japanese balloon was piloted by Jonathan pm and Ron Clark who holds the record far the longest balloon night. Nei ther Man was Hurt in the rough Landing. The six teams began the race about 9 30 . Saturday rising slowly above 10,000 spectators gathered in a Palm Springs Park. Winds were mild at Start ing time and the balloons hovered Over the desert town for two hours. The apparent third place balloon was the us entry jumping Jack Flash which handed in a sail Marsh near Windover Utah. Although the pilots vessel Sank the two team members were uninjured Byrne said. The United sales destiny and the spirit of so Louis a joint  entry landed in Nevada. Another is. Entry treasure,1 touched Dorti saturday afternoon in Baker Calif about 100 mild from Palm Springs. The cordon Bennett race is the world1 oldest International balloon Competition it started in Paris in 1906 when new York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett offered a prize to the balloon travelling farthest before sequins Down. The Competition was held in Europe far 26 years prior to world War ii. Races resumed in Long Beach in 1979, and Palm Springs has hosted the Competition since 1984  
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