European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday Juno 10, 1986 handicapped infants ruled not subject to Federal authority Washington a the Federal government has no Legal aug Harily to investigate and help regulate health care Tor babies with severe birth defects the supreme court ruled monday. By ii so Vole the court handed the Rea Gan administration a Ley defeat by ruling thai Federal regulators have no role to play in so called baby Doe cases the justices said a 1473 Law Banning discrimination handicapped people cannot be applied to such cases. The decision sparked in part by highly publicized cases in Bloomington Brut and Long Island in new York signals an end to Reagan administration efforts to pressure hospitals and doctors nationwide 10 provide supreme court Roundup medical care to Neilend the live.1 of de Farmed or gravely ill infants. Nat affected arc stale Laws thai already regulate the decisions that doctors and parents make about treating such infants. Justice department lawyers had urged the court to Rule that the rehabilitation act of 1973 gives Federal regulators the Power to make sure no Hospital receiving Federal Money denies nourishment or medical treat ment to a child solely because of its Handi but lawyers for the american Hospital association and the american medical association said Congress never intended the Law la Grant Federal authority in an area traditionally regulated by the Stales. On monday the supreme court agreed with two lower courts and ruled that the Reagan administration was Reading the 1973 Law wrong. I not her cases monday the court ruled thai Federal courts have Broad auth oily to review the government s meth ods for determining medicare reimburse ment Rales. The 8-0 decision upheld a lower court decision that the Federal department of health and human services must give fam ily doctors in Michigan equal treatment with specialists in setting medicare Rales. Agreed to study whether stale and local governments May regulate High stakes Bingo games and other gambling operations on Indian reservations. The court snid it will review rulings thai barred stale and county officials from prohibiting such activities on two reservations in Riverside county Calif. Refused to Force Cable television opera tors to carry All local to signals on their systems. The justices without comment let stand a ruling that struck Down As unconstitutional the Federal communications com Mission s so called Musl carry rules. Refused to let ekr Palillo county n.m., continue to use a county Seal found to be Loo religious. The court without comment let stand a ruling that the seat which features a Cross and a Spanish motto thai translates into English As with this we overcome Vio lates the constitutionally required separa Tion of Church and stale. Ruled that criminal defendants must be allowed to Challenge the credibility at their own confessions by introducing Evi Dence before the jury about the Circum stances of police questioning. In a 9-0 ruling the court ordered further hearings for major Crane who Wai sen fenced to 40 years in prison for murdering a Louisville ky., liquor store clerk. It stopped Short of throwing out Crane s conviction agreed to decide whether a condemned Florida murderer is entitled to a hearing on his claim thai the slate s death Penally Law is applied in a racially biased Way. The court s review of James Ernest Hitchcock s Case could if the justices choose to do so. Lead to a ruling on whether unconstitutional racial discrimination can be proved by statistics showing that killers of White persons draw death sentences More frequently than killers of Black persons. Appolo photo is of a Section of Cinalt Enfin i solid foe Rocker blaster from inside it Arrow shows Hole Watrt Ike flame May Hare burned through the casing from the Oul Sidt. Chief of Nasa pledges to overcome our errors Washington a Nasa administrator James Fletcher said monday he would consider the recommendations of the Rogers commission with an open mind and without reservations,1 and he pledged to Force changes that would allow the Agency to overcome our errors not to quit to Stop or to Cave he said the commission s criticism of Nasa was not unexpected and certainly not entirely in a statement prepared for the opening of a news conference Fletcher said where management it weak we will strengthen it. Where Engi Cring or design or processes need improving we will improve them. Where our internal communications Are poor we will Sec thai they get the recovery will be done. Fletcher said in a More restrictive atmosphere than we have become accustomed to. Like other departments and agencies of govern men we will work under the severe budget limitations and restrictions of oar Lime. Bui we cannot and will not sacrifice safety concerns to budget ," he said the apace Agency welcomes the commission report on the Jan 28 chalking or Accident a document critical of Nasa for delegating safety to a secondary concern. It was obviously Lime for a serious thoughtful constructive View of the Agency Flelcher said. We have been the object of America s respect for a Long time we cannot Lake this respect for granted in today s environment i he pledged to make this Agency As i Brani and careful As it can be to help it earn the respect in deserves and the Excel Lence that has been its legislation would ban All tobacco ads Washington a arguing that nearly a thousand people die each Day of causes related to cigarette smoking seven congressmen introduced legislation monday to Hart All advertising and promotion of to Bacco. Rep Mike Synar d-olda., told a news conference the Bill follows naturally upon earlier acts by Congress to ban radio and television ads to put warning labels on to Bacco products and print advertising and to impose excise taxes on cigars cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The Bill would prohibit All forms of to Bacco promotion including newspaper and Magazine advertisements billboards Post ers and even matchbook covers. It also would ban sponsorship of athletic or artistic events by Brand tobacco products. Synar said the proposed ban would not violate constitutional right to free speech. The right to commercial free speech is Noi absolute Synar Laid. Congress has the authority to limit commercial speech when a substantial government interest u involved one could hardly imagine an Issue of greater government concern than the loss of 330,000 lives annually from a single product Synar added. But tobacco Institute spokesman Scott Stapf called the Bill blatantly unconstitutional and charged its introduction appeared to be limed to impress an american medical association convention opening next week. The Ama hoi called for such legislation. Joining Synar in introducing the Bill were reps. Mike Lowry a Wuh. A Swift a Wash. Jim Hansen a Utah Samuel so ration . Gerry Studds a mass. And Chester Atkins. A mass. Reagan Hussein reach no agreement Washington up1 president Reagan and King Hussein of Jordan held talks monday on Middle East Security and stability but they came to no agreement on a new course of action 10 reactivate the moribund peace process. A senior administration official said Hus Kin of an unofficial visit to the United states offered a number of suggestions on How the process might be advanced but indicated Reagan was noncommittal in his response. The Way it was left a we would study these and be in very close touch with he King the official said. What emerged from the hour of talk a private meeting in the Oval office followed by an i Panda discussion with aides was a consensus that toe United Suta should re main Active in Trie Middle East. I think we share the King s appreciation that we be got a major rde to play that if there is a Drift without the peace process thai Drift in in lie negative direction and it s in the direction of War he official said. During a photo session in the Oval office Reagan waved off questions of whether be would renew a stymied bid to sell arms to Jordan. That Issue Wai raised Only briefly and in a very general sense the official said. Hussein taking his Cue from Reagan declined to answer questions about his at tempt to mediate belter relations Between Syria and Iraq. The meeting was Ine first Between the two leaders since the february collapse of a yearlong Effort by Hussein to develop a joint framework with Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat for peace talks with Israel. Rites planned for a victim of Berlin blast Ellerbe . A services will held saturday for the Mccond. Us. Soldier to die from the april 5 bombing of a Wett Berlin do Lotita gestalt sgt. Jama e. Coin 26, of Ellerbe died in a Berlin Hospital sat urday afternoon the third victim of the bombing which los. Oft Tab. Have blamed on Libya. Survivor include his wife and s year old tors. A spokeswoman for a funeral Bott in Eji Erbe Aid coins body was to be Down to Greensboro monday and lira taken to his Hometown. She raid Fune ral arrangements were incomplete sgt. Kenneth Terrance Ford 21, of Detroit and Pennine Hanay 27, a turkish woman were killed in Sianily in the bombing of the la Belle discotheque and 230 people were injured. The nightspot was pop ular with us. Soldiers. Coins belonged la the 4lh in of the 50znd inf regt of he Berlin brigade
