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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, August 16, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                ,. -., t jtf&3ipi�r, stripes d  announce drug enforcement  5 q Marty Glickman recalls 36 olympics Page 23 d South african court confuses Issue Page 28 the St ars an author izod u vol.45, no. 120 saturday. August 16, 1986 d 8693 a panel oks Rehnquist Scalia Washington up the Senate judiciary com Mittee gave president Reagan a double Victory in his efforts to remake the supreme court in his image thurs Day by approving William Rich Nuisl As chief Justice and Antonin Scalia to replace him As associate Justice. The committee approved  a 13 vote to be the nation s i6lh chief Justice despite opposition from democrats who said he was not candid about i racial views. The panel gave Scalia a Federal appeals court judge its unanimous approval. The nominations now go to the full Senate which is ., Vietnam discuss mias excavations Bangkok Thailand up a five member  Military team talked with government officials in Hanoi Friday about reports of live americans in Viet Nam and the Fate of nearly i boo  Servicemen listed As missing in action there. The meeting this week is pan of a series of four Day technical sessions Between vietnamese government officials and members of the joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory both based in Hawaii. Along with the Mia Issue and he reports of live american in Vietnam the group is also expected to discuss the joint recovery of  Servicemen s remains at warplane crash Sites. Eleven years Afler the War ended nearly 1,800  Servicemen Are listed As Mia in Vietnam and area Waters out of a Lota of 2,434 missing in the Region. All the mias Are presumed dead except one whose file is kept open symbolical Lyas a possible prisoner. . Intelligence officials say they have about 100 unresolved accounts of americans in Vietnam some As prisoners but others living freely. In july Richard Childress National Security coun cil director of asian affairs travelled to Hanoi and announced technical talks would be held in August and october vietnamese officials said these meetings would be especially  Childress reported. Car bomb blast Ktuk 20 in Beirut. Be tape a a by Edan packed with explosives Blewit next to Ullnee shop thurs Day devastating a  East Bei rut. Police said 20 Peop a killed and 100 were wounded. Al the Christian  Tot Lebanon radio nation quoted unit envied witness As saying they saw a Driver in in Flor moments a Bre it blew up police said they Cabo not confirm the Fol fun. The car Boom ring the fourth in the aficial in 18 Days set  buildings on firc eluding one owned a president am in Gem Ayers farm police said rescuers used ladders to evacuate if Trapp Ejoy the flames in the Gemayel seven Sii. Member of the president s family lived in the Ding police said. Set to vote on the nominees sept. 8. The two Are expected to be confirmed. The dual Voles came after a morning of subdued debate Over he conservative Legal scholars Nomi nations critics fear will help Reagan reshape the ideological makeup of the nation s highest court Well into the 21st Century. Five democrats opposed Rehnquist. 61, who has been a supreme court Justice since 1971, on grounds he was not candid before the committee and was an extremist on racial and women s issues. During four Days of testimony critics charged thai Rich Nuisl had harassed and intimidated Black voters in Phoenix ariz., that he was less than candid Aboul memo he wrote supporting racial segregation at a Law clerk and that he was insensitive to minority and women s rights. Rehnquist has denied the charges and said he did not know two Homes he owned two Homes had deed prohibiting their Sale to Blacks or jews. The record of or. Rej Nuisl in these hearings con see panel Oki on Page 28 Sis Hurto by Tracy Btl Ivr Ruth Owens widow of olympic area jes\pwenfln9e the Mil tonal bottle of Champagne to Christen pin am Jet named in Honor of her late Hub Nir ii ceremony thursday in Berlin. Widow Honor by Dan Wol staff i Berlin fifty years pfc a 22-year-old poor Black Man from Alaba Mavon one of the first ideological victories Over Adolf Hitler but Jesse Owens was t out to a Point when he won four Gold medals Duom the 1936 olympics in Miller s Lown in his presence. Ruth Owens jews wife said Jesse just came to run. F she is in Bem accompanied by some of the men who Folly jul in her husband s tracks As win ners of the mfr Pic 100-meter run earning them the right 10 dubbed the world s fastest men. They can Flo Honor Jesse Harrison Dillard who took the gab medal in the 1948 olympics Lindy Remigino ii952 Bobby Morrow 1956 Armin Hary the be Jan who won in i960 Bob Hayes 1964 and Halca Crawford from Trinidad who won in 1976. Pm Lewis the Man who equated Owens pc for Maddt by winning four Gold medals in the 1984 olympics arrived in Berlin late thursday to com Pete in a track meet held in the same stadium in which Owens won his medals the same place where he was reportedly snubbed by Hitler. Pc athletes ens in Berlin St never talked about that too much his widow Taid. There was a lot of talk Aboul it from other Pewe. He Cam to run and run he did. He did t come Here to Sha Hancu with  the Stori about Hitler s snubbing Owens Wren l necessarily Iru Many accounts of the incident say Hitler was and and by the president of the International olympic a Milieu not to congratulate any of  38 germans. Owens greatest sub May have been the one he received in America our resuming from the olym pics. He is quoted Askving when i came Back Afler All the stories Abt Hitler and his snub i came Back to my native entry and i could t ride in the front of the  he became a Side show atm Tion. He once raced a horse in Cuba and he poured Khz the Harlem Globe Trotters. He had trouble  and supporting his wife and two children. It a decades after the olympics before Owens overcame to obstacles of his color and was Able to provide a consumable life for his family. He died in 1980 of lung Ancen but Ruth Owens a soft spoken tenant woman. See Owens % Page 28 study Tifa bottigifjei3u, r  i of .,.a i iks . 1- .-1. ---1  
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