European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 8, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Rehnquist memo Sparks controversy supported segregation in schools in 1970 by the Washington Posi Washington chief Justice designate William h. Rich Nuisl in a 1970 memorandum to the Ninon White House advocated a constitutional amendment thai would have allowed continued segregation in school districts through he use of Freedom of Choice plans and neighbourhood  in response to a while House request Rehnquist wrote he March 9. 1970, memorandum while serving As assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice department s office of Legal counsel. It came As the Nixon administration was voicing opposition to court ordered school busing which was heating up As a National Issue and when the court ii had struck Down Sev eral Freedom of Choice plans for Southern school districts As unconstitutional. In the eight Page memo Rich Nuisl described How a constitutional amendment could eliminate the Federal Judt Cihiy s oversight of school integration that began after the supreme court s landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of education. Although the use of neighbourhood boundaries for school districts in Northern states amounted to de Facto  Rehnquist said in the memo it would be sound policy to include neighbourhood schools in the amendment because of a Large body of Public support for the idea of neighbourhood schools free from supervision by he Federal  Rehnquist enclosed a draft of the proposed Amend ment. It said that no provision of the Constitution shall be construed to prohibit the United states or any slate or any subdivision of either from transferring students or drawing school boundaries reasonably re lated to school capacity availability of transportation availability of curriculum safety or other similar con  Rehnquist drafted he memo called constitutional amendment to validate Freedom of Choice and neighbourhood schools in response to a request from Hail Krogh jr., then Deputy assistant for Domestic affairs to president Nixon. A copy of the memo was obtained by opponents of Rehnquist s nomination Tobe chief Justice and made available saturday. Justice department spokesman Terry h. Easel Andraid saturday that the memo was consistent wild Rehnquist s 15-year record As a supreme court Justice and that it addresses what someone in he while House  no amendment along the lines de scribed in the memo was proposed. William l. Taylor president of the leadership con Ference on civil rights called the memo a straight out pro segregation proposal explicitly designed to legitimate deliberate racial segregation. If this constitutional amendment had gone into effect it would have stopped desegregation in its tracks North and  Taylor said that in 1970 Freedom of Choice allow ing parents to Send children to schools of their Choice was the primary technique by which Southern Stales maintained segregated Public school systems. He called the memo As graphic an example of Rehnquist s extremism As we have. It demonstrates his Basic opposition to the 14th amendment which guarantees All citizens equal Protection under he Law. Sen. Edward Mkennedy. D-mass., a leading oppo nent of Rich Nuisl plans to use the memo when the Senate begins debate this week on his nomination and hat of appeals court judge Antonin Scalia to Talce Rehnquist s scat on the supreme court a spokesman Laid. Eastland. Responding to a description of the memo said that this memo really does t Tell us anything new or startling. Anyone who s aware of Justice Rochn quist s opinions As a Justice knows what he has though for is years about remedies for the wrong of discrimination in the  Eastland said civil rights groups arc trying to dredge up an old Bailie and hat i Don t think Rochn quist is trying to say. Thai you can discriminate by race under the 14th  parisian landmark resurrected in new Orleans new Orleans a for 44 years it served such celebrities As Degaulle Bardot Picasso Chaplin and Chevalier As they dined 562 feel Over the Champ de Mars in Paris. Five years and 11,000 pieces later be restaurant de la tour Eiffel is Ris ing above the Oaks that line fashionable St. Charles Avenue in new or leans. Alter ail if you can Pluck London Bridge from the thames and Plant Stover a Lake in Arizona Why not transport the famous Paris restaurant 10 an Ameri can City with ancestry that is solidly French if you re going to do something Tike that you Haa better make sure you can gel some mileage out of it says John Onorio 37, a new Orleans Hotelier and partner in the project. We Don t have to Lake people on Atwo hour bus ride from the nearest town. They re already Here and there Are lots of other things to do he said. Thai s one of the attractions that persuaded new Orleans businessman Mcdonald Stephens to acquire the famous restaurant for his four daughter sin 1983. However Stephens died in 1984, and it has taken Onorio and Daniel Bonnot a chef from Ango ulema France two years to raise enough Money to consummate the project. In the meantime the pieces remained in a 40-foot cargo Container in a new Orleans warehouse. Only some Concrete pilings slaked the restaurant s claim to Dew tame along the Streetcar line that traverses the Swank Garden District ave nue. Now those pilings support huge laser Cut steel buttresses that Rise 88fett to Frame an octagonal Glass dome encasing the original restaurant. A 100-foot ramp rises from curbside to meet it. The architect Steven tingler said the superstructure recalls the Graceful Geo Metry of the Eiffel Tower without trying to imitate  our design does t add anything to the restaurant s Structure nor does it in Sert anything into the restaurant to said. Gustave Eiffel designed and built the 984-foot Eiffel Tower As the can Ler piece of the 18s9 Paris exposition. It is said that he envisioned a world class restaurant on he second level of the Tower to attract visitors when the fair was Over. When the restaurant finally was built in 1937, 14 years after Eiffel s death it began a new chapter in the Tower s history. Over he Yean Heads of slate celebrities and thousands of tourists have dined within its mahogany and Glass Walls. The Romance of the place was said to be so powerful that it brought one Cou Leback every year for 30 years to celebrate their engagement there same night same table same meal. In 1981, engineers noticed that the be restaurant a la tour Eiffel is expected la open this month in new Orleans Tower was starting to Sag under the weight of the restaurant and other Small structures that had been added on. So Paris businessman George Lance Lin acquired the restaurant and engaged its original decorator Jean Rothschild to oversee the task of Dis mantling it Labelling the parts and packing them. Because of the name tour Eiffel Lansclin was forbidden from reconstructing it elsewhere in the City so resold it to a new York investor who shipped it to the United Stales. Eventually it was Shipp cd to new or leans. The result was a three year $3.5million project. Everything from the original steel pan Els 10 the nuts and bolls has been re assembled inside the Glass dome. Bon not 40, said the mahogany and Glass willbe new but faithful to the restaurant s original  the original part and the new Section surrounding it wit seat about 230 people at 82 tables he said. The restaurant s fare will be French provincial the kind of food the great French chefs prepare for themselves when they go Home from work Onorio said. The restaurant s opening is scheduled for the Middle of this month he said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 8, 1946 the worst shipping strike in . History has paralysed suppl lines to american troops overseas the War department said in Washington. 30 years ago today. Sept. A 19ifi supreme court jus lice Sherman minion announced his retirement effective oct. 15, because of poor health. 20 years ago today. Sept. 8, 1966 Margaret Sanger a world recognized Leader in birth control since 1915, died in a Tucson ariz., nun ing Home. She was 82, 10 years ago today. Sept. 8, 1976 the White House said the soviet Pilot who flew a Mig-25 tighter plane to Japan will be Given Asylum in the United states if he requests it