European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday. November 11.1966 justices to review death penalty Law Washington a the supreme court hav ing outlawed mandatory death penalties for most Mur Ders monday agreed to consider making an exception for murders by prison inmates serving life terms with out Chance of parole. The supreme court dealing with a series of Law enforcement cases said it will deride whether Nevad a s mandatory death penalty Law for such crimes inflicts constitutionally impermissible cruel and unusual  lower Federal courts invalidated the Nevada Taw. The Case involved Raymond Wallace shaman convicted in 1958 of murdering Vernon Stuard in Yerington nev., and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. To 1973, still serving his life term Shum a douse fellow Nevada slate prison inmate Ruben Bejarno with lighter fluid and set him ablaze. Bejarno died three Days later from the bums he suffered. Shuman in 1975 was convicted of murder in Bejar no death and received a mandatory death sentence. The sentence was upheld by the Nevada supreme court but a Federal trial judge in 1983 ruled that the slate s mandatory death sentence Law is invalid. The 9lh . Circuit court of appeals agreed last june 12 that the Nevada death sentence statute was unconstitutional. In other Law enforcement rulings the court let stand a Michigan ruling that limits the Power of police to frisk Drunken driving suspect. The court rejected an Appeal by Michigan prosecutors seeking to reinstate a weapons charge against a Motorist who had been slopped on suspicion of Drunken driving. Refused to review an appellate court ruling that Florida police May have violated the rights of a hospitalized murder suspect by using an informant to ques Tion him. Agreed to decide whether slates May always disallow the criminal irial testimony of witnesses whose memory ii refreshed by hypnosis. Agreed to decide whether Montana parole officials May be sued by prison inmates contending they were unlawfully denied parole. By a 5-4 vote in 1977, the court struck Down Louisi Ana s mandatory doth sentence for the first degree murder of a police  the 1977 ruling noted we Reserve again the question whether or in what circumstances mandatory death sentence statute May be constitutionally applied to prisoners serving life  in that decision. Justices William a Brennan and Thurgood Marshall voted against capita punishment in All circumstances and justices Potter Stewart Lewis f. Powell and John Paul Stevens said mandatory sentences unfairly Block consideration of the particular crime and the offender s character and record chief Justice Warren e. Burger and justices Byron White Harry a. Blackmun and William h. Rehn quist voted to allow mandatory sentencing for police  and Burger Are no longer members of the court having been replaced by justices Sandra Day o Connor and Antonin Scalia. In other cases the High court let stand a j4.7 million judgment against Ortho pharmaceutical corp. For a claim thai birth defects were linked to the me of a contraceptive Jelly. The court refused to consider whether there was sufficient evidence that a child s birth defects were caused by Ortho Gyndol a vaginal  court also let stand a court ruling that us corp. Shortchanged some Marathon Oil co. Stockholder during its j3y75 million merger offer in 1982. The 2nd . Circuit court of appeals had ordered us to pay More than $83 million to Marathon stockholders who contended they were unfairly shortchanged by the tender offer. The court also agreed to review a decision to strip us citizenship from new Jersey Man accused of helping the nazis exterminate More than 2,000 jews in Lithuania during world War  court accepted the Appeal of Juozas Kungys a 70-year-old retired dental technician from Clifton nj., whose citizenship was stripped last june. Pasta meter a food utter to a sea special a torn i a lob City no. Tie i tag Fita a met to Check men Dzui Lvov web pasta Pron cts. Nasa says fess will show new Booster joint is Safe Cape canaveral a. Up Nasa officials Are confident tests will show the new design for the rocket boost or joint that doomed challenger is Safe but some engineers claim alternatives were never seriously considered a news paper says. David Winterhalter Nasa s chief of propulsion in Washington told the or Lando Sentinel in a report published Sun Day that an exhaustive review of design proposals from four other rocket manufacturers showed nothing to indicate there were any better designs out  the Sentinel reported some engineers believe alternate approaches were never seriously considered by engineers at Nasa s Marshall space flight Center i Huntsville ala., where the shuttle boost or program is managed. The National aeronautics and space administration Hopes to launch the firs Post challenger shuttle flight on feb. In 1988. An Engineer with Booster maker mor ton Thi Okol inc. Told the Sentinel the new Booster Field joint design is a sellout to making a february 1988launch. It was a Field joint rupture Jan. 28 that destroyed challenger. They go through the motions to say they considered other designs but they never planned to seriously consider any thing else said the Engineer who was not identified. What they have now is not the Best but John Thomas director of the redesign Effort at Marshall told the sen Tinel that extensive testing is expected to verify Safe operation of the new Field joint. In addition an Independent panel of experts has endorsed the new design. Challenger was destroyed when the Field joint Between the lower two of four solid fuel propellant segments in the shuttle s right Side Booster leaked allow ing a deadly Jet of Tome to shoo through with catastrophic results. The failure of the Adfield joint was blamed on a combination of factors including the amount the joint bulged open under ignition pressure and the failure of two rubber of ring seals to contain hot Gas and flame. To prevent another such Burn  Nasa has selected a new de sign Tor the Field joint that include a capture feature to lock me joint Mem Ben together thus reducing the amount the joint can bulge open an additional of eng Seal and improved insulation. It Uia aes Troyea Lauenger m to Kitiona h Onn 21% in poll say aids is god s punishment lbs Moines Iowa up one in cent were undecided five Lowans believes the disease aids is medical experts say aids is Schui Ajajj god s was of danish it homosexuals transmitted and is also contracted by y punishing and 25 percent think aids carriers should be quarantined according to a newspaper poll released sunday. About 17 percent of the Lowans surveyed fear they will contract aids and 16 percent said schoolchildren with aids should be locked out of Public schools the pcs Monics Register s copy right Iowa poll said. Asked if they believe aids is god s punishment against homosexuality 21 percent said yes. Of those who see aids As the Wrath of god 45 percent favor a quarantine for suspected canine. Overall. 2s percen favor the quarantine while 63 percent said the carriers should not be separated from the general population and 12 per Cen. Medica tax Safly transmitted y drug addicts Wing contaminated Needles with relatively few cases of contaminated blood transfusions but Lowans offered different views on that question 86 percent believe one can get aids from receiving a blood transfusion. 21 percent say transmission Kic be from donating blood. 18 percent consider there is peril of infection front being sneezed on by an aids victim. I percent believe the disease can be transmitted by the eating of food handled by aids , coordinator of the Iowa department of health s  the state received a $72,000 pc Deal Grant in april to educate the Public