European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 mom on strike against fac swans respect Indianapolis up a Mother of seven has declared a strike against her three youngest children demanding better working conditions and some re Spect in a Domestic labor dispute that threatened to disrupt the family s holi Days. I m ready to sit Oul the rest of the year Michael Dunlap 4s, said Mon Day. It s going to be hard fought. The kids think i m kidding but i Haven t done any Christmas shopping. If they Wake up Christmas morning without presents it will be their fault she said. Dunlap walked off the Job sunday putting a sign in her front Yard that reads Mother on strike until con tract is  her contract proposal demands her three youngest children Ages 9, 11 and14, pick up after themselves and treat their Mother with respect. I can t stand the Way they talk to me she said. They Tell me what Todo. Their Lone of voice is like they re talking to some other kid. I worked full time until september and quit to slay Home and do things i want to do she said. Instead eight hours a Day i m picking up after the  her husband William an executive with an electrical company decided to stand Clear and slay out of it Dun Lap said. Dunlap s 17-year-old daughter and three adult children who live outside the Home were nol included in the strike. Actor o Neal s son on trial in boating death Ammal if 1c \.1a Sitt la .1 _. To   a iffy  my. Up actor Ryan o Neal s son monday went on rial for manslaughter in the boating death of movie director Francis Ford Coppo la s son and the defense attorney admitted o Neal lied about the tragedy. Attorney t. Joseph Touhey told a judge that Griffin o Neal 21, lied when he denied driving the boat in which Gian Carlo Coppola 23, was killed May 26. Touhey said o Neal lied because he was totally emotionally distraught following the Accident on Chesapeake Bay. Coppola suffered fatal head injuries when the a boat struck a Tow line stretched Between two other boats. But Touhey said o Neal was not drunk at the Tim of the Accident although he and Coppola had consumed a six pack of Beer and two shots of tequila Between them during the five hours before the mishap. Touhey said autopsy reports showing Coppola s blood alcohol level at .15 percent revealed he had drunk four or five Beers leaving o Neal with one or two Beers and a tequila. Every police officer who talked to him o Neal said they did t think he had been drinking Touhey said. O Neal who suffered a minor shoulder injury in the Accident was not tested for alcohol because he initially claimed he was not operating the boat if convicted o Neal faces five years in prison arid a $1,000 Fine. Ryan o Neal sat behind his son during the first Day of the manslaughter trial in Anne Arundel county Cir Cuit  younger o Neal who is also an actor waived his right to a jury trial. Clean Cut and Clad in a conservative Blue suit o Neal Hung his head during videotaped testimony from Coppola s pregnant Girlfriend Jacqueline de la Fontaine who is expected to deliver Coppola s baby later this month. De Lafontaine 20, who was with the two men on the boat until about 15 minutes before the Accident said o Neal started driving the boat really crazy he was going really fast. Playing games and being wild.,. I was scared that All of us were going to get killed. The soft spoken woman who cried during Tes Limo Ryan o Neal and son Griffin leave the courthouse for a recess in Griffin o Neal s Nuu Laubler trial. By taped in California also said she was shocked thai o Neal denied driving the  blamed the dental on  it was a gruesome scene. He absolutely goes into state of Shock and hysteria the defense lawyer said. Perhaps had he acknowledged at inc time that he was driving the boat things might have turned out differ  Neal was indicted in july on charges of boat Man Slaughter and five counts of reckless and negligent boat operation following an eight Wick investigation into the death of  Accident happened on the South River near Annapolis when a boat allegedly driven by o Neal Cut Between two other boats and hit a Tow line slamming Coppola to the  and o Neal had taken a break from the filming of gardens of Stone which was being directed by the elder Coppola in the area and rented a boat from a Marina. Anti Santa Claus priest takes leave of absence Woodbridge . A roman Catholic priest who told school children that Santa Claus is dead has taken a temporary leave of absence and a Church spokesman said monday that officials Hope the controversy will go away the Rev. Romano Funaro s leave of absence was disclosed sunday during a mass by the Rev. Francis Sergei pastor of St. John Vianney s Church. Sergei also repeated an apology to parishioners and took responsibility for Fer Raro s comments. On monday officials at the diocese of Metuchen declined to answer questions about the matter. We re not making any comment and hoping this whole thing Dies Down said William Carr a diocesan spokesman. The controversy began dec. 6 when Genaro told students in the first through six grades that neither Santa Claus nor Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer existed. Some parents criticized the priest for killing off Santa but other parishioners and fellow clergymen said that Ferraro probably had been misunderstood and was trying to get the children to focus on he spirituality rather than inc commercialism of Christmas. On sunday Sergei told parishioners that Ferraro had been granted a Tempo Rary leave of absence for reasons that arc both personal and  he declined to elaborate but said thai Ferraro had been victimized by our unconscionable  Ferraro has said nothing publicly about the incident. In Southern new Jersey meanwhile two priests in Burlington county said they have bought sweatshirts Reading i believe in Santa Claus to assure parishioners that there won t be any talk of St. Nick s demise in their Church. We just wanted to show parents that we would t say anything against Santa Claus in our mass said the Rev. Gregory Vaughn administrator of the Church who along with the Rev Joseph Connolly wore the shirts to mais on sunday at St. Charles Borromeo Church. Vaughn said that he lakes the Maiter of Santa Claus existence very seriously. My first Grade teacher told me there was no Santa Claus said Vaughn Wilold my 4-Ycar-old brother about it. And i remember my parents getting very upset. And i was upset  topless women not indecent . Judge rules i  j i.-,. .,.,�, an Mirrl in Challenge the slate Law in , new York of a City judge do cite court judge Herman j. Walz ruled monday topless is unconstitutional. The state Law is nol discriminatory on the basis of sex because Community standards have determined women s breasts to bean intimate part of the body he ruled. The decision apparently Means women can Lake their shirts off to protest state Law but not simply to sunbathe or Cool off in the summer Sun. The june 21 protest was the first Lime the state s nudity Law was challenged on the ground of sex discrimination. The seven women said they wanted to be arrested to Challenge the stat i court. Men were barred from going shirtless in Public until the Taw was changed in 1936 after 42 men were arrested for going topless on a Beach. One of the defendants Mary Lou Schloss said thai the women May have clouded the key Issue of the constitutionality of the nudity Law by including the Freedom of speech defense As ground Tor dismissal. She feared that unless prosecutors appealed the Issue of sex discrimination could nol be argued at a higher court