European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday March 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Appold Tosies Tweeter in bar Tutu shows How Clever the i Junping rope Ullh owner denier Hilferty of Zahnter Gulf. The dog. Mixed Breed we Nusier of in Asmund Kyta am it Eft dog co Teit. House asked to consider impeaching Miami judge Washington a a panel of 21 Federal judges tuesday asked the House of representatives to consider impeaching . District judge Alyce Mast Ings of Miami for alleged judicial misconduct. The judicial conference Follic untied Stales a Boardo directors for the Federal courts believes Hastings has engaged i conduct which might constitute grounds Tor impeachment chief Justice William h. Rehnquist said j in a statement sent to House speaker Jim Wright Rehns Ull Heads the judicial conference. However the panel of judges made no move to suspend Hast Ings the Only Black Federal trial judge in Florida from presiding Over trials or carrying out other duties. James Macklin a spokesman for the judicial Confer ence said they could have imposed such a suspension but chose not to do so Hastings reached by Telephone in St. Louis where he was attending a National conference on Blacks an criminal Justice said he was not surprised by the panel s feel like in Many respects much of what happened today was predetermined when the complaint was file against me i am delighted that it s now out of the hand of those judges he said. I m very confident that 1 Wilt not be impeached and i will not be removed from office. The upshot is it s a very sad commentary thai Weare now hearing from the judiciary in it highest form that the system that All of us Are sworn to uphold do snot work.1 a Federal jury acquitted Hastings of a bribery charge in 1983 after a fiend Washington lawyer William Hasting Borders was convicted in a separate trial of soliciting a$150.000 bribe in return for promised official favors from conference s recommendation Likely will be taken up by a special com litre and then by Itic mouse judiciary committee before any vote by the full House could be the House votes 10 impeach Hastings he will stand trial in the judicial conference concurs in inc denomination of the judicial Council of the 1 Ith circuit that consideration of impeachment May be Rich Nuisl s statement to Wright told reporters that the panel of judges could have recommended impeachment rather than consideration of impeachment Federal Law would not prevent inc conference fro doing such Macklin said. He added that inc Confer ence chose not to go beyond language used in the re a Cal impeachment of Harry Claiborne a Federal judge from had been convicted of income tax evasion before his impeachment and ensuing Senate trial which ended in conviction. Macklin said the recommendation was made without dissent but that two judges . District judge Jame l. King of Miami and , District judge Frank a. Kauf Man it Ballimore did not Vole. He said Kaufman had presided Over a trial thai involved an aspect of Hastings Case. Soon alter Hastings acquittal two of his fellow judges in the ill circuit court filed a complaint charging that he had obstructed Justice and had lied under oath. An investigating panel of i Ith circuit court judge compiled a 381-Page report thai recommended Hast Ings be impeached. The judicial conference based it recommendation to inc House on Hal report but re fused to make it Public. 6,000 would be columnists seeking Landers Job Chicago a so you think it s going to be any succeeding Ann Landers think again. For one thing at lean other interested parties beat the deadline in a contest the Chicago Sun times launched to replace the advice columnist Sun time spokesman Michael soil said tuesday. For another most people probably Don t realize the column demands 10 and 12-hour Days often seven Days a week said Eppie Lederer better know by her pen name Ann Landers her move to the rival Chicago Tribune sparked the Sun times Hunt for successor. Lederer replaced the original Ann Landers and settled in at the Sun times after winning an in House contest 31 years ago. She has since become one of the world s most widely read columnists published in More than 1,100 newspapers with 85 million Reader daily. Her move to the Tribune will unite her with her win sister Pauline Phillips who writes the dear Abby advice column under the name Abigail Vanburch. If writing that kind of column looks easy Ledere says it s not. You have to be Able to Call the top authorities in a Hijacker kills self on Peak mount Wilson Calif a Aman hijacked an Airport commuter bus tuesday and forced inc Driver to Lake him Losk line Park atop mount Wilson where he committed suicide officials were being checked through the los Angeles county sheriffs depart ment in an Effort to identify inc Man. The Man shot himself with a .22-Eali-Ber gun. Said Deputy Chris Bobbi there were no passengers on the bus an the Driver Kenneth Page was not injured. Robbins said the gunman hijacked the bus at Bur Bank Airport about 2 30 . And Force Page to drive him to the top of mount Wil son in the san Gabriel mountains 20 mile Northeast of downtown los Angeles where he shot himself Robbins said. Variety of Fields Medicine Taw religion business politics she said in a Telephone interview tuesday from los Angeles where she is . So and so sending in from Dubuque belter think about that she said some applicants for the Job who were asked to submit a letter detailing their qualifications resume a photo and a proposed pen name have inter Esting qualifications one woman told us her 4-year-old daughter has pen pals nil Over the country that she regularly Send advice to. Others say they be been married and divorced x number of limes so that qualifies them he said. Soil said applications have come front All 50 Stales and from As far away As the Virgin islands and Singa pore. Applicants include Bankers lawyers ministers academicians housewives and Mother daughter or husband wife combinations he be got applications from fairly Well known writers As Well As from first timers. And Well still accept any entries postmarked before Midnight Mon Day soil said two editors began sifting through the entries to find the Best 30 or so. An advisory panel of psychologists doctors and experts from other Fields will screen the selected applicants. Those who survive that screening will be mailed questions their answers will be published and readers will be encouraged to comment. After All that said soil our editors will make heir Choice. We d like to have someone in place by late april or Early the question the current Ann Landers answered Towin her Job was from a woman whose Walnut tree reached into a neighbor s Yard where most of the Wal nuts fell. The writer wanted to know who got to keep them. I was the most under qualified person in the whole lot of contestants but i thought this is a Legal ques Tion and i thought How High up i had to go to impress the judges said cd crr Well it turned out i had met supreme court Justice William Douglas while doing some democratic parly work so 1 called him. That s what makes me me she added. It s one thing to meet outstanding people. It s another to impress them to the Point where they want to know s one reason i be been so Good at what i late test of Trident 2 termed Success Cape canaveral of a. A the successful Lesl firing of a trip Cal 2 submarine missile forced a 24-hour delay in the launch of a Nasa communications satellite because the missile s flight was a Day Laic getting off the pad the Navy said. The three stage Trident 2 thundered off a land launch pad tuesday and propelled a Dummy warhead at an Atlantic Ocean target area several thousand Miles to the Southeast. The Navy has classified it As a successful lest said Navy spokesman it. Max Allen. The test delayed monday by technical problems was the second of 20 scheduled from a pad on land. A launch is planned about every 40 Days in the series which will be followed by five submarine launch tests before the missile becomes operational in 1989, because of the one Day delay in the trip Cal 2 launch inc National aeronautics and space administration was forced a postpone far a Day the launch of an indonesian communications Sal Al Ticona Delta rocket. Liftoff was postponed to Friday at 5 22 . The Delta pad is within a safely area near the Trident 2 pad and Nasa Engi neers were unable to work an their Rock i for several hours during inc two count Downs the Navy missile underwent. In contrast to the Maiden Trident 2 launch on Jan is no anti nuclear demonstrators showed up tuesday at the Cape canaveral Gale had vowed to Hall the first flight but were unsuccessful and ib6 of inc were arrested on charges that included trespassing. Security was tight Trident 2 is an intercontinental Range missile capable of propelling up to 0 nuclear warheads Al different Navy says it is much More accurate than is undersea predecessors Polaris Poseidon and Trident 1 and As accurate As land based missiles even though it is launched from a submerged moving submarine. Defense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Berger in a recent report to Congress said the new weapon was accurate and potent enough to be effective against nuclear hardened targets such As missile silos and military command centers
