European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday May 5.1987 High court rejects rotary ban on women Washington a slates May Force Rolar clubs to admit women the supreme court ruled Mon Day. In a 7-0 ruling the justices upheld a California Law that bars rotary International from ousting local Chap ten that have women members. Justice Lewis f. Powell in his opinion for the court said the California Law does not interfere with the constitutional rights of Rou rians 10 associate with whom they please. Powell compared the clubs to Public accommodations in rejecting arguments that to lariats have a first amendment right to bar women. He said the clubs Are sizable have a High turnover Rale engage in Public activities encourage participation by non members and Welcome news Media coverage of Many of the Central activities. The evidence in this Case indicates that the relationship among rotary club members a not the kind of intimate or private relation that warrants constitutional Protection Powell said. The membership undertakes a variety of service projects designed to Aid the Community to raise the standards of tie members businesses and professions and to improve International relations he continued while the ruling reinforced the Power of states to curb sex discrimination the court provided no Check list on what other organizations might be affected. The justices in 1984 ruled that the Jaycees May be forced by states to admit women u full members. That decision said Minnesota Law Banning discrimination by Public accommodations applies to the Jaycees. In other action the court ruled that juries should not use Community standards when deciding whether to Rescue certain material from being labelled obscene because it has redeeming values. Although the decision could make it More difficult to convict the Sellers of sexually explicit materials under stale obscenity Laws the ruling s Impact May be blunted Liy what role the justices said reviewing courts can Pfay in such cases. By a 6-3 vote the justices said two employees of two Rockford 111., adult bookstores May have been con Roundup Slipel my evicted unjustly on charges of violating a state obscenity Law for Selling certain magazines. Ruled that police did not violate the rights of a accused killer by tape recording a station House conversation with his wife and using it to show he was sane. To a 5-4 ruling the court reinstated the murder conviction and death sentence of William Mauro of Flag staff ariz., who admitted killing his 7-year-old son. Agreed to decide whether the government May limit a family s eligibility for food Stamps when a family member is on strike in a labor dispute. The court said it will review a Federal judge s ruling that struck Down As unconstitutional a 1981 Law imposing such limits. Agreed to decide whether nursing Homes and their patient should be buried from using Federal civil rights Laws in challenging state rules that limit medi Caid reimbursement Rales. The court said it will hear an Appeal by Oregon officials supported by 22 other states. Agreed to decide whether the government must pay the fees of lawyers who obtain overdue Federal benefits for poor people who Are aged Blind or disabled. The court said it will hear Reagan administration arguments that Federal officials should not be require to withhold a portion of a recipient s benefits to pay the attorney. Agreed to review ruling that the Federal govern ment s planned development of part of the six Rivers National Forest in California would violate indians religious rights. The justices said they will hear Reagan administration arguments aimed at reviving a plan to Harvest Timber in one Section of he Forest and to upgrade a Road linking the towns of Gasquet and Orleans. Rotary International has nearly i million member sin some 20,000 clubs in 54 nations. U was founded 82 years ago by four Chicago men and took its name fro their practice of rotating meeting Sites at each other s place of business. The International organization was ordered to abide by a California Law the state s so called unch act thai bans discrimination based on race sex religion or National origin. Rotary International ousted a chapter in Duarte calif., in 1978 after it admitted three women. A California appeals court ordered the Duarte club reinstated in rotary International last year. App rating but Tough barrel has some mighty big paws to fill before lit lives up to inc sign posted above Bis t id at the hone of Manrice and Clair mor jul in Lew ton Maine. First lady says she advises Reagan offers tips to help her successors new York Cap Nancy Reagan monday said she does not hesitate to offer her views to president Reagan and his staff saying you Don t give up your right loan opinion just because you remarried to the  neither marriage nor politics denies a ipod a the right to hold an opinion Orthe right to express it she said. Mrs Reagan made her comments in a speech prepared for delivery at the an Nual luncheon of the associated Prest held in conjunction with the annual convention of the american newspaper publishers association. The president addressed the association on sunday vowing to keep lighting for Aid for con tra rebels in Nicaragua. In her remarks mrs. Reagan made tight of stories that have said she plays a major role in shaping administration policy. This morning i had planned to Clear up  differences on intermediate Range nuclear missiles but i decided to clean out Ronnie s sock drawer in Stead she joked Mote seriously she said she bad been unprepared for the intense scrutiny a first lady receives adding i was even More unprepared for what i read about myself in the papers. I read that 1 wanted Ute Carters to move out of the White House Early that banned sumo Wres lets from the Rose Garden that i planned to tear Down a Wall in the Lincoln  she said she finally concluded you May never Stop being Hurt by stories but you do Stop being surprised. Mrs. Reagan s role became the subject of attention earlier this year when some of her friends speaking anonymously said she we spearheading a Campaign to oust Donald Regan As White House chief of stan1. Me resigned feb. 27 after learning that Reagan had Given his Job to Howard Baker. The Fust adv s press office would not comment on the reports about her involvement but the president said the were despicable  in monday s speech mrs. Reagan said i see the first lady As another Means to keep a president from becom ing isolated. I talk to people. They Zellme things. They pass along ideas. And sure i Tali my husband. And if some thing else is about to become a problem or All Between the cracks i m not above calling a staff person and asking about it. I m a woman who loves her husband and 1 make no apologies for looking out for his personal and political welfare she said we have a genuine sharing marriage. 1 go to his Aid he comes to mine. I have opinions he has  Don t always  alluding to recent critical press accounts she said there Are soaps who think first ladies should be kept in attics Only to say our lines pour the Tea and then be put away again. Although 1 Don t get involved in policy it s silly to suggest my opinion should  carry some weight with a Man Rve been married to for 35  she said her advice to future first a die is to be yourself and to do what you feel is Best for  second she said gel involved wit something you arc interested in. Third Don t be afraid to look after your husband or to voice your opinions either to him or his staff in spite of a White House full of peo ple taking care of various aspect of a president s life you re the one who knows him  mrs. Reagan also cautioned against thinking of Fife in the White House As a glamorous fairy tale life. It s very handwork with High highs and Low  she said advising her successors to keep your perspective and your  finally she advised never Wear Aring on your right hand in a receiving line it s always a like old lady who will squeeze so hard Shell bring you to your  1 St group of Nixon watergate files released Alexandria vol. A three weeks after White House agents were caught inside the watergate Headquarters of the dec uralic National com Mittee president Nixon gave orders that whatever action was taken should not appear to be a cover up. Notes from the conversation came from the files of John d. Ehrlichman then the no. 1 Man on Nixon s staff. The document was among 252,000 pages of materials made Public monday in the first release of Nixon s watergate papers since his resignation 13 years ago. Can t appear to cover up not a whiff of it says the outline made by Ehrlichman As he talked with Nixon on july 8, 1972. Ehrlichman took notes in thai form on yellow Legal paper whenever he spoke with Nixon. The memorandum indicated that he was instructed by the president to gel out the enthusiastic nature of the investigation and that the president wanted to be quoted As saying of the investigation do it fully let the chips fall no Cov a up no one in the while House  indeed thai was the word thai was released from the White House in that time period. The democratic party headquarter was burglarized on june 17, 1972, by five men one of them a Security agent for Nixon s re election committee. The masterminds of the operation g. Cor Don Liddy and e. Howard Hunt both working for the re election committee were nearby and fled the scene. All seven were convicted either by pleading guilty or after a trial and All served prison sentences. The first release of documents included the files of Ehrlichman who spent 18 months in prison As a watergate cover up conspirator and of John Dean who gave the Fust detailed information about die affair to Federal prosecutors and served 127 Days. The documents totalled one sixth of the 1.5 million Page Cache the Nixon administration itself set aside As  the special files contained the most sensitive documents those involving watergate