European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday june 11,1987 Mohammad All and erd bind right enter their Detroit hotel after being locked out of k Mart. A photo k Mart giving an the Brush Over his Champion shoe polish Troy Mich. A Muhammad Ali was locked out of a main event with k Mart chairman Bernard Fauber settling instead for a verbal sparring match with More Junior company executives Over a shoe pol ish contract. The former heavyweight Champion and stuntman eve Knievel went to the Detroit suburb tuesday to meet with Fauber but found a locked door. I can t believe they locked him out said Knievel an investor in All s shoe polish business. All s a k Mart stockholder and the boxing Champion of the world. I m a stockholder. I cant believe they locked me out the dispute Between k Mart and All s Champion Brand industries has been raging for at least two  came to a head this week when All s forces claimed that k Mart would not sell All s products. K Mart has placed $500,000 Worth of orders for Champion Brand polish to be sold in 500 k Mart stores said Robert Stevenson spokesman for the nation s second largest retailer. All s backers however say that the Deal is unfair since k Mart has a $30 million contract with Kiwi another shoe polish Brand. A suit by Kiwi alleging that Champion Brand s polish containers Are similar to theirs was settled recently in Kiwi s favor. Champion brands was ordered to change its packaging a k Mart official said. Stevenson said All s group is asking for a similar $30 million Deal a request he called tar out of  an Ali spokesman however said the group has not asked for a specific amount Only a fair  Ali and uni end asked to meet tuesday with Fauber to talk about having their product distributed in All of k Mart s 2,200 stores. K Mart officials refused the request. Such a meeting would serve no useful purpose Robert Mulligan a k Mart marketing official said tuesday in a written statement after being turned away Ali and Knievel trailed by a Host of reporter headed to a nearby hotel to meet with Stevenson and Mulligan. Knievel said Ali i suffering from Parkinson an syndrome a mild form of the degenerative Parkinson s disease and could not talk to reporters. The two k Mart officials left immediately after greeting the Boxer and stuntman and never returned although All s group waited for More than an hour. The rules were broken. We had agreed there would be no Media and or. Arthur Morrison would not be present Stevenson said. Both sides said late tuesday that no future meetings Are scheduled. Morrison one of about five partners who run Aji s company called $125,000 advanced to Champion Brand to produce the first shipment of shoe polish shut up  Morrison said celebrities including Frank Sinatra and Jane Fonda have invested in Champion Brand because they believe in the company s goals to eventually establish a line of Champion Brand products that can be manufactured in plants employing minority labor. The first Plant is to be built in Benton Harbor Mich., Knievel said. We needed this order to help these people to build the factory Knievel said. Kmart is not going to Stop stateside City to put 850 lights on California Bridge san Francisco a the eight mile san Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge will permanently Shine with 850 fluorescent lights thanks to $750,000 in contributions. It will be a grand display in the sky something that will look at us All night Long san Francisco attorney William Bagley chairman of the state transportation commission said monday. The commission chipped in hair the Money for the lighting project and the Pacific Gas electric co. Donated $100,000. The City of san Francisco and the Bechtel group inc. Gave $50,000 each and 32,000 motorists handed Over a Dollar for the 75-cent Bridge toll advising toll taken to keep the change. Bagley donated $2,500. Legislation to provide up to $50,000 for an Nuiji maintenance costs is expected to be signed by gov. George Deukmejian by the end of the month. Panel Calls for reduction in Ozone thinning chemicals Washington up a Resolution Call ing for a global reduction in chemicals believe to be thinning the Ozone layer that protects Earth from cancer causing radiation has won approval of the Energy committee of the House of  bipartisan non binding Resolution was approved tuesday by unanimous voice vote. The House Resolution if passed would urge president Reagan to seek an addition to the 1985 Vienna convention for the Protection of the Ozone layer calling for an immediate reduction in the use of chlorofluorocarbons also known As rfcs throughout the world. Scientists say it appears almost certain the Ozone layer is Beh a depleted by rfcs widely used in products such As refrigerators air conditioners and aerosol sprays. Denial of tenure for 2 Sparks professor s sit in Cambridge mass. Not a Harvard Law school professor began what he said will be a four Day protest in hit office against the school s denial of tenure to two faculty member who adhere to a controversial left Wing ideology on Legal  Bell professor of constitutional Law is the Harvard school s first tenured Black pro Fessor and was granted tenure in 1971. The 56 year old professor said monday on the first Day of his sit in protest that he believes the two scholars were denied permanent professorship because their views made conservative faculty members feel  two candidates Clare Dalton an assist ant professor and David Trubek a visiting pro Fessor Are adherents of the critical Legal studies movement a Complex school of thought that maintains that Legal institutions and conventional Legal scholarship despite their stated Neutral Ity Are tools of an oppressive ruling class. Bell called the school s rejection of them an attack on ideological diversity rather than racial diver  Marine deserter flies Back to . From Australia quant1co, a. A a Marine who deserted two weeks before the end of Bis Vietnam tour of duty in 1970 was in military custody wednesday after re turning from Australia and surrendering in Hopes of seeing his ailing father. Douglas Beane 39, was ordered con fined to quarters tuesday night at Quan Tico Marine base until a military Magis trate hears his Case said Marine corps spokesman staff sgt. Eric Stradford. The Rochester it native arrived by commercial flight tuesday morning from Sydney Australia at los Angeles International Airport. Military guards took him into custody and put him on a plane to Washington . Options available to military authorities who will decide How to proceed with the Case Range from release without pen Alty to court martial said capt. Craig Fisher another Marine spokesman. Technically. Beane could receive the death penalty if convicted of desertion but Fisher said that is probably pretty re  he could be free in 21 to 30 Days fit is decided to release him without penalty Fisher said. Beane a private first class went absent without leave in february 1970. At the time he faced seven charges including dealing in the Black Market and threatening to kill another Marine. He made his Way to Australia where he lived for 17 years married and had two sons. He lived under a false name and worked As a Cook and farm labourer in Queensland state and later in new South Wales said his wife Karen. Mrs. Beane in a Telephone interview tuesday from her Home in new South Wales said she is praying for leniency for her husband. I treasure that notion in god we Trust " she said. In a Telephone interview with a Vermont to station monday night Beane said he Hopes the marines will take into consideration the passage of time since he went awol. I want to see my family. I would like to see my parents at least he said. His father Donald Beane of Rutland is said to be disabled by circulatory ailments and other problems. Douglas Beane had tried to enter the United states in december but was arrested when he applied to the . Consul ate for a passport Australia s highest court blocked extradition saving he had not committed an indictable offence in austra  s lawyer Bob Whyburn said the marines had reached an agreement wit Beane before he left for the United states to let him return to Australia within six weeks but there s nothing in writing there s no  Fisher said he was unaware of any such agreement the marines have said Beane served primarily As a Cook and guard in Viet Nam but his decorations included the combat action ribbon. He is among 180 Vietnam deserters sought by the marines a number that has steadily de creased in recent months Fisher said