European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday july 10,1987 Senate s Bork hearings Start in mid september Washington a Senate hearings on presi Dent Tulagan t nomination of Robert a Bork to the supreme court will not begin until sept. Is almost assuring thai the Coon win begin in next term with a vacancy Senate Democrat Aid thursday Senate judiciary committee chairman Joseph Bidetd-del., announced tentative plans after meet ing Wii other democrats on the committee to Start the Bork hearings in mid september. Republicans proposed that the hearings begin Tobii month and conclude before the Senate recesses on aug. 7 until after labor Day. Biden promising a full and thorough and fair Granny Mountaineer Turre i i Wajs another Mountain for to Lusilda Crool to do Rob grandma Whitney to her fun the 91-year-old Kanoon ctr monday la look Linda Calif., her sight Are fixed on japan1 lz388-Root mount Fuji. Despite 23 failed tempts to climb mount Whitney Crooks will try to halt Fuji on air 22. Review of Dork s qualifications said this is probably the most significant supreme court nomination in the last several decade and arguably in this  sen. Patrick Leahy d-yl., also a judiciary commit tee member Taid it ii unlikely the Senate will Complete action on the nomination in time for the beginning of the next supreme court term oct. 5. I Don t think the country will fall because of that Leahy said. Justice won t be delayed or  Reagan last week nominated Bork to succeed retiring Justice Lewis f. Powell or. Bork currently is a judge on the . Circuit court of appeals in Washington. 2 big airliners nearly collide Over Atlantic Houston a a Delta air lines Jet apparent to about 60 Miles off course wednesday pasted under a Continental airline 747 Over the North Atlantic close enough for passenger to read its markings a Continental spokesman Laid the Continental Crew reported the Delta l-1qii posed beneath it about 12 30 p.m., said Continental spokesman Bruce Vidot. "11 passed just beneath and was close enough for our Crew and some passengers to read the name and Mark Ings on the air plane Hicks said. My guess is the official investigation will pin Down the distance be tween the two planes precisely and i Don t want to be speculating on  we do have information that there was a near Miu said Delia spokesman Bill Berry in Atlanta. He confirmed other details of the incident and said the Delta plane had 153 passengers. He estimated the Crew at three pilots and seven to nine others. Our Crew had reported that they were having equipment trouble thai caused the air plane to Drift of fils track he said. Continental flight 25, with 399 passengers and Crew of 19, was in route from London s Haiwick air port to Newark . Delia flight 37 was in route front Haiwick to Cincinnati. The incident occurred at 31,000 fwd near the mid dle of the North Atlantic Hicks said adding that 1hesky was Clear. Each plane was about three hours into the seven hour flight. In Washington Federal aviation administration spokesman Bob Buckhom said he was unaware of he ind Cut Continental said its preliminary investigation showed the incident was witnessed by the Tock Pil Crew of american airlines flight 41 from London to Dallas fort Worth. The Houston based airline is continuing in investigation. Group Snipes at Bloom county Tupelo miss. A the Bloom county comic trip and its pulitzer prize winning creator have drawn the ire of Ibe Leader of the National federation for decency who objects to a religious character being named Edith deck. The Rev. Donald Wildmon of Tupelo says the word deck is derived from the yiddish term for excrement. He want the strip discontinued and cartoonist Berke breathed fired. But in a Telephone interview wednes Day breathed said he Doe in i know yiddish and that Wildmon is full of deck for raising the Issue. The comic strip is syndicated nationally running i about 1,000 newspapers. Edith deck appeared in a june 8-11 series about a character whose heavy Meta Rock music career and immoral imae Are ruined be cause he is caught in a wholesome situation Reading the Bible Wilt a woman. Wildmon is the executive director of the Tupelo based federation Best known for in successful Campaign to pull sexually oriented magazines from 7-Eleren stores. Why could t he name her Edith Smith or Jones or Green i think or. Breathed knew what he was  Wildmon said. Breathed maintained he s always coming up with goofy names. Deck just seemed like an ugly  Webster s new world dictionary defines deck de Rived from the yiddish word drek As Din excrement or Dregs. Deck in English Sjang Means Rasa or rubbish. Wildmon said he has written to most of the daily newspapers in the country asking that the comic strip be discontinued. He also wrote the Washington Post writers group which syndicates the comic strip asking that breathed be fired there is simply no room in our society for religious hatred and Bias be it anti semitic or anti Christian his letter said. If he s looking for religious hatred he should turn to the television and his own charismatic preachers rather than the comic pc breathed said in response. A spokesman for the Washington writers group said the organisation has received about 30 letters from Wildmon supporters. I told Wildmon that i could t imagine How he construed the strip As religious hatred said William Dickinson editorial director general manager of the writers group. Stateside defendant caught in try to leap from window Oakland Calif. A a Man on trial for kidnapping and rape dived through the dosed window of a judge s fifth floor Chambers but court officials managed to catch him by the an Kles. If Robert Dean Bruce 32, of Oakland had not been caught he would have fallen head Firu onto a roof three stories below at the Oakland court House. Superior court judge Dawn Girard was con ducting the second Day of jury selection tuesday in Bruch s trial when the defendant boiled from his scat and through the window. Bailiff Joan cite Mun a Deputy sheriff grabbed Girard by an ankle and almost fell out the window with him witnesses said. Court Porter Floyd Butler caught Bruch s Oiler ankle and the two held brute dangling for several min utes until other bailiffs arrived to haul him Bek inside. Mandela City proposition Back on Boston s ballot Boston a voters will hive second Chance to decide whether a City to be called Mandela should be formed by taking several pre dominantly minority communities out of the City of Boston a legislative committee ruled wednesday. The proposal vat Defeated a Tol by voters in november the Only opposition on Ibe election Law committee to the Bill calling for the referendum came from rep. Kevin g. Honan who argued that Boston should remain United and that Whites and Blacks should work together to improve its neighbourhoods. The non binding referendum would take parti of Boston s Rodbury South end Mattassa Dorchester Jamaica Plain and Back Bay sections and create a 12-Tquare-mile town named after South african activists Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Sex teacher donates $25,000 to school system Metairie la. Api a former school teacher donated $25,000 to a Public school Syi tem to promote Home economics. Elizabeth Gray walked into an office of the Jefferson Parish school system last month and said she wanted to make a donation Secretary Marilyn Heindl said. He incl said she expected Jio or possibly $20. I m flabbergasted she said. Not everyone could part with that amount so easily so calmly so  she earmarked $20,000 for Home economics. In addition she wrote a $5,000 Check specifically for the Home economics department she once headed at John Ehret High school during 13 years As a teacher. Cray who was reached in Houston where she has lived since 1982, said she made the donation for personal and religious reasons. Rare Case of diphtheria kills Florida student 16 Tamarac Fla. A a 16-year-ow ju0school student has died from diphtheria the Flat Case of the highly infectious disease reported in the United slate since 1913, health officials a. Jason Magalios a Junior at . Taraye Bahigeh school in Coral Springs came Down with a severe sore Throat. Five Days later on May 17, he died from heart failure. The death appears to have been an isolated Case of the disease and poses no danger to the Public or. Charles Konigsburg director of the Broward county Public health unit Laid wednesday. It ii a very rare occurrence almost unheard of said or. Sonja Hutchins medical epidemiologist for the National centers for disease con. Tool in Atlanta. Toe last known death from diphtheria in the nation was in 19s2, and there have been 10 reported cases id the past five years