European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 27, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 in memory of Samantha soviet students crowd around the statue or Sunantha Smith in Augusta Milne on monday holding a Banner they Hud specially nude of her. Samantha was the american schoolgirl who won the hearts of Hie russians when she visited i Clr country and is remembered by them still after her death in an air plane Accident. These soviet youngsters Are camping i Maine car a week at the imitation of Samantha s Mother court says warning on cigarette packs blocks liability suits Boston a tobacco companies thai place warning labels on cigarette package arc protected from lawsuits stemming from smokers illness or death a Federal court ruled tuesday. The decision by he 1st circuit court of appeals in Boston stemmed from a s3 million lawsuit filed in 1983 against Lig Gett and Myers tobacco co. Of Durham n.c., by the heirs of Joseph c. Palmer of Newton a heavy smoker who died from lung cancer in 1980. The family said Palmer smoked three to four packs of pm cigarettes per Day until his death. The suit said his death was advanced by smoking and that pm failed to provide adequate warn Ings about the risks of cigarettes. In wyers for Liggett and Myers claimed the federally required warning about the hazards of smoking shielded the company from  april 1986, . District judge a. David Mazzone ruled for the palmers saying juries were free to find that reasonable manufacturers would have included stronger warnings in addition to those required by Federal Law. Liggett and Myers appealed the ruling and won tuesday. The appeals court said the Federal cigarette Labelling and advertising  out by Congress in 1965, preempts the Palmer family s suit. It is inconceivable that Congress in tended to have that carefully wrought bal Ance of National interests superseded by the views of a single stale indeed perhaps of a single jury in a single  wrote . Circuit court judge John Rbrown a similar ruling Friday by the Lith circuit court of appeals in Atlanta said the Federal act preempts slate Lawi re Garding product liability. Brown wrote that in enact ing the legis lation. Congress struck it balance be tween its concern for the National health policy of smoking education and its Protection of the Trade and Commerce aspects of the tobacco  Josiah Murray general counsel for Liggett called inc decision very favor Able and said it was consistent wit the position we be always taken in that we have no  the palmers lawyer Robert pollen was on vacation and unavailable for comment according to his Secretary. The three judge panel also found such lawsuits would abrogate utterly he established scheme of health Protection As tempered by Trade  the court ruled that precedents set in other cases in which people were harmed by dangerous products did Noi apply be cause cigarette smoking a least initially is a voluntary  attempts to use product liability Lili Gatian in connection with smoking have a poor record. None of some 300 such actions against tobacco companies has resulted in a plaintiffs verdict. Atheists protest postal service recognition of Pope Austin Texas a an atheists group tuesday asked a Federal court to cancel postal service plans to offer special commemorative cancellations on mail in the cities Pope John Paul ii will visit next month. The fancy cancelling glorifies a religious Symbol of a particular religious sect which is offensive to Many citizens including Ibe plaintiffs and does so with Public funds and moneys including taxes paid by the plaintiffs american atheists said in a suit tiled in san Antonio. The postal service plans to use a rubber stamp to cancel mail in each of the nine cities the Pope will visit. The stamp says the visit of Pope John Paul hand bears a papal Emblem. It will be used Only on the Days the Pope is in the City and Only on request not on All mail. A postal service spokesman in Washington defended he plan he is a world official. He is a dignitary. We Are not recognizing a religion. We arc not endorsing ideals or policies of a particular religion. What we Are doing is recognizing an event said Steve Korkor a Media relations official for the postal service which offers special cancellations for up to 2,000 events a year. American atheists founded by Madalyn Murray o hair said the special cancellation is an improper use of Public Money for a religious  it note that the postal service has not offered Simitar cancellations for visits of other foreign dignitaries. One particular religious sect Leader cannot receive laudatory and special attention from government Aid Jon Murray o hair s son and Leader of he atheist group. Boy s smoke break forces Jet to land Clarksburg . A Piedmont 737 made an emergency land ing tuesday after a 12-year-old boy went to inc restroom to have a cigarette and started a fire. Federal aviation administration officials said. Officials said the flames were extinguished by Crew members before the air plane landed at Clarksburg Benedum Airport. No injuries were reported. Piedmont vice president Don to Guire said he could not confirm thai Alire broke out on the jetliner. If there was a fire it was an incredibly Small one he said. A 12-year-old boy who went Back to smoke set off inc alarm Mcguire said. When an alarm goes off the first thing you want is the  smoking is prohibited in All air plane restrooms. Faa investigator Mike Hanson said a paper Towel ignited causing a Small fire in the lavatory. There was no damage so it s simply an incident report on the facts As they stand Hanson said. The boy and his father were coun seed by fire department officials in Clarksburg Mcguire said. He said he doubts that any Legal action will be taken against the boy. The air plane which look off at 4 30 . Tuesday from Yeager Airport in Charleston in route to Washington d.c., was about 20 minutes into its flight when inc incident happened an Airport official said. The is passengers and six Crew Mem Bers remained on Board after inc plane landed authorities said. The flight continued its trip to National Airport in Washington Mcguire said. Disputed Art again displayed at Iowa fair Des Moines Iowa a the Iowa slate fair Board tuesday ordered two controversial artworks featuring female nudity resumed to an exhibit the Board issued the order shortly be fore a scheduled Federal court hearing on a lawsuit filed on behalf of the two artists. The action by the fair Board clearly come in response to the Clu la Juil said cry Farley executive director of the Iowa civil liberties Union. She said the Board had initially upheld fair Man Ager Marion Lucas removal of the two works of Art. The Board s lawyer assistant attorney general Tim Benion said he recommended that the works a Chalk draw ing of a woman s upper legs and pubic area and a photograph of a woman with a breast visible through a sheer gown be put Back on display. We kicked in around and decided insight of the fact that criteria for excluding material was rather vague that maybe the Best course in Light of first Amend ment considerations was to replace these particular works of Art for this year and after the fair is Over go Back and exam Ine the criteria Benton said. Lucas said official received three complaints about he works on the fair s open ing Day last  Clu suit requested a temporary restraining order barring the removal of the works from display but a hearing on he request was cancelled after the Board reversed its earlier  suit argued that the removal of the two artworks violated the first amendment rights of the artists. Farley said those issues Likely will be taken 10 trial even though inc Art was returned to display to assure thai such acts of censorship do not  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 27, 1947 Constantine Tsal Daris said he was forming an All populist Cabinet in Greece. His announcement came after the United Stales failed to persuade Liberal Leader Themistocles soup Houlis to join a Tsaldaris Cabinet. 30 years ago today. Aug. 27, 1957 the new York athletic commission ordered Middle weight Champion sugar Ray Robinson to fulfil his contract to meet Carmen Basilio in a title fight at Yankee stadium. Robinson had refused to fight if the bout was televised. 20 years ago today. Aug. 27, 1967 the american nazi party said it would Bury its assassinated Leader George Lincoln Rockwell a former naval aviator in a . Military cemetery at Culpeper a. His accused killer was jailed and charged with murder. 10 years ago today. Aug. 27, 1977 British air traffic control assistants staged a four Day holi Day weekend walkout but the expected chaos did not result because airlines rut Back on services and thousands of Pas sengers cancelled i heir flights