European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse O Holiday meal charge waived by military Page 2 a Iowa Midway scheduled for duty in Gulf Region Page 5 q Bucky pox s views on Safe football Page 23 the stars vol.46,no. 196 saturday october 3t, 1987 d 8693 a Ginsburg nominated to court Washington a preside no Reagan making Good on his Promise to pick another conservative has nominated Douglas h. Ginsburg a 41-year-old Federal appeals court judge to Hie supreme court. Reagan praised Ginsburg on thursday As an adv Caie of judicial restraint and a believer in Law and order. He said gins Hurp will Lake a Lough Clear eyed View of the Consoli Ilion while remaining sensitive to the safety four citizens and to he problem facing Law enforcement Ginsburg Sils on the same Washington p.o., Bench As judge Robert 11. Dork whose nomination to the nation s highest court was rejected by the Senlac last Friday. Ginsburg and Bork generally arc viewed As being ideologically similar. If confirmed Ginsburg would be one of the Young est justices Ever to sit on the court. A former Harvard Law school professor and head of the Justice depart ment s Alf Tusl division he also would be the first jew to sit on the High court since the resignation Abe form in 969. Seeking to head off the lengthy debate that led to Dork s defeat Reagan said if these hearings take More than three weeks to get going the american people will know what s but opposition was forming. Sen. Edward Kennedy d muss., a Leader of the fight against Bork. Said he was concerned that attorney general Edwin Melesc Iii a failed Ort Reagan to name an ideological clone of judge Hork. Instead Ginsburg of a real conserva Sivc who would have Broad support in the gins Hurp was re ported to have been Mcnese s Choice while while House chief of. Staff Howard Bakerjr. Was urging the appoint ment of appeals court judge Anthony Kennedy of Sacramento calif., who would have been a less controversial Choice. On monday Baker sounded out five key Republican senators about 13 or 4 potential nominees and according to Republican sources half of those named Drew at least some opposition and Ginsburg was among those whose name Drew objections. Sources familiar with the struggle said that the chances for Anthony Kennedy s nomination collapsed when sen. Jesse Helms. R-n.c., threatened to launch a stalling tactic against him on the grounds he was not conservative enough. Senate judiciary committee chairman Joseph Bikin who played a Pivotal role in the rejection of Piork by a 58-12 vote last week reportedly has told Reagan administration officials that some of gins Burg s views arc highly controversial. Senate Republican Leader Bob pole of Kansas said hat he wanted to Wail for the hearings to decide if he supports the nominee but added based on what i know i m prepared to support judge Ginsburg the scat that Ginsburg would fill was vacated when Justice Lewis Powell announced his retirement june 26. He was considered a swing vote making the Choice of a successor a Battleground that could shape the court s future for years. ., soviets set Summit Agenda Date still pending Moscow a the superpowers agreed on a Summit Agenda and cleared the Way for soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev to meet president Reagan in tic United Stales later this year a soviet spokesman said thursday no Date was announced but one offi Cial said privately that the soviets arc proposing lie two leaders meet the i first week in de Cembor. Officials 1 also speaking on i condition of Ano i by Miry said the third meeting be i to can Reagan and i Gorbachev could 1 be arranged for late _ _ i november or Early Gorbachev december. Foreign ministry spokesman Boris d. Prady Shiv told reporters the leaders would sign a treaty to scrap Range nuclear missiles and discuss cuts in strategic arsenals. He said they also would discuss limits on developing the proposed . Space bated missile defense program known As Star the soviet-. Dispute Over the system prevented agreement on a Summit Date during Secretary of stale George p. Shultz s visit to Moscow last week. Foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze carrying a letter from Gorbachev to Reagan was to arrive in Washington on Friday for further talks. The soviet official said the letter contains the proposal for a Summit Date. Shevardnadze was in Prague Czecho Slovakia thursday to meet with Warsaw pact foreign ministers. Presently we have an understanding that together with the agreement on medium Range and Shorter Range missiles questions relative to strategic offensive weapons and the abm anti ballistic missile treaty will be thoroughly Dis cussed Ai a Summit meeting by Adushev said. This is sufficient for a Summit to take place this he said a Summit is fixed for the end of his in Washington Reagan said the Date of the Summit had not been set and said the timing would have to Wail for the talks with Shevardnadze. denied there had been any change in the soviet position since Fri Day when Gorbachev refused to set a Summit Dale. But he said . And soviet officials accomplished Good and constructive work after Shultz s meetings last week with the soviet leadership in Moscow. During his meeting with Shultz Gorbachev said he was not yet satisfied there had been sufficient Progress on the Star wars dispute to warrant another meet ing with Reagan. Sundown patrol three us. War ships Art silhouetted against the a tums of the persian Gulf 1 sushi tier Toui Jibirin mine Stirl per enhance and entreat Earl thursday completed i her 12,000 in Lar journey from their Weil coast ports to join us. Force in the Rulf. Related Story on pm 5.
