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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, January 31, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday january 31,1988 new rules target clinics advocating abortions Washington a the government moved Friday to enact rules denying Federal funds to family planning organizations that provide abortions or advocate them. Health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen said. The final version of the regulations will be published tucs Dav in the Federal Register and could become effective March 3. However at least three organizations have vowed to Challenge them in court. Renewed efforts also arc expected in Congress to Block the rules. At Issue is How family planning clinics Deal with women who Are pregnant specifically whether counsel ors at such federally hacked facilities can Volunteer to their clients that abortion is an option and refer them loan abortion clinic. By engage. _. -. Four aging. Promoting or advocating abortion As a method of family  then regulations will ensure that tile x funds arc spent for services thai Congress always intended they support preventive family planning and inc Utility sen ices not  Bowen said. The program was intended to reduce the Inci Dence of abortion not to help women obtain Abor Tion when a clinic diagnoses a woman As pregnant she will he referred for ii prenatal care and social sen ices she needs for a healthy pregnancy. To accept or nol accept this referral is the individual s Choice meanwhile in a separate development. Inc 2nd . Court of appeals in new York ruled Friday that planned parenthood can proceed with a lawsuit challenging a Reagan administration policy barring family planning funds to private foreign organizations that perform or promote abortions. A . District court judge dismissed the suit in . Planned parenthood wants the courts to declare unconstitutional requirements by the is. Agency for International development that foreign private health agencies certify in Clurn for . Grants that they do nol perform or Fromolc abortions. Although there arc some changes in wording in the has rules affecting Domestic Grants the final regulations closely follow the proposed version issued for Public comment sept. I. The new regulations were ordered by president Rea Gan last july 30 when he instructed Bowen to Issue rules to ensure that no title x funds go to any pro Gram that encourages promotes or advocates abortion or which assists a woman in obtaining an abortion. The $140 million title x program helps support about 4.000 family planning clinics through Grants to 89 groups. Bowen said inc program serves an Esti mated 4.3 million women More than 85 percent of them Low income women and approximately a third of them Adolesca cols. Girl who lost limbs to frostbite enters clinic for new set of legs Chicago a a 9-year-old girl armed with bags of Loys from Well wishers entered a clinic Friday to in chive artificial legs replacing those amputated be cause of frostbite she suffered in a locked abandoned House. A judge in neighbouring Indiana where Darlwin car Lisle was found said Friday he will Rule this week on a req Ucol to release the girl s Mother who has been charged Wilh felony child neglect without Cash Bond. The girl will be filled Wilh artificial legs Al la Rabi a children s Hospital and could learn to balance her self in a couple of weeks doctors said. I a Rashida s medical director or. Victoria Dvonch. Said thai when Darlwin was asked where she would like to he. She Iho Ughi for a moment and said. In m going to gel my legs there i m going 10 la Rabida. Darlwin left Wyler children s Hospital on Friday Wilh three bags of Loys Scal from Well wishers said Wyler spokeswoman grit Chen Rock. She was found in a cold filthy Gary. Ind. Apart ment on Jan. 17. Her legs were amp talc below inc knee four Days Lacr. Lake county criminal court judge Richard maroc said Friday he will consider a req Ucol to release Dan win s Molher. Darlwin Brill on her own recognizance. She remains in Lake co my jail unable to Post a $50.000 Bond. Lake county Deputy prosecutor Karen coulis said the Sale will vigorously oppose any reduction in Bond. Brill was charged Jan. 20 with neglect of a dependent a felony thai carries a maximum 20-year prison Lerm on Jan. 22, two More neg Eccl charges were filed again her. She could receive a maximum 60-year sentence if convicted. Darlwin Carlisle at Wyler children s Hospital stateside Cypress gardens creator Dies in Florida at 87 Winter Haven Fla. A Richard Downing Pope sr., the flamboyant showman who built Cypress gardens Park and was credited with rounding Florida s modern tourist Industry died at his Home Here at age 87. Pope built Cypress gardens the state s first tourist attraction on 16 acres of swampland in 1936, when the state was noted Only for oranges and mosquitoes. In the next three decades it became known As a Lush backdrop for watch skiing exhibitions and movies featuring Esther Williams. Fernando lamas and Van Johnson. Pone who died of undisclosed causes became a legend for his efforts on behalf of the entire stale. Attorney cries fowl at suit against restaurant m1neola. . A although one attorney says the Case is not what it s quacked up to be a chef is not laughing about the $1 million suit he filed against a restaurant after he was allegedly attacked by a Goose. Richard Brauc. A former chef at the Villa Vic Tor in Syosset. Long Island said on june 23, 1985, he was standing by a Pond on the restau rant s property when he was charged by a Canada Goose according to court papers. Brauc claims that while trying to avoid the snapping beak of the wild Bird he fell backward Over a tree Root and broke his Back the coun papers state. Braue of Farmingdale contends that the restaurant is responsible for his injuries because or negligence. He charges that the Villa Victor failed to take Steps to get rid of the a Csc or employ personnel to manage them. This Case is fowl and it is not what its quacked up to be John Martin the attorney for the Villa Victor said in  that his client is not responsible. Woman loses lawsuit involving Charlie perfume Duluth Minn. A a woman who claimed she suffered injuries and anguish when a bottle of Charlie perfume exploded in her face has lost her lawsuit against the perfume s Manu a Clurar and the store that sold her the fragrance. Sheila Colosimo of Etc Lelh filed suit against Revlon inc. And Pam Ida inc. In september 1985, seeking More than $50,000 in damages. She claimed the product was defective and that the manufacturer and seller failed to warn of Possi ble hazards. After a three Day trial last week in Federal court a jury found that the product was not defective. Colosimo claimed in the suit that she suffered an Eye injury from flying Glass. She also said she suffered severe Shock and mental anguish and expected future medical costs associated with the ordeal. Revlon and Pam Ida maintained that any injuries suffered by Colosimo were the result of her misusing or abusing the product.  11 Uiki Sivu. Peace activist who lost legs suing train operators. I. T. _. Not a he Ith run serious disregard and tonal distress and punitive damages. At san Francisco a a peace activist whose legs Werc Cut Oft by a naw munitions train sued the train s civilian crewmen and their supervisors Friday. Saing they acted to intimidate demonstrators protesting weapons ship ments to Central America. The suit by s. Brian Willson and four of her demonstrators who were at the tracks oils id inc Concord naval weapons station on sept. I came a Day after disclosure of Federal records that said the train s crewmen saw protesters on the tracks but followed orders not to Stop. They ran the train at the demonstrators. In a conscious or Semi conscious attempt to punish people for the exercise of their political rights said Doron Weinberg a lawyer for the protesters. Earlier in january the three crewmen sued the demonstrators in Superior court claiming they deliberately or Reck Lessly got in the train s Way in order to cause the Crew emotional distress. Weapons station spokesman Dan Tikalsky declined comment. A lawyer for the crewmen did not return Telephone Calls. The . District court suit claims several alternate grounds for damages that the train Crew deliberately struck Willson that the crewmen and supervisors acted with conscious disregard and deliberate indifference to the rights and safety of the demonstrators that they were grossly negligent or that they showed negligence in failing to make safety plans and drive the train carefully. The train was travelling 16 Mph in an area where the posted Speed limit was 5 Mph the suit said. It also said the protes ters Cave the Navy ample warning that the demonstrators would remain on the tracks. The suit claims violations of the constitutional rights of free speech and As Sembly charges assault and Battery and seeks damages for physical injuries emotional. Torney Thomas steel said Willson s med ical costs already have exceeded $100,000. The lawyers plan to add the Navy As a defendant if naval officials As expected reject the demonstrators administrative claim for damages. Willson was hit by the train As he sat on the tracks during the first Day of a planned 40-Day fast and demonstration against weapons shipments to Central America. The Navy has insisted that the events a re accidental and that the Crew and supervisors were not to blame  
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