European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 28. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 candidate says foe should tend to kids Elpaso Texas a a woman with two Small children who is running Tor election to a judgeship says she s surprised her opponent has made motherhood an Issue in their Campaign. District judge John Mckillips raised the Issue at a sheriffs deputies meeting while comparing his qualifications with Mary Anne Bramblitt s. Ram Blytt. An assistant county attorney has less than six years experience As a lawyer and is seeking to become the county s first female state judge. Be cause there is no Republican candidate the Winner of their March 8 democratic primary will capture the 41 St District judge s scat. The incumbent judge suggested Bramblitt and other mothers should stay Home with their Young children. She had to take some time out for maternity leave to have iwo Small children so i Don t know How much Lime she s actually spent working As an attorney he said. The judge also linked absent mothers to the prob Lem of overcrowded jails and prisons. What do we do about crowded prisons ? Well we can Start in our Homes he said. Mothers can slay Home and raise their children during the forma Tive  judge continued the theme in an interview with the Elpaso times. No one who will be truthful will deny the importance of a Mother being with children during pre school years he said. Other persons May try to substitute and mean Well but there s no substitute for a Mother s  the judge s views were surprising Bramblett said. Everybody got the Clear message that Mckillips believes 1 am not qualified to be a judge because i a woman and a Mother said Bramblitt whose Chil Dren Are 3 and 4. The judge s comments to the sheriffs deputies association were made in the context of crime rates and the cause of crime he said. I acknowledge it would have been More Correct to have used the term Parent rather than Mother he said in the interview. The whole Point of this discussion is a breakdown of parental guidance in the Home whether that breakdown is the fault of the Mother or the  he said As a District judge one never has a Normal life. To do your Job properly requires Long hours and extra Devotion and she would have less time As a judge to be with her family than she hashed in the past. It appears that mrs. Bramblitt s personal ambitions Are More important to her than the lives of her  it s not True Bramblett said. "1 think my Chil Dren have a very Good role Model to look up to both myself and my  Mecham loses bid to delay impeachment trial Phoenix Ariz. Api a last min Ute plea by gov. Evan Mcchamp s new defense team Friday failed to win a delay in his impeachment trial As the Arizona supreme court refused to intercede. The four justices who heard his Appeal fur an emergency stay cited Constitution Al separation of Powers in refusing to intervene in the trial scheduled to begin in the stale Senate on monday. However they said icy would consider a More detailed request during the court s regular conference on tuesday. Senate minority Leader Alan Stephens a Democrat predicted the justices would not interfere with the nation s first impeachment trial of a governor in half a Century. The court s Rebuff to Mecham capped a turbulent Day for the first term Republican governor who also faces criminal charges of concealing a $350,000 Campaign , Mecham s chief attorney Mur Ray Miller of Phoenix disclosed he had resigned. Miller said Crris Leonard a washing ton lawyer and former assistant attorney general under president Nixon was Tak ing charge. We brought in a number of new peo ple and Murray chose to leave Mecham told the associated press Friday night. We parted As friends. I be got the Best of  Leonard and another addition to the defense learn. Thomas Crowe promptly launched a last ditch Effort to win a delay that the Senate had refused to Grant wednesday night. By late Friday afternoon they had filed a stack of Legal documents with the supreme court and the emergency hear ing was granted. Crowe argued that the governor s constitutional right to due process would be Vio lated if the Senate judged him before a jury trial scheduled to begin March 22 on the criminal charges. The Arizona civil Liber ties Union filed a Friend of the court Brief making the same argument. The justices immediately expressed concern about breaching the constitutional separation of Jud Ial and legislative Powers. Even if 1 agreed with everything you said in your papers said vice chief Justice Stanley Feldman what jurisdiction docs this court have to Tell the sen ate what to do in a Job that the Constitution says should be done by the Senate and not the judiciary Feldman presided in place of chief jus Tice Frank x. Gordon who recused himself because the stale Constitution requires him to preside Over the impeachment trial. Attorney John Lundin representing the Senate told the justices you Are being asked to enter an Arena that has never been entered into by any court in this  he said they should decline to take that step. Mecham was impeached feb. 5 on a46-14 House vote forcing him to turn Over Power temporarily to Secretary of state Rose mofford. Several Days later the House approved23 impeachment articles charging Mech am with concealing the $350,000 loan to his 1986 Campaign misusing $80.000 from the governor s protocol fund by lending it to his Auto Dealership and trying to thwart an investigation of an alleged death threat by a slate official. Woman looks for cop then shoots him in Chest Arlington Texas api a woman out looking for a policeman to shoot stopped in an intersection and waited Friday for one to find her then smiled As she fired Point Blank into the officer s Chest police said. Officer buddy Evans who had approached the car at 5 . Because it appeared stranded was saved by his bul let proof Vest said police spokesman Dee Anderson. Evans and another officer managed to subdue the woman who was sitting on the passenger Side of an idling station Wagon he said. She has Given us information that this was premeditated. She was driving around looking for a police officer to shoot for some time Hen she decided to Slop and let the officer come to her he said. She turned around and smiled and then shot him he said. The woman Pamela Diane Takhar .13, was arrested for investigation of at tempted capital murder and was held in Arlington cily jail on $250,000 bail an Derson said. Officers said the woman was not real Lucid or coherent said Anderson. She thought by shooting a policeman and being put in jail she would be an example to other people not to do it Anderson said. Officers said Evans was taken to Arlington memorial Hospital for an examination and was released. Cleveland teachers strike Cleveland a teachers in the stale s largest school District walked picket lines for a second Day Friday a negotiators continued to search for ways to end their strike and resume classes for 73.000 students. Admins raptors planned to Leach classes for 3.600 seniors starting monday if the walkout continued. The Cleveland teachers Union went on strike thursday after rejecting the school Board s latest contract offer. Talks resumed Friday afternoon under the guidance of a Federal mediator. I m hopeful and the parties seem re solved to try to make a Deal this week  said Craig m. Brown the school District s chief negotiator. Said Richard Farmer the Union s strike coordinator we would Hope they sit at the table until it s resolved. We Don t want a Long  the District cancelled classes Friday because of the strike by the 5,093-Mcm Ber Union. The closure was viewed As an Effort by school administrators to give negotiators in Marathon talks More time to reach a settlement. Schools spokesman John m. Hairs on said the school Board planned to seek a court order to limit the number of picket sat the District s buildings because of prob lems Friday. At Lincoln West High school pickets prevented admins raptors from entering the building to prepare for classes. Lennon s work Yoko Ono widow of John Lennon inspects one of his works titled bag one during the opening of a show of previously unreal eyed Union Art at � Chicago Art gallery on Friday. The col Lection includes Bronze sculptures Stone lithographs scr graphs tapes tries and kinetic Neon sculpture