European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes tuesday june 21,1988 anti Bias Law for private clubs of d justices Rule . Ordinance Legal Washington a the supreme court Man Ila let new York City bar discrimination against women and minorities by private clubs with More than 400 members giving cities and Stales new ammunition in i growing Legal assault on such practices. Try a unanimous vote the justices ruled thai the new York Law is constitutional at least As it a written. The Law Banning discrimination by Public accommodations exempts distinctly private  hut it deprives non religious group of that  if they have More than 400 members pro \ file regular Cal Scricc and regularly get i hair Mem Bers sues paid by non members such As the members employers. At least is other major cities Buffalo. Chicago Detroit  Angeles san Francisco and Washington have Cuc Lotf similar ordinances recently. The new York stale club association comprised of123 priv Iii clubs and associations challenged the new York City Law soon alter it was enacted in i Jufu. The City had initiated proceedings against four men Only clubs the 10,00.1-Mcmbcr new York athletic to Luh the 1,329-Mcmbcr University club the 1.900 member i Colury association and the i too member uni a league club. Lawyers Tor the club association argued thai the Law wrongly creates an irrefutable presumption that  arc not truly private if they have More than 400 members and meet the other criteria. In previous decisions the supreme court has Rule that Stales May Force the . Jay acct and rotary International to and Mil women As members. I uni International inst july voted o end its men Only tradition and allow its b.2qo clubs world wide to admit women. Bush honors 3 drug agents slain on duty Washington a View president George Bush inn Rcd three slain drug agents in a memorial ceremony an monday and said in Burns me up thai Federal drug enforcement officers Are Given so Little credit by politicians Orfei Lucr party. Lush was he featured speaker at a drug enforce ment administration service paying tribute to three officers killed in the line of duly during the past year Paul s. Seema and George m. Montoya. Bolh of los Angeles and Arthur l. Cash of Tucson.  vice president presented the families of the three of Viceri framed certificates signed by president Reagan and told an audience of about 150 Agency employees. We remember their unselfish behaviour an mourn them As  the vice president has called for the death penalty for major drug dealers and for those convicted of drug Lelaind murders. I really do believe the death penalty is the  told inc audience which gave him a standing ovation. He repealed his Call for increasing the certainty and the severity of  the nearly certain Republican nominee shared hostage with attorney general Edwin a Meese Iii who Lold the Dea employees that the Quality of the work you do is virtually  during the Brief ceremony the names of 40 drug enforcement employees killed since the 19 20s were read. Montuya and Selma were killed last february while conducting an undercover investigation in los an Geles. Cash was killed while transporting prisoners in Arizona in August 1987. Two justices who joined in inc opinion Anthony  and Harry a. Blackmun. Onee belonged to male Only clubs. Kennedy the court s newest Justice was criticize during his Senate confirmation hearings last year Tor his past membership in exclusive private clubs. Kennedy quit san Francisco s men Only All White olympic club after he was mentioned As a possible supreme court nominee. He had been a member since supreme court Roundup 1962. He quit the men Only Suiter club in his Home town of Sacramento calif., eight years ago. Blackmun recently quit the Cosmos club in Washington d.c., where he had held a longtime membership. The club for 110 years has barred women from becoming members a policy in voted saturday to abandon. In other action inc court overturned at least for now a contempt citation thai could have subjected the roman Catholic Church to 1100.000 a Day m fines for withholding document sin a lawsuit but the 8-1 ruling left unanswered key questions Inan a year old suit by a pro Choice coalition that says he Church s tax exempt status gives it an unfair advantage in the political Balle Over abortion rights. Agreed to study a dispute Over a Birmingham,ala., in for promoting More Black firefighter. The justices said they will study efforts by City officials and others to kill a Challenge by while firefighters who say the plan makes them victims of reverse discrimination. Agreed to decide whether Indian tribes May control through tribal zoning Laws die use of land owned by non indians within a reservation s boundaries. The justices in a Case of significance to any state i which a reservation is located said they will resolve a dispute involving the Yakima Indian reservation i Washington stale. Ruled unanimously that prison inmates May Stein Federal courts inc doctors who treated them behind ban the court reinstating a North Carolina inmate lawsuit said prison doctors both government employees and providers of medical services under con tract May be sued under a much used civil rights Law. Placed new limits on inc Power of slates to impose residency requirements that restrict inc number of Law yers licensed to practice within their Borders. The justices voting 7-2, barred Virginia official from reinstating a residency requirement successfully challenged by a lawyer living in neighbouring Maryland. Refused to order Tennessee to help pay for continuing efforts to racially desegregate Nashville area Public schools. The court without comment Lei land a ruling that shielded Ibe stale from making such expenditures. Refused to tree some states from haying to pay fora hypnosis expert when a penniless Ciminard Clendal challenges a prosecution witness s hypnotically enhanced testimony. The court without comment rejected an Appeal by Missouri prosecutors seeking to reinstate the rape conviction of a Man who was identified by the victim after she was hypnotized. The club Case is new York stale club association is. New York City 86-18 36. Blue and Gray for their wedding Day apply to or. David Schiller and his Bride Suzanne Bolh from West Germany walk under inc swords of fellow civil War buffs after the couple s maniac in Richmond a the newlyweds who Sejd they re Fisci Nazih by Early american history met at � civil War re enactment in inc United states. Deciding to get married they called on friends to help provide a Union confederacy setting Complete with uniforms majority making $30,000 satisfied with lives new York up a Survey of1,008 american adults with incomes in the $30,000 a year Range shows the. Majority believe hey have enough Money to live productive Happy lives Par Ems Magazine reported monday. The Survey found however that most of those polled would be a Loi happier i they had an extra $10,000-a-year in come. The message of the american Dreamis to go out and earn More and buy More bul these people Are already satisfied said Bob Marks the president of the eco nomic consulting firm stiff Tauey landmarks inc. Of those Happy with their incomes 72percent said they had no problem paying for housing 69 percent Aid they had no problem putting food on the table 36percent said they had Money for entertainment and 43 percent said they were Able 10 put Money into , 41 percent of those polled believe they Are missing Oul on some thine in life because they do not have enough Money for vacations a new House or a new car. Professor Henry Aaron of the Brook Ings institution wrote in he article that the results of the Survey showed a Signor National  the United Stales is certainly Rich enough for the majority of its Popula Tion to live a fulfilling life Aaro said