European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 21. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Fonda explains her position to Viet vets Naugatuck co. An almost spiritual i cling Between Viet Nam veterans and Aci Rew Jane Fonda who had angered Many of them by trav Eling to North Vietnam during he Viet Nam War has changed some feelings and led the local vow commander to Lake Down an anti Fonda poster promoting the sate of bumper stick cars that read i m not fond a Hanoi  St re lated item on Page 12, Fonda met privately for j i hours sat urday night with about 25 veterans from Connie Ticu and Massachusetts where her plans to film part of a movie this summer have been met with vigorous protests by mm1. Veterans. The i cling came i Day after she Apo Lugi cd in National television for hurling be tons will some of her anti War activities in judging posing for Pho los on a North vietnamese Ami aircraft gun during a trip to Hanoi in 197 and saying prisoners of War were lying about having been tortured. There seemed to be a genuine Bond ing Between Jane Fonda and the Viet Nam veterans who were present said Brian Powell a Naugatuck mailman who served in Vietnam in 1969-70, there was finally some clarity about her feel Ings about Why she did what she did Why she went o  Powell 37, said Fonda Lold the Veter ans hat in her anti War passion she did some things that were very stupid and wry hurtful so Vietnam  the atmosphere at the meeting was Al most spiritual in Nai Urc Poi cell raid add ing thai Fonda s message was that she was not an i i pc Tran she was  Fanon said in a statement issued Sun Day by her spokesman. Sieve Rivers Tiit she had wanted to meet with local Veter ans since january when protests heated up Over her plans to film Union Street in Walc Bury next door to Naugatuck and Holyoke mass. I be met with Vietnam veterans Many limes Over the years and i be teamed from that experience the importance of doing away with preconceptions and stereotypes Fonda said. That opens the Way for the Healing process. "1 thought it was a very Good meeting. We were totally honest wild each other and think we Learned a lot about each other. It was a very moving Cupric acc and i Hope a helpful one for All of  the meeting was set up by Rivers pow Ell veterans of foreign wars Post 1946 commander Robert l Gino Vest and the Rev. John Mccolly Rector of St. Michael s episcopal Church and also a Viet Nam Veteran. L was held at St. Michael s. James Sparrow executive director of Vietnam veterans agent Orange victims in Stamford said Fonda apologised a Hundred limes while the veterans to sign cd then the veterans asked questions. Gino Vest said that after the meeting he had a sign promoting Sale of anti Fonda bumper slickers and a poster Fea Turing a caricature of the actress taken Down in the vow Hall to go along with the spirit of the  everybody Learned a lot from every body else. I m not completely convinced. Bul we both have a Little belter under standing about each other now said Clayton Hough a former Marine from Holyoke mass., who lost both legs in Vietnam and wore an anti Fonda Hill Ion into the Church. The Waterbury Republican and Amer ican newspapers have printed about 450 a Ellofs on the controversy including let ters in Fonda s support from former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former senior and presidential candidate George me Golem. Legislator helps kids join families for father s Day Miami 1.4 for three men and their families the Best father s Day present was meeting their newly adopted children after a congressman Cut through eight months of frustration and bureaucratic delays. The four children from the dominican Republic Ages 16 munits i 7, and 9 years old entered the United states on probationary visas after rep. Wil Liam Lehman d-fla., intervened for the parents and adoption Agency. Lehman blamed the delay an the l a immigration and naturalisation service  a 1986 Law dealing with . Servicemen adopting children bom out of Wedlock in Southeast Asia. The ins said it was Only following the Law. In the meantime the four children were living in Foster Homes and most of the adoption paper work was completed. After months of appealing 10 ins administrators Lehman received permission to bring the children into the country on surely granted humanitarian parole. I think inc ins is like Many government agencies in enforcing Loehnis ealinies beyond their intent leh Man sind while waiting for inc children s arrival. Added Dianne Kach Ilcau Malaret. New Mother of the youngest child i be dealt with bureaucracies be fore but this is  the 5 and 7-year-Olds Are a brother and sister adopted by the same family. A third family adopted the 9-year-old. Lorri Kcal Long executive director of the Miami based Universal Aid for children adoption Agency accompanied inc children from the dominican Republic. The bureaucracy has to Showa Little More sensitivity she said. Quilt on display the names project Quill a cd Worful Patchwork of Matt Nan 4,000 individual 3-Fti t-hy6-feet quills made by friends and relatives of aids vice Lens from 50 stale and Sci countries la displayed Al bos Ion s Park Plaza Castle its in list Slop on a 211-Ciiy tour. Calif products liability Law headed for court test Sacramento. Calif. Api Cali fornia s consumer products liability Law which was passed As the result of a late night Deal and Grants immunity to cigarette makers among others will soon get its first appellate court lest. The la negotiated at a posh eatery two Blacks from the Capitol was passed As pan of a package of tort Reform legis lation approved last year. Supporters say it was designed to re Lieve court congestion by discouraging costly prolonged litigation like tobacco liability cases none of which has Ever been won by a plaintiff in California. Critics Call the Law a consumer rip off and say legislators have no business try ing to discourage such suits. One trial judge in Sacramento county has dismissed a tobacco suit because of the Law. But trial judges in Contra Costa Napa and Alameda counties have Dis agreed and those cases will be heard in the next few months by a stale appeals court in san Francisco. Ultimately All sides agree the Issue will have to be resolved by the state supreme court. Last week s landmark decision in new Jersey in which a jury for the first Lime found a cigarette manufacturer liable in the lung cancer death of a smoker renewed debate Over the California Law. It Grams immunity to manufacturers of common consumer products intended for personal consumption that Are found to be inherently unsafe and arc known to be unsafe by the Ordinary consumer who consumes the product Wilh the Ordi nary knowledge common to the comm  by specifically citing tobacco along with sugar Castor Oil alcohol and butter As an example of a common consumer product the Law singles out tobacco companies. California s legislation is unique in actually mentioning tobacco Laid Rich Ard Daynard a product liability professor at northeastern University Law school and chairman of inc tobacco products liability project in Boston a group thai encourages product liability lawsuits. A sell out i think it might be  almost As controversial As the Law it self is the Way in which i was developed in the hectic waning hours of the 1987 legislative session. Four of she state s most powerful special interests insurance Medicine business and Law participated in the final negotiations and a draft was written by Law makers on a Nap Kin at Frank fats a popular local restau rant. Consumer groups complain they were excluded from the final meeting. Ironically the tobacco Industry maintained a relatively Low profile m what was seen More As a Battle Between Law yers and insurance companies. The legislature has made a decision thai tobacco companies should be immune from the smoker and health Type suits based on the statute said Don Miles a san Francisco attorney rep resenting the , Reynolds tobacco company in a number of liability Law suits. In any event the Industry insists it ii innocent. No one has shown a causal relationship Between smoking and any disease said Jim Fyock a spokesman for . Reynolds in Winston Salem. , representatives of the tobacco Institute a Washington based Trade association declined comment on the stale s to Bacco liability Law the tobacco Institute has reported making Campaign contributions of More than ilu3,500 to California legislators and statewide officeholders by May 21, the Compromise containing the Law dubbed the Deal in the Capitol was hastily considered during hearings in the final six hours of the legislative year. Supporters say subjecting the deliberately ambiguously worded document to the usual drawn Oul legislative hearing process would have destroyed the fragile agreement