European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday july 18,1988 isolation of . Inmates for beliefs ruled illegal stateside Washington a prison officials cannot Iso late inmates to prevent their Radical ideas from spread ing to other prisoners according to a Federal court ruling . District judge Harrington Parker ordered authorities at the Federal correctional institution in Lexington ky., to Transfer into the general prison Popula Tion two women held in an isolation unit because of their political beliefs. Defendants May be concerned that the two Plain tiffs will persuade inmates within the general prison population to share their political views but those fears cannot be accommodated at the expense of constitutional rights Parker wrote in his ruling. He said the designation of prisoners solely for their subversive statements and thoughts is the Type of Over reaction that the supreme court has repeatedly warned Parker barred the Bureau of prisons from consid ering a prisoner s past political association or personal political beliefs in deciding on transfers within Feder Al prisons. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties Union s National prison project the Center for constitutional rights the people s Law of fice and private attorneys challenging prison regulations. It was filed on behalf of three women held in the High Security isolation unit at the Kentucky prison. Lawyers for the women said they had been treated so inhumanely that they might be permanently psychologically harmed. Parker ordered the Bureau of prisons to rewrite it regulations and to Transfer Silvia Baraldini and Susan Rosenberg alleged members of leftist political groups into the general prison population. He added the treatment of the plaintiffs has skirted elemental standards of human decency. The exaggerated Security Small group isolation and staff harassment serve to constantly undermine the in mates a third prisoner represented in the lawsuit Sylvi Abrown had not been placed in the isolation unit be cause of her political beliefs and was not covered bythe Transfer order said the Acle s Alexa Freeman. Adjoa Aiyegoro Lead counsel for the prisoners said the ruling was a tremendous the decision vindicates the rights of prisoners to hold beliefs based on conscience she said. John c. Cleary who represented the Bureau of prisons in the lawsuit declined to comment on the ruling. At a hearing before Parker last month Cleary argue that the women were transferred into the unit because they posed a risk of external assault on the said there was no medical evidence to support claims they had suffered psychological harm. The Bureau has announced plans to close the Lexington unit and Transfer prisoners to a new High Security unit at Marianna Fla. Parker warned the Bureau to be careful that conditions at the new unit do not Lea to Wanton and unnecessary infliction of psychological Rosenberg is serving a 58-year term for possessing weapons and explosives in connection with a 1985 police raid in new Jersey and is one of seven recently indicted in the 1983 bombing of the . Capitol. Baraldini was convicted of racketeering and conspiracy in aiding a $1.6 million Brink s armoured car heist in Nyack n.y., in 1981. A guard and two police offi cers were killed. Down and dirty a construction worker wipes away dirt from the face of Robert Coronella who was trapped in a 12-foot Hole Friday at Harvard University. Coronella 28, was work ing on an Extension Between two buildings when it caved in. Firefighters and construction workers worked 45 min utes to release him. He suffered minor injuries. Sioux rally for return of sacred tribal ground Pipestone Minn. A about 65 indians atthe end of a 450-mile walk across South Dakota to a sacred Quarry softly Sang prayers in their native Tongue saturday evening seeking return of the site from the government. The indians undertook the monthlong walk to the Pipestone National Monument to highlight their opposition to Federal ownership of the Quarry and Sale of items made of its soft red Pipestone which the Sioux believe represents the blood of their ancestors. Curtis Frazier 49, a Cheyenne River Sioux fro Green grass s.d., marched the entire distance. He said the walkers were kept going by the Power of the sacred pipe made from the Stone and their commit ment to stopping what they see As its misuse. Frazier said he also worried that use of the pipe Stone to make souvenir pipes jewelry and other com Mercial items will deplete supplies. Protesters Brand film As demeaning to Christ Universal City Calif. A fundamentalist christians intensified their protest Over the movie the last temptation of Christ saturday by warning the chairman of a company involved in its distribution that the film threatens to harm jewish Christian relations. The film is demeaning to the figure of Jesus said protest organizer . Hymers jr., pastor of the fundamentalist Baptist Tabernacle of los Angeles. It pre sents Jesus As a demented about 200 demonstrators outside Universal studio called on Lew Wasserman chairman of Universal s Parent firm Mca to withdraw the film calling it an affront to christians the world Over. Sara Lee founder Dies from heart attack at 84 Chicago a Charles w. Lubin founder of the kitchens of Sara Lee has died after suffering an apparent heart attack while driving authorities said. He was 84. Lubin died at Northwestern memorial Hospital. In 1949 Lubin named his first special cheesecake after his 8-year-old daughter Sara Lee. He created the Rich dessert in one of three Small Chicago bakeries he bought with his brother in Law for $ 1,500 in 1935. A Chicago native Lubin had been apprenticed to Baker at the age of 14 in Decatur and returned to his Hometown four years later when the company moved to Chicago. Egypt hires . Firm to improve its air defense Fullerton Calif. Up Egypt has awarded a$159 million contract to Hughes aircraft co. To expand its air defense system the aerospace firm announced. Hughes a unit of pm Hughes electronics will Inte grate additional command and control Sites into the air defense system and provide software aircraft control displays Large screen displays computers and other electronics equipment. The network will enable Egypt to detect and Monitor unidentified aircraft approaching its Borders and initiate its defences. Egypt s new e-2c Early warning aircraft also will become part of the network to detect Low level aircraft at Long Range Hughes said. Late last year Hughes delivered and began on sit testing of the initial portion of the air defense system under a $210 million contract awarded in 1983. Weicker accepts nomination for 4th Senate term Hartford Conn. A p. Weicker jr., whose Liberal views have Long alienated him from conservative republicans invoked the name of Jesse Jackson in accepting the go nomination for a fourth term saturday. In a speech to the Republican stat convention Weicker called for renewed commitment to the nation s children re citing a Litany of failures in meeting their educational health and spiritual needs. He quoted from Jackson s testimony before the Senate committee on labor and human resources in which the democratic presidential candidate de scribed drug abuse As the greatest single threat to our nation s Weicker 57, faces Democrat Joseph i. Lieberman Connecticut s attorney Gen eral in november. The senator already has amassed $1.8 million in Campaign contributions and has key endorsements from labor and women s groups. We passed catastrophic health insurance and we left children out Weicker said. We called for a War on drugs no when the children were being destroyed in the inner City but when adults began to feel a Little uneasy in the suburbs. We allowed Young children with aids to be harassed put of schools he said. We Cut immunization programs to balance the budget. We ordered the government to organize prayer in the schools instead of taking our children to
