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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 victim s father asks soc to ban Kimball Dallas up the father of teen Ager struck and killed by a car driven by diver Bruce Kimball said saturday the . Olympic committee should ban Kimball from participating in the 1988 summer olympics if he makes the team. Robert e. Bedell whose 19-year-Oldson, Robert k. Bedell was one of two people killed appeared at an afternoon news conference called by mothers against drunk Drivers to join in add s efforts to keep Kimball off the olympic team. All of Robbie s future plans have been wiped out by or. Bruce Kimball the elder Bedell said. I urge the .olympic committee to not allow or. Kimball to participate in the olympic games. The olympics Are a Symbol of sports Manship Honor discipline and leadership added Bedell who filed a Law suit Friday seeking damages from Kimball. Or. Kimball s actions disqualify him from a position As a role Model for our  Kimball the 1984 olympic Silver medallist in the platform Competition faces up to 45 years in prison on Drunken driving charges stemming from the crash near Brandon fla., that killed Bedel land Kevin Gossic 19, and injured six others. He is free on $ 10,000 bail. The state attorney s office refused to release the results i blood alcohol tests but the Tampa Tribune has reported the results showed 0.20 percent or twice the level the state of Florida recognizes a legally drunk. The Ann Arbor mich., diver failed tomake the olympic team in springboard diving but was in Contention for a berth Jennifer Beck left and Shari Wilson both of Brandon fla., protes Kimball s participation in olympic diving trials in Indianapolis. A diver Bruce in the platform Competition saturday i Indianapolis. Related Story Page 26. The Competition was marked by a pro test from friends of the dead teen agers and watched Over by private Security guards. Bedell s father and his Fiancee Daw Berrios sat silently at a news conference As Madd chairman Robert l. Beck demanded that the . Olympic commit tee take action against Kimball. If Bruce Kimball is allowed to rep resent our nation in the olympics i would be a mockery of the olympic Ide als Beck said. Being on the .olympic team and representing our nation is a privilege not a right. Bruce Kimball has lost that  did not take it away from him. He has disqualified  Beck who sent a letter Friday to soc officials seeking Kimball s Dis qualification said he had not heard fro the committee but that Madd would continue to press the Issue even if Kim Ball fails to make the team. Anyone accused of Dpi in t the kind of person who should be represent ing this country Beck said. Even if he does t make the team we think the olympic committee should take som sort of action. If it s a rules problem change the  Beck said Madd which has its head quarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving was asked to hold its news conference i Indianapolis but chose not to do so. He said Madd will not attempt to disrupt the trials and would not encourage its members to do so. Berrios who met Robbie Bedell fou years ago when both were on their High school basketball teams became visibly upset when Madd officials quoted Kimball As saying he would not drop out of the olympic trials because he had dedicated 21 years of my life to the sport of diving and has a Strong Bond of commitment to his family and sup porters. Well i m an athlete and so was Robbie she said. At least he has had 21 years. Robbie did t even make it to 20." Fri kept file on supreme court documents show Durham . Not the Fri kept a confidential file on the . Supreme court from 1932 until at least 1985, according to recently obtained Fri documents. The 2,076-Page file much of it compiled during the tenure of director j. Edgar Hoover contains every thing from suspicions about possible communist influences on the court in the 1950s to the use of court employees As Fri sources. The file was obtained by a Durham lawyer and free Lance journalist under the Freedom of information act. Other Fri documents obtained earlier show that the Fri wiretapped or monitored conversations involving four members of the court chief Justice Earl Warren and and associate justices William o. Doug Las Abe Fortas and Potter Stewart. It is not Clear from the documents whether All the conversations occurred while the four were on the court. Nor is it Clear in most instances whether the Fri listened to actual conversations of the four justices or conversations involving them. Stewart who served on the court from 1959 to 1981, was heard in two monitored conversations. He was not the target of the wiretap the Bureau documents show. The dates of the conversations and the target of the investigations that occasioned the wiretaps were not revealed. Ramsey Clark who was attorney general from 1967 to 1969 and As such officially in charge of the Fri said he had not been aware of such a file on the supreme court. Told of the file whose existence was first reported last week in the Durham morning Herald Clark de scribed the disclosure As worrisome considering the history of the Fri and its  Clark said he did not recall Ever being asked to authorize electronic surveillance of a Justice or being told of a wiretap involving a Justice. Spokesmen for the Fri declined to comment. Kenneth o Reilly professor of history at the University of Alaska at Anchorage and author of Hoover and the a americans said that wiretapping was so pervasive from the 1940s to the 1960s that virtually everyone was overheard who was important in Washington politics. The documents which include newspaper Arti cles clippings from the congressional record an internal Bureau memorandums show the Fri s relations with and changing attitude toward the supreme court from 1932 to 1985. The earlier material includes references to per Sonal favors such As help with travel arrangements that the Bureau furnished for the justices and their families. Much of the material after Hoover s death in 1972 includes references to Security checks for prospective court employees that the Fri furnished at the court s request. In the late 1950s, the Fri became increasingly concerned about what it believed were pro communist decisions by the court. Fri records previously released show that Douglas loyalty was questioned by Hoover and his top aides in that Era because of his views involving the constitutional rights of communists. Also according to the file select court employee served As Fri sources of information during the Rosenberg atomic spy Case in the Early 1950s. The chief of the supreme court police capt. Philiph. Crook was described in a 1953 memorandum As having furnished immediately All information heard by his men stationed throughout the supreme court building. He kept special agents advised of the arrival and departure of persons having important roles in this  an Fri memorandum states that Harold b. Wiley then clerk of the supreme court made suggestions to Fri agents As to the Best places to be in order to know at once what action individual judges or the court As a whole was taking. They also advised As soon As legally possible any action contemplated by the defense Law  Gey s owner seeks bankruptcy Relief Houston a the owner of a Honky ton made famous in the movie Urban Cowboy filed for Protection from his creditors one Day after he was Topay a $16 million judgment to the club s namesake country Singer Mickey Gilley. Sherwood Cryer owner of Gilley s club in Pasadena Texas Friday filed for Protection under chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy code. The petition said Cryer had $500,000 in assets endowed $ 18 million including the judgment a Houston jury awarded Gilley last month. The filing automatically froze Legal proceedings involving Cryer or his company which also filed. Gilley sued Cryer in april 1987 claiming he was no paid his half of about $17 million in revenues received by Gilley s enterprises inc., a company he and Cryer founded in the 1970s.Gilley claimed about $ 11 million of that Money was  District judge David West ordered Cryer to pay Gilley nearly $8 million in actual damages and $8million in punitive damages. Cryer also was ordered to change the name of the  thursday Gilley filed a lawsuit in state District court accusing Cryer of giving property including corporate Stock business enterprises Cash and inventory to friends and relatives to avoid paying the judgment. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 22, 1948 seventeen men died when a b-29bomber crashed a few seconds after taking off from an air Force base near rapid City . 30 years ago today. Aug. 22, 1958 the . General Assembly ended an emergency session with unanimous approval of a peace plan for the Middle East. The plan rep resented a rare show of unanimity by All 10 Arab nations in the . 20 years ago today. Aug. 22, 1968 the soviet Union and four of it sallies invaded Czechoslovakia and took czechoslovak Ian Leader Alexander Dubcek prisoner. President John son denounced the invasion As tragic and contrived and appealed to the soviet Union to withdraw. J 0 years ago today. Aug. 22, 1978 Vietnam announced that it had found and would return the remains of 11 american servicemen listed As missing in action in the Vietnam War  
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