European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 7 arrested in 1,100-Pound cocaine bust Miami a Federal agents seized about 1,100 pounds of cocaine and mad seven arrests saturday after the drug was driven from a haitian freighter to a Miami apartment while under surveil Lance by both the smugglers and the agents officials said. The freighter Dieu plus grand was watched by . Customs service agents after the illegal cargo was discovered in Aroutine boarding wednesday said Patrick o Brien special agent in charge of the Miami office. It was very Well concealed. We put everything Back the Way it was Sono one would know we had found it. Five haitians and two colombians we retaken into custody saturday. All seven face narcotics smuggling charges o Brien said. Agents found the cocaine in a water tank below deck but acted As if nothing had been found and arranged surveil Lance o Brien said. A Van came and people unloaded the cocaine from the vessel into the Van. They then left with the Van and we had extensive counter surveillance by the smugglers looking for us and followed it from place to place o Brien said. The smugglers stopped twice switched Drivers and had four cars following the Van but undercover agents kept up with them Obrien said. Agents made seven arrests and seized the drug which had been packed in vegetable Oil Cartons after Thevan stopped to unload its cargo at the apartment o Brien said. Convention debris a Backhoe operator scoops up debris As it demolishes the can presidential nomination at the gop National con podium from which George Bush accepted the Republic mention in the Louisiana super dome i new Orleans. Traffic patrolman who wrote bogus tickets keeps Job Louisville by. A a traffic patrolman who wrote More than 1,000 bogus tickets and gave some motorists a break will remain with the police depart ment his superiors have decided. I be lost 15 pounds Over this. It s a hard Way to diet said patrolman Michael Ghrist a 17-year Veter an of the Louisville police department. He was Given a 25-Day suspension last month after the deception surfaced and officials decided last week to keep him on the Force. I just could not bring myself to write tickets. I Hada conscience. 1 had a heart. I started seeing the human beings behind the wheel the 36-year-old officer explained in an interview thursday. A computer listing indicated Ghrist had written More than 1,000 tickets since 1981 to people for whom stat employees could find no Kentucky Driver s licenses chief Jefferson District judge Donald Smalley said. Initially officials thought Only 100 tickets were involved but said later the number had been understated because of poor communication within the department. There was no indication that he was shirking his duty City safety director Tom Kuster said. He was just wasting a lot of paper and screwing up the court s statistical  Ghrist said he started writing bogus tickets because if i gave too Many people Breaks my activity level would be too  Hinckley s request for Foster sketch Cost him trip Washington a a letter that John w. Hinckley or. Wrote to obtain nude sketch of actress Jodie Foster scuttled a mental Hospital s plan to take the presidential assailant out on a Field trip Accord ing to sources familiar with the Case. Hinckley s correspondence with a mail order House was discovered by the secret service after prosecutors found what the termed disturbing entries in Hinckley s treatment record at St. Elizabeths Hospital according to Hospital sources. One source said Hinckley obtained the drawing of Foster in the nude. A recurring theme in Hinckley s Case has been his obsession with the actress who played the role of a prostitute in the movie taxi Driver which concerned a plot to kill a senator seeking the presidency. Prosecutors contended that Hinckle shot president Reagan and three other men Here on March 30,1981, to impress Foster. Hinckley now 33, was acquitted by reason of insanity and was committed indefinitely to the Washington mental Hospital. Last year pictures of Foster were found in Hinckley s dormitory style room at St. Elizabeths before Hospital officials abruptly withdrew a request to allow him to visit his parents Over the easter weekend. The search was ordered by a judge after a psychiatrist Glenn Miller Dis closed in testimony that Hinckley had written to multiple murderer Theodore Bundy on Florida s death Row. During last year s court proceeding Miller testified that Hinckley was no longer obsessed with Foster about whom he had made daily statements during interviews five years earlier. But in psychiatric interviews last year Hinckley appeared embarrassed when the subject of Foster was raised and said his feelings about her had been Mere delusions Miller testified. Miller said Hinckley talked daily in 1982 of killing himself and Foster Bueno longer confused the actress with her movie role. In the latest episode the correspondence about the picture of Foster was turned Over to Hospital officials on aug. 11, the eve of a court hearing on the proposal to Tak Hinckley on a Field trip with other patients. The next Day the Hospital announced i court it was withdrawing plans to take Hinckley on the supervised Outing after officials determined that further clinical assessment by or. Hinckley s treatment staff is  prosecutors Are trying to persuade . District judge Barrington d. Parker to unseal the writings that were found by secret service agents. The Public should be aware of what these materials Are . Attorney Jay b. Stephens told reporters after the hearing. California High court disallows cohabitant s suit san Francisco a citing the state s inter est in promoting marriage the California supreme court has refused to allow a Man who saw his Lover killed in a car crash sue for emotional distress and loss of her companionship. Although a Lover s emotional injuries May be As Realand foreseeable As those suffered by a spouse or a Parent who have the right to sue society would suffer an intolerable Burden if suits were not limited to relationships recognized by Law the court ruled. The 6-1 ruling did not repeal the court s landmark 1976decision allowing one member of an unmarried couple to bind the other to an implied Promise of financial support. The state has a Strong interest in the marriage relationship wrote Justice Stanley Mosk for the majority. To the extent unmarried cohabitants Are granted the same rights As married persons the state s interest i promoting marriage is  he also said allowing a suit by a Lover would impose a difficult Burden on the courts which would have to decide whether the relationship was stable and significant and contained the emotional attach ments of the family  such an inquiry would also threaten a massive intrusion into the Pri vate life of the partners Mosk said. In dissent Justice Allen Broussard said there was nonlegal or social reason to prevent one member of a Cou ele living together to sue for emotional damage caused seeing the other partner injured. Such emotional injuries Are to be expected Given the widespread reality and acceptance of unmarried cohabitation Broussard said. He also noted that the ruling effectively forbids such lawsuits by members of homosexual couples who can not legally marry. The suit was filed by Richard Elden who was injured in a december 1982 crash in Pasadena that killed Linda Ebeling with whom he shared a Home. Elden sued Robert Sheldon the Driver of the other car accusing him of running a red Light. He sought damages not Only for his physical injuries but for his emotional trauma caused by seeing Ebeling killed and for loss of love companionship emotional support and sexual relations. His lawsuit for physical injuries was later settled but the second claim was dismissed by los Angeles Superior court judge George Xanthos whose ruling was upheld by a state appeals court. Those rulings and thursday s supreme court Deci Sion rejected rulings by a few appellate courts allowing suits by one member of a couple who claimed a Sta ble significant relationship equivalent to marriage. Mosk said the number of unmarried couples living together had increased dramatically and that there was no doubt some of these couples Are bound by emotional ties As Strong As those that bind formally married , he said a ban on lawsuits by unmarried was justified by Public policy and by the need to limit the Range of lawsuits that can be filed for an act of negligence. Married couples Are granted significant rights and ear important responsibilities toward one another which Are not shared by those who cohabit without marriage including duties of financial support Mosk said