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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday february 22,1989 ruling gives takes some in states War against porn a doing very Well Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis said tues Day in Boston that his wife Kitty is terrific and is doing very Well after two weeks of treat ment at an alcoholic rehabilitation Center. She voluntarily entered the Center in Rhode Island on feb. 6. He has attributed his wife s excessive drinking to the stress of his unsuccessful presidential Campaign and the postelection  Washington a the supreme court tuesday ruled states May use anti racketeering Laws to fight pornography but invoked free speech rights to ban the states from seizing before trial the contents of adult bookstores. The justices said authorities unlawfully seized the con tents of a fort Wayne ind., Bookstore before any materials in the store were judged obscene at a trial. But by a 6-3 vote the justices said prosecutors still May use the state s anti racketeering Law to renew the obscenity Case. Justice Byron r. White writing for the court said the Constitution s free speech protections do not bar states from using alleged acts of obscenity As a basis for an anti racketeering Law. Supreme court Roundup in other matters acted on tuesday the court allowed Kentucky to begin enforcing a 1986 Abor Tion Law that includes provisions for parental notification. Refused to reinstate the pandering conviction of a Hollywood producer for hiring actors to perform sex acts in a film. The California supreme court had thrown out the conviction As violating the producer s Freedom of expression. Rejected a constitutional attack on a Texas seat Belt Law letting stand a $35 Fine against a Houston lawyer for not buckling up. The court declined to kill a $90 million lawsuit against evangelist Jimmy Swaggart by a defrocked evangelist Swaggart had accused of adultery. Let stand rulings that the Public has no right to attend so called summary jury trials held in some Legal disputes. Three Ohio newspapers had sought to Force such proceedings to be held in open court. Agreed to referee a dispute Between the . Government and american businesses Over whether firms receiving Money because of claims against Iran must  part of the Money to the . Government. White said the Indiana Law went too far in permit Ting prosecutors to padlock adult bookstores before obscenity trials. While the Constitution generally permits seizure of suspected contraband material White said it is otherwise when materials presumptively protected by the first amendment Are involved. Probable cause to believe that there Are valid grounds for seizure is insufficient to interrupt the Sale of presumptively protected books and films he said. In a dissenting opinion justices John Paul Stevens William j. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall said the obscenity charges against fort Wayne books inc. Should be thrown out. Stevens writing for All three said Indiana s Law Vio lates the Constitution. The Law was used in March 1984 against three fort Wayne bookstores Selling sexually explicit material. Law enforcement officials padlocked the stores and seized All inventory. The three fort Wayne stores were allowed to reopen in april 1985. But Only one fort Wayne books re Mains in business. The supreme court tuesday also upheld rulings that permit the Howard county ind., sheriffs office to charge Ronald Sappenfield with distributing obscene material and violating the state Rico Law. That Case has yet to go trial. The cases Are fort Wayne books is. Indiana 87 470, and Sappenfield is. Indiana 87-614. Arrests dope seizures break big heroin ring new York up the Fri and police seized More than 800 pounds of heroin and $3 million in Cash in Queens ., and arrested at least 19 people in four cities in raids that smashed a major International asian heroin trafficking ring authorities said tuesday. The . Attorney s office in Brooklyn said it was a record heroin bust for new York and possibly the country. In 1986 and 1987, authorities seized Only 500 pounds of heroin nationwide said Anne Driscoll spokeswoman for . Attorney Andrew Maloney. Figures for last year were incomplete. One of those arrested was reputed to be a notorious chinese heroin Boss in his 70s who has Long been sought by Federal prosecutors she said. His name was not immediately re leased. Agents from the Fri and the new York City police department s organized crime control Bureau swooped Down on three locations in Queens about 9 . Monday and found the heroin stuffed in boxes loaded in cars and u haul trucks for transport she said. Officials were still trying to calculate How much heroin was seized but it was said to be about 838 pounds. Agents also seized some $3 million in Cash at the Queens apartments Driscoll said. Simultaneous with the raids in which several people were taken into custody at three apartments in the City Federal and local Law enforcement officials across the country moved in and arrested suspects in los Angeles san Francisco and de troit she said. At least 19 people were arrested in the crackdown that capped a More than yearlong investigation of the ring Dris Coll said was run by chinese from Hong Kong Singapore and Taiwan. Teen adm is she s Mother of Newborn girl she found Rochester  A a teen Ager who last week said she found a new born baby on her family s Back porch has admitted she is the infant s Mother and says she concocted the Story because she was afraid. Tiffany Anderson 16, told police she gave birth to the 7-Pound girl in the fam ily s Bathtub thursday evening. She had told her family she found the baby wrap Ped in a Towel and left in a Box on a pile of garbage bags on the Doorstep when she went out to quiet a cat i did t mean to lie but i got really scared and did t know what to do or who to Tell Anderson said in a statement filed in City court. I am very sorry for All the problems that i have caused. I was just scared about  Anderson apparently hid her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes and saying she was gaining weight. She said pressure from her Boyfriend the baby s father was one reason she hid her pregnancy according to police investigator Terry Sheridan. The girl admitted the baby was hers monday after a doctor confronted her because she had lost 16 pounds since her last exam. She then told her Mother who called police. Anderson was charged with a Mise Meanor falsely reporting an incident. The baby Tiffany Kisha is in Good condition at Strong memorial Hospital. She was scheduled to be released by mid week. High tension Rescue firefighters perform a precarious a High tension Power lines on monday never to Rescue Robert Mahnick 41, of the Accident in Chippewa township in Baden pa., who was burned when his Beaver county pa., left Mahnick hang ultralight aircraft became entangled in ing upside Down for 45 minutes  
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