European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 30. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 court says retirees must be taxed alike Washington a Stales May not lax Federal pensions while exempting the pensions of retired stale and local government workers the supreme court ruled tuesday by an 8-1 vote. Lie court struck Down Michigan s differing lax treatment of the pensions received by retired government employees the Michigan Law violates principles of intergovernmental lax immunity by favouring retired stale and local govern ment employees Over retired Federal employees Justice Anthony m. Kennedy Drolc for inc court. He said Paul a Davis an East Lansing lawyer is entitled 10 a refund of s4,299 on taxes he paid from 1979 through i9sj. Davis who worked for the Federal government at various limes in his Ca reer challenged inc Michigan Taw thai allows Federal retirees living in the stale to deduct Only up to s 7,500 of their an Nual Federal pensions when computing i hair stale tax liability while allowing re tired employees of the state and local governments in Michigan to deduct All of their state pensions. Kennedy said he Law violates a Feder Al Law thai authorizes states to lax Federal employee if the taxation docs not Dis Criminate against the employee because of the source of the pay or compensation the justices rejected arguments by Michigan thai. Inc Law applies Only to Federal employees not to Federal pensioners and said the inequity May not continue. But they left it up to Michigan courts to decide whether the proper remedy would be exempting All Federal pensions from state taxes or exposing inc pensions of stale and local government retirees to some state taxation. According to the National association of retired Federal employees  five other Stales give preferences to stale or local government retirees no afforded 16 Federal retirees. Those Stales arc Arizona Arkansas Georgia new York and Virginia. Justice John Paul Stevens was the Lone Dis Sconier. I Rannold join the unjustified. Court imposed restriction on a stoic s Power to administer its own affairs he wrote in other action the court ruled that plaintiffs who win significant partial victories in civil rights lawsuits Are entitled to reimbursement for Legal fees even if they lose the Cen trial Issue ruled hat Federal criminal defendants who fait to persuade a judge to throw out their indictments because of alleged misconduct by prosecutors can not Appeal before icy arc tried and convicted. The unanimous ruling is a defeat for a Buffalo n.y., contracting firm charged with rigging bids in Selling liquid bituminous  the state. Actress pays family $20 million for Georgia town Braselton Ca. A actress Kim Basinger has bought this town for $20 million from a family that has owned most of it for More than a Century. Foil her Money she got about 1,800 acres inc town s water and  system an Industrial Park bordering interstate 85, a Bank a shopping Center with 70,000 Square feet of retail and storage space Sev eral Small businesses and about 50 Homes and other buildings. The papers for the Sale were signed monday night eight years after members of the r family put their holdings up for r Sale said Herbert a Braselton. Whose Grandfather William Harrison bras Cllon. Settled the Corrou Lilyin 1876. I in licit Braselton 69. Said tuesday from his hardware store that the Sale will close during the summer. It s very sad. We shed some tears today he said. Bui we re glad to get somebody we Trust Iha twillo this place  Basinger whose movies include Blind  " i weeks and the natural grew up in nearby Athens. Braselton said he does t know exactly what her plans arc for the town though he has heard she might renovate some of Hie older buildings and establish some sort of tourist attraction Braselton said 24 members of his family own Slock in the family holdings including the 1,800 acres which is 80 percent of the Northeast Georgia town. Most of the family members arc elderly and none of the younger Brasil on was Irik re std in holding onto the land he said. We be gotten to the age where we had to Lei someone else take Over. While we have our senses and can make Good judgments he said. Braselton said he does t know Liow much Money he will make on the Deal. What i receive will be ample he said adding that he is keeping his own residential property. He said u was a Relief to finally sell the land and he added that the family rejected numerous offers. I have a Box full of offers bras Cllon said. The primary difficulty was the terms. People wanted 40 years to pay. To people in their 70s and 80s, thai does t interest them. We got a Cash  Braselton about 40 Miles North , has about 500 residents. The  will not be affected by the Sale Braselton said. Basinger s father Athens businessman Don a Singer said his daughter would hold a news Confer ence to discuss inc Deal la Ler in the week. Calls seeking comment from Basinger s los an Geles Public relations firm pm were not immediately returned. 85 arrested in counterfeit bust $36.5 million in phony Bills seized new York al1 Law enforce Mcnol officers said tuesday they had seized �36.5 million  Bills and arrested 85 pc pc to crush the biggest counterfeit currency ring in . Secret service history. As strange As it May sound they planned to Lake the currency to colom Bia and use it to Purchase cocaine from drug cartels there said Assi Hani . At Torney Danic de Vita who prosecuted the Case instead the ringleaders got 3 Lilje greedy and started Selling the funny Money said do Vita. They got caught when it surfaced in american casinos Banks shopping malls and even Ai far away As Paris. Thirty of inc suspects most of hem Low level. Were arrested in new York and the rest in los Angeles Chicago and Miami during the two year investigation said Richard Ward special agent in charge of the new York secret service office. The five new York ringleaders including former used car Salesman fran Cisco  55, a uruguayan nation Al living in new to k City were arrested Between october and january. They pleaded guilty to a charge of creating counterfeit currency and Are await ing sentences of up to 15 years in prison. In All it s believed thai $80 million to 100 million in 10, 20, 50 and 100-Dollar Bills was cranked out at six locations in new York the bulk of it in inc Basc mini of ringleader Juan Moran Munoz an Argentine National said do Vila. Much of Hie Money was dumped or burned when the suspects realized the secret  onto them said . Al Gorncy Andrew Maloney. Last july sanitation workers found $18 million in chopped up Bills in a Bronx trash bin said Ward up to s2 million remains in circulation. We think most of these Bills arc of first o.ua1ity," said Maloney. To the in sophisticated1 person it could pass As real  hearing on drug testing delayed Washington a employees in the executive office of the president will have a hearing in a Federal court in May on their suit charging that mandatory random drug tests Are unnecessary and . A hearing had been scheduled in . District court Here for next month but at the request of the government it was postponed until May 11 so that the jus lice department could review a ruling by the supreme court last week. The White House has agreed not to Start testing until 10 Days after the hear ing if it is not prevented from doing so by the court. Jeffrey f. Liss an attorney for the american civil liberties Union which represents the employees said Mon Day night in Kansas City that the supreme coun. Decision did not answer the questions involved in the White . It is Clear that the court has left for another Day the determination of the constitutionality of random testing he said. The court allowed the government to lest Railroad workers after accidents and applicants for . Customs service jobs involving drug interdiction. In Early january 30 while House employees brought suit against presi Dent Bush to Block the testing one of More than 50 suits filed government wide to Stop the urine Sample drug Lesli although former president Ronald Reagan issued an executive order 2 i years ago tests have not begun in the White House complex1. The White House plans to ,520 of 1,850 employees in the agencies that make up the executive office of the president such As the office of management and budget the National Security coun cil the Council of economic advisers the Council on environmental Quality and the office of the . Trade representative  said these Are extremely Loyal people Loyal to the president and Loyal Tot government administration. They just think random drug testing is unconstitutional not justified an in Vasion of their privacy and demeaning Liss added. Wash state murderer wins execution stay Seattle a a Federal appeals court in san francises issued a stay tues Day for triple murderer Charles Rodman Campbell who had been scheduled thurs Day to become the tint person executed by hanging in the nation since 1965. The.9lh. . Circuit court of appeals granted inc stay pending its ruling on the Appeal and ordered additional briefs submitted by june 21. Campbell 34, had been sentenced to die Tor the 1982 revenge killings of 0 woman her 8-year-old daughter and a neighbor whose throats were slashed. The stay came just 33 Houn before the execution Sci for 12 10 a my thursday for Campbell at Washington slate Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Had he been hanged Campbell would have been the first person executed by that method in the United slates since Kansas put four men to death in 1�65. Including Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith whose Story was told in Truman capote s Book in cold  it would have been Washington s first execution in nearly 26 years and the 74th in Wale history. Hanging is Washington s official form of execution although a prisoner May opt for lethal injection Campbell so far has decided not to choose injection. Campbell was convicted of three counts of aggravated first degree murder for killing Renac Wicklund 31 her 8 year old daughter Shannah and a neigh Bor Barbara Hendrickson 51. The three were slain while Campbell was on work release from a prison sen tence for a 1976 sexual assault an Wick Lund doth she and Hindrickson had testified at his 1978 trial