European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday May 2,1989 French offer . Corking idea for rare old wine san Francisco a the French wine House chateau Lafite Rothschild is sending a task Force to the United states to record at no charge older bottles of the fabulously expensive Bordeaux. Starting tuesday in new York the experts will record some 2,000 bottles of 1962, or older vintages. The group also will visit Boston Atlanta Miami and Dallas. The Lafite team which was in san Francisco last year took reservations for the a corking service through next january. The demand said the company was  an 1806 Vintage the same year Napoleon ordered the blockade of Britain and construction of the Arch of Triumph in Paris will be among the wines to be Recor cd. A bottle from that year once sold for s31,000. There is no charge for this service said David s. Milligan president of Seagram Cha teau & estate wines co., the major Lafite importer in this country. The chateau docs it As the most remarkable after Sale service in the in  Milligan would say Only that the 1806 disowned by a collector in Boston whose identity he could t disclose. The recording is carried out by Lafite because As the wine experts say wine is Only As Good As its  old corks can become dry which Al lows air to seep into the bottle and can cause wine to spoil. A corking is especially needed for the nobler wines of the world made with the View that a very Good bottle May not reach the most Drinka ble period for years even decades and generations. Burden put on employers to disprove sexual Bias Washington a a sharply divided supreme court monday ruled that the Burden is on employers to disprove sexual stereotyping when they Are accused of discriminating against women. By a 6-3 vote the justices ordered further lower court hearings in a lawsuit against the accounting firm Price waterhouse by Ann Hopkins who said she was denied a partnership because of Macho attitudes that she did not behave sufficiently Ladylike. Monday s ruling also is a partial Victory for Price waterhouse. The court overturned a lower court ruling supreme court Roundup that would have placed an even heavier Burden of proof on the company. Moreover Only four of the justices agreed on the standards that should govern lawsuits alleging sexual stereotyping. The absence of a court majority enunciating Clear guidelines is Likely to sow confusion among lower courts when deciding such cases. Justice William j. Brennan in the court s main opinion said when someone proves that her gender played a motivating part in an employment decision the defendant May avoid a finding of liability Only by proving by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have made the same decision even if it had not taken the plantiff s gender into  joining his opinion were justices Thurgood mar shall John Paul Stevens and Harry a. Blackmun. Justice Sandra Day o Connor in a separate concur ring opinion agreed that in the Case of Price water House the Burden of persuasion should shift to the employer to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision concerning Ann Hopkins candidacy absent consideration of her  but o Connor said she docs not favor the Strong Medicine of forcing employers to Bear the Burden or proof in All such cases. Justice Byron r. White also concurred in monday s result. But in a separate opinion he said he would not require an employer to submit objective evidence to disprove sexual Bias in such cases. As Long As the employer credibly testifies that the action would have been taken for legitimate reasons alone this should be ample proof White said the three dissenters Are chief Justice William  and justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony m. Kennedy. They voted to kill Hopkins suit. Kennedy in his opinion for the three said there was ample evidence that Price waterhouse did not Dis Criminate against her intentionally. Hopkins quit Price waterhouse one of the nation s so called big eight accounting firms after she was denied promotion to partnership in 1983. She later became a consultant to the world Bank. In other actions monday the supreme court agreed to review a Challenge to the partial merger of Detroit s two daily newspapers. The justices said they will judge the Validity of former attorney general Edwin Meese s decision to allow the newspapers to form a joint operating agreement. Agreed to hear a Bush administration Appeal aimed at allowing the government to collect potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes from multinational corporations. Appeared to Clear the Way for a Federal trial against nine current and former syn anon foundation figures accused of illegally conspiring to regain the group s tax exempt status. Refused to hear an Appeal by hawaiian officials seeking to recover from Asbestos manufacturers the Cost of removing the product from Public schools in the state. Many parents stirred by mercy killing of baby Chicago a a funeral monday for a brain damaged baby who died after his father disconnected his Respirator has stirred memories among parents who have faced the impending death of a youngster they know will never get Well. Samuel Linares who had been severely brain damaged and comatose since swallowing a balloon last August at a birthday party was remembered at a private visitation sunday and a funeral monday attended by about 80 mourners. The 15-month-old boy s father Rudy Linares is charged with first degree Mur Der. Police say Linares 23. Held off Hospital workers at gunpoint unhooked his son s Respirator and cradled the boy until he died. He said later that he did it " because loved my son. 1 love my  free on Bond Linares attended the Best Sellers boy s private funeral at Mary Queen of heaven Church in suburban Cicero. He and his wife Tamara. Sat in the front Pew with their other two Small children. Over and Over again we ask Why and there is no answer. Not All the priests All the Bishops All the Popes All the moralists can answer the question Why the Rev. John r. Price said in he Eulogy. The boy s death has prompted an out pouring of Calls trom parents whose Chil Dren have died. Though some said they were disturbed by Linares methods Many sympathized with the emotions that drove him. And the boy s physician or. Gilbert Goldman director of the paediatric intensive care unit at Rush Prysby Tyrian St. Luke s medical Center said mercy should be used in dealing with the father. I kept telling the dad Linares know it s terrible but it won t last much longer " Goldman said of the boy s coma. He said Samuel beat medical Odds by staying alive so Long. Susan Maher a Parent said she understands what Linares went through during those months. Her daughter Elizabeth spent the first two years of her life at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago the victim of cerebral palsy and chronic lung disease. Maher said there were times she considered unplugging Elizabeth s life sup port equipment. A lot of times there is hardly any body else in the Hospital unit she  could do it. 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