European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 3, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 dog in flight Manny Rodriguez leans Back to make Way for his flying dog Paw Loco during workout at Sun splashed new mexi co state University in Las Cruces . The jauntily attired pair Are in training for a series of tournaments in which Paw Loco will vie with other Ca nines to determine the top dog when incomes to snaring a human thrown Fly ing disk. Longshoremen May Boycott ships from drug making nations Washington a the Leader of a longshoremen s Union says his Mem Bers might refuse 10 unload ships from drug producing countries As Tim bars of the cargo Industry work of. A plan tonight trafficking in illegal drugs. We d rather lose wages than lose our children John Bowers president of the International longshoremen s association said monday. Bowers statement came As . Cus Toms commissioner William von Raab announced a proposed agreement among his department airlines sea carriers and unions to combat drug trafficking. This is the first time that Industry labor and government have joined to Gether to put together a plan to combat drug smuggling von Raab said before a meeting with representatives of about 100 air and sea carriers where the plan was outlined. The agreement still in draft form Calls for carriers to impose strict Secu Rity standards at foreign and Domestic docks terminals and facilities and aboard their planes and ships. Bowers promised that his Union s110,000 members from Maine to Texas puerto Rico and Canada would help out. I told the commissioner Well have110.000 pairs of eyes out there looking to help him he said. Bowers noted that the longshoremen had Rufi Iid for 25 years to unload cargo from the soviet Union and recently paid$9 million in fines after losing a supreme court decision Over the Boycott. Bowers declined to say whether an country s cargo or ships already had been targeted for a possible Boycott or what criteria the Union would use to refuse to unload  assured the sea carriers representatives that he would make sure thei would be Swift and sure Justice for any Union member found helping drug traffic cars. If we take him Down there you won t need a court for him Bowers said. Any thing with my people. I la make sure they never work on the waterfront  of the carriers representatives wanted a Tariff imposed that would Cove their costs for the new Security measure the agreement would demand so the would remain competitive with carriers that Don t  Razzino the customs program manager for narcotics interdiction uncommercial cargo said such a decision would have to be made by  part of the agreement customs will provide Security training surveys of for eign and Domestic Sites and help in identifying potential smuggling opportunities. If a Carrier is found to be carrying illegal drugs customs will weigh the company s degree of general compliance before deciding on a  the anti drug abuse act of 1986, penalties for carrying illegal drugs went up to $1,000 per ounce of heroin and cocaine and $500 per ounce of Mari Juana. The act also authorized the Sei Zure of the  you help us prevent drugs from getting aboard your conveyance you Llave no problems with penalties and Sei zures Razzino  Raab estimated that 30 percent of the cocaine now entering the unite states is coming in by shipping con Tainer and said he expected that to in crease to 50 percent in the next two years and up to 80 percent to 90 percent by1992 because of a crackdown on other forms of trafficking. Central Park victim shows faint sign of recovery new York up a woman who was raped and beaten into a coma while jogging in Central Par showed a faint sign of recovery monday giving what appeared to be a High five to a Hospital nurse but the Outlook for a Complete recovery remained Bleak a metropolitan Hospital spokesman said in a statement. The 28-year-old Wall Street investment banker who remains comatose nodded her head when asked if a colleague could visit her and when a member of the nursing staff said hello the patient appeared to make a High five  the statement said. But it cautioned that her doctors remained deeply concerned about the patient s full recovery from the beating and she remained in critical condition. Meanwhile both mayor Edward Koch and Blac militants criticized full Page newspaper ads taken out by billionaire Developer Donald Trump calling for the death penalty. Bring Back the death penalty. Bring Back the police the ads in the four main metropolitan newspapers screamed in two Inch Type. At what Point did we Cross the line from the Fin and Noble Pursuit of genuine civil liberties to the Reck less and dangerously permissive atmosphere which Al lows criminals of every age to beat and rape a helpless woman and then laugh at her family s anguish the and said in part. Eight youths have been indicted on various charge sin the april 19 attack during a rampage through Cen trial Park. One 13-year-old boy was not charged be cause of his age. Koch criticized Hie and saying the crime Calls for appropriate punishment not  no Western society permits the death penalty for juveniles Koch said. The Trump and is an and that conveys Donald Trump is filled with  but asked if juveniles w to commit such crimes should be tried As adults Koch who supports the death penalty Foi murder and drug dealing replied  Illinois death penalty voided by Federal judge Springfield Iii. A a fed eral judge monday struck Down Illi Nois death penalty Law raising doubts about the Fate of prisoners now await ing execution. . District judge Harold Baker ruled that the 1977 Law gives prosecutors too much discretion in deciding when to seek the death Penally Violat ing . Supreme court directives that capital punishment not be imposed in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Prosecutors said they were confident the ruling would be overturned by the 7th . Circuit court of appeals in Chicago. If it is not overturned the decision would invalidate the sentences of 121 men facing the death penalty in the state. They include serial killer John Wayne Gacy convicted in 1980 of kill ing 33 Young men and boys in Chicago. No one has been executed under the Law which was upheld by the state supreme court in 1979. Judges threw out three earlier death sentences that emerged through the appeals process in Federal court but monday s ruling was the first to address the constitutionality of the Law. I think we knew that in some Case a Federal judge would Rule specifically on the statute said Theodore Gott Fried head of the state appellate de fender s office which handles appeals for death Row inmates. We did t know which Case it would  first assistant attorney general Michael Ficaro defended the Law. The Illinois supreme court has dealt with that Issue Over 60 times he said. We believe the statute is constr  Jay Miller director of Illinois american civil liberties Union Chap Ter said we re delighted with any decision that finds any death penalty Law unconstitutional. We think they re All unconstitutional. I Don t think there s any Way to write a death penalty Law that s constr  Legal experts agreed a ruling by the Federal Appel at court is virtually certainty. Should the . Supreme court decline to review that ruling it would in effect become the last word on the Law s Validity. Baker s ruling came in the Case of Charles Silagy who demanded the death penalty after being convicted in 1980 of a double killing in Vermilion county. Silagy who has been on death Row since August 1980, had his sentence appealed twice to the stale supreme court and once to the . Supreme court but was unsuccessful until his Case re ached Baker in one of the last stages of the appeals process. The state s capital punishment Law allows a trial court to consider a death sentence in certain circumstances such As a multiple killing when re Quested by the prosecution. The state supreme court upheld the Law in a 4-3 ruling in 1979. Dissenting Justice Howard c. Ryan whose Opin Ion was cited by Baker wrote our statute contains no directions or guidelines to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action by the prosecutor in either requesting or in not requesting a death sentence