European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 10, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 5 Baltimore Bunny goes hopping for and wide Baltimore a thieves with a penchant for travel recently returned a wooden Rabbit used As a Lawn ornament along with 48 photos show ing the rambling Rabbit in such far off locales As Reno nov. And the Virgin islands. The Rabbit was taken last december from the Lawn of Harry and Louise West s racist Crown Home. It reappeared in August propped on the Windshield of the couple s car next to a bag of photographs. There arc All kinds of pictures. One where he s build ing a Sand Castle. One where he s looking at the bus station. One at the Airport said Louise West 68. It was gone about a year and just about two weeks ago my husband went out to gel the sunday paper and it was sitting on the we were angry for a while but then we just forgot about the missing Rabbit said West. 67. The Rabbit really got around in those eight months and even had been Given a name by its mrs. West said the location where the photograph was taken was written on the Back of each picture and the initials . Presumably for stolen Bunny Rab b Al were written in the margin of one. The Rabbit went West to Utah Kansas City mo., Andreno then Back East to Sample the big City life of new York Philadelphia and Atlantic City . Photographs were also taken at the Wright Brothers museum in Kitty Hawk. ., Florida s Disney world. Annapolis my. Bermuda and St. Thomas. The Well travelled Hare was even photographed with Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmock who is shown holding it in his right hand. How in the world the person got the mayor to pose with the Rabbit i can t imagine West told the Carroll county times. But Schmock never saw or touched the Rabbit his press Secretary Linton Coleman said Friday. The mayor has never seen the Rabbit. He s never held onto that Rabbit before Coleman said. Apparently it s somebody s idea of a in one photograph a woman wearing sunglasses is holding the Rabbit but mrs. West said she did not recognize of them Are a photograph with a girl in it and another is a scuba diver a girl mrs. West said. But we Don t know who did it really. It s not anybody that i the Rabbit s rambles were similar to the journey earlier this year of Grumpy one of seven Lawn dwarfs who disappeared from the front of a Saugerties . Couple s Home March 16. The 80-Pound Lawn ornament returned april 26, with an accompanying envelope containing 35 photo graphs of his travels which included visits to new York s Yankee stadium Colorado the Carolinas. Texas and St. Louis. A sign dangling from Grumpy s shoulders said. I m Marshall says court putting civil rights in peril by Linda greenhouse Bolton Landing . Not Justice Thurgood Marshall told a group of Federal judges Here Friday that recent supreme court decisions had put at risk not Only the civil rights of minorities but the civil rights of All in a speech to the annual meeting of Federal judges from new York connect Cut and Vermont the supreme court s Only Black member offered a stinging Cri Tique of trends on the supreme court. He was a bitter dissenter from Many of the court s major rulings in the last term including a series of decisions that made it More difficult to bring successful lawsuits for employment discrimination. It is difficult to characterize last term s decisions As the product of any thing other than a deliberate re trenching of the civil rights Agenda Marshall said. He said that 35 years after the supreme court ended the Era Flegal Segre gation with Brown is. Board of Educa Tion we have come full Circle. We arc Back where we started each supreme court Justice is As signed to one or two of the 13 Federal judicial circuits serving As a Liaison and Justice Thurgood Marshall handling some administrative duties. As circuit Justice for the second circuit which covers new York Connecticut and Vermont Marshall is a regular Visi Tor to the judges annual convention held this year at resort hotel on Lake George and has often used the occasion to criticize his colleagues. Referring to what he described As a marked change in the court s approach to civil rights Marshall said. We could sweep it under the Rug and hide it. But i m not going to do he said the most striking aspects of the court s civil rights rulings most of which were decided by 5-4 votes was the expansive Ness of the the majority went beyond the bound Aries of the Legal disputes involved he said to reach Broad and wholly unnecessary conclusions. Marshall said that throughout the court s history a restrictive approach to the rights of racial minorities coincide with restrictions on the constitutional rights of other groups such As political dissenters. We forget at our peril the historical lesson that civil rights and Liberty rights arc inexorably intertwined he said. On the basis of the court s rulings last term Marshall said he feared the court would soon lower the constitutional bar Rier Between Church and state. He urged civil rights lawyers to look beyond inc supreme court to state Legislatures and Congress for assistance. While we need not and should not give up on the supreme court he said we must broaden our perspective and target other governmental in another speech to the judges group chief judge James l. Oaks of the . Court of appeals for the 2nd circuit said that morale among Federal judges was at an All time Low As a result in part of the congressional rejection of a raise for Federal judges earlier this year. It is demoralizing and demeaning to have to go to Congress and the Public begging for a raise Oaks said. He added that some judges were thinking of leaving the Bench because they could not afford to remain while lawyers who once would have welcomed nomination to the Federal Bench Are now asking not to be considered. Minister Felt robbed and cheated by Bakker Charlotte. A a minister testified Friday he Felt robbed and cheated when he bought lifetime partnerships from television evangelist Jim Bakker for lodging in a hotel that was never built. After Bakker s trial recessed for the Day the same judge sentenced two former Bak Ker aides to up to 18 years in prison and fined them $500,000 each for tax evasion. The Rev. Alan poor pastor of the United Church of Christ in Cav Crown pa., testified at Bakker s trial that he was a monthly contributor to Bakker s but became angry when he Learned How Well Bakker lived. Poor s testimony completed last week s court proceedings on charges that Bakker used nearly $4 million in ministry funds to finance an extravagant lifestyle. Prosecutors say Bakker used funds from the Sale of partnerships in his hotels. Partners who gave at least $ 1,000, were told they were guaranteed a certain numb of nights per year in a hotel at the ministry s heritage Usa Retreat near fort Mill . When court recessed for the Day at lunch Bakker and his wife Tammy waved to a crowd of 300 people outside the court m going to get some rest Bakker said. Thursday was the first full Day of Testi Mony after the trial resumed following Bak Ker s breakdown and commitment to a fed eral prison for psychiatric evaluation the previous week. Bakker s former personal aide David Taggart was sentenced to 18 years and five months in prison and fined $500,000. His brother James Taggart. Pal s former Inte rior decorator was sentenced to 17 years and nine months and fined $500,000. They were convicted in july and faced up to 25 years in prison and fines of $ i million each. White Collar criminals seem to gel away with extremely Light sentences . District judge Robert Potter said before imposing sentence. It s time we do some thing about the Taggarty were convicted of evading taxes on Sli million in funds that they used to for personal luxuries Suchias a Trump Tower apartment in new York Jaguar cars Cartier watches and Gucci Taggarty left the courthouse without speaking to reporters. In 1986, poor said he saw Bakker on the club television show touting the Tower club and the Victory Warrior Mem testified on june 18,1986, he sent $ 1,000 charged on a credit card saying that was the last Day of a promotion altering two memberships for the Price of one. The Way i understood it i was buying into a time share for four Days and three nights each year poor said. But he said he never used the lodging because the hotel was t completed. Poor said he became angry when sent him a letter asking that he buy another said he disagreed with Bakker s rationale of blaming his problems on the Devil. How dumb docs he think people fool wrote in a letter to in april 1987. About a month after Bakker resigned from because of a sexual scandal. He wrote that he earned $ 18.000 a year and loved and forgave the bakkers but added until i a better and More Hon est use of my Money i will withhold my he said he got a response from asking him to Call. But he decided later to file a claim with . Bankruptcy court As a number of other partners did. Outside the courtroom. Poor said he Felt sorry for the bakkers. My heart goes out to them he said. But he quickly added that if someone commits a crime he has to his the biggest thing i wanted to hear was Jim and Tammy to say that they made mistake poor said. I never heard that. I feel i was Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept 10 1949 while addressing the inter parliamentary Union conference in Stockholm swedish foreign minister of Stan Unden reaffirmed Sweden s intention to pursue a Neutral policy in the event of War. 30 years ago foe a. Sept 10 1959 air Force officials announced the first Atlas intercontinental missile had been successfully fired from Vandenberg fab calif., tripling the Range of America s combat missiles. 20 years ago foday. Sept 10, 1969 an israeli military spokesman reported an israeli amphibious Force had crossed the Gulf of Suez and attacked egyptian army Camps in the biggest strike against Egypt since the 1967 Middle East War. 10 years ago today. Sept 10, 1979 the sixth Summit of the non aligned nations ended with representatives condemning Egypt s peace treaty with Israel but also rejecting cuban president Fidel Castro s suggestion to freeze egyptian membership
