European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday october 3,1989 justices to review decision striking Down police checkpoints for Drunken driving Washington a the supreme court on monday agreed to decide whether police nationwide May try to curb Drunken driving by stopping motorists at sobriety checkpoints. The High court said it will review Michigan court rulings that threw out the state s sobriety checkpoint program As an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Courts in other states have upheld virtually identical checkpoint programs. Michigan state police first used sobriety Check Points modelled after a program used in Maryland in 1986. At one site police directed All traffic headed in one direction to a Roadside area where officers checked motorists for signs of intoxication. If there was no immediate evidence of intoxication the Motorist was Given a traffic safety brochure and allowed to drive away. The average delay was about 30 seconds. If some signs of intoxication were detected a Driver was directed to another area for further questioning and perhaps a breath test. At one such checkpoint Michigan state police troopers checked 126 vehicles in less than an hour and detained two Drivers for sobriety Field tests. One Driver was arrested on a charge of Drunken driving. The state police department was sued soon after the checkpoint program began. The lawsuit alleged that the checkpoints violated the fourth amendment s ban on unreasonable police searches and seizures. Zenith Selling computer Branch to French firm Chicago a Zenith electronics corp. Said monday it is Selling its fast growing computer Branch to a French company group Bull to concentrate on con Sumer electronics the weaker segment of its business. Zenith is the last major  manufacturer of televisions a business that has usually lost Money for the company in recent years. Zenith said it expects the Purchase Price for the computer business to be less than $635 million with the exact amount to be based on the value of the com Puter business when the Deal is closed probably by the end of the year. The Deal is subject to shareholder and regulatory  of Glenview  Zenith s computer sys tems and components expanded by 23 percent to $1.6 billion last year compared with a 2.7 percent increase in consumer electronics sales which totalled $1.1 billion. Despite its fast growth Zenith s chairman. Jerry k. Carlman said the computer business is saddled with a Large amount of debt that has restricted Zenith s ability to realize the full potential of its consumer electronics  will emerge As a conservatively financed company better prepared to capitalize on our strengths in consumer electronics he said. Zenith said it will concentrate on new consumer electronics technologies such As High definition Tele vision which gives an extra Sharp picture. Zenith turned a profit of $11.7 million last year its first annual profit in four years but had a net loss of 17 million for the first half of 1989. A state judge and a state appeals court ruled that the checkpoint program was unconstitutional. The appeals court cited the potential for an unreasonable Subjec Tive intrusion on individual Liberty  the Michigan supreme court last feb. 22 refused to review the lower court rulings. In other action monday the court agreed to decide whether Public employers May be forced to put aside partisanship when hiring promoting and transferring workers. The court said it will hear an Appeal by two men and a woman who said their Job status suffered because they did t support the Republican party in Illinois. Let states file criminal charges against employers accused of neglecting the health and safety of workers. The court without comment let stand a ruling in an Illinois Case that Federal workplace regulations do not bar such state prosecutions. Agreed to consider increasing the Federal govern ment s Power to keep some accused criminals behind bars while they await trial. The court said it will review a ruling in a new mexi co Case that forces the government to free on bail some defendants deemed to be dangerous or Likely to flee before trial. Turned aside an Appeal by three people convicted of trespassing for handing out anti abortion booklets to students outside a Texas High school. The court without comment let stand rulings that distribution of the literature on school grounds was not protected by the Constitution s guarantees of free speech. Turned away an Appeal by an evangelical Chris Tian group ordered to return most of the $6.5 million donated by a wealthy woman who is no longer a Mem Ber. The court without comment let stand rulings that the group the Bible Speaks received the donations after exerting undue influence on department store heiress Elizabeth Dayton Dovydenas. The religious group now must return $5.5 million. Refused to revive an allegedly abused Foster child s Federal lawsuit against the social workers and government Agency that placed him in his Foster Home. The justices without comment let stand a Federal appeals court ruling in a Maryland Case that no such right to sue exists. Turned away appeals by eight mafia figures from new York City convicted in the 1979 killings of crime chieftain Carmine Galanic and two of his associates. The court without comment let stand the Federal racketeering convictions of family Bosses Anthony Salerno. Anthony Corallo and Carmine Persico High ranking mobsters Salvatore Santoro Christopher fur Nari and Gennaro Langella and  members Anthony ind Cicalo and Ralph Scopo. Pilot Steve Lencl 32, of Rowley mass., inspects his plane after making an emergency Landing on the new York state thruway. The aircraft lost Power while unexpected parking spot lowing an advertising Banner Over Newstead n.y., and Lebel took advantage of a Large break in traffic to set the plane Down on the Highway. House oks 4.9% benefits boost for disabled vets Washington a the House on monday approved a 4.9 percent Cost of Liy ing increase in benefits for some 2.5 Mil lion disabled veterans and their survivors. The increase effective dec. I would raise from $1,468 to $1,539 a month the Basic Benefit payment for a Veteran with 100 percent disability resulting from his or her service in the military. Maximum monthly benefits would Rise from $2,559 to $2,684 under the legislation which was approved without opposition on a voice vote. The increases will raise the annual Cost of veterans disability arid survivor benefits now estimated at $10.2 Bil lion _ by $398 million in fiscal 1990, which began on sunday and by $525 million in fiscal 1991, according to the congressional budget office. Also approved was legislation extend ing Vietnam Era i Bill education Bene fits to 1977 and 1978 graduates of the military academies and 1978 graduates of Reserve officer and training corps programs at other schools. In addition education benefits for Mem Bers of the military reserves now limited to undergraduate College courses would be expanded to cover graduate school courses technical schools correspondence courses and on the Job training. The package of legislation also renames the department of veterans affairs outpatient clinic in Daylong Beach Fla., after for Mer rep. William v. Chappell jr., a Fla. Its medical Center in Leavenworth kan., after former president Dwight d. Eisenhower and its outpatient clinic in mount Vernon mo., after former rep. Gene Taylor a to. It also orders the army to set aside an appropriate area at Arlington National cemetery for the unmarked burial of Cre mated remains