European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 8, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7mobil ends fight to keep reports sealed up Sou Newark . Apr Mobil Oil corp. Has Given i its fight to keep confidential environmental reports Ighel by a fired employee who is suing the company led. Mobil said late last week it had dropped its Appeal of an unseating order to Speed the 2-Ycar-old Case along and to put to rest what it called Quot recent unjustified speculation Quot in the Media that it was trying to hide wrongdoing. The papers themselves several dozen environmental assessment reports on Mobil s chemical plants and attorney comments about them shed Little new Light on arguments already made by attorneys for the dismissed employee Valcar Bowmanjr. Of Riverdale a. Bowman was fired in april 1986 As Mobil chemical co s no. 2 environmental official. Mobil said he was fired in an economic cutback. Bowman 47, says it was because he refused to go along with a cover up of environmental problems a an allegation Mobil denies. Mobil opposed an Effort by attorneys for Bowman and the associated press a which . District judge Harold a. Ackerman allowed to enter the Case a to have the documents unsealed. Ackerman unsealed the papers and Mobil appealed to the 3rd . Circuit court of appeals. The company withdrew that Appeal thursday. Company attorney Ron Neill said Mobil fought As hard As it did to uphold the principle behind the environmental Protection Agency a policy of critical self assessment in which industries police themselves when regulators can to. A if these documents Arentt afforded some privacy people Are going to be disinclined to do them if the local newspaper is going to splash them on the front Page a said Neill. Quot it was Public  the Promise of secrecy was used As an incentive to recruit companies to make such reports said Lee m. Thomas who was Epa administrator when the policy was set Forth in the mid-1980s. But when news reports about Bowmans Case and the struggle Over the documents disclosure came to Light Mobil s need a to defuse the myth that we were trying to conceal something Quot held Sway. Neill said. To first amendment lawyers it was an important Victory. If Mobil won. It a would have created a new class of evidence shielded from Public scrutiny Quot said Thomas Alt Rev. An attorney for the new Jersey press association. A this is a very limited and discreet intrusion Quot into the self critical process he said. A court decision allowing the documents to be kept scaled he said would have been a serious departure from the principle that a evidence introduced in a Public court proceeding is part of the Public  Thomas said such reports should be released Only in Quot tightly controlled  Quot this May be one of them Quot he said but added he could t Tell if their release in the Mobil Case would have a chilling effect. As for the papers themselves they done to go much beyond excerpts contained in Bowman s court briefs which have been reported on previously. The briefs quote a Mobil attorney s memo spotlighting Quot admissions of non compliance Quot of environmental regulations and How Mobil executives could be subjected to potential Legal action if they knew about them. Getting an eyeful de Kraynik a patient at state of new York College of optometry in new York City models miniature telescopes mounted in the lenses of his glasses while holding a predecessor to the new invention. The device called Clear View Lens is designed for people with severe sight impairment. Murder victims parents say suspect should not have been paroled Rochester . Apr the parents of a murder victim said saturday they Are outraged by a Legal system that paroled the killer who police say killed their daughter and 10 other women most of Horn were strangled. A the should suffer like my baby did a said Diane Stanisci the Mother of 29-year-old Elizabeth Gibson whose body was found nov. 27 outside Rochester. Arthur j. Shawcross 44, was charged with murdering eight women in the Rochester area since March 1988 and police say he is linked to three other slayings. Including Gibson s. Those cases will be presented to a grand jury. Shawcross pleaded innocent Friday to the eight murder charges and was ordered held without bail. Shawcross was convicted of strangling an 8-year-old girl in 1972 in Watertown. 150 Miles Northeast of Here and served 15 years of a 25-year sentence before being paroled in 1987 and settling in Rochester. A the punishment should fit the crime a said i Juno Stanisci Gibson s father. A i think that after killing that Little girl. His life should have been taken. What about the rights of the people who Are dead Quot new York state does not have a death penalty. A i fee better knowing they got him. But i Don t Feci better knowing what they re going to do with  Dianne Stanisci said. A the s going to go to jail and the taxpayers Are going to have to support him.,&Quot police had been investigating the deaths or disappearances of 16 women but now say that five of the slay Ings Are not related to the others. A that hurts  said Alnora Carter the Mother of 27-year-old Jacqueline Dicker whose killing Iasi summer has not been linked to Shawcross. A if they done to find who murdered my daughter i done to know what in a going to  Shawcross appeared to be leading a Normal life since he was released from prison said Edward Fewin executive director of the states parole division. He kept regular appointments with parole officers and worked for a food scr Viec company. Police said Shawcross became a suspect when investigators in a stale police helicopter spotted his car close to where a victim s body was recovered. Twin defended the decision to release Shawcross pointing out that if he had not been paroled in 1987, he would have been automatically released from prison last year because of Good behaviour. A you can say a i can hold him for another two years. Or you can say. A he has been Good for 15 years. What Good will it do to keep him two More a a said  postponed Honolulu apr the Navy has postponed searching the Ocean floor for the cargo door that Tore off a United air lines Boeing 747-100 last feb. 24, creating a Hole through which nine passengers were sucked 10 their deaths. The falling door was tracked on radar and is believed to be lying in 14.600 feet of water 100 Miles Southwest of Honolulu. The search originally scheduled for october has been postponed until mid March because of delays in the development of the Navy s Quot Orion Quot deep sea search system said it. Bob Anderson spokesman for the . Pacific  targets veto of Law aiding chinese students Cambridge mass. Apr about 200 chinese students and a . Congresswoman have met at Harvard University to organize opposition to president Bush a veto of legislation protecting chinese students from deportation. Rep. Nancy Closi d-calif., the Bill s sponsor encouraged students at the meeting saturday to pressure legislators to override the veto. The measure which received overwhelming support in Congress would prevent the immigration and naturalization service from forcing chinese students to rectum to their Homeland after their student visas expire. Bush argued that a presidential directive would serve the same function As the Bill. Pelosi said however that a directive was not As Strong As an executive order and can be withdrawn whenever the president pleases. Zhao hatching chairman of the National committee on chinese student affairs said White House officials had told him the veto was necessary to give the president flexibility in foreign policy. Quot what does the administration mean by flexible we done to want to be flexible with our lives Quot he said. Aides to three other Federal lawmaker joined Pelosi and the students on the first full Day of a three Day meeting sponsored by the National committee on chinese student affairs and the Harvard chinese student association. Student leaders estimate that 40,000 chinese students who supported the pro democracy movement in China w Ould be affected by the Bill. Students said they were distrustful that Bush a directive would be maintained in Pari because of recent secret visits to China by National Security adviser Brent scowcroft and other ranking . Officials. Closi encouraged the students to pressure Congress by taking their Case before the Congress the Media and the american people. A two thirds vote is required in both the House and Senate to override a presidential veto