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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 23, 1990

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. January 23, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Justice s leak violated code report says Milwaukee api the Lac . Supreme Smirl Justice Abe for Lasin la cd court confidentiality in i960 to leaking information to president John son a history professor . Citing newly released Fri records. The alleged leaks about court deliberations to the White House and the Fri involved information that might discredit Robert f. Kennedy a former attorney general and political rival of Johnson. The documents released to Marque Ltd University history professor Athan Thoharis under the Freedom of information act. Were outlined in the Mil Waukee journal on sunday. Fri files say Fortas who died in 1982. Was cautioned by the Agency that he would violate judicial ethics by reporting on private discussions among the court s justices the paper said. The records show Fortas. Johnson and White House aides saw an Opportunity to associate Kennedy with an illegal Crews prepare Columbia for ride of Florida Edwards fab. Calif. A ground Crews worked monday to prepare space shuttle Columbia with an 11 ton recovered satellite in its cargo Bay. For a piggyback Jet ride to Kennedy spate Center in Florida. The shuttle is scheduled to begin the trip thursday. Nasa spokeswoman Patricia Phillips said. The work is proceeding very Well she said. The orbiter appears to be very1 healthy As does  she was referring to the Long duration n exposure facility As the rescued Laboratory satellite is called. Columbia and five astronauts landed at this Moi ave desert base Early saturday ending a record length shuttle flight that lasted a Carlo i i Days. Later in the Day. Tin astronauts returned to their Home base in i Louston. The satellite will not be removed from Columbia s cargo Bay until after the shuttle returns to Florida on Friday nigh. Phillips said the shuttle s Jet Rule is to Start Early thursday with a refuelling Stop at  fab near Tucson. Aric. Anil an overnight Slop at Kelly fab. Texas near san Antonio. On Frida. Tin shuttle will refuel at Elim Fth n Honda s Ian ind a before arriving at Kennedy space Center she  because of the a diff s weight the Jet ill la a Little hit  Phillips sad. We  t use the Power to go quite As High. It s going 10 he a i i bit slower  to protect the a def from i onland nation. Ground Crews started pumping Cool conditioned air and nit Gen into the cargo a c in before Columbia was towed off the Concrete runway saturday. Phillips said. National aeronautics and space administration and contractor employees worked on Columbia on Sunda As it sat inside the Large steel girder Structure called the Nate Jemale do. Ice. Overall the vehicle is in eve Ellen condition. An damage is  Phillips s t j eavesdropping Inci Dent that Nijiu Rcd tub he  attorney funeral in i9fi1 the paper said. I Ortas i cussed the Case with the White House. It raises real questions about Fortas role on the court and the degree with Fortas which he identified with the partisan interests and anti Ken Nedy forces in the Johnson administration Thoharis. Author of a 19sh honk on Fri director .1. Edgar Hoover told the paper. Thoharis said the files show that for tas. By agreeing to provide inside information to Fri assistant director . Do Loach violated the Constitution s separation of judicial and executive pow ers doctrine. I  i now reined. Old the Mir  in .1 i phone my rvs. Ii in Hilton  . . That he  r.  r.oilmv.-. Of he Case. I a ugh involved tiny of .1 Hutel room occupied b Lui a. K a Washington lobbyist who ua1, Acca  a fraud conviction to the High tout then solicitor general l Liui a nil Mai shall disclosed the bugging a memo written by Loo Sci on june 14. L%6. Said Fortas called marshal  Marshall is to a a supremo c ourt Justice. The court suspended d liberation. On the Black Case and asked a Floinoy Gen eral Nicholas Kat a Haili if the Fri Btij Ging was author cd. Because Ken Ned was attorney general at the time of the bugging there appeared an Opportunity to discredit him. The newspaper said. A memorandum by  Loach quoted Fortas As saying the a none Mattei boiled Down to a continuing fight Lor the presiden  Fortas volunteered to milk on a conf   at any time it said. I he  d Nim nos show for  total l i i Iii h the justices held a i  in Imp among themselves and decided to review Fri records before ruhn1 on the 111,irk Appeal. Iota sup a std a plan to de Loach to protect the president and the Fri by appointing a pro Johnson arbitrator to review fill eavesdropping policy bypassing Kat Chach. Documents said. Fortas telephoned do Loach june 21 to Sav Johnson was appointing a three Mcm fir eavesdropping investigation panel. Johnson changed his mind two Das later a de Loa  memo said. The Justice department said in july la 6 that Hoover Authon de the bugging under authority delegated by one or More of Kennedy s predecessors As attorney general. In november the supreme court or dered a new Tual for Black calling the bugging illegal. Lark was subsequently acquitted Champion calf Roper Terry Postrach no in Lula. Oulu. I in Limiti rnai Tomil finals his � in Tulsa. Okla. I , who earned professional Liidi i association s Rhain icon calf his title by  Nom a than any other Crim Rii i r.  his skill in Hie Aifiti Riu tonal i Tilor roped and Ltd this calf in 12 seconds. _ _2 of 3 embassy jobs go to career diplomats Washington a president Bush has met his goal of put tag career diplomats in charge of two thirds of . Embassies the White House personnel director said sunday. For the next three years of Bush s term close to 100 percent of ambassadorial appointment will go to career foreign service officers in order to maintain that balance of two thirds Ca reer officers one third outside appointees Charles g. Untermeyer said. Henceforth for the rest of the first Bush term i expect very very few non career nominations he said. By Untermeyer s count 97 of the 145 ambassador ships have gone or will go to career diplomats. Ninety three Are Al ready in place one is awaiting Senate confirmation and three Are still getting cleared before they Are formally nominated. Forty eight ambassador ships have gone or will go to non career people 4j have already been confirmed two arc awaiting Senate confirmation and four Are in the White House clearance pro Cess. Of those 48. Under Meyer said. "10 or less were what you could Call major do  including several who made the top s team 100" by giving  or More to the party for the 1988 elec Tion Battle. They included real estate developers Mclvin Sembler now ambassador to Australia and Joseph Zappala now envoy to Spain. Many of the non career people arc there for past proven loyally to George  said Untermeyer hut he said their ranks include such relatively poor people As Evelyn Teegan. A former re publican National committs woman from Minnesota who is now ambassador to Fiji and Sally Novitke a party activist and longtime Bush loyalist from Iowa who is now ambassador to Malta. Sen. Paul s. Sarbanis. Did. Objected to several of Bush s politically connected nominees last scar and Man aged to Block Joy Silverman s Nomi nation to be ambassador to Barbados. She gave $180,000 to Republican causes Bufor the last election. Under Meyer said the while House has not yet decided whether to resubmit her nomination. The percentage of non career envoys is Down from roughly 40 percent at the end of the Reagan administration to the current 33 percent said Untermeyer. Thai was the goal that Bush and Secre tary of slate James a. Baker Iii Laid out at the Start of the administration and it was achieved when Bush decided to nominate a career Diplomat Edward Rowell. To be ambassador to Luxem Bourg Long a Post reserved for presiden tial pals. Originally Bush had nominated his chief Campaign fund Raiser Frederick Bush no relation to the Luxembourg Post but the Senate batted that nomination Back in August after Frederick Bush came under scrutiny for contracts he received from the Reagan administration s scandal Ridden department of housing and Urban development  
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