European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. February 19. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5 Arizona Safe must remove Cross judge rules Tempe. Ari. Not a judge in Phoenix has ruled that the Cross atop Arizona state University s Danforth Chapel must be removed but allowed Christian groups defending the Symbol 30 Days to Appeal his decision. Judge Alfred Rogers of the Maricopa county Superior court said the Cross on the 42-year-old inter denominational Chapel can remain until Campus aglow and Christian Law students society two Cam pus Christian organizations decide whether to continue the Legal Battle. The Arizona civil liberties Union tiled suit in october against the Arizona Board of rep anti and a former interim president of Ari Ona slate. Richard Peck calling for the removal of the Cross. It contended that the Cross violates the constitutionally mandated separation of Church and state. Rogers said he based his opinion on a 1971 . Supreme court decision in Lemon y. Kurtzman. Which identified criteria for determining whether a religious Symbol is in violation of the Constitution. Under those criteria the court had to decide if the Symbol had a secular purpose whether its primary effect was to Advance religion and whether it Crea cd exc Csur o government entanglement with religion. Ropers said the Danforth Cross failed All us these tests. Ted Mote a lawyer with the Arizona civil Liber ties Union said he thought the decision would with stand any further Legal action. There have been enough decisions he the court of appeals and other courts that the display of the Cross is unconstitutional Mote said. Bush declines comment on Reagan s testimony Kennebunkport. Maine a president Bush out for a Chilly Power walk near his Snow swept vacation Home said he plans to stay out of former president Reagan s court Battle with John Point cmdr. Asked if he had talked recently to Rea Gan who gave closed videotaped to Coli Mon Friday and saturday in the trial of his former National Security adviser. Bush said he had not. Bush said he planned to stay out of  As to whether he thought it was Good that the former president had testified. Bush said thai s a matter Between him and the process. The process  the Bush administration however joined Reagan s defense last week in sup porting his assertion of executive privilege to avoid turning Over diary excerpts sought by poin Dexler. Point cmdr goes on trial March 5 on charges of concealing from Congress assistance that National Security aide Oliver North gave 10 the nicaraguan Contra rebels and lying about a 1985 shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran. Bush who was Reagan s vice presi Dent consistently has denied any knowl Edge of the Iran con Ira dealings. Bush arrived in Maine on Friday to spend the Holiday weekend with his wife Barbara at their Seaside Home. Skies dawned sunny on saturday but a bitter wind blew across the Snow Cov ered landscape. Dressed in Wool plaid pants and a leather flight jacket against the icy air. Bush headed off on a vigorous March of about five Miles to inspect repairs on his speedboat. Although he invited reporters to join him for part of the Slushy walk. Bush was not in a mood to discuss issues. No  he called Curtly As he and mrs. Bush set out from the family compound on Walker s Point. Instead he bantered about the great  and pointed out his secret for icy president Bush gestures with his Cane after returning from a five Milt excursion. Weather walks a Cane he called one of these Sticks for the non slide  he said he had heard no news of re ports that Cuba was to Reform its party Structure. However he said he had spoken to Boston Cardinal Bernard Law. Who was going to meet with Church Lead ers in Cuba. Asked about the four nation drug Summit he attended thursday in colom Bia he said reaction has been so far pretty  jovially Shook hands with a few bystanders along the residential route hut seemed More intent on racing past them to keep up his Breakneck Pace. Careful of this Down slope you  Bush told the press pack before dashing off ahead. I have to Speed up. I hate to go so slow he said As aides and bodyguards panted along. Jower  he shouted to report ers apparently missing their rejoinders that this form of exercise was the habit of his former democratic presidential rival. Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis. Bush walked to nearby Cape porpoise where his speedboat Fidelity is in dry Dock for an  proclaimed the Job  new screws new engines everything. It s  mrs. Bush Rode Back in one of these purity vehicles that accompanied them on the walk while Bush was joined by his daughter. Dorothy Leblond a Maine resident for the return hike. Bush went the opposite direction for his walk than he did a year ago when a walk into the town of  resulted in a chaotic traffic Jam of reporters cameras townspeople and Security vehicles. The Bushes were planning later saturday to go Over remodelling plans with the Interi or decorator who will redo some rooms in the 87-year-old Stone House on Walker s Point. They plan to return to Washington on monday. Noriega lawyers to seek ., red Cross backing in Row bid Miami up defense attorneys for Manuel no Riega said saturday they plan to visit Geneva Switzer land in Hopes red Cross and United nations officials can help free the deposed panamanian strongman from the jurisdiction of a . Court where he faces trial on drug charges. Frank Rubino said he and co counsel Steven Kollin would meet with the officials in an attempt to help Noriega achieve prisoner of War status under the Geneva convention of 1949 and thereby avoid criminal prosecution before . District judge William Hock Clur. We will be there three or four  he said. We have been scheduled to meet with various officials with the  And the International red  Noriega s lawyers have claimed the former dictator is a pow because he was brought to the United Stales during an act of War or armed conflict. They claim he should be sent to a Neutral country or housed in a pow Camp As required by the Geneva convention. Prosecutors have acknowledged that Noriega May be a prisoner of War and have allowed him some of the protective provisions under the convention. On Friday n9ric a. Co defendant Luis Del Cid and two others received their first visit from red Cross officials As part of the government s agreement to treat them As to is. Details of the meetings were confidential but an official said the red Cross has visited prisoners in Panama and the United states to Check on items including medical treatment food outdoor facilities and Contact with families. Once the visits Are completed in the Camps we do inform the authorities and make  said Jean Marc Bornt the committee s chief Delegate for latin America. Then we Send Over a report which is  Noriega took Refuge at the Vatican embassy in Panama City after . Forces invaded Panama in december. He hoped to flee to another country but surrendered to . Troops and was brought to Miami on Jan. .1. Noriega Del Cid and 14 others were named in a 12 count drug trafficking indictment resumed in february 1988 by a Federal grand jury in Miami. The indictment accuses Noriega of using his official position As the Leader of Panama to Foster drug trafficking Between Colombia and the United states from 1981 to 1986. If convicted Noriega would face a maximum of 145 years in prison and a $ 1.1 million Fine. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago foe a. Feb. 19, 1950 Twenty nine people were killed and 116 were injured in the collision of two trains near Rockville Centre. . The Engineer of one of the trains was charged with manslaughter. 30 years ago today. Feb. 19. I960 Secretary of stale Christian a. Herter in a speech to the National press club warned that with the spreading production of nuclear weapons almost any country in the world could get the Power to trigger a nuclear War. 20 years ago today. Feb. 19. 197 1 the Senate climaxing a week of Hitler debate voted 56-36 to require equal enforce ment of school desegregation throughout the nation in what was considered a major civil rights Victory for the South. ? 0 years ago today. Feb. 19. 1980 a storm battered Southern Cali fornia for the sixth straight Day. Triggering continued flooding and mudslides and forcing hundreds of peo ple to flee their Homes