European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday March 27,1990 Guam judge declares Law on abortion unconstitutional Agana Guam up a a Federal judge on Guam has suspended enforcement of the most restrictive abortion Law in the United states or its territories saying the statute is a obviously on monday . District court judge Alex Munson postponed until May 8 a hearing on a class action petition challenging the constitutionality of the Law which had been in Force since March 19. Attorney Anita Arriola who filed the petition Friday said that based on Munson a comments a i am confident that the Law will be thrown out by the the lawyers Mother sen. Elizabeth Arriola sponsored the abortion measure which was signed into Law by gov. Joseph Ada. The Law unanimously passed by the legislature on March 9. Bans abortions for any reason except when the woman a life is in jeopardy. The Law also makes it a crime to advise anyone on abortion even in a doctor patient relationship. Catholicism which opposes abortion is the predominant religion among Guam a estimated 128,000 citizens. Attorney general Elizabeth Barrett Anderson had advised the legislature and the governor that the Bill was unconstitutional. Munson said in court monday a that was Good . The judge suggested that the legislature meet with the attorney general and work out a More acceptable measure. A the government now will have a difficult time mustering constitutionality a he added. A it will be the easiest Case 1 have decided in eight years because the provisions of the new Law Are obviously abortion rights groups praised the court decision and the judges comments. Anti abortion activists however vowed to fight All the Way to the supreme court. Guam 1,500 Miles Southeast of the Philippines and 3,000 Miles West of Hawaii became a . Territory in july 1950. Cancer victims Selling pain pills to drug dealers . Police say Columbia . Apr dying cancer patients have been raising Money by Selling their pain pills to a drug ring authorities say. Quot its a pitiful sight Quot said sol. Raymond Lee a narcotics investigator with the West Columbia police department. A they re so poor they re willing to take an aspirin and Pul up with the five people were arrested in the Case police said sunday. Drug dealers befriended other patients who refused 1o sell their pills called Dila did and then stole the Medicine from them Lee said. Other times relatives of patients stole the pills and sold them for about $25 each to the drug dealers he said. The patients usually arc Given Dila did to ease the suffering during their final Days. The dealers sold the tiny yellow pills to heroin addicts for about $40 each Lee said. The addicts Pound the pills into a powder which they inject into their veins. Police identified those arrested As Patty Carlini 34, of West Columbia Wanda orc 28, of West Columbia and Karen c. Jackson 34, of Columbia. They were charged with distribution of a controlled sub stance distribution within proximity of a school and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance police said. The two others arrested were Nin b. Nissen 39, of Columbia and Ronald Burgess 44, of Columbia police said. The charges against them were not immediately known. Most of the cancer patients were being treated at the veterans administration Hospital and got their pills free said West Columbia police chief . Salters. A one cancer patient s profits would Range up to $2,500 a month by Selling the drug he had gotten from the a Hospital Quot Salters said. The sick patients who sold the drugs weren t arrested Lee said. But officials were investigating some patients who May have been deceiving doctors by saying they were sick to get drugs to sell. A i done to want to come Down hard on the a a Lee said. A but they be been handing these things out in the Fri said through a spokesman sunday that the Agency was t investigating the Federal Hospital. Robert Athey director of the Hospital said he was unaware of the allegations concerning cancer patients. Stateside Harvard students publish a absolute truth Magazine Cambridge mass. Not a frustrated by what they Call a moral wasteland on Camus politically conservative Harvard students have founded a Magazine that they say preaches the a absolute truth on issues like abortion homosexuality and affirmative action. The first Issue of the Magazine which is called Peninsula was financed by donations from like minded alumni and delivered free to All undergraduates this month. Its name according to the magazines statement of purpose came from the editors feeling that a at Harvard people who believe in truth or even that truth exists Are surrounded on almost All sides by those who the 24-Page publication carried articles attacking homosexuality which it said a violates Basic Laws of nature abortion which it characterized As a a present Day attempt at a master race Quot and the Oscar nominated movie a born on the fourth of july a which it asserted carries a message of moral , 5, in fair condition after mauling by pit Bull Fallbrook Calif. Apr a 5-year-od boy attacked by a pit Bull was recovering after surgery to repair painful bite wounds Hospital officials said. Garry Chisholm a condition was upgraded from serious to fair following surgery said Mark Morulli of children a Hospital of san Diego. A this morning the youngster is awake and Well oriented but in considerable discomfort Quot Morelli said saturday. He said Garry would remain hospitalized for several Days. Authorities said the boy was mauled Friday after he jumped a Fence into a neighbors Yard where the dog was kept. He was bitten on the Back and Side of the head and suffered multiple scrapes on his arms Back Chest and face. The pit bulls owner Gabino de la Torre found the shaken bleeding youth when he and a Friend returned Home from the Beach. The dog was placed in quarantine by the san Diego county department of animal control. Agency officials said they will decide whether it will be destroyed and Are also considering what Legal action if any would be attends fund raising show at Ford s theater Washington apr president Bush sat through nearly three hours of entertainment in historic Fords theater sunday night and afterwards quipped that Abraham Lincoln a would have really enjoyed this program a parts of the show was an annual fund raising gala Lor Fords theater and the Talent ranged from scat Singer Diane Schuur to dancing puppeteer Christopher to the Gatlin Brothers to Tony Bennett to comic Jim Morris who did a wicked imitation of both Bush and his predecessor Ronald Reagan. The show a a festival at Fords a will be televised on Ted Turners broadcasting system on the night of july 4. This april 14 is the 125th anniversary of the night when Lincoln the 16th president was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in the presidential Box at Ford s theater. Bush an avid theater goer himself recalled that Lincoln loved to go to the theater. The night that Booth struck was Lincoln s 10th visit to Fords. Quot he loved entertainment. And i believe he would have really enjoyed this program a parts of it a said Bush to laughter and applause from the audience of More than 500. The theater closed after the Assassin president Bush Speaks with Valerie Harper and John Forsythe at Ford s theater Tion remained dark for 103 years until it was restored by Congress and the National Park service in 1968 As both a museum and a living theater. Rep. Sidney Yates d-111. Received the Lincoln medal from the theater s trustees for his advocacy of the arts. Frankie Hewitt the theater a executive director said that in recent years amid congressional efforts to censor National endowment for the arts Grants Yates had a quite literally protected the integrity of the arts for All yales who last week survived a Tough primary fight Drew applause in turn when he praised Bush a for the grew statement you made. In support of the arts a Bush last Friday said he opposes attempts to write into Law anti pornography restrictions on Federal arts Grants. A i am deeply offended by some of the filth that i see and to which Federal Money has gone and some of the sacrilegious blasphemous depictions that a portrayed by some to be Art a Bush said. But he said he prefers to let his new Nea director John Frohnmayer use his discretion rather a than risk censorship getting the Federal government into Teing every artist what he or she can Pai or How he or she might express the
