European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a stars and stripes tuesday april 17,1990 Orient express to depart London. R. Ten Covach hmm pct firtion xxx once new York up1 a Goodwood travel said monday ii will resume next month for one journey Only the Lon Don to Istanbul Turkey Railroad service aboard Europe a historic train the Orient express. A for More than a Hundred years the Orient express has symbolized the ultimate in luxury train travel Quot said Goodwood travel a tour operator based in Canterbury England. A it was made famous by its illustrious clientele which included members of european Royalty diplomats notorious spies and Femme fat ales immortalized by the film the original Orient express Europe a most famous Railroad service started in the late 19th Century but was discontinued after world War ii financially unable to withstand the Competition from airlines and faster and cheaper trams. Goodwood travel said 100 fortunate and presumably wealthy travellers will be Able to Board the Orient express original Pullman cars at London a Victoria station May 30 for an Istanbul bound journey of four Days and five nights. The Pullman cars which belonged to Frances Compagnie Des wagons lits were discarded after the service was discontinued. The cars were saved from destruction and restored by two investors Albert Glatt and James Sherwood and Are now used for Leisure trips on the nostalgia Istanbul Orient express and the Venice Simpson Orient express lines. The a Stamboul train Quot will take the travellers across the English Channel to France and continue through West Germany Austria Hungary Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to Istanbul. A in keeping with the occasion there will be Welcome receptions gala dinners and banquets in palaces a private performance of the famous Vienna boys choir sightseeing and the ultimate vip service throughout tour operator said. Guests will spend three nights in the refurbished Gold and Blue luxury Wagon lits compartments and two nights in five Star hotels in Vienna Austria and Istanbul. Stops Are scheduled in Salzburg Austria the hungarian capital of Budapest and Sofia Bulgaria. The return trip will bring the travellers Back to Modem times for a Short three hour flight aboard the concorde supersonic Jet plane. Goodwood travel did not disclose the Price of the , director plead innocent to obscenity charges rim new Ati api i adv pm for hip Fyt pm Cincinnati apr lawyers for the contemporary arts Center and its director pleaded innocent monday to Misdemeanour charges alleging that photographs in an exhibit of the late Robert Mapplethorpe Are obscene. Attorney h. Louis Sirkin entered the plea in Hamilton county municipal court on behalf of the Center and director Dennis Barrie. The court s assignment commissioner referred the Case for trial to municipal judge David Albanese and scheduled a pretrial hearing for april 30, when a trial Dale May be set. The Date must be set within 90 Days. A Hamilton county grand jury indicted the gallery and Barrie on april 7. Five of the 175 photos in the exhibit show homosexual acts and two show children revealing their genitals. Lawyers filed the pleas about two hours before a scheduled arraignment before municipal judge Dennis Helmick in the Hamilton county Justice Center said Martin Pinales an attorney in the firm handling the Case. The exhibit has been drawing Large crowds a More than 23,000 during its first week a and is scheduled to continue through May 26 before moving on to Boston Hamilton county prosecutor Arthur Ney handed Over prosecution to the City of Cincinnati last week saying Ohio Law prohibits him from prosecuting City officials accused Ney of getting rid of a Case too hot to handle and too Flimsy to prosecute. A we can to dictate to the City solicitor whether or not to proceed with the Case but we can certainly make our views known a said councilman Peter Strauss. I personally think they Are going to have a hard time making a Case that the show in its entirety lacks artistic value a a j j ii fifty nine percent of those who responded to a poll conducted for the Cincinnati Post said they believe the photographs should be displayed. A sign left near downtown Cincinnati that says a Welcome to cens Ornati Quot plays on the controversy Over an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Some say the Art works Are on school dances in Missouri town upheld. _. A a. I j i _ n Washington apr the supreme court on monday left intact a ban on school dances in a Missouri town inhabited largely by Christian fundamentalists. The court without comment rejected arguments that the ban imposed by Public school officials is religiously motivated and therefore violates the constitutionally required separation of Church and state. The longtime no dance Rule in Rural Purdy mo., was upheld by a three judge panel of the 8th circuit court of appeals last september. In november the full appeals court voted not to review the panels decision. But dissenting judges called the ban a religious tyranny that violates the rights of students wishing to hold school sponsored dances. In other action monday the High court a agreed to decide whether workers May sue in state courts when they allege their employers fired them to avoid paying pension benefits. With millions of dollars at stake the court said it will use a Texas Case to decide whether such state lawsuits arc precluded by a Federal Law protecting pension benefits. # refused to order the government to reveal the names and addresses of retired or disabled Federal workers. The court without comment rejected an Appeal by an organization seeking to use the information to re Cruit new members in its Campaign for increased benefits for retirees. A blocked temporarily the sales of five Hare Krishna temples to satisfy a $5 million judgment against the religious sect. The justices granting an emergency request by the Krishna ordered the sales postponed until they consider a formal Appeal in the Case. Officials Are not sure when the ban on school dances was adopted in Purdy but fundamentalist ministers in supreme court Roundup the town Long have preached against social dancing calling it a a satanic and when the ban was challenged in 1986, ministers from five fundamentalist churches led the opposition to its repeal. More than 250 people attended a school Board meeting in March 1986 and most stood in unison to signify their opposition to relaxing the Rule. Parents and students who want to change the Rule sued and a Federal judge declared the regulation unconstitutional. But the ruling was overturned by the three judge 8th circuit court panel. The panel in an opinion written by judge George g. Fagg said a any arguably religious effect of the Rule is indirect Remote and the opinion said Mere fact a governmental body takes action that coincides with the principles or desires of a particular religious group. Does Noi transform the action into an impermissible est Adiian ment of the ruling was criticized sharply by four 8th circuit judges who later tried unsuccessfully to overturn the panel s decision. Judge John r. Gibson writing for the four said. A the school Board was motivated by religious up poses. This is a Case about religious tyranny. A in the Overall scheme of things a dance at Pur x. High school with an enrolment of 519, May not be Earth shattering significance. Yet our constitute p tests All citizens from religious. Oppression y majority . Gibson also said the three judge panel missed i Point in describing dancing As a Beular non g activity. A the True Issue in the Case is whether the n dance Rule has a secular purpose a he said. Another dissenter chief judge Donald r. 1lays the panel ruling could be a a Evou Quot further destruction of the Wall separating Gnu state. No Iii the Missouri school boards association an d Missouri association of school administrators g the justices to leave the ban intact. A. The groups said local school boards Shou Vilics Lowed to regulate extracurricular use. Of few that is Neutral toward religion and which is c with the shared values of the communities
