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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 24,1990 a Post Earth Day demonstrator wearing a protective mask joins the protest on Wall  Day crowds target Stock exchanges new York apr hundreds of Post Earth Day demonstrators blocked traffic and overturned trash bins along Wall Street monday morning but trading started up normally authorities said. More than 170 protesters were arrested and six people including five police officers were slightly injured said police sgt. Peter Berry. At the Pacific Stock Exchange in san Francisco 49 people were arrested during a simultaneous demonstration of 300 to 500 protesters that turned violent when some broke windows at Bank of America threw Golf balls rocks and eggs at police and overturned Newsstands. Employees at some of the Large corporations around the Pacific Stock Exchange were delayed getting to work As the demonstrators moved from one company Headquarters to another. But As in new York Stock trading got under Way normally authorities said. Earth Day Wall Street action the group sponsoring the new York protest said it was intended to spotlight a institutions responsible for much of the ecological devastation which is destroying the  a spokesman for the san Francisco demonstrators Daniel finkenthal 23, said their purpose was to give the Public an alternative to the corporate sponsored views of environmental action that surrounded Earth Day. In new York As Many As 700 demonstrators blocked traffic and overturned trash bins before police arrived in numbers to contain the demonstration said police spokesman Ralph St. Just. A brokerage employee Tony Concepcion called the demonstration a stupid. We have nothing to do with what corporations do. I agree with what they want but this is just securities trading. Woman loses try to avoid Many a sharing Parent rights Washington apr an Oregon woman who does not want to share parenting rights with the California Man who donated his sperm for her artificial insemination lost a supreme court Appeal monday. The court without comment let stand a ruling that Kevin Mcintyre is entitled to a trial in seeking to prove he donated sperm Only after Linden Crouch said she would let him help raise the child. Crouch says no such agreement was made. Nationwide More than 20,000 children Are born each year through artificial insemination the court was told. In most cases women Are inseminated with sperm obtained through a sperm Bank from donors who remain Anonymous to them. But Mcintyre from Mora a calif., has known Crouch from Ashland ore., for Over 13 years. Crouch gave birth to a daughter Glenellen Susan on nov. 24, 1986, after being artificially impregnated with sperm she had asked Mcintyre to donate. He says Crouch told him before he agreed to donate his sperm that she wanted him to share parenting wit supreme court Roundup her. He says she also agreed to his request for visitation rights. In other action monday the High court a agreed to consider the Case of a Mississippi death Row inmate to provide new guidelines for police questioning of suspects. The court said it will hear an Appeal by Robert s. Minnick a convicted murderer who said his confession was unlawful because he was denied his right to have a lawyer present. A refused to reinstate the California murder conviction of a Black Panther member who was shackled during his 17-month trial. The court without comment let stand a ruling that the shackling at Johnny Spain a trial violated his rights. A rejected an Appeal by a Utah City accused of unlawfully promoting religion by subsidizing the mormon Church and by putting a Church Symbol on City property. The court Over one dissenting vote refused to kill a lawsuit that says the City violated the constitutionally required separation of Church and state. A refused to give new life to a copyright lawsuit Over actress Shirley Maclaine a 1983 Best Selling Book a out on a  the court without comment let stand rulings that Maclaine a Book about reincarnation and other Spiri Tual subjects did not infringe the copyright of a 1977 Book written by Charles Silva. A rejected an Appeal by a former member of the Church of scientology of California who wanted the Church declared a phony religion. The court without comment rejected an Appeal by Larry Wollersheim of Aspen Colo. Still pending before the justices is an Appeal by the Church of scientology of California aimed at overturning a $2.5 million a emotional distress award won by Wollersheim. Y a rejected a chemical company a Challenge to Federal standards for clean water. The court without comment left intact rules that govern More than 1,000 factories producing organic chemicals plastics and synthetic fibres. Oregon a artificial insemination Law denies any parental rights to sperm donors who Are not the woman a husband. The Law states a such donor shall have no right obligation or interest with respect to a child bom As a result of the artificial  invoking that Law a state trial judge threw out Mcintyre a lawsuit seeking parental rights. But a state appeals court by a 2-1 vote reinstated his suit in 1988. The appeals court said the state Law when applied to Mcintyre violated his constitutionally protected due process rights. The appeals court said Mcintyre is entitled to a trial in Jackson county ore., on his allegation that Crouch broke an Oral agreement. The Oregon supreme court refused to hear crouches ensuing Appeal last nov. 30, but it postponed any trial until Crouch could Appeal to the nations highest court. In the Appeal acted on monday crouches lawyer argued a emr. Mcintyre a claim at the most and if proven is that he has lost a Quantity of sperm because he was tricked by  a this was conduct Between private parties a the Appeal said. A the government was not involved so a Liberty interest under the constitutions due process clause does not  crouches Appeal said the appeals court ruling a Calls into question the Legal relationships among donors fathers and children conceived by insemination in  her Appeal said most states have artificial insemination Laws. Mcintyre a lawyer urged the justices to reject crouches Appeal. He said Mcintyre had tried since 1980 to adopt a child and since 1983 had sought to have a child through a surrogate Mother. N. Y. Costliest City for business travellers new York apr new York was the nations most expensive City for business travellers in 1989, with an average daily Tab of $312.01, More than $50 higher than no. 2 Chicago according to a Survey released monday. The average daily Cost of a hotel room three meals and a car rental in americans 100 most expensive cities for business travellers was $159.42, virtually the same As in 1988, corporate travel Magazine said. The Survey was conducted by the Rochester Institute of technology a graduate school of food hotel and tourism management. The Magazine said it obtained room prices from More than 4,000 hotels. About 600 of 1,200 hotels surveyed responded to questions about meal costs at hotel restaurants corporate travel said in its april Issue. Car rental costs were averaged from four big rental agencies. New York led All categories with average daily hotel room costs of $162.78, Rood at $74.84 and car rental at $74.39. Chicago was second with a total average of $255.77, followed by Boston $251.87 Washington $226.16 and Newark n.j., $218.39. Rounding out the top 10 were san Francisco $207.22 los Angeles $192.42 Dallas $190.91 Baltimore $185.84 and Detroit $185.40. Tallahassee fla., was the cheapest of the top 100 cities with an average total Cost of $115.56.mrs. Quayle tells of mothers losing cancer fight Washington apr Marilyn Quayle a voice cracked with emotion monday As she told a congressional panel of her mothers painful Battle with the breast cancer that eventually killed her. Mrs. Quayle appeared before a House subcommittee on health and the environment to urge women to have mammograms that can detect breast cancer at an Early stage. A we meet this morning to declare War on breast cancer a a War in which there can be no substitute for Victory a mrs. Quayle said in her first appearance on Capitol Hill since her husband Dan was sworn in As vice president More than a year ago. While mrs. Quayle talked of the need for All women to be concerned with breast cancer she did not endorse proposed legislation that would provide screening for Low income women for breast and cervical cancer. The bipartisan measure would Cost $50 million in fiscal year 1991. Instead mrs. Quayle discussed the fear that keeps some women from having the a rays that could Cut Down on the estimated 44,000 breast cancer deaths expected this year. A fear is what we Are fighting a she said. A fear the greatest obstacle to Early detection and treatment a fear of the unknown fear of what might turn up on the  in talking about her mothers death from breast cancer at age 56, mrs. Quayle became teary eyed and talked in a halting manner. She recounted How when her Mother found a Lump in her breast the doctor said not to worry. He was fairly certain this one was benign a mrs. Quayle said. Within six months the Lump had grown. Mary Tucker mrs. Quayle smother eventually died from the cancer that had spread to her Lymphatic system mrs. Quayle said. A a  Story does not have to be repeated mrs. Quayle said. A mammography and self examination could have kept her   
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