European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes Friday june 1,1990caller id service violates Law court rules Harrisburg a. Apr Bell of Pennsylvania a caller identification service invades privacy and violates the slates wiretap Law a state court ruled wednesday. The decision by Commonwealth court reverses a state Public Utility commission order that allowed Bell to offer the service to customers. Caller identification was scheduled to be available in january but was delayed pending the courts decision. The service would enable people to know who is calling them before they pick up the phone. The callers Telephone number would Flash on a Small device attached to a Telephone even if that number is unlisted. Several other regional phone companies already offer the service. Bell offered blocking devices to Domestic violence Shel stateside Oil Gas Well fire kills 2, injures 4 in Mississippi Heidelberg miss. Apr emergency workers burned off gases still leaking wednesday from an Oil and Gas Well that exploded killing two workers and injuring four others. Most of about 200 people evacuated after the tuesday afternoon series of explosions returned Home tuesday night. Those within a one mile radius were told to wait until the Well is capped Jasper county civil defense director Joe Stringer said wednesday. He said 60 to 65 people were kept away from their Homes on wednesday. Roads were closed leading to the Well which is about 75 Miles Southeast of Jackson As was a five mile stretch of . Highway 11. Dwayne Kennedy 24, died at the scene and Dudley Barnett whose age was unavailable died later tuesday at the South Alabama bum Center in Mobile authorities said. Well workers Donnie Bolivar 31, and Michael Mccormick 32, were listed in critical condition at the Burn Center. Charles Windham 40, was listed in serious but stable condition at the Mississippi firefighters memorial Burn Center in Greenville. Another Man was treated for minor injuries. Arraignment postponed on explosives accusation Oakland Calif. Apr prosecutors indefinitely postponed tuesdays scheduled arraign of two Radic mint of two Radical environmentalists accused of carrying a pipe bomb that exploded in their car and injured them. A a we be decided to review All the evidence including Laboratory test results before making any further decision a said Chris Carpenter an assistant District attorney for Alameda county. Reviewing the local and Fri lab tests could take several weeks he said. Judi Bari and Darryl Chumey of the group Earth first had been scheduled to be arraigned tuesday on charges of criminal Possession of explosives. Chern Cyl a attorney Doug Hom Grad said the prosecutors action indicates that the charges were groundless. The two activists were arrested Friday after a pipe bomb exploded in their car in Oakland. Bari 40, remains in stable condition at Highland Hospital with a fractured Pelvis and internal injuries Charncy 33, suffered a Cut Over his left Eye and a scratched Cornea. Wealthy greek National slain outside . Home new York apr Constantine a a Costa Xylouris a wealthy greek National living in new York City was shot and killed outside his Home police said thursday. Xylouris 42, was shot twice in the head Early wednesday As he returned to his House in the Queens Section of new York said police spokeswoman Tina Mohrmann. Police said he owned racehorses and property in Athens. Witnesses said they saw a Man running Down the Street after the shooting Mohrmann said. Ters and Law enforcement agencies to prevent their numbers from being revealed if they called someone who has the caller identification option. But the blocking mechanism would not be available to the general Public. A this court concludes that caller id either in its lockable or unblock Able format violates the privacy rights of the people of this Commonwealth a judge Doris a. Smith wrote in the courts opinion. A in the framework of a democratic society the privacy rights concept is much too fundamental to be compromised or abridged by permitting caller Bill Harral Belles vice president for external affairs said the company is disappointed with the Case and is considering an Appeal to the state supreme court. A because of this decision pennsylvanians Are being denied a service they eagerly want and badly need a a weapon against unwanted harassing threatening or obscene Calls a he said. Bell spokesman Eric Rabe said the phone company believes the service is beneficial because it also allows emergency dispatchers to have the location and number of a person who Calls for help. Even if the caller hangs up the dispatcher would be Able to retrieve a callers location through the Telephone number. When Bell proposed the service the american civil liberties Union Pennsylvania coalition against Domestic violence the state consumer advocate and others filed suit against it. Some argued that the service would present a threat to battered and threatened spouses and children whose location would become known through caller identification. Rabe said people in those situations could take precautions such As making Telephone Calls from a pay phone or from a Domestic violence shelter. Museum exhibit to give americans 1 St look at soviet space technology Boston apr in october 1957, a beeping sphere streaked across the sky striking terror in the hearts of unsuspecting americans. Sputnik i the first artificial satellite had been launched by the russians. For the next decade american schoolchildren were inundated with lessons on the space program and it was intimated that if the United states lost the space race and the soviets landed first on the Moon the free world was doomed. Today those children can bring their children to see and touch the technology that once seemed so terrify ing a a full size replica of sputnik i hangs in an exhibit opening Friday at Bostons museum of science. A soviet space is the first major . Exhibit of soviet space technology. It tears Down yet another Wall Between East and West. The exhibit represents a a new age in space a said Dana Wilson the museum official who helped organize the show. A the new space age is visitors through sept. 23 can see working models of probes sent to Mars and Venus a soyuz space capsule soviet spacesuits a returned Moon probe even soviet space food. There a a fetching portrait of Laika the fir first dog in space. Cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Aleksei Leonov the first Man to walk in space will visit during the opening week and artefacts and history once shrouded in secrecy will be available for comparison with the . Program. The exhibit brings to Light soviet failures along with successes. Included is a full size Model of the phobos probe to Mars. An incorrect radio command caused phobos i to lose Contact with Earth in 1988 about six weeks after launch. Phobos 2 orbited Mars in 1989, gathering data for two months until it too was lost. To create the exhibit Wilson and j. Kelly Beatty who covers the soviet space program for the Magazine sky and Telescope made two trips to the soviet Union. All doors were opened to them Wilson said including those of a rocket factory. A the feeling now is cooperation a Wilson said. A no one country can afford to have its own space program. Space belongs to All of us. You hear that Over and despite the alarm caused by sputnik i and by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin a becoming the first human in space in 1961, the superpowers have Long collaborated on space including the soyuz Apollo Mission of 1975. Today. Soviet and american scientists Are cooperating on unmanned travel to Mars and Hope someday to Send a manned Mission to the planet. Although americans a a won the race to the Moon the soviets have racked up a Long list of firsts including the first human in space the first spacewalk and the first woman in space Valentina Teres Kova 1963beatty noted. Most impressive is their work in conditioning cosmonauts to Long space stints something necessary for flights to Mars or other planets Beatty said. On dec. 21, 1988, Vladimir Titov and Musa Mana Rov returned to Earth exactly one year after they were launched into space. The Mission provided scientists a a of r with extensive data on the effects of prolonged weightlessness. Economic indicator gauge fell 0.2% Washington apr the governments main economic forecasting gauge slipped 0.2 percent in april its second loss in four months and another indication of the nations sluggish Economy the Commerce department said thursday. The Index of leading economic indicators designed to forecast economic activity six to nine months in Advance had risen 1 percent in March to regain february a 1 percent loss. The Index was unchanged in january. A slight increase in the average workweek caused the department to revise the March figure up from 0.9 percent. Analysts had said in Advance of the report that the Economy had started the second Quarter at the same weak Pace that it ran in the first Quarter and would improve Only slightly in the second half of the year. The Economy grew at a 1.3 percent annual rate in the first Quarter and Many economists expect it to Advance Only 2 percent for the entire year Down from 3 percent last year and 4.4 percent in 1988. Bush administration and congressional budget negotiators also had their eyes on the report since continued growth would be required for any reduction in the Federal deficit. A recession would mean a loss of jobs and lower personal incomes diminished corporate profits and thus a drop in tax revenues. At the same time the government would be called on to spend More on benefits. Analysts had i melted a slight dip in thursdays report of a co. Soviet cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov left and Valentin Lebedev stand beside their country s Vega space probe exhibit at the Boston museum of science. In part because of a continuing decline in the number of building permits in april. Permits have fallen each month since january when builders sought to take advantage of record warm weather and to beat a deadline for meeting expensive new building standards. Many analysts foresee no immediate improvement in the construction Industry in View of High interest rates and tighter restrictions on credit
