European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 10, 1&90 the stars and stripes a Page 5 Bridgeport Conn. Apr a �?o60 minutes Quot show on Bridgeport painted such a Bleak picture of the City that hundreds wrote to offer the new mayor some free if not always sound advice on How to turn things around. Some even sent Cash after the report on Bridgeport aired this Spring. One Man sent a Check for $2.50 in appreciation for his general electric toaster manufactured in Bridgeport Many years ago. Two people from California both impressed with mayor Mary Moran a portrayal As the anti politician. Sent $100 each. Total donations topped $300. A a we were appalled and heartsick at the monumental task you face Quot one family wrote. Lbs depicted Bridgeport a City of 142,000 about 55 Miles Northeast of new York City As a once major Industrial Center on the a verge of economic  viewers were shown shot after shot of blighted housing and abandoned factories in a City described As a depressed discouraged and  a the letter writers ranged from a Wall Street investment firm to inventors with sometimes dubious claims about the moneymaking potential of their products and consultants seeking to be added to the City a payroll. A Chain letter that reached City Hall a and never left a promised Good Fortune if the letter was sent on. It warned of disastrous consequences if the link was broken. A Man from Ohio was not pleased when he saw the mayor cooking breakfast for her husband on �?o60  he told her she could not be both a housewife and mayor Ofa City with so Many problems. A let your husband scam How to fix his own breakfast ,.�?� he said. He suggested she report for work at 5 . Hong Kong millionaires seeking to leave the British Crown Colony before it come under chinese Rule would answer to the City s economic difficulties several writers said a a a a. A if these men were offered a Haven in Bridgeport by buying up some old rundown sewing or other factories and turning them into Modem enterprises you  fail Quot a new York woman enthused. In response to the show a $1,000 prize is being offered to the person producing the Best videotape showing Bridgeport a Good Side. The contest ending july 30, is called �?o6 minutes Bridgeport reels  top entries Are to be shown next month at a downtown movie House that the owner has dubbed the a ghost theater because of the �?o60 minutes Quot claim that Bridgeport has no Cinema. That Cinema once featuring a rated films is now a family theater. Frank Borres director of communications for the Bank Mart and one of the contest organizers said the �?o60 minutes segment on Bridgeport Wos a pretty scary because it was  Moran a Republican who upset two term incumbent Thomas Bucci last november in her first bid for major Public office said she a grateful for the letters. E a i think its wonderful that people would sit Down and say a this is what you could do whether it was Good advice or not Quot she said. Moran says the �?o60 minutes report Felt Short in not showing the Good things Bridgeport has to offer a the reasons Why 1 would want to become  she cited the City a zoo museums Parks symphony Ballet . Baum museum a lid proximity to new York As some of Bridgeport a Many attributes. The legislature imposed a state review of Bridgeport a finances in 1988 As a condition for guaranteeing a $35 million loan needed to cover accumulated deficits. With no real growth in its tax base for the past five years the City had la raise taxes 5 percent this year and eliminate about 170 jobs through layoffs and attrition. Homicides meanwhile have been occurring at a record shattering Pace. There have already been 38 this year compared with 42 for All of last year a police official said. Moran says the Best thing to come out of the controversy is that a it made Bridge porters talk positively about their City for the first time in a Tong  supports husbands rebel activities from . Providence . Apr while Charles Taylor was driving rebel forces against the president of Liberia his wife was driving their children to summer Camp and trying to rally support for her husbands rebellion. Tupeck Taylor Hasni to seen her husband in five years. But she is unflinching in her belief that her husband will overthrow liberians president Samuel Doe. The rebels accuse Doe who gained Power of the tiny West african country in a bloody coup in 1980, of corruption tribalism and brutal suppression of the opposition. Taylor 42, and his forces invaded the West african country from the Ivory coast on dec. 24. Mrs. Taylor teamed of the action when her husband telephoned on new years Day. A i Wasny to surprised or shocked Quot she said. A someone had to do something. And if anyone would do it i know Charles would be the one. He a very determined and very very  Taylor a forces have continued to tighten their noose on the capital of Monrovia. Rebels besieging the capital rejected a cease fire proposed by Doe the family of Charles Taylor poses with the liberian rebel leaders picture in front of a relatives House in it evidence . From left daughter Charen 9, wife Topee brother Nelson and daughter Camille 7. Supreme court continues trend of taking fewer cases for decision by Linda greenhouse Washington not a the us ireme courts 1989-1990 term ended ate last month with an unsolved mys Ery Why Are the justices accepting fewer my fewer cases for decision a downward trend that began about to years ago accelerated during the Erm that concluded june 27. The justices decided 146 cases in the line month session Down from 170 the ear before. When the new term begins oct. 1, the justices will have Only 56 cases ready for argument and decision. These Are cases he court accepted in the Spring too late o schedule for argument in the term that ust ended. A year ago the court carried 81 cases it ver into the new term. The year before hat the number was 105. The 56 cases will consume 53 hours of argument time Well Short of the 68 hours he court has set aside in october november and december. Last year Al this time the court had 70.5 hours Worth of cases ready to argue. There were 89 hours in the term before that. So there has been a drop of 40 percent Over two years. While the justices will probably accept several new appeals when they return in october there May not be enough cases to fill the argument Calendar. Cases granted in october Are usually hot argued until january to give the lawyers time to file their briefs. But there is speculation that the court might set an accelerated timetable for the. New cases to fill in the Blanks on the argument schedule. The terms final Day included some caustic if oblique comments from Justice Byron r. White. Justice White has often complained about the courts failure to Settle conflicting interpretations of Law among the lower Federal courts. This time he dissented from the courts refusal to Grant review in a Case called Beaulieu is. United states a criminal Appeal on a sentencing question in which two lower courts had reached opposite conclusions. Justice White said a citizens in some circuits Are subject to liabilities or entitlements that citizens in other circuits Are not burdened with or entitled  Many factors Are probably at work including the court s uneasy balance. It takes Only four votes to hear a Case but it takes five Voles for a majority opinion and the chasm Between the two can be unbridgeable. That being the Case voting to Grant review can be a major strategic error. The conservative justices very Likely made just such a miscalculation in the Federal affirmative action Case the court decided last month voting to review on the Assumption the court would strike Down the minority preference programs. But the liberals prevailed and the programs were upheld 5-4. The spirit of the times May also be at work. Conservatives now dominate the court and conservatives believe As a general Rule in a diminished judicial role. And resumed fighting sunday rebel sources said. Doc continued to decline an american offer of Safe passage out of the country. The Taylors met in the United states through their involvement with liberian student associations. She attended scion Hall while he graduated from Bentley College with an economics degree. The Taylors married in Liberia in 1980 and witnessed the coup that overthrew the late president William Tolbert. Taylor look a Job in does Cabinet As director of the general services Agency but became disillusioned and was arrested for circulating subversive materials in 1981. He continued working for does government until 1982, when their House was ransacked and he was implicated in the first of Many coup attempts she said. The Taylors returned to the United states where Taylor was arrested in May 1984 outside Boston and accused of embezzling $1 million from Liberia a charge his wife claims Doc fabricated. Sixteen months later Taylor fled the Plymouth county House of corrections in Massachusetts while awaiting  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. July 10, 1950 a a 5lh air Force spokesman in Korea said the air Force flew 174 sorties on july 8 and Deal Royce your tanks 47 trucks three Highway Bridges one locomotive and four oif storage tanks.30 years ago today. July 10, i960 a communist Street fighters in Rome buried their dead while comrades again dashed with police in riots which left 10 dead and hundreds injured.20 years ago today. ,. July 10, 1970 a the . Government began its final push to desegregate More than 100 hold out Southern school districts by filing a statewide desegregation suit against Mississippi and individual districts in three other  0 years ago today. July 10, 1980 a president Carter was among 6,500 mourners in Tokyo to pay final respects to prime minister Masayoshi Ohira at a memorial service one month after his death