European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Golfer survives Pebble Beach Cliffhanger shot Pebble Beach Calif. Apr a golfer reaching for a Ball toppled 150 feet off the Edge of a Cliff and survived with a broken rib and cuts. Bill Sadler 45, was playing Pebble Beach for the first time when he took the plunge near the eighth Hole. An army helicopter airlifted him off the Sand and onto the Golf course. He suffered Only a broken rib and minor cuts. A the Ball was just Over the Edge of the Cliff. I reached Down trying to get it and the ground gave Way a Sadler said Friday from a Hospital in nearby Monterey. Sadler a British Navy officer is an oceanographer assigned to an Annex of the naval postgraduate school in Monterey. Hinckley to get hearing on vote Washington apr . District judge june Green ordered City election officials on Friday to conduct a special hearing on whether presidential assailant John w. Hinckley or. Should be allowed to vote this fall. Hinckley found innocent by reason of insanity for his 1981 shooting of president Reagan has been confined to a mental Hospital since 1982. He claims he is entitled to vote in the District of Columbia because he has been a . Resident and a taxpayer for the last eight years. Green ordered election officials to hold the hearing at St. Elizabeth a Hospital where Hinckley has been confined. Hinckley is legally entitled to a Public hearing but St. Elizabeth a officials said they could not allow reporters or other members of the Public to attend. Because of that Green ordered that a transcript of the hearing be made Public. Barry vows to remain in race for Council seat by the Washington Post Washington a mayor Marion Barry on Friday rejected pleas by several fellow democrats that he abandon his bid for an at Large seat on the District of Columbia Council. He pledged instead to Campaign vigorously As a a love and Unity candidate who can heal the City. Barry told a Washington to station that he believes he still has substantial Community support but will focus his Campaign on predominantly White neighbourhoods. A my ego is less now than it used to be a Barry said during the interview which was held in the Back Yard of his Southeast Washington Home. A i think i can reach out and be sort of the healer the love and Unity sunday september 16, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 strike signs such As these in this Union office in Windsor ont., were being readied in Canada. Law extends talks with pm new agreement May be near by the los Angeles times Detroit a the United Auto workers Union a apparently confident a settlement is near a ignored a Midnight Friday strike deadline and said it would keep bargaining toward a new contract covering 300,000 Active workers at general motors corp. The Law notified local Union leaders around the country to stay on the Job or report to work As scheduled a until further notice a extending indefinitely the 3-year agreement that expired at 11 59 . Friday. Bargaining at pm Headquarters in Detroit continued past Midnight and the negotiators agreed to continue talks saturday morning. In letting the deadline slip the Union in effect was giving itself until monday to conclude an agreement. That is when 300 Union leaders Convene Here to vote on any new pact. There was no indication of what was preventing a settlement but two issues reflecting the steady decline of jobs at pm a Job Security and limiting the Auto company a practice of farming work out to subcontractors a have been the hardest to resolve. The fact that the contract expired on a Friday night meant that a strike would have had Little Impact before monday anyway. Only one pm Plant in Bowling Green ky., was scheduled to work saturday a spokesman said. The contract with pm covers workers at 240 Plant Sites in 33 states. Pm has tried in the bargaining to Cut its healthcare costs saying the medical Tab for its Middle aged work Force and huge ranks of retirees comes to $622 per car. By comparison the foreign Auto companies that have set up Assembly plants in this country and hired a new younger work Force face health care costs of just $60 per car. But the biggest conflict was in reconciling the a awl a demand for a a no layoffs policy in effect guaranteeing pay for workers who lose their jobs and Gmys goal of slashing its work Force by another 60,000 workers Over the next three years. Since 1979, Gmys . Blue Collar employment has tumbled by some 170,000, or nearly 40 percent. The base wage for a pm assembler is $14.01 per hour. Bar gainers were believed to be negotiating a 3 percent raise the first year. In Toronto contract talks Between the Canadian Auto workers Union and Fords Canadian subsidiary ended Friday without a settlement paving the Way for a walkout. Those talks also faced a Midnight deadline but Canadian Ford plants Are closed weekends. The Caw represents about 12,800 Ford workers. A strike at Ford of Canada would quickly cripple up to seven . Assembly plants at Ford that make some of Fords most successful vehicles. A Glass Plant in Niagara Falls ont., for example makes All the windshields for Fords of series pickup truck the biggest Selling vehicle in the United states. It is built in four plants across the country. And a Windsor ont., Plant is the sole source of a v-6 engine that is the Only engine used in the Lincoln Continental and is the base engine for the Ford thunderbird and Mercury Cougar and an optional engine for the Ford Taurus and Mercury shows Public opposes unlimited free speech Washington apr americans believe their views should be protected under the first amendment but that constitutional Protection should not necessarily be applied to others says a group that conducted a private Survey on free speech. Americans surveyed overwhelmingly believe the Constitution guarantees their individual Freedom of expression but More than one fourth say that Protection apply to the arts or the Media according to the Survey released Friday by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of free expression. The nationwide Telephone Survey of 1,500 adults taken in june also showed that while nearly three fourths defended an artists right to display works that might be offensive fewer than 25 percent favored supporting those works with tax funds. Robert of Neil founding director of the Center said the Survey spotlighted a an appalling Gap in Public understanding of free speech and equally protected Freedom of the press. A we found alarming evidence of a double Standard a sense that the first amendment protects what the speaker wants to say but not so clearly the views of others a of Neil said at a news conference on the Steps of the Jefferson memorial. While 90 percent of americans believe the government has no business telling them what to say nearly 59 percent said the government should have some Power of censorship according to the Survey. In addition More than half said the government has the right to ban the Sale of recordings that favor drug use or broadcasting of sexually explicit lyrics. The Survey said Between 25 percent and 30 percent of those questioned believed the first amendments guarantees of free speech did no to cover Art works films music radio Cable and network television plays newspapers or photographs. On Federal support for controversial Art a an Issue that has plagued the National endowment for the arts for months a the Survey showed that nearly 74 percent of americans backed artists rights to display works that might be offensive. But 72 percent opposed spending tax Money for a a objectionable Art films or plays the Survey said. Of Neil urged Congress not to impose any new anti obscenity restrictions on the Nea the same position taken earlier in the week by a bipartisan study commission created by Congress. A it is one thing for government simply not to be a Patron of the arts a said of Neil a Legal scholar and former president of the University of Virginia. A it is quite another for government to say it will support Only individual works or artists it does not deem the Center is a non profit non partisan privately financed Institute associated with the University of Virginia that defends first amendment rights of free expression
