European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes wednesday october 10,1990rights upheld for religious groups schools renting space can t deny Access because of religion Washington a the supreme court on tuesday left intact a ruling that says Public schools that allow civic groups and others to rent school space can to refuse such Access to religious organizations. The justices without comment rejected the Appeal of a Pennsylvania nigh school forced to rent weekend use of its auditorium to the Campus crusade for Christ. In another Case involving religion the court rejected an Appeal by a Small fundamentalist Church in Evanston 111., that supreme court blamed its trouble finding a permanent Home on a local zoning ordinance. The court without comment refused to revive love churches Challenge to the City ordinance. In a third Case the court turned Down the Appeal of a Seattle Church that says King county should have to  it for blocking the use of Church owned land. It left intact a Washington supreme court ruling that a lawsuit filed against the county by the presbytery of Seattle was premature. In other cases the court a let stand a ruling that the constitutional rights of an emotionally disturbed Texas boy allegedly beaten by his school principal were not violated. Ronald and Nancy fee said Joseph Herndon brutally beat their 12-year-old son when he refused to submit to being paddled three times for misbehaving in class. Herndon and a teacher who was present said the boy was paddled three times on the buttocks and that injuries he suffered were caused by his thrashing about on the floor As he sought to avoid the paddling. A revived a $4 billion lawsuit by millionaire inventor Arthur Jones who says Abc tvs �?o20-20�?� program falsely portrayed him As a liar and hypocrite. The justices told a Federal appeals court to restudy the libel suit filed after a 1987 report on the Fate of 63 baby elephants Jones rescued from death in Africa. Jones invented the Nautilus exercise machines. The justices said the Case should be reconsidered in Light of their june ruling that the constitutions guarantee of free speech did not a create a wholesale defamation exemption for anything that might be labelled  in the Pennsylvania Case involving the use of Public school facilities by religious groups the state court upheld the dismissal of the suit. It said the Church failed to exhaust its administrative remedies because it never even applied for a building court refuses sex i s request to review army s drug testing Ufa Premro rim so tit _ to in. Piuva to a in mnnttie1 Washington up a the supreme court on tuesday refused a request to review the constitutionality of the army a urinalysis drug testing program. At Issue was whether a urinalysis test without suspicion conducted As part of a military commanders inspection of his troops violated the fourth amendments Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Case was brought by former army staff sgt Clarence e. Peten who was court Martiale in fort Rucker ala., in october 1988 for among other things using cocaine. The charge was based on a drug test conducted eight months earlier. Peten who was convicted and sentenced to six months incarceration a rank reduction and a bad conduct discharge contended the military s rationale for conducting drug tests is illegal because it uses them primarily As a basis to court martial soldiers. While the High court has upheld the use of a special needs drug tests to ensure safety in certain jobs like Railroad workers the army a policy differs because it uses urinalysis a to ferret out and prosecute drug abusers a attorneys for Peten argued. The Justice department in asking the court not to hear the Case pointed out that the court already has upheld the legality of drug tests for customs service agents who carry guns. Permit. In june the High court upheld the Federal equal Access act in which Congress required that virtually All Public High schools must allow student prayer groups to meet and worship if other student clubs Are permitted at school. The court said then the Law does no to violate the constitutionally required separation of Church and state. But the Federal Law applies Only to student groups a not to outside organizations seeking use of school facilities. The 3rd . Circuit court of appeals relied on the first amendment when it ruled last summer that Centennial pa., school officials violated the free speech rights of student venture a subsidiary of the Campus crusade for Christ. The officials refused to rent space for a William Tennent High school program aimed at religious  used actor to funnel funds paper says los Angeles apr former philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda allegedly funnelled $12 million out of the country through actor George Hamilton a newspaper reported tuesday. Court records obtained by the los Angeles times indicate the actor used part of the Money to finance the mortgage on a Beverly Hills mansion and to launch a film development project. In a previously sealed court deposition Hamilton testified that he received the Money from associates of the Marc oses that he paid it Back and that he did not know the funds were linked to the couple the times reported. A maybe he was a tool for someone an innocent a said Arthur n. Greenberg Hamiltons attorney. A the would not knowingly participate in any transaction that has any  but assistant . Attorney Charles g. Labella a new York prosecutor said the Marc oses used Hamilton As a a front to move Money out of the Philippines. Imelda Marcos is accused in pending civil lawsuits of converting billions of Public dollars into private wealth during her husbands 20-year Rule Over the Philippines. She was acquitted earlier this year of fraud and Federal racketeering in a new York criminal Case in which Hamilton was an a indicted co conspirator. Hamilton 51, has acknowledged publicly that he received Many gifts from mrs. Marcos whom he met in 1979 while visiting Manila Philippines to promote a movie. He also acted As a financial adviser to her the times reported. Court documents show that $12 million flowed from secret Marcos Bank accounts in the Philippines through Hamilton investments in the United states to other Banks and offshore Shell companies associated with the Marc oses. The times said Hamilton received $5.5 million from a Marcos associate which he invested in a film project on Gen. Douglas Macarthur. After deciding not to make the movie Hamilton returned the Money to a Hong Kong Bank in 1983. The funds which were traced from the philippine National Oil co. To an account secretly controlled by the Marc oses eventually wound up in the hands of two men linked to mrs. Marcos investigators said. Wheelchair it Rick Ballou of Richmond va., appears ready for action at the controls of his souped up wheelchair  Ballou a disabled Vietnam Veteran Hopes to build and Market the vehicles to increase mobility for the handicapped. 9 Wii internees receive checks apology from Bush Washington a attorney general Dick Thornburgh tuesday gave nine of the oldest japanese americans interned during world War ii checks for $20,000 and a letter signed by president Bush apologizing for their wrongful detention. The presentations to a group of elderly men and women that included a 107-year-old retired minister were made at an emotional ceremony at the Justice department that evoked the painful memories of the internment of More than 120,000 japanese americans in 1942. The checks Are the first to be paid Over the next three years to an estimated 65,000 survivors of the internment which was ordered during world War ii As a National Security measure. Thornburgh crouched on bended knee to hand the $20,000 checks to several of the elderly recipients who were mostly seated in wheelchairs. Decades of lobbying by japanese american organizations culminated in tuesdays ceremony in which the first recipients were handed checks by Thornburgh along with the letter signed by Bush expressing the nations apology. A a monetary sum and words alone can not restore lost years or erase painful memories neither can they fully convey our nations resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights of individuals a a Bush said in the letter handed to each of the elderly recipients. In 1988, Congress passed a Law issuing a formal apology to those interned and authorized the payment of $20,000 to every Man woman or child held in concentration Camps for the duration of the War. But Congress did not appropriate any Money to begin making payments until this year. Lawmakers set aside $500 million to a a Quot with sul in the i Byz Oscai year $250 million in the 1993 fiscal year. A i am not unmindful of the role the Justice department played in the internment a Thornburgh said alluding to government orders in 1942 to round up japanese americans and place them in internment Camps. The attorney general praised those who lobbied for the compensation saying a your efforts have strengthened this nations Constitution by reaffirming the Inalie ability of civil